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Navy's Turn To Go Overboard
Saturday April 13, 2002
YORKSHIRE-born David Shackleton has been in the Royal Australian Navy all his adult life. He was 11 when his parents migrated to Adelaide from Leeds in 1959. He joined the navy at 18 and now, 36 years later, as Vice Admiral Shackleton, AO, he runs it. The Howard Government appointed him Chief of Navy three years ago. You would likely know Shackleton's name from the political turmoil of the children overboard debate. He was one of 29 senior miliary officers (eight admirals, seven generals!) at the Senate est