In this paper, which is a read ‘conversation’, the intention is to take the reader
into the life worlds of its two author-researchers. An academic—Tarquam McKenna—and his colleague, an Australian Indigenous woman—Davina Woods—set
about ‘yarning’

around art and its role as a vehicle for (re)searching their
lives. Never far from their thoughts was the 26 May, 1997, release of the Human Rights Equal Opportunity Commission’s (HREOC) report,
Bringing Them
Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Children from Their Families,
which included mandated recommendations to the
colonising Australian people. One of these recommendations was that the Commonwealth and State Governments of Australia say
‘sorry’
for the centuries of
shameful and traumatising violations of human rights to which the Indigenous
peoples of Australia had been subjected.