AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
March 15, 2016
Jane Lee
Legal affairs, health and science reporter
Child sexual abuse survivors have joined the Catholic Church to call on the Turnbull government to commit to a national redress scheme, fearing they will receive different levels of compensation, depending on where they were abused, through state-run schemes.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last year recommended the federal government establish a single national redress scheme for 60,000 survivors, which it said was “the most effective structure for ensuring justice for survivors” and the most cost-efficient model. The “next-best option” was for state and territory governments to run their own schemes, it said.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter told Parliament earlier this month that the government was working on a nationally consistent approach for state and territory schemes. This was because a single national scheme would require all states and territories to agree to it and South Australia had already indicated it did not.
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