The proposed Commonwealth redress scheme for victims of child sexual abuse is a first step toward creating a national redress scheme.
Should a national scheme result, it will be unlike any other in the world. There are (or have been) 36 major government schemes for institutional abuse of children in 13 countries (and one independent polity). But the proposed national scheme in Australia is more complex, bigger, and includes more sites of abuse than any other.
https://theconversation.com/abuse-in-care-versus-not-in-care-we-need-to-tackle-potential-bias-in-a-national-redress-scheme-90821
Should a national scheme result, it will be unlike any other in the world. There are (or have been) 36 major government schemes for institutional abuse of children in 13 countries (and one independent polity). But the proposed national scheme in Australia is more complex, bigger, and includes more sites of abuse than any other.
https://theconversation.com/abuse-in-care-versus-not-in-care-we-need-to-tackle-potential-bias-in-a-national-redress-scheme-90821