Child abuse helpline clogged with less serious cases: Royal Commission
The state's child abuse reporting helpline is clogged with thousands of less serious cases, a royal commission has heard.
Rachel Browne is a Social Affairs Reporter for Fairfax Media
The state's child abuse reporting helpline is clogged with thousands of less serious cases, a royal commission has heard.
Hundreds of sex abuse allegations involving schools, hospitals and out-of-home care providers have been referred to police by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
An expert panel contracted to provide advice on child protection inside Australian mainland and offshore detention centres did not interview any children before handing down its report.
More than 1000 early childhood educators plan to walk off the job on International Women's Day to draw attention to their low pay.
An admission that the Sydney Catholic Archdiocese financially supports convicted pedophile priests has drawn outrage from sex abuse survivors at the royal commission.
Five Australian Catholic archbishops have given a scathing assessment of the church's past response to sexual abuse victims.
The Christian Brothers underpaid sexual abuse victims by $14 million, a royal commission has heard.
The Bishop of Parramatta Vincent Long Van Nguyen has told a royal commission he suffered sexual abuse by a member of the clergy after arriving as a refugee.
A new national Catholic oversight body will publicly name dioceses and orders which fail to meet its standards, a royal commission has heard.
Flights were cancelled, homes were flooded, roads became rivers and commuters faced frustrating delays as wild weather hit on Friday afternoon.
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