IN some ways the royal commission's Newcastle Anglican diocese public hearings in August and November 2016 were the most shocking hearings of all. And that’s saying something of a commission that ran 57 public hearings over five years and uncovered truly horrifying sexual abuse of children over decades in thousands of institutions across Australia.
The Newcastle Anglican hearing stands out because of the banality of abuses of power, the normalising of brutish behaviour and the breathtaking arrogance and hypocrisy of people who purported to represent God on earth, but committed and covered-up crimes.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/5108174/royal-commission-teaches-us-that-institutions-fail-when-many-individuals-do/#slide=1
The Newcastle Anglican hearing stands out because of the banality of abuses of power, the normalising of brutish behaviour and the breathtaking arrogance and hypocrisy of people who purported to represent God on earth, but committed and covered-up crimes.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/5108174/royal-commission-teaches-us-that-institutions-fail-when-many-individuals-do/#slide=1
