AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail

By ANEETA BHOLE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA and AAP

Abuse survivors angry at the government’s failure to implement a national independent redress scheme have protested outside the Liberal Party headquarters in Victoria.

Survivors protested outside the Victoria Liberal Party headquarters in Exhibition Street in Melbourne’s city centre at 11am on Monday.

A national redress scheme would allow victims to ‘be heard’ and gain counselling, receive an apology from the responsible institution and a monetary payment determined by the severity of the abuse.

Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) executive Leonie Sheedy said child abuse survivors were hurt and angry at the federal government for ignoring the main recommendation of the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The commission recommended a national scheme run by an independent panel as the best way to deliver justice for people still suffering as a consequences of childhood abuse.