AUSTRALIA
9 News
Australia is one step closer to a national redress scheme for thousands of survivors of sexual abuse in state-run and other institutions.
Victoria and NSW have joined faith-based institutions, including the Catholic Church and the Salvation Army, in backing the recommendation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for a national approach to compensating victims.
The urgent need for such a national scheme was emphasised on Thursday by royal commission chairman Peter McClellan.
Justice McClellan told an international conference of sex-abuse treatment experts that extensive research and engagement with abuse survivors had led commissioners to decide “all previous responses (schemes) have been inadequate”.
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