AUSTRALIA
The Australian
THE Abbott government insists the royal commission into child sex abuse has sufficient funds, despite some of its funding being funnelled into the home insulation inquiry.
The attorney-general’s department has revealed $4 million was redirected to the “pink batts’’ royal commission.
But the government says the amount came from ”savings’’ in the department’s capital budget and from money allocated but not used by the child abuse royal commission for witness legal costs.
“The royal commission will have sufficient funding to complete its inquiry,’’ a spokesman for Attorney-General George Brandis said.
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