Tony Hansen

57% of Aboriginal people in our state today are connected to the stolen generation. I’m the youngest survivor in this country and in this state, personally, you know, I spent 15 years in an institution. I was taken in 1970 and left the institution in 1985. And I believe that it’s a very important for all non, non-indigenous Australians to learn more about the impact of, uh, the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents. West Australia was one of the most profound places where removal of aboriginal children took place, more institutions than any other state or territory. We had a hundred more, a hundred more institutions to remove children and to place ’em in the institutions. Today we have 57% of Aboriginal people in our communities are connected to the stolen generation. So that’s, you know, more than every second Aboriginal person you walk past in the shopping center or in the streets. So I think it’s so important for government today to take heed of this message. Look at this, learn from the learnings of this survivors as they share their story so that we don’t repeat history, but we also want to heal together. We wanna come together united. We want to come together to be able to walk together in reconciliation. Also, go back and reflect upon the bringing Them home report that was tabled 27 years ago and look at some of the recommendations. What have we done since this 27 years? You know, wa was the first state to say sorry, but sadly, it’s one of the last places in the country along with Queensland to compensate the stolen generation people. And sadly, more stolen generation people are dying. What are our survivors said many times ago? What are they waiting for us all to die? You know, sadly, that survivor has died, so that survivor will never see that opportunity or see that, sorry, being mentioned by the state government. I just hope that people take the greatest great opportunity to have a good looking at this documentary. It’s um, it’s truthful, it’s honest. It’s um, it’s a live document that’s really impacted on people’s lives.