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Government bars journalist from abuse apology at Parliament
11 Nov 2024The Speaker has blocked Aaron Smale from attending the official apology to victims of abuse in state care.
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Abused and tortured by state employees in a hospital
11 Nov 2024Children were given electroconvulsive therapy and sedatives as punishment - and it wasn't limited to Lake Alice. Audio
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ACC won't remove psychologist associated with Lake Alice
11 Nov 2024ACC has confirmed the psychologist is one of its approved service providers, able to treat and assess clients with sensitive claims. Audio
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Abuse in care survivors uneasy ahead of apology
11 Nov 2024A man forced, as a teen, to dig his own grave at gunpoint says any apology without financial compensation is "disingenuous". Audio
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Woman received 200 electric shocks to 'cure' homosexuality
11 Nov 2024Joan Bellingham suffered burns, memory loss and bouts of blindness. Her doctors called it treatment - but she calls it torture.
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Teen given electric shocks without pain relief in hospital
11 Nov 2024Terry Kingi was frog-marched into a room, tied to a bed and "blasted" in the head. When he left the hospital, "I was pretty well brain-dead".
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'An awful life': Former students of deaf schools speak out about abuse
8 Nov 2024Children were raped and beaten at NZ's deaf schools, but could not tell anyone as they weren't allowed to use sign language.
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Abuse in care survivor calls compensation so far 'an insult'
1 Nov 2024Toni Jarvis says he wants the government to announce details of a redress system. Audio
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Relief, annoyance over Crown move on legal fees for Lake Alice survivors
30 Oct 2024One survivor says he is disappointed the reimbursements are not being adjusted for inflation. Audio
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Reimbursing Lake Alice survivors: 'We are putting right a historical wrong'
30 Oct 2024The Crown is reimbursing survivors of abuse at Lake Alice with $2.67 million to fulfil one of the recommendations in the Royal Commission's final report.
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Lake Alice survivor's days of 'waiting and worrying'
21 Oct 2024Malcolm Richards - who also has cancer - is in hospital in Hastings, and needs a transfer to Wellington for a triple heart bypass. Audio
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Trial of Kingseat boys' home staff begins
21 Oct 2024Three former staff members from the south Auckland home have pleaded not guilty to multiple criminal charges in Manukau District Court. Audio
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Lake Alice whistle-blower set to receive personal apology
14 Oct 2024Steve Watt had asked the Medical Council to investigate Dr Selwyn Leeks years ago - but his plea fell on deaf ears. Audio
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Patients shocked Lake Alice psychologist still providing services for ACC
7 Oct 2024Lake Alice survivors are dismayed a psychologist they knew from the notorious psychiatric facility is still providing services for ACC. Audio
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Catholic Church's response to Abuse in Care report 'appalling' - survivor
28 Sep 2024The church has apologised again - but won't accept some of the Royal Commission's findings.
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Govt, faith-based groups fail Abuse In Care response
25 Sep 2024Responses to the inquiry's reports and its findings were recommended to come within two months of the final report being tabled in Parliament in July.
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Judgment Day: Jehovah's Witnesses' final appeal for exemption dismissed
16 Sep 2024A Supreme Court decision brings an end to years of wrangling behind the scenes and in court to avoid inclusion in the recently-concluded Royal Commission of Inquiry.
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Abuse in Care: Police silent on response to inquiry findings
13 Sep 2024Commissioners recommended police review or re-investigate cases of abuse - but police won't say whether they've done so. Audio
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Jehovah's Witnesses $48k court bill over abuse inquiry
1 Sep 2024The faith must pay costs to the Crown after unsuccessfully fighting to be excluded from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.
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Victoria waited 50 years to be believed - It's finally happened
27 Jul 2024She 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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Lake Alice survivor tired of waiting for compensation
22 Aug 2024He says he will not turn up to the government apology for abuse in care if he has not received proper compensation by then.
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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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