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	Church Mulls Funding Abuse Compensation Claims ABC [Australia] October 2, 2006 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1753559.htm The Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, Jeffrey Driver, says asset sales, levies and redundancies will be needed to heal the church as well as the victims of sexual abuse. The measures will be put to the Synod in Adelaide later this month, as it considers how it can pay compensation claims against the church. Mr Driver says a 1 per cent levy on individual parishes allows them to be symbolically involved in compensating the victims. "I want to make it absolutely clear as we look at these issues that the cuts and changes are the responsibility of those who've abused the sacred trust in the church and also perhaps to some extent, with the church itself for responding too slowly to their needs," he said.
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