Child sexual abuse
Brad ROWSWELL (Sandringham) (09:46): I also want to raise a much more serious matter, and that is on the back of a call from the In Good Faith Foundation – it was National Survivors’ Day yesterday – for the current inquiry into sexual abuse that occurred within Beaumaris Primary School and connected to Beaumaris Primary School to be expanded to include all Victorian government primary schools. The reality is that the sexual abuse that took place within my community, in a state school, is but the tip of the iceberg. The reality is that this is a sin, a stain on our state’s history, that has affected every corner of the state. To simply say that this happened just in my community is an absolute furphy, and the government should immediately move, based on evidence given by the Secretary to the Department of Education just 10 days ago to the inquiry, to expand the inquiry to include every government school in the state of Victoria.