After the Apology | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme cases, until her own grandchildren were taken in the middle of the night. Hazel decided to take on the DOCS system after her fourth grandchild was taken into state care. Jen Swan expected to continue to care for her grandchildren but DOCS deemed her unsuitable, a shock not just to her but to her sister, Deb, who was, at the time, a DOCS worker. The rate of Indigenous child removal has actually increased since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the ‘stolen generations’ in 2008. These four grandmothers find each other and start a national movement to place extended families as a key solution to the rising number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. They are not only taking on the system; they are changing it…

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00:02To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families

00:09and communities, we say sorry.

00:13What do we want?

00:14Our children back!

00:15And what do we want it?

00:16Now!

00:16Kids are dying in care, young girls are becoming pregnant in care.

00:21Their treatment of me was like as if I was nothing, basically, and that didn't sit well

00:30with me.

00:31You're told not to have any contact with your child, you're told not to support your child

00:36with their issues, so how do I fight this?

00:40With Tyson, something just sort of snapped.

00:44I didn't want to see my daughter suffer anymore.

00:47I decided, no, I couldn't work for this organisation anymore.

00:52Australia is engaged in a new Stolen Generation.

01:01Aboriginal children are best cared for by Aboriginal people.

01:05Children do much better when they're in their own family and growing up in their own homes.

01:11Some kids probably do at times have to be removed from their parents, but they do not have to

01:17be removed from their whole family.

01:19Enough's enough.

01:21Give us our kids back.

01:22We need change now.

01:24I just could not believe that in this day and age, injustice could occur.

01:31Yeah, you don't believe it at the beginning, at the start.

01:34Oh, you're joking and all that, but yeah, when I got home, she's not there.

01:40They create so much pain and heartache.

01:43They need to be held accountable.

01:46Not only for the crimes of the past, but the crimes of the present.

01:55I never thought I'd be doing this.

02:00Never thought I'd be involved in a national movement.

02:04Anything that could actually change people's perceptions.

02:09It's like you've got rose-coloured glasses on, where you think everyone is equal.

02:17Let Australia know that this is still happening.

02:21Enough was just enough.

02:32Lots of Rafah Coats on USA.

02:32Going along to another place.

02:34Hopefully not.

02:34Yes, there are a lot of people.

02:34The bake, every day they hope.

02:34The big day we met

02:36And so I can't go.

After the Apology | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer

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