AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Amy Remeikis
Social Services Minister Christian Porter has begun the delicate job of convincing the states and other groups to join a Commonwealth scheme designed to compensate survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.
Mr Porter will sit down with attorneys-general from across the nation in Melbourne on Friday to discuss the scheme in the first step towards convincing the states and territories to join it.
Separate meetings will be held with leaders of churches, charities and other non-government institutions as part of the same mission, with the government hoping for a “nationally consistent approach” to compensating about 60,000 survivors, which has been estimated to cost about $4 billion.
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