Urgent debate on redress for abuse in state care

Urgent debate on redress for abuse in state care

MPs began the week with an urgent debate on redress for abuse in state care, and criticism of the government's change of mind about an independent redress system for survivors.

‘Soul-destroying’: A survivor’s response to the latest in abuse in care redress

The lack of a new redress system for survivors proves the royal commission of inquiry’s recommendations were pointless, argues Steve Goodlass. It is a cruel irony that on the very day a US cardinal – implicated in covering up abuse – was elevated to Pope, the New Zealand state chose to entrench the status quo for children abused in its own care, while casting faith-abused survivors aside. In appeals to the New Zealand Catholic clerics, I’ve ofte…