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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore

Court finds former students suffered antisemitic bullying and discrimination at Melbourne school

Signage at Brighton secondary college in Melbourne
Former Brighton secondary college students alleged they were discriminated against and gave evidence about Nazi swastika graffiti at the school. The state of Victoria has been ordered to pay damages of more than $430,000. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Staff at a Melbourne high school had an “inexplicable and unusual tolerance” for antisemitic graffiti and failed to take complaints made by Jewish students and their families seriously, the federal court has ruled.

The five former students, who alleged they endured years of antisemitic bullying, sued Brighton secondary college, in Melbourne’s south-east, and the state of Victoria for negligence by failing to protect them as Jewish students from racial discrimination.

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