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A teacher who tried to alert the Hutchins School board to child sexual abuse allegedly occurring at the school in the 1960s will front the royal commission hearings in Hobart today.
It is the second day of public hearings in Tasmania of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
On the opening day, four former students gave evidence of the sexual abuse they allegedly suffered as boys at the hands of four staff members, including former headmaster David Lawrence.
In his opening address, counsel assisting the commission Angus Stewart SC said there was evidence the school board was aware of the abuse at the time and did nothing.
This morning, former Hutchins teacher Geoffrey Ayling will give evidence at the commission about a conversation he overheard between Mr Lawrence and another teacher, only known as AOC, who had just been dismissed.
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