Reconciliation WA is proud to partner with Yokai and Bringing Them Home WA to screen 'Genocide in the Wildflower State', a must-see West Australian truth-telling documentary.

This special screening of 'Genocide in the Wildflower State' for the reconciliation community will include a post-film panel featuring discussion with producers of the film and Stolen Generation Survivors.

This screening is hybrid - both in-person or online.

Ticketing:

This screening is free for Mob (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community members)
We kindly request that Reconciliation Allies make a donation upon registration (suggestion min $10/person).

All proceeds will go to Yokai and Bringing Them Home WA to support sharing the film with more Mob across Western Australia and to support ongoing truth-telling and reconciliation.

Film description:

Cultural Warning – please be advised the film does contain images and voices of people who have passed. Some content may cause distress to viewers.

“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.