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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. |  |
Trip 8 Another view from Black Mountain the five Wallaga Lake kids saw of a snowy Canberra. |
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Nullas 1 Nulla Nulla Club - a quiet moment. |
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