Outrage at primary school's Stolen Generation play showing 'nuns abusing Aboriginal students'

A primary school in Sydney’s Northern Beaches is in hot water over a play that featured Year 6 students dressing up as nuns and abusing Aboriginal children.

Parents of students at Forestville Public School, including former Socceroos star Robbie Slater, were left horrified by the “Australia You’re Standing In It” production.

While the school was full of praise for their play that depicted the “truth about our treatment of the Stolen Generation”, audience members said it was “bloody disgraceful” to push a political agenda on children.

“It’s a great school but this was serious misjudgement; little children should not be exposed to that,” Mr Slater told News Corp.

“It was bloody disgraceful. I don’t think using five, six or seven-year-old kids is appropriate to push your own political agenda," Mr Slater added.

“At certain stages I walked out, I didn’t want to watch it to be honest."

One scene included in the eight-show production depicted students wearing “sorry” placards as others were “pretending to be mentally and physically abused”.

So appalled by the production, many parents and grandparents in attendance could not vent their frustration soon enough, calling in to local radio stations to complain.

The Department of Education said they had been made fully aware of the production, adding that they were “looking into the matter”.

“As part of the year six student presentation on the stolen generation, students reproduced placards they’d seen in source material,” a department spokesperson said in a statement.

“The Department of Education is currently looking at the circumstances of this particular activity.”