Up to six Navy sailors have been sacked or ordered to justify their jobs over racist and anti-Muslim Facebook posts.
Fairfax Media revealed in January that a Navy member working on border protection duties had posted comments on the Facebook page of a friend who claimed to be a member of the Australian Defence League.
The friend had written that asylum-seekers whose boat had sunk were coming to Australia ''to jump on Centrelink and get free government housing''.
The navy member commented: ''I'm about to head out today to deal with these f---ers.''
Vice Admiral Griggs said sailors should be proud to identify themselves as Navy members on social media sites but the job carried “responsibility to act in accordance with our values and behaviours at all times”.
Navy has a strict social media policy that bans personnel from posting offensive material based on “personal traits, attributes, beliefs or practices that exploit, objectify or are derogatory of gender, ethnicity or religion”, Vice Admiral Griggs said.
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