This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2025 season. This season is now over.

Trees in WA, with the tile of the documentary 'Genocide in the Wildflower State'
Laurel for the Tokyo Film Festival
Panel Screening

Genocide in the Wildflower State

Join us for a screening and Q&A of 'Genocide in the Wildflower State'; a 59 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 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.

Presented by: Jim Morrison, Tony Hansen and Alan Carter

film • Film
Western Australia • SA Premiere
 
Previous Award Winner
 
Award winner
 
First Nations Australian
 
Fringe Fund Recipient