Genocide in the Wildflower State Screening
We would like to acknowledge that all activities happen on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, where sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to elders past and present, as well as the next generation’s emerging leaders, and commit to celebrating their art, culture and resilience through our programming.
During Reconciliation Week, we are presenting a FREE screening of award winning documentary GENOCIDE IN THE WILDFLOWER STATE. This documentary was produced by YOKAI and Bringing Them Home WA Inc.
SUNDAY 1 JUNE AT LUNA LEEDERVILLE | Doors open at 10.30am - film starts at 11am followed by a panel discussion!
Genocide in the Wildflower State is an award-winning 59 minute documentary about a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in 20th 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.
The free screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Moorditj Mag host and documentary producer Jim Morrison.
Plus enjoy some beautiful refreshments from Kepa Kwab! Kepa Kwab (meaning “beautiful water” in Noongar) is a bespoke non-alcoholic soda created to fund and grow Djinda Ngardak; Produce Prepare Provide’s signature youth culinary program that offers mentoring, innovative food education and employment pathways for First Nations youth.
Using ethically-sourced Australian botanicals such as Wild Rosella, Finger Lime and Strawberry Gum, the beverage is made by youth for youth; collaboratively developed by Aboriginal youth alongside a team of experts including Chef Rohan Park, Elder and Australian Bush Food specialist, Dale Tilbrook and 14k By Araluen, produced at Funk Drinks Co in the Swan Valley