Abuse inquiry funds batts inquiry

AUSTRALIA
Business Spectator

The Abbott government shifted $4 million in unspent money from the child sexual abuse royal commission to the inquiry into a Labor government home insulation program.

The royal commission into the stimulus program, which led to four deaths, began just before Christmas.

It heard from former prime minister Kevin Rudd and his former ministers Peter Garrett, Greg Combet and Mark Arbib earlier in May.

Now the Attorney-General’s Department has revealed $4 million of funding for the 18-month-old Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was redirected to the insulation royal commission.

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