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Funerals of stolen generations members to be paid for by government We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Gunditjmara woman Donna Wright’s mother, a member of the stolen generations, was sick of the symbolism. The feigned interest in righting the wrongs of the past. She wanted real, tangible solutions. “She didn’t want any more cups of tea on the anniversary of the apology or during Sorry Day. She didn’t want another cup of tea, she wanted action,” Ms Wright said of her mother Eunice, a prominent Indigeno...

Download 5.46 MB Regular Drive contributor Ian Hamm is a Yorta Yorta man and a member of Victoria's Stolen Generations. He said the commission could help "complete that unwritten chapter of the book of Victoria." Not knowing who his parents were meant "for the first twenty years of my life, there was this unformed cloud," "You are in that position of not knowing where you're from, and not knowing what being Aboriginal meant," Mr Hamm said. The First Nations Foundation chair believes a commission is a "really important part of making Victoria whole." Duration: 11min 55sec

Advertisement A brutal period in Victoria’s history is set to be retold as part of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission, the state government’s truth-telling inquiry into the wrongs committed against Aboriginal people after white settlement. One of the most difficult of these truths to confront will be the wave of slaughter unleashed in the mid-1800s, when Indigenous people were massacred by white pastoralists and explorers across the state’s frontiers. Robert Lowe wants to tell his family story of an Aboriginal massacre in Victoria’s west. Credit:Nicole Cleary Lyndall Ryan...

Ian Hamm calls it "the transformation document". It is a single piece of paper that outlines the legal end of his life as Yorta Yorta baby Andrew James, and the start of his new life as the adopted son of a white family in Yarrawonga. Ian Hamm who was removed from his Aboriginal family as a child is hopeful the commission will lay down the "good, the bad and the ugly" chapters of Victoria's past. Photo: YouTube/ Harold Thomas It is a document that took Hamm, a member of the Stolen Generations, decades to find. "At the top of the page I'm referred to as Andrew James … and at the bottom of ...

Transcript minus Australians all let us rejoice. Ah, the national anthem, a song we all know pretty well. But now it's a little bit different. For we are one and free. Did you spot the change? I'll play it again in case you missed it. For we are one and free. Yup over the holidays our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, decided to change the line we are YOUNG and free to we are ONE and free. It might not sound like much. But it's a change people have been asking for, well, for a while now. Because while Australia the country is pretty young, the continent has a history that goes back more than ...