AUSTRALIA
The Sydney Morning Herald
June 23, 2018
By Lisa Visentin
The NSW government will pursue extensive reforms as it adopts hundreds of recommendations from the royal commission into child sex abuse, but it has not endorsed new laws to force priests to break the confessional seal.
In a lengthy report released on Saturday, the NSW government formally responded to every recommendation made by the commission, accepting 336 recommendations outright or in principle, and leaving 14 “subject to further consideration”.
In the report, the NSW government acknowledged the survivors of institutional abuse “and the impact of past failures of governments to protect them”.
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