AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
November 15, 2012
Josh Gordon
State political editor for The Age.
It was the Victorian decision that finally got the ball rolling.
THE announcement of a sweeping royal commission on the sexual abuse of children must have come as a much-needed political gift for Ted Baillieu as he approaches the two-year anniversary of his election win.
After a bruising year, the Premier can now justifiably claim some credit for the historic decision: finally Australia will fling open the curtains and shine some light on decades of allegations of institutional sexual abuse and church cover-ups.
It was, after all, his government that got things rolling by setting up a parliamentary inquiry after the Cummins inquiry into child welfare.
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