AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Angela Pownall, The West Australian
November 14, 2013
A national public inquiry will return to Perth for the seventh time next month to hear about child sex abuse in Australian institutions as demand from abuse victims to tell their stories snowballs.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse held private hearings in Perth last week and plans to return early next year.
Justice Paul McClellan, commission chairman, has revealed the massive scale of the abuse allegations being reported to the inquiry a year after it was set up by the Federal Government.
It comes as Victoria’s child abuse parliamentary inquiry, which has heard from 450 victims, tabled its report yesterday and called for legal changes, including making it a crime to conceal or fail to report child abuse offences.
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