Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (Q A I) is an independent, community-based systems and legal advocacy organisation for people with disability in Queensland, Australia.
On 20/07/18, director Michelle O’Flynn appeared as first witness before the Queensland Parliament’s Health, Communities, Disability Services and Family Violence Prevention Committee in their public hearing on the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Commonwealth Powers) Bill 2018.
...that the Government broaden the parameters of the redress scheme to
include individuals serving custodial sentences of five or more years, allowing such
individuals to be eligible for the scheme, with an appropriate amendment or excision of clause 63 of the Bill to allow for this.