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Adrian Black

Exhibition delves into Australia's 'secret war'

Judy Watson's Resistance Pins will feature in a mixed-media exhibition featuring Indigenous artists. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

When artist Judy Watson's great-great-grandmother Rosie was pierced through her upper body by a bayonet, it was a reed that saved her from a massacre at Lawn Hill.

"She and a young girl went down, down to some water, and they used reeds to breathe through and they survived," Watson told AAP.

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