‘It’s not rocket science’: Hadley slams inaction on national working with children checks

Ray Hadley is taking aim at seven years of government inaction that has allowed predators to slip through Australia’s broken child protection net, declaring paedophiles must be “stopped in their tracks”.

Ray Hadley says we are “deserting our greatest asset – our children”, declaring it’s time to act and get behind the campaign for a national working with children check system.

Backing the Keep Them Safe national campaign, Ray Hadley is demanding urgent reform to the flawed working with children check system, declaring it “broken” and “not working.”

He said Australia needs a single national approach, warning: “We need to be smarter than the creatures we’re dealing with – and those creatures are sex offenders and paedophiles”.

The campaign follows seven years of inaction on a key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Hadley said it was “not rocket science” and slammed successive governments for failing to act.

“We can’t afford paedophiles cherrypicking from jurisdiction to jurisdiction until they get a decision that favours them and puts them working with children,” he said.

He said: “We are deserting our greatest asset – our children. It’s time to act. Get behind the campaign to save them”.