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Sky News
A senior federal government minister hopes Ballarat child sexual abuse survivors get an audience with the Pope, after they met with Cardinal George Pell in Rome.
Frontbencher Christopher Pyne has praised the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, set up by the Gillard Labor government, for putting the suffering of survivors on the national agenda.
‘I hope they get an audience with the Pope,’ Mr Pyne told Nine Network on Friday.
‘This is a very awful part of our society, which we have to face up to, and I think it’s good the royal commission has put these issues on the agenda.’
Cardinal George Pell emerged from a meeting with Ballarat victims of paedophile priests on Thursday , saying he is committed to working with them to combat the ‘scourge of sexual abuse’.
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