Australian Anglican leader Archbishop Philip Aspinall has backed a cut in the budget of the body charged with handling sexual abuse matters in his own diocese.
The Brisbane diocese’s annual parliament, or synod, will meet this weekend to approve the church’s budget for 2009.
Budget papers show the diocese’s professional standards unit will take a 30 per cent cut, from $195,000 to $135,000, in 2009 despite ongoing public concern over the church’s handling of sexual abuse.
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