AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The first sitting of the royal commission into sexual abuse has heard past wrongs must be acknowledged.
Justice Peter McClellan was outlining the process under which the commission will operate.
He said the commission had to examine some difficult truths.
‘The community has come to acknowledge that fundamental wrongs have been committed in the past which have caused great trauma and lasting damage to many people,’ Justice McClellan said at the first sitting in Melbourne on Wednesday.
The commission will not begin hearing evidence until later this year.
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