AUSTRALIA
ABC News
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The head of the Attorney-General’s Department has rejected claims that funding has been taken from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to give to the home insulation royal commission.
The child sexual abuse royal commission is operating on a budget of $377 million until mid-2016.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described it as “the best-funded royal commission in Australia’s history”.
Documents provided to the Senate have shown that late last year, $6.7 million was redirected from the child abuse inquiry and put towards the home insulation royal commission.
Labor frontbencher Mark Dreyfus had demanded the Government explain “what they’ve done by taking funding away”.
“We need to know that this Government is standing fully behind the royal commission,” he said.
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