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.
A GROUP pressing for reform has told an abuse inquiry the church is a conflicted organisation with 17th century governance.
INDIGENOUS groups have raised concerns that Aboriginal children may fall through the cracks of the royal commission into sexual abuse.
ALLEGATIONS of child sexual abuse have been made against 23 priests in the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.
THE nation’s most powerful Catholic, Sydney Archbishop George Pell, is to be called before the Victorian child sex abuse inquiry.
A CATHOLIC bishop failed to act on years of allegations of child sex abuse by a priest, a report has found.
THE head of Julia Gillard’s royal commission into child sex abuse has issued a fiery opening warning.
THE head of the royal commission into child sexual abuse says it won’t hesitate to compel people and organisations to give evidence.
JULIA Gillard’s royal commission into child sex abuse is bracing for an avalanche of claims.
AUSTRALIA’S peak legal body says it is “not clear” whether the royal commission has the power to override confidentiality agreements.
THE royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse will be “the most expensive in the history of royal commissions”.
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