Note: ASA submissions to Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, 2012-2016

摘要

In last year's volume of Archives and Manuscripts (Vol. 43, 2015), two articles were published on the topic of child sexual abuse and recordkeeping. Kim Eberhard's article, 'Unresolved Issues: Recordkeeping Recommendations Arising from Australian Commissions of Inquiry into the Welfare of Children in Out-of-Home Care, 1997-2012', appeared in issue 1 of 2015. Viviane Hessami's article, 'Recordkeeping Issues Arising from the Public Hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse', was published in issue 3 of 2015. Both articles made observations, in slightly different ways, about the visibility and participation of the archival profession, and of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) in particular, within the current and past inquiries relating to these issues.