28/09/2026
29 KIDS. ONE TRAINING CENTRE. DECADES OF SILENCE.
A 73-year-old man has been charged with 55 offences involving 29 alleged victims, linked to the old Magill Training Centre in Adelaide — offending alleged to have happened from the late 1970s through to the early 2000s (Seven News, link below).
I’ve been down to Mobilong and Port Augusta prisons myself and sat with a lot of the men who told me what they went through at that training centre — it’s had a few different names over the years, but it’s the same place. I’m a survivor myself, of a different youth jail up in Queensland. So this one hits close.
Reports are saying a lot of First Nations kids were affected. But this stuff doesn’t discriminate — it’s happened to white fellas, kids from remote communities, Islander fellas too. Anyone in that system was at risk.
He’s on a suppression order. Honestly, with this many charges, I don’t understand why his name is protected when survivors have carried theirs for twenty years. But at least charges have been laid. For a lot of survivors, that actually matters — even though it’s rarely ever about the money. It’s about accountability, and about policies actually changing so this stops happening.
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Massive respect to the survivors who’ve spoken up, and the others doing the same right now. This is how real change gets made. Shoutout to my team, who’ve sat on calls with so many people affected in these homes — men and women both — and to the other advocates, lawyers and firms pushing for the same thing.
If you’ve been affected by institutional SA in any home or facility, you don’t have to suffer in silence.
If you’ve been through something like this, have a yarn with me — link below, or tap the link in our bio if it’s not clickable here: abouttimeforjustice.com
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Full story via Seven News:
7news.com.au/news/man-linked-to-adelaide-youth-detention-centre-accused-of-abusing-29-children-over-two-decades…