Indigenous peoples throughout English-speaking countries have
had their children taken away by the state for generations. Most
countries have faced up to this legacy but New Zealand has been in
denial about its own Stolen Generation – a group now known as Ngā Mōrehu
(The Survivors).
The new Labour government has
agreed to set up an inquiry into historical abuse of children in state
care between the 1960s and 1990s as one of its priorities in the first 100 days.