An inquiry into child sexual abuse in Tasmanian public institutions will turn its focus to the island’s education system and examine a prior investigation that found perpetrators were being shielded.
The commission of inquiry, which is scrutinising how successive state governments have handled the abuse allegations, is holding its second week of public hearings in Hobart.
The inquiry was called in November 2020 after child sexual abuse allegations against nurse James Geoffrey Griffin and other state employees became public knowledge.
An independent investigation into the state’s education system, undertaken before the commission of inquiry was announced, found complaints by students in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s were routinely deflected or ignored.
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