Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Dodson, I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes the Government has failed to agree to a significant number of recommendations of the second year review of the National Redress Scheme, including not committing to:

(i) reviewing the current restriction on survivors making a single application (recommendation 3.1),

(ii) allowing more survivors access to redress (recommendation 3.2),

(iii) making 'reasonable likelihood' the required standard of proof (recommendation 3.4),

(iv) fixing the broken matrix and properly recognising the impact of abuse (recommendation 3.11),

(v) guarantee that there won't be additional secret criteria that make it harder for people to access redress (recommendation 3.12),

(vi) making the guidelines used to assess redress application public (recommendation 3.13),

(vii) a minimum redress payment of $10,000 (recommendation 4.3),

(viii) stopping the indexation of prior payments (recommendation 4.5),

(ix) permitting additional information to be provided by survivors as part of an internal review (recommendation 5.1), and

(x) increasing the staff cap so that redress applications can be properly assessed and handled (recommendation 6.7); and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to:

(i) implement all the recommendations of the second year review of the National Redress Scheme, and

(ii) increase the maximum redress payment to $200,000 as recommended by the Royal Commission.