ANALYSIS: With lawsuits looming and survivors speaking up, Australian cricket is slowly confronting historical sexual abuse
Of greatest import, Thornton was asked whether Cricket Australia's assistance with its Redress membership indicated that it would also help Cricket ACT fund potentially costly civil litigation pay-outs.Thornton was not in the employ of Cricket ACT at the time of King's crimes. She has inherited problems without easy solutions.
The centrepiece of Cricket ACT's recent centenary-year rebrand was a logo featuring the gang-gang cockatoo."The gang-gang is humble in its approach, loyal to its flock and finds strength in numbers by flying together to achieve a common goal," a Cricket ACT press release said. "The courts will decide the outcome regardless of how Cricket ACT and Cricket Australia conduct themselves and what they say, so why not just be human and pledge to do whatever they can to understand our problems before they compensate survivors and help them move forward?
"I'd be more than happy for them to come along to my next electro-convulsive therapy session or perhaps spend a day in the psych ward with me.
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