AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
By DOUG CONWAY
Nov. 26, 2012
It’s always the poor little victims who get forgotten, and it’s happening again in the hail of words prompted by Julia Gillard’s royal commission into child abuse.
Kids have no power and no voice. That’s why evil priests, and others, prey on them in the first place.
Well, it’s high time they had a voice.
The highly popular royal commission may well be politically motivated, as Gillard’s opponents charge.
It may well run for longer than it ought, cost more than it should, make big institutions feel uncomfortable, lead to litigation and uncover hitherto unimagined problems.
So what? This is a boil that needs to be lanced, and the sooner the better.
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