One old woman sobs. A loudspeaker calls for a minute's silence to mourn the dead of the Stolen Generation. Then they wait, all eyes turned to the magnificent doorway of Parliament House. But no white comes out - not a single MP, not a single minister. They have all gone away.
Sadness gives way to anger.
She was born of Afghan and Aborigine parents, from whom she was snatched at her home in Philip Creek, way out in the bush, along with 15 other children aged from one to five. She was three years old. It was 1952, and Australia was proud of its young democracy. She has tracked down the children she was with at the orphanage. They have organised a grand picnic a step or two away from Dixon House, where they lived until their adolescence.