Adopt Irish Sex Abuse Compensation Fund, Victims Advocates Urge

By Stuart Rintoul
The Australian
November 21, 2012

www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/adopt-irish-sex-abuse-compensation-fund-victims-advocates-urge/story-fngburq5-1226521097166

VICTIMS advocates have called for the federal government to be centrally involved in administering a sex abuse compensation fund, similar to Ireland's, even though Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says compensation is not the government's prime focus.

Helen Last, director of clergy abuse advocates In Good Faith, said compensation was a vexed area because of the arbitrary response of the churches to compensation claims.