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Platform Arts
60 Little Malop St
Geelong VIC 3220
Australia
Why
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.
The films screening will be followed by Q&A with Dr Jim Morrison. Tickets are available from Humanitix.
Please join Be Tru, Platform Arts and Dr Jim Morrison, Chair of Yokai West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation for a film screening of the award winning documentary Genocide in the Wildflower State.
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.
Tickets are available from Humanitix.
Dr Jim Morrison
Dr Jim Morrison is a Minang-Goreng Noongar Elder, a Traditional Custodian of WA’s pristine southern coast who has passed his strong Aboriginal values to following generations of his extended family. He has been a leader in pivotal Aboriginal community advancement roles for over five decades.
He has won the John Curtin Medal for services to the community and partnered in winning seven awards in the virtual and Elder Survivor story augmented conservation of Aboriginal Missions in WA.
Jim is the current Chair of the WA Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation, a founding member of Reconciliation WA and the architect and initial manager of YOKAI Healing Our Spirit.
Jim’s favourite hobby is hosting a weekly Aboriginal current affairs program Moorditj Mag on Perth’s RTR FM 92.1, which feeds to Noongar Radio.
Dr Jim Morrison was awarded the 2026 Medal of the Order of Australia, a prestigious national honour recognising his significant contributions to truth-telling and justice for Aboriginal peoples in Western Australia and throughout Australia.
Tickets are available from Humanitix.
An Independent Community Voice
Genocide in the Wildflower State is independent and primarily funded by Indigenous donors. The producer, YOKAI Healing Our Spirit (The Western 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.
All ticket proceeds will be donated to YOKAI.
The co-producer, Bringing Them Home WA, is a sister organisation advocating recognition and justice for the Stolen Generations and their families.
Produced By: YOKAI Healing Our Spirit (West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation) And Bringing Them Home WA Inc.
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
Distributor: Ronin Films
Tickets
Tickets are available from Humanitix.
For updates check the Humanitix event, or the Facebook event.
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