AUSTRALIA
The Age
Melissa Jenkins and Melissa Iaria
April 17, 2012
AAP
The Victorian government has come under fire for ordering a parliamentary inquiry to investigate child sex abuse by the clergy, not a royal commission.
There are concerns a royal commission would have had a better chance of addressing the issue than a six-member committee of inexperienced politicians working part-time.
The inquiry, announced by Premier Ted Baillieu on Tuesday following revelations that at least 40 victims of the Catholic clergy had committed suicide, will be conducted by state parliament’s existing Family and Community Development Committee.
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