23 Oct 2018

Apology for state care abuse won't fix everything - Grant West

From Morning Report, 8:22 am on 23 October 2018

A sexual abuse survivor says the Australian Government can't fix everything that's happened to sexual abuse survivors with an apology. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse. The apology follows a five year inquiry which found tens of thousands of children had suffered abuse in the nation's institutions over decades. Grant West led a petition calling for a New Zealand Royal Commission into institutional responses to the sexual abuse of children in 2016, and Mr West is an abuse survivor himself, who now lives in Australia.

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