"We had abuse — physical, sexual and mental abuse — all of us, including myself,"he said.
"We had no secure lock-down, so anyone could have come in, cut our throats or whatever."
"When you got no love shown to you as a child and you are living in that type of residence, it's any wonder people come out traumatised."
"It's also important that there are changes to the curriculum to show the history of Australia in relation to First Nations people."
"They just take your mum, they took everybody's mum, we had no mothers, nothing at all,"Aunty Ruth said.
"Well, I did that every night … pushed that blooming dressing table over to make sure they couldn't get in."
"That's why a lot of girls came back pregnant, that's why I came back pregnant. Because you couldn't say no, you couldn't scream out because you would get punished."