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.
SURVIVORS of sexual abuse have called the royal commission decision a chance to “end the betrayal”.
FORMER ABC chairman David Hill said Australians may not be ready for the scale of the abuse a royal commission is likely to uncover.
THE Catholic Church’s internal inquiry process into sex abuse by the clergy was not only inadequate but caused more layers of harm.
POLITICIANS from all sides have welcomed Julia Gillard’s calling of a royal commission into child sex abuse.
CATHOLIC archbishops last night supported the decision to set up a royal commission into institutional child abuse.
THE royal commission will be empowered to compel witnesses to give evidence and produce documents.
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