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| UpdatedTennis Australia is hoping to set up a Crimestoppers-style hotline within the next few weeks for athletes allegedly abused by coaches and others who have control over them, the ABC has learned.
Topics: tennis, royal-commissions, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedWith thousands of new students starting university this week, an advocacy group claims violence against women is rife on Australian campuses, and there is a culture of covering up claims.
Topics: university-and-further-education, sexual-offences, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, education, sydney-2000, the-university-of-sydney-2006, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA cursory review of the 'student safety' pages on Australian university websites reveals many unis are still teaching "don't get raped" rather than "don't rape".
Topics: sexuality, youth, university-and-further-education, sexual-offences, australia
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| UpdatedThe Melbourne Archbishop should not oversee the Catholic Church's scheme to address sexual abuse within the archdiocese, a redacted report recommends.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, melbourne-3000, vic
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A high-profile expert on the behavioural patterns of paedophiles has questioned the value of Senator Derryn Hinch's proposal of a public register for sex offenders.
Topics: sexual-offences, child-abuse, australia
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A Perth taxi driver is jailed for sexually assaulting a female passenger who fell asleep in his cab.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000
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| UpdatedSydney's Catholic Archbishop says reporting abuse to authorities that he heard about during a confession would be like "bugging the confessional".
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, perth-6000
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| UpdatedProsecutors tell the Supreme Court they will not proceed with their case against three brothers who were accused of raping a girl in a park in 2015.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedSenior leaders in the Catholic Church tell the royal commission into child sexual abuse that mandatory celibacy is a contributing factor, but not the cause of abuse. See how their second day of testimony unfolds in our live blog.
Topics: catholic, community-and-society, child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, sydney-2000
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The Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, has told a royal commission the response by Catholic Church leaders to allegations of child sexual abuse amounted to "criminal negligence".
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, adelaide-5000, perth-6000
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| UpdatedSexual abuse in Australia's Catholic schools didn't come from nowhere. It took hold in systems where violence was not just condoned, but encouraged.
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Eileen Piper has spent more than two decades waiting for the Melbourne Archdiocese to accept one of its priests abused her only daughter, Stephanie, who later committed suicide.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, catholic, sexual-offences, australia
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| UpdatedA court hears there will be unprecedented jury pooling arrangements for what could be one of Australia's biggest alleged malpractice court cases involving a Newcastle doctor.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, doctors-and-medical-professionals, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, tells a royal commission the response by Catholic Church leaders to allegations of child sexual abuse amounted to "criminal negligence".
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, adelaide-5000, perth-7300
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| UpdatedCatholic Archbishops fronting the royal commission into child sex abuse admit the Church's response was a failure in leadership and culture, asking "what can possibly have gone wrong" to have led to so many offences. See how their first day of testimony unfolded in our blog.
Topics: catholic, community-and-society, child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, sydney-2000
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Five of Australia's Catholic archbishops will give evidence today in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This is who they are, what they've said and their relationship to Cardinal George Pell.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, australia, sydney-2000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedA secrecy culture of "don't ask, don't tell" could explain allegations of child sex abuse within a religious order with one of the highest numbers of alleged abusers, the royal commission is told.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, beaudesert-4285, sydney-2000
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An Illawarra high school teacher accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student whom he groomed online remains in custody after a bid for bail is refused.
Topics: sexual-offences, schools, wollongong-2500
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Parents are being reminded to pre-vet every app their young children download amid renewed concerns that virtual reality gaming is exposing minors to sexual advances.
Topics: internet-culture, games, child-abuse, family-and-children, sexual-offences, australia, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA 10-year-old Perth boy charged with sexually penetrating and threatening to kill an eight-year-old boy will not be returning to his northern suburbs school after parents expressed their concern.
Topics: primary-schools, sexual-offences, children, perth-6000, wa
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A former school traffic warden will plead not guilty to more than 300 child sex offences, the Perth Magistrates Court is told.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedPreventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa
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| UpdatedRide-booking company Uber announces an urgent investigation into claims of sexual harassment and discrimination at the company, as well as threats from management against those who complain.
Topics: sexual-offences, internet-technology, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church is continuing to cover the legal bills of convicted paedophile and Christian Brother Robert Best, who has admitted to sexually abusing a further 20 boys in his care, a Victorian court is told.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350, geelong-3220