AUSTRALIA
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
December 15, 2017
By Danny Tran
It was an emotional day for many as the royal commission handed down its final report, in all 17 volumes, after five long years of investigation.
But for at least one survivor of child abuse, Rob Walsh, today doesn’t mark the end of a long campaign for justice.
He will be travelling to the nation’s capital to campaign for all of the royal commission’s recommendations to be implemented.
Mr Walsh was abused as a boy in Ballarat by two of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles, Gerald Ridsdale and Robert Best.
He said he has been heartened by the inquiry’s almost 200 separate proposals, but is sceptical of the Catholic Church’s response.
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