Abuse in State Care Inquiry and Marine and Coastal Areas Act w the ACT Party's Simon Court: 29th July, 2024

Last week the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State Care was released. It revealed that at least 250,000 people were affected by abuse in Aotearoa’s state care system from 1950 to 1999.

Now the Government must move forward with redress, saying they will be issuing apologies to victims and survivors. 

For our weekly catch up producer Evie spoke to the ACT Party’s Simon Court about how this redress will be approached, and how the government will ensure the system will avoid such dire outcomes in the future.

We also talked about the government moving to overturn the court appeal on the Marine and Coastal Area Act.