Aboriginal 2nd Edition Contents

CONTENTS

About the authors iii About this book iv Foreword to first edition, Russell Taylor vii Acknowledgments from first edition xv Seeing the past in the present xviii

THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT SITES 1–8 1 1 Cadi Jam Ora display, Royal Botanic Gardens 3 Initiation ceremonies at Farm Cove 5 Aboriginal plant use 6 2 Yiribana Gallery, Art Gallery of 7 3 , site of the first 9 Government House Aboriginal visitors to Government House 11 4 Exhibition, 12 5 The 14 Learning from each other at the Observatory 15 6 Hall building 16 The 1938 Day of Mourning 17 7 Bangarra Dance Theatre 19 8 Tribal Warrior Association 21 OTHER SITES public artworks 23 Sydney’s first water supply 24 Bennelong Point, the 26 Bennelong 28 Barangaroo 29

AROUND THE HARBOUR SITES 9–16 31 9 The Gadyan Track, Berry Island 32 sites 10–11 34 10 Whale engraving site 34 11 Occupation sites 35 Fishing 36

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Sydney Harbour National Park sites 12–14 37 12 Lookouts, Dobroyd Head 37 Arabanoo 39 The capture of Colebee and Bennelong 39 13 Midden, Reef Beach 41 Canoes 42 14 Engravings, Grotto Point 43 Smallpox 45 Bungaree and the ‘Native Farm’ 46

15 Rock shelter, Balmoral Beach 48 Whales 49 The spearing of Governor Phillip 49 16 Burial site, Bennelong Park, Putney 51

NORTH OF SYDNEY SITES 17–21 53 17 Aboriginal Heritage Office, Northbridge 55 Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park sites 18–20 57 18 Engravings, The Basin Track 59 Understanding Aboriginal rock engravings 62 19 Stencils, Red Hands Cave 64 20 Lookout, West Head 66 Other sites in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park 67 Sites not included in this book 67 21 Engravings, Bantry Bay, Garigal National Park 68

INNER SOUTH SITES 22–26 71 Redfern sites 22–26 73 22 The Empress Hotel 76 23 Aboriginal community organisations 78 The Aboriginal Housing Company 78 The Aboriginal Legal Service 79 The Aboriginal Medical Service 80 The Black Theatre 82 OTHER SITES Koori Radio and Gadigal Information Services 83

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24 Memorial to Aboriginal burials, 84 Camperdown Cemetery Laying to rest a dark side of colonial history 85 25 Engravings, Bondi Golf Course 86 Other evidence of occupation 87 26 Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative 88

SOUTH OF SYDNEY SITES 27–34 93 Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell Peninsuala 94 sites 27–29 27 Captain Cook’s landing place 96 28 Aboriginal living areas, Inscription Point 98 First contact 99 29 Lookout, Cape Solander/Tabbigai 100 La Perouse sites 30–34 101 30 Yarra Bay House 103 The Aborigines Protection Board and 106 the 31 walk, Yarra Bay 108 Common plants 109 Fishing 110 32 The La Perouse Museum 111 33 Congwong Bay 113 34 Laddie Timbery arts and crafts 115

WEST OF SYDNEY SITES 35–42 117 sites 35–36 124 35 The Riverside Walk 120 36 St John’s Park, Church Street Mall 122 St John’s Cathedral 123 The Parramatta Town Hall 123 Firestick farming 123 Parramatta Park sites 37–38 37 Old Government House 125 38 Aboriginal living areas 127 Baluderri 128 Pemulwuy and the Aboriginal resistance 129

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Old Blacktown sites 39–40 131 39 The Blacktown Native Institution site 132 The Native Institution and Macquarie’s ‘civilising 134 experiment’ 40 Colebee and Nurragingy land grant site 136 Plumpton Ridge silcrete quarry 138 Aboriginal trade routes 138

41 St Bartholomew’s Cemetery, Prospect 139 42 Muru Mittigar Cultural Centre, Castlereagh 140

SOUTH-WEST OF SYDNEY SITES 43–45 142 43 Maria Lock’s land grant, Liverpool 143 Maria and Robert Lock 144 44 Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 146 Judy Watson 148 45 Bents Basin State Recreation Area, Greendale 149

Organisations 151 References 154 Index 159

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