An ANAO audit found the Attorney-General's Department failed to deliver specialist services for survivors of child sexual abuse for five years after the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse made its recommendations. Thousands of survivors were denied access to trauma counselling and legal support. AGD had no implementation timeline and accountability mechanisms were absent.
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$500.0M of Australian taxpayer money was wasted at Attorney-General's Department. An ANAO audit found the Attorney-General's Department failed to deliver specialist services for survivors of child sexual abuse for five years after the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse made its recommendations. Thousands of survivors were denied access to trauma counselling and legal support. AGD had no implementation timeline and accountability mechanisms were absent.
Spread across Australia's 10.8 million households, that's roughly $46 per family — enough in total for paying the annual salary of 5,882 nurses.
The Royal Commission recommended specialist support for child sexual abuse survivors in 2017. Five years later, AGD still hadn't delivered it. Thousands of survivors waited for help the government promised. This is unconscionable. @reckonerAU
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