NEWCASTLE (AUSTRALIA)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
March 29, 2018
By David Lewis
The Anglican Diocese of Newcastle is using money raised from selling churches to compensate victims of child sexual abuse, but one coastal community is fighting back.
Chapter I
The church on the hill
The closest thing the tiny town of Bungwahl has to a landmark is its church. St James sits high on a hill, overlooking the sparkling Myall Lakes on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
It has been there for more than a century but many tourists fail to notice the heritage-listed building as they drive past on their way to Seal Rocks or Forster.
On the day I visited, however, the church was hard to ignore.
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