{"id":927797,"date":"2026-10-14T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927797\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:00:12","slug":"investigation-underway-after-recording-device-found-in-cabin-of-hmas-leeuwin-navy-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927797\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after recording device found in cabin of HMAS Leeuwin navy ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Defence Force has confirmed an investigation is underway after a recording device was located in the cabin of a navy ship.<\/p>\n

The device was discovered on October 11, on HMAS Leeuwin while it was docked in Cairns.<\/p>\n

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The ABC understands the device was found in a female-only cabin.<\/p>\n

Senator Jacqui Lambie raised the incident while speaking in the Senate this morning.<\/p>\n

Senator Lambie told the Senate she had received a letter from a person who said the device had been found in the “shower facilities”.<\/p>\n

“Even more disturbing are claims that footage from these cameras may have been uploaded online before the cameras were discovered,” she said.<\/p>\n

Senator Lambie said she is preparing a private members bill to raise standards within the Defence Force, which she would introduce to parliament in the new year.<\/p>\n

“I want to know if they [Defence] have gone around on the rest of those boats, subs, whatever, and made sure there are no other cameras?” she said.<\/p>\n

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The device was discovered on October 11, on HMAS Leeuwin while it was docked in Cairns. (ABC News: Brendan Mounter)<\/p>\n

Greens leader David Shoebridge, who is also the party’s defence spokesman, described the news as “incredibly concerning”.<\/p>\n

“We know many women aren’t feeling safe inside Defence spaces, and again we say to Labor: you’ve got to restore faith with Defence personnel, you’ve got to make women and other people feel safe in Defence spaces,” he said.<\/p>\n

Defence did not respond to questions from the ABC about whether the footage had been posted online.<\/p>\n

An ex-servicewoman told the ABC one of her friends was onboard and had been told to not speak with the media.<\/p>\n

“These people have been forced to remain silent about it,” she said.<\/p>\n

“If Defence was as good as they say it was, why would they need to silence anyone?”<\/p>\n

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Defence says it is taking the incident “extremely seriously” and has referred it to the Joint Military Police Unit. (ABC News: Brendan Mounter)<\/p>\n

In a statement, Defence said it takes this incident “extremely seriously”.<\/p>\n

“The incident was referred to the Joint Military Police Unit and Defence is working with civilian authorities.<\/p>\n

“As the matter is currently under investigation and to protect the privacy of the affected individuals, Defence is unable to provide further comment at this time.”<\/p>\n

The Queensland Police Service and the Australian Federal Police referred the ABC to Defence when contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Defence Force has confirmed an investigation is underway after a recording device was located in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14039,72,3403,43,494976,115036,44,94,701,494512,38907,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-927797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australian-defence-force","tag-cairns","tag-defence","tag-headlines","tag-hmas-leeuwin","tag-jacqui-lambie","tag-news","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-recording-device","tag-royal-australian-navy","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}