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.

Film and Digital • Film
Western Australia • SA Premiere
 
First Nations Australian Shows
 
Fringe Fund Recipient
 
Tue, 18 Mar
 
90 min
 
The Mercury Cinema
 
$10 to $15
 
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