AUSTRALIA
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Up to a dozen witnesses are expected to give evidence before the Hobart hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse which begins tomorrow.
The inquiry will centre on historical allegations made about the exclusive all-male Hutchins School.
Commissioners Jennifer Coate and Andrew Murray will examine the handling of claims against former headmaster David Lawrence and teacher Lyndon Hickman at the boarding school during the 1960s.
It is understood allegations were made to the commission at recent private hearings.
Mr Lawrence resigned after a decade as headmaster in 1970 amid a scandal involving a relationship with a former student.
The hearings will examine the response of the school and of the Anglican Archdiocese of Tasmania to the allegations.
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