Salvation Army dismisses whistleblower, Marina Randall, who raised concerns about commissioner

AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Sarah Dingle
Updated 15 Aug 2014

The Salvation Army has abruptly dismissed a whistleblower, just months after her husband publicly aired concerns about the organisation’s commissioner, James Condon.

Major Marina Randall had been volunteering four days a week at the organisation’s Professional Standards Office, to assess the complaints of victims of child abuse.

The couple gave evidence in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in February in Sydney.

In the 1970s Mrs Randall and her husband Major Cliff Randall had been houseparents at the Alkira Salvation Army boy’s home in Brisbane when they reported an incident of violence against a child involving a Salvation Army officer to Queensland’s Department of Children’s Services.

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