03/02/2026
February 13th is anniversary of The National Apology to the Stolen Generations. In partnership with Be Tru 2 Uluṟu, we will be hosting a screening of Genocide in the Wildflower State, with an introduction with YOKAI Chairperson Dr Jim Morrison AOM.
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.
We hope you will join us for this opportunity to witness, learn and support our First Nations community.
Tickets are $20, with all proceeds going to YOKAI Healing Our Spirit (West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation)
➕ Courthouse Theatre
➕ 60 Lt Malop St, Djilang
➕ 12:30-2pm
➕ Ticket link in bio
