May 28, 2025 - The Honourable EP Mullighan QC began his role as Commissioner role in December 2004. During the Inquiry 792 people sat with Commissioner Mullighan and told of incidents of child sexual abuse. These hearings identified 1592 allegations dating from the 1930s to the early 2000s.

You’d all be aware that the South Australian Government has just received a major report, the Mullighan Committee of Inquiry Report on sexual abuse in the APY Lands in South Australia. The South Australian Premier has just tabled the report in the South Australian parliament.

Capturing public attention in the past two months has been the release of the report from the Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (the Mullighan Inquiry). It has drawn renewed focus on past abuses of South Australian children.

April 7, 2024 - Edward Picton "Ted" Mullighan, QC (25 March 1939 – 15 September 2011) was an Australian judge who was known as an Indigenous rights advocate and protecting vulnerable people. He was known for his role as Commissioner of the Government of South Australia' Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (the Mullighan Inquiry) from 2004 to 2008.

James, C., 'Mullighan report reveals decades of state care sex abuse' in The Advertiser, 1 April 2008. Also available at http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/shocking-sex-abuse-revealed/story-e6frea83-1111115941363. Details · 'Ted Mulligan's report finds abuse is high, reporting low' in The Australian, 1 April 2008.

Commissioner Ted Mullighan QC led the associated inquiry which included 1592 allegations of sexual abuse and the investigation of the deaths of 924 children in state care. Priscilla Taylor shares a photo of her (first on the left) on the steps of South Australia’s Parliament House, participating ...

Commissioner Ted Mullighan QC led the associated inquiry which included 1592 allegations of sexual abuse and the investigation of the deaths of 924 children in state care. Priscilla Taylor shares a photo of her (first on the left) on the steps of South Australia’s Parliament House, participating ...

The South Australian Labor Party suppressed the names of over 700 child sex abusers listed in the Mullighan Inquiry released in 2008 for 80 years. THE horrific extent of sex abuse against children in state care over four decades has been revealed in the 600-page report of the Mullighan inquiry ...

October 15, 2008 - Victims of child abuse who gave ... Ted Mullighan released his report in April, finding that 242 children in state care in South Australia had been abused....

The Mulligan Inquiry or (Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry) was a three-year inquiry into the abuse of children in the care of the South Australian Government that started in November 2004, at a cost of 13.5 million dollars.

report of the South Australian Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (the Mullighan

April 27, 2020 - The Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (the Mullighan Inquiry) was established in November 2004 to investigate allegations of sexual abuse and death from criminal misconduct of children in State care. The Hon Ted Mullighan, QC, former justice of the Supreme Court, was appointed as ...

On 1 April 2008, the South Australian Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry report was tabled in State Parliament. Commissioner Ted Mullighan QC led the associated inquiry which included 1592 allegations of sexual abuse and the investigation of the deaths of 924 children in state care. The ...

September 21, 2011 - Former South Australian Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan, who conducted a landmark inquiry into the abuse of children in state care, has died.

December 6, 2023 - The Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of Sexual Abuse and Death from Criminal Misconduct—better known as the Mullighan Inquiry after its Chief Commissioner, Ted Mullighan—was presented to the South Australian Government in March 2008 after four years of hearings.

April 1, 2008 - The South Australian Government says it will make a formal apology to victims of child sexual abuse, as a result of the wide-reaching Mullighan inquiry.

January 29, 2016 - The Mullighan Inquiry or Mullighan Royal Commission was a three-year inquiry into the abuse of children in the care of the South Australian Government that started in November 2004, at a cost of 13.5 million dollars.

The Inquiry could not determine if a further 17 witnesses · were in State care at the time of their alleged abuse. This · was due to either a lack of records or uncertainty about the · legality of placements due to the historical actions of the · Aborigines Protection Board in placing children contrary to · legislation, as found by the Supreme Court in Trevorrow v. State of South Australia (No 5) (2007).

"The cause of the ignition was the firing of an explosion either accidentally or otherwise on top of a large block of fallen machine cut coal, such ...

Brisbane, Friday.—At the Mt. Mulligan Disaster Inquiry Mine Inspectors Oswald Williams (Chillagoe) Ernest Laun (Ch. Towers) ...