Genocide in the Wildflower State is a 59 minute documentary about a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in 20th century Western Australia.
For the 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.
Produced by YOKAI Healing Our spirit (West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation) and Bringing Them Home WA Inc., written and directed by Frank Rijavec (A Million Acres A Year, Black Magic, Exile and the Kingdom), co-written and researched by Steve Mickler (Andrew Bolt, The Far Right and the First Nations), and narrated by Kelton Pell (The Heights, Mystery Road: Origin).