AUSTRALIA
The Age
Jane Lee
April 23, 2012
THE state government has been urged to widen the inquiry into sex abuse by priests to consider how to make it easier for victims to sue the Catholic Church.
Premier Ted Baillieu last week announced that a parliamentary committee would investigate the handling of the criminal abuse of children in churches and other organisations.
However, the inquiry’s terms of reference do not cover the church’s immunity from civil lawsuits for past sexual abuse.
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