“I am a Stolen Generations survivor, the youngest of five children separated from our mother – we were very young children, infants and babies.

As many as one in three Indigenous children were taken from their families and communities, according to Stolen Generations organisation the Healing Foundation, which organised Thursday’s anniversary breakfast.

“We put behind us the old chapter that took from you the most profound of rights: to grow up safely in your own family and together we write a chapter of self-determination.”

“But I’d like to think that if we have the ability under the Prime Minister to move forward, to be given a chance, a second go at our term here in this parliament to keep leading, to keep working through these very, very fundamental issues for our people, the high rates of removal, the high rates of incarceration, we need to keep doing that collectively.”

“The trauma experienced by Stolen Generations survivors in telling their stories in 1997 needs to be acknowledged with a package of assistance for the remaining elderly survivors.”

“This year, marks 28 years since the Bringing Them Home report was tabled in1997 and Stolen Generation survivors are still waiting for action to be taken by those responsible.”