AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Exclusive by Jane Bardon, National Reporting Team
Former residents of a church-run home for Indigenous Stolen Generation children in Darwin have moved a step closer to becoming the first group to gain compensation from the Federal Government after giving evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Eighty-five Retta Dixon Home residents launched a class action in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in September 2015 to try to gain redress for years of horrific sexual and physical abuse.
The case has now been put on hold because the Commonwealth has agreed to go into mediation.
Bill Piper is the residents’ solicitor.
“The Commonwealth have been proposing the mediation at this point, which is a very positive thing, because it’s consistent with a party to an action that is acting in good faith and wanting to try and resolve it,” he said.
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