I intended these two emails for Dr. Kevin Donnelly.

Thank you for reading them.

Kind regards,
Fayre Lakeman

Then there was the people that put nails under the tyres on our car and egged it; a gang that came to the front door; phone calls all night; people that rented my house at Kinglake and made it very clear they knew ‘all about us and what we had done’; the tenants that changed our chimney and nearly asphyxiated next tenants, they also damaged our water pump, damaged our in-ground water pump, cracked our brand new aluminium motor mower, and used our ride-on-mower as a slasher; on and on it went all because we said my daughter had gone to a camp at Campaspe River with the school and a man called Michael had talked absolute filth. I rang the school and they never even bothered to tell the owner. These are teachers that are supposed to love children and deeply care for them and their welfare.

Told the kids what he had done to his wife the night before; called the boys ‘Poofs’ and asked how they did it; asked the girls if they did ‘rainbow lips’ and promised to come back into the bedrooms of the year 7 girls huts that night.

Then the teacher that for Medieval studies had to not only read about ‘witchcraft’ ( Objective) but to come and dress as their favourite dead person into a blacked out room to do a séance (Subjective) or fail history.

On and on it went and I was foolish enough to report these things to Mary Bluetts – I actually spoke to her on the phone, then the Education Department – Faye Thomas. Next I took my daughter’s excellent report along with all of the report the other two had received to Mary Dalahunty. What a mistake. I never saw the reports again; was not contacted by anyone except Faye Thomas recommending I go to the Adolescent Unit of The Austin Hospital to let her change schools easily. I could go on for hours writing what was done to us and to me in particular outside of school. My daughter suffered in schools – ten in all but she still stayed on to complete high school.

From: Fayre Lakeman [mailto:Duncan48@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2016 6:39 PM
To: ‘jane.garrett@parliament.vic.gov.au’
Subject: Bullying

Hello, I wish you well with your current problem with the government (your party). I stood up for what was right against the Teacher’s Union (Mary Bluett) and the Education Department.
We (my family) were blacklisted, viciously lied about even into any church we attended; my daughter who was very, very ill (glandular fever so bad she was hospitalised, asthma stress induced eczema) bullied; dropped on her knees from a bar while doing a cartwheel there that she said she could not do; shuffled from school to school while teachers advised parents to keep their child away from her. Then my son; you may know of it because I took on Slater & Gordon regarding it.

I was convinced to go to The Austin Hospital to get a certificate so she could change schools and from there they were going to put her into a State Dept. of Human Services situation that would have killed her had she gone there at that time. For my part they asked me to go to that hospital to see if what I was saying was the truth and then they held me illegally for almost ten weeks without going before the Mental Health Board. A similar thing happened when I continued to complain.

You in fact live near Lillian Francis in the high rise housing commission flats in Barkly Street in Brunswick. She was told to keep away from me too. She is a dear, dear lady and did not take their advice.

Look I send this to you so you can consider yourself lucky that you have a lot of people behind you and especially the CFA. I lived in the country and know that they are wonderful as well as a stable continual social contact for each other and especially for those that do not drink or go to the usual places of contact.

I actually believed in the Labor Party and stood up to the Jeffery Kennett on their behalf. I wrote letter everywhere and I could not/cannot believe they would have done what they have done to my sick 14 year old child and to my disabled son that was actually a member of the CFMEU.

For caring about children just as you care about the people in the CFA I have lost my friends, family on both sides of my own as well as my husband’s; owe as much on my one house as I did for two; no longer go to church; make sure no one I know ever goes near the Mental Health community in any way; no longer believe this country is the place I thought it was. You will know of what has been done to us and you will also know I do not have access to the media as there is a blanket suppression order in both the parliament and the media.

You have no idea how it feels to be treated like the lowest form of life when all you wanted to do was make it right for children that were being seriously mistreated.

I will not go on but I do know you are absolutely know you are telling the truth and when they treated us as they did instead of just discussing it and actually acting to set things right the ‘LIGHT ON THE HILL’ went out. I was totally discreet and it was not only unnecessary ut totally immoral to do what they did to me and mine/

Kind regards,
Fayre Lakeman.

PS it has taken us eighteen years to get our lives back on course even if we have not got friends and financial security or anyway to go places we should at our age be able to afford to travel; not to mention my daughter’s education that was severely compromised.