The ABC’s Cranbrook school investigation shows why Australia needs to turn its back on single-sex cultures built on exclusion

According to Four Corners, Cranbrook school said there had been no victimisation of women at the school and that it has an ‘inclusive and diverse culture’. Photograph: Picasa/Wikimedia Commons

What to say about Louise Milligan’s Four Corners investigation into yet more allegations of a boys’-club-toxic-culture scandal at yet another overcapitalised-toff-wellness-centre-private-school-and-holding-pen last night?

Four Corners’ report investigating allegations of harassment and discrimination at Sydney’s billionaire baby-educating, boys’ own Cranbrook school by former female staff members raised concerns about gender, power, hierarchy and the perpetuation of not merely unearned advantage but allegations of a dangerous enthusiasm to protect internal culture. It exposed not merely the role of school leadership accused of subordinating employee and student safety to a brand management strategy, but a number of old, ugly social habits around education and exclusivity it is more than time for Australia to give up.