Rap sheet of a Stolen Generation. How the State of Western Australia removed thousands of Aboriginal children from their families… Excerpt from 1958 Annual Report of the WA Child Welfare Department showing numbers of children charged with the offence of being ‘destitute and neglected’.

Figures represent children of all backgrounds. Overwhelmingly, the Aboriginal children were committed to internment in dozens of institutions and missions. For them it meant a childhood of heartbreak, abuse and forced assimilation.