Suffer The Little Children
Named after the man (retired magistrate Noel Oscar Heiner) who conducted it, the Heiner inquiry was a short-lived investigation into complaints about what was going on in a Brisbane Youth Detention Centre in late 1989 early 1990.
Short-lived because a new government shut it down within weeks of coming to power.
Not only that. The new government, we now know, regardless (and aware) of the fact that the material the inquiry had gathered was being sought for legal action , and that it included information about child abuse, had the whole lot shredded.
Thus the name "Shreddergate" was coined for this infamous episode in the history of the State of Queensland.
What we have discovered over the years that the Heiner Inquiry heard and knew is revealed through the links on this site.
The cover-up has survived principally because of the failure of journalists to do the job they claim they do.
Other interests, or pressures, influenced them to look the other way.
The Shredding
