One of 100,000

Nanna Fejo’s voice is one of the tens of thousands voices of the Stolen Generation in Australia. According to the “Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families” report, commissioned by Paul Keating in 1995 and received by John Howard in 1997, between 1910 and 1970, between 10 and 30 per cent of Indigenous children (between 50,000 to 100,000 children) were forcibly taken from their parents and their families, the way Nanna Fejo was snatched from her mother in 1932. The report added that “in that time not one family has escaped the effects of forcible removal. Most families have been affected, in one or more generations, by the forcible removal of one or more children”.

Notes:

1. Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, from 1991 to 1996. His agenda included achieving reconciliation with Australia's indigenous population and legislating for the native title rights of Australia's indigenous people, which he successfully championed for.

2. John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007, serving four terms in total which made him the second-longest serving Prime Minister of Australia.