Ample lessons to be learned from Australian commission of inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse

EDITORIAL: The report of an Australian commission of inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse makes harrowing reading. It reveals systemic abuse so pervasive and widespread that the report describes it as a "national tragedy". New Zealanders as well as Australians should read this report – all 17 volumes of it. Our countries are culturally similar in many ways and we would be naive to think that the lessons (and 400 recommendations) that are now being absorbed in Australia would not apply here equally.

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