By Dongyun Kwon
Although it’s been already 100 years since Coranderrk Aboriginal Station officially closed in 1924, Coranderrk’s story and history have still been going on.
Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation (WEAC) has launched a photographic exhibition ‘yalingbuth yalingbu yirramboi yesterday today tomorrow’ at The Memo, Healesville centred around themes of land, education and partnerships, supported by Yarra Ranges Regional Museum.
Guided by the Station’s founding legacy to be self-sufficient and self-governed WEAC has worked to reawaken Coranderrk by employing Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, to care for Country and Culture.
By sharing stories from yalingbuth and where they occurred, WEAC are reclaiming events from an unjust past, to shift the narrative and transform yalingbu into a positive yirramboi.
WEAC director Brooke Wandin said the history of Coranderrk did not end in 1924.
“The stories of Coranderrk continue today through descendants and also by WEAC caring for Country at Coranderrk,” she said.
“The history of Coranderrk is powerful in speaking to the realities and injustices of the past and has an important role in truth-telling both locally and nationally.”
The exhibition will be on display until Sunday 20 October, with free entry.
