Quote Sources: Survivor

  • March 20, 2024
    My father and my mother never got the chance to be parents to me. I’m 66 years of age now…
  • March 20, 2024
    But they knew about New Norcia. [it] was the capital of… like a place of sexual abuse, but they kept…
  • March 20, 2024
    When I was taken to the mission, I was eight months old. I was taken away with my Mum, probably…
  • March 20, 2024
    I went in from two months to nearly ten years of age. And then went home to my mother. Just…
  • March 20, 2024
    We had to readjust into the community. We didn’t act like our people. We didn’t talk like them. We were…
  • March 20, 2024
    When our kids were taken away the churches kept our kids. There was a lot of money involved. So the…
  • March 20, 2024
    So you know we really need to bring that awareness into the justice system, into the government, you know, the…
  • March 20, 2024
    I never got my Mum; I never had her in my life. [visibly anguished] Because I was aiming that she…
  • March 20, 2024
    You know it’s a long time now since Bringing Them Home national inquiry happened. They found there was genocide against…
  • March 20, 2024
    Fifty-seven percent of Aboriginal people in our state today are connected to the Stolen Generations people. So that’s every second…