Dr Stace will give a disability perspective on the road to the Royal Commission.

Dr Brigit Mirfin-Veitch is the Director of the Donald Beasley Institute, an independent charitable trust that conducts research and education in the area of disability with a specific focus on learning (intellectual) disability.

Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitaane Sir Kim Workman will give evidence about his early experience as a Police youth aid officer in the 1970s, and his subsequent work detailing the racial profiling of Māori and the disproportionate number of Māori in care.

As one of the members of the Nelson Māori committee and the Auckland Committee on Racial Discrimination (ACORD), Dr Sutherland spent 15 years campaigning and advocating on behalf of many children who were in State care during the 1970s and 1980s.

Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi, Whakatohea 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 has covered the stories of children in state custody as a Māori social issue.

Mr Taito will give evidence about his experience as a Samoan New Zealander being removed from his family as a child following intervention by the State.

Ngati Awa (Ngati Pukeko), Ngati Ranginui (Ngaitamarawaho) Ngaiterangi (Ngaitukairangi) Dr Alison Green is a researcher at Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato.

Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāti Māhuta, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kāhu, Te Rarawa Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena is a lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiarangi.

The statement provided by the Crown at the start of the Contextual hearing.

Mr Taylor has spent 40 of his 63 years in prison.