AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Greens MP David Shoebridge is urging the State Government not to delay the release of a report on the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into child sexual abuse in the Hunter.
Commissioner Margaret Cunneen is due to hand her report to the governor this week after being granted three extensions, due to a growing witness list and extra hearings.
The inquiry looked at claims police and the Catholic Church covered up abuse by two Maitland-Newcastle paedophile priests, James Fletcher and Denis McAlinden
Green MP David Shoebridge says the report should be made public as soon as possible.
“I look forward to reading the report, but I have to say I think the real business of uncovering child abuse and the institutional failures in response to child abuse the real business of that hasn’t been conducted in this Hunter inquiry, it’s been done in the federal royal commission which many people have a great deal more comfort with,” he said.
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