INDEPENDENT MP Andrew Wilkie says he cannot remember ordering military cadets to commemorate Adolf Hitler's rise to power so he won't be apologising for that specific incident.
But he says he is regretful of other inappropriate behaviour when he was at
Duntroon Military College.
The
Herald Sun today said Mr Wilkie had forced his juniors to salute the 50th anniversary of Hitler's rise to power while he was a senior cadet in 1983.
"I honestly cannot remember anything about that specific allegation," Mr Wilkie said in Hobart.
"But I have never made a secret of the fact that I was one of many cadets involved in the bastardisation scandal at the Royal Military College Duntroon. In fact I was disciplined for misconduct at the time."
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It comes as the clubs industry says it had no prior knowledge of the allegations and demanded he apologise after insisting he had accused the industry of orchestrating a smear campaign against him.
