Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s inquiry into the state’s child protection regime needs to revisit and address past historic abuse as well as present day problems, according to a researcher from The Australian National University.
Dr Adele Chynoweth, a Visiting Academic in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, has been working with women who, as children, were sent to the notorious Wolston Park Hospital in Brisbane.
Dr Chynoweth said that teenage residents at Wolston Park were denied an education and were drugged, subjected to shock treatment and sexually assaulted.
