STREET WALK YANA GARUWANGA GURAD (WALKING THE STORIES OF COUNTRY)

LEFT Plan de la ville de , 1802. Jean Baptiste Antoine Cloquet after STUDENT VERSION Charles Alexandre Lesueur. State Library of : Ref: F980/P Atlas [1811], II RIGHT Portrait of Bungaree, a native of New South Wales, with Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour, in background. Augustus Earl, 1826. National Library of :

1 TANK STREAM 2 ABORIGINAL 3 BUNGAREE FOUNTAIN HERALD WALKING TRAILS (BOON-GUH-REE) SQUARE CORNER PITT AND WELCOMES CORNER GEORGE AND ALFRED STREET, NEW ARRIVALS ALFRED STREET, CIRCULAR QUAY CIRCULAR QUAY Created and maintained using the careful application of fire, Aboriginal You are standing in a similar spot to The Tank Stream was created by a walking trails throughout Sydney quickly Bungaree in this image, at the harbour fresh water spring that arose from became access routes for European foreshore. Bungaree was born on swamplands in the current day location people upon arrival in . Guringai Country () just a few of the city block bordered by Pitt, The walking trails were initially only years before the arrival of Europeans. In Elizabeth, Park and Market Streets. approximately one metre in width and 1798 he went on his first sailing voyage were intended for use by two people to Norfolk Island during which time he DISCUSSION POINTS walking side by side. met Mathew Flinders. Bungaree went How did the European way of on many voyages including the trip to using the freshwater stream DISCUSSION POINTS circumnavigate Australia with Flinders differ from the Aboriginal use? Why do you think new arrivals in from 1801 to 1803. 1788 might use the walking trails Bungaree stood on this site and How did these new uses of as streets? welcomed visitors to Sydney as they the Tank Stream have an arrived into Circular Quay. impact on the colony? What would be the implications for Flinders noted that Bungaree was the growing colony when Aboriginal "a worthy and brave fellow" who, walking trails are used as primary on numerous occasions, saved the routes across the Sydney region? expeditions he was on. Bungaree's important role in the exploration of Australia is almost completely ignored in contemporary histories. There are statues to Flinders and even his cat but there are no statues or monuments to Bungaree at all.

DISCUSSION POINTS Why do you think Bungaree was so important at the time?

LEFT The Tank Stream Fountain created to commemorate the freshwater stream that once ran through this Country. Photo © Why do you think Bungaree is not RIGHT Sydney Cove, , 1788. William Bradley. State Library of New South Wales: Safe 1/14 commemorated in any way?

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ABOVE 1788 and 1844 shoreline markers, East Circular Quay. Photo © Sydney Living Museums

4 ORIGINAL SHORELINE OF TUBOWGULE (TUH-BO-GOOL) EASTERN SHORE OF CIRCULAR QUAY/ ABOVE Circular Quay East, Sydney, from Circular Quay West [Government boat sheds centre left]. OPERA HOUSE State Library of New South Wales: SPF / 774 Circular Quay was once a natural, rocky, intertidal shoreline of Garigalo (Saltwater) Country and was called Tubogwule which means “where the 5 ABORIGINAL CAMP AT ABANDONED knowledge waters meet” as this is the point where freshwater met saltwater GOVERNMENT BOAT SHEDS and created an excellent environment EASTERN SHORE OF CIRCULAR QUAY/OPERA HOUSE for fishing. Government boat sheds were built on the government, including one at Today, the shoreline has been reclaimed this site in the early days of the colony. In La Perouse. and is contained by a large brick the first few years of colonisation, many wall that keeps you away from the Sydney Aboriginal people died either DISCUSSION POINTS water’s edge. from disease, dispossession from the What do you think the boatsheds land or conflicts with Europeans. It is represented at the time for DISCUSSION POINTS estimated that approximately only one Aboriginal people? Why do you think would you reclaim hundred Aboriginal people survived and just twenty or so remained in Sydney. a shoreline? Why do you think the government These survivors established a camp in would want to move Aboriginal the abandoned government boatsheds What happens when you concrete people to La Perouse? a shoreline? at Circular Quay. The Aboriginal survivors remained What would the impact on local here until 1881 when the boatshed was Aboriginal people be if they cannot closed and all Aboriginal people were access the water? forced onto missions controlled by

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