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Ms Noonan is the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice.

Ms Calman suffered physical and sexual abuse and neglect early on in life while growing up in her family home.

Ms Wardle-Jackson will give evidence about the abuse and neglect she suffered as a child in State care.

Ngāi Tūhoe Professor Tracey McIntosh is a sociologist and Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Director of Wānaga o Waipapa at the University of Auckland.

Professor Michael Tarren-Sweeney is a Professor of Child and Family Psychology at the University of Canterbury.

Dallas is a survivor of abuse in State care.

This statement was read on behalf of the Human Rights Commission by Disability Rights Commissioner, Ms Paula Tesoriero.

Dr Else is a writer, researcher and editor, and wrote the first comprehensive history of post-war adoption in New Zealand from 1944-1974.

Sir Martin is a disability rights activist.

Professor Stanley will give evidence about the nature of abuse in State care based on her extensive research for the published book The Road To Hell: State Violence against Children in Postwar New Zealand.