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Jewish Students Society ANUJSS and the Nulla Nullas The Nulla Nullas was a children's Club run at Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Reserve, south coast of NSW, during 1964-1966 |
An historical overview of the relationship between Jews and
the Aboriginal people of Australia is given
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Beginnings 0 The sixties were in the US the era of the Civil Rights movement. In Australia, concern for the situation of aborigines grew. Late 1964 ANUJSS opted to research non-political, grass roots means of improving the situation of aborigines. |  |
Beginnings 3 Younger kids outside the meeting hall at Wallaga Lake. This building had been Wallaga Lake Aboriginal School until 1963, but children now attended Bermagui Public School, about 12 km away. |  |
Beginnings 4 View at dusk of the ridge on which is Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Reserve Village. Galuga Mountain looms above, Wallaga Lake below. |
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Trip 9A On their Canberra trip, the Nulla Nulla kids spent Monday as students at the Telopea Park High School. |  |
Trip 4 Lorraine Kelly with the snowman she made outside the house where she was billetted. Her first snow -- and the first time she had used an electric toaster. |  |
Nullas 7 Nulla Nulla Club members, a mother, and three ANUJSS members, outside meeting hall at Wallaga Lake. |
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Beginnings 5 Five kids along neatly fenced \"Main Street\" at Wallaga Lake Reserve |  |
First Steps 1 Setting out for a picnic at the beach in the back of a ute. (Seat belts were unknown in 1965.) Kids plus two ANUJSS members. |  |
Nullas 1 Nulla Nulla Club - a quiet moment. |
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Yuin Today 1 Recently established Umbarra Centre at Wallaga Lake offers (quote) activities [that] include boomerang and spear throwing, ochre painting, shelter building, Dreamtime stories, open fire cooking of bush tucker. Purchase locally made artefacts, paintings, didgeridoos and other arts and crafts. Umbarra also provides tours to significant local Koori sites.(unquote) Manager is Lorraine (nee Kelly) Maylor. |
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