8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (22)
#19382262 at 2023-08-18 14:52:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
>>19222755
>>19297392
Anthony Albanese presses go to super-charge Indigenous voice to parliament campaign
GEOFF CHAMBERS - AUGUST 18, 2023
Anthony Albanese, senior cabinet ministers and state premiers are preparing a nationwide blitz of battleground states and electorates, as the ALP and union campaign machines swing behind the Yes23 grassroots movement ahead of the voice referendum.
The Prime Minister and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney on Saturday will use speeches on the final day of the ALP national conference in Brisbane to springboard Labor's Yes campaign ahead of an expected October 14 referendum.
Local Yes supporter groups, now established in every federal electorate and embedded with pro-Yes Labor and Liberal MPs, will be bolstered by more than 20,000 volunteers who will lead doorknocking, letterboxing and phone canvassing operations in coming weeks.
The Weekend Australian understands Ms Burney will use her conference address to energise the labour movement to join the Yes campaign and lead conversations in local communities to win the referendum.
Mr Albanese, along with senior colleagues and popular premiers including Peter Malinauskas, Daniel Andrews and Chris Minns, will step up efforts targeting soft voters when the prime minister fires the starting gun on the referendum campaign.
Government sources confirmed September 10 is the cut-off to call an October 14 referendum.
Pro-voice operatives said the interaction between political and grassroots campaigns would seek to avoid MPs leading the daily debate or taking control of the Yes23 strategy. While the Yes23 campaign will outspend No's Fair Australia campaign across mass media markets in the final five to six weeks of the campaign, pro-voice backers are ramping up on-the-ground operations targeting train stations in peak periods, shopping centres and weekend markets.
The ALP's campaign machine will unleash an election-style digital media advertising blitz aimed at reaching millions of Australians.
A campaign source said direct voter contact and face-to-face conversations explaining what the voice proposal entails were key to flipping soft voters.
Outside the capital cities, the Uluru Dialogue is leading the campaign push in the regions.
Liberals for Yes is also planning events led by former opposition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser, Bass MP Brid?get Archer and Kate Carnell.
The Yes campaign is seeking to amplify the cross-party alliance in support of the voice, including Labor, Liberals, Greens and independents Helen Haines, Andrew Wilkie, Allegra Spender and David Pocock.
Prominent Yes campaigner Noel Pearson joined South Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young in Adelaide on Friday, and Yes23 campaign director Dean Parkin held events with NSW Liberal MPs Matt Kean, james griffin and Felicity Wilson last week.
Amid expectations that Queensland and Western Australia will oppose the voice, the No side will push hard to win South Australia or Tasmania.
Prominent No campaigners Warren Mundine and opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Price launched the WA Liberals for No campaign in Perth on Friday alongside Liberal senators Michaelia Cash and Kerrynne Liddle.
Ahead of national conference endorsing the voice, Mr Albanese said his Labor caucus and party were "united" on the referendum.
"This isn't a matter of ?convenience. This is a matter of conviction.
"This is about recognising our First Nations people in our Constitution after 122 years, and then it's simply about listening in order to get better results," Mr Albanese said.
"We can't continue to just do more of the same, And constitutional change isn't easy. We know eight out of 48 referendums have passed, and only one that's been put forward by the Labor Party has passed."
Mr Albanese repeated his claim that if the referendum failed, "it will be a setback for reconciliation, and it will be a lost opportunity".
"What we know from the Republic referendum that was held at the end of the last century, the last time we had a referendum, is not only has it not returned in the quarter of a century almost since, it's not on the horizon in the next couple of years either," he said.
"This is in the hands of the Australian people.
"I will do my best to promote a Yes vote. I was fully aware, when I said that we would hold a referendum, there were people who said that's a risk.
"Of course, it's a risk. Change is hard. But this is necessary."
Mr Albanese said the referendum would be in October or November and the government was working with the AEC.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/pm-presses-go-on-alp-voice-campaign/news-story/8e925b701bd7800fde99a0c6c5097487
#16701839 at 2022-07-10 01:28:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition
#23 and #24 - Part 33
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 4
>>16564088 'Catastrophic' failings allowed Tasmanian hospital abuse - CEO of Launceston General Hospital, Eric Daniels, acknowledges catastrophic failures in relation to a pedophile nurse who worked on a children's ward for nearly two decades
>>16564172 Helen Bryan, Executive Director of Nursing at Launceston General Hospital got most of her information about paedophile james griffin from a podcast by journalist Camille Bianchi - "The Nurse"
>>16564185 Podcast: The Nurse by Camille Bianchi - "A nurse lives in a quiet town in Tasmania, Australia. He spends his life working with children and is the ultimate father figure, but he has a dark secret. People who still hold positions of power protected him. They are still protecting others. Hear from childhood sexual assault survivors sharing their stories for the first time, and know that there are countless others waiting to be heard."
>>16564258 Victim's complaint against paedophile nurse Jim griffin 'shut down' after his death - Keelie McMahon, victim-survivor of paedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin, knew he would never go to prison
>>16573288 'No inquiry' about Tasmanian nurse child abuser - Stephen Ayre, former chief executive of Launceston General Hospital didn't make any inquiries about male pedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin, who worked at the facility's children's ward under his watch
>>16573336 'Medical emergency' interrupts Tasmania's child sexual abuse commission of inquiry hearings - Former chief executive of Launceston General Hospital Stephen Ayre collapses while giving evidence, requires hospitalisation
>>16586818 Tasmanian government to establish review of Launceston General Hospital where pedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin was able to keep working despite multiple complaints
>>16594285 Inquiry hears of paedophile james Geoffrey griffin's 'red flags' while caring for teenage female at Launceston General Hospital
>>16594291 Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings - Live stream link
>>16601747 South Australian RAAF intelligence officer Jacob Donald Walsh pleads guilty to horrifying number of child-sex charges - RAAF intelligence expert used photos for blackmail, pleads guilty to 230 charges of child sexual exploitation, the highest number of child-sex charges ever laid against one person in Australia
>>16601766 South Australian paedophile syndicate: Public servant Stewart Iain Berry allegedly paid for sex with teen object of husband's "uncontrollable obsession"
>>16601859 Angelique Knight, victim-survivor of paedophile nurse james griffin yet to hear acknowledgment of suffering, Tasmanian Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Government Institutions hears
>>16601890 Tasmanian Child Safety Services executive director Claire Lovell apologises to Tiffany Skeggs and family of Zoe Duncan for james griffin child abuse ordeal and disbelief by Tasmanian authorities
>>16655905 Notorious paedophile Bradley Pen Dragon bailed after pleading not guilty to breaching release order
>>16655939 Tasmania Police apologise to abuse victims over paedophile james Geoffrey griffin
#16701833 at 2022-07-10 01:28:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition
#23 and #24 - Part 32
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 3
>>16487659 Olympic swim coach Dick Caine charged after allegedly sexually abusing teenage girls he trained more than 40 years ago in South Sydney
>>16487682 Legendary swim coach Dick Caine bailed on historic sex abuse charges has months to live - Renowned swim coach Dick Caine, charged with abusing two teenage girls in the 1970s, has been bailed after a court heard he is terminally ill
>>16487690 'Sex terrorist' pedophile Geoffrey William Moyle's eight-year sentence revoked on appeal, replaced with 12-year term - The Adelaide-based "sex terrorist" who pioneered the dark web's vile global child exploitation industry has been resentenced in a decision set to change Australian law
>>16487699 Adelaide paedophile Geoffrey William Moyle has sentence extended to 12 years
>>16487707 24-year-old babysitter pleads guilty to committing 141 sex crimes, including raping a baby and sexually abusing several other children
>>16493439 Victims say Catholic Church failed to inform them about NSW paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan's death
>>16493450 Social media warning amid community concern over WA paedophile Bradley Pen Dragon's release
>>16513539 Video: Bradley Pen Dragon: Notorious paedophile arrested about 48 hours after release from Perth prison
>>16513559 66-year-old Victorian man travelled to Sydney to meet girl under 10 for sex, say NSW police from Child Exploitation Investigation Unit's Strike Force Trawler,
>>16525367 E-commerce platform Made-in-China.com selling sex dolls modelled off of toddler girls - Collective Shout investigation uncovers VAST range of child sex abuse dolls - Take action - Tell Made-in-China to STOP selling child sex abuse dolls + ban all sellers
>>16534780 'Lack of action' over Tasmanian pedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin - Tasmanian inquiry told alleged pedophile nurse was reported to police and breached patient boundaries across decades before being charged
>>16534819 Pedophile nurse tip off ignored - Tasmanian authorities allowed pedophile nurse james (Jim) Geoffrey griffin to work with children for 18 years after complaints were first raised about him, leading to the sexual abuse of multiple children
>>16534842 BMX champion Rhys Kember sentenced to three years jail for soliciting nude photos from multiple teenage girls
>>16543912 Woman abused by Launceston General Hospital paedophile james griffin flagged risk to children, inquiry hears
>>16554457 Launceston General Hospital staff kept in the dark about paedophile co-worker james Geoffrey griffin
>>16564074 james griffin's boss, Sonja Leonard, breaks down amid claims paedophile 'manipulated' a ward in disarray, says the "dysfunctional" nature of Launceston General Hospital's children's ward created opportunities for the abuser to strike
#16701820 at 2022-07-10 01:27:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition
#23 and #24 - Part 31
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 2
>>16444470 She was sex trafficked by her boyfriend as a teenager. A decade later, one question freed her - Tsvetelina Thompson fell in love with a man who was 'picture perfect'. Then, she found herself trapped in a life where she no longer felt human.
