The Latest Breaking News from James Geoffrey Griffin

'Bad faith' public servants chased for state legal fees

Public servants who didn't act in "good faith" when giving evidence at a child sexual abuse inquiry need to pay back tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

AAP · Sep 25, 2025

State settles further $7.5m child sexual abuse claims

A settlement of about $7.5 million will be paid to survivors of alleged child sexual abuse at a hospital the focus of a damning inquiry.

AAP · Dec 2, 2024

Horrifying Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse In Tas Found Alleged Abusers Kept Working W/ Kids

The report found that alleged abusers were essentially defended by authorities and allowed to continue working with children.

Pedestrian.tv · Sep 27, 2023

Hospital sex-abuse report rebukes leaders

Tasmania's government will implement all 92 recommendations of a review which found shortcomings at a hospital examined at a child sexual abuse inquiry.

AAP · Dec 14, 2022

Detention centre 'regrets': ex-Tas premier

A former premier of Tasmania says he regrets not doing more to ensure the safety of children at the troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre.

AAP · Nov 30, 2022

Tas premier says sorry to abuse survivors

Tasmania's premier has delivered a formal apology to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions after harrowing evidence at an inquiry.

AAP · Nov 7, 2022

Launceston General Hospital missed a chance to change culture in the 90s, former business manager says

Despite leaving his job at the Launceston General Hospital at the end of the 90s, Lawrence Donaldson is passionate about cultural change at the institution.

ABC News · Oct 30, 2022

Tas govt date gaffe prompts apology change

The Tasmanian government has rescheduled an apology to survivors of child sexual abuse after it was planned on the anniversary of a perpetrator's death.

AAP · Sep 30, 2022

Tasmania's child abuse inquiry praises 'tenacity' of victim-survivors in face of systemic failures

Tasmania's commission of inquiry into child abuse sums up systemic failures and thanks victim-survivors after eight weeks of harrowing evidence at public hearings.

ABC News · Sep 13, 2022

Hospital head unaware of any 'marked changes' to systems after paedophile nurse's offending

Peter Renshaw says he is "not aware of any marked changes" at the hospital after it became aware of the extent of paedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin's offending, a commission of inquiry hears.

ABC News · Sep 9, 2022