Division
The majority voted against [amendment (1)](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-03-20.21.1) introduced by NSW Senator [David Shoebridge](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/nsw/david_shoebridge) (Greens), which means it failed. Mr Shoebridge [explained that](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-03-20.21.1): > *This amendment seeks to provide a window of opportunity for survivors and victims of institutional abuse who, following a particularly noxious decision of the Supreme Court in the matter of GLJ, agreed to a much smaller redress payment under the statutory scheme and, by doing so, created a bar for themselves for receiving common law damages.* > > *[...] This amendment says to any of the survivors who agreed to a redress payment in that period, between when GLJ was handed down and the High Court overturned it, that they can revisit that. If one of the reasons why they entered into the redress payment was the GLJ decision, they can apply to the court and have the bar lifted, and they can actually have their civil claim reinstated. It's entirely consistent with what the royal commission recommended for child sexual abuse survivors who'd had their claims dismissed because of extension-of-time applications. It's entirely consistent with what we did to deliver fairness when states and territories and the Commonwealth overturned decades of unfairness in the extension-of-time jurisdiction, and it is just so obviously fair to those survivors.* ### Amendment text > *(1) Schedule 1, page 15 (after line 17), after Part 4, insert:* > > *Part 4A — Civil proceedings after accepting offer of redress* > > *National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018* > > *19A Section 43* > >> *Before "If", insert "(1)".* > > *19B Section 43* > >> *Omit "this section" (wherever occurring), substitute "this subsection".* > > *19C At the end of section 43* > >> *Add:* >> >>> *Civil proceedings after accepting offer of redress* >>> >>> *(
Senate, 2024-03-20. negative: ayes 12, noes 25.
Question
The majority voted against [amendment (1)](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-03-20.21.1) introduced by NSW Senator [David Shoebridge](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/nsw/david_shoebridge) (Greens), which means it failed. Mr Shoebridge [explained that](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-03-20.21.1): > *This amendment seeks to provide a window of opportunity for survivors and victims of institutional abuse who, following a particularly noxious decision of the Supreme Court in the matter of GLJ, agreed to a much smaller redress payment under the statutory scheme and, by doing so, created a bar for themselves for receiving common law damages.* > > *[...] This amendment says to any of the survivors who agreed to a redress payment in that period, between when GLJ was handed down and the High Court overturned it, that they can revisit that. If one of the reasons why they entered into the redress payment was the GLJ decision, they can apply to the court and have the bar lifted, and they can actually have their civil claim reinstated. It's entirely consistent with what the royal commission recommended for child sexual abuse survivors who'd had their claims dismissed because of extension-of-time applications. It's entirely consistent with what we did to deliver fairness when states and territories and the Commonwealth overturned decades of unfairness in the extension-of-time jurisdiction, and it is just so obviously fair to those survivors.* ### Amendment text > *(1) Schedule 1, page 15 (after line 17), after Part 4, insert:* > > *Part 4A — Civil proceedings after accepting offer of redress* > > *National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018* > > *19A Section 43* > >> *Before "If", insert "(1)".* > > *19B Section 43* > >> *Omit "this section" (wherever occurring), substitute "this subsection".* > > *19C At the end of section 43* > >> *Add:* >> >>> *Civil proceedings after accepting offer of redress* >>> >>> *(
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