Survivors of child sexual abuse will band together to force Australian governments to back a national compensation scheme. The
opening day of a three-day hearing into redress for thousands of people
who were abused as children in institutions heard the federal
government had rejected a proposal for a national scheme.
The knock-back was described as disappointing by Peter McClellan, the chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Nicky Davis, who heads up the Australian branch of the international advocacy group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, claimed the federal and state governments were telling survivors to "suffer in silence".
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The knock-back was described as disappointing by Peter McClellan, the chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Nicky Davis, who heads up the Australian branch of the international advocacy group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, claimed the federal and state governments were telling survivors to "suffer in silence".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-3009700/Abuse-redress-hearing-opens.html