AUSTRALIA
The Daily Telegraph
CALLS for inquiries and royal commissions have become so ubiquitous for anyone with a grievance that it is easy to grow deaf to such appeals.
But when it’s a grievance as serious as the alleged cover up of child sexual abuse within two of society’s most important and venerated institutions, it pays to stop and listen.
To his credit, Barry O’Farrell has done this in setting up a special commission of inquiry into the allegations about child sex abuse among Catholic clergy in the Hunter – albeit only after he was brought under full media scrutiny for not having acted.
Likewise he has made a wise choice in the selection of Margaret Cunneen SC to head it. Ms Cunneen has a deserved reputation as a fearless and dogged legal mind unbeholden to the many vested interests that permeate Sydney life.
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