Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 00:00:25. As a freelance investigative journalist and photographer, and with lived experience of state intervention having been adopted and raised outside of his natural whānau, Mr Smale (Ngāti

Distressing content warning. Dr Mirfin-Veitch was the Director of the Donald Beasley Institute (DBI) at the time of the hearing, an independent research institute specialising in disability reasearch. The DBI were contracted by the Inquiry to carry

Distressing content warning. Dr Stace gave a disability perspective on the road to the Royal Commission. A Government inquiry in 1953 recommended that the existing psychopaedic institutions be extended into large ‘mental deficiency colonies’

Distressing content warning. Mr Taito gave evidence about his experience as a Samoan New Zealander being removed from his family as a child following intervention by the State. He was made a state ward and sent to Owairaka Boys’ Home in the 1970s

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 00:01:00. Presentation starts at 00:00:30. At the time of the hearing Dr Alison Green (Ngati Awa (Ngati Pukeko), Ngati Ranginui (Ngaitamarawaho) Ngaiterangi (Ngaitukairangi)) was a researcher at Te

Distressing content warning. Dr Else is a writer, researcher and editor, and wrote the first comprehensive history of post-war adoption in New Zealand from 1944-1974. Dr Else gave evidence about the growth of adoption and the State’s involvement

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 09:30. Ms Wardle-Jackson gave evidence about the abuse and neglect she suffered as a child in State care. She described being placed under the preventive supervision of the Superintendent at age 7

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 19:40. Dr Charlene Rapsey is a clinical psychologist and lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago. Dr Rapsey’s research interests include mental disorder,

Distressing content warning. Mr Taylor has spent 40 of his 63 years in prison. He gave evidence about being violently removed from his family by child welfare officers and taken into State care at only 11 years for being “NUPC” – not under

Distressing content warning. Presentation starts at 10:45. Professor Tracey McIntosh (Ngāi Tūhoe) is a sociologist and at the time of the hearing was a Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Director of Wānaga o Waipapa at the University of