GENOCIDE in the Wildflower State

GENOCIDE in the Wildflower State

Screening at the QPT on behalf of the RAP Networking Group for National Reconciliation Week.

On Friday 23rd May, screening starts at 5pm and runs for 57 minutes. With a 30-minute Q&A session after the screening with DR Jim Morrison and guest speaker. 

This is a free event, all are welcome to attend.

Please register your attendance with your free ticket. 

About the Documentary

Genocide in the Wildflower State is a 57-minute documentary about a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in twentieth century, Western Australia.

For the 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.

RAP Networking group
The RAP Networking Group is a collaborative initiative that brings together local organisations committed to advancing reconciliation. Meeting regularly, the group provides a space for shared learning, building partnerships, and supporting organisations at all stages of their reconciliation journey.

Thank you to the RAP Networking Group members who are supporting the event. 

Mid West Ports

Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation

Geraldton Universities Centre

Centacare

Ngala

And CGG Mayoral Discretionary Fund