Royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
Latest news on Australia's royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
November 2024
‘Dangerous crunch point’: risk abuse survivors will be denied justice due to delays in Australia’s redress scheme
Parliamentary inquiry warns it may run out of time to work through backlog of cases due to significant hold ups and surge in applications
June 2024
The rural network, Victoria
Ballarat’s history of sexual abuse is an enduring wound. How can we heal together?
Dellaram Vreeland
The Victorian regional city has endorsed a design for a memorial to survivors of sexual violence, and to recognise historic abuse by Catholic clergy
May 2024
High court decision to limit Catholic church abuse legal tactics to become law under NSW proposal
Legislation needed to limit use of stay applications and ensure justice for child abuse survivors, MP says
February 2024
Labor MP calls for Order of Australia to be stripped from undeserving dead recipients
Graham Perrett says it is ‘unjust’ deceased high school teacher Maxwell Howell, who is accused of failing to investigate child sex abuse, retains the honour
December 2023
Best reads of 2023
Australia has resisted treating paedophiles before they harm children. Now that view is changing
‘We can’t just shun perpetrators or people at risk of becoming perpetrators and hope they go away’, an expert psychologist says
November 2023
NSW to consider action over Catholic church abuse legal tactics
‘Our voices will be heard’: survivors herald court ruling against tactics used by Australian churches to avoid abuse claims
October 2023
Catholic church loses landmark case over tactics that shield it from Australian abuse claims
Australia’s child abuse redress scheme case backlog almost doubles in 10 months
September 2023
Bids for sexual abuse justice in WA ‘quashed’ by permanent stay tactics, inquiry told
The legal tactic to halt claims against churches and other organisations has been blasted by support groups, saying institutions benefit from delays to justice
August 2023
Gymnastics Australia joins scheme to compensate survivors of child sexual abuse
NSW court rules Catholic church can’t get a fair trial in civil case over paedophile priest
Catholic church uses death of paedophile priest in bid to stop survivor suing NSW diocese, court hears
Invisible predators: the shifting behaviour of paedophiles has Australian police playing catch-up
July 2023
Matt was abused by a Sydney Scout leader. Now he’s fighting a court decision that could end his pursuit of justice
Abuse survivor says ‘no one’s ever going to get justice’ as he appeals against permanent stay
June 2023
Australian abuse survivors fight to stop Catholic church’s ‘new type of cruelty’
Survivors are lobbying to change the law to prevent institutions unfairly using legal stays to stop them taking cases to trial
May 2023
Church accused of adding to trauma of survivor by trying to thwart case involving paedophile priest
Anglican church body presiding over Peter Hollingworth misconduct case admits confusing identity of abuse survivors
NSW taxpayers to fund indemnity for 47 organisations against child abuse claims
Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
Opposition will ‘use every tactic’ to block bill – as it happened
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