Wiradjuri artist and stolen generation survivor Aunty Fay Clayton Moseley say indigenous Australians have never been heard.
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00:00 A foul but painting heals my heart, heals my hurt.
00:06 And that's why I decided that I would go back to paint again.
00:12 250 years ago when Cook landed here, the first thing that they wanted to do was to clear the land.
00:20 Kill us. Massacred us all over Australia.
00:26 My father up here, he's a rat after brook, when he came back home.
00:32 And he met my mum and they got married and had nine children.
00:38 We were taken, there were six of us taken.
00:41 One day while they were at work, the welfare came and took us on our way to school.
00:47 During that time we didn't have any contact with our brothers, our mother or father.
00:54 I've done this quite a while ago but I keep bringing it along because it's a story of how the welfare was taking me along the railway lines up to Cootamundra up there.
01:06 And it's called Tears Among the Wattle.
01:10 The goanna is crying, my nan is the image in the moon and my mum is down the bottom there.
01:20 They took away our boys, they took away our lives and they took away our parents and our children.
01:29 But we all have to be aware of the atrocities that are still occurring.
01:34 I had a brother who was a death in custody. He was 28 years old, never drank or smoked.
01:43 He was a really good boxer but what can you do?
01:47 And that's still happening, we're still getting deaths in custody.
01:51 We're still getting kids taken away.
01:54 Even when I was working in government, I didn't have a voice.
01:58 I was still told what to do.
02:01 It is time for us to be able to make recommendations to the committee and they will forward that on to the politicians.
02:13 We don't want to see jobs, we don't want any more people in land or houses.
02:19 All that crap that's been told lies, that's been told about the reason for voting no.
02:29 And it's sad because do they want to control us for another 250 years?
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