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“We used to play around Mabel Downs Station, play around la camp and the big hills. And we always see this police tracker, this Aboriginal bloke, he used to come down with the policeman. And we used to ask him, ‘What you come here for, to kill all the dog?’ and that Police tracker would say ‘yeah’, and so we would run away with our dogs and hide in the hills. We bin frightened he might kill our dogs.”
This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.
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