Erambie Mission

Erambie Mission is an Aboriginal community located on the western banks of the Lachlan River, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) from the town of Cowra, in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.

[1] The mission boasted a football team called the Erambie Allblacks, and there were many musicians in the community.

During World War II, there were around 70,000 troops stationed at a training camp in Cowra, and people from the mission used to perform for them.

[2] The mission was laid out along three streets in a grid of tightly packed houses, but it contains no shops or library.

[1] Dr Laurie Bamblett, who grew up in Erambie, was in 2015 adjunct research fellow at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University, after spending over two decades developing and conducting community education and health programs at Erambie.