Iona Holsted was singled out for criticism in the Royal Commission’s report on redress for being among officials who suggested lawyers were drumming up false or exaggerated claims The Government appointed career bureaucrat Iona Holsted to lead a unit responding to victims…

Janet Wilson is a freelance journalist who has also worked in communications, including with the National Party in 2020. She is a regular contributor to Stuff. OPINION: In no other crime is the victim more on trial, more at risk…

Dilworth’s former assistant principal sexually abused boys on scouting trips, school camps and in the school’s sick bay. Ian Robert Wilson appeared by audio-visual link from Waikeria Prison at the Auckland District Court on Thursday where he admitted sexually abusing…

A teenager who has spent his entire life in the care of the state says the government is failing to address the mental health of young vulnerable people. A report from the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission found that one…

Tom Doyle brings a wealth of knowledge, experience of both research and litigation, and a solid integrity to the examination of the abuse of children by clergymen in the Roman Catholic Church. He speaks on this subject with an honesty, and…

Journalist Shannon Molloy is used to sharing his story. In his 2020 memoir, Fourteen (now adapted for the stage), he wrote about growing up gay in regional Queensland in the 1990s, enduring severe bullying. He wrote in a piece that sparked the memoir: I…

In part two of a series on Crown Law withholding evidence from police Aaron Smale asks: how did the government and its lawyers behave when they knew the state was guilty of serious crimes against children? Under oath in front…

On Christmas Day last year, men’s welfare worker Philip Chapman decided he had had enough dealing with police safety orders. The director of Nelson’s Male Room had spent six years sorting out a place to live and counselling for men…