AUSTRALIA
The New Daily
October 22, 2018
By Lucie Morris-Marr
Her harrowing family story made Prime Minister Scott Morrison cry live on TV across the nation. But for leading child abuse advocate Chrissie Foster, tears are not enough. It’s not over yet.
Mr Morrison was visibly upset as he told how Mrs Foster’s family was torn apart by abuse as he made the most important speech of his career so far.
He spoke compassionately during the National Apology in Parliament to thousands of Australians whose childhoods were ruined and destroyed in institutions by perpetrators including priests, teachers and carers.
Referencing Mrs Foster in particular he said; “As a father of two daughters I can’t comprehend what she has faced,” he said.
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