AUSTRALIA
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COUNSELLING, individual payments and the opportunity for survivors to tell their story will be available under a new Commonwealth Government scheme to compensate survivors of child sex abuse.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter announced the Commonwealth Redress Scheme on Friday.
The scheme would invite state governments and institutions to “opt-in” to the scheme on the basis that the entity found to be responsible — whether it be church, institution, charity or government — would compensate the individual survivors.
Survivors could seek a maximum payment of $150,000 for the sexual abuse they suffered as children.
The Minister said a guiding principal would be to try to avoid survivors being re-traumatised by telling their stories as they applied to the scheme.
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