The Police Minister's refusal to answer questions about his inaction in the James Geoffrey Griffin matter is a shameful abrogation of ministerial responsibility
The TLRI final report of September 2003 makes five recommendations for legislative amendment of the Commissions of Inquiry Act.
Twelve months ago, a member of staff at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre found records about the alleged rape in the mid 1990s.
James Griffin had been working between 1986 and 1997 at UTAS as a maintenance officer. That was before he worked at the Launceston General Hospital.
The announcement of a Commission of Inquiry into the sexual abuse of children and young people in the care of the State is both welcome and overdue.
Only a commission of inquiry can properly uncover what has happened and the systemic abuse, as well as the links between different departments.
We are really only just beginning to scratch the surface of a much deeper wound as it relates to the treatment of children in some places in Tasmania.
The investigation that the Government has established into what happened over an 18 year period in the paediatric ward at the LGH is manifestly inadequate.
The Government ignored the advice in the independent expert Noetic report to close Ashley Youth Detention Centre.
We have information that a senior staff member at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre has recently been stood down.