The best place to put all those tiny shoes is in a constitutional locker

WHY is there suddenly all this talk about changing the constitution where children are concerned?

The leader of the Green party announced last week that the time had come for a change, and he wasn’t alone. More or less every member of the Government has indicated support for change even if, up to now, none of them seemed to be in too much of a hurry.

The thing that has introduced the sense of urgency is the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse. That report revealed to us all that the abuse of children was wholesale throughout most of the history of the state.