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?'