If Australia can do it so can we. It's not a job for the faint hearted and it'll take a few years if we want to do it justice - undertake a review of the care of children in state institutions.
Australia's review took five years. The former prime minister Julia Guillard thought a review was warranted and long overdue. Her Government set up the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The upshot: It is not a case of a few "rotten apples". Society's major institutions have seriously failed, the report stated.
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