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“Running out of time”: Cross-party report urges government to ensure the future of redress for child sexual abuse survivors

Knowmore welcomes the unanimous report of the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on the National

Burney blazed a trail for First Nations

Few First Nations leaders can claim to have achieved as much as outgoing Minister Linda

Media Release: National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children will bring critical change

knowmore looks forward to working with the new National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Survivors targeted by unethical lawyers

knowmore is seeing a dramatic increase in claim farming cases and warns all survivors to

Have you settled your legal dispute out of court for sexual abuse you suffered in institutional or state care in your childhood?

Griffith University is conducting research to understand survivors’ experience of resolving their civil compensation legal

Supports to victims of crime “difficult to access” say victim-survivor groups

“The changes to Victims Support mean that many victim-survivors of violence in NSW don’t have

A message to knowmore clients from Director of Client Services Amanda Whelan

A video message to knowmore clients from Director of Client Services Amanda Whelan in response

Proposed mandatory reporting legislation extending to ministers of religion to be put before WA Parliament

The West Australian Government has announced it will amend the Children and Community Services Act

Media Release from Minister for Social Services Paul Fletcher: $22.5m for Centre for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

The Federal Government has announced $22.5 million in the 2019-20 Federal Budget towards the establishment

Federal Government announcement – funding for 39 Redress support services until June 2021

Minister for Families and Social Services, Paul Fletcher, has announced that 39 Redress Support Services

Institutions that have not yet joined the Scheme

The National Redress Scheme has released an update list of institutions who have not joined the

Four more institutions join the National Redress Scheme

knowmore legal service welcomes the addition of four institutions to the National Redress Scheme: De