Tim Brown

5 days ago | sunlive.co.nz | Tim Brown

An announcement on the government's long-awaited abuse in care compensation scheme is imminent, RNZ understands. The government has repeatedly promised to announce its plans for a new single redress system before this year's budget and, with less than a fortnight until Budget Day, time is running out. The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry found at least 200,000 people had been abused, and even more neglected, by the state and faith-based institutions since 1950.

6 days ago | rnz.co.nz | Tim Brown

An announcement on the government's long-awaited abuse in care compensation scheme is imminent, RNZ understands. The government has repeatedly promised to announce its plans for a new single redress system before this year's budget and, with less than a fortnight until Budget Day, time is running out. The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry found at least 200,000 people had been abused, and even more neglected, by the state and faith-based institutions since 1950.

6 days ago | radionz.co.nz | Tim Brown

An announcement on the government's long-awaited abuse in care compensation scheme is imminent, RNZ understands. The government has repeatedly promised to announce its plans for a new single redress system before this year's budget and, with less than a fortnight until Budget Day, time is running out. The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry found at least 200,000 people had been abused, and even more neglected, by the state and faith-based institutions since 1950.

1 week ago | radionz.co.nz | Tim Brown

Residents of a Banks Peninsula town are angry and frustrated as they say opening a nearby lake to the ocean would've mitigated flooding in the area. Little River, about 30 kilometres south of Christchurch, was cut off after State Highway 75 through the town was inundated by half a metre of water. The Christchurch City Council opened Lake Forsyth-Wairewa to the ocean last night, but homes and businesses had already been flooded.

1 week ago | radionz.co.nz | Tim Brown |Adam Burns

A local state of emergency remains in place for Christchurch and Banks Peninsula but was lifted in the Selwyn district on Friday afternoon About 50 properties in Selwyn have been affected by flooding Some communities in Banks Peninsula remain cut off due to flooding and slips including the small town of Little RiverResidents in Canterbury's Selwyn district have described record rainfalls that pelted the region as the most they have ever seen.