Media Type: Prominent People
Belvoir St Theatre
Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney has been a leading platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander playwrights, actors and directors, commissioning and…
Tony Mundine Snr
Bundjalung Tony Mundine Senior is one of Australia’s most accomplished Indigenous boxers and community leaders, and well known to Yuin people. Born…
Tony Mundine Jnr
Anthony Mundine (commonly known as “The Man”), well known by Yuin people, was born 21 May 1975 in Newtown, Sydney. He established…
Shannon Walker
Shannon Walker is an Aboriginal Australian athlete, born in Kyogle in 1988. He grew up in a large family of eight and…
Uncle William Ferguson
William “Bill” Ferguson (1882-1950), known to Yuin people, was a pioneering Aboriginal rights campaigner and unionist from the Riverina region of New…
Uncle William Cooper
William Cooper (c.1860–1941), well known to Yuin people, was a significant person in Australia’s history, whose vision and activism laid the groundwork…
Guboo Ted Thomas
Guboo Ted Thomas (29 January 1909 – 19 May 2002) was a Yuin Elder whose life spanned traditional lore, cultural renewal and…
Uncle George Patten Snr.
George Patten Senior was a respected activist, community leader and union advocate whose lifelong commitment to justice helped shape the course of…
Mervyn Penrith
Mervyn Charles Penrith was a respected Yuin Elder, land rights and resistance fighter, educator and cultural leader whose life and work have…
Mary Piety
Mary Ellen Piety was a Yuin woman, connected to the Wallaga Lake and Tilba Tilba/Gulaga Mountain region. Born around 1872, she became…
