AUSTRALIA
The Age
March 1, 2012
Opinion
Will Spring Street finally take action to properly protect those at risk?
The Baillieu government should at the very least be congratulated for commissioning and promptly releasing the Cummins report on child protection. By any measure it is a landmark study, laying bare an issue that the previous Labor government shamefully squibbed.
Depending on how this government ultimately responds, the report will be held up as a glowing achievement of the Coalition’s first term or an emblem of yet more political inaction.
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