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Monivae College is an independent Roman Catholic co educational high day and boarding school of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) tradition located in , Victoria, Australia. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ballarat. Set on , the college was founded in 1954. Jonathan Rowe has served as the College principal since January 2020.

In 2016, Monivae was also "the first of the MSC schools in Australia to undergo the ‘Ethos and Identity Review’ where a panel visited the College for three days and assessed using four lenses how the school was Catholic and MSC". Principal McGinnity noted the panel’s report "was very positive affirming many of the good things and encouraging all staff to attend spiritual formation courses at Douglas Park." McGinnity reported that "This year’s whole staff Spiritual Formation Day was conducted by Fr Richard Leonard SJ with an emphasis on how quality relationships in Catholic schools can form believers in our media saturated culture." (sic).

The WCRCH is a new indoor and outdoor cricket training centre, including six indoor cricket pitches, a fenced turf ground with five pitches, outdoor turf training nets with 10 new turf practice wickets, office space for Cricket Victoria’s representatives, sports science technology, player and umpire change rooms and a separate spectator pavilion with seating for more than 100 spectators. The centre is the most unique sporting and educational community facility in regional Victoria, catering for all ages and abilities and a cricket based curriculum planned to commence at the college next year.

The Monivae College Cadet Unit is one of the largest school cadet units in Victoria, and the program introduces boys and girls to activities that will give them recreational and service options in later life. The cadet motto is "Courage, Initiative, Respect and Teamwork". The program is part of the curriculum

According to the Broken Rites website, which launched its sexual abuse hot line in 1993, "some of the first calls received were from former Monivae students, describing their encounters with certain priests and brothers at Monivae College." Priests or brothers no longer teach or live at Monivae. Monivae's principal, Mark McGinnity, has "apologised unreservedly to the students who were abused by Mamo while he was based at the school",

Brother Edward Mamo worked and lived at Monivae in the 1970s and 1980s as a groundsman, bus driver, and hockey coach. He also worked in the laundry room. In 2012, Mamo was charged with indecent assault of seven boys aged 11 to 14 at Monivae College between 1976 and 1980. The majority of the assaults occurred in the basement laundry where Mamo had a work room. Mamo pleaded guilty to all charges. In 2015, an additional 14 victims came forward in relation to 21 counts of indecent assault. Mamo pleaded guilty to all charges. Judge Smallwood sentenced Mamo to a minimum 12 months jail with a further 22 months suspended.

In the impact statements of the victims reported in Broken Rites, "two said they had attended the school as happy, confident and smart children but the offending had left them humiliated and introverted. One had dreamt of becoming a lawyer but had left the school a "shattered delinquent"."" Another cited "academic struggles, failed relationships and alcoholism" as downstream impacts of the abuse. "He said he felt outraged that Monivae College had never acted on the allegations against Mamo at the time, which made the school complicit in his offending." Another said he had tried to bury the memory but this lack of resolution had created "a ripple effect throughout his life. He said he now saw that this suffering didn't have to be carried into the future."

Father Michael (Mick) Reis was a teacher and senior administrator at Monivae for over 20 years on and off, from 1971 to the 2008. In January 2008, police arrested Reis while he was teaching at Monivae in relation to seven counts of indecent treatment of two girls aged 10 to 13 during his time teaching in Queensland. The first girl was assaulted in her Brisbane home in 1984. The following year, Reis returned to Monivae where he was appointed rector (1985 1990). The court was told Reis "eventually stopped his offending of his own accord because he realised his actions were wrong". However, he relapsed in 1994 when he sexually abused a second girl at Caboolture. Despite having knowledge of this report, Monivae, under then principals, Peter Gurry and Bernard Neale, allowed Reis to continue teaching at the school as well as keep his live in position as Head of Boarding. The provincial leader of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) of Australia, Father Tim Brennan, defended this decision saying the report prepared by the Catholic Church found he posed no threat as a teacher. Brennan (a former student and teacher at Monivae in the 1960s and 1970s

Brother John Frith worked and lived at Monivae during the 1970s and 1980s. He was in charge of the infirmary and responsible for examining and attending to sick students. In 2018, following an investigation by members of the Sano Taskforce, Brother Frith was charged with offences allegedly committed against boys at Monivae College in the 1970s and 1980s. Frith appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court in early 2019. The trial has been set for March 2020 in the Victorian County Court. Details of the case are not known at this stage.

Broken Rites reported that the victims of the Mamo assaults expressed, ""grave concerns" about the way the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart managed the allegations when they were reported by students (and) the way the MSC order managed Mamo during the time the sexual offences occurred at the school. We also have serious questions that we would like the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart to answer, relating to their duty of care to us as young boys." The rectors of Monivae during the period when the offences took place were Father Malcolm Fyfe MSC (1969–1977), and Father Dennis Uhr MSC (1978–1984). Uhr, following his stint at Monivae, served as rector at another MSC school, Daramalan in Canberra (1989–1997), where he was "accused of failing to act after three teachers warned him over the practice of a teacher (Paul John Lyons) who took boys home for weekend visits". Lyon later admitted to sexually abusing boys in his home. The head of MSC Australia, Fr Tim Brennan, "told The Australian that he had spoken to Fr Uhr about the Lyons affair but said he did not want to pre judge Fr Uhr's actions." Bishop Ronald Mulkearns MSC, was the then Monivae Patron. He was criticised by the Royal Commission for covering up sex abuse during his time as bishop of the Ballarat diocese, under which Monivae operated. In 2013, a group of Monivae old boys filed a suit to sue the Catholic Church for failing to protect them from sexual abuse whilst under the care of the school.

YearsRector/Principal1954–1956Fr Bob Hyland MSC1957–1959Fr J Burford MSC1960–1962Fr J. J McMahon MSC1963–1968Fr. P. Prentice MSC1969–1977Fr Malcolm Fyfe MSC1978–1984Fr Dennis Uhr MSC1985–1990Fr Michael Reis MSC1991–1995Fr John Mulrooney MSC1996–1999Mr Peter Gurry2000–2009Mr Bernard Neale2010–2019Mr Mark McGinnity2020–presentMr Jonathan Rowe