Tag Archives: Anglicare

Federal Government Grants to Organisations for their Royal Commission Responses (Or: Who’s In)

Posted on September 9, 2013 by lewisblayse

The following list of some of the organisations receiving federal funding related to the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse is given for the purposes of recording the on-going history of the Royal Commission itself. Relationships Australia is the largest … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anglican Church, Anglicare, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Berry St. Victoria, Bravehearts, Brisbane Catholic Church archdiocese, Care Leavers of Australia Network, Child Migrant Trust, children's homes, CLAN, Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions, Drummond St. Services Inc., Forde Enquiry, government grants, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Micah Projects Inc., Queensland Government, Relationships Australia, Victim Support Services Inc. | Comments Off

Intrafamilial Abuse and Foster Care (Or: Still Swept Under the Carpet)

Posted on March 9, 2013 by lewisblayse

Image source: http://02varvara.wordpress.com/tag/child-abuse/ Foster care is the new preferred system for children taken from their parents forcibly, when there have been problems for them in their original family. Until about the 1980s, the preferred system had been institutions known as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anglicare, Australian Human Rights Commission, children's homes, Dubner and Motta (1999), Forgotten Australians, foster care, foster carers, foster children, George Brouwer, institutional responsibility, institutionalisation, intrafamilial abuse, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Life Without Barriers, Ombudsman, paedophiles, Peter Beattie, Peter Hollingworth, production chain, PTSD, quality control, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, state wards, Susanne Babbel, Ted Mullighan | Comments Off

Commissioner Fitzgerald (Or: The Pope’s Man), Cont’d

Posted on January 26, 2013 by lewisblayse

Robert Fitzgerald of the royal commission is described in government and news reports as having close ties with the Catholic Church. He has worked in several positions at Catholic organisations. In 2001, he received an honorary doctorate from the Australian Catholic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Wilkie, Anglicare, Australian Catholic University, Caritas Australia, Catholic Church, Christian Brothers, conflict of interest, Forgotten Australians, Foyer Foundation, Geoff Bowyer, George Pell, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, Productivity Commission, Robert Fitzgerald, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, St Vincent de Paul Society, YMCA | Comments Off

Commissioner Coate (Or: The Legitimiser)

Posted on January 24, 2013 by lewisblayse

Jenny Coate (pictured below) is exactly the sort of person you would want to appoint to the royal commission if you wanted to be seen as choosing talented and experienced people. Apparently, she was the first school captain of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anglicare, Anglicare Steering Committee for Group Conferencing Restorative Justice, children's homes, conflict of interest, Forgotten Australians, Health Services for Abused Victorian Children Advisory Group, Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission, Jennifer Coate, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles | Comments Off