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Thirty-seven former Lake Alice child and adolescent unit patients negotiate compensation

They received amounts between $160,000 and $600,000

Another 105 opted for $150,000 "rapid payments"

Independent arbiter Paul Davison, KC, says survivors see their lives as blighted by Lake Alice.

Thirty-seven former patients of the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital's child and adolescent unit have received individual compensation payments of up to $600,000.

The government last year announced its redress scheme for children and teens tortured with electric shocks without anaesthetic or through being injected with paralysing

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