About this Event
The National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice is delighted to host the first Victorian screening of the internationally award-winning documentary Genocide in the Wildflower State.
About the Documentary
Genocide in the Wildflower State is a 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 1972, 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 Generations 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. For more information, see https://genocidewildflowerstate.org.au/about/.
The Executive Producers are Uncle Jim Morrison, Chair of Yokai Healing Our Spirit (West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation), Tony Hansen, Co-Chair of Bringing Them Home WA, and Alan Carter, Co-Chair of Bringing Them Home WA. All three are Adjunct Senior Researchers with the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice.
This special event will include a background discussion of the documentary, the screening of Genocide in the Wildfire State, a panel discussion of the documentary featuring Uncle Jim Morrison and Alan Carter, two of the Executive Producers, and refreshments and an opportunity to yarn with the panel.
The documentary has been recognised at many national and international film festivals and awards.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Federation University Australia, Melbourne City Campus, 470 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia
AUD 0.00
