The prime ministerâs emotional ritual entry into Aucklandâs Great Hall and her address to Pacific people and communities assembled there on Sunday drastically relived the shameful and unjust treatment of Pacific peoples by successive governments during the dawn raid era of the 1970s, when police, hunting for immigrant overstayers and armed with dogs and batons, would burst into the homes of Pasifika families in the early morning hours. These experiences and the subsequent deportations have created layers of intergenerational shame and trauma for Pacific victims and families in New Z...