Tip @SamDonovanABC underground basement tunnel between Public Base Hospital and Private Saint John of God Hospital in Ballarat
btw my late mum Elaine is a Donovan as is ancestor of @InsidersABC regular @JacktheInsider just wondering if your in our Clonpet,Tipperary Donovan clan?
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#BREAKING Former Labor Leader Bill Shorten has announced Gordon Legal will launch a class action over the government's robodebt scheme. Lawyers will allege collecting money using a computer algorithm is "wrongful" "#auspol
Landmark moment today with Ballarat’s Catholic Diocese admitting to their knowledge and therefore liability re: Ridsdale’s offending post-1975, in the Victorian Supreme Court. This case involves one man, assaulted as a 9 yo boy in Mortlake in ‘82. Likely to be many more to come.
Government is "considering its position" on establishing a parliamentary committee to oversee the redress scheme according to a spokesman for Social Services Minister Senator Anne Ruston.
Parliamentary oversight needed for child abuse redress: ALP abc.net.au/radio/programs…
Only 51 payments have been made under the redress scheme for institutional child sexual abuse survivors.
2728 applications have been received (figures as at Feb 1).
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@Virginia_Hauss Good morning Virginia, are you available to do an interview with the AM program on the appointment of the GG please? Samantha Donovan ABC 0386461682
Organisations that haven't joined the national redress scheme will be named and shamed by the Redress Scheme Governance Board in the new year federal and state ministers have decided #redress@abcnews
27 of the 35 Catholic Church dioceses and archdioceses are joining the national redress scheme the federal government will announce today. Archdioceses of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney are among them. #redress@abcnews
The Catholic Church has confirmed it isn't entering the national redress scheme as a single entity as intended but dioceses and religious orders will sign up individually. Church says its change in approach is necessary due to the staggered entry of states.
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