AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times

November 13, 2012

Lenore Taylor
National Affairs Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald

ANALYSIS

AFTER so much pain, so many shocking revelations, so many years of thankless campaigning by the betrayed and so much resistance by the accused, the fight to expose the full horrible truth about institutional child sexual abuse in Australia finally reached a tipping point yesterday.

Now the nation will experience the most wide-ranging and potentially explosive royal commission in recent history. It will run wherever the evidence directs it, no matter how long it takes and whatever the consequences.

Many of the most recent royal commissions have been into specific allegations or scandals – Labor’s controversial lease of Centenary House, the building and construction industry, the collapse of HIH insurance. Some have revealed deep wounds and difficult truths, like the four-year Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

But none has…