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Royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse

Latest news on Australia's royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse

February 2024

  • Graham Perrett

    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

  • Illustration of silhouette of man looking into broken mirror with different faces looking back

    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 attorney general Michael Daley

    NSW to consider action over Catholic church abuse legal tactics

  • Matt Barker

    ‘Our voices will be heard’: survivors herald court ruling against tactics used by Australian churches to avoid abuse claims

October 2023

  • Brian Cherrie ties ribbons to the fence of St. Patrick Cathedral during a mass for Cardinal George Cardinal Pell

    Catholic church loses landmark case over tactics that shield it from Australian abuse claims

  • A banner thanking the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse

    Australia’s child abuse redress scheme case backlog almost doubles in 10 months

September 2023

  • A general view of the Parliament of Western Australia in Perth

    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

  • A view of the legs of a gymnast walking on balance beam

    Gymnastics Australia joins scheme to compensate survivors of child sexual abuse

  • Anonymous generic Catholic Priest holding bible.

    NSW court rules Catholic church can’t get a fair trial in civil case over paedophile priest

  • Priest holding prayer beads

    Catholic church uses death of paedophile priest in bid to stop survivor suing NSW diocese, court hears

  • Single computer hacker works in the dark committing crime

    Invisible predators: the shifting behaviour of paedophiles has Australian police playing catch-up

July 2023

  • Matt Barker

    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

  • Survivor ‘Steven’, who was abused at a Marist Brothers school in 1973, shown with his face partially obscured

    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

  • The accusation adds to a litany of complaints about the legal tactics being utilised by the Catholic church in Australia for abuse cases.

    Church accused of adding to trauma of survivor by trying to thwart case involving paedophile priest

  • Former governor general Peter Hollingworth

    Anglican church body presiding over Peter Hollingworth misconduct case admits confusing identity of abuse survivors

  • Protestant church. Altar and christian cross.

    NSW taxpayers to fund indemnity for 47 organisations against child abuse claims

  • Nationals senator Matt Canavan says the Albanese government’s housing bill is a ‘half-baked solution’.

    Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
    Opposition will ‘use every tactic’ to block bill – as it happened

  • State governments forced to indemnify church bodies for child abuse due to insurance ‘market failure’

  • Australia’s child abuse redress scheme will be opened to prisoners in recognition of trauma’s impact

April 2023

  • Former governor general Peter Hollingworth.

    Anglican complaints body declines to defrock Peter Hollingworth despite finding he ‘committed misconduct’

    Former Anglican archbishop of Brisbane was the subject of complaints about his handling of child abuse complaints in the 1990s
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