Commissioner Marcia Neave says evidence to be presented at first inquiry of its type will be confronting and distressing,and warns there is a large task ahead Australia’s first royal commission into family violence should become symbolic of the moment when “society committed itself to overcoming this vile social ill”, Justice Marcia Neave said in her opening address.
A minute’s silence to acknowledge those who had been killed or harmed as a result of family violence was held before the hearings of Victoria’s royal commission began on Monday in Melbournes primitive coroner’s court.
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Source: theguardian.com