Trigger warning
Cultural Warning – please be advised the film does contain images and voices of people who have passed. Some content may cause distress to viewers.
Description
This event is a collaboration with Yokai, the CAHS Aboriginal Health Team, and The Kids Research Institute Australia to facilitate an opportunity for truth telling that captures the stories of the WA stolen generation and the impact of intergenerational trauma.
Film description
“Genocide in the Wildflower State” is a 59-minute documentary about a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in twentieth century, Western Australia.
For more than six decades between 1905 and 1970, thousands of Aboriginal children in Western Australia were forcibly removed from their families. Systematically organised by the State, overwhelmingly supported by West Australian society, generation after generation, for over sixty years — the State worked to destroy Aboriginal families, culture, and language, for the purpose of securing white, settler dominance. In 1997 a National Inquiry called this for what it was — Genocide. ‘Stolen Generation’ Survivors give vivid and at times heartbreaking testimony of cruel isolation, abuse, and humiliation in the system. Their accounts are supported by documentary evidence from state records, public archives, and historical scholarship.
“Genocide in the Wildflower State” is truth telling and a demand for justice. It holds to account successive parliaments in Western Australia that have failed to make redress. It is about helping to heal the trauma in the Survivor community and building understanding in broader society.
Speakers
Jim Morrison, Tony Hansen, and stolen generation survivors.
Date, time, and location
Tuesday 24th June 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm. Doors open from 1:30pm.
Perth Childrens Hospital, Level 5 Auditorium