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Victoria waited 50 years to be believed - It's finally happened
She was abused as a child by her father, a respected Jehovah's Witness Elder. But it was not until this week Victoria felt vindicated.
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What next for state care survivors?
13 Aug 2024Opinion - The road ahead is fraught with challenges, but it also presents an opportunity for systemic change, Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena writes.
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Abuse survivor decries government's 'pretty contradictory' actions
7 Aug 2024The government will have blood on its hands if it does not immediately provide support to the survivors of state and faith-based care, an advocate says. Audio
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State needs to 'decide that the cycle of abuse will end with us'
17 Jul 2024First Person - It's unpacking that cycle of abuse that is so deep within our community that is so important, Karah Mackie writes.
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Outgoing boss of support service addresses toll of inquiry
2 Aug 2024Jo O'Neill says her decision to resign is not directly related to the abuse in care inquiry.
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Thousands of unmarked graves possibly hold victims of abuse in care
29 Jul 2024The release of the inquiry's final report has prompted calls for the government to look identify who they belong to and reconnect them with family. Audio
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Māori reported more abuse, faced harsher punishment - inquiry
24 Jul 2024Racist targeting by police and social workers and harsher sentences by youth courts significantly contributed to over-representation of Māori among the abused.
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Art exhibition reflects the ripples from abuse in care
27 Jul 2024The stories of survivors of abuse in state care will be told through art, music and creative performances in an exhibition about to open in Wellington.
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PM calls for witnesses to alleged '80s politician paedophile ring to speak out
26 Jul 2024Christopher Luxon says anyone with evidence about claims involving politicians and civil servants in the 1980s should go to police.
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Abuse in Care inquiry: Call for Pacific focused redress pathway
26 Jul 2024The Abuse in Care report found many Pacific survivors lost their connections to their culture and language, resulting in trauma that has been carried from generation to generation.
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Law Society president to take 'leave of absence' while complaint against him addressed
26 Jul 2024Frazer Barton is facing a complaint after the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care report indicated he had advised a church group to destroy records. Audio
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Presbyterian Support Otago CEO 'heartbroken' records of young people in care destroyed
26 Jul 2024The Abuse In Care found lawyer Frazer Barton told the organisation it could destroy records of children in its care at an "appropriate time". Audio
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Pregnant at 12, running from 'care'
26 Jul 2024The government took Joyce Harris's first baby and sent her off to a girls' home. Half a century on - and out of oceans of hurt - it asked her to be a mother figure.
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Minister can't guarantee abuse won't occur at controversial boot camps
The government's first military-style boot camp begins next week, despite the recent abuse in care inquiry detailing abuse at similar facilities. Audio
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Abuse in state care survivors expect PM to 'honour his word'
25 Jul 2024They expect the introduction of meaningful change before the end of the year.
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Immediate action needed at Gloriavale, abuse inquiry shows
25 Jul 2024It comes as the Royal Commission's findings show leaders allowed physical and sexual abuse to occur at the Christian community.
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'We are deeply sorry' - Medical Council tells Lake Alice survivors
25 Jul 2024The Medical Council of New Zealand has apologised to survivors of Lake Alice in the wake of the Royal Commission into abuse in state care's findings.
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'Cynicism' and 'a great deal of hope' for action after inquiry
25 Jul 2024Cooper Legal principal partner Sonja Cooper says there's hope the Abuse in Care report will not be left to collect dust. Audio
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Māori survivors of abuse in state care want transformative action now
24 Jul 2024Gary Gerbes suffered horrific abuse in the 1950s and passed away in May, one of many who did not live to see the acknowledgement or apology.
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Calls for action follow Abuse in Care inquiry's final report
24 Jul 2024With the 3000-page final report now public, many of the responses have focused on a need for action - not words.
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'An apology is hollow without change': Abuse in care inquiry report
24 Jul 2024The report found abuse was rife in state and faith-based care settings and the state failed to respond to signs of systemic abuse and neglect.
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Abuse in Care: What politicians have promised
25 Jul 2024Politicians have delivered apologies and promises after the massive report on abuse in care was made public. Audio
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Abuse in Care: Changes recommended by the inquiry
24 Jul 2024Its 138 recommendations provide a clear pathway to help put right the deep harm done to survivors.
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'Today you are heard and you are believed' - Luxon on Abuse in Care report
24 Jul 2024The government has acknowledged that what happened at Lake Alice was torture, as the much broader 3000-page report on abuse in care is made public.
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Abuse in Care: Tamariki still experiencing harm
24 Jul 2024The Chief Children's Commissioner is acknowledging the harm experienced by tamariki in the Abuse in Care report, but says abuse is still happening.
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Intersex abuse survivor unable to give testimony at hearing
24 Jul 2024A woman disowned by her mother before being abused in state care says she was re-traumatised when an inquiry told her she was not the right demographic to speak at a hearing.
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RNZ presents Unsafe Harbour: Surviving St John of God
24 Jul 2024In honour of all survivors and victims of abuse in state and faith-based institutions.
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How colonisation created the state care to prison pipeline
23 Jul 2024First Person - When he walked into the prison yard for the first time as a teenager, having never been there before, Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena already knew most the men in there.
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