AUSTRALIA
The Sunday Mail
By Michael McKenna
19sep05
ONE of the scandals that forced the resignation of Peter Hollingworth as governor-general is back in court, with new details of child abuse at a prestigious Brisbane private school.
Former students of Brisbane Grammar School, who rejected out-of-court settlements in 2003, have revived their damages claims, with new evidence that administrators had been warned about a pedophile on staff before they were allegedly abused.
Dr Hollingworth resigned as governor-general in May 2003 after criticism of his handling of sex abuse allegations at church-run schools and Queensland parishes while he was Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
Brisbane Grammar was not part of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane, but a former counsellor at the school, Kevin Lynch, is alleged to have abused students there in the 1980s before transferring to the church-run St Paul's School, where he molested more pupils.