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Adrian Black

Department, pool managers fined after child, 8, drowned

A boy drowned on a school trip despite his mother confirming beforehand he was a novice swimmer. (Brendon Thorne/AAP PHOTOS)

The Victorian Education Department and a community pool manager will pay a combined $180,000 for health and safety breaches after an eight-year-old died during a school excursion.

Grade 2 student Cooper Onyett drowned on May 21, 2021, at Belfast Aquatics at Port Fairy in Victoria's southwest while on a trip organised by the Warrnambool-based Merrivale Primary School.

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