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 Billy Briggs & Lin Onus at the Bunnerong Land Rights Protest |
| Long before Lin Onus became famous as an artist, he led one of the important Land Rights protests of the early 1970s.
Below is an index of newspaper articles that trace the short history of the Bunnerong Land Claim and its ultimate fiery end.
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| 1. "Aborigines act on Land Rights" - Age 31st July 1970 |
| 2. "Direct Action urged on Land" - Sunday Observer 2nd August 1970 |
| 3. "Native Plan a Camp in Protest" - Age 25th Jamuary 1971 |
| 4. "Among the Lyrebirds, a sit-in" - Australian27th January 1971 |
| 5. "We wil camp here, says Native leader" - Free Press3rd February 1971 |
| 6. "Native Staff Walk Out" - Age 5th February 1971 |
| 7. "Land Rights Fight for Sherbrooke" - Age 5th February 1971 |
| 8. "Don't be Cuckoo - Bolte" - Herald 10th February 1971 |
| 9. "Land Rights Claim Named" - Free Press 17th February 1971 |
| 10. "Land Rights vigil goes on" - Herald 2nd March 1971 |
| 11. "The Onus was on Lin" - Free Press 3rd March 1971 |
| 12. "Mud Pies at Camp" - Free Press 10th March 1971 |
| 13. "Koori leader and minister in tv talk" - Free Press 10 March 1971 |
| 14. "Kooris told to get out - but Onus says 'we're staying'" - Free Press 6th April 1971 |
| 15 "Natives Plan Camps" - Age 13th April 1971 |
| 16. Ministerial Press Release - "Sherbrooke Forest sit-in ends" - 14th April 1971 |
| 17. "Aborigine Leader Accepts a House" - Age 15th April 1971 |
| 18. "Sherbrooke sit-in to end" - Herald 15th April 1971 |
| 19. "Native Squatters Decide to Stay" - Age 16th April 1971 |
| 20. "Sherbrooke squatters, 'We'll fight eviction'" - Age 17th April 1971 |
| 21. "Fire bombs hit the round-house" - Age19th April 1971 |
| 22. "Cocktails ended protest" - Adelaide Advertiser 19th April 1971 |