AUSTRALIA
ABC – 7.30

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 12/11/2012
Reporter: Leigh Sales

Brendan O’Connor, Acting Minister for Families, joins us from Parliament House to explain the Government’s decision to announce a Royal Commission into institutionalised child abuse.

Transcript
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Joining me now from Parliament House in Canberra is the Acting Minister for Families, Brendan O’Connor.

Mr O’Connor, what’s triggered this Royal commission are child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Church. Why not have a targeted, clearly-defined investigation into that institution?

BRENDAN O’CONNOR, ACTING MINISTER FOR FAMILIES: Well I think we’ve seen now the child sex abuse allegations come to light in such a broad way across the country that there needs to be an appropriate response. We’ve also seen state governments inquire into child sex abuse in a particularly confined way. The Federal Government had to make a decision, and indeed the Prime…