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The longest fight: Families push Government for caregiving law change

Kirsty Johnston
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Reporter·NZ Herald·
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The longest fight: Families push Government for caregiving law change
The longest fight: Families push Government for caregiving law change
For almost 20 years, families of the severely disabled have been fighting to look after their loved ones at home, and to be paid for it. Now, the battle is going beyond the courts.

Like a precious gift, the Appeal Court judgment was forwarded carefully through cyberspace. Emails shuttled from lawyers, to academics, to journalists and back again. Some had subject lines like "this is interesting" or "check the postscript". The most honest had "holy hell" and six exclamation marks.

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