There has been ongoing issues at the former Aboriginal mission Roseby Park at Orient Point, east of Nowra for more than a month, with a number of elders being threatened with eviction over the failure to pay rent on properties the community says "they own".

Jerrinja Community spokesperson Graham Connolly Jnr said the community has lost faith in the land council and its ability to make decisions.

"For any decision on anyone being removed from the community, it has got to come to the community first," Mr Connolly said.

"Not some organisation put in place by the land council."

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Under the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) oversees operations of Local Aboriginal Land Councils.

In February 2019 NSWALC placed JLALC under a Performance Improvement Order to outsource its housing management and, to comply, JLALC approached Southern Cross Housing to act as its managing agent.

The decision was made at the board rather than members level, which under Land Rights Act and the performance improvement order did not require the decision to go to JLALC members.

"The land council is supposed to be there to look out for and help the community. Certainly, they can put proposals forward but nothing can be done until it is approved by the community," Mr Connolly said.

"Without a community, there is no land council.

"The land council needs to be held accountable."

Mr Connolly said the State Land Council had two investigations underway into the JLALC, regarding the alleged assault of an elder and the issue of forced evictions.

He has called on the state body to stand down JLALC CEO Alfred Wellington and the board until those investigations are completed and findings released.

"As a community, we are calling on the State Land Council to intervene," he said.

"Step in and stand the board down. Stand them aside until the issues with the community are resolved, until we can make a decision on what to do."

Mr Connolly said until those issues were resolved there should not be any further threats of evictions.

It is understood a number of residents who were previously not paying rent or did not have rental agreements on properties have now entered into agreements with Southern Cross Community Housing.

However, the threat of eviction still stands over around half a dozen residents, with chairman of the Jerrinja Traditional Owners Corporate (JTOC) Graham Connolly Snr claiming local police have told him they were "ready to undertake further evictions".

"We need to halt any possible evictions of residents from the community until the issues have been dealt with," he said.

The police eviction claim is something a NSW Police spokesperson has rejected.

"Police have no intention to evict Aboriginal community members from the Jerrinja estates," the spokesperson said.

Mr Connolly Jnr said the community felt its civil rights had been taken away.

"We have the Prime Minister Scott Morrison coming out and saying we need to close the gap, yet we have a group within ourselves making the gap even bigger, depriving us of our rights," he said.

"It's disgusting how our own people are treating their own people.

"And ultimately our young people, if they are evicted with parents or grandparents, will suffer and be punished.

"One of the biggest problems about our youth is they are being dismantled away from their families, their homes and community.

"How can you close the gap if you have your own land council creating these problems?

"If we are going to close this gap, non-Indigenous businesses need to work inside Aboriginal communities to make a better understanding of how you close this gap.

"And that goes across the board, non-Indigenous as well - if we are going to close this gap all living lives within the country need to be looked after one way or another. It's all about how we work together."

The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has been contacted for comment.