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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tamee podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: On Tuesday, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition,

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Speaker 2: and public sector leaders formally apologized to survivors of abusing care.

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Speaker 2: They spoke with sincerity and an understanding of what these

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Speaker 2: victims had been through, But the most powerful words of

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Speaker 2: the day belonged to survivors the abusing care role. Commission

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Speaker 2: of inquiry took six years. The final reporter is three

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Speaker 2: thousand pages long and features one hundred and thirty recommendations.

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Speaker 2: Tuesday was the first step in addressing this horrific abuse

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Speaker 2: of vulnerable people, acknowledging it through a formal apology. This

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Speaker 2: might not sound like much, but many a leader in

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Speaker 2: opposition has spoken out about this issue, only to shy

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Speaker 2: away and protect the Crown from liability when in power.

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Speaker 2: So it was something But as we all know, as

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Speaker 2: sincere and empathetic as those words were, it's what happens

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Speaker 2: next that matter is the actions taken that will make

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Speaker 2: a difference to survivors' lives. It is the responsibility of

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Speaker 2: this government and those to come to support survivors of abuse,

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Speaker 2: hold those responsible accountable and prevent it happening again, and

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Speaker 2: this is a difficult task. There are many individual circumstances

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Speaker 2: over an extensive period of time, committed by a variety

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Speaker 2: of institutions. It is going to take some time to

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Speaker 2: structure a system through which people are fairly compensated, but

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Speaker 2: they must be compensated. Money doesn't make up for what happened,

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Speaker 2: but for those who have been abused, ignored, lived lives

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Speaker 2: filled with trauma and shame, some unable to live their

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Speaker 2: life their lives to the full hold down, full time jobs,

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Speaker 2: have fulfilling relationships. Compensation is a form of validation and

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Speaker 2: goes some way to healing the pain. When asked about

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Speaker 2: what some have termed the can of worms, the inquiry

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Speaker 2: and apology has opened. I was impressed with Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Chris Luxen's resolve to deal with it while acknowledging it

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Speaker 2: will be messy and hard and that the government will

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Speaker 2: not satisfy everyone's expectations. Just because something is hard doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean you shouldn't do it. If you're in politics and

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Speaker 2: avoid doing something which is so fundamentally right and moral

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Speaker 2: because it's hard, then please pack up and go home.

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Speaker 2: For victims waiting for up to seventy years for redress.

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Speaker 2: I can understand the skepticism about what comes next. Something

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Speaker 2: tells me, though, that Eric Stanford, the lead coordination Minister

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Speaker 2: for the government's response to the report, can do hard things.

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Speaker 2: The Prime Minister, who has read all three thousand pages

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Speaker 2: of the Royal Commission reports, said, if you want to

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Speaker 2: understand the gravity of what's happened, go and read a

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Speaker 2: few of the survivor's accounts. And I took his advice

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Speaker 2: and this is what I got from it. This is

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Speaker 2: not a redress we want to do halfheartedly. Equally, it

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Speaker 2: needs to be done with some urgency. While the government

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Speaker 2: is hoping to have a structure and process in place

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Speaker 2: for better financial redress in the first half of next year,

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Speaker 2: there is also the challenge of making sure this does

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Speaker 2: not happen again. And how far the government will go

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Speaker 2: to legislate against abuse and care will show us how

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Speaker 2: committed they are to taking rest responsibility. So let's just

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Speaker 2: do this once. Let's do this right. Let's do all

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Speaker 2: we can to make sure it never happens again.

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