Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein has revealed he was sexually assaulted as a child by a former teacher. Gutwein last year set up the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings after abuse allegations were levelled at public servants. He was asked on Friday by media about the conduct of his Liberal colleagues, who have been criticised for groaning in state parliament earlier this week when the Labor opposition quoted an abuse survivor in a question about the inquiry. “I have great empathy with people that are victim-survivors,” the Tasmanian Premier told reporters. “I have great empathy because I have walked in their shoes.” Gutwein alleged that he was sexually assaulted by a former teacher when he was aged 16 and on the Christmas holidays. “I was asked to go to their home to have a beer, which I thought was fantastic,” he …