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Long wait to end for mother victims of forced adoption

A second Australian state is establishing a redress scheme for mothers whose children were forcibly adopted across decades.

AAP · Oct 23, 2025

Youth detainees abused in care to share $75m settlement

More than 100 former detainees at a notoriously troubled youth detention centre have had a $75 million payout approved for alleged abuses over 63 years.

AAP · Nov 25, 2024

Victorian government accused of undermining rule of law in bid to avoid Lawyer X scandal payouts

Lawyers express concern over Labor’s proposed reforms to prevent ‘specified human sources’ suing government or police

The Guardian - AU · Aug 13, 2024

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'Given a voice': youth centre victims reach $75m deal

Lawyers representing former detainees who were abused at Tasmania's youth detention centre have reached an in-principle $75 million settlement with the state.

AAP · Jun 21, 2024

Melbourne woman placed in abusive foster home receives record $2.6m payout

A Melbourne woman has been awarded a record compensation payout for abuse she suffered while in foster care — with a family she says the department should never have left her with.

ABC News · Apr 4, 2023

Victim of paedophile John Wayne Millwood alleges compensation being avoided through divesting of assets

A victim-survivor of a notorious paedophile alleges his abuser is avoiding paying court-ordered compensation — prolonging the victim-survivor's trauma by declaring bankruptcy — but vows he will "claw back assets" from his abuser.

ABC News · Aug 10, 2022

Tasmania's state lawyers play a key role in child sexual abuse cases — do they have too much power?

Concerns have been raised at the commission of inquiry about the Tasmanian Office of the Solicitor-General being the sole source of legal advice to most government entities, the power it has in dealing with civil claims of child sexual abuse, and its approach to dealing with civil cases.

ABC News · Jul 8, 2022

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Childhood abuse advocates praise Peter Gutwein's disclosure, call for derisive MPs to own shameful behaviour

The Tasmanian leader's disclosure that he was a victim of child sexual assault could have a "huge impact" on other victim-survivors, a support group says, amid calls for Liberals who groaned in parliament to apologise.

ABC News · Mar 12, 2022

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