AUSTRALIA
The Australian
August 2, 2017
HEDLEY THOMAS
National Chief Correspondent
Brisbane
Peter Hollingworth’s “misleading” evidence to a child sexual abuse inquiry when he was governor-general should cost him his vice-regal pension and other public benefits totalling $500,000 a year, according to survivors of abuse in the Diocese of Brisbane.
They say fresh adverse findings in February against Dr Hollingworth, the Anglican Church’s former archbishop of Brisbane, by the current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have not been well understood or scrutinised at a time of high interest in the Catholic Church and Cardinal George Pell.
The findings include that he misled a formal child sexual abuse investigation, called the Brisbane Inquiry, in December 2002 when he was governor-general and under pressure to explain his handling of serious cases of pedophilia in the diocese during his 12 years as archbishop.
He misled the Brisbane inquiry in 2002 about his contact with people, including victims who had brought the molestation to his personal attention early in the piece in the 1990s.
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