00:00What's the significance of this mission, Lake Conda mission, where we are now in southwest
00:07Victoria to your own family?
00:10Yeah, it's a deep, deep personal connection first and foremost.
00:16Like, you know, I feel quite emotional every time I come home.
00:21After his family were rounded up here, some of Travis's relatives were stolen from this
00:26mission as children.
00:29People were taken from here, you know, my dad wasn't taken from here, but his siblings
00:32were taken from this country, this land here.
00:36And you know, it's, it's, it's deeply troubling, you know, again, this is the stolen generation.
00:44These are the remnants of the segregation era in Australia, aren't they?
00:48They sure are.
00:49They're a continual reminder that, that of the segregation around our people from non-Aboriginal
00:55people.
00:56They were never, ever considered as equals.
01:00And again, treated horrifically for just being born as an Aboriginal person.
01:06Do you often come across Australians who tell you they don't know about this history?
01:10Every day I hear people say, I didn't know about this, why didn't I learn?
01:15And again, it's, I understand that because I went through the Australian schooling system
01:19as well.
01:20We're not asking people to say, sorry, but we're asking people to open their minds,
01:24to open their hearts to the full story.
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