AUSTRALIA
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
June 18, 2018
By Airlie Ward
Groups representing survivors of child sexual abuse say the Federal Government’s redress scheme is fundamentally flawed and should be rejected by the Senate.
Beyond Abuse, and Survivors and Friends, have written an open letter to senators, who will begin debating the bill this afternoon, urging them to reject it in its current form.
All the states and territories, along with the Catholic Church, Scouts Australia, the Salvation Army, YMCA Australia and the Anglican Church, have committed to the redress scheme recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to compensate people who were sexually abused in state institutions.
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