AUSTRALIA
The Mercury
CHILD Protection Week is an annual event but its message is more poignant than ever this year.
The belief that child safety is fundamental to any decent society is so obvious it almost seems absurd to have to state it.
Yet our litany of failures on this most basic of rights is shameful.
Just last month came revelations of more problems in Tasmania’s child protection services.
It follows months of shocking revelations at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Since July 2013 the Royal Commission has been travelling the country, unearthing case after case of children betrayed and abused by adults in schools, churches and sporting clubs, of victims’ complaints ignored and the crimes of those in positions of trust hidden to protect the good name of institutions.
The lack of compassion for victims over many decades has extended to some of Australia’s, and Tasmania’s, most prestigious schools.
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