Two-year inquiry by the Commission for Children and Young People lays bare generations of trauma that are still being felt in long-standing, systematic failures.
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Normally the Imperial Hotel is a thriving pub with a spacious rooftop bar overlooking the stately Victorian Parliament building on Spring Street, at the Paris end of Melbourne.
But with Melbourne now going into its second week of lockdown the venue was shut on Wednesday, with not a customer or bar tender to be seen.
Australian Venue Coâs Paul Waterson, left, and his employee Giuseppe Lacava. The Imperial Hotel will go an extra seven days without pouring drinks after Melbourneâs lockdown was extended.Â
Arsineh Houspian
Located close to the MCG, the busy pub is popular with footy fans as well as soccer tragics, who would be expected to gather at the Imperial when the European Championship kicks off next week.
Today during Question Time in the Legislative Assembly it was confirmed that the Victorian Parliament is yet to adopt and implement the Service Victoria.
Influential special educator in Victoria
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By Avril Pickering, Megan Casey and Tony Thomas
May 21, 2021 11.41am
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DESMOND MICHAEL PICKERING February 6, 1939-February 13, 2021
Desmond Pickering, who played a key role in the development of special education in Victoria in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, had died aged 82.
Des – one of five children born to Eileen and Arthur Pickering – spent his early life in Victoria Street, Richmond.
As a young man, he was a well-rounded athlete who played cricket, basketball and trained with the under-19s Richmond football team. He enjoyed his time in the commando unit of the army where the physical challenges of training were to his liking as was jumping out of planes.