A close vote in Australia’s Senate has shown there is interest to increase the cap on redress payments for survivors of child sexual abuse. Existing payments are currently capped at $150,000, but Labor has been pushing for an increase in the limit to $200,000. An amendment to the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill was approved on Monday, allowing more public access to information on institutions that have not joined the scheme. The scheme provides access to counselling, a direct personal response from the institution, and redress payment to victims. However, redress cannot be given if the institution has not joined the scheme. Labor failed to gain support for a number of other amendments to the bill. One of which was for Social Services Minister Anne Ruston to consider actions to increase the redress payment cap to $200,000 as originally recommended by the Royal Commission. The amendment …