Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

ABC Television, ‘Unholy Silence’, Four Corners, 28 June 2012 (Geoff Thompson) <www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/06/28/3535079.htm>.

Ibid.

Family and Community Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, 19 October 2012 (Transcript of hearing) 2, <www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/fcdc/inquiries/57th/Child_Abuse_Inquiry/Transcripts/Victoria_Police_19-Oct-12.pdf>.

Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry, 31 January 2011, Report to the Minister for Community Services on 27 January 2012 <http://www.childprotectioninquiry.vic.gov.au/report-pvvc-inquiry.html>.

Ibid Recommendation 48.

Baillieu Ted , ‘Inquiry into handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations’ (Media Release, 17 April 2012) <www.premier.vic.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/3642-inquiry-into-handling-of-child-abuse-by-religious-and-other-organisations.html>.

See Joint Investigatory Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations <www.parliament.vic.gov.au/fcdc/inquiry/340>.

ABC Television, ‘Catholic Church allegedly hid crimes of paedophile priests’, Lateline, 8 November 2012 (Suzanne Smith) <http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3629020.htm>.

O'Farrell Barry , ‘Special Commission of Inquiry’ (Media Release, 9 November 2012) <http://www.premier.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/SPECIAL%20COMMISSION%20OF%20INQUIRY.pdf>.

Gillard Julia , ‘Establishment of Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse’ (Media Release, 12 November 2012) <http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/establishment-royal-commission-child-sexual-abuse>.

Gillard Julia , ‘Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse’ (Transcript of Press Conference, 12 November 2012) <http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/transcript-press-conference-32>.

Ibid.

A copy of the Letters Patent and details of the Royal Commissioners, along with other information about the Royal Commission, is available online at <www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au>.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Attorney-General (Cth) v Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited (1913) 17 CLR 644.

(1954) 90 CLR 177, 184.

Australian Constitution s 51(xxix).

See, eg, Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983) 158 CLR 1; Richardson v Forestry Commission (1988) 164 CLR 261; Victoria v Commonwealth (1996) 187 CLR 416.

Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened for signature 20 November 1989, 1577 UNTS 3 (entered into force 2 September 1990).

Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd v Attorney-General (Cth) (1912) 15 CLR 182

Ibid 195 (emphasis added).

Scientology Case (1983) 154 CLR 120, 136.

Jehovah's Witnesses Case (1943) 67 CLR 116, 131.

[1987] FCA 49.

See Gray Anthony , ‘Section 116 of the Australian Constitution and Dress Restrictions’ (2011) 16 Deakin Law Review 293, 311ff.

See, eg, Grollo v Palmer (1995) 184 CLR 348.

Grollo v Palmer (1995) 184 CLR 348; Wilson v Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (1996) 189 CLR 1

Grollo v Palmer (1995) 184 CLR 348, 365 approved in Wilson v Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (1996) 189 CLR 1.

(1996) 189 CLR 1.

Wainohu v New South Wales (2011) 243 CLR 181.

Ibid 207.

(1996) 189 CLR 1.

See Ratnapala Suri and Crowe Jonathan , ‘Broadening the Reach of Chapter III: The Institutional Integrity of State Courts and the Limits of State Legislative Power’ (2012) 36 Melbourne University Law Review 175.

Wainohu v New South Wales (2011) 243 CLR 181, 208.

Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth (1947) 74 CLR 31

Austin v Commonwealth (2003) 215 CLR 185, 249 cited with approval in Clarke v Commission of Taxation (2009) 204 CLR 272, 307.