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Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station/Wallaga Lake Reserve

Name
Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station/Wallaga Lake Reserve
Type of carceral site
Reserve, Station, or Mission
Dates of use
1891 – 1969
Quote
This use of Aboriginal labour was apparently undertaken with an air of noblesse oblige, masking Ming's family's dependence on the Yuin and their role in their dispossession.
Aboriginal History.
Haskins, Victoria. One Bright Spot: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Loss. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 34.
We must always live in fear and insecurity, worrying if even the little we have will be taken away from us.
Testimony/Government Correspondence.
Thomas, Guboo Ted, et al. Letter to Premier Neville Wran. State Library of New South Wales, 1978, n.p.
Authority
New South Wales Government
location
Wallaga Lake
Contact
Kieren
identifier
SITE-WAL
Item sets
Carceral Sites