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A Frank, No-Holds-Barred, Minimally Edited Conversation with John Brierley and Andrew ‘Sam’ Nye ‘It really is genocide… our culture of…
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A Frank, No-Holds-Barred, Minimally Edited Conversation with John Brierley and Andrew ‘Sam’ Nye ‘It really is genocide… our culture of…
‘Where’s your trawler anchored?’ ‘It’s those little boats – we row ’em.’ ‘You don’t. The last time we saw anything…
He’s already conquered New York and for his next mission, Bodalla’s Wade Mongta has set his sights closer to home….
Below is a lesson plan to be used with the study ‘Stories about the Eurobodalla by Aboriginal People, 2006’. View…
17th of November, 2016 was the Grand opening of the ‘Danggaa’ Trade training centre at Moruya High School. In celebration…
Joe Brierley and his work with Indigenous students at Moruya High School was recently featured in the Batemans Bay Post/Moruya…
Wade Mongta, a former Moruya Student, is a Marathon Runner and mentor to Indigenous students at Moruya High School and…
Carol Margaret Larritt (nee Stewart) was born in Moruya in 1940. Her mother was Violet May Carriage, born in Batemans…
This area has a rich post contact history, particularly since the establishment of the Wallaga Lake Reserve in 1891, located…
The Tilba Tilba and Central Tilba area is in close proximity to the Wallaga Lake community. Many Aboriginal people’s stories…
Violet Parsons’ elders told her the mythical Dreamtime story relating to Gulaga, Najanuka and Baranguba. See above [Violet Parsons 6.4.2006]….
Gulaga [Mount Dromedary], Najanuka [Little Dromedary Mountain], in the Tilba area and Baranguba [Montague Island] to the north off the…
As evidenced by the archaeological remains throughout the area, it is likely that the area was utilised well before the…
“…………Corunna Lake is one of our traditional prawning places. Nan Stewart told me that Christy Stewart and Emily Walker said…
‘……Glasshouse Rocks is another significant, traditional fishing area. We can’t get in there now because the main access is privately…
Like the Clyde and Moruya Rivers, Wagonga Inlet continues to be a focal point for Aboriginal people’s connection to the…
As noted above the area encompassing Brou Lake and Mummuga Lake is often referred to as ‘Brou’. Mummuga Lake is…
The area encompassing Brou Lake and Mummuga Lake is often referred to as ‘Brou’. Mummuga Lake is also referred to…
The Nerrigundah Sawmill was located on the southern side of the township, and close by was the sawmill housing, for…
King Henry granted land to Richard Bolloway, south of the Tuross River, from Potato Point to Dalmeny and west to…
The Bodalla Township and surrounding area have played a major role in the lives of the present day generation of…
Within this area a combination of complementary post and precontact places of Aboriginal Heritage exist. Traditional camping and fishing places,…
Coopers Island was one of a number of primary places Aboriginal families worked in the seasonal farm industry. The first…
The Bergalia, Coila, Turlinjah and Tuross Head areas hold a variety of cultural heritage values for Aboriginal people, both past…
An interesting area combining places valued in the pre to early contact period; a burial site, a Dreaming track and…
Camping, travelling, ‘feeding off the sea’, teaching and meeting family are the dominant cultural heritage values to emerge in the…
Cultural heritage values attributed to the Moruya South Heads area relate to resource collection, education and living / camping. As…
The Moruya – Deua River has a rich combination of value themes associated with the spiritual and economic importance the…
The riverside township of Moruya contains a combination of interrelated places of Aboriginal cultural heritage. Burial grounds throughout the area…
Like the Bodalla and Nerrigundah areas, Moruya had a widespread seasonal farm industry. The picture emerging from the oral recollections…
Cultural heritage values attributed to the North Moruya Heads and Garland Town area combine pre-contact values such as burial sites…
The Bengello Creek and Bengello Beach area is interconnected with the areas of social-ecological value to the north and south….
