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.
Forcing priests to betray their vows and the penitent achieves nothing.
A religious council wants confessionals exempt from any laws making it a crime to not report child sex abuse.
The abuse royal commission will clash with the Catholic Church over the confidentiality of the confessional.
The abuse royal commission criticised leaders at Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne.
A judge found a suspected child abuser not guilty despite being ‘well satisfied’ the crimes happened, a royal commission heard.
The response by the Jehovah’s Witness organisation to child sexual abuse is inadequate, a royal commission says.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has doubled its compensation cap for victims of clergy sex abuse.
It will probably never be known how many young people fell victim to Gerald Ridsdale from the late 1950s to early 1990s.
Ex-Newcastle Anglican dean Graeme Lawrence denies being asked by his then archbishop on reports he abused children.
A Catholic archbishop has been ordered to give evidence about his knowledge of child abuse by a church pedophile.
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