AUSTRALIA
Business Spectator
AAP
State premiers are keen to have input in the development of terms of reference for the federal royal commission into child sex abuse.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill met with other state leaders in Canberra on Thursday ahead of a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on Friday.
“The overwhelming message from that is the outcome can’t be another set of volumes with a million recommendations to sit on a shelf gathering dust,” he told reporters, referring to a South Australian Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry.
“The way it is conducted will be absolutely crucial and we will be passing on our views to the commonwealth.”
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