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New Zealand child abuse survivors call for intervention from Pope Francis

A New Zealand group representing survivors of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has called on Pope Francis to intervene in the redress process, claiming that church authorities were mishandling it and retraumatising victims.

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State of denial: How police child abuse inquiries ran aground

In part two of a series on Crown Law withholding evidence from police, Aaron Smale asks: how did the government and its lawyers behave when they knew the state was guilty of serious crimes again

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Crown Law blocks the police in rare, costly legal standoff

Exclusive: Did the Government’s legal agency withhold evidence of the rape, torture and abuse of children from police investigations? Aaron Smale unravels an extraordinary paper trail.

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Boarding house like prison, inquiry hears

The disability royal commission has been told about life in a Sydney boarding house where a woman with disability was drugged, raped, regularly hit by staff.

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A royal commission is set to review Robodebt. Its legacy is still hanging over Centrelink recipients today

A royal commission into Robodebt has been confirmed. While there's hope justice could be around the corner, scars remain for many.

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Hughes grilled over investigators, legal tactics

Head of the public service says agencies will own, fix and learn from failures

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Officials' finger pointing over abuse scandals

Comment: Today the country's top public servant fronts up at the Royal Commission into abuse in state care. Aaron Smale says officials are still running interference

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Royal Commission finds high number went from welfare to prison

The Royal Commission on Abuse in Care has confirmed what many have always known - many of those who went through the welfare system ended up filling jails

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FOI documents show the NT is breaching its own independent monitoring policy at Don Dale Youth Detention Centre

Freedom of Information documents reveal the NT government is failing to adhere to its own independent monitoring policy at a time when self-harm incidents are surging inside its youth detention facilities.

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Royal Commission at critical juncture

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care's vision for redress must not be lost in the slow-moving wheels of bureaucracy, writes Stephen Winter.

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After decades of abuse, insensitive officials anger survivors

Pressure builds ahead of the country’s top public servant appearing at hearings this week

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Shocking new allegations against former dean Graeme Lawrence as Anglicans examine Adamstown priest

Shocking underbelly of Newcastle Anglicans revealed in sensational church determination

Newcastle Herald

Our terrifying ‘treatment’ of mental illness

As state agencies front a Royal Commission, David Williams reviews the country’s history of treating mental illness with shocks, drugs and lobotomies

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Diagnosed with PTSD and depression, ex-serviceman William considers himself one of the 'lucky' ones

William McCann did not think he would get to see his newborn son and had suicidal ideations after his time in the military — but he considers himself one of the lucky ones, he tells the royal commission into defence suicide.

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Indigenous people with disabilities face racism and ableism. What's needed is action not another report

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability continues. Its terms of reference acknowledge “the particular situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability”.

The Conversation

Could 'virtual nurses' be the answer to aged care staffing woes? Dream on

Former Health Department Chief Martin Bowles has reportedly proposed “virtual nurses” could help address the shortage of nurses in aged care.

ABC News

Royal commission hears former soldier Gavin Tunstall loved army life until he saw children dead in Afghanistan

Gavin Tunstall threw himself into army life and loved every moment — but things started to fall apart after he saw the bodies of children killed in combat in Afghanistan, the royal commission into veterans' suicide hears.

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The myth of adoption as a social good

Changes to the Adoption Act could leave 100,000 adults adopted during Aotearoa’s 'Baby Scoop Era' without the justice many seek, writes Barbara Sumner.

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The Guardian - AU

Indigenous boy featured in NDIS promotional material placed in state care after funding cut

Disability royal commission begins hearings in Alice Springs focused on NDIS for First Nations people

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A statement designed to heal causes more hurt

A psychiatric body makes a belated and bungled apology over child torture in the 1970s

Newcastle Herald

Royal disability commission: hearing the Hunter stories that must be told

Royal Disability Commission Chair Ronald Sackville AO on the importance of hearing from people with disability

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rima bint Bandar Highlights Saudi Arabia’s Efforts to Protect Arabian Leopard

Princess Rima bint Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Ambassador to the United States and founding president of the Catmosphere organization, described her country’s efforts to protect the Arabian Leopard as one of the most prominent global models. In the presence of Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Ambassador to Britain,…

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Year-long delay on hate crime reform unexplained

The Royal Commission recommended hate crime laws be rewritten in December 2020 but it took officials more than a year to report to ministers.

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Tortured and now stuck in slow motion

A UN committee excoriates the Government’s foot-dragging response over tortured children

The Guardian - AU

Restraint of Victorian children in mental health facilities increases by 32%

Peak body labels growth in seclusion and restraint despite royal commission recommendations ‘very disappointing’

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