AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Rick Morton
From:The Australian
January 14, 2013
THE royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse will be “the most expensive in the history of royal commissions”, according to a key member of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s review into minimising costs of public inquiries in Australia.
Scott Prasser, the executive director of the Australian Catholic University’s Public Policy Institute and member of the ALRC reference committee during its 2009 review of inquiry expenses, said the abuse commission would cost “at least $100 million”.
“The most expensive royal commission to date was the Howard government inquiry into the building and construction industry, which ran for 18 months from 2001 and cost $60 million then,” he told The Australian.
“It had a much narrower scope compared to the current commission, which has six commissioners and is scheduled to run for three years. It’s going to cost the community a lot of money.”
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