Te Waonui for week ending Friday 1 November 2019

The Royal Commission hears from a former child of the state, who details his whanau's forced separation from Maori culture over generations, the head of the Maori-led inquiry into Oranga Tamariki says it's made huge progress with whanau Maori, who've lost trust in the department's internal review, and commemorations are held in Waitara where the first shots of the New Zealand wars were fired in 1860.