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- Child Abuse Royal Commission Case Study 25 (Or: A Few Thoughts About Redress) March 20, 2015
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Tag Archives: Forgotten Australians
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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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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Who Opposed the Royal Commission and Why (Or: Fools Rush In)
The short answer is that virtually nobody opposed the royal commission. However, many changed their views, the most notable being the Prime Minister Julia Gillard herself. On the Friday before the announcement on the following Monday, while she was visiting … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Downer, Bill Shorten, Catholic Church, Forgotten Australians, Greens, Independents, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin O'Donnell, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Tony Abbott
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Some Laws that Need to be Changed (Or: The Spirit is Willing but the Law is Weak)
Bit of a diatribe today about the need for several changes to existing laws. This is a real-time account. Since some people will not read this entry until the royal commission is concluded, they will have the benefit of reading … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, compensation claims, confessional, courts, David Shoebridge, Ellis defence, extradition treaty, fines, Forgotten Australians, John Ellis, Judy Courtin, legal aid, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Ombudsman, paedophiles, rogue organisations, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Statute of Limitations, United Nations, Vatican State, willing participant argument
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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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A First Look at Children’s Homes (Or: Paedophile Heaven)
Children who were not orphans were often taken into State “care” because of a difficult home situation of one kind or another. The State out-sourced its responsibility to the churches in most cases. The churches ran the “Homes” as profit-making … Continue reading
Politicians (Or: Disorder in the House)
Paedophile politicians pose a particular problem. They have power – and have often used it – to protect themselves. It probably means that those caught so far may represent only the tip of an iceberg. This is an other classic … Continue reading
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Tagged Acting Police Minister, Beattie Labor Government, Bernard Finnigan, Bill D'Arcy, Deputy Speaker of the Queensland Parliament, Forgotten Australians, Gillian Sneddon, Justice David Porter, Keith Wright, Labor Leader of the Opposition (Queensland), Labor Party, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Matt Foley, Milton Orkopoulos, Mr Balson, Nathan Rees, NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister, One Nation, Order of Australia, paedophiles, politicians, power distance, Premier of NSW, Queensland Government Attorney-General, Robert Coombs, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Senator Bob Collins, South Australian Parliament, Speaker, Terry Martin, whistleblowers
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