Australia Opens Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse

By Anne Barrowclough
The Times UK
April 3, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/australia-newzealand/article3729653.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_04_03


More than 5,000 people are expected to appear before a royal commission into child sex abuse that opens in Australia today.

Julia Gillard, the Prime Minister, warned Australians on the first day of the inquiry, which will examine decades of child abuse in church and state institutions, that they faced “some very uncomfortable truths”.

“This is an important moral moment for our nation,” Ms Gillard told ABC Radio as the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse got under way at the Victorian County Court in Melbourne.