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ELEANOR HALL: The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse has been hearing today that Victoria’s prestigious Geelong Grammar School failed to act on reports of abuse from students.
The commission is examining the handling of abuse at the school from the 1950s to 2007.
Several former students are to evidence they were assaulted by teachers or staff.
Samantha Donovan is following the commission hearings and joins us now in Melbourne. And a warning her report will contain some disturbing information.
So Sam, what has the commission heard about Geelong Grammar School today?
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Well counsel assisting the royal commission, Eleanor, David Lloyd has started off by describing the school’s history and a little bit about its campuses this morning. He’s said its Australia’s largest co-educational boarding school; it was first established in 1855 and many of its former students have risen to prominent positions in business, law, politics and medicine.
It’s known of course to many Australians, Eleanor, because Prince Charles attended its Timbertop campus in the 1960s.
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