Seasonal Workers

Our people travelled up and down the Coast picking peas, beans, pumpkins, corn and millet. We worked hard, had financial independence and enjoyed socialising. Although we were subject to racism from certain farmers, we hold joy in these memories.

Seasonal workers were labourers for animals and produce.

You'd go for it. Two for the bag, a clump for the bag.
Judy Norris from Wandella
Judy Norris from Wandella

Learn about seasonal workers and our experiences.

Seasonal Picking

Seasonal Picking

Vivienne Mason shares her stories about seasonal picking and her memories from her time living on a farm....

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Bean Picking

Bean Picking

Gary Campbell shares stories about bean picking and shares some memories from his time growing up as a bean picker....

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Bean Picking

Bean Picking

Judy Norris shares her stories about bean picking and some of her memories from her time growing up as a bean picker....

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Seasonal Work

Seasonal Work

Cheryl Davison talks about season work and the industries that Yuin people would work in....

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Bean Picking

Judy Norris shares her stories about bean picking and some of her memories from her time growing up as a bean picker.

Judy Norris talks about bean picking

Welcome to the Yuin Digital Keeping Place. This website is intended to record and share information on events and people that have impacted on Yuin history, language and lifestyle. Over the coming years, we plan to keep improving and updating this website so that it can include an even wider and richer collection of stories from Yuin Families. We, the Yuin DKP Project Working Group, understand that language is living, and acknowledge that different spellings have been used throughout history. For this project, we've agreed to use the language spellings Dhurga, Djiringandj, and Dhawa. We invite the Yuin and wider community to explore and learn from this Digital Keeping Place.