AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
April 3, 2013
Barney Zwartz
Religion editor, The Age.
The royal commission into child sex abuse is now open for business. It expects more than 5000 submissions, has already spent more than $22 million, and is unlikely to complete its task by the end of 2015 as requested.
From today, victims can contact the royal commission to register to tell their stories because trained staff are now ready, chairman Justice Peter McClellan announced at the commission’s first public hearing, in Melbourne.
He said the commission had already serviced notice to produce documents on the Catholic Church, its insurer, the Salvation Army and the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions.
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