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Recent Posts
- Changes to this Blog February 24, 2023
- Salvation Army Hearings Continue (Or: Still Taking Taxpayers’ Money) January 30, 2014
- Salvation Army Abuse Witnesses’ Accounts (Or: And You Thought The Convict Days Were Long Past) January 29, 2014
- Who Cares (Or: War Crimes) January 28, 2014
- The Author’s Rebuttal To Mr. McClellan’s Reasons For Non-Permission To Appear At The Salvation Army Boys’ Homes Hearings And Present A Submission (Or: McClellan Rules, O.K.?) January 27, 2014
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Salvation Army Hearings Continue (Or: Still Taking Taxpayers’ Money)
SPECIAL NOTE: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television (ABC 2 / Ch. 24 digital) will be re-screening the “Four Corners” program from 2003, detailing abuses by the Salvation Army at its Children’s Homes – titled “The Homies”. The program will run … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, Alkira Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, “The Homies”, bear pit mentality, Bexley Boys Home, Bexley Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Captain Laurie Wilson, Chief Commissioner, compensation, EK, Emily Bourke, ET, Four Corners, FT, FV, GA, Gill Memorial Boys’ Home, government funding, homeless youth, Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, James Condom, John McIver, Laurence Wilson, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, medical examinations, nightmares, pedophile ring, Peter McClellan, pimped, public hearings, Quentin McDermott, rape, Riverview Boys’ Home, Riverview Training Farm, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Australia, Salvation Army Bexley Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Boys’ Homes, Salvation Army Gill Memorial Boys' Home, Salvation Army Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, Salvation Army officers, Salvation Army Riverview Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Riverview Training Farm, Salvos, Simeon Beckett, submission, taxpayers’ money, Tony Abbott, Wally McLeod, Wood Royal Commission
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Comments From Victims And Activists (Or: My Lawyer Can Beat Your Lawyer)
The Victorian State Parliamentary enquiry into child sexual abuse by clergy has presented its report, which contains 15 principal recommendations for the Victorian Government (see yesterday’s posting). Laws covering these recommendations are expected to be passed by the Parliament early … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Sdrinis, 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, Catholic Church, compensation, government funding, Judy Courtin, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, tax exemption, Victorian Inquiry
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A Review of the Marist Brothers (Or: I Teach Therefore I Abuse)
The Marist Brothers is a world-wide Catholic Church order, noted for its role in teaching at primary and secondary school levels. Many of its “teachers” entered the order as teenagers, and gained their first teaching appointment while still teenagers. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Assumption College Kilmore Victoria., Brian Robert Gordon, Brisbane diocese’s deputy directory of Catholic Education, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Church, Colgan Taylor, David Austin Christian, fit and proper organisation, fit and proper organization, Francis Hesford, Geoffrey Veness, George Pell, Gerard Joseph McNamara, government funding, Gregory James Carter, Gregory Joseph Sutton, Hugh Michael McNamara, John Aloysius Littler, John Desmond Dyson, John Patrick Gleeson, John William Chute, Judge Helen Murrell, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malcolm Hall, Marist Brothers, Marist Brothers schools, Marist Brothers’ Newman College Perth, Marist College (Canberra), Michael Folli, Norbert Mathieson, Peter Richard Spratt, Roger Michael Bellemore, Ross Francis Murrin, St Augustine's College (Cairns, St Gregory’s College Campbelltown New South Wales, St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill Sydney, Terence Joseph Gilsenan, Terence Mulligan, Vincent’s boys’ home Westmead Sydney
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Election Time! (Or: Is Anybody Listening?)
Image: Denver Post No, this is not about endorsing any party or candidate! For this posting, I will once again revert to the first person format. The reality of life in the modern democracy is that the pollies only really … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, election, government funding, Home Boys, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, politicians, recommendations, Returned Services League, RSL
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