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
Learn about policies and the resistance against them
Anne Thomas
Biography
Anne Wirrimah Thomas (née Morris) was a Biripi woman respected by the local Yuin community on the Far South Coast of NSW....
CUSTODIANS 
Defining Moments – Yuin & National Timeline
Timeline of key national and Yuin historical moments....
TIMELINE 
Government Policy
Patricia Ellis OAM talks about government policy, that enforced segregation, assimilation and the forced removals and Aboriginal women as domestics....
FILMS 
Policy Change
BJ Cruse talks about past government policies that led to the mistreatment of Aboriginal Peoples....
FILMS 
Stolen Wages
Bunja Smith talks about domestics, labourers, stolen wages and how this was similar to slave labour....
FILMS 
Uncle William Ferguson
Biography
William “Bill” Ferguson (1882-1950), known to Yuin people, was a pioneering Aboriginal rights campaigner and unionist from the Riverina region of New...
CUSTODIANS Stolen Wages
Bunja Smith talks about domestics, labourers, stolen wages and how this was similar to slave labour.
