Vic inquiry may start abuse reform: parent

AUSTRALIA
The West Australian

AAP
April 3, 2013

Parents of abuse victims say they hope to see legal changes to right the wrongs of the past start as early as this year.

Anthony Foster said it was important for governments to introduce laws that will enable the Catholic Church and other organisations to be brought to task for what they have done in the past.

He and his wife Chrissie hope the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into institutional abuse, which is already well underway, will enable this to happen sooner rather than later.

“We can start to see that action being taken this year,” Mr Foster said after the first hearing of the royal commission into institutional sexual abuse in Melbourne on Wednesday.

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