Senate debates

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Bills

National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018, National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018; In Committee

12:10 pm

Photo of Rachel SiewertRachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

So basically it is the case that government does not want to be the ultimate funder of last resort, for those reasons. But, as I understand it and as survivors understand it—because survivors have been raising this with us—it is the case that people from a defunct organisation, where there is no longer an organisation, will not be able to access redress, because the government is scared of those messages and has not the wit to find other ways to put in this legislation to stop that happening and to make sure those people who were abused in defunct organisations do actually receive redress. That is the fact, isn't it?

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