Child sex abuse survivor Georgie Burg attended a roundtable on the National Redress Scheme where she hoped to deliver this speech.
You have your token gesture of a Redress Scheme, where you can say you’re ‘doing something’. But you have no right to try to reframe this so that you can feel better about yourselves.
I would rather stay number 577 – anonymous in the royal commission’s Book of Messages held at the National Library – than hear you say my name. Start saying the names of survivors whose experience of bravery far outweigh anything you have achieved. Rip up this Redress Scheme and start again. Give survivors the compensation they deserve.
We aren’t stupid. We were children who were raped and abused and somehow some of us survived it.
You’re seriously telling me that this is the best you can do?
Source: Child sex abuse survivor confronts government on Redress Scheme