Barry Corr
Barry Corr is an Aboriginal man who has lived most of his life near Dhurabang, the river that settler society thinks of as both the Hawkesbury and the Nepean. As a university student he was a member of Student Action for Aborigines and took part in the 1965 Bus Trip, which has been memorialised as the Freedom Ride, including follow-up trips to Walgett and Bowraville in 1965 and 1966. As a person, a teacher, and an Aboriginal education consultant at a regional and state level, his identity and career has been shaped by the Aboriginal people of Western Sydney.
Barry has been involved in the development of a management plan for Shaws Creek Aboriginal Place, successfully applied to extend its boundaries, and participated in Bush Care there. Living in the Hawkesbury he has long recognised it as a haunted landscape where memory refuses to go away. His first book is Surveying the Wild Abyss: Unravelling settler memory.