Disciplinary v. administrative action

Justice John Logan, president of Australia's top military court, has suggested that there are reasons not to use administrative separations when disciplinary action is called for. Transparency is one of them. Here's a report from The Australian. Excerpt:

Justice Logan said that dealing with the soldiers’ conduct under the DFDA could have offered the potential for the exposure of the allegations to what the current CDF, Angus Campbell, in his earlier capacity as chief of army “once pithily described as ‘the healing light of truth’.”

It's reminiscent of soon-to-be former U.S. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis's recent suggestion that commanders weren't using the UCMJ enough.

Postscript: Justice Logan's remarks can be found here on the Federal Court of Australia's website. H/T to Pascal Levesque for the link.