{"id":10766,"date":"2024-07-25T05:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2024-07-25T05:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:22:45","slug":"maori-survivors-of-abuse-in-state-care-want-transformative-action-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10766","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori survivors of abuse in state care want transformative action now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/522999\/live-abuse-in-care-survivors-hikoi-to-Parliament-ahead-of-report-release\">abuse in state care<\/a>\u00a0want to see immediate transformative action from the government to address the systemic failings of government agencies which fostered the ongoing abuse and discrimination of the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>The final report of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/abuseincare\">a royal commission of inquiry<\/a>\u00a0investigating abuse in state care was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/abuseincare\/523015\/watch-pm-christopher-luxon-lead-minister-erica-stanford-respond-to-abuse-in-care-report\">acknowledging<\/a>\u00a0the survivors and their courage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank you all for your exceptional strength, your incredible courage and your confronting honesty. Because of you, we know the truth about the abuse and the trauma that you endured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry clearly identified M\u0101ori\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/te-manu-korihi\/523020\/maori-disproportionately-affected-by-state-and-faith-based-care-abuse\">made up the majority<\/a>\u00a0of an estimated 200,000 people abused in state care between 1950 and 1999. It said tamariki, rangatahi and pakeke M\u0101ori were often targeted because of their ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;M\u0101ori, Pacific, deaf and disabled people disproportionately bore the brunt of a lot of what occurred, and not only did this have a devastating impact on your life, but also your families and your communities,&#8221; said Luxon.<\/p>\n<p>The report found the unstable and harmful environments M\u0101ori were exposed to in state care compounded the intergenerational trauma and normalised the &#8216;revolving door experience&#8217; many M\u0101ori became accustomed too.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Gerbes suffered horrific abuse in the 1950s while in state care, and shared his experience in the inquiry. He passed away in May, and was one of many who did not live to see the acknowledgement or apology.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of\u00a0abuse in state care\u00a0want to see immediate transformative action from the government to address the systemic failings of government agencies which fostered the ongoing abuse and discrimination of the most vulnerable. The final report of\u00a0a royal commission of inquiry\u00a0investigating abuse in state care was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon\u00a0acknowledging\u00a0the survivors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10768,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions\/10768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}