The Broulee Beach and Broulee Island area has a similar complex of cultural heritage values to Barlings Beach immediately to…
The Tomakin area contains a number of important places for Aboriginal people; Barlings Beach, Barlings Island, Burri [Bevian] Swamp, Tomaga…
The Nye family owned a house on the Princess Highway, Mogo, the house on the southern side of the service…
Tom and his family walked from ‘the corner’, Barlings Beach, Tomakin through ‘little paddock’, over the Burrewarra Point headland, Guerilla…
This area contains a number of interlinked places of cultural heritage value primarily related to camping and resource collection sites,…
The Catalina area contains of a complex of highly significant Aboriginal Heritage places. These places are, in the main, meeting,…
The township of Batemans Bay has a combination of places of Aboriginal cultural heritage. It is a place full of…
In the 1950s families use to paddle up the Clyde River to fish for bream, have a picnic, and return…
This study is not the first to find that Cullendulla Creek is a highly significant cultural area to the Aboriginal…
The area to the north of the Clyde River contains a number of culturally significant places. A high proportion of…
Most of the contemporary connections Aboriginal people have to the Nelligen area relate to the sawmill industry. The area also…
As a kid Les Simon recalls visiting the Monga area to camp and fish [Les Simon 15.12.2005]. Violet Parsons recalls…
One of many sawmills throughout the region where Aboriginal people worked. Many Aboriginal people undertook many tasks within the sawmill…
The Durras, Murramarang area contains places that were highly utilised during holiday periods throughout the mid to late 1900s. The…
William Davis Junior was born in Pambula in 1964. His father was William John Davis, born into the Eora clan,…
Vivienne Mason’s grandmother was Muriel Coolie. Muriel Coolie was from Nelligen and she married ‘Ted’ Edward Stewart who was born…
Violet Parsons was born at the old Batemans Bay Hospital in 1952. Her father, Robert Parsons was also born in…
Valerie Andy was born in Orbost, Victoria, in 1933. Valerie’s father was Syd Solomon from Orbost and her mother was…
Patricia ‘Trisha’ Ellis was born in Sydney in 1957. Her mother was Patricia Ellis [nee Connell]. Her maternal grandfather was…
Tom Davis was raised by William and Gwendolyn Thomas as his mother died when he was young. Tom’s maternal grandmother…
Terry ‘Nipper’ Parsons was born in the old Batemans Bay hospital. Terry’s father was Cyril Parsons. Cyril’s father was George…
Cymbelene Rose Carriage was born at the old Batemans Bay Hospital in 1930. When she was registering the birth of…
Shirley Foster was born in a tent in Bega in 1934. Shirley’s mother, Agnes Harrison was from Victoria and her…
Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Mason Senior was born in Orbost, Victoria in 1945. At the time his parents, Leo Ritchie and Trixie…
Pam was born in 1944. Her mother was Joyce Carter and father Arthur Thomas. Joyce Carter’s father was Charlie Carter…
Mervyn Charles Penrith was born in Berry in 1941. He would have been born in Nowra, but his mother, being…
Maxine Kelly was born in Bega and attended Wallaga Lake School. Her maternal grandfather was Freddy Carter from Wallaga Lake….
Maureen Davis was born in Moruya in 1952. Her mother, Amelia ‘Millie’ Ann Andy was born in Central Tilba in…
Mary Kathleen Duroux (nee Hookwin) was born in Bega in 1934. Mary’s mother died when Mary was 4 years old….
Margaret Kathleen Mary Harris (nee Stewart) was born in Berry in 1951. Her father was Albert George ‘Linky’ Stewart (named…
Margaret Catherine Carriage (nee Connell) was born in Sydney in 1933. Her mother was Ursula Rose Connell (nee Brown) and…
Lionel Mongta was born in Orbost, Victoria, in 1936. Lionel would have been born at Tilba Tilba, but his mother,…
Linda May Cruse was born in Nowra in 1936. Her father was Benjamin Cruse and her mother Lillian Sarah Pepper…
Linda Colburn (nee Mason) was born in Orbost, Victoria in 1934. Her mother was Trixie (nee Thomas) Mason and father…
Leslie Keith Simon was born in Sydney in 1956. Les’s mother was Rosina Chapman, born in Batemans Bay, and his…
Leonard Nye, Symalene Nye’s son, grew up in the Mogo / Barlings Beach area. The family camped on the beach…
Keith Stewart was born in Nowra, in 1929. His father was Edward ‘Teddy’ Stewart, from Wallaga Lake, and mother Muriel…
Keith Nye was born in Milton in 1957. At the age of 4 moved to Mogo, Barlings beach area with…
John was born in Sydney in 1949. He grew up in La Perouse and throughout his life has camped, fished…
John Mumbler was born in Singleton, NSW in 1939. His father was Eric ‘Nugget’ Mumbler and his mother, Helen Maude…
John Brierley was born in Moruya. He is the son of Ernie Brierley and Beryl [nee Andy] Brierley and grew…
Jennifer Stewart was born in Berry. Her father was Ossie Stewart and mother Doris May (nee Chapman). Her maternal grandmother…
Harriett Walker was born at Wallaga Lake in 1935 and has lived in the Wallaga Lake community her entire life….
Georgina Parsons was born in the ‘Batemans Bay bush hospital’ in 1939. Georgina presumes she was born in the ‘bush’…
Ronnie Mason, Vivienne Mason, Vanessa Mason and members of the Stewart / Ella families including Roslyn Ella Field, Karen Ella…
Doris Moore (nee Davis) was born at Kalama Private Hospital, in Moruya in 1938. Doris’s father was Walter Davis (Wally…
Dave Tout was born in 1946 and frequented the Moruya area during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and returned to…
Beryl Brierley (nee Andy) was born in the Central Tilba area in 1932. Beryl’s father was Ernest Andy and mother…
Alex Walker was born in Berry in 1938. His father Reginald Walker, and paternal grandfather were both from Wallaga Lake….
