Glenn McConnell
The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care shone light into a dark corner of modern New Zealand history, revealing inconceivable industrial-level abuse of 200,000 of our most vulnerable people.
It also raised difficult questions for the Government of today with many of its recommendations seemingly contrary to its policies about Te Tiriti o Waitangi, law and order, gangs, and youth justice.
So far, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has agreed to only one of the 130-plus recommendations.