AUSTRALIA
Big Pond News
Monday, November 12, 2012
A royal commission to investigate the responses of religious, state and community groups to acts and allegations of child sexual abuse will be appointed by the end of the year.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced on Monday she would ask Governor-General Quentin Bryce to set up the inquiry, which would have no deadline and could run for years, amid calls for a national response by federal Labor, independent and Greens MPs.
‘Any instance of child abuse is a vile and evil thing. Australians know that,’ Ms Gillard told reporters in Canberra on Monday.
‘Australians know, from the revelations that they’ve read in recent weeks, that too many children have suffered child abuse but have also seen other adults let them down.
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