>>16444495 Twentyfour-Seven - anti-trafficking organization dedicated to bringing intelligence, and services to victims and survivors of sex trafficking, founded by Tsvetelina Thompson in 2019 - http://twentyfour-seven.org
>>16444495 Twentyfour-Seven QR code - delivering critical information in several languages about human trafficking and how to find help, Australia included - https://247informationservices.in
>>16444495 Reporting human trafficking to the Australian Federal Police - Assist the AFP in combating this global problem - Use our online form to report information regarding human trafficking for the purposes of sexual and/or labour exploitation, organ harvesting, forced marriage and slavery or call 131 AFP (131 237) - https://forms.afp.gov.au/online_forms/human_trafficking_form - In case of an emergency, call 000
>>16449464 Video: Brave whistleblowers expose one of Australia's worst child abuse scandals - Abuse allegations at Ashley Youth Detention Centre in Tasmania, and notorious paedophile james griffin at Launceston General Hospital - 60 Minutes Australia
>>16449759 Paedophile Bronte Ciracovitch sentenced to 14 years' jail for multiple child sex offences
>>16461493 Former South Australian Labor staffer Benjamin John Waters spared jail over child abuse material, will spend at least eight months on home detention for viewing and sending child abuse material
>>16461541 Paedophile Benjamin John Waters sentenced to eight months home detention because of 'harrowing' time in jail after arrest - An ex-ALP staffer who pleaded guilty to child abuse offences has been sentenced to eight months home detention - because a judge says he had a "harrowing" time in jail
>>16461562 Former priest Gerald Ridsdale admits to more child sex offences - The prolific paedophile, already behind bars, pleads guilty to 13 more child sexual abuse charges
>>16466610 Catholic church uses paedophile priest's death as shield against new allegations in NSW - Lismore diocese wins halt on civil case after arguing woman had never complained before Father Clarence Anderson died in 1996
>>16471614 Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) employed paedophile junior coaching co-ordinator Roy Wenlock for 29 years - One of three sex offenders investigated in WA Supreme Court Justice Peter Blaxell's 452-page parliamentary inquiry into historical child sexual abuse at Anglican hostels, published in 2012
>>16476592 Former professional cricket player and junior coach Ian King pleads guilty to historical child sex charges
>>16476851 Video: Australian Federal Police issues warning over rise in sexual extortion targeting boys - Online criminals have been duping kids into sending explicit photos and then demanding cash not to share them - Channel 7 Sunrise
>>16476888 Child sex offenders preying on Australian boys for money - The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) is warning that Australia is seeing a global trend in the crime of sexual extortion, with a spike in the number of Australian boys being preyed on by international sex offenders, who are grooming them into producing explicit images and then extorting them for money - afp.gov.au
>>16476919 Video: Hilda Sirec - Commander ACCCE, Human Exploitation addresses 'Sextortion' trend - Boys are being coerced into sending sexualised images and videos of themselves and then being blackmailed by offenders who threaten to share them. It's a worrying global trend. And it's happening right here in Australia. What can you do about it? Share this video and help us spread the message that sexual extortion #sextortion is a crime and the police are here to help - Australian Centre To Counter Child Exploitation
>>16476959 Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Tweet: #Australian #boys are being coerced into sending sexualised images of themselves and then being blackmailed by offenders who threaten to share them. We've put together a simulated #textchat to show what #sextortion can look like. http://accce.gov.au/report
>>16481812 Bradley Pen Dragon - Notorious paedophile who thinks sex with children is 'natural' will be released into the Western Australian community TODAY, 21 June 2022
>>16481831 Bradley Pen Dragon: High risk WA paedophile to walk free from Acacia Prison today, 21 June 2022
#16655252 at 2022-07-07 09:01:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition
#23 - Part 32
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 4
>>16564088 'Catastrophic' failings allowed Tasmanian hospital abuse - CEO of Launceston General Hospital, Eric Daniels, acknowledges catastrophic failures in relation to a pedophile nurse who worked on a children's ward for nearly two decades
>>16564172 Helen Bryan, Executive Director of Nursing at Launceston General Hospital got most of her information about paedophile james griffin from a podcast by journalist Camille Bianchi - "The Nurse"
>>16564185 Podcast: The Nurse by Camille Bianchi - "A nurse lives in a quiet town in Tasmania, Australia. He spends his life working with children and is the ultimate father figure, but he has a dark secret. People who still hold positions of power protected him. They are still protecting others. Hear from childhood sexual assault survivors sharing their stories for the first time, and know that there are countless others waiting to be heard."
