New Zealand's plan to leave the Church and other non-state groups out of the Royal Commission of inquiry into abuse is getting some bad press in Australia today. The Newcastle Herald has gone big with a story of Australian survivors of abuse afraid their New Zealand counterparts won't get justice.
Joanne McCarthy, the journalist who did in Australia what the Boston Globe's Spotlight team did in the US to break open the clerical sex abuse scandal, has interviewed them.
The approach being taken here was "completely unacceptable", she said.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/350980/australian-abuse-survivors-criticise-nz-inquiry
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