Brunswick Secondary College: newspaper report

Mr CARLI (Brunswick) -- As all honourable members are aware, you cannot believe everything you read in the newspapers, and that is certainly true in relation to the article in the Sunday Herald Sun of last weekend about an incident that occurred at the Brunswick Secondary College.
The suggestion in the article is that the school has been too lenient on a student who was involved in this incident. This article is a result of an anonymous letter written by three students that was sent to the shadow Minister for Education, the member for Nepean, and it somehow ended up in the hands of the newspaper. There are inaccuracies in the article.
The facts were not checked with the school. The school was incredibly decisive and showed enormous leadership. When the incident occurred the student involved in it was suspended for a week.

I must say Brunswick Secondary College is an extremely safe school.
It has a great reputation. I send two of my children to that school. I realise it is a great school and they realise it is a great school. The school has worked hard to get a good reputation and be considered safe; it does not need this sort of inaccuracy presented in newspapers as a result of a leak like the one made by the member for Nepean.
It has been a very distressing incident for the school community. I know the school community will rally behind the school leadership, the acting principal
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The DEPUTY SPEAKER -- Order! The member's time has expired.