>>16564258 Victim's complaint against paedophile nurse Jim griffin 'shut down' after his death - Keelie McMahon, victim-survivor of paedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin, knew he would never go to prison
>>16573288 'No inquiry' about Tasmanian nurse child abuser - Stephen Ayre, former chief executive of Launceston General Hospital didn't make any inquiries about male pedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin, who worked at the facility's children's ward under his watch
>>16573336 'Medical emergency' interrupts Tasmania's child sexual abuse commission of inquiry hearings - Former chief executive of Launceston General Hospital Stephen Ayre collapses while giving evidence, requires hospitalisation
>>16586818 Tasmanian government to establish review of Launceston General Hospital where pedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin was able to keep working despite multiple complaints
>>16594285 Inquiry hears of paedophile james Geoffrey griffin's 'red flags' while caring for teenage female at Launceston General Hospital
>>16594291 Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings - Live stream link
>>16601747 South Australian RAAF intelligence officer Jacob Donald Walsh pleads guilty to horrifying number of child-sex charges - RAAF intelligence expert used photos for blackmail, pleads guilty to 230 charges of child sexual exploitation, the highest number of child-sex charges ever laid against one person in Australia
>>16601766 South Australian paedophile syndicate: Public servant Stewart Iain Berry allegedly paid for sex with teen object of husband's "uncontrollable obsession"
>>16601859 Angelique Knight, victim-survivor of paedophile nurse james griffin yet to hear acknowledgment of suffering, Tasmanian Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Government Institutions hears
>>16601890 Tasmanian Child Safety Services executive director Claire Lovell apologises to Tiffany Skeggs and family of Zoe Duncan for james griffin child abuse ordeal and disbelief by Tasmanian authorities
#16655243 at 2022-07-07 09:00:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition
#23 - Part 31
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 3
>>16487682 Legendary swim coach Dick Caine bailed on historic sex abuse charges has months to live - Renowned swim coach Dick Caine, charged with abusing two teenage girls in the 1970s, has been bailed after a court heard he is terminally ill
>>16487690 'Sex terrorist' pedophile Geoffrey William Moyle's eight-year sentence revoked on appeal, replaced with 12-year term - The Adelaide-based "sex terrorist" who pioneered the dark web's vile global child exploitation industry has been resentenced in a decision set to change Australian law
>>16487699 Adelaide paedophile Geoffrey William Moyle has sentence extended to 12 years
>>16487707 24-year-old babysitter pleads guilty to committing 141 sex crimes, including raping a baby and sexually abusing several other children
>>16493439 Victims say Catholic Church failed to inform them about NSW paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan's death
>>16493450 Social media warning amid community concern over WA paedophile Bradley Pen Dragon's release
>>16513539 Video: Bradley Pen Dragon: Notorious paedophile arrested about 48 hours after release from Perth prison
>>16513559 66-year-old Victorian man travelled to Sydney to meet girl under 10 for sex, say NSW police from Child Exploitation Investigation Unit's Strike Force Trawler,
>>16525367 E-commerce platform Made-in-China.com selling sex dolls modelled off of toddler girls - Collective Shout investigation uncovers VAST range of child sex abuse dolls - Take action - Tell Made-in-China to STOP selling child sex abuse dolls + ban all sellers
>>16534780 'Lack of action' over Tasmanian pedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin - Tasmanian inquiry told alleged pedophile nurse was reported to police and breached patient boundaries across decades before being charged
>>16534819 Pedophile nurse tip off ignored - Tasmanian authorities allowed pedophile nurse james (Jim) Geoffrey griffin to work with children for 18 years after complaints were first raised about him, leading to the sexual abuse of multiple children
>>16534842 BMX champion Rhys Kember sentenced to three years jail for soliciting nude photos from multiple teenage girls
>>16543912 Woman abused by Launceston General Hospital paedophile james griffin flagged risk to children, inquiry hears
>>16554457 Launceston General Hospital staff kept in the dark about paedophile co-worker james Geoffrey griffin
>>16564074 james griffin's boss, Sonja Leonard, breaks down amid claims paedophile 'manipulated' a ward in disarray, says the "dysfunctional" nature of Launceston General Hospital's children's ward created opportunities for the abuser to strike
#16655239 at 2022-07-07 08:59:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition
#23 - Part 30
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 2
>>16444470 She was sex trafficked by her boyfriend as a teenager. A decade later, one question freed her - Tsvetelina Thompson fell in love with a man who was 'picture perfect'. Then, she found herself trapped in a life where she no longer felt human.
>>16444495 Twentyfour-Seven - anti-trafficking organization dedicated to bringing intelligence, and services to victims and survivors of sex trafficking, founded by Tsvetelina Thompson in 2019 - http://twentyfour-seven.org
>>16444495 Twentyfour-Seven QR code - delivering critical information in several languages about human trafficking and how to find help, Australia included - https://247informationservices.in
>>16444495 Reporting human trafficking to the Australian Federal Police - Assist the AFP in combating this global problem - Use our online form to report information regarding human trafficking for the purposes of sexual and/or labour exploitation, organ harvesting, forced marriage and slavery or call 131 AFP (131 237) - https://forms.afp.gov.au/online_forms/human_trafficking_form - In case of an emergency, call 000
>>16449464 Video: Brave whistleblowers expose one of Australia's worst child abuse scandals - Abuse allegations at Ashley Youth Detention Centre in Tasmania, and notorious paedophile james griffin at Launceston General Hospital - 60 Minutes Australia
>>16449759 Paedophile Bronte Ciracovitch sentenced to 14 years' jail for multiple child sex offences
>>16461493 Former South Australian Labor staffer Benjamin John Waters spared jail over child abuse material, will spend at least eight months on home detention for viewing and sending child abuse material
>>16461541 Paedophile Benjamin John Waters sentenced to eight months home detention because of 'harrowing' time in jail after arrest - An ex-ALP staffer who pleaded guilty to child abuse offences has been sentenced to eight months home detention - because a judge says he had a "harrowing" time in jail
>>16461562 Former priest Gerald Ridsdale admits to more child sex offences - The prolific paedophile, already behind bars, pleads guilty to 13 more child sexual abuse charges
>>16466610 Catholic church uses paedophile priest's death as shield against new allegations in NSW - Lismore diocese wins halt on civil case after arguing woman had never complained before Father Clarence Anderson died in 1996
>>16471614 Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) employed paedophile junior coaching co-ordinator Roy Wenlock for 29 years - One of three sex offenders investigated in WA Supreme Court Justice Peter Blaxell's 452-page parliamentary inquiry into historical child sexual abuse at Anglican hostels, published in 2012
>>16476592 Former professional cricket player and junior coach Ian King pleads guilty to historical child sex charges
>>16476851 Video: Australian Federal Police issues warning over rise in sexual extortion targeting boys - Online criminals have been duping kids into sending explicit photos and then demanding cash not to share them - Channel 7 Sunrise
>>16476888 Child sex offenders preying on Australian boys for money - The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) is warning that Australia is seeing a global trend in the crime of sexual extortion, with a spike in the number of Australian boys being preyed on by international sex offenders, who are grooming them into producing explicit images and then extorting them for money - afp.gov.au
>>16476919 Video: Hilda Sirec - Commander ACCCE, Human Exploitation addresses 'Sextortion' trend - Boys are being coerced into sending sexualised images and videos of themselves and then being blackmailed by offenders who threaten to share them. It's a worrying global trend. And it's happening right here in Australia. What can you do about it? Share this video and help us spread the message that sexual extortion #sextortion is a crime and the police are here to help - Australian Centre To Counter Child Exploitation
>>16476959 Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Tweet: #Australian #boys are being coerced into sending sexualised images of themselves and then being blackmailed by offenders who threaten to share them. We've put together a simulated #textchat to show what #sextortion can look like. http://accce.gov.au/report
>>16481812 Bradley Pen Dragon - Notorious paedophile who thinks sex with children is 'natural' will be released into the Western Australian community TODAY, 21 June 2022
>>16481831 Bradley Pen Dragon: High risk WA paedophile to walk free from Acacia Prison today, 21 June 2022
>>16487659 Olympic swim coach Dick Caine charged after allegedly sexually abusing teenage girls he trained more than 40 years ago in South Sydney
#16601859 at 2022-07-05 11:07:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16534780
Victim of paedophile james griffin yet to hear acknowledgment of suffering, commission of inquiry hears
Lucy MacDonald - 5 July 2022
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A victim-survivor who was abused by notorious paedophile james Geoffrey griffin has told Tasmania's commission of inquiry that when she finally built up the courage to go to police, they told her they "couldn't charge a dead person".
The Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Government Institutions has spent the past week and a half examining the failings in the health system that allowed griffin, a nurse in the children's ward at Launceston General Hospital, and other alleged abusers to go undetected for almost two decades.
Multiple women who were groomed and abused by griffin have given evidence over the course of the hearings.
Angelique Knight is the latest.
Ms Knight was 14 when she met griffin during one of her stays at the children's ward at the Launceston General Hospital (LGH).
She told the commission she initially "hated him".
"I remember him coming in and he was very touchy-feely the first time he had even come into my bedroom, and I screamed out and I screamed that I wanted that man away from me," she said.
Ms Knight told the commission her mother made a complaint to the nurse in charge and said griffin was not to look after her again, but nothing really changed.
He soon became her nurse again.
"Eventually I started to like him. I guess he just had me fooled very easily. We became close," she said.
Ms Knight said the touching started immediately.
"He was always touching me, hugging me, touching my bum, always had his arms around me ... even in corridors with other nurses around," she told the commission.
The touching eventually turned intimate.
She said staff at the hospital noticed, but no-one suggested it was inappropriate.
"I just always got told, 'that's just Jim, he's a touchy-feely kind of guy'," she said.
Reporting the abuse left her feeling worse
When Ms Knight got married in 2019, griffin was supposed to give her away.
