Distressing content warning. Ms TU is of Samoan heritage. She was adopted out at birth and placed with a Palagi family. Ms TU shared her adoption story, the impacts of the disconnection from her Samoan heritage and cultural roots, and the abuse and

Distressing content warning. Rupene Amato is of Samoan and Māori descent. He grew up in Wairoa and attended a Catholic primary school where he was sexually abused by a Catholic Priest. He talked about the impacts of this abuse and his work as an

Distressing content warning. At the time of the hearing Dr Sam Manuela was the Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland. Dr Manuela developed the first Pacific identity and wellbeing model. He provided his expert opinion on the links between

Distressing content warning. Tigilau Ness is a first-generation New Zealand-born Niuean. A musician, political activist and member of the Polynesian Panthers, Tigilau spoke about his involvement in the social movement against the targeting of

Distressing content warning. Ms CU shared her experience of coming forward to the Catholic Church and the police about the abuse her relative suffered by a Catholic Priest. She described the complexities of this disclosure within a Tongan cultural

Distressing content warning. Tesimoni Fuavao is a 66-year old man of Tongan descent. He and his family were dawn raided by the police in 1976. He spoke to the abusive treatment he and his family received, and the significant psychological impacts of

Distressing content warning. Antony Dalton-Wilson is of Samoan, Jewish, German and Gypsy descent. As a child, he suffered an accident that left him with a catastrophic brain injury. Antony spoke about the abuse he experienced at school and

Distressing content warning. William Wilson is a former student of Wesley College in South Auckland. He spoke to the ongoing physical abuse he received from prefects and senior students at the boarding school in the 1990s and the abuse he witnessed.

Distressing content warning. Leota Scanlon, a man of Samoan descent, was a patient at the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit. Leota talked about the abuse he suffered at Lake Alice, including electric shocks, paraldehyde injections, physical abuse

Distressing content warning. Billy Puka Tanu is of Tokelauan and Māori descent. He talked about the key factors which led to him being placed in care, followed by his experiences of extensive abuse and differential treatment whilst in State care