AUSTRALIA
Daily Liberal
By ANNETTE BLACKWELL
Dec. 17, 2015
TWO NSW government departments put 15 Aboriginal women through legal hell rather than acknowledge what was already known – they had been grossly abused at a remote state-funded children’s home at Brewarrina.
A report published on Tuesday by the child abuse royal commission says the Crown Solicitors Office and the Family and Community Services department breached state model litigant policy “in multiple ways” when dealing with civil claims by former residents of the Bethcar Children’s Home.
The home for disadvantaged Aboriginal children was founded in north western NSW in 1969.
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