Philip Wilson, the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, is the most senior clergyman in the world to face a charge of concealing sexual abuse in the church.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Royal Commission into child sex abuse
Displaying 61 - 74 of 74 articles
Speaking with: Tim Jones on child sexual abuse within religious institutions
The Conversation21.6 MB (download)
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse reconvened this week. Announced in 2012, the commission was established due to growing concerns over consistently inadequate responses…
In 1998, the new directors of the Aborigines Inland Mission changed its name to Australian Indigenous Ministries. They cleaned out the cupboards and placed the archive they had inherited, starting with…
It is the long-held view of Cardinal George Pell and other senior Catholic officials that the sexual abuse crisis is an issue primarily about the moral failure of individual priests and not related to…
Cardinal George Pell’s appearance at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will do little to rehabilitate his image in the eyes of clergy abuse victims. Via video link…
The Australian Anglican Church has put the interests of children and victims of crime ahead of tradition and doctrine. Priests who hear confessions about serious criminal offences, including child abuse…
On Monday, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse released its interim report, detailing for the first time the full scope and comprehensiveness of its inquiry into institutional…
When counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse put it to Cardinal George Pell last week that his lawyers weren’t his moral advisors, she was implying that he…
“You have the records of our abuse.” So read the placards held by protesters outside hearings of the Royal Commission and the recent Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse. These protesters…
Twelve months ago, I wrote an article encouraging inquiries into child sex abuse to treat the church like a corrupt police force. Today, the first of the nation’s inquiries to child sex abuse, run by the…
Cardinal George Pell has apologised to victims and survivors of child abuse by Catholic clergy during his appearance before the Victorian parliament’s Inquiry into child abuse by by religious organisations…
The awful record of the institutional Catholic church’s leadership in dealing with the scandal of clerical sex abuse of minors has clearly, and rightly, been a trigger for the federal government’s Royal…
The terms of reference of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have been prudently drawn, providing scope for both inquisitorial depth and transformative policy recommendations…
The terms of reference for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse, as announced by the prime minister on Friday, certainly seem to tick all the right boxes if survivors and…
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
-
Timothy W. Jones is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
-
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
-
Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
-
Honorary Research Fellow, Trinity College Theological School, University of Divinity
-
Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
-
PhD Student, Faculty of Law, Monash University
-
Professor, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
-
PhD Student in the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Director of Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University
-
Arie Freiberg is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Law, Monash University
-
Deputy Director, ACU Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
-
Professor of Communication, Deakin University
