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Indigenous veteran Paul Walker tells royal commission into defence suicide his time in the army 'tore him apart'

When Signalman Paul Walker won a running race back in his army days, fellow soldiers told him he must be "good at running from the cops" and suggested he "pretended there was a carton or goon bag" at the finish line.

It was a culture of racism the Waanyi descendent on Wednesday told the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide he faced from peers and senior leaders from the very first days of his training.

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