AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
JENNINE KHALIK, AMANDA GEARINGThe Australian
April 22, 2017
The controversial opening of the $23 million library at Brisbane’s Anglican Church Grammar School last night has been described as an attempt to “rewrite history” after a former headmaster’s name was dumped.
The school, known as Churchie, last year reversed its decision to name the new building after the late headmaster Harry Roberts, following heavy criticism of how he handled students’ sexual abuse allegations against staff while principal from 1947 to 1969.
Queensland Governor Paul de Jersey opened the building, the Centenary Library, last night. Mr De Jersey — a former student and the state’s long-serving chief justice — officiated at a ceremony in November 2015 when construction began and announced then that the library would be named the Roberts Centre for Learning and Innovation.
Victims of abuse at the school demanded a name change following the removal of the name of the Brisbane Grammar School’s former headmaster Max Howell from a building on its campus.
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