Bindoon Boys Town: it sounded like an adventure camp to the pale-faced youngsters who emerged blinking into the sunlight at Fremantle, in Western Australia, after their six-month voyage from ...

Last week, in preparation for his testimony to the royal commission, feisty Welshman Gordon Grant took a trip to Karrakatta cemetery with another of the "old boys" of Christian Brothers homes.

For five years he was brutally raped, beaten and emotionally abused by 10 brothers at Bindoon boys home during the 1940s. Yet it was the after-effects of that abuse that he sees as being the most ...

Of those 196 related to abuse at the four WA boys’ homes and around $3.34 million was paid to those victims. This resulted in an average of $36,700 being paid to each individual.

BOYS as young as five were raped, tortured and emotionally abused for decades at four Christian Brother’s homes in WA, a national inquiry into child sex abuse will hear on Monday.