AUSTRALIA
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The next hearings of the Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, focusing on four Salvation Army Boys’ Homes (Riverview, Bexley, Box Hill and Alkira), is due to start in a week. In fact there are only 3 more working days left, due to the Australia Day holiday (Australia’s National Day) long week-end. Two of those days will be taken up anyway.
The Wednesday hearing is being held to give the YMCA another chance to argue against the royal commission’s recommendation that it consider firing its CEO, and referring another employee for prosecution for giving misleading evidence to the commission.
The Thursday hearing will revisit the previous “Towards Healing” session on the Catholic Church’s handling of victims complaints. The Catholic Church gets another bite at the cherry on the findings relating to it.
For the past four hearings, or “case studies” as the royal commission calls them, there has been about two weeks given for people to scrutinize the formal submissions to it from the relevant organizations, and interested parties.
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