AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Candice Marcus
Supporters of victims of child sexual abuse have congregated outside the Attorney-General’s electorate office at Kilburn to highlight what they say are insensitive and offensive comments about the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
When responding to the commission’s recommendation for a national redress scheme last month, Attorney-General John Rau said the commission was a bunch of “Johnnie-come-latelies”.
“We have already dealt with a large number of people who were, for example, children in state care in the South Australian case,” he said in September.
“What this royal commission is asking us to do is to basically pick the scabs off those old wounds and start all over again.
“The royal commission are basically a bunch of Johnnie-come-latelies poking their nose into [a] space where they can be all care and no responsibility because they don’t intend paying any of the bills.”
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