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.
THE commissioners in charge of handling Melbourne abuse complaints against the Catholic Church deny they helped conceal crimes from police.
MOVING one of the worst pedophiles in Australian history to new parishes for years after he was identified as an abuser was “a tragic mistake”.
THE Salesian Catholic order admits it failed to properly supervise its priests, as it revealed it’s paid more than $2m in compensation to victims of sexual abuse in Victoria.
A CATHOLIC priest charged with child sex offences has been accused of assaulting one of his victims with a pool cue.
THE Catholic Church in Australia has hired an experienced Irish investigator of clerical abuse.
VICTORIAN Police have charged a Catholic priest with child sex offences after he returned to Melbourne from Rome.
CHURCHES and community organisations had a culture that helped child sex abuse go undetected, Melbourne’s Anglican archbishop has told an inquiry.
THE Salvation Army has told a Victorian sex abuse inquiry it is ashamed of the treatment of children in its homes and revealed it has paid out more than $15 million to victims.
THE head of the government’s family research body has identified a wide gulf between notifications of alleged child abuse and the claims being substantiated.
A LACK of decisive leadership has thwarted the Catholic church’s ability to address problems of child sexual abuse, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
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