***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:05:10 Presentation starts at 00:00:25 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.

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

***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.

***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 Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:02:40 At the time of the hearing Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāti Māhuta, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kāhu, Te Rarawa) was a lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiarangi.

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***Distressing content warning*** Mr Taylor has spent 40 of his 63 years in prison.

***Distressing content warning*** Keith Wiffin went into state care at the age of 10 after the death of his father.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:00:50 Her Honour Judge Henwood was the Chair of the Confidential Listening and Assistance Service (CLAS) which ran from 2008 to 2015.