Policy Overview

Many Australian Government policies were designed to control Aboriginal People across every aspect of our lives. There are many stories of families and communities on Yuin Country who have lived through these moments in history.

The policies that were forced upon and controlled Aboriginal People.

They were paid a pittance and it led to the stolen wages case.
Uncle Bunja Smith from Surf Beach
Uncle Bunja Smith from Surf Beach

Learn more about policies and the resistance against them.

Government Policy

Government Policy

Patricia Ellis OAM talks about government policy, that enforced segregation, assimilation and the forced removals and Aboriginal women as domestics....

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Stolen Wages

Stolen Wages

Bunja Smith talks about domestics, labourers, stolen wages and how this was similar to slave labour....

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Policy Change

Policy Change

BJ Cruse talks about past government policies that led to the mistreatment of Aboriginal Peoples....

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Stolen Wages

Bunja Smith talks about domestics, labourers, stolen wages and how this was similar to slave labour.

Bunja Smith talks about stolen wages.

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.