The Royal Commission into Queen’s Asylum, conducted by Dr John Coverdale, opened in January 1867. Although its purpose was to cut costs at the Asylum, it failed to make any recommendations for this. It reported in December 1867. According to Joan Brown, the government appointed the Royal Commission to consider reducing expenditure at the Asylum….
The Select Committee on Child Protection was set up in October 2010 and reported in 2011. It found that the child protection system was under ‘serious stress’ and that as a result, children were not receiving the care and protection that they needed. The situation was not caused by child protection workers, who did a…
The Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme was established by the South Australian government in 2015. The Scheme was for South Australian members of the Stolen Generations who were forcibly removed from their families and culture. Under the criteria of the Scheme, people who were Aboriginal and removed from their families in South Australia before 31 December…
In December 2018, the UK government announced they were establishing a payment scheme for former British Child Migrants. The scheme was for people who had been separated from their families and sent overseas as part of the UK government’s participation in child migration programs. The payment scheme was established in response to the Interim Report…
The National Redress Scheme was established by the Commonwealth government in response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It is administered by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services. The NRS was established in 2018 and was announced that it would run for 10 years. The National Redress…
The Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme was announced in 2021. The Scheme “seeks to recognise the harm and trauma experienced by Stolen Generations survivors”. The Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were children when removed from their families and communities, in: Northern Territory before 1 July 1978…
The New South Wales Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme was established in 2017. It was created in response to the New South Wales government’s 2016 report, Unfinished Business, which recommended that a reparations scheme be established. The Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme provided ex-gratia payments of $75,000 to “living Stolen Generations survivors who were removed by, committed…
Case Study 11: Christian Brothers was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Perth from April to May 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Castledare Junior Orphanage, St Vincent’s Orphanage Clontarf, St Mary’s Agricultural School Tardun, and Bindoon Farm School. During…
Case Study 17: Retta Dixon Home was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Darwin from September to November 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Retta Dixon Home. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents of Retta Dixon Home,…
Case Study 19: Bethcar Children’s Home was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Sydney from October to December 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Bethcar Children’s Home, Brewarrina, New South Wales. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents…
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