She moved there as a six-month-old and the now 54-year-old is one of the residents in the community being slated for eviction.

She admits it is a worrying and scary time.

"Where do I go if I'm kicked out?' she said.

"I only know that place, it is my home.

"I'm an educated woman. I work as a teacher at Culburra School but there are people at the village who aren't and have no idea what's going on.

"I have no idea how they are going to cope?"

She said it was a scary time for the whole community.

On Tuesday, June 30, NSW Sheriffs' personnel along with representatives of Southern Cross Housing, acting on a ruling from the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) on behalf of the Jerrinja Aboriginal Land Council, attempted to evict the long-time resident Rhonda Connolly.

After extended negotiations which included NSW Police, Ms Connolly was given a week to appeal the decision.

"All we want to do is live a simple life and be left alone," Ms Reid said.

"We just want somewhere that is ours, somewhere that is safe for our kids, a safe environment.

"Are they trying to make us assimilate again now and send us out into the big world? It's a big world out there and it doesn't look real attractive at the moment."

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She said her family has never paid rent on its property.

"I don't acknowledge the Jerrinja Aboriginal Land Council as my landlord," she said.

"They don't own it. My mother always told us she owned the house and land and it was passed down through family members.

"I remember the house being built in 1975.

"I remember seeing drawings of the house plans with my parents' names on it.

"It was all very exciting at the time - we would look at the plans and decide or say that's my room.

"I assume my parents were given titles and deeds but no one can seem to find them. We've even had searches with the banks to no avail."

Ms Reid said she was one of a number of residents issued with documentation, an action order from Southern Cross Housing.

"I've been given three months," she said.

"I'm an educated woman but I don't know what to do. Or where to start."

She reflected on how the community had been through so much "originally being relocated from Coolangatta, given the land at Orient Point, put under the control of the protection board and then when that was resolved the land was given back to the people".

"Now we are supposedly under the control of the land council but we are all members of that," she said.

"For lots of families, this is the only area they know. They have strong connections with the land, the community, we feel safest out there.

"In a way, we do live in the past. But we have to abide by today's laws but that's the outside country. Inside country, we do things our own way.

"We look after each other - sure there are occasions when there are disputes but it's about looking after each other."

Ms Reid said she will probably end up living in a tent somewhere if evicted.

"We need an advocate, someone who can approach NCAT and the likes for us."

Ms Reid is one of about a dozen residents who have been issued with or warned over eviction and are going to lodge paperwork with Services NSW in an attempt to get a stay in proceedings.