"It was planned for a long time. He was excited, he was over the moon," she told the commission.
"A week before something happened and he was told it was inappropriate and he couldn't give me away at my wedding ... he became my emcee."
By this stage, Ms Knight was in her late 20s.
"I was a bit more vulnerable when I was in LGH, then I became an adult, then it was my choice to see him. I hate myself that I kept going," she told the commission.
"I always just thought it was just me. If I had of said something when it started it could've stopped."
Ms Knight told the commission she found out about griffin's death and his offending through the media.
She then went to police to report her abuse, but the reception she got left her feeling worse.
"It took a lot for me to go in there. When I went in there I spoke to a lady ... [she] spoke to a police officer and came back to me pretty quickly and said, 'sorry there's nothing we can do. We can't charge a dead person but sorry this happened,'" she told the commission.
"It's pretty serious for victim-survivors to get to that point to want to talk about it which is hard enough anyway ... then to be treated like 'why even bother?'
"I didn't feel like I was heard or anyone even acknowledged what happened."
(continued)
#16564172 at 2022-06-30 12:03:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16534780
Launceston General Hospital executive heard details about paedophile james griffin from a podcast
Ellen Coulter - 30 June 2022
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A senior executive at the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) has told a child abuse inquiry that she got most of her information about an investigation into paedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin from two podcasts.
WARNING: This article contains content that some readers may find distressing.
Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has been told this week of catastrophic failings at the hospital around its handling of griffin and the aftermath of revelations about him.
Helen Bryan has given evidence at Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which is this week focusing on paedophile james Geoffrey griffin, who was a nurse on the children's ward for almost two decades.
Ms Bryan is an executive director of nursing at the LGH.
She told the commission of inquiry she heard about griffin in July 2019, when the executive director of medical services, Dr Peter Renshaw, told her that there was a police investigation into allegations that he was a paedophile.
Ms Bryan told the inquiry she agreed that it was a critical incident - the discovery a paedophile had been working on the ward for 18 years - but that it wasn't responded to, as such, and that she should have been actively involved, but wasn't.
She said she had been excluded from "multiple meetings".
"That doesn't dissolve my responsibility and accountability, and I accept that, and I would do things very differently if this happened tomorrow," she said.
"I do want to apologise that I didn't properly, or I committed to properly fulfil my full responsibilities, and I let others exclude me from the process."
Ms Bryan told the commission that Dr Renshaw took over the running of the hospital's response and review following the 2019 revelations about griffin.
"I didn't see a report. I had no further input or feedback," she said.
"I got a lot of my information from the two podcasts that I listened to."
Journalist Camille Bianchi's podcast, The Nurse, was one of the catalysts for the commission of inquiry.
Ms Bryan conceded she should have sought out more information.
The chief executive of the hospital, Eric Daniels, told the inquiry that, when he found out about griffin, he was out of his depth. He "unreservedly apologised" for the failings.
"I was not prepared for an event like this. I'd never encountered this problem previously and I don't think I was prepared to manage it effectively."
He told the commission that there had been catastrophic failures at the hospital over its handling of griffin.
'Complaints system inadequate
Another senior manager conceded that none of the hospital's complaints systems was adequate to identify child sexual abuse, and no one had had the training needed to identify such abuse or grooming.
Janette Tonks is the hospital's nursing and midwifery director of women's and children's services, and griffin's direct manager reported to her.
The commission of inquiry has this week heard that were multiple reports and warnings given to griffin about professional boundary breaches while he worked at the hospital.
Ms Tonks told the inquiry that reports could be made through a patient liaison complaint form, by going straight to the nurse unit manager or through a system called SLRS, which was designed for clinical safety reports.
However, she said, none of those systems could satisfactorily identify child sexual abuse, and there was no central repository to identify instances or potential flags for child sexual abuse or grooming at the hospital.
"Subsequently, I'm aware that none of us had any education and training in child sex abuse or grooming behaviours," Ms Tonks said.
Ms Tonks told the inquiry that she had not heard anything until this week about a 2011 report made to the hospital by Kylee Pearn, who earlier told the commission that she had warned the hospital that griffin was a paedophile and had abused her.
Ms Bryan told the inquiry she also had not heard about Ms Pearn's report until today.
"That's absolutely unacceptable and ... I should have known about it. I didn't know about it," Ms Bryan said.
(continued)
#16564074 at 2022-06-30 11:33:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16534780
james griffin's boss breaks down amid claims paedophile 'manipulated' a ward in disarray
The boss of paedophile nurse, james Geoffrey griffin, says the "dysfunctional" nature of Launceston General Hospital's children's ward created opportunities for the abuser to strike.
Amber Wilson - June 30, 2022
Sonja Leonard was Jim griffin's boss for an entire decade.
The pair had a friendly working relationship.
For years, the Launceston General Hospital children's ward nurse unit manager saw how griffin hugged his young patients and referred to them as "baby", "babe" or "princess".
griffin also committed a number of "boundary violations" over the years - like cuddling a child on a recliner and giving his phone number to patients.
But the complaints system at the hospital was unclear - and often undocumented.
The first port of call on the paediatric ward 4K was to notify Ms Leonard.
But as she admitted before the child sexual abuse commission of inquiry on Wednesday, she had "a negative relationship with a lot of staff on the ward".
Ms Leonard also admitted the culture on the paediatric 4K ward was "complicated" and "dysfunctional", and that there was a practice of keeping complaints "in-house".
She said she "couldn't recall" whether it took until 2017 - just two years before griffin was charged with numerous child sexual abuse offences, and then died by suicide - to tell him the behaviour was inappropriate.
At that point, Ms Leonard drafted a letter with the support of the hospital's human resources department to inform griffin "this is not the first instance of a complaint of this nature" and "external agencies have been made aware".
Ms Leonard began crying as she claimed her team had been "manipulated" by a paedophile who took advantage of a ward in disarray.
"The culture and the conflict and the undermining that was going on in the ward at the time, unfortunately, were a perfect storm for Mr griffin to take advantage of," she said.
"I have a lot to learn, as we all do.
"I feel deep, deep, deeply that we were deceived, we were manipulated, and we were sold a version of Mr griffin that he wanted us to believe."
Also on Wednesday, former human resources consultant Luigino Fratangelo said he couldn't remember meeting with whistleblower and hospital social worker Kylee Pearn in 2011 when she raised the alarm that griffin was a paedophile.
Mr Fratangelo said he couldn't remember if he advised Ms Pearn that griffin couldn't be removed from 4K unless he had a conviction.
But he admitted if he had met Ms Pearn, he would have told her to go to police, and that he understood under the state service code of conduct, suspending a staff member required a conviction.
The inquiry also heard that griffin was the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation delegate for the 4K ward for 16 years.
Tasmanian branch secretary Emily Shepherd told the commission the union had "no knowledge" of his offending until after his 2019 death.
"It was absolutely shocking to the ANMF that an ANMF delegate had these allegations against him," she said.
The commission of inquiry will continue its Launceston hearings until July 8.
https://www.themercury.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-tasmania/james-griffins-boss-breaks-down-amid-claims-paedophile-manipulated-a-ward-in-disarray/news-story/d8ab3b7f4579045ad523afe45d2f2daf
#16543912 at 2022-06-28 10:19:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16434685
>>16534780
Woman abused by Launceston General Hospital paedophile james griffin flagged risk to children, inquiry hears
Ellen Coulter - 28 June 2022
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In 2011, Kylee Pearn told the Launceston General Hospital that there was a child abuser working in the hospital's children's ward.
She knew the nurse was a paedophile, because years earlier, she had been abused by him.
"I just knew I had to do something… I felt he was a risk on that ward," she said.
But Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry into Government Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard that her complaint went nowhere.
james Geoffrey griffin continued to work on Ward 4K for another eight years, racking up more and more complaints until he was finally charged by police.
WARNING: This article contains content that some readers may find distressing.
Kylee Pearn had known james griffin since she was four years old - he was a family friend.
