***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 01:14:30 Presentation starts at 17:30 Dallas is a survivor of abuse in State care.

***Distressing content warning*** This statement was read on behalf of the Human Rights Commission by Disability Rights Commissioner, Ms Paula Tesoriero.

***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.

***Distressing content warning*** Sir Martin was a disability rights activist.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 13:45 Professor Stanley gave evidence about the nature of abuse in State care based on her extensive research for the published book The Road To Hell: State Violence against Children in Postwar New Zealand.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 06:30 Presentation starts at 04:30 Evidence from Sonja Cooper and Amanda Hill on behalf of Cooper Legal addressed: The beginnings of the civil claims against the State for abuse in psychiatric hospitals and Social Welfare care; How the claims grew, and how the State responded – with a mixture of ‘listening’ forums and fierce, uncompromising defence in the Court; How State mechanisms such as the Courts and Legal Aid played a role in the claims process; The role of our human rights law – both national and international – in progressing the civil claims; Settlement processes both past and current, and why they are not fit for purpose; and The disadvantages experienced by many survivors, including: less access to information; fewer resources to obtain help; often poor literacy or mental health and economic circumstances which pressure them to accept amounts of compensation which do not reflect their experiences; and What they see as the way forward for the claims process as part of a larger truth and reconciliation process.

***Distressing content warning*** Ms O’Hagan provided historical context of abuse in the psychiatric system, including as it relates to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, key milestones between 1950 and 1999 and the survivor movement.

***Distressing content warning*** Dr Stace gave a disability perspective on the road to the Royal Commission.

***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.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:00:15 Sir Kim Workman (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitaane) gave 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.