William Tilmouth was taken from his family as a young boy. He is now chair of First Nations not-for-profit Children's Ground.
When Arrernte man William Tilmouth was just a little boy he was taken from his parents, who were both also survivors of the Stolen Generations.
He was moved to Croker Island, 250km off the coast of Darwin, where he lived and attended school with other Aboriginal children stolen from their families.
From the mid-1800s right up until the 1970s, many Aborigingal children were forcibly removed from their families through government policies and have become known as the Stolen Generations.
Mr Tilmouth, who chairs First Nations not-for-profit Children's Ground, is using the anniversary to call for action, as the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care continues to grow.
"At the age of five my mother passed away and welfare swooped," he said.
"The light-skin ones went south and the dark-skin ones went north and that was the conveyor belt.
