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ABC Journalists Treat Child Sexual Assault As a Catholic Problem

By Gerard Henderson
The Australian
April 7, 2018

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her Victorian counterpart, Daniel Andrews, were the first to sign up their respective states to the national redress scheme following the report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. No other state and no territory has followed their lead at this stage.

Then, last Tuesday, Berejiklian and her Attorney-General, Mark Speakman, announced NSW’s full response to the report. In short, NSW has adopted the overwhelming majority of the royal commission’s recommendations.

In view of the substantial coverage by the ABC of child sexual abuse in general and the royal commission in particular, it might have been expected that the public broadcaster’s journalists would respond positively to NSW’s prompt action.

But this was not the reaction of Nick Grimm when he covered the matter on the ABC’s The World Today last Tuesday. Instead, Grimm cross-examined Berejiklian on one of the matters where her government has not embraced the royal commission’s recommendation with respect to what the Catholic Church terms the seal of the sacrament of penance pending discussion at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG).

 

 

 

 

 




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