Wave of Revocation and Destruction throughout Sydney

A further wave of revocation relating to the Government policy of assimilation and the removal of Aboriginal people from traditional reserves to new reserves set aside in other places or outside towns. Probably all of the Narrabeen community are trucked to western Sydney. After this time, no official or unofficial reserves remain in Guringai country.

  • Koori men fishing in Narrabeen Lagoon, 1910, courtesy of State Library NSW
  • Narrabeen Lagoon
  • Narrabeen Lagoon, where Koori people lived up to 1950's now Sydney Academy of Sport