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| UpdatedSt Patrick's College in Ballarat, infamous for its history of child sexual abuse, is determined to make amends and become a leader in child protection.
Topics: community-and-society, child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, royal-commissions, ballarat-3350, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church reveals which schools and children's homes had more than 20 claims of child sexual abuse — one institution alone faced 219 accusations.
Topics: catholic, schools, child-abuse, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, australia, hamilton-2303, new-norcia-6509, box-hill-3128, cheltenham-3192, goodwood-5034, bathurst-2795, wandering-6308, engadine-2233, hunters-hill-2110, ballarat-3350, morisset-2264, marion-5043, sunbury-3429, westmead-2145, adamstown-2289, tardun-6628, pearce-2607, nudgee-4014, geelong-3220, south-melbourne-3205, bindoon-6502, wilson-6107, waterford-6152, beaudesert-4285
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| UpdatedClose to 4,500 people made claims for alleged incidents of child sexual abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 but the earliest incidents reported to a claim were in the 1920s, the child abuse royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedPrivate schools Brisbane Grammar and St Paul's School harboured sexual abuse and accused children of lying rather than properly investigating allegations against school counsellor Kevin Lynch, a royal commission finds.
Topics: sexual-offences, royal-commissions, secondary-schools, courts-and-trials, child-abuse, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe largest class action in the Northern Territory's history is settled in favour of 71 former residents of the Retta Dixon Home, who alleged years of abuse by staff, in what is the first compensation win as a result of evidence heard by the royal commission into child abuse.
Topics: child-abuse, child-care, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, youth, royal-commissions, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedFor lawyers representing institutional abuse survivors, a career of being exposed to the most horrific stories can take its toll.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, community-and-society, laws, south-melbourne-3205, collingwood-3066
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| UpdatedOne of Victoria's most prestigious private schools, Geelong Grammar, says it has made changes to its policies and will learn from its failings in handling allegations of child sexual abuse.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, geelong-3220
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Tasmanian survivors of sexual abuse linked to the Anglican Church plan to launch legal action after damming findings by the royal commission.
Topics: child-abuse, anglicans, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, tas
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| UpdatedTasmania's Anglican Bishop takes disciplinary action against Philip Newell — a bishop in Tasmania for 18 years — who was found to have allowed a man he knew had sexually abused boys to stay in the church.
Topics: child-abuse, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, anglicans, tas
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Former Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth is found by the royal commission into child abuse to have prioritised the needs of an abusive rector over those of one of his victims and other children at risk.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, anglicans, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedFormer Supreme Court judge Bernard Teague, who chaired the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, reflects on how he coped with being confronted with devastating evidence about the disaster.
Topics: bushfire, royal-commissions, community-and-society, royal-commission-victoria-2009-bushfires, vic
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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church has used canon law as an excuse for not taking action against clergy accused of molesting children, an American priest tells the royal commission.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, nsw, sydney-2000
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The new principal of a private school in Orange in central-west New South Wales says he is better able to protect students after giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses Child Sexual Abuse.
Topics: secondary-schools, education-industry, royal-commissions, orange-2800
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| UpdatedThe accounts of loss and bravery that lawyer Jack Rush uncovered during the Black Saturday royal commission are no less heart wrenching with the passage of time.
Topics: bushfire, community-and-society, royal-commissions, vic
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's most senior Catholics, Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge, says he does not know how many priests break their vows of celibacy, and does not think it is appropriate to question them.
Topics: royal-commissions, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAn expert witness from the United States tells a royal commission hearing the Catholic Church and Pope were more concerned with covering up, rather than confronting, sexual abuse allegations.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, community-and-society, sydney-2000, nsw
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The Catholic Church confirms more than $200,000 has been paid to victims of sex abuse perpetrated by members of the Diocese of Sale, in eastern Victoria.
Topics: royal-commissions, laws, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, sale-3850
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| UpdatedIn 1978, a group of Catholic schoolboys was called to make a moral decision. The night before, a Marist brother had tried to assault one of them. Those boys were better disciples than the princes of their Church. That is a triumph and a tragedy, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, catholic, royal-commissions, sexual-offences, assault, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The Catholic Church's Truth, Justice and Healing Council CEO, Francis Sullivan, responds to the child sexual abuse royal commission and says the church "uses inertia as a management tool" and the days of it investigating itself are over.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, australia
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| UpdatedThe Australian Catholic Church releases "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, australia
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| UpdatedOver the course of 60 years, 40 per cent of the members of the Brothers of St John of God had allegations of child sexual abuse made against them, but who are they and what role do does the order play in society today?
Topics: sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, royal-commissions, christianity, vic, nsw, australia, wa
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| UpdatedMore than 20 per cent of the members of some Catholic religious orders — including Marist Brothers and Christian Brothers — were allegedly involved in child sexual abuse, a royal commission hearing in Sydney is told.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSurvivors of sexual abuse say they hope Australia's Catholic Archbishops are held to account when they front a royal commission next week.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedCatholic Church leaders throughout Australia are warning church-goers and school parents about the release of data on Monday at the child sex abuse royal commission, describing it as an "horrific portrait of appalling abuse".
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000, australia, melbourne-3000, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedEvery Catholic archbishop in the country except for Hobart is being called to give evidence at a royal commission hearing starting next week in Sydney.
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, sydney-2000, nsw, qld, sa, vic, wa, perth-6000, parramatta-2150, act, australia, tas, nt