Michael Bradley
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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and predate on children in lots of different locations over long periods of time.
The Commission didn't have any power to resolve claims.
What it did was set up, as part of its outcomes, a scheme, what they call the National Redress Scheme, which is still operating but is coming to its end.
It was set up for 10 years.
And the idea was for victims of these institutions to get access to compensation without having to go through the courts.
And that was sort of the main practical outcome of the commission.
There have been many, many cases that have run through the state civil courts since the Royal Commission.
They're currently paying out an average of $1.7 million a week, so this is in settled claims or adjudicated claims, and they say that they've got about $23 million left, which would mean they're going to run out of money in about 11 weeks, 12 weeks' time at the current rate.
But there's still hundreds of unresolved cases in the system.
There's about 32 current cases in the courts.
540 still in the National Redress Scheme.
So we've still got many hundreds of survivors still with unresolved claims.
And obviously, according to the Christian Brothers, there's vastly insufficient funds to cover that.
That is not the whole story.
So the Christian Brothers, like many parts of the Catholic Church, holds or held vast amounts of property in Australia.
That's obviously incredibly valuable land.
And in 2007, a new entity was established called Edmund Rice Education Australia.
Edmund Rice was the founder of the Christian Brothers.
So they set up this new entity and the schools were essentially transferred from the Christian Brothers' order to this new entity.
And huge amounts of property that were owned by the Christian Brothers, 26 properties were transferred for $0 or $1 each.
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