Senate debates

Monday, 18 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

9:39 pm

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

I'm hoping this will be my last question or two in terms of counselling and psychological services. So there's the minimum of 20, and there's the $5,000 maximum of the tiered payments. It seems to me that there's a potential large discrepancy here between the states that opt in to be the providers and those that don't, and those that get access to the $1,250, the $2,500 and the $5,000. That $5,000 isn't going to go very far, so there's going to be a discrepancy depending on where you live. Is that correct?

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