Media Type: Prominent People
Noel Butler
Noel Butler is a respected Budawang Elder of the Yuin Nation on the South Coast of New South Wales. For more than…
James Kunkas Little
James Kunkus Little (1911–1972) was a Yuin entertainer, musician, and community figure. Born on 4 August 1911 at Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station…
Vic Simms
Vic Simms (1946–2025) was a trailblazing Australian singer, songwriter, and respected Elder whose life story embodied resilience, creativity and cultural leadership. Born…
Ned Hoskins
Edward “Ned” Hoskins was a long-term resident and community member of Wallaga Lake where he worked as a handyman/labourer under the management…
Tunungeranbrun II
Tunungeranbrun II (Edward James Walker) is named in Yuin genealogies and South Coast historical sources as a key Ancestral figure described as…
Monica Canavan
Monica Canavan, from Bermagui on the South Coast of New South Wales, is recognised not only for her resilience but also for…
Peter (Buddy) Kirby
Peter Kirby is a celebrated Australian Paralympian whose achievements helped shape the history of Indigenous participation in disability sport. Born in Bega,…
Alison Walker
Alison Walker is a proud woman of the Yuin people / Djiringandj heritage, who grew up at Wallaga Lake. Her totem is…
Uncle Robert Brown
Robert “Bob” Brown was a pioneering Aboriginal leader from Wreck Bay, known for his historic appointment as Manager of the Wreck Bay…
Joseph Sutton
Joseph Sutton was a respected member of the Yuin community, remembered through oral histories collected in the early 1990s, Sutton played a…