She told the inquiry, which is holding hearings in Launceston, that he started sexually abusing her when she was about seven years old, and that continued on a regular basis for a number of years.
Her coping mechanism had been to lock away the abuse; it was something that had happened, but it was not who she was, and she doesn't like to label herself a victim-survivor.
As an adult, Ms Pearn worked as a social worker in family violence support, and then in 2011 she began a secondment at the Launceston General Hospital (LGH), working on the same floor as griffin.
"I would see him coming and going and ran into him a few times," Ms Pearn told the inquiry.
"It was incredibly confronting, and on a couple of occasions he approached me and kissed me on the cheek."
Despite her coping mechanism of locking away what had happened, Ms Pearn told the commission that two events that year made her feel the need to report griffin.
Firstly, a chance conversation with a friend who revealed she too had been abused by griffin.
"That was a very big realisation for me, that I wasn't the only one," Ms Pearn said. "Because that's something I'd told myself for a long time, it was probably just me."
Then, Ms Pearn's own child had to spend a night on Ward 4K.
james griffin was working, and she was too petrified to leave her child alone.
"I just thought how incredibly unfair it was that I could protect my child, but no one else in this ward knew that information," Ms Pearn said.
"It wasn't just about me, it was about my profession, being a social worker, being a mum, wanting to protect other kids on that ward."
She told her manager, Stewart Millar, about her abuse and they arranged a meeting with the hospital's Human Resources department.
"I felt he was a risk of abusing other children."
Ms Pearn hoped he would be removed from the children's ward.
(continued)
#16534780 at 2022-06-27 10:25:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16434685
'Lack of action' over Tasmanian pedophile nurse james Geoffrey griffin
A Tasmanian inquiry has been told an alleged pedophile nurse was reported to police and breached patient boundaries across decades before being charged.
Ethan james - 27 June 2022
A "notorious" alleged pedophile nurse in Tasmania was reported to police and breached boundaries with patients across almost two decades before he was criminally charged.
Tasmania Police was provided with child exploitation-related evidence about james Geoffrey griffin 19 years before he was charged with sexually abusing children in 2019, an inquiry heard on Monday.
There were multiple occasions where griffin overstepped boundaries with young patients while working at the Launceston General Hospital's paediatric ward 4K.
A commission of inquiry into Tasmanian government responses to child sexual abuse allegations in the public service is for the next fortnight examining the health system.
griffin took his own life in October 2019 not long after being charged with child sexual offences.
In September 2000, a person told Tasmania Police they found child exploitation material and links to child abuse websites on a computer they had purchased from griffin, then a student nurse.
In March 2001, the person sent a follow-up email to police, counsel assisting the inquiry, Elizabeth Bennett SC, said during opening submissions.
"I find it very distressing that I have heard nothing about any inquiries," the email read.
"I do not want to think he is working in a kids ward somewhere in Tasmania unsupervised, given what I have found."
Ms Bennett said the inquiry had been unable to determine the outcome of the complaint.
griffin started at ward 4K in September 2001.
He received a written warning about a boundary breach in 2004 after hugging a child, allegedly kissed a child on the head in 2005, and in 2009 offered to stay overnight with a young female patient
In March 2009, police received a report griffin had "upskirted" young girls while working as a medic on the Spirit of Tasmania ferry service.
His house was searched, with police noting he cleared his computer browser history daily and had a "large number" of photos of young girls.
Ms Bennett said the matter was "filed for intelligence".
"There is no record of formal notification from Tasmania Police to the Launceston General Hospital at this time," she said.
In March 2015, Tasmania Police was provided with "credible information" that griffin had discussed child abuse online.
"A source provided (further) information to police in April 2015 … it appears the information was not accessed and no further action was taken," Ms Bennett said.
Tasmania Police representatives are set to provide evidence to the inquiry in coming weeks.
In 2017, the hospital noted griffin called a patient pet names, resulting in a third written warning that matters could be escalated if his behaviour continued.
Police allegedly found child abuse material at Griffith's house in mid-2019 after a survivor made accusations against him.
He was suspended from work and charged with several counts of indecent assault, possessing child exploitation material and sexual intercourse with a young person.
"The case of james griffin is one of rumour, notoriety and fear," Ms Bennett said.
Tasmania Police in 2021 issued a formal apology for deficiencies in their investigation into griffin.
Survivor Ben Felton said he was abused by a different male nurse at the hospital in 1989 as a 13-year-old and his complaints fell on deaf ears.
The inquiry was told 11-year-old Zoe Duncan, who suffered epilepsy and died in 2017, was raped by a doctor at the hospital in 2001.
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Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/
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https://7news.com.au/politics/law-and-order/health-system-focus-for-tas-abuse-inquiry-c-7308793
#16434685 at 2022-06-12 11:24:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16200019 (pb)
>>16200037 (pb)
Border Force missed evidence of sexual abuse then it continued for years: victim
Nick McKenzie - June 12, 2022
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Border security officials failed to thoroughly search the mobile phone of one of Australia's most notorious paedophiles at Melbourne Airport in 2015 despite being warned the 64-year-old was a suspected child sex offender travelling overseas with a minor.
The victim, Tiffany Skeggs, has now told The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes that at the time, both her phone and that of offender james griffin contained "extremely exploitative and pornographic material of myself [aged 15] for certain".
griffin was a pediatric nurse who was employed at several Tasmanian government institutions who may have abused or groomed up to 30 children. Tasmanian police have already faced searing public scrutiny for their failures to act on multiple tip-offs over many years about griffin. He killed himself before any of his victims could see him face justice.
After the failed search in 2015 the pair, who were returning from Turkey, went back to Tasmania. Skeggs was 17 at the time of the trip, and her abuse at griffin's hands did not stop until she was 19. Until now the details of his interaction with the Australian Border Force have remained clouded by agency secrecy.
Skeggs says the failure to adequately search the notorious offender at the airport may have also enabled griffin to seek and find other victims. She has now publicly shared her battle to uncover why multiple agencies missed opportunities to stop his offending until he was finally charged in 2019 after Skeggs gave Tasmanian detectives a statement.
Skeggs says griffin had near complete control over her between 2008, when she was 11 years old, and 2017, and that he was raping her several times a week. griffin groomed Skeggs as a child netballer. He was a volunteer at Netball Tasmania.
An ongoing commission of inquiry into child sex abuse in Tasmania was ordered last year by the state government in connection to the griffin scandal, as well as allegations of abuse in the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. However, the inquiry does not have jurisdiction to look at the action or inaction of federal agencies.
Skeggs said the ABF missed damning and easily retrieved evidence in May 2015 when border security officials at Melbourne International Airport approached the pair and demanded to search some of griffin's possessions. ABF were acting on a federal police international passenger alert that griffin was a suspected child sex offender travelling overseas with an unnamed child.
Skeggs says there was video evidence on her mobile phone, and the phone of griffin, of the pediatric nurse raping her as a 15 year old while he was about 64 and in a position of authority.
Skeggs said that if ABF had conducted a forensic search on one or both of the phones, they would have discovered "a particular set of images and videos that were of he and I in his bedroom, in his bed. And the video is a recording of him penetrating me and sexually assaulting me aged 15."
Skeggs said the failure of ABF to conduct a more thorough search meant "that I still had years of abuse to come".
"I would never have another opportunity like that for any authority in this state or this country to help me. I was on my own. I had to fend for myself and continued to be raped by him, as did others."
