A man who suffered abuse while in care says he wants transformative change in the state care system in New Zealand.
The Abuse in Care Royal Commission is holding its Pacific inquiry at the Fale o Samoa in Māngere, Auckland.
Photo: RNZ / Andrew McRae
Billy Puka Tanu, 50, is a Tokelauan/Māori from Wellington who was motivated to share his story so that the abuse he endured does not happen to anyone else.
In Tanu s written statement he said that his earliest childhood memory was looking up at his dad and seeing him beat up his mum. I must have being five or six years old.
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Survivors of abuse from the Pacific community will give
evidence before the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of
Inquiry at an upcoming public hearing, Tulou - Our Pacific
Voices: Tatala e Pulonga . Experts will also give
evidence.
The public hearing, starting on Monday 19
July, will open with a traditional Pacific ceremony and be
held at Fale o Samoa in Māngere, Auckland. See below for
the witness list and full schedule.
‘Tulou - Our
Pacific Voices: Tatala e Pulonga’ is the first of its kind
not only for New Zealand, but for Pacific survivors, Pacific
communities and the wider Pacific region.
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