AUSTRALIA
The Age
November 15, 2012 15
Michelle Grattan
THE royal commission on child sex abuse might become a joint federal-state inquiry, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has flagged.
Ms Roxon said the government was keen to discuss with the states ”whether there are advantages to doing it jointly and whether there’s an interest in doing so”.
It was common in the 1970s and 1980s to have the Commonwealth and a number of states jointly establish commissions that were looking at issues that crossed jurisdictional boarders, she said.
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