United Aborigines Mission

The United Aborigines Mission (UAM) (also known as UAM Ministries, United Aborigines' Mission (Australia), and United Aborigines' Mission of Australia) was one of the largest Christian missions in Australia, having dozens of missionaries and stations, and covering Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia in the 20th century.

The non-denominational Protestant-based organisation was first established in New South Wales in 1895.

The UAM ran residential institutions for the care, education and conversion of Aboriginal children to Christianity, mostly on mission stations or in children's homes. It was mentioned in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) as an institution that housed Indigenous children forcibly removed from their families.

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