AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Ewan Gilbert

During the 1970s and 80s the Marist College and Daramalan College in Canberra were home to at least five known paedophiles.

Four have since been convicted and one took his own life shortly after making his confession.

Now, decades on, it is the task of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to investigate who knew what, when they knew it and what, if anything, they did about it.

The commission will spend the next two weeks examining the response of the Marist Brothers to allegations of child sexual abuse in schools across the ACT, New South Wales and Queensland.

Someone who will be watching the Canberra hearings closely is lawyer Jason Parkinson.