Opinion

How freight rail bypass plan's Yarns Parai revealed Indigenous stories of Hunter country

By Phillip O'Neill
August 2 2021 - 11:00am
MORE THAN A CORRIDOR: Saretta Fielding's work Yarns Parai: Stories on Country 2020 (Detail).
MORE THAN A CORRIDOR: Saretta Fielding's work Yarns Parai: Stories on Country 2020 (Detail).

The best stories are always powerful, proud and local, like Yarns Parai. Google it. The exhibition launches soon at the Lake Macquarie Art Gallery. It is a remarkable project. It pioneers ways of telling Aboriginal stories of country. In local Indigenous languages, Parai means country.

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