New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday made a "formal and unreserved" apology in parliament for decades of abuse and torture of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in the state's care.
An independent inquiry in July found that the country’s state agencies and churches failed to prevent, stop or admit the "unimaginable" abuse of at least 200,000 people, many of them Maori, between the 1950s and 2019.
