Dogs are Barking

Harassment, initiation, bullying, hazing, recruiting, bastardisation - whatever the word used, wherever it happens, it means only one thing. Set in the 1980's, before the days of Skype scandals, 'Dogs are Barking' takes you inside, behind the shiney brass, spit-polished leather and white-washed facades, into one of Australia's oldest public institutions. Through the eyes of John Foster, an officer cadet who doesn't fit-in, you're introduced to a world not shown in the recruiting brochures - to what college life is really like, when nothing and everything happens. And for much of this century, it's happened in Australia's capital, at the Military College. Every cadet in the college knows who is in charge when academic and military instruction is over for the day... and that's the Morals Officer. It's up to him to put an electric fence around the scandal and root-out the squealers. He's got a week. Dogs are Barking is a chilling illustration of the pressure to conform and how obedience can be destructive. Read more