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■ Monash Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for information after an arson attack caused over $1million damage to a business in Oakleigh. It is understood a man arrived at a car dealership on Park Rd in a grey 2013 Audi A4 Wagon about 2.55am on Monday last week (June 26). Police were told he smashed windows to force entry into the premises about 3.45am, before setting the business on fire. Multiple vehicles were damaged in the fire. There was no one in the building at the time of the incident. The man fled the scene in the vehicle.
BEAUMARIS INQUIRY OVER SEXUAL ABUSE
■ The State Government will establish a Board of Inquiry into Historical Child Sexual Abuse at Beaumaris Primary School in the 1960s and 1970s, and abuse by the same employees at other government schools. Following the Commonwealth Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, victimsurvivors of child sexual abuse in government schools – particularly at Beaumaris Primary School – have advocated for a forum to tell their stories. The Board of Inquiry – which is independent of government – will establish an official public record of the experiences of victim-survivors of historical child sexual abuse by staff at Beaumaris Primary School more than five decades ago, as well as abuse perpetrated by the same staff members at other government schools. The Inquiry will report on: ■ The response of the Department of Education during the 1960s and 1970s in relation to the historical child sexual abuse at Beaumaris Primary School at that time ■ The most appropriate ways to support healing for victimsurvivors, secondary victims
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PAUL’S FENCING ● Premier Daniel Andrews and affected communities missioner with the Victorian ■ Whether support services Law Reform Commission. Ms for victim-survivors of histori- Foley will be required to decal child sexual abuse in gov- liver a final report to governernment schools are effective, ment by February 28. considering other inquiries and Premier Daniel Andrews reforms that have taken place said: “Children should feel their since the historical abuse oc- safest at school – not be subcurred. ject to harrowing abuse at the The Board of Inquiry will hands of teachers they trust. investigate historical cases of This inquiry won’t undo their abuse – and is not investigating pain, but we hope it gives victhe current Beaumaris Primary tim-survivors the recognition School, or any other current and support they deserve.” school or contemporary staff Education Minister Natalie members. Hutchins said: “Victims have Kathleen Foley SC will chair carried the grief and trauma the Board of Inquiry – an emi- they experienced at school for nent Senior Counsel and Com- more than five decades”
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