(continued)
#15592279 at 2022-02-10 08:48:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition
#20 - Part 18
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 1
>>15175356 'Arrogant' pedophile priest Anthony William Peter Caruana jailed for 15 years
>>15175357 Tasmanian health department put interests of alleged pedophile james griffin ahead of victims, Ombudsman says
>>15175359 Global child abuse ring member Bret Anthony Chesworth jailed for crimes of the 'worst kind'
>>15175522 Pervert Josh Duggar tried to get off on gruesome 'hurtcore' video Daisy's Destruction, 'the worst of the worst' in international child porn that shows cruel torture and beatings of 18-month-old girl - The infamous video is the work of Australian predator Peter Scully
>>15175533 (2016) Video: Death penalty call for accused Australian child sex predator Peter Scully in Philippines
>>15185201 AFP warns online child sex offenders are offering Australian children vouchers and cash for naked images
>>15190229 Prosecutors launch bid to have Australia's worst-ever child sex predator, Jadd William Brooker, jailed indefinitely for his crimes
>>15190412 Former footy star Brett Finch facing charges relating to child abuse material - Former NRL grand final winner charged with commenting on child abuse material, one of eight arrested by detectives
>>15217613 AJ Coutts, victim of paedophile Martin Cooper at Perth children's home Warminda Hostel, receives $1 million settlement
>>15234468 Tasmanian child abuse survivor awarded record $5.3 million payout after suing abuser John Millwood
>>15235880 Australian Federal Police warn of human trafficking surge as border restrictions ease
>>15235880 Australian Federal Police Human Trafficking website - Information on human trafficking and the signs to look for
>>15251521 Australian Federal Police Tweet: During his recent visit to the United States, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw presented @FBI Director Christopher Wray with the AFP Partnership Medal. The medal is in recognition of the close working relationship between the AFP and the FBI.
>>15265942 Judge rules Catholic Church vicariously liable for Ballarat paedophile priest Bryan Coffey's abuse 50 years ago
>>15270892 Video: Police warn of increase in human trafficking, sex slaves, forced marriages as borders open
>>15325369 Child sex trafficking endures in Bali despite collapse of international tourism - Trade fueled by foreign pedophile rings and lone predators - none more infamous than Robert Fiddel Ellis, a 72-year-old Australian who was convicted in 2016 of sexually abusing 30 girls, one as young as 10.
#15592218 at 2022-02-10 08:32:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition
#20 - Part 18
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Investigations - Part 1
>>15175356 'Arrogant' pedophile priest Anthony William Peter Caruana jailed for 15 years
>>15175357 Tasmanian health department put interests of alleged pedophile james griffin ahead of victims, Ombudsman says
>>15175359 Global child abuse ring member Bret Anthony Chesworth jailed for crimes of the 'worst kind'
>>15175522 Pervert Josh Duggar tried to get off on gruesome 'hurtcore' video Daisy's Destruction, 'the worst of the worst' in international child porn that shows cruel torture and beatings of 18-month-old girl - The infamous video is the work of Australian predator Peter Scully
>>15175533 (2016) Video: Death penalty call for accused Australian child sex predator Peter Scully in Philippines
>>15185201 AFP warns online child sex offenders are offering Australian children vouchers and cash for naked images
>>15190229 Prosecutors launch bid to have Australia's worst-ever child sex predator, Jadd William Brooker, jailed indefinitely for his crimes
>>15190412 Former footy star Brett Finch facing charges relating to child abuse material - Former NRL grand final winner charged with commenting on child abuse material, one of eight arrested by detectives
>>15217613 AJ Coutts, victim of paedophile Martin Cooper at Perth children's home Warminda Hostel, receives $1 million settlement
>>15234468 Tasmanian child abuse survivor awarded record $5.3 million payout after suing abuser John Millwood
>>15235880 Australian Federal Police warn of human trafficking surge as border restrictions ease
>>15235880 Australian Federal Police Human Trafficking website - Information on human trafficking and the signs to look for
>>15251521 Australian Federal Police Tweet: During his recent visit to the United States, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw presented @FBI Director Christopher Wray with the AFP Partnership Medal. The medal is in recognition of the close working relationship between the AFP and the FBI.
>>15265942 Judge rules Catholic Church vicariously liable for Ballarat paedophile priest Bryan Coffey's abuse 50 years ago
>>15270892 Video: Police warn of increase in human trafficking, sex slaves, forced marriages as borders open
>>15325369 Child sex trafficking endures in Bali despite collapse of international tourism - Trade fueled by foreign pedophile rings and lone predators - none more infamous than Robert Fiddel Ellis, a 72-year-old Australian who was convicted in 2016 of sexually abusing 30 girls, one as young as 10.
#15175357 at 2021-12-11 10:21:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition
Tasmanian health department put interests of alleged pedophile james griffin ahead of victims, Ombudsman says
Emily Baker - 10 December 2021
Tasmania's Ombudsman has accused the state's health department of putting the interests of an alleged paedophile nurse ahead of his victims in a scathing review into its response to requests for information.
The Tasmanian Health Service's (THS) handling of allegations against james Geoffrey griffin - who took his life in 2019 after being charged with child sex offences - has been singled out for special attention in the Commission of Inquiry into child sex abuse.
But behind the scenes, the department has argued it would be against the public interest to release details of complaints against griffin while he worked on the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) children's ward - despite Ombudsman Richard Connock finding many documents requested by freelance journalist Camille Bianchi early last year could be published in some form.
In April 2020, Bianchi applied under Right to Information laws, for records of staff complaints, reports and email correspondence relating to griffin's behaviour while working on Ward 4K.
More than 100 pages of relevant information were unearthed - but the department claimed none of the documents could be released, citing privacy issues, concern for the mental health of griffin's friends, family and former colleagues, and fears publicising such information could deter people from making similar reports in the future.
A decision published by Mr Connock about a month ago disagreed.
"Allegations against Mr griffin were never formally proven and were denied by him, and there are valid procedural fairness concerns in releasing documents regarding disputed allegations and unfinalised disciplinary and criminal proceedings," Mr Connock wrote.
"The weight of these factors is reduced, however, due to the extensive publicity already given to the allegations against Mr griffin and his death … the damage has already been done."
The THS argued LGH staff were suffering stress and anxiety over the "matters associated with Mr griffin", feelings compounded by guilt and grief.
"While the department's consideration of the interests of its staff and Mr griffin's associates is understandable, I am concerned that it does not appear to have considered the interests of the victims of Mr griffin's alleged offending while he was in its employ and the concerns of LGH patients and the general public about the adequacy of management of concerns by the department as highly," Mr Connock said.
"I consider that the public interest in protecting the interests of alleged sexual abusers of children is lower than that of the victims of such abuse.
"In contrast, the department does not once mention or appear to consider the victims of Mr griffin's alleged offending or the valid community concern and desire for accountability from the department, given that abuse is alleged to have occurred against vulnerable child patients receiving care in a public hospital over an extended period."
The documents have still not been released, but the Ombudsman's account of the records shows relevant documents included:
- Handwritten notes used to record incidents of concern
- A formally reported "incident" in August 2017
- A notification to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
- An email chain between a Tasmania Police officer and a THS doctor "regarding whether further action should be taken"
- Mr griffin's resignation letter
Bianchi, who pushed ahead with podcast The Nurse despite the THS's refusal to cooperate, said the Ombudsman's review was enlightening.
"As distressing as this process has been, it's offered an invaluable insight into the contempt with which the system treats the public," she said.
"This information belongs to the patients and staff at LGH, and many others whose lives have been impacted by the matters raised in these documents."
Five women contacted Tasmania Police with complaints of sexual abuse in the months leading to his death.
The first woman to contact police alleged griffin had sexually abused her from the age of 11.
According to the coroner's report into his death, griffin made admissions of sexual misconduct in relation to her.
