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Speaker 1: So a Gloria Vale leader made a public apology yesterday

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Speaker 1: for the historic abuse that happened at Gloria Vale. Overseeing

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Speaker 1: Shepherd Howard Temple acknowledged that abuse happened in Gloria Vale

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Speaker 1: between nineteen fifty and nineteen ninety nine. Why did this happen? Well?

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Speaker 1: The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historic Abuse in Care

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Speaker 1: asked Gloria Vale to apologize to its members back in July.

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Speaker 1: Here we are in January. They finally got around to it.

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Speaker 1: John Reddy was expelled from Gloria Vale in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: and John joins me. Now hoo, John, Hello, Andrew, is

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Speaker 1: this apology sincere?

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Speaker 2: I don't believe. So it's pretty clear that it's not

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Speaker 2: particularly like the time stamp nineteen fifty to nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: nine leaves out the majority of the abuse from two

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Speaker 2: thousand to the present day twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, exactly how well were you there after nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety nine?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I was twenty one in nineteen ninety nine and

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Speaker 2: I left on the twenty fourth of December twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, So there's eighteen years and you're saying

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Speaker 1: there was abuse there, so yeah, yeah, so why was

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Speaker 1: there a timestamp? Do you know?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I was pondering that last night when

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Speaker 2: I read the apology, which made me relatively livid, to

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Speaker 2: be fair, just their complete lack of understanding of the

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Speaker 2: sort of carnage that they've had in people's lives and

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Speaker 2: left behind them under their leadership and mentorship. And that's

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Speaker 2: putting it nicely, because it's actually under their troll, like

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Speaker 2: their complete control.

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Speaker 1: Always has been. He also says, the glory of our

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Speaker 1: this is how Temple now says. Gloria Vale provides abuse awareness,

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Speaker 1: prevention training and a set of a page on its

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Speaker 1: website to report abuse. Has it and is that enough?

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Speaker 2: I just think it's completely empty words. They don't believe

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Speaker 2: or understand the type of abuse that they've done and

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Speaker 2: the effect that they've had on people's lives, and they

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Speaker 2: just sort of, I mean, they've been forced to make

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Speaker 2: an apology. I mean that kind of tells you everything

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Speaker 2: you need to know about the apology.

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Speaker 1: Johnny, you're good.

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Speaker 2: Now, am I good? How do you mean by that?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, after your experience and what you've been through,

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Speaker 1: you know obviously has an impact and you're out and

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Speaker 1: you were expelled and now you've got a new life.

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Speaker 1: Are you good?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm much better, that's for real. But there is

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Speaker 2: a lot of there's a lot to work through, and

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Speaker 2: it's very difficult to come out of an organization that

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Speaker 2: you were born into and then at forty years old

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Speaker 2: to go you know, there's some with this, and then

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Speaker 2: to come out and then start a process because I

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Speaker 2: got involved in a court case for one of my

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Speaker 2: family members immediately to try and get some a justice

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Speaker 2: for her. And it all started from that date, like

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Speaker 2: seven years ago, that's when this all started happening.

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Speaker 1: Well, mate, you know that we always you're the very

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Speaker 1: best of luck as a head forward, and thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for your bravery and talking to us today

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Speaker 1: as John Ready former Gloria l Man.

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