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By Annette Blackwell – AAP on August 11, 2016
A former policeman working to clean up an Anglican diocese where child abuse was allegedly covered up says he has been harassed and had his home attacked because of his work.
Michael Elliott has been director of the professional standards board in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle in the Hunter Region of NSW since 2009.
On Thursday he gave evidence at a royal commission investigating the diocese’s response to abuse allegations over three decades.
He said there was a high level of interference in his professional standards work by diocesan hierarchy and moves to curtail the powers of the board when it began investigating complaints about a number of clergy, including the former dean of Newcastle Cathedral, Graeme Lawrence.
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