AUSTRALIA
The Age
February 24, 2016
Amber Wilson
A GROUP of women claiming to have been abused by the Ballarat clergy in the 1950s and 1960s have started a protest outside Nazareth House, the Ballarat nursing home where Bishop Ronald Mulkearns now lives.
Bishop Mulkearns, now retired, is due to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Thursday via video link from the Mill Street nursing home.
Gabby Short and Wendy Eldridge were among the group of women who demanded answers from the staff at the site, which was formerly also a girls’ orphanage. They are demanding to know why the home is now “giving sanctuary” to the priest, whose testimony has regularly been delayed by Bishop Mulkearns’ ill health.
At one point the women tried to enter the building but were asked to leave by staff.
Police said they were happy for the women to protest from the street, but asked them not to enter the premises.
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