AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Ehssan Veiszadeh
From: AAP
January 23, 2013
FORMER head of the Uniting Church in Australia James Haire says the royal commission into child sex abuse must move as quickly as possible.
Reverend Professor Haire, who is now the executive director of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra, says the inquiry will be a good opportunity to get to the heart of criminal behaviour.
“We have to clean the thing up,” he said on Wednesday.
“It’s criminal behaviour on behalf of the perpetrators and it’s criminal behaviour on behalf of any of those who at any time tried to hide it or not let the public gaze in.”
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