The Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994 provided that sexual conduct involving only consenting adults (18 years or over) acting in private would not be subject to arbitrary interference by law enforcement. This applies to any law of the Commonwealth, State or Territory
yet sexual abuse of children has been going on way before homosexuality was decriminalised
The Christian Brothers have told Victoria's child abuse inquiry the extraordinary level of child sexual abuse in Ballarat in the early 1970s was an accident of history
