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1996-1211 -
Dominion - Action gets ACC cheques flowing
page 3 – Hundreds of families looking after seriously-injured relatives could
have their best Christmas in years after ACC started writing cheques in
response to a High Court ruling that it should backdate payment for 24-hour
care
1996-0314 - The Press - Tax on men
suggested to compensate sex victims
NZPA - A general tax on men might be one way to provide a compensation fund
for victims of rape and sexual abuse, Rape Crisis spokeswoman Toni Allwood
said yesterday. Her suggestion to MPs might prompt decent men in society to
stand up and condemn sexual attacks, she said. Ms Allwood made the
tongue-in-cheek remark during an exchange with Tarawera MP Max Bradford
during the labour select committee's hearing of submissions on new ACC laws
yesterday.Rape Crisis has called for reintroduction of lump-sum compensation
payments, scrapped by a 1992 law change, as the best means of providing
assistance to victims of sexual attacks.
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