Abuse and torture victims still waiting for government redress
A man who survived torture as a teenager at the notorious Lake Alice psychiatric facility in the 1970s and had to go to the UN in his efforts to gain…
New figures on sexual abuse prompt renewed calls for inquiry
A group working with men who have been sexually abused says any inquiry into abuse needs to go beyond just that in boys' homes.
ACC says between 2012 and 2016 there was an almost 90 per cent increase in new sensitive claims lodged for male victims of sexual abuse.
The Labour party has pledged to set up an inquiry into abuse of children in state care within its first 100 days in government.
Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma Trust manager Ken Clearwater welcomed the move, but told Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan it needed to cover every institution in the country.
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