Harry Bennett has just turned 100 years old but he was not meant to be born at all.

"I was born in Tennant Creek at Old Telegraph Station," he said.

"My mum and dad had a feeling for one another, you know what I mean? And I'm the result."

Mr Bennett's father was white and his mother Aboriginal.

But when his mother got pregnant, his grandmother told her to kill the baby because she did not want her family to be shamed for having a black child.

"They said when you have the baby you kill him ... so my parents said alright, instead of going back to Helen Springs they went to Tennant Creek and I'm the result."

Children buried in sand to hide them from troopers

At the time it was a crime for a white man to be with an Aboriginal woman, so Mr Bennett's father left to avoid going to jail for seven years.

But his mother faced more obstacles.

She was forced to protect him from police troopers looking for Aboriginal children of mixed descent.

"When the troopers used to come through, my grandma and granddad, along with all the parents, used to bury the children in the loose sands," said Bernadine Hooker, Mr Bennett's daughter.

"They had a straw from a bush sticking out and that's all they had to breathe through.

"[The kids] were terrified actually but it had to be done otherwise the troopers would have taken them there and then," she said.

This method worked until Mr Bennett was four and he was finally taken away.

He is the oldest living member of the Stolen Generations and now lives in Katherine, about 600km north of Tennant Creek.

Harry Bennett was taken to the Phillip Creek Mission, near Tennant Creek. ( ABC News )

'My mum would have had it worse than me'

"I was told that he was put in an old blitz-truck-type thing ... with a lot of other children and they were just taken away from their parents," Ms Hooker said.

"But he told me about his mum and how she hung onto that truck and how she was dragged for quite a few miles in the dirt and she couldn't hold on anymore.

"She let go, she was wailing, screaming out for him but that's as far as he could tell me ... he couldn't tell me anymore. It was too hurtful."

Bernadine Hooker says her father was ill-treated while at a home for children. ( ABC News: Avani Dias )

Harry Bennett never saw his mother again.

"I was worried about my mother. What am I being taken for?" Harry said.

"She would have been worse than me thinking about me and how I was growing up.

"She'd be thinking about me getting bigger and wondering if I was getting tall or fat or what.

"I haven't seen my mother since that day."

Deaf from being boxed in ears

He was taken north to a mission in Darwin then down to Pine Creek and ended up at The Bungalow in Alice Springs for children who had been taken away.

"I know my dad was ill-treated there by a certain person," Ms Hooker said.

"Every time he used to walk past my dad, he'd box his ears for him and my dad ended up going deaf altogether because of this."

Mr Bennett now has three children, 13 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren.

They have to use a small whiteboard to communicate with him.

'I don't think I'm that old'

Although the injustices are from so long ago, Ms Hooker said they still hurt the family.

"It's affected the whole family ... there's a lot he doesn't talk about, there's a lot we'd like to know about," she said.

Harry Bennett takes each day as it comes. ( ABC News: Harry Bennett )

"There's still a lot out there we'd still like to know and the biggest hurt of all is not knowing any of my dad's side of the family."

But Mr Bennett is anything but bitter despite a life riddled with tragedy.

"I don't worry about anything, nothing worries me," he said.

"When I wake up in the morning it's another day, just an ordinary day.

"I don't even think that I'm that old!"