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Just an extremely brief posting today.
In the past, paedophiles have concentrated on getting into organisations which have a lot of contact with children. The Royal Commission will be looking at how those organisations have responded to this threat to children. However, if it is limited in this way, and not moving with the times, the problem will continue in a new form.
The reality of the new technologies to do with the world-wide-web is that children are among the major users. Parental blocks can be put on unsuitable sites by all means, but this does not protect their children from the on-line predators, often posing as children themselves.
In the mid-1990s, this author was invited to Queensland State Police Headquarters to consult with the newly established child-protection unit, Taskforce Argos. It was amazing, even at that time, how advanced the methods were. What was equally amazing was just how dedicated, and willing to learn, the members of the unit were. From my background, I am not normally likely to praise coppers, since they are authority figures.
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