Benang: From the Heart is a 1999 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Indigenous Australian author Kim Scott.

Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, A. O. Neville, was a key player in this process and he believed that it would work.

According to the Stolen Generations website, "The notion that the absorption or assimilation of some Aboriginal people into the European population is a form of genocide had gone around academic and leftist political circles long before Wilson's enquiry but gained enormous impetus from it",[4] Benang is about forced cultural assimilation, and finding how one can return to their own culture.

Benang follows Harley, a young man who has gone through the process of "breeding out the colour", as he pieces together his family history through documentation, such as photograph and his grandfather's notes, as well as memories and experiences.

Just as I am no white man, despite the look of me...(Page 494/496) Reviewing the novel for The Hindu, K. Kunhikrishnan wrote: Reading Benang, one could see that the narration could be seen as unreliable.