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POSTED 29-01-2016
Developing a National Approach to Redress for Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse
The Commonwealth Government will lead the development of a national approach to redress for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.
Joint media release-attorney general.gov.au, 29 January 2016
POSTED 14-12-2015
Cardinal George Pell labels reports casting doubt on legitimacy of his illness 'misleading and mischievous'
Catholic Cardinal George Pell attacks reports casting doubt on the legitimacy on his illness, which has stopped him appearing at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
POSTED 11-11-2015
Inquiry told school counsellor was charged after abuse victim wore listening device
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been told that a school counsellor in Brisbane was only charged with sex offences when a former student wore a listening device for police, after almost two decades of complaints.
POSTED 04-09-2015
Child abuse royal commission: Geelong Grammar staff member tells inquiry son suicided due to abuse
A senior staff member of Geelong Grammar has told the royal commission into child sex abuse he believed his own son was probably molested at the school, and subsequently took his own life.
POSTED 02-09-2015
Royal Commission hears Geelong Grammar's bullying culture fostered abuse
Former students of Victoria's prestigious Geelong Grammar School have told the royal commission a subculture of brutality fostered sexual abuse at the school. The commission is investigating the school's response to abuse complaints from the 1950s to 2007. It's heard five former staff have been convicted of sexual offences against children.
POSTED 18-08-2015
Child sexual abuse royal commission: Working with children checks should be urgently strengthened and unified, report finds
Working with children checks should be strengthened and unified across all states and territories as a matter of urgency, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has recommended.
POSTED 17-08-2015
Screening process failing children
An inconsistent and complex approach by states and territories to running background checks on people wanting to work with children has failed those the schemes are supposed to protect, prompting the royal commission into child sexual abuse to call for sweeping changes.
POSTED 13-08-2015
Aboriginal victims of abuse have claims collected
CLAIMS of victims of institutional abuse were collected on Mornington Island this week.
Seven years ago the state government compensated victims of institutional abuse – except for those in dormitories on Aboriginal Reserve Land and missions.
