The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care in NZ from 1950 to 2019 was released this month. The Government issued an apology and made the usual promises to do things better.
The entire thing rings a little bit hollow when this Government is currently in the next phase of irreversible child abuse in this country through sterilisation drugs and chopping genitalia off mentally ill adults. One day in the not-so-distant future some hapless Prime Minister will be making another empty apology for his predecessors. ‘We didn’t know, we followed the science, we listened to the experts,’ and so on.
