AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
April 28, 2014
Survivors of physical and sexual abuse in orphanages and children’s homes across Australia will be in Perth to support men giving evidence at a hearing into Christian Brothers-run residences in Western Australia.
The hearing, beginning on Monday at the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission, is the 11th case study by the royal commission examining how Australian institutions responded to child sexual abuse. It is the first hearing in WA.
The evidence from men who were resident at Castledare Junior Orphanage, St Vincent’s Orphanage Clontarf, St Mary’s Agricultural School at Tardun and the notorious Bindoon Farm School/Boys Town, an isolated institution north of Perth, is expected to be some of the most shocking and explosive heard by the commission.
The hearing will run for two weeks.
Thousands of children, some as young as five, were sent to Australia as part of various British child migrant schemes in the 40s and 50s, with many housed at Bindoon which opened in 1938
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