Truth can now be told
The guilty verdicts will open the way for heavily redacted sections of the child abuse royal commission to be released.
The guilty verdicts will open the way for heavily redacted sections of the child abuse royal commission to be released.
Almost a quarter of callers to the Northern Territory’s child protection hotline did not get to report their concerns to anyone.
Teenagers sexually abused as while serving with the ADF say they have been overlooked in preparations for a national apology.
The Catholic Church has defied the abuse royal commission on the confessional seal, but agreed to 98 per cent of its other recommendations.
Catholic priests in South Australia will defy new laws requiring them to report confessions of child sexual abuse.
Malcolm Turnbull outlines the government’s response to the abuse royal commission as he sets a date for an apology to victims.
The Anglican Church, Salvation Army, Scouts Australia and the YMCA will join the redress scheme for child abuse survivors.
The Catholic Church will join the $4bn child abuse redress scheme in the first move from the faith’s new head of bishops.
The redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse has moved closer to nationwide coverage, adding to pressure on WA and SA to join.
A Queensland decision on whether to sign up to the commonwealth’s $4bn sex-abuse redress scheme is at hand.
Denis Ryan worked relentlessly to expose the conspiracy protecting pedophile priest John Day. It cost him half his life.
The Catholic Church is still using almost every technicality in the book to fight abuse compensation claims, a lawyer says.
Child sex abuse victims sought the help of Philip Wilson, but were not believed, a court hears.
Systematic issues within the Newcastle Anglican Diocese allowed a group of perpetrators to operate, a royal commission report has found.
A desire to protect the Catholic Church’s reputation led to an ‘extraordinary failure’ to protect children in the Ballarat diocese.
Archbishop Philip Wilson allegedly paid $10,000 to silence a would-be complainant against the Catholic Church, a court has heard.
The abuse royal commission has slammed the leadership failings of the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat under Bishop Ronald Mulkearns.
Legal and trauma experts are uneasy about the child sex abuse royal commission’s ready acceptance of recovered memories.
The child sex abuse royal commission is considering dramatically cutting the number of abuse victims recorded at the hands of the Uniting Church.
The trial of Adelaide’s Philip Wilson, who is charged with concealing child sex abuse, is delayed due to pacemaker surgery days ahead of hearing.
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