Tasmania to join national sexual abuse redress scheme
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Tasmania will opt in to the national redress scheme for the state's survivors of child sexual assault.
Attorney-General Elise Archer made the announcement on the floor of State Parliament this morning.
Ms Archer said $70 million would be allocated in the June budget.
The national redress scheme, comes into effect around the country on July 1.
It was a major recommendation of the royal commission into child abuse and is the first compensation scheme to cover all survivors of abuse in Tasmanian churches, state and non-state institutions.
On Monday, a Tasmanian woman who was abused by nuns at Mt St Canice in Hobart in the 1950s joined calls urging for the Government to act.
Topics: child-abuse, royal-commissions, religion-and-beliefs, federal---state-issues, tas
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