Employment
Lived experience of working on the Far South Coast NSW
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‘Space belongs to everyone’: Yuin engineering student takes First Nations excellence to NASA
Article
Yuin engineering student Keira Moran has been named the inaugural recipient of the Andy Thomas Space Foundation x Monash University National Indigenous Space Academy Scholarship....
ARTICLES
Aboriginal Sea Country Alliance formed
Bean Picking
Gary Campbell shares stories about bean picking and shares some memories from his time growing up as a bean picker....
FILMS 
Bean Picking
Judy Norris shares her stories about bean picking and some of her memories from her time growing up as a bean picker....
FILMS 
Bunbal: Working in the Timber Industry
Vivienne Mason shares stories about family members working in the timber history including a story about her uncles and about her mother when she was a child....
FILMS 
C E Wellings Collection
The C. E. Wellings Collection is a collection of 180 photographs taken by Charles Eden Wellings between 1900-1948. The collection includes photographs...
COLLECTIONS 
Corkhill Collection
The William Henry Corkhill Tilba Tilba photograph collection is a collection of 875 photographs taken by William Corkshill in between 1890 and...
COLLECTIONS 
Defining Moments – Yuin & National Timeline
Timeline of key national and Yuin historical moments....
TIMELINE 
Domestic Servants
Cheryl Overton talks about domestic servants and her family's stories and where young children from the boy's and girl's home where taken and forced to work....
FILMS 
Domestic Servants
Vivienne Mason talks about domestic servants and the work they had to do. She shares the stories of her Maternal Nans....
FILMS 
Eden Killer Whale Museum collection
Located on the shores of Twofold Bay, the Eden Killer Whale Museum holds a nationally significant collection that explores a range of...
COLLECTIONS 
Fishing Photo Gallery
Photos of fishing and related activities shared by the Yuin community....
GALLERY 
Gary Campbell
Biography
Gary Campbell is a Djiringandj / Yuin man, residing at Wallaga Lake. As a long-standing community advocate and cultural educator, Gary has...
CUSTODIANS 
Gold Rush and Wallaga Lake
Lynne Thomas talks about the gold rush and Wallaga Lake. She explains why Yuin people didn't touch the gold....
FILMS 
Jane Lucy Campbell
Bunja Smith shares a story about his Grandmother, Jane Lucy Campbell and her experience as a domestic....
FILMS 
Law of the Tongue
Warren Foster shares the story of the Law of the Tongue. He explains that there used to be a partnership between orcas and people to hunt the whales....
FILMS 
Leah Stewart (Bond)
Biography
Leah Bond was a young Aboriginal woman living in Chisholm Street, Darlinghurst when she enrolled in the Australian Women’s Land Army (AWLA)...
CUSTODIANS 
Lionel Mongta
Biography
Lionel Mongta was born in 1936 in Orbost, Victoria. His mother was Zeta Andy (born at Potato Point) and his father was...
CUSTODIANS 
Migration
Warren Foster talks about migration and the similar ways that people and whales travel. Warren explains that whales also have songlines and pass their songs down....
FILMS 
Ned Hoskins
Biography
Edward “Ned” Hoskins was a long-term resident and community member of Wallaga Lake where he worked as a handyman/labourer under the management...
CUSTODIANS 
Rene Davidson Collection
Rene Davidson’s 1988 book, a compliation of photographs titled Whalemen of Twofold Bay contains a section on Aboriginal whalers and includes the...
COLLECTIONS
Ron Mason
Biography
Ron Mason Sr. is a respected Yuin Elder from the Far South Coast of New South Wales, whose lifelong commitment to his...
CUSTODIANS
Ruth Walker
Biography
Ruth Walker, known affectionately to family and community as Aunty Ruth grew up on the Wallaga Lake Mission, the youngest of 17...
CUSTODIANS 
Seasonal Picking
Vivienne Mason shares her stories about seasonal picking and her memories from her time living on a farm....
FILMS 
Seasonal Work
Cheryl Davison talks about season work and the industries that Yuin people would work in....
FILMS 
Sketches by Oswald Walters Brierley
Sir Oswald Walters Brierley become known in Australia in the mid 19th century after he accompanied the Scottish entrepreneur and adventurer Benjamin...
COLLECTIONS 
Uncle Harry
Vivienne Mason shares the story about her Uncle Harry. She shares that he was a fisherman who was granted land by Queen Victoria and collected gold....
FILMS 
WalgAn (Abalone) Photo Gallery
Photos of collecting, preparing and cooking WalgAn (Abalone) shared by BJ Cruse....
GALLERY 
Whaling Days
Warren Foster talks about the whaling industry in Eden. He talks about his great grandfathers and shares some of their stories from whaling and fishing....
FILMS Seasonal Work
Cheryl Davison talks about season work and the industries that Yuin people would work in.
