File photo Photo: RNZ / Conan YoungNearly two years on from the Christchurch mosque attacks witnesses to the massacre say they feel forgotten. The government has just revealed its next steps in responding to the Royal Commission into the March 15 shootings in which 51 people were killed and 40 injured. While witnesses to the attack are excluded from receiving ACC assistance for their trauma, the royal commission report recommended that the government should direct the ACC to support them. "Witnesses don't easily fall into the regime that ACC is there to deal with which is physical injury by accident." We will continue to provide support ... if we change the law, we change the law for everyone for all time ... we have not undertaken to change the law."

Source: Otago Daily Times March 11, 2021 20:26 UTC