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OMG HAVE A LOOK AROUND! So cool, so much around Eveleigh! And also around the whole station!

OH and you can go back in time and see it before the restoration!

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The lyrics of this song is imprinted in the first few panels of the mural.

From his 1988 Yil lull album, this upbeat song is about the continued existence of Aboriginals in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands which was heavily debated in the 80s.

"We were trying to say that even before Redfern, Aboriginal people have been there, have been in that area, have known this country, this place"

Carol Ruff

Restoration

Google images from 2013

We have an oral culture which is all about reiteration so it's very important to have things repainted and even rock art that would be repainted as generations came through and giving young artists opportunities to work on it and have ownership

Thea Perkins (granddaughter of Charlie Perkins)

I got off the train and I saw it and it just really gave me a really strong sense of pride and it was the first public recognition of our long history in this country

Ms Ingram (member of Redfern Station Community group)

We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practiced discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice

Paul Keating

Soaring rents are destroying the communities Aboriginal people have painstakingly built in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. It all feels very familiar

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT

#cities #gentrification #australia news #indigenous australians #world news

Redfern significance

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