In light of the hearings currently underway at the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission, IBAC, parents must be wondering how the Department of Education can be trusted. I mean, who would really bill the DEC for their wig? Why would principals purchase coffee machines for their own home? What printing was actually done? Was the turf ever laid? And who will pay for this shocking misappropriation of public education funds? In response to emerging findings at IBAC Operation Ord, Gill Callister, head of Victoria's Education Department, relayed a video message to all staff saying 'I think you have every right to have a sense of betrayal' and 'The public deserves to be outraged.' 'I am confident that we can rebuild public trust in who we are and what we do, ' Callister said. But how confident can the Department really be? The revelations from IBAC go directly to trust-the trust that parents place in a school to care for and educate