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

12:43 pm

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

Sorry; this is a really, really important issue to a lot of survivors. Let me go back to fundamentals then. Why was there no minimum payment set so that we wouldn't be in the position that we're in right now, where you can't guarantee that some survivors will not get what people have said to me would be an insultingly low payment that would potentially retraumatise people? The question is: why was there no minimum payment?

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