Russell Jackson

The Victorian Education Department sent unqualified teachers into classrooms in the 1960s and then failed to sack them following reports they were sexually abusing their students, according to recently discovered documents.

VIDEO: In the early 70s, four paedophiles taught together at this school

The release of a 466-page report into historical sexual abuse at a Melbourne primary school will take weeks, perhaps months to fully digest. But for now, there is hope that it could kickstart a reckoning that may last for years, writes Russell Jackson.

The Victorian Department of Education faces several lawsuits from survivors who were sexually abused by a teacher the department knowingly moved to other schools after fielding complaints of abuse.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan acknowledges the state's "serious and systematic" failure to protect children in government schools from abuse, while announcing a truth-telling process for survivors.

A “psychopathic” paedophile, who later boasted of sexually abusing 2,000 boys, was employed as a Victorian Education Department school teacher despite declaring in a 1970s job application form that he was a convicted child abuser.

A new lawsuit reveals a "psychopathic" paedophile teacher was employed in a Marist Brothers school despite a prior conviction for child sexual abuse and having previously been banished from the Victorian Education Department school system.

A survivor of "shocking" sexual abuse at a Melbourne primary school has received what his lawyer has called "the biggest publicly-known payment to an abuse survivor in Australia" in an extraordinary $8 million settlement with the Victorian Education Department.

After battling alone with the stigma of family sexual abuse, Travis found a community thanks to a new form of group therapy.

A school principal accused of child sexual abuse was shuffled onto a series of new jobs, correspondence shows.