SYDNEY (Reuters) - The New Zealand government said on Friday it would spend NZ$774 million ($457 million) in its 2025 budget ...

The government will not be setting up a new compensation scheme for survivors, as it had promised for so long, and as the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry had recommended. Instead, 774 ...

A public inquiry in 2024 found some 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state care in New Zealand experienced some form ...

That works out to $150,000 per person, and the victims had until last week to decide if it was fair. More than 70 survivors ...

The New Zealand government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in its 2025 budget for redress and compensation for hundreds of thousands of children, young people and vulnerable adults who ...

SYDNEY – The New Zealand government said on Friday it would spend NZ$774 million ($457 million) in its 2025 budget for redress ... abuse from 1950 to 2019, forcing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in ...