AUSTRALIA
The Australian
December 11, 2017
By John Ferguson
The states and churches will be told to sign up to the commonwealth’s $4 billion sex abuse redress scheme this week as the royal commission hands down a landmark final report that will back overhauling the way offending against children is handled.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter said yesterday he was hopeful the states and institutions would sign up “in the not-too-distant future’’ and that as many as possible would agree to opt in to the national scheme.
The royal commission will hand its final report to the Governor-General on Friday, but a formal government response will probably not be known for months. The government has not announced when the report will be made public, but when that happens there will be immense pressure applied to the states and institutions to sign up to provide victims with another layer of financial and counselling support.
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