In celebration of Reconciliation Week 2025, we invite you to a free community screening of Genocide in the Wildflower State.

Genocide in the Wildflower State is a 58-minute documentary about a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in the Twentieth Century, in Western Australia.

For more than six decades between 1905 and 1972, thousands of mixed-race 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’.

Survivors of the Stolen Generations give vivid and at times heart-breaking testimony of cruel isolation, abuse and humiliation in the system. Their accounts are supported by evidence from state records, public archives and historical scholarship.

Genocide in the Wildflower State is both 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 the broader society.

ABOUT

For more information about the film visit genocidewildflowerstate.org.au

PRODUCERS: YOKAI Healing Our spirit (West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation), and Bringing Them Home WA Inc.

YOKAI Healing Our Spirit (The West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation), is an Indigenous, not-for-profit, community-based organisation that represents and supports Stolen Generation survivors and educates the broader community. Visit: yokai.com.au

The co-producer, Bringing Them Home WA, is a sister organisation advocating recognition and justice for the Stolen Generations and their families. Visit:bringingthemhomewa.com/about/

STOLEN GENERATIONS SURVIVORS & DESCENDANTS who give testimony in
the film:

Dorothy Bagshaw
Ezzard Flowers
Timothy Flowers
Brenda Greenfield
Dallas Phillips
Lorraine Pryor
Marie Pryor
Garry Ryder
Valerie Stella Woods
Glenda Williams
Gail Yorkshire

ALSO ON SCREEN:
Sherri Bagshaw Tony Buti, Mitchell Garlett, Tony Hansen, Hannah McGlade, Jim
Morrison, Brad Pettit, Howard Riley, Warren Yorkshire.

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Jim Morrison – Chair, Yokai, West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal
Corporation
Tony Hansen – Co-Chair Bringing Them Home WA Inc
Alan Carter – Non-Aboriginal Co-Chair, Bringing Them Home WA Inc

DIRECTOR | WRITER | EDITOR Frank Rijavec

CO-WRITER | RESEARCHER | SCRIPT EDITOR Steve Mickler

NARRATOR Kelton Pell

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