Police also found "a significant amount of child exploitation material", including "self-generated images" after searching his home.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-10/health-dept-ombudsman-review-handling-james-griffin-complaints/100686984
#11414939 at 2020-11-02 23:28:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition
#10 - Part 7
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Prosecutions - Part 1
>>10753210 Shane Andrew Lunnay, who streamed himself having sex with a child-like sex doll, jailed for importing child exploitation material
>>10753306 Perth escape artist and children's entertainer Dewald Venter ('Ghupi') facing string of child sex charges
>>10766945 Westpac slugged with $1.3 billion fine over Austrac scandal, failed to stop transactions that funded child sex trafficking
>>10766945 PDF: Westpac and AUSTRAC reach agreement on Anti-Money Laundering / Counter-Terrorism and Financing civil proceedings
>>10767015 Paedophiles Mark Anthony Gray and Dylan McCrossin plead guilty to child exploitation crimes, earn up to 40 per cent off sentences
>>10767015 PDF: South Australian Opposition legal affairs spokesman Kyam Maher's letter to Attorney-General Vickie Chapman
>>10793715 Alarming spike in numbers of online child sex abuse cases - AFP. Warning signs and how you can protect your kids
>>10793950 Perth Trinity College student bullied on social media after alleged rape on school trip
>>10794842 Grooming, paedophilia and child exploitation on the rise in Tasmania say AFP top cops
>>10851953 Senior Catholic William Wade sentenced for concealing child sex abuse at Marist schools
>>10867069 Catholic Church's legal defence 'dismantled' after sex abuse pay-off thrown out
>>10898112 Sydney baseball coach Stuart "Gus" Mould jailed over 'bizarre', 'inhuman' assaults on boys
>>10960966 Alleged Kimberley sex offender Charles Batham to be extradited from Italy nine years after fleeing country
>>10961245 Australian Border Force charges two Geraldton men over child-like sex dolls
>>10979226 Three arrested after alleged forced marriage of Shepparton woman
>>10979226 Australian Federal Police - Human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices (including forced marriage) information report form
>>10994627 National Australia Bank didn't maintain records of human traffickers until 2019
>>11020227 UK leads global call for Facebook to take action on paedophiles
>>11020270 Home Secretary and international partners tell tech companies to put child safety first
>>11020270 PDF: International statement calling on tech companies to ensure end-to-end encryption does not erode public safety
>>11034465 Australian teacher leaves Cambodia as he protests his innocence over indecent assault charges against children
>>11063089 james 'Jim' Geoffrey griffin, Nurse in Tasmania unmasked as serial paedophile who groomed, molested kids
>>11063143 The Nurse - Camille Bianchi True Crime podcast - james griffin: At work he was "Just Jim", but he was he hiding something? -
>>11099437 Tasmanian government investigating how alleged pedophile james griffin went undetected
>>11099561 Perth 'sex ring' members 'housed with victims in government care homes'
>>11185934 Royal Commission files reveal previously unseen details about abuse by priests in Newcastle
>>11185947 PDF: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Case Study No. 43: Catholic Church authorities in Maitland-Newcastle
>>11186473 Australian Border Force arrests man after seizing parts of 11 childlike sex dolls
>>11205423 Q Post #4915 - A deep dark world is being exposed. The truth won't be for everyone. Have faith in Humanity.
>>11207850 Remote human trafficking: Jessica Borten looks at how the human trafficking industry has continued online throughout the pandemic
#11414168 at 2020-11-02 22:51:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
#10 - Part 7
Child Exploitation, Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking Prosecutions - Part 1
>>10753210 Shane Andrew Lunnay, who streamed himself having sex with a child-like sex doll, jailed for importing child exploitation material
>>10753306 Perth escape artist and children's entertainer Dewald Venter ('Ghupi') facing string of child sex charges
>>10766945 Westpac slugged with $1.3 billion fine over Austrac scandal, failed to stop transactions that funded child sex trafficking
>>10766945 PDF: Westpac and AUSTRAC reach agreement on Anti-Money Laundering / Counter-Terrorism and Financing civil proceedings
>>10767015 Paedophiles Mark Anthony Gray and Dylan McCrossin plead guilty to child exploitation crimes, earn up to 40 per cent off sentences
>>10767015 PDF: South Australian Opposition legal affairs spokesman Kyam Maher's letter to Attorney-General Vickie Chapman
>>10793715 Alarming spike in numbers of online child sex abuse cases - AFP. Warning signs and how you can protect your kids
>>10793950 Perth Trinity College student bullied on social media after alleged rape on school trip
>>10794842 Grooming, paedophilia and child exploitation on the rise in Tasmania say AFP top cops
>>10851953 Senior Catholic William Wade sentenced for concealing child sex abuse at Marist schools
>>10867069 Catholic Church's legal defence 'dismantled' after sex abuse pay-off thrown out
>>10898112 Sydney baseball coach Stuart "Gus" Mould jailed over 'bizarre', 'inhuman' assaults on boys
>>10960966 Alleged Kimberley sex offender Charles Batham to be extradited from Italy nine years after fleeing country
>>10961245 Australian Border Force charges two Geraldton men over child-like sex dolls
>>10979226 Three arrested after alleged forced marriage of Shepparton woman
>>10979226 Australian Federal Police - Human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices (including forced marriage) information report form
>>10994627 National Australia Bank didn't maintain records of human traffickers until 2019
>>11020227 UK leads global call for Facebook to take action on paedophiles
>>11020270 Home Secretary and international partners tell tech companies to put child safety first
>>11020270 PDF: International statement calling on tech companies to ensure end-to-end encryption does not erode public safety
>>11034465 Australian teacher leaves Cambodia as he protests his innocence over indecent assault charges against children
>>11063089 james 'Jim' Geoffrey griffin, Nurse in Tasmania unmasked as serial paedophile who groomed, molested kids
>>11063143 The Nurse - Camille Bianchi True Crime podcast - james griffin: At work he was "Just Jim", but he was he hiding something? -
>>11099437 Tasmanian government investigating how alleged pedophile james griffin went undetected
>>11099561 Perth 'sex ring' members 'housed with victims in government care homes'
>>11185934 Royal Commission files reveal previously unseen details about abuse by priests in Newcastle
>>11185947 PDF: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Case Study No. 43: Catholic Church authorities in Maitland-Newcastle
>>11186473 Australian Border Force arrests man after seizing parts of 11 childlike sex dolls
>>11205423 Q Post #4915 - A deep dark world is being exposed. The truth won't be for everyone. Have faith in Humanity.
>>11207850 Remote human trafficking: Jessica Borten looks at how the human trafficking industry has continued online throughout the pandemic
#11099437 at 2020-10-16 06:27:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
>>11063089
Tasmanian government investigating how alleged pedophile james griffin went undetected
Alleged pedophile paediatric nurse james griffin has been condemned by the Premier who supported the Health Minister's calls for another investigation into how the abuse went undetected for 28 years.
When asked whether a formal inquiry would be forthcoming Premier Peter Gutwein said, "further steps will be considered in due course, following the completion of the review".
Health Minister Sarah Courtney labelled the allegations "absolutely appalling" and said she was disturbed by them.
When griffin was charged in October 2019 the Tasmanian Health Service stood him down and Ms Courtney said "an investigation was then undertaken".
"We are making sure that this matter is examined fully. I have asked the secretary to make sure that the matters around this both currently and historically are reexamined to ensure that Tasmanians can have confidence," Ms Courtney said.
"There is nothing more important than the safety of our children."
Ms Courtney said she had asked the health secretary to ensure the support offered to staff at the Launceston General Hospital was maximised.
"The secretary and I are committed to ensuring that these matters are taken extremely seriously," Ms Courtney said.
"Any patient or member of staff who has any concerns regarding a staff member's behaviour are encouraged to come forward, and I have been assured all matters will be properly examined and all appropriate support provided."
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmania branch secretary Emily Shepherd said the ANMF was unaware of the allegations until after griffin was deceased.
Ms Shepherd said the investigation was a positive step and was confident the investigation would restore the confidence of ANMF members and the public.
"The information I have from the secretary of health is there will be robust measures taken," Ms Shepherd said.
Labor spokeswoman Rebecca White said, "it is incredibly concerning that this behaviour continued for so long without it being properly investigated and this person being removed from the workplace".
National sexual assault support: 1800 RESPECT, Laurel House (03) 6334 2740 (Launceston), (03) 6431 9711 (Burnie and Devonport), Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS) on 1800 697 877.
https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6971107/investigation-but-no-inquiry-into-child-sex-allegations/
#11063143 at 2020-10-14 07:14:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #10 - INFORMATION WARFARE Edition
>>11063124
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A complaint has now been lodged with the Tasmanian Ombudsman, requesting that they review the Health Department's decision not to release documents - but that process may take up to 400 days on average.
