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1 week ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Tim Brown
A woman who was sexually violated as a child says she has been further traumatised by the process of applying for support from ACC. Jenny, whose real identity cannot be revealed due to automatic name suppression, said she had been unable to work for more than 18 months due to stress as she went through the courts to hold her abuser to account for what he did to her in the 1970s.
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2 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Tim Brown
The attack on a student midwife outside Christchurch Hospital's birthing unit has highlighted concerns that have been raised for more than a decade, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says. The staff member was assaulted on the way to their car after leaving work at the Antigua Street unit in the central city, although the assault did not happen on hospital grounds.
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Tim Brown
By Tim Brown of RNZWarning: This story discusses suicide. Father Geoff Gray took his own life after financial pressures and mental health issues worsened. Coroner Ian Telford found indications of financial abuse, with Father Geoff’s bank freezing his accounts. He sent more than $40,000 overseas, causing significant stress and contributing to his deteriorating condition.
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3 weeks ago | 
radionz.co.nz | Tim Brown
The government cannot say how much of its investment in abuse in care redress will end up with survivors. Last week, Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry Lead Response Minister Erica Stanford announced the government would not set up a new compensation scheme for survivors, despite a new redress system being the primary recommendation of the Royal Commission and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon assuring survivors at November's apology that such a system was being developed.
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3 weeks ago | 
rnz.co.nz | Tim Brown
The government cannot say how much of its investment in abuse in care redress will end up with survivors.
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4 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
