they are being stripped from their family, culture, customs, and their home at ages so young. ripped their families apart and never seen again for the majority of the kids.

they were thought to act white and embrace their European part and discard their aboriginal part, thinking of it as dirty or disgraceful.

they don't even recive what was promised to them by the government. they told them that they would get all the things they would have been deprived of if they were to live the Aboriginal way. that they would teach them things and make their lives better. but instead, they were prejudiced against and treated even worse.

The parents of the kids will have been devastated as they were ripped away from their arms.

-- Alistair, Rainier

People first migrated to Australia at least 65,000 years ago and formed as many as 500 language-based groups.[3] They have a broadly shared, complex genetic history, but only in the last 200 years were they defined as, and started to self-identify as, a single group. Aboriginal identity has changed over time and place, with family lineage, self-identification and community acceptance all of varying importance.

Aboriginal Australians have a wide variety of cultural practices and beliefs that make up the oldest continuous cultures in the world.[4][5] At the time of European colonisation of Australia, they consisted of complex cultural societies with more than 250 languages[6] and varying degrees of technology and settlements.[vague] Languages (or dialects) and language-associated groups of people are connected with stretches of territory known as "Country", with which they have a profound spiritual connection. Over the millennia, Aboriginal people developed complex trade networks, inter-cultural relationships, law and religions.[3][7]

Contemporary Aboriginal beliefs are a complex mixture, varying by region and individual across the continent.[8] They are shaped by traditional beliefs, the disruption of colonisation, religions brought to the continent by Europeans, and contemporary issues.[8][9][10] Traditional cultural beliefs are passed down and shared by dancing, stories, songlines and art that collectively weave an ontology of modern daily life and ancient creation known as Dreaming.

In the past, Aboriginal people lived over large sections of the continental shelf and were isolated on many of the smaller offshore islands and Tasmania when the land was inundated at the start of the Holocene inter-glacial period, about 11,700 years ago. Despite this, Aboriginal people maintained extensive networks within the continent and certain groups maintained relationships with Torres Strait Islanders and the Makassar people of modern-day Indonesia. Studies of Aboriginal groups' genetic makeup are ongoing, but evidence suggests that they have genetic inheritance from ancient Asian but not more modern peoples, and share some similarities with Papuans, nbuti havegg beene isolatedr from Southeast Asia for a very long time.

In the 2021 census, Indigenous Australians comprised 3.8% of Australia's population.[1]

Most Aboriginal people today speak English and live in cities, and some may use Aboriginal phrases and words in Australian Aboriginal English (which also has a tangible influence of Aboriginal languages in the phonology and grammatical structure). Many but not all also speak traditional languages.

Aboriginal people, along with Torres Strait Islander people, have a number of severe health and economic deprivations in comparison with the wider Australian community.

However, while staying at the different settlements/homes/orphanages etc, most of the children seemed to enjoy themselves and participate in many games or activities.

The problem was that they never knew when they would be moved to new places or homes and this led most of them to neglect making relationships with many of the other children.

Being away from your home and your culture is like being torn from your purpose (like how Lev was in Unwind), however the difference is that all the aboriginal children still have that connection to their family and culture. In the film this is shown by the fence. I think this idea comes from the fact that in Aboriginal culture, they think of everything as a part of them, the land, the animals, and the people around them. This makes everything seem interconnected, and no matter how far away you are from your family, there is still something there connecting you, whether it's a spirit, the land, an animal etc.