AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Emily Bourke
Advocates for survivors of child sexual abuse are ramping up their campaign for a national redress scheme ahead of this weekend’s federal election.
The establishment of a national redress scheme was a key recommendation handed down by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The Commission stated that a national redress scheme could help compensate 60,000 child abuse victims.
But one of the peak organisations representing abuse victims has said only the Greens and Labor parties have put forward any funding commitments for such a scheme.
The Coalition has said it supports a national, consistent approach as recommended by the Royal Commission, but has not yet made any formal funding commitment.
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