Gillard, Andrews, Royal Commission ignored state school rapes

14 Responses to Gillard, Andrews, Royal Commission ignored state school rapes

1. NFA says:

   27 August, 2023 at 9:56 am

   Move along… nothing to see here!
2. Buccaneer says:

   27 August, 2023 at 10:06 am

   Big government covering up for big government, whomever set the terms for the royal commission should be investigated by the nacc, but we all know that won’t happen.
3. C.L. says:

   27 August, 2023 at 10:53 am

   Morrison should have announced that to continue the important work of the first RC (bla bla bla), he would establish a second one to examine child sexual abuse in state schools and institutions.

   But no.
4. and says:

   27 August, 2023 at 11:45 am

   Julia Gizzard & Fulsome Prison:
5. Perfidious Albino says:

   27 August, 2023 at 12:02 pm

   Horrific. Not sure i’d be relying on a few good eggs within union aligned law firms to get to the bottom of it though.
6. Christine says:

   27 August, 2023 at 12:14 pm

   Amongst all that waffle, the woman is still saying “gotta” and “communidy”.

   I believe there’s been more abuse in homes, in the entertainment industry and the Aboriginal communities, but that’s not as important/salacious as banging on about a number of Catholic priests. It’s a wonder the ‘horrors of the basement’ fantasies, in Catholic institutions, aren’t trotted out more often.

   Scott Morrison, an empty vessel.
7. Lee says:

   27 August, 2023 at 12:25 pm

   According to Matt Walsh it’s endemic in the U.S. education system, but the authorities won’t take action because of the unions.
8. Seco says:

   27 August, 2023 at 2:45 pm

   What did Pell know and when did he know about it? Thirdly, why didn’t he stop it?
9. Old Lefty says:

   27 August, 2023 at 3:49 pm

   I marvel that this story got through the censorship at the ABC Worker Soviet. If you believe Milligan and the royal commission, a state school teacher doing any such thing is as impossible as a square circle.

   It was a bit rich for the ABC to quote the Slater and Gordon lawyer lamenting that no one believes him when he says the state system was as bad as the Catholic. A big part of the reason for that is none other than the ABC. (Justice Wood reached the same conclusion in NSW in the 90s but has gone down the memory hole.)

   It’s worth looking up the court judgement on Vincent Reynolds. Twice Pell’s sentence for 19 times as many victims (and in his case, unlike Pell’s, they really were victims). Moreover, supposedly to protect the victims’ privacy, Her Honour imposed a suppression ordering the identity of the schools. That doesn’t seem to happen to non-government schools, does it?
10. Old Lefty says:

    27 August, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    There can be only two explanations for the royal commission’s egregious failure to conduct hearings into government schools and institutions: (1) ideological bias; or (2) some grubby under-the-table deal with Gillard to lay off her left faction’s core constituency in the public-sector unions.

    Either of these scenarios would be ripe for investigation by an anti-corruption commission that took its duties seriously, I would have thought.
11. Buccaneer says:

    27 August, 2023 at 5:21 pm

    Morrison should have announced that to continue the important work of the first RC (bla bla bla), he would establish a second one to examine child sexual abuse in state schools and institutions.

    And the other conveniently ignored constituents including indigenous communities and Islamic institutions.
12. rosie says:

    27 August, 2023 at 6:55 pm

    1960s, when societal naivety and institutional indifference combined to savagely undermine the rights of children almost everywhere, and the late 1980s

    What I’ve said, many times, having gone to school in that era.
    No-one wanted to know, police and courts didn’t care, too many people did not realise how recidivist the offending was but, of course, the real problem was priestly celibacy!
13. Old Lefty says:

    28 August, 2023 at 10:35 am

    The ABC is now reverting to type: concern about child abuse by anyone other than clergy or rabbis and the staff in their schools is an alt- right beat up.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-28/what-is-sound-of-freedom-about-jim-caviezel-tim-ballard/102746796
14. C.L. says:

    28 August, 2023 at 10:58 am

    Incredible.