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Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Tuesday, October 19

Making progress, but Treasury can’t put price on Native Title liability

The Palaszczuk Government is resolving around 10 native title claims each year, however there is still a backlog and serious issues to resolve.

State’s $1.3 billion child abuse liability put budget into deficit

Setting aside money to pay for damages meant the budget was in the red before the pandemic hit.

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Revealed: Government's secret fund for victims of historical child abuse

In the fine print of Monday’s Budget update was an unusual provision for damages payouts – potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Pell should have acted on paedophile priest in 1989, commission finds

Cardinal George Pell should have advised senior Catholic authorities to remove a paedophile priest in 1989, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has found.