QUEENSLAND (AUSTRALIA)
The Courier-Mail
December 10, 2017
By Peter Michael
One of Queensland’s most prestigious private schools is facing public revolt after it secretly apologised and paid out $130,000 to a convicted killer and conman over alleged historic child sex abuse.
Rescue Churchie, a group of about 1000 parents and alumni of Anglican Church Grammar School in East Brisbane, will this week launch a push to disband the school’s governing church council.
Some of Australia’s corporate titans including Qantas chairman and former Rio Tinto chief Leigh Clifford are behind the move to “end the dark ages” of church-appointed school governance.
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