Mystery of child abuse rates
Reported sexual abuse of children in NSW is three times greater than in Victoria, leaving criminologists at a loss.
In Depth
Retta Dixon Home victims’ fury
Former residents of a missionary home are angry that the commonwealth has not been held liable for their treatment.
Indigenous consensus ‘key’
Greens senator Rachel Siewert is the latest politician to express concern over the Prime Minister’s stance.
‘Don’t silence us on recognition’
Nova Peris has called on Tony Abbott to back a series of indigenous conventions on constitutional recognition.
Memory fails former bishop
Former bishop Ronald Mulkearns appeared frail as he gave evidence about an ex-priest accused of sex offences.
Catholics hit back at suicide claims
The Catholic Church has attacked Victoria Police’s exaggeration of suicide deaths due to clergy abuse.
Teen told not to report sex abuse
A teenager whose three sisters were also sexually abused by their father was warned not to report the abuse to police.
Pearson ‘right’ on body
Activist Murandoo Yanner has given conditional support to Noel Pearson’s proposal for an indigenous advisory body.
Pearson takes a lead from the Jews
The country’s most prominent indigenous leader, Noel Pearson, has often spoken of how he is a student of Jewish history.
Bishop lauded sex abuser’s ‘unique gift’
A former Catholic bishop wrote a court reference for a pedophile priest in which he praised his “unique gift with youth”.
Cops face flood of sex claims
THE first wave of criminal prosecutions brought as a result of the child-abuse royal commission have begun to hit the courts.
Home’s 50-year history of abuse
AUTHORITIES were alerted to missionaries sexually abusing Stolen Generation children at a Darwin home as early as 1966.
Stolen children tell of sex abuse
STOLEN Generations children at the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin were chained, sexually abused and beaten, an inquiry has heard.
Shelling near MH17 site blocks AFP
HEAVY shelling around the crash site of downed Malaysian flight MH17 has forced Australian and Dutch police to scrap a planned visit for now.
Abbott, Putin discuss Ukraine plan
THE two leaders held a telephone conversation to discuss organising an independent international probe into the downing of MH17.
‘A grim day for Australia’
A MELBOURNE real estate agent and his wife, and a popular Perth sailor and his grandchildren are among the Australian victims of flight MH17.
Church head begged bishop to be kinder
THE head of the Anglican Church tried for years to convince one of his bishops to change the way he dealt with victims of child sex abuse.
Finishing school is a family first
JEROME Pang, 17, is the first in his family to finish school.
Peddling a message of reform
VENTURING through Australia’s red centre on a bicycle is not for the faint-hearted.
Our solution works
EMPOWERING kids through education may give us our first Aboriginal prime minister.
Mining tax ‘hurting investment’
THE head of the South Australian Resources Department has slammed the mining tax as a badly designed policy.
Exchanges with Asia help artists
FROM India to South Korea, writers and artists are some of Australia’s most compelling emissaries.
Labor MP endorses Howard labour plan
A LABOR MP has backed a Howard-era program allowing welfare recipients to keep more of their payments if they do temporary work.
McKew’s news: you read it here first
WITH extracts from Maxine McKew’s new book, Fairfax readers are being served ‘revelations’ that The Australian reported on in 2010.
Roxon faces Slipper revolt
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Nicola Roxon faces a backbench revolt from Labor MPs.
Somlyay talked to ALP of speaker bid
ALEX Somlyay spoke to Anthony Albanese several times in an unsanctioned bid to be speaker that would have denied the Coalition a parliamentary vote.
Slipper ‘unfit’ to lead overseas party
A MEMBER of an upcoming parliamentary delegation to Argentina and Canada has called for Peter Slipper to be banned from representing Australia overseas.
Levy to cost up to 21,000 jobs
THE carbon tax will cost up to 21,000 jobs in Queensland by the end of the decade.
Combet to axe carbon floor price
THE Gillard government faces a multi-billion dollar budget hit following its announcement today that it will axe its carbon floor price from 2015.
Slipper gives up fight on Ashby leak
PETER Slipper has formally withdrawn allegations that James Ashby acted unlawfully in leaking extracts of the Speaker’s diary.
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