The Department of Health has been contacted for comment.
THE COST OF SPEAKING UP
Despite these hurdles, the podcast has now been released and is expected to send shockwaves through Tasmania.
"For the nurses who are speaking up, their priority is that it never happens again and that all victims have support and opportunity to get redress," says Bianchi.
"They want it publicly known and acknowledged that the children in their care were exposed to a predator and they want answers, too.
"It sits heavily on them that a child may come back one day and say 'what did you do once you knew?' and they want to be able to answer that question'."
Bianchi says they are also risking their careers to do so: "In a small town there aren't many other employment prospects for them and they are very fearful."
For the survivors, of course, the potential cost is even higher.
"Not everyone in Launceston can accept that he was a monster or had that duality. These people's lives are all intertwined and it's a very painful process for people to come to terms with what's happened," says Bianchi.
"This makes the burden on survivors that much higher. They are weighing up the cost of silence and the cost of speaking. Sometimes it's not as clear cut as saying 'the truth will set you free', because in many cases the truth will add an extra burden of scrutiny and trauma and they are risking friendships and relationships by speaking out."
And yet, Keelie, Annette and others remain determined to speak.
They want other children and survivors of sexual abuse to feel less alone and to know that help is available and that the victim is never at fault.
"I think when I first started talking to police and my counsellor, that's when I realised he didn't assault me because of something I did," says Keelie.
"He did it because of how messed up he is and that has nothing to do with me. It was just the wrong place, wrong time, really. And I had no place to be blamed for it."
* Name changed.
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The Nurse - True Crime podcast
Camille Bianchi
In a quiet town in Tasmania, james griffin was the kind of person you would trust to look after your kids. As a paediatric nurse, netball medic and grandfatherly figure in the community, people trusted him.
At work he was "Just Jim", but he was he hiding something? If you have any information on this unfolding story contact thenursepodcast@gmail.com or Signal +61 437 639 211
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Comparing griffin's death to the alleged suicide of infamous paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Bianchi says she was determined to make a podcast to give the survivors their chance to be heard.
"He got to choose his way out. He got to have power over the outcome which is, once again, power over his victims too.
"There was too much 'unfinished business', and up until now, he's been able to write his own ending. This podcast is their day in court."
HOSPITAL REFUSES TO RELEASE MORE THAN 100 SECRET DOCUMENTS
Ordinarily, one might expect that the story of a paediatric nurse killing himself directly after being charged with molesting multiple children would make huge headlines around the country.
But even in a town ripe with gossip, the case has been all but hushed up.
"This is a story you don't know, unless you live in Launceston" says Bianchi, "and even then, it's been whispered to you in the pub, or passed only by word-of-mouth.
"People are scared. Scared to lose jobs. Scared to upset those who are covering up what's happened."
griffin was connected in various circles of power and the hospital has so far not co-operated with the investigation.
"Nothing about this has been straight forward. The story that was first brought to me was that these women wanted to speak and no media was interested or willing to touch it. People had tried, but it always fell over," says Bianchi.
"I'm not the first journalist to know about it. Multiple journalists do. But local media is often under-resourced and the ramifications of publishing something like this are very different in a small community where everyone knows each other, compared to a capital city.
"In regional media you can't burn your sources and when you start to call some of these big institutions to account and lay hefty allegations, or even just ask too many questions, you can put a target on your back.
"You can come under pressure from editors not to burn bridges because you'll be cutting off a future pipeline of information and stories, not just for yourself, but you may in fact be jeopardising your entire team's access to politicians and information."
Protecting an investigation against leaks is also extremely difficult in a small community, as probing questions have a way of tipping off subjects, and can even trigger defamation proceedings if the questions themselves are deemed libellous.
"If you don't know something and you're trying to firm it up in good faith you have to be very, very careful in how you do it," says Bianchi. "Many journalists tried to do this story, but it always ended up in the 'too hard' basket, because local newsrooms just don't have the bandwidth."
News.com.au and Bianchi have now both obtained the coroner's report and the original police charge sheet, but even that took months to obtain.
A further Freedom of Information request (known as Right to Information in Tasmania) has so far been completely blocked by Tasmania's Health Department.
The request was first submitted in April 2020. It asks for any information relating to complaints about james Geoffrey griffin, along with various other information.
The request yielded a schedule of 101 documents, but all 101 have been redacted with the department citing 'privacy concerns'.
However what that schedule of redacted documents does confirm, is that Launceston General Hospital was in receipt of complaints against griffin dating back to at least 2009. When Bianchi and news.com.au contacted the federal health watchdog, AHPRA, to determine whether the complaints were ever passed along to them, as required, that line of questioning revealed they had no record of the hospital ever having forwarded the 2009 complaint, or another complaint which had been lodged in 2017.
"This was a serial premeditated predator," says Bianchi. "james griffin planned how and when he could abuse young children - and put himself in the best possible situations to do it: he preyed on sick kids. I don't understand how or why complaints weren't forwarded, or why we are being stonewalled now.
"The victims want this information released. The public will want to know. It is most certainly in the public interest to release those 100 plus secret documents."
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'IT'S LIKE VOLDEMORT, YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO SAY HIS NAME'
On October 3 charges were laid. But then, 10 days later, griffin attempted to take his own life. He was found on October 14 in his home, sitting in a chair. There was paperwork and bills organised on his dining room table - as if he was putting his affairs in order - along with family photo albums and sealed letters addressed to his family containing cash.
But james griffin was not dead.
He'd threatened to kill himself earlier, even telling one victim he would "die before going to prison."
griffin was rushed to the same hospital where his own colleagues were required to try to revive him.
"Some had heard rumours by then," says podcast host Camille Bianchi "but most had no idea.
"A lot of the staff had been 'groomed' by him too. They'd seen him befriend patients on social media, or give them backrubs, or even carry naked little girls back from the shower. They might have raised an eyebrow, but he was so convincing: he was part of the furniture, a trusted friend, someone who made everyone believe he was just a 'father figure' willing to extend an extra arm of support to vulnerable families like single mums, or patients with mental health issues."
But they were also beginning to learn of the charges and the events which triggered his suicide attempt.
"How can you be that person and be so evil at the same time? I thought he was genuine," says one nurse on the condition of anonymity.
"He groomed a lot of us," says another. "I think he showed a different side of himself to different people."
And then, suddenly, he died.
On October 18 in Launceston General Hospital, griffin was pronounced dead. A coroner's report would later find that "when he took the drugs which caused his death he did so with the express intention of ending his own life voluntarily and alone. No doubt the charges he was facing at the time of his death motivated his action."
On Ward 4K though, nurses were in shock as gradually news of both the death and the charges began to leak out.
The whole ward was "genuinely traumatised", says Bianchi.
"They felt like they lost him twice. The day he died, and then the days later when they found out who he really was.
"They were grieving both Jims: the loss of the Jim they knew and the horror of the one they were just beginning to meet."
Speaking to Bianchi, one nurse commented: "It's like Voldemort, you aren't allowed to say his name".
HE ROBBED US OF OUR DAY IN COURT
Of course, the nurses weren't the only ones impacted.
"I didn't know how I was meant to feel or how I was allowed to feel," says Keelie.
"Jim was charged with indecent assault against me and then he died. That was it. It all just happened so quickly: it would have been within a month [of reporting and] it was over."
Keelie and the other survivors are now frustrated that the court system failed to hold him in jail or prevent him from taking the coward's way out.
"His suicide was a 'f*** you' to the victims and to the whole process," says Bianchi.
"He took the easy way out. He deprived his victims of their day in court and the chance to look their predator in the face and say 'this is how you hurt me'.
"These people - the ones he hurt as children, the ones who came forward and reported him to police - they were just beginning to find their voice and agency again. They had waited years. They wanted answers. But he was released by the courts without adequate supervision and now they will never get justice.
"There will be no answers, no resolution, no validation of their suffering. When he died the cogs of justice just creaked to a halt. It was 'case closed'."
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