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Appraising the Royal Commission Report into Sexual Abuse and Religious Organizations
Sponsored by Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture and Religions for Peace Australia
by Emeritus Professor Desmond Cahill OAM
Senior consultant on the Catholic Church to the Royal Commission on Sexual Abuse and Religious Organizations from 2015-2017.
Educated in Australia and Italy, Desmond Cahill, Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Studies at RMIT University, is one of Australia's leading social researchers. In 2006, he was made an honorary fellow of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders for his work in immigrant, cross-cultural, interfaith and international education. He currently chairs the Religions for Peace (Australia), and represents Australia on the Asian Conference of Religion and Peace (ACRP). He led Melbourne's successful bid to stage the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions, the world's largest interfaith gathering, and was its Melbourne Program Director. A member of the Australian Partnership of Religious Organizations (APRO) and of the Victoria Police Multifaith Council, he is a Club Melbourne Ambassador as part of the “Think Melbourne, Think Victoria” strategy of the Victorian Government.
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