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Child protection reform manager tells Tasmania's commission of inquiry that out-of-home care system is broken

A social worker in Tasmania's child safety system tells an abuse inquiry of good people doing their best — and battling a government department which was more concerned with protecting its own reputation.

ABC News · May 6, 2022

Work culture could be why detention centre staff have 'unfavourable views about children', commission hears

"Negative socialisation" could explain why the behaviour and attitudes of Ashley Youth Detention Centre workers might reflect attitudes of "years past", Tasmania's child sexual abuse commission of inquiry hears.

ABC News · May 4, 2022

Mother tells Tasmania's child abuse commission of inquiry of feeling ignored, belittled by Launceston hospital staff

A mother increasingly frantic over what was happening to her daughter at a Tasmanian hospital says she called a child safety service because she did not know who else to turn to.

ABC News · May 3, 2022

British Virgin Island premier detained in US on drug trafficking and money laundering charges

Andrew Fahie one of three people arrested over alleged plan to import five kilos of cocaine into US

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022

Abuse survivor scathing of Tasmanian Liberal MPs over non-apology over groaning

A "devastated" victim-survivor of child sex abuse says two government ministers who groaned at a question asked on her behalf should resign — and asks how survivors are supposed to have confidence in those same people who are entrusted with enacting laws to protect them.

ABC News · Mar 23, 2022

Tiffany Skeggs breaks her silence about years of abuse at the hands of notorious paedophile James Griffin

In May 2019, Tiffany Skeggs went to police to report childhood sexual abuse. She never imagined that step would be the beginnings of Tasmania's version of a royal commission.

ABC News · Mar 14, 2022

Former health minister Sarah Courtney advised against airing concerns publicly about nurse James Geoffrey Griffin

In a letter, Sarah Courtney said raising the allegations against James Geoffrey Griffin publicly could cause "unnecessary distress". Since then, the government has established a commission of inquiry and the Griffin allegations are central to it.

ABC News · Feb 22, 2022

Disha report submitted

The Supreme Court appointed Commission of Inquiry into the killing of four youths who were involved in the rape and murder of a vet near Shamshabad in December 2019, when they were in police custody,

The Hindu · Jan 31, 2022

Arumughaswamy panel gets extension

The State government on Monday extended till June 24 the tenure of Justice A. Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry constituted to probe the death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. The panel’s tenu

The Hindu · Jan 24, 2022