AUSTRALIA
ABC – The World Today
ELEANOR HALL: Labor and the Greens are demanding to know why the Federal Government has taken millions of dollars out of the budget for the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission.
The Government has redirected that money into the Royal Commission into the Rudd government’s home insulation scheme.
From Parliament House, James Glenday reports.
JAMES GLENDAY: Harrowing and at times horrific testimony of victims has been the feature of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
But there are fears those in charge may not have enough money to complete their jobs properly.
ADAM BANDT: It seems the Government’s prepared to play politics with anything.
JAMES GLENDAY: Greens spokesman Adam Bandt and shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus say they’re alarmed by an Abbott Government decision to redirect millions from the inquiry into the Royal Commission into the Rudd government’s problem plagued home insulation program.
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