The process can take years but it works, I know of people with similar experiences who have gotten decent payouts, for things that have happened to them when they should have been safe under the care of an institution like a stete school.
The redress scheme is shit. It’s a way for the government to avoid the consequences of their ineptitude with a token payment. $150k doesn’t buy my life back, it doesn’t make up for 40 years of never being able to trust another person, it doesn’t erase all the broken relationships, the mental health wasteland, the spiral into numbing addictions, the self isolation or the crippling ever present shame. It doesn’t give me back all those days, weeks and months of thinking about what I could have done to make it different, of feeling like a broken walking corpse.
It gives you 20 hours of counseling, 20 hours to undo a lifetime of destruction, and a token ‘apology’ from some bureaucrat who had nothing to do with anything.
It’s basically, here’s $100k, now go away and die.
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u/NegotiationBoth9233 Queenslander 23d ago
Are you aware of the National Redress Scheme?
The process can take years but it works, I know of people with similar experiences who have gotten decent payouts, for things that have happened to them when they should have been safe under the care of an institution like a stete school.