AUSTRALIA
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
December 14, 2017
By Samantha Donovan
In 2015, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommended a national redress scheme for victims of institutional child sexual abuse be up and running by mid-2017 “at the latest”.
But the $4 billion scheme is still not in place.
The Federal Government has introduced a bill into Parliament, but the states and territories are reluctant to sign up to the proposed scheme.
And the major institutions which will pay the compensation to survivors are waiting to see what the states do.
Which leaves around 60,000 Australians anxiously waiting for their chance to apply for compensation.
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