AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The Victorian government says it will not wait to act on a child sex abuse report that is scathing of the Catholic Church and recommends widespread legislative reform.
The government has six months to consider the recommendations of the inquiry into child sex abuse which include a call for concealing child abuse offences to be made a crime.
But Premier Denis Napthine said the government would introduce changes to the law in parliament early next year.
‘The government will not wait to act on this report,’ Dr Napthine said.
‘Criminal abuse of children represents a departure of the gravest kind from the standards of decency fundamental to any civilised society.’
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