Defence academic Dr Kathryn Spurling says the time has come for the Australian Defence Force Academy to be disbanded.
Dr Spurling, who has written extensively on women in the Australian Defence Force, said she was a strong supporter of ADFA, which had turned out some really amazing young people.
"But I am beginning to think that there's a hard-core culture - and I'm going to really get some bad press out of this - that has come over from Duntroon and I now believe that we must disband ADFA," she told ABC television.
ADFA, founded in 1986 as a campus of the University of NSW, provides degree courses for defence officer cadets from all three services.
It's located in Canberra, close to the army's Royal Military College at Duntroon.
The Defence Abuse Response Taskforce has recommended there be a royal commission to get to the bottom of rampant sexual abuse of female officer cadets at ADFA in the 1990s.
Dr Spurling said defence could return to training young officers at the three separate service colleges, with an additional year for combined training.
"I think it's time that each of the militaries took back their own people and trained them separately," she said.
Dr Spurling said hazing - the practice of ritual initiations - existed at the other colleges but it became really nasty at ADFA.
"Our ADF actually has a very good reputation. But it's a very small minority of these individuals who are committing these crimes. We must get rid of them," she said.
