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A national $4.3 billion redress scheme run by the federal government is the best option to provide justice for child abuse survivors, a royal commission says.
In a report published on Monday the child abuse royal commission made final recommendations for a national scheme, to cover compensation and ongoing support for more than 60,000 abuse victims.
Even though its preferred scheme – one administered by the federal government – was resolutely opposed by Canberra earlier in the year, the commission said on Monday it was the best way forward.
Under that scheme, which would be funded by the churches, schools, charities and other government and non-government institutions where children were abused, survivors would be entitled to payments between $10,000 and $200,000.
And if the institutions could not pay, federal and state governments should come up with the money, as funders of last resort so that all survivors were treated equally.
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