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Aboriginal Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights. Aboriginal women's implements, including a coolamon lined with paperbark and a digging stick. This woven basket ...
Yarri (c. 1810 – 24 July 1880) also spelled "Yarrie", "Yarry" or "Yarrar" [1] was an Indigenous Australian man of the Wiradjuri language group who took a major part in the rescue of 69 people from the flooded Murrumbidgee River in Gundagai over three days, from the night of 25 June to 27 June 1852.
Flooding remained a common problem for Wagga Wagga, with major flooding occurring in 1844, 1852, 1853, 1870, 1891, 1900, 1925, 1931, 1950, 1952 and 1956. After the 1956 floods, the City Council protected the city area on the south flood plain through construction of a levee. The levee was completed by 1962 and provided protection from 1 in 100 ...
The Murrumbidgee flood of 25 June 1852 swept the first colonial town of Gundagai away, killing at least 78 people (perhaps 89) of the town's population of 250 people, making it one of the worst natural disasters in colonial Australia's history. Local Aboriginal men, Yarri, Jacky Jacky, Long Jimmy [32] [33] and one other played a role in saving ...
The Boon Wurrung (or Bunurong) peoples of the Kulin nation lived along the Eastern coast of Port Philip Bay for over 20,000 years before white settlement. [2] Their mythology preserves the history of the flooding of Port Phillip Bay 10,000 years ago, [3] and its period of drying and retreat 2,800–1,000 years ago (see: Prehistory of Australia). [4]
The Tiwi are an Aboriginal Australian people, culturally and linguistically distinct from those of Arnhem Land on the mainland just across the water. [10] In 2021, the total population of the islands was 2,348, of whom 87% were Aboriginal people. [1] Most residents speak Tiwi as their first language and English as a second language. [11]
Aboriginal Victorians, the Aboriginal Australians of Victoria, Australia, occupied the land for tens of thousands of years prior to European settlement. [1] Aboriginal people have lived a semi-nomadic existence of fishing, hunting and gathering and associated activities for at least 40,000 years.
Aboriginal Australians lived on both sides of the Georges Creek for many years before the colonisation of Australia.The Salt Pan Creek area, on the northern shore of the Georges River between present-day Padstow and Riverwood is the traditional country of the Bediagal clan of the Dharug people.