A COUPLE of years ago the ABC aired a series called Crownies. It was a dramatisation of the lives of people who worked in the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office and Director of Public Prosecutions. The show depicted them as fearless advocates for the forgotten and downtrodden of this world.
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The true ethos and modus operandi of this organisation was revealed last week before the Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse.
Children at the Bethear home for Aboriginal children at Brewarrina were bashed and raped from a very young age. They sued the NSW government, which ran the home, after the Crown Solicitor’s Office ran a successful case against the home’s supervisors Burt and Edith Gordon. I think Burt Gordon is still in jail, where he belongs.
Despite this, the Crown Solicitor’s Office spent $930,000 in a five-year campaign to fight the case and deny the victims any compensation. No thanks to the “Crownies” the children won through. The total bill to the taxpayers was $2,170,000 plus more than $1 million in damages to the children.
Now wonder there’s not enough money to save the children of this state. Hang your heads in shame, Mike, Barry, Kristina, Pru and Gabrielle.
P. Hancock,
Nowra
