AUSTRALIA
ABC – PM
TIM PALMER: The child sex abuse royal commission has heard that three decades ago, the current Archbishop of Brisbane, Phillip Aspinall, brushed off a complaint that a priest had abused a boy.
A witness gave evidence to the commission that Phillip Aspinall had some time before the complaint suggested the teenager sleep in the priest’s bed.
The inquiry is in Hobart examining how the Church of England Boys Society and the Anglican dioceses of Tasmania, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane handled abuse allegations against five paedophiles connected with the church.
And a warning: Samantha Donovan’s report contains graphic material.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: The royal commission has heard that paedophile Anglican priests Garth Hawkins and Louis Daniels raped or sexually abused several boys in Tasmania in the 1980s.
The commission was told that Phillip Aspinall, now the Archbishop of Brisbane, was a leader in the Tasmanian Church of England Boys Society at the time and involved in its camps.
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