[with Warwick Middleton, Martin Dorahy et al], Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.48 (1) 2014, pp.22-25.
http://anp.sagepub.com/content/48/1/22
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was announced by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 11 January 2013. Examining how institutions with a responsibility for children `have managed and responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse and related matters’, it arguably represents the most wide-ranging attempt by any national government in history to examine the institutional processes (or lack thereof) for addressing such abuse.