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Politics
Sarah Shamim

Why New Zealand’s PM has apologised to 200,000 abused in state care

New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attends the 19th East Asia Summit (EAS) at the National Convention Centre, in Vientiane, Laos on October 11, 2024 [Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters]

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday made an unprecedented formal and “unreserved” apology to survivors of abuse in state and church care over seven decades, spanning almost the entirety of the country’s independent history.

The survivors included members of the Indigenous Maori and Pacific Islander communities that have been victims of racism and earlier, of colonisation, for nearly two centuries.

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