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| UpdatedTwo years after being branded "not safe for children" the YMCA NSW tells a Royal Commission it has improved protection measures but the associated costs are hurting the business.
Topics: child-care, child-abuse, royal-commissions, community-organisations
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A Canberra man convicted of sexually grooming his wife's goddaughter with explicit messages on Facebook is described as "predatory" and "disgraceful" by a judge.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The names and faces change but the problem seems to be the same — the system is not doing enough for Tasmania's most vulnerable children.
Topics: child-abuse, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedA Canberra man accused of storing nearly 4,500 pornographic images and videos, mostly of girls between the ages of three and nine, claim hackers may have targeted him because he was a Donald Trump supporter.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, nicholls-2913, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Children allegedly abducted from a North Perth childcare centre and sexually abused may face further delays in receiving counselling, because incomplete medical reports are preventing them from giving evidence.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, highgate-6003, wa, north-perth-6006
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| UpdatedChild psychiatrist Aaron Voon's offences came to light after he was caught in Canada recording a young boy in a bathroom.
Topics: child-abuse, courts-and-trials, perth-6000
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The Tasmanian Greens want Safe Pathways' contract cancelled after more allegations surface about the neglect of Tasmanian children in its care.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, children, welfare, tas
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| UpdatedFresh allegations are levelled against foster care provider Safe Pathways with former staff saying the provider failed to give adequate care to a 12-year-old girl.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, children, family-and-children, welfare, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, tas
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A photographic portrait of artist Donald Friend is removed from Tweed Regional Gallery after community backlash about Friend's paedophilia.
Topics: visual-art, child-abuse, contemporary-art, murwillumbah-2484, tweed-heads-2485, broadbeach-4218
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Police will be given extra powers under proposed Queensland laws to demand phone and computer passwords from known sex offenders, in a bid to prevent child abuse.
Topics: laws, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, state-parliament, child-abuse, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedThe child sex abuse royal commission is urged to find Archbishop of Brisbane Phillip Aspinall did not fully understand an allegation of abuse at a Tasmanian youth group.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, community-and-society, sexual-offences, tas, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedSouth Australia will spend $432 million on changes to its child welfare systems, in the wake of scathing findings by the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, child-abuse, public-sector, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedDavid Cecchin, a member of paedophile Shannon McCoole's child exploitation website, is sentenced to seven years and five months in jail.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa
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Parents of at-risk children in Queensland will face mandatory random drug testing under a new policy introduced by the Government, but the Opposition says the policy misses the mark.
Topics: child-care, child-abuse, state-parliament, drugs-and-substance-abuse, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, longreach-4730, mackay-4740, maroochydore-4558, mount-isa-4825, rockhampton-4700, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedFormer Anglican priest Raymond Cheek is found guilty of sexually abusing five boys over a 30-year period in Western Australia's south.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, community-and-society, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedGreens senator Rachel Siewert urges the UK Government to contribute to Australia's compensation scheme for child sex abuse victims if allegations of mistreatments at NSW institution are true.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, nsw, united-kingdom, australia
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| UpdatedThe Royal Commission into child sexual abuse releases a report that is scathing of Jehovah's Witnesses use of 2,000-year-old protocols for dealing with complaints.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, child-abuse, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAn investigation into the death of Caboolture toddler Mason Jet Lee sees a fourth child protection worker stood down by Queensland's Child Safety and Disability Services Department.
Topics: community-and-society, child-abuse, child-care, family, family-and-children, law-crime-and-justice, family-law, brisbane-4000
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A child abuse survivor says his biggest fear is that the momentum generated by the child abuse royal commission will dissipate, stopping any meaningful reform.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, catholic, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, wagga-wagga-2650, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedThe painter Donald Friend was lauded by his admirers as a "legendary figure". But he could just as easily be described as Australia's most celebrated paedophile.
Topics: contemporary-art, painting, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, child-abuse, crime, law-crime-and-justice, murwillumbah-2484
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The UK Government continued to send child migrants to Australian institutions despite knowing they were being mistreated here, according to allegations in a submission lodged to the UK inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedA residential care home for children in the Northern Territory was a "free-for-all" without proper regulation, a former worker says.
Topics: child-care, child-abuse, carers, nt
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| UpdatedA child abuse scandal is threatening to engulf professional football clubs in England, with former players alleging the existence of paedophile rings that operated unchecked.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, soccer, england
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| UpdatedMelbourne Catholic Priest John Walshe announces he will resign from his position as a parish priest at two schools in the south-eastern suburbs after allegations he sexually abused a trainee priest 30 years ago.
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, child-abuse, sexual-offences, mentone-3194, melbourne-3000, parkdale-3195
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In this episode: Healing the legacy of indigenous missions in WA, Tasmania farewells an icon of its national parks, gender identity in South Australian and The Great Melbourne Telescope restoration. #AustraliaWide.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, child-abuse, charities, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, stolen-generations, rural-tourism, australia