Description: This was the website of Australian human rights activist and social commentator Mr Lewis Blayse (born Lewin Blazevich), who blogged here mainly in 2013. Lewis was born on 10 December (a date also celebrated internationally as International Human Rights Day) in 1949 in Australia, one year after Australia became an original signatory to the Universal…
This was the website of Australian human rights activist and social commentator Mr Lewis Blayse (born Lewin Blazevich), who blogged here mainly in 2013. Lewis was born on 10 December (a date also celebrated internationally as International Human Rights Day ) in 1949 in Australia, one year after Australia became an original signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Lewis died overnight on the 31st of January / 1st of February 2014 at his home in Benarkin , in Queensland, Australia. At the end o
Lewis was aligned with no organisation or political party, although he was briefly a member of the Australian Labor Party, which he left in the 1970s after involvement in Federal and State Australian politics, and he also founded and ran the support group called Formerly In Children’s Homes in the early 1990s before disbanding it in preference for independent advocacy and activism on behalf of the rights of the child and the adult survivor of child abuse.
Lewis was inspired to start this blog upon hearing the 2012 announcement of the planned Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. His youngest child, Julia (1988 to 2022), had blogged anonymously for the benefit of other survivors of internet child sexual abusers and child sexual abuse some years earlier while still a child, and when Lewis learned of her efforts and the greater ability of blogging to reach readers than print media or even email, he was convinced of the