00:00I've come to Australia because we want to do the blue-eyed, brown-eyed exercise in discrimination,
00:05which I've been doing with people in many, many places for many, many years.
00:11So how many of the Blue Eyes know about the 1937 meeting in Canberra
00:16that brought in the policies to remove, forcibly remove, two Aboriginal children from their families?
00:24And you know what it said? It went on to say, and in 50 years' time, we won't have an
00:31Aborigines problem.
00:32So it was a deliberate breeding out program. And that's what many of us have suffered for all our lives,
00:41searching for our families, our identity and all those sorts of things.
00:44That I've been trying to educate non-Indigenous or white Australians to improve things for my people
00:51because of my experiences and the impact it has on our identity, our wellbeing,
01:00and yet you can't even sit and listen and learn in an exercise like today,
01:07which epitomises the attitudes and the arrogance and the difficulties that we still have in this country every day.
01:18I was 30 years old when I found my mother again and within weeks lost her.
01:29And she's never been seeing it since.
01:32I'm a stolen generation and I work with stolen generations to try and get an apology from this nation for
01:39what happened to us.
01:41And you know the other thing? While I was growing up in institutions, I never had any of my other
01:46siblings,
01:47never had a childhood with them. And you know what? They're all still alive today.
01:55I've got my older sister who's 80. That's what we're dealing with in this country.
02:04I never had any of my Aboriginal family at my wedding when I got married,
02:08when I graduated from the Royal Adelaide Hospital as a nurse.
02:13You can't even sit and listen.
02:17And that's what we're up against. It's that deafness in this nation.
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