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Morning help needed Students at Sydenham school Copperfield College are going hungry through the morning and need helpers to step in. Campus leader at Copperfield College Ercan Hasip said the school’s breakfast club needs more volunteers to help serve healthy morning meals. “We need people to help run our breakfast club. Our breakfast club runs every weekday before school from about 8am – 9.30am. Breakfast is such an important part of the day and this initiative ensures our students are nourished and ready to learn,” Mr Hasip said. Australian charity EdConnect, which support students in primary and secondary schools particularly in low socioeconomic areas, is urging anyone wanting to give back to the community to reach out. EdConnect Liaison Officer, Rhonda Velkovski, said a good crop of volunteers is the heartbeat of a school’s community. “Schools are very busy places, are often under-resourced, and have many competing demands. Most rely heavily on the support from their local communities,” she said. “Schools need committed people who can offer one or two days a week to help with prepping food and serving students before school.”
Krystal Allison with students Lam 13 and Arda 12. (Ljubica Vrankovic)
Former agent avoids jail screaming ‘Create is great’,” Judge Gregory Lyon said. “You told the complainant to sit on your lap, she agreed as she wanted to get things over and done with.” Mr Tabban then tried to kiss her and the young woman pushed him off and left before going to the Keilor Downs police station. The second offence occurred a week later in another interview, with a girl aged 19 at the time. Mr Tabban took her into a back room of the office, before sitting on a couch and requesting she give him a quad massage to help her chances of getting the job.
The girl asked when they were going to finish the contract, to which Mr Tabban laughed and said “you have to finish your end of the bargain“. He then grabbed her right hand and held it tightly whilst unzipping his pants, and telling her “you don’t have to give me a blowjob, just give me a handjob”. “The community has made it clear for many years now that repugnant male practices in workplaces will no longer be tolerated, whether they are sexual harassment, bullying, inequality, discrimination and this which I characterise it as predatory sexual conduct,” Judge Lyon said.
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A former Sunshine real estate agent and Brimbank Council candidate won’t go to jail, despite being found guilty of sexually assaulting two young women in job interviews. Steven Tabban, a former director of Create Real Estate, was sentenced to an 18-month good behaviour bond in the Melbourne County Court on Tuesday, March 5. His licence to operate as a real estate agent was revoked last year. The 38-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual assault with the maximum penalty at the time of his offending was 10
year’s imprisonment. He was charged for touching a 21-year-old woman on her thigh and chest over her clothing, and the side of her head trying to kiss her. The first offending occurred on November 25, 2018, when the at the time 21-year-old victim attended Create Real Estate for what she thought was a job interview. “You began to question the complainant in relation to what she would do to get what she wanted from the work, you told the complainant there was no one else around, and when you asked her what she would do… you suggested she run around the office naked
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By Gerald Lynch