Maloga Mission

Aboriginal Australian women and children, Maloga, N.S.W. wearing European dress.

Maloga Aboriginal Mission Station also known as Maloga Mission or Mologa Mission was established about 15 miles (24 km) from the township of Moama, on the banks of the Murray River in New South Wales, Australia.[1] It was on the edge of an extensive forest reserve. Maloga Mission was a private venture established by Daniel Matthews,[2][3] a Christian missionary and school teacher, and his brother William. The mission station operated intermittently in 1874, becoming permanent in 1876.[4][5][6][7] The Mission closed in 1888, after dissatisfied residents moved about 5 miles (8 km) upriver to Cummeragunja Reserve, with all of the buildings being re-built there.

The community at Maloga were people of the Yorta Yorta Nation and other groups from the Murray River region.[4] There are reports of the Maloga cricket team competing with other teams in the area.[8]

  1. ^ New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council (1883), Aboriginal mission stations at Warangesda and Maloga : (report and correspondence respecting inquiry into working of), Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, retrieved 18 January 2018
  2. ^ Cato, Nancy. "Matthews, Daniel (1837–1902)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  3. ^ Cato, Nancy (1976), Mister Maloga : Daniel Matthews and his mission, Murray River, 1864-1902, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-1110-2
  4. ^ a b Belmessous, Saliha (2012), Native Claims : Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920, Oxford New York Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-938611-6
  5. ^ Australia. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; New South Wales. Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1998), Securing the truth : NSW Government submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs, ISBN 978-0-9585971-0-4
  6. ^ "Notes and Oueries. THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES". Australian Town and Country Journal. Vol. XVIII, no. 446. New South Wales, Australia. 27 July 1878. p. 17. Retrieved 18 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "The Maloga Aborigines' Station". The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. Vol. XLII, no. 1375. New South Wales, Australia. 13 November 1886. p. 1013. Retrieved 18 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "NARIOKA v. MALOGA". Riverine Herald. Vol. XIX, no. 2, 517. New South Wales, Australia. 1 October 1881. p. 3. Retrieved 18 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.