AUSTRALIA
The Courier
BY NEELIMA CHOAHAN
19 Apr, 2012
A STATE government inquiry into the child sexual abuse by religious and non-government organisations is a first step in a very important process, a leading social justice expert has said.
Former Ballarat academic Professor S. Caroline Taylor, now at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, said the inquiry would help acknowledge a very serious and entrenched problem in society.
“Whilst some people are critical because they believe the government hasn’t gone far enough in establishing a royal commission … I think (it is) a first step in a very important process of acknowledging the very serious and entrenched problems in society,” Professor Taylor said.
The year-long inquiry, announced by Premier Ted Baillieu and Attorney-General Robert Clark on Tuesday, is to be conducted by a state parliament committee rather than as a royal commission and will report by April 30, 2013.
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