This week has been an awful one for Archbishop of Perth, Roger Herft. On Monday and Tuesday he faced sustained questioning at the Royal Commission on Institutional Responses to Child Abuse about his leadership of the Diocese of Newcastle at a time when many allegations were made that clergy and lay leaders had sexually abused children. […]
A difficult episode of Anglican TV to record as we discuss the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse here in Australia. Simply put, the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle dealt phenomenally badly with repeated allegations of abuse of children made in the 1990s and 2000s. At the centre of these allegations sites the current Archbishop […]
Today’s newspapers here in Australia are full of the news that the Government has announced an royal commission into the abuse of children in various establishments. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the creation of a national royal commission into institutional responses to instances of child sexual abuse. The decision was taken at a meeting […]
