Naidoc Week 2024 – Watch the film, Meet the Author Brenda Matthews – The Last Daughter

Film Screening: 2pm
Meet The Author: 4pm

Come and watch the award winning documentary about Brenda’s experience of being taken from her Aboriginal family as a child. The screening will be followed by a talk by Brenda about her childhood and her quest for understanding and reconciliation.

When she was two years old, Brenda and her siblings were taken from their parents. For the next five years she was a much-loved daughter in a white family, a happy child in a country town on the outskirts of Sydney, unaware of the existence of her Aboriginal family or how hard her parents were fighting for her return—unaware of her Aboriginal identity. Then, suddenly, she was reunited with her birth family, the last daughter to come home.

Decades later, Brenda searches for her foster family and her beloved white sister. Along the way she uncovers long-buried secrets and government bungling and finds a deep connection to her Aboriginal culture.

Brenda Matthews is a proud Wiradjuri woman living with her husband, Mark, in Bundjalung country, Queensland. Brenda is a devoted mother, grandmother, sister, daughter and aunty. Through her story, Brenda invites people to walk together with deeper connection and understanding.