Albert Solomon was born in Orbost, Victoria, in 1945. His mother was Edna Parsons from Wallaga Lake, and his father…
Alan Mongta was born in Nowra in 1938. Alan’s mother and maternal grandfather were from Delegate, NSW. Alan’s father and…
Although the term ‘totem’ has Native American cultural origins, the functional reality of the practise exists in parts of Australia,…
“The Dreaming” or “Dreamtime”, as it is called in English refers to the creative era when the landscape was given…
Aboriginal people throughout the south coast were involved in a wide range of economic activities associated with the new economic…
A large camp had existed in the Wallaga Lake area, on Merrimans Island, before the creation of the Station. A…
In the period from its establishment through to the turn of the twentieth century the Aborigines Protection Board included census…
The Aborigines Protection Board emerged in the 1880s and soon developed into an agency of government control over the lives…
While there were a considerable number of reserves created for the use of Aboriginal people throughout the Eurobodalla region there…
Timber getting began along the south coast in the 1840s, with sawmills proliferating in the 1860s. The large forested areas…
Gold has been found in many of the mountains and valleys of the Eurobodalla area and indeed all along the…
At the end of the 1850s gold was discovered at Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains and ‘gold fever’ hit the…
There is little documentary material relating to the ceremonial life or stories of Aboriginal people within the Eurobodalla area in…
As is the case generally in south-eastern Australia estimates of population for the Eurobodalla area are limited in extent and…
During the 1840s and early 1850s the Commissioners for Crown Lands provided annual reports on the ‘Condition of the Aborigines’…
Conflict between Aboriginal people and Europeans in the early period of European intrusion into an area is only one part…
The whaling and sealing vessels travelling the coast during the early 1800s may have transmitted new diseases to the Aboriginal…
Throughout Australia as the two conflicting economic systems, of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers, collided, resource competition became the focus of conflict….
The late 1820s saw the expansion of European settlement into areas to the north and south of the Eurobodalla region;…
In the year of 1797, during an official journey of exploration down the south coast, George Bass recorded his brief…
There was no permanent European settlement impacting directly on the lives of the Aboriginal people of the Eurobodalla area until…
The Eurobodalla area is generally accepted as lying within Yuin country. The Yuin cultural area is generally stated to extend…
The AFL Flying Boomerangs Leadership Program recognises not only the football ability but, more importantly, the leadership potential of young…
Treigh Stewart from Moruya High has been selected for the 2016 Australian Flying Boomerangs AFL representative team. The AFL Flying…
Dakota Feirer completed his HSC in 2015. One of his courses was Society and Culture. In this course there is…
MORUYA High School students can hold their heads high after bringing home a ninth and eighteenth placing at the national…
On the 13th of September at the Captain Olderley Park in Broulee, the local Moruya Swan Youth Girls team took…
On 30 July, the Under 15’s Moruya High School Girls team travelled to Albury to participate in the final of…
Two Indigenous students of Moruya High School, Nakia and Talia Moreton-Stewart attended the Eurobodalla Football Association presentation evening on the…
On the 15th of September, seven Indigenous students from Moruya High School played football (NRL) for Moruya Sharks in the…
A GROUP of Eurobodalla youngsters have become instant movie writers, directors and stars thanks to the Far South Coast Police…
The white settlement of the Moruya area and the pattern of its development have been driven by a number of…
Archaeological work along the south coast of NSW has uncovered Aboriginal sites dated up to 20,000 years ago, although work…
Moruya High school captain Dakota and fellow student Lachlan meet with Aboriginal music icon Uncle Archie Roach at Wallaga Lake…
Tarsharna Nye spent the day working as a paid Art Intern for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) on Thursday,…
Have a look at the resources below to learn more about Moruya: Tracing Events of the Dhurga Speaking People The…
Moruya Granite was of very fine quality and had already been used in buildings locally and in Sydney, namely the…
The location of the national capital at Canberra in the 1920s has proven to be no small thing in the…
Gold was discovered at Araluen in 1851. It became one of the three principal gold fields in Australia. Estimates vary…
Early cropping at Moruya produced potatoes, wheat, maize and other grains. Stock raising was concerned mainly with beef cattle, sheep…
The Moruya area needs to take account of places as far south as Bodalla. South of the Moruya the squatters…
According to local indigenous dreaming, Baranguba (Montague Island) was a generous provider for the Walbunja People, as both a fertile…