AUSTRALIA
news.com.au
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Lucy Hughes Jones
Australian Associated Press
Former child residents who suffered years of abuse at a Northern Territory Aboriginal children’s home have become the first group in Australia to win compensation from the federal government following evidence at the sex abuse royal commission.
The 71 former residents of Darwin’s Retta Dixon home, who alleged physical and sexual assaults by staff between 1946 and 1980, launched a civil lawsuit in 2015 against a convicted paedophile, the Commonwealth and the religious group that ran the home.
“It is hoped that the settlement of this claim will enable those who suffered to reach a form of closure on this period of their lives,” a spokesperson for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet said.
The home for stolen generation children was run by Australian Indigenous Ministries and overseen by the federal government.
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