AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
May 18 2016
Christopher Knaus
Fresh claims have emerged against a former headmaster of St Edmund’s College, who was accused last year of molesting a student repeatedly over two years.
The late Brother Noel Landener served his first stint as a headmaster at St Edmund’s between 1960 and 1965, following a long career in the Catholic Christian Brothers order.
He was celebrated in the decades after he left the school, and rose through the ranks of Christian Brothers to become a member of Queensland’s provincial council and then a school inspector in the same state, according to his obituary.
He was praised for driving up student numbers, cultivating “self-discipline”, and having a “talent for organisation, abundant energy, and a clear view of the school he wanted St Edmund’s to become”.
One of the school’s six houses was named in his honour.
But, following his death in 1982, disturbing allegations began to emerge about his five years in Canberra.
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