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A board set up to help victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings is a 'joke', a former member says.

As the Government begins to respond to the Royal Commission's findings and recommendations, the person leading that response was found to have disbelieved victims of state abuse and their advocates when she was in a senior role at MSD. Aaron Smale reports. 

The unanswered question of the royal commission into aged care will be tackled by a new expert group seeking to lift standards, improve funding models and put people's rights at the centre of the system. 

Inside the Department of Social Services' reactions to the royal commission.

The church argues it doesn't bear responsibility for care of children and that no abuse occurred that was within the scope of the inquiry. 

Reforms in the wake of the child sexual abuse royal commission made it easier for victims to seek compensation, but now a fierce new battleground is emerging as some organisations at the centre of the claims push to have cases thrown out altogether.

The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has been told it takes more than 600 days on average to complete an independent report into a death.

An Australian Army veteran, who alleges she was sexually assaulted twice while serving, blasts the response from the Department of Defence at the time.

Lawyer says victims of state abuse are waiving their legal rights if they sign, which may include access to other forms of redress that become available, reports Aaron Smale

As the Abuse in Care Royal Commission inquiry has shown, the lifelong and intergenerational consequences of child abuse are devastating. Many children placed in state and religious institutions – often having already experienced harm and hurt – were then abused by those tasked with caring for them.

The second extension of the Royal Commission's final report is to be welcomed but provides no reason to delay redress, which the Government agreed to implement over a year ago, writes Stephen Winter