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Rex Martinich

Aboriginal woman granted appeal over $1.8m abuse claim

The High Court will hear an Aboriginal woman's appeal in a fight for compensation over child abuse. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

An Aboriginal woman who tried to sue the Queensland government over alleged sexual abuse while in forced state care has been granted leave to appeal in the High Court.

The woman, aged 69, had sought more than $1.76 million in damages claiming she suffered psychiatric injury from the state's negligence in placing her with a foster family in the late 1950s where she was allegedly sexually assaulted between the ages of three and five.

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