Never forget who owned this country: Gordon Syron

Renowned Indigenous artist, Gordon Syron, recounts teaching at Eora College in its early days and how he and photographer wife, Elaine Pelot-Syron, travelled the country, photographing conditions of Aboriginal people and collecting Indigenous artworks. “I never, ever want people to forget who really owned this country.”

Keywords: Identity; law; political activism; working; arts

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