Sealin Garlett, I'm a Nyoongar man and I'm born in a little place in Western Australia - a little place called Bruce Rock. I believe and I echo the words of Sir Ron Wilson who said there is not one Aboriginal on our land of Australia that has not been affected with the Stolen Generation. As a young boy of eight years old the native welfare came and got me from my parents' camp in the bush and they took us to the Methodist mission in Mogumber.

It was here that my brother and a younger sister were placed in a cottage home. It was here that we were given a roof over our heads, a Bible in our hand and in a sense to begin a new way of life. Many times my brother and I ran away from the Mission. At a young age we knew how to look for water, how to find berries and how to survive in the bush but we often got caught.

And they would bring us time and time again back to the Mission. And one of the great cliches they would tell us, after we got a flogging, after we were punished for what we did. They would say that 'Why do you boys want to run away from a place like this, why do you run away when all we want to do here is to put a roof over your head, put clothes on your back and food in your belly and tell you about God?'

My name is Coral Brockman I come from the Badimaya area that's my language group that's my people from the mid west of Western Australia. In my family we had seven children taken away on one day, through the court system and after we were taken away my, five of us, four of us ended up in one hostel and the other three little ones ended up in a mission in Willoona.

You don't ever recover because there was abuses in the hostel we had to live with those. The worst part was having a Mum and Dad who were alive and (they) you weren't able to live with them and not having contact with your little brothers and sisters.

My Dad had to pay maintenance for us being taken off him, and he couldn't afford to pay the maintenance so he spent a lot of time in jail to cut out those fines but the debt never went away. And then he, losing seven kids, course he's going to drink and hit the bottle and there was problems between him and my mother because they didn't have kids and I guess they wondered whether they were to blame for all that and after that they chose to go out and live in the bush and the other kids that they had were reared in the bush because they didn't want to go through that whole experience of having their kids taken away, any more kids taken away, so there was another four, so eleven in all.