AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Friday 1 April 2016
Survivors of abuse in Salvation Army institutions plan to protest outside the hotel where the prime minister’s wife will launch the Salvos’ annual Red Shield Appeal.
Former Sydney lord mayor Lucy Turnbull will launch the charity’s major annual fundraising drive at the Westin Hotel in Sydney’s Martin Place on Wednesday 6 April at an event attended by NSW premier Mike Baird and other high-profile supporters of the Salvation Army.
Child sex abuse survivors’ support organisation Care Leavers Australia Network (Clan) announced on Friday it would hold a silent protest outside the hotel to draw attention to the Salvos’ failure to fully back a national redress scheme for abuse survivors.
Clan executive Leonie Sheedy says there is great sadness that “the wife of Clan patron prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is launching the Red Shield appeal while we are still waiting for a firm commitment from the Salvation Army” on a national redress scheme.
Clan represents hundreds of people who were physically and sexually abused as children when they were housed in now notorious institutions such as the Riverview training farm in Queensland, where boys were allegedly locked in a cage and made to eat food donated by townspeople for animals.
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