AUSTRALIA
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Premier Colin Barnett thinks the royal commission into child sex abuse may lead to a compensation bill of $2 billion or more.
State premiers met in Canberra today, ahead of a Council of Australian Government meeting on Friday.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill flagged a State leader’s discussion of the terms of reference for the inquiry with Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
“The outcome can’t be another set of volumes with a million recommendations to sit on a shelf gathering dust,” he said, referring to a South Australian Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry.
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