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AAP
November 19, 2014
Tasmania’s Anglican bishop will be among the witnesses giving evidence at the state’s first public hearing of a royal commission into child sexual abuse.
Bishop John Douglas Harrower is one of 11 people – including former students and past and present staff from private Hobart boys’ school, Hutchins – named on the witness list ahead of Wednesday’s opening hearing.
The hearings will spend eight days looking at how the school and the Anglican diocese responded to allegations of sexual abuse against former headmaster David Lawrence and teacher Lyndon Hickman, both now dead.
The alleged abuse dates back to the 1960s.
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