Yet professionally in Australian, no, more precisely, Victorian psychology, sociology, child psychiatry, and educational fields there is a resounding sound of silence, and not a single academic I’ve come across in any of them give any credence for a moment such practices take place …..and unlike me they have nearly all be born and brought up there. Moreover, they teach the kids who have gone to the very schools involved with this ‘big cover-up’ . One said in a Christmas message to me that the odds were better on fairies living at the bottom of his garden, or on meeting an alien at the next faculty drinks party.
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