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The Cross River Rail Delivery Authority is rebuilding seven surface stations on Brisbane’s southside to improve accessibility for local communities.

While we’re at it, we’re also using the opportunity to create a public art trail at the stations from Dutton Park to Salisbury.

Benches at each station (Dutton Park, Fairfield, Yeronga, Yeerongpilly, Moorooka, Rocklea, Salisbury) feature brass plaques that tell powerful stories about Country, culture and heritage.

When you visit the new accessible stations, keep an eye out for a gecko – a symbol which will be featured once at every station, seated high on the face of the seat – just about where you would find a real gecko warming in the sun.

Just like a gecko might be welcome in your home to control insects, our station geckos welcome and represent good-will to travellers.

Recently, artwork installation was completed at Dutton Park station. Besides the gecko, Dutton Park also features plaques representing directionally placed boomerangs, kangaroo tracks and feathers to help guide travellers as they exit and enter the station. As a focal point in the middle, plaques representing the pigface plant find their place, grounding the design as an important local and native groundcover species.

Mount Coot-Tha, which is visible from the suburb, is also included on some of the benches as the most significant feature of the landscape.

Each station artwork was thoughtfully designed through the Birrunga Gallery Hub, a proud Aboriginal owned and operated business, which specialises in Cultural narrative artwork and graphic design. Birrunga Wiradyuri, the founder and principal artist responsible for the station art, seeks to follow and practice the central Wiradyuri Lore of Yindyamarra: to do something slowly, to respect, to be gentle, to be polite and to honour.