The forms of violence known by the term “bastardisation” loom large enough in Australian culture to have given rise to the very word itself as a peculiarly Australian coinage.

It has been aired again with a brutal ceremony reportedly carried out on a 17-year-old student at The Scots College by classmates as part of an apparent school tradition called “Bob 2025” for boys in years 10 to 12.

The boy’s mother told 2GB on Monday her son had been lured on a private Snapchat group to attend a private party. Instead, the hazing occurred off school grounds on Saturday afternoon near Woollahra Golf Course. The woman said her son was pummelled and had beer and abuse poured on him as he walked the gauntlet, before he fled and was found by a Rose Bay resident who helped him phone his parents and police.

A still from the video where a Scots College student was humiliated after being forced to walk through a human tunnel.Credit: 2GB

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