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ABC News
ANALYSIS
By Paul Kennedy
Survivors of child sexual assault and cover-ups are watching with familiar trepidation the making of an unprecedented national redress scheme.
The Government does not yet know how many states or institutions will opt into its proposed model for victims unable to find justice through common law.
The only certainty is a limit on payments.
Attorney-General George Brandis and Social Services Minister Christian Porter have already defied part of an expert recommendation from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
In 2015, the royal commission found negligent institutions should make “modest monetary payments as a tangible means of recognising the wrong survivors have suffered”. It estimated 60,000 survivors would be eligible to make a claim under a $4.3 billion scheme.
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