Article-Report Quashes Any Hope
The Saturday Mercury | 13 April 2024; pg 8.
Report Quashes any Hope
David Killick
The findings in the Blake Report, released on Friday, had done little to restore hope to victim-survivors and children’s advocates, Ashley
Detenton Centre whistleblower Alysha told the Mercury.
“The Blake review came as a shock. Not because it’s different to anything that’s come before, rather it is exactly like what has come before,” Alysha said.
“The days of whitewashed reviews to protect senior bureaucrats … were supposed to be over by now. We were meant to be resting now, knowing the state is forever changed and safer for all children.
“Those of us foolish enough to have any hope left are heartbroken again to see in the Blake review yet another example of what counsel assisting the Commission of Inquiry Liz Bennett so aptly called ‘an astonishing lack of curiosity’, complete with watery reasoning, an obvious gap in the information provided to him and inexplicable blind trust in those entirely undeserving of it.”
Legislative Council representative Meg Webb said the report raised more questions than it answered.
“It is telling that the bulk of Mr Blake’s recommendations point to the need to strengthen and boost the public sector’s governance and
accountability.”
