Former child residents who suffered
years of abuse at a Northern Territory Aboriginal children's home have
become the first group in Australia to win compensation from the federal
government following evidence at the sex abuse royal commission.
The
71 former residents of Darwin's Retta Dixon home, who alleged physical
and sexual assaults by staff between 1946 and 1980, launched a civil
lawsuit in 2015 against a convicted paedophile, the Commonwealth and the
religious group that ran the home.