Media Type: Prominent People
Vida Brown
Vida Brown, also known by her professional and Aboriginal name Nardaparli, was a renowned painter from the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community. She…
Preston Campbell
Thomas Leon Preston Campbell OAM is a celebrated Australian rugby league figure and community leader whose career both on and off the…
Albert Scott
Private Albert Oswald Scott (Service No. VX140371) served in the Australian Army during the Second World War, enlisting 12 April 1943 and…
Andy Bond
Andy Bond was born in Wallaga Lake, in 1883 and the Australian military records list his service number as 4509, with the…
Frank Stewart
Frank Stewart (Service No. 3860) was born in Wallaga Lake and served as an Australian soldier with the 47th Australian Infantry Battalion…
Harry Cooley
Henry Joseph “Harry” Cooley (born 14 September 1882, Mount Hope, New South Wales died 19 April 1964, Sydney) was an Yuin who…
Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Cricket Team
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cricket became a defining part of life on the Wallaga Lake Aboriginal reserve. From…
Black Theatre
The National Black Theatre (NBT) was established in Redfern in 1972 at a time of protest, pride and a movement for change…
Burnum Burnum
Burnum Burnum (born Henry James “Harry” Penrith, 1936-1997) was a Yuin man and one of the most creative and visible Aboriginal rights…
Percy Mumbler
Percy Mumbler (1907-1991), affectionately called ‘Bing’, was an Aboriginal Elder, activist, and cultural leader from the Yuin Nation. Born at the Wallaga…
