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Tag Archives: Forgotten Australians
Terms of Reference – Apportioning Responsibilities (Or: Robin Hood Had it Right)
Shortly after the announcement of the Royal Commission, on-line media polls were taken concerning whether or not the government should pay reparations to the victims of abuse. The split was essentially 1/3rd each for government paying, government not paying, and … Continue reading
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Tagged apportioning responsibility, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Christian Brothers, class actions, compensation, courts, Forgotten Australians, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, reparations, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
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Terms of Reference – Compensation (Or: Here’s Your Brass Watch, Now Get Lost)
Image source: http://www.irishecho.com.au/tag/royal-commission-into-child-abuse Noted law academic, Judy Courtin, remarked in an article in The Conversation that, “the elephant in the room is the issue of compensation.” While the royal commission’s terms of reference do not allow it to award compensation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Lawyers Alliance, Brian Hayes (Fine Gael), Catholic Church, Christian Brothers, David vs. Goliath, Forgotten Australians, Irish enquiry, Judy Courtin, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, Queensland Government Redress Scheme, Redress Review Committee, Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002, Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Seán Ryan, The Education Finance Board, The States of Fear
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Other Abuse (Or: Setting the Scene)
Psychological, spiritual, and systems abuse do not directly fall under the terms of reference of the Royal Commission. As was detailed in yesterday’s posting, organisations will be happy to have these issues excluded in order to suffer less damage to … Continue reading
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Tagged Forgotten Australians, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, multiple forms of abuse, paedophiles, physical abuse, psychological abuse, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, systems abuse, terms of reference
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Terms of Reference – Types of Abuse – Physical Abuse (Or: Things Aren’t Always Overt)
Nuns or others engaging in physical abuse constitute one of the least reported aspects of church abuse. Those who were in their children’s homes know this very well. At present, it seems that the issue will continue to be under-reported … Continue reading
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Tagged children's homes, churches, Forgotten Australians, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, nuns, paedophiles, Peter Hollingworth, physical abuse, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Salvation Army, sexual abuse
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The Terms of Reference Revisited, Part 1 (Or: Still a Host of Devils in the Detail)
The previous posting on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission only covered the most basic aspects. The problems arising from them will take a much more thorough coverage. The principal issue to be addressed is that of covering … Continue reading
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Tagged allocation of work, apportioning responsibility, emotional abuse, Forgotten Australians, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, multiple forms of abuse, paedophiles, physical abuse, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, royal commission proceedings, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, systems abuse, terms of reference, victims' voices
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The Seal of the Confessional (Or: Hear No Evil, Report No Evil)
Mandatory reporting of child abuse revealed during the confessional process within the Catholic and Anglican Churches will be high on the agenda at the royal commission for many. There will be a real bun fight over this with supporters of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglican Church, Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Auxillary Bishop of Dublin, “Coll. conciliorum”, Canon 21 of the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Bishops, Catholic Church, Forgotten Australians, Frank Brennan, Geoffrey Robinson, Hefele-Leclercq “Historie des Conciles” at the year 1215; Mansi or Harduin, Irish Association of Catholic Priests, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, priests, Raymond Field, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, seal of the confessional, Sean McDonagh, St Charles Borromeo of Milan, Terry O’Gorman, Tony Abbott, Waleed Aly, Youth Off The Streets
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Really Good Liars (Or: A Priest in Sheep’s Clothing)
The author will resort to using the first person for this personal account. It concerns a situation which should serve as a warning about really good liars. It was early 1990. I was accompanying a few people who had been … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Catholic media office, Catholic Weekly, Father Ronald McKeirnan, FICH (Formerly in Children's Homes), Forgotten Australians, Goss government, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Nazareth House, orphanages, paedophiles, Paul McLachlan, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, St Joseph's Orphanage ('Neerkol')
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Seventh Day Adventists (Or: Same Old, Same Old)
The Seventh Day Adventists Church in Australia is small, and the incidents of child sexual abuse are few, but the patterns of dealing with the problem mirror those of the larger churches. Denial, hush-money and moving offenders around appear to … Continue reading
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Tagged Forgotten Australians, hush money, James Paul Dunne, Lawrence Joseph Curnuck, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Loren Seibold, Nunawading Seventh Day Adventist Church Primary School, paedophiles, Raymond Mikklesen, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Seventh Day Adventists, Spectrum Magazine
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