Brian was stolen from his family, 'flogged with a cricket bat', and 'thrown into sewers'. The state insisted it was helping him

Uncle Brian Gray never had his own birthday cake as a child. "I didn't know what a cake was," the Murri man said, adding that his wife gave him his first birthday cake when he was about 25 years old. "Now I get one every year from my grandkids and kids." Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images of people who have died...