AUSTRALIA
ABC News
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The Victorian inquiry into how institutions and organisations responded to child abuse is the latest in dozens of state-based investigations concerned with the sexual abuse of children, either in institutional care, foster care, child migration, or child protection systems. The Royal Commission is expected to gather all of the previous Australian reports, identify the good and bad amongst the recommendations they made, and evaluate their effectiveness.
Transcript
ELEANOR HALL: While work of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry has now wound up, the national Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse continues its work.
The World Today’s Emily Bourke has been reporting on the Royal Commission and she joins us now.
Emily, how will the Royal Commission – a national inquiry – handle this state-based report?
EMILY BOURKE: Eleanor, it’s expected that this will feed into the Royal Commission.
This report out of Victoria is just the latest in many state-based inquiries concerned with sexual abuse of children.
In fact The Head of the Royal Commission, Justice Peter McClellan, said this week that over the past 30 years there have been at least 80 state or territory based inquiries that have looked at issues directly relevant to the Commission’s work.
ELEANOR HALL: Eighty?
EMILY BOURKE: Eighty. That’s right. 80. Now, all of these previous Australian reports will be gathered up and the Royal Commission will try to identify the good and the bad amongst the recommendations and how effective they’ve been.
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