AUSTRALIA
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
June 15, 2018
By Iskhandar Razak
People who survived horrific child abuse in institutions will not get the justice and compensation they deserve under the national redress scheme because it only focuses on sexual crime, long-time campaigner Leonie Sheedy has said.
Victorian Attorney-General Martin Pakula announced the Andrews Government had committed up to $600 million to the redress scheme over the next decade for Victorian abuse survivors.
He said it was expected something in the order of 5,000 people were likely to come forward and seek compensation.
All the states and territories have committed to the redress scheme recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to compensate people who were sexually abused in state institutions.
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