Research shows the state care system continues to traumatise young people, especially Māori. Without real change, survivors believe today’s apology will ring hollow.
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This harrowing account of institutional military abuse draws on interviews with nearly 70 survivors and analyses every review and inquiry into military culture (35 in total) since the Vietnam War.
Crimes of the Cross tells how clergy and leaders in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle covered up allegations, protected abusive priests and failed to care for survivors.
A new biography tells the story of Hillsong and its leader Brian Houston. How did Hillsong come to dominate Australian Pentecostalism – and Australian Christianity? What can we learn from its decline?
Built in 1821 to house and provide productive employment for the New South Wales colony’s growing population of female convicts, the Parramatta Female Factory was also the site of countless horrors.
In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.
The evidence presented and initial findings show how important the royal commission is.
The real Pennhurst – a hospital name-checked in the latest series of Stranger Things – was a place of segregation and abuse.
Our government, suggest the authors, risks traumatizing its citizens with its failure to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Many Aboriginal survivors of sexual abuse find mainstream counselling inappropriate. But there is a way to help them heal that respects a collective culture, with strong community ties.
Kenya announced plans in 2017 for a long-term action plan to end the institutionalisation of children.
People with disability face a number of barriers to justice, not least that crimes against them are often seen as less serious. This needs to stop.
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Research Fellow, Sociology of Religion, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UniSA Creative, Adelaide University
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Professor, Social Work & Social Policy, La Trobe University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
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Senior Lecturer in Disability and Inclusion, Deakin University
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Professor, Director, Open Door: Improving the Wellbeing of Veterans, Public Safety Personnel and their Families, Flinders University
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PhD candidate, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Sociology, UNSW
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Principal Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Social Work & Social Policy, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow and Historian of War and Conflict, Deakin University
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Professor, Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape and Professor of Children's Rights in the Developing World, University of Leiden, University of the Western Cape
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Faculty of Health Research Associate, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington