The facts are that the vast majority of sexual abuse of children is perpetrated by family members or persons known to the family. The Royal Commission into Institutionalised Child Sexual Abuse highlighted that a large number of cases happened in private boarding schools. In particular, the Commission revealed that the greatest number of cover ups and failure to report incidents occurred in these schools.

Schools have to follow strict mandatory reporting rules when it comes to cases of suspected sexual assault. It is obvious that many private schools have not followed these requirements in the past.

Recent reports involving St Kevin's in Melbourne, and the attempts to have a principal of a Jewish Girls' school extradited from Israel for sexual abuse of female students highlight this.

It is hard enough to get young, talented male teachers to work in primary schools, and stay in the profession when community members have negative, ill-informed perceptions about their reasons for teaching.

In relation to the High Court decision, George Pell has been accused of ignoring complaints against members of his clergy. The High Court found that there was "reasonable doubt" in the jury verdict. They did not say he was innocent nor did they call Witness "J" a liar. It will be interesting if we ever get to see the Royal Commission documents in relation to George Pell that were repressed during the trial. The great sadness is that this verdict will discourage victims coming forward in future.

I read with great concern (The Border Mail, April 13) about the Melbourne Storm eyeing off Albury as a possible training base location ahead of NRL restart.

The NSW Health Department must take a tough stand here and say no. If not, we could quite easily get a surge of COVID-19 cases on the Border.

I know life has been tough but just wait until things have subsided. If not we will go back to square one. I love my NRL and other sporting codes but now is not the time to be playing NRL or AFL with or without fans.

I would like people to stop complaining about the rules we have to follow. Yes it is annoying, yes it is a pain, yes it can be confusing why some of the rules are in place. But under the circumstances the government is doing a great job.

There are so many layers in the different sectors eg. health, work, unemployment, education and leisure, it would be very difficult to address all the different issues in each of these sectors.

So just hang in there and do the right thing and accept what is and hopefully we will get through this and life will go on.

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