Secretive system doesn't bear scrutiny
ACCORDING to Oscar Wilde, the cynic "knows the price of everything and the value of nothing". Even Wilde's talents would have been stretched to describe a situation where neither the price nor the value appear to be of any consequence, especially when the subject is the protection of children.
This week we established the staggering price Australia pays for child abuse and child protection: the conservative estimate by Access Economics is that the cost of child abuse in 2007 was $10.7 billion but could be as high as $30.1 billion.
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