Aboriginals move from St Clair Mission to Walhollow Station-Caroona Mission
North West - 1923

After the mission is closed, some families travel elsewhere while others remain nearby. Many move from St Clair Mission to Walhollow Station-Caroona Mission. Others establish a tin shanty town on the Singleton Common (the Redbourneberry Hill camp) until Housing Commission Houses are built many years later. One family moves to the other side of the creek near St Clair. They select a piece of land and establish their own vegetable garden on the creek flat until it is sold off. The loss of St Clair and its impact on peoples’ lives becomes one catalyst that helps trigger Aboriginal political mobilisation and revolt during the 1920's. Tom Phillips makes his anger known in the Singleton Argus. (James Miller, Koori Will to Win; Rosa Nolan, "‘We Want to Do What They Did’”; AIATSIS; Australian Museum)