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Some Victorian Victims’ Comments (Or: Real Voices)
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will resume hearings tomorrow. It will be the third “case study”, and will focus on Allan Kitchingman (see previous posting) against the background of events at the North Coast … Continue reading
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Tagged Adults Surviving Child Abuse, Allan Kitchingman, Andrea Coote, Andrea Lockhart, Anglican Church North Coast Children’s Home, Anthony Foster, Australian (Victorian State Government) Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Ballarat Centre Against Sexual Assault, Broken Rites, Bryan Keon-Cohen, Cardinal George Pell, cassock of silence, Catholic Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Catholic Church’s PR Unit, children's homes, Chrissie Foster, Christian Brother Robert Best, Christian Brothers, Clare Leaney, Commission of Inquiry Now (COIN), Dr Cathy Kezelman, Emma Foster, Father Kevin O’Donnell, Francis Sullivan, George Pell, In Good Faith and Associates, John McNally, Justice and Healing Council, Katie Foster, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Manny Waks, Mick Serch, North Coast Children's Home, Olivia Monaghan, Ombudsman, Peter Blenkiron, Queen Street Primary School, Salvation Army, St Leo’s College Box Hill, Stephen Woods, tax exemptions, Tony Abbott, Truth, Victorian Inquiry, Yeshiva College
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Oversight or Policy? (Or: Information is Power)
The Australian Royal Commission into child sexual abuse web-site has a section labeled “contacts”. Here, there are indeed a few contacts for victim support. It is not so much what is there, as what is not there that is an … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Broken Rites, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Melbourne Response, SNAP
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Media Opposition (Or: If You’re Right the Royal Commission’s Wrong)
Image: George Pell (Source: http://www.optuszoo.com.au/news/top/herald-sun/priests-not-above-the-law-mps/840633) Opposition to a royal commission is professed by only 3% of Australian voters. Only about 1% of mainstream journalists and media commentators do the same. The leading apologist for the Catholic Church here appears to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Downer, Andrew Bolt, Broken Rites, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Forgotten Australians, Gerard Henderson, Julia Gillard, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Melbourne Response, paedophiles, Paul Kelly, Peter Craven, Piers Ackerman, Racial Discrimination Act, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Susan Sharkey, Sydney Institute, Tony Abbott
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Teaching Priests (Or: The Little Children Suffer )
While there have not been that many state teachers caught, there have been a hell of a lot of clerical teachers, giving the lie to the church claims that they do not offend any more than the general public. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelaide, Alan Edward Swingler, Albert Matthew Taylor, Assumption College (Kilmore, Blackfriars Priory School (Prospect, Brian Dennis Cairns, Brian Robert Gordon, Brisbane Boys' Grammar School, Brisbane), Broken Rites, Brother Greg Coffin, Catholic Education, Chanel College (Gladstone, Chevalier College (Bowral, David Austin Christian, De La Salle Brothers, De La Salle College (Orange, Downlands College (Queensland), Edward Mamo, Edwin Rapson, Forgotten Australians, Francis (Mick) Reis, Frank Terrence Keating, Geoffrey Sydney Veness, Gerard Gladwin, Gerard Joseph McNamara, Gregory Joseph Sutton, Hugh Michael McNamara, John Desmond Dyson, John William Chute, Kevin Francis Phillips, Kevin John Lynch, La Salle College (Revesby, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Marist Brothers, Marist Brothers (Pagewood, Marist Brothers College (Ashgrove, Marist Brothers College (Eastwood, Marist College (Canberra), Melbourne, Monivae College, Newman College (Perth), NSW), paedophiles, Patrician Brothers, Peter John Toomey, Peter Paul Van Ruth, Peter Richard Spratt, Phillip John Hardy, priests, Queensland), Raymond Sidney Foster, Redden College (Melbourne), Ronald William Hopkins, Ross Francis Murrin, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Salesian College, Salesians of Don Bosco, St Augustine's College (Cairns, St Bernadette's (St Mary's, St Brendan's College (Yeppoon), St Joseph's Christian Brothers' College (Geelong, St Joseph's College (Hunters Hill, St Mark's College (Port Pirie), St Paul's School (Bald Hills, St Stanislaus College (Bathurst, Sydney), Thomas William Grealy, Trinity College (Goulburn), Trinity Regional College (Brunswick, Victoria)
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