Isn't it interesting that our labour supporters are so desperate to have their belief in the party confirmed, that they are falling over themselves to believe the greatest liar we have ever seen in public life.

Watch out Belly, you'll be a Julia supporter soon, & you have all your previous opinions on record.

No wonder we get such dreadful governments. When people actually want to believe the leopard has changed, despite years of proof to the contrary, we are bound to end up in the deep poo.

On the contrary, Hasbeen, isn't it amazing that a leader finally emerges who has the guts to call a royal commission on the issue of institutional abuse and ongoing cover-ups - and all the usual suspects can do is try and smear it into a partisan political issue.

Let's hope it has teeth.

This Royal Commission is just a rubber stamp.
I will think it is serious when evidence given in a confessional is accepted as evidence in this Royal Commission

It would probably help a lot to cure catholic paedophilia if they did away with the ridiculous law about celibacy.
It is unnatural and no doubt is the cause of a lot of sexual frustration.

RobertLP:” It would probably help a lot to cure catholic paedophilia if they did away with the ridiculous law about celibacy.”

Don’t they have rules about sexually (or otherwise) abusing kids then?

Suse has mentioned it a few times now: “…there is nothing to support the notion that allowing priests to marry would stop paedophile priests offending against children.”

I thought they needed those celibacy laws to keep their illegitimate's from inheriting.

Belly,
Oh yes i am sceptical about Gillard being genuinely concerned for the abused kids. She is a proven liar, her word is not worth spit. She has made promises to the disabled knowing she has no funds to carry them out, and on education again with no funds. She went back on her word relating to the pokies. So yes I am sceptical.

I do have some knowledge about the abuse of kids. I have read the 'Forgotten Australians' report and the Irish report into church abuse, am aware of past abuse cases here and in USA.

Another concern is that the very wide range of the proposed inquiry will mean it will scim over most and not get into the nitty gritty. It is proposed to cover everything, some want it to cover foster kids and NGOs, also some are saying it should also cover FGM of girls. Others are saying about the abuse of aboriginal kids that still occurs. I think to investigate the church abuse and cover ups is more than sufficient for any inquiry.

I remember Beatie suspending the Sheperdson inquiry when it got to close to home and that would not surprise me in this instance, as Gillard has a track record of not keeping her word.

One cannot count on anything this government says as genuine. Rudd made a $6 billion promise about homelessness that was never kept.