The Royal Commission regularly releases issues and consultation papers on topics of interest to its work and recommendations. Organisations and individuals from across Australia are given the opportunity to provide their opinions and expertise to these issues papers in an open forum.
The Council has made submissions to all the issues papers after wide consultation with relevant people and bodies within the Catholic community and is among just a handful of institutions to have made submissions on all issues papers.
TJHC submission to Royal Commission discussion paper: Strengthening Information Sharing ArrangementsApril 2017
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 11: Then and Now - Catholic Church Authorities29 December 2016Royal Commission Issues Paper 11, Catholic Church Final Hearing
TJHC submission in response to Consultation Paper: Records and Recordkeeping21 November 2016Royal Commission Consultation Paper
TJHC submission in response to Consultation Paper: Criminal Justice14 November 2016Royal Commission Consultation Paper
TJHC submission in response to Consultation Paper: Institutional responses to child sex abuse in out-of-home care31 August 2016Royal Commission Consultation Paper
TJHC submission in response to Consultation Paper: Best Practice Principles in responding to complaints of child sexual abuse in institutions 28 August 2016Royal Commission Consultation Paper
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 10: Advocacy and Therapeutic Treatment Services26 May 2016Royal Commission Issues Paper No 10
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 9: Addressing the risk of child sexual abuse in primary and secondary school18 September 2015Royal Commission Issues Paper No 9
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 8: Police and Prosecution responses27 August 2015Royal Commission Issues Paper No 8
TJHC submission to Redress and Civil Litigation Consultation Paper16 March 2015Royal Commission Consultation paper
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 7: Statutory Victims of Crime Compensation Schemes2 October 2014Royal Commission Issues Paper No 7
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 6: Redress Schemes11 August 2014Royal Commission Issues Paper No 6
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 5: Civil Litigation15 April 2014Royal Commission Issues Paper No 5
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 4: Preventing Sexual Abuse of Children in Out of Home Care15 November 2013Royal Commission Issues Paper No 4
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 3: Child Safe Institutions11 October 2013Royal Commission Issues Paper No 3
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper 2: Towards Healing30 September 2013Royal Commission Issues Paper No 2
TJHC submission in response to Issues Paper No. 1: Working with Children Check12 August 2013Royal Commission Issues Paper No 1
The Council concluded its work on 30 April 2018 and is no longer distributing any material about its work.