‘Given a Voice’: Youth Centre Victims Reach $75 Million Deal

‘Given a Voice’: Youth Centre Victims Reach $75 Million Deal
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff and Minister for Education, Children and Youth Roger Jaensch speak to media at Parliament Square in Hobart, Tasmania, Sep. 27, 2023. AAP Image/Ethan James
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Former detainees abused at Tasmania’s youth detention centre have reached an in-principle multimillion-dollar settlement with the state.

The legal class action alleged 129 children were abused between 1960 and 2023 at Ashley Youth Detention Centre, formerly called the Ashley Home for Boys.

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