Changes

The Carenne Gate team is always looking for ways to improve the site and the exposure of the problems at Carenne Special School. With local Police and the department allowing the debacle to continue the only real way to protect students and staff is to publicly expose what is happening at Carenne.

Welcome to our newest writer

The Carenne Gate team would like to welcome respected independent media journalist Mark Lindbert who will be contributing the occasional article about the mess that is Carenne Special School.

Merge with 'Inside Carenne'

Carenne whistleblower 'savecarenne' created her Inside Carenne blog where she exposed underage drug and alcohol use in Lee Churches' home, underage drinking at the Russell home and rorts of the worker's compensation system by Simone Russell. They can be read here.

Guest writers

Over the next few months Carenne Gate well begin publishing material written by guest writers on the ground within Carenne Special School and the education department. These articles will give readers a unique perspective into life at the coalface.

So keep us bookmarked and keep informed about what really goes on in NSW's school from hell.

Blog changes

You may have noticed that from this morning, Libertarian's name no longer appears in the list of contributors in the right-hand side panel. You will all recall that I invited Libertarian to write for this blog after some personal issues affected the amount of time I had to work on this blog. Now, Libertarian has advised me that they need some time out from the blog and will not be contributing for the foreseeable future.

I would like to thank them for their service and wish them well in the future.

New email address

There is now a new email address to contact contributors to the blog. It is det.gate@aol.com.

After issues with our previous hotmail accounts we have decided to use a single address at AOL.

New site launched

I am proud to announce that with the plethora of issues plaguing the Department of Education and Training in the Western Region that I have launched a new site: detgate.blogspot.com where issues at schools other than the now infamous Carenne Special School will be reported on and discussed.

Blog attacked again

Following carennetruth's disgraceful conduct last night, this blog was attacked again, this time by an unknown attacker. We have now set up a mirror blog which will be updated from this one from time to time at carennegate.wordpress.com

Site repaired

Following an attack by someone inside the NSW Department of Education and Training on Wednesday, the site has been repaired with no information lost.

Once again, omerta's attack had no lasting damage.

As we have seen for the past year both on this blog and Sydney Indymedia, carennetruth, identified as Lee Churches an assistant principal of Carenne Special School has peddled misinformation. She claimed in a comment on Wednesday that:

Yes the department has control of the site because Julie Brown was arrested today because she was running an illegal website.

nedkelly reports that it has been discussed at Carenne that the department was responsible for taking down the website and a number of key players expressed relief at the blog being destroyed.

Site attacked by "omerta" from DET computer

We have learned that the damage to the blog site was carried out by the usual attacker, "Omerta" this time using a computer on the NSW Department of Education and Training's network. It shows that the anonymous threat posted on Monday night that Michael Snowden's review claimed the department would work on taking the website down because it was affecting staff morale.

Blog attacked

Once again this blog has been attacked by deleting articles on the blog. Investigations are currently being carried out.

Omerta strikes again

Once again the Carenne Gate blog has been attacked by "omerta" using a dial-up Internet account traceable to Bathurst. As always it was an amateurish attack performed to supress the truth.

Story removed

Dear Readers,
I have decided to remove Libertarian's article from the blog temporarily until he and I can meet to discuss the potential merits or pitfalls of the article.

New site logo

Dear Readers,
As you would have noticed over the past few weeks we have been working to give the blog a fresh new look. I have created a new site logo which you might like to use in your promotional material.

Another attack

This blog has been repaired after yet another attack by 'omerta' this morning. The attacker posted a photograph of the front of the school with the message - "the site is closed. This is an illegal website full of lies that is just a vehicle for abuse."

The original article by 'omerta' has been re-written to retain the comments

The Carenne 'Mafia'

After a day's work, the blog has been restored with no content lost.

This morning between 7AM and 8AM the attack promised by "ringostar" on Thursday against this blog was carried out. Ringostar had posted a threat that by Saturday morning the site would be no more and attributed this to the Department of Education and Training's legal team being at the school.

The attack was carried out by a user using the name "omerta", a word used by the Sicilian Mafia to refer to their code of silence. A sign saying "Stop Snitching" was placed on the front page of the site with all other articles deleted.

The attack was carried out by an amateur who managed to add themselves to the administrator's list of the blog and deleted items in the administration section of the blog. They forgot to remove their account name and email address from this list when the attack was complete. A non-broadband connection was used by the attacker.

As the site is located in the United States, authorities are investigating.