AUSTRALIA’S SONGLINES
The medicine man greets me with open arms, his fingers splayed like candles. On all sides a parade of sorcerers, kangaroos, barramundi and turtles glow, as if lit from within. I’m inside Magnificent Gallery, a 40-metre-long rock-art cave on Cape York Peninsula, and the highlight of a new Indigenous tourism experience designed to connect visitors with Australia’s traditional culture.
“What I love is how it [the gallery] shows the many layers of original society and how it was before colonisation,” says Johnny Murison, a Kuku-Yalanji man and the owner/operator of Jarramali
