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ABC investigative journalist Louise Milligan has revealed that seven legal threats have been made ahead of her expose on Cranbrook School.
The report, ‘Secrets of Cranbrook’, will be broadcast on the public broadcaster’s Four Corners program on Monday night.
Milligan tweeted earlier on Monday that he was aware of multiple legal threats already made in relation to the segment about the elite private school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
“To: ABC and I, people on our show, people not on our show,” he said.
‘Even coming from people associated with Cranbrook who are NOT in our story.
‘Power and influence in Australia’s richest enclave. Tune in.’
ABC investigative journalist Louise Milligan has revealed that seven legal threats have been made ahead of her expose on Cranbrook School.
Milligan tweeted earlier on Monday that he was aware of multiple legal threats already made in relation to the segment about the elite private school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
The school, which charges Year 11 and 12 students $46,497 a year, had previously declined ABC’s invitations to take part in an on-camera interview.
Cranbrook School Board President Geoff Lovell spoke to 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Friday morning.
Lovell expressed concern about the program’s intentions, suggesting that ABC might attempt to portray a negative image of the school’s culture and leadership.
“Particularly about the way women are treated,” she said.
Lovell said this was “very disturbing and disappointing for our school community”, particularly the female staff at the all-boys Anglican school.
‘Fifty-eight percent of our staff are women; “We have a good gender balance across the school,” Mr Lovell said.
“Female staff are very upset because it does not seem to correspond to the lived reality at Cranbrook and, ultimately, what we do for the students in our care.”
In promoting the Four Corners program, interviewees describe the school as a boys’ club.
Milligan is seen asking a young man: ‘How do you feel when you pass that place?’
Sydney’s exclusive private all-boys school Cranbrook will be in the spotlight on Monday night on Four Corners.
“It’s a facade because I know what happened inside,” he responds.
Another man says, “There is a moral failure here.”
A woman also says in the promo: “It’s like lambs to the slaughter and this has to stop.”
Milligan asks sexual consent activist Chanel Contos why the rest of Australia should care “what’s happening at this posh school”.
“Those people continue to govern our country for better or worse,” he responds.
Cranbrook alumni include tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, two generations of the Packer gaming and media dynasty, Kerry and James, among a host of illustrious businessmen, politicians, academics and media and sports stars.
Lovell said they declined an interview “because we have little confidence that the school’s position is presented in a balanced way or in its correct context.”
“The tone, structure and content of the questions posed to the school by the ABC give every indication that the issues at hand have been prejudged and that the school’s involvement would make little or no difference to how the program seeks to portray to school”. he told The Australian.
An ABC spokesperson said Cranbrook was “given detailed information and ample time and opportunity to participate” in the report.
“Four Corners conducts important public interest investigations,” the spokesperson said.
“The public can watch the program and make their own decisions.”