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Dharug country covers an area of approximately 6,000 km 2 (2,300 square miles). In the north, it reaches the Hawkesbury River and its mouth at Broken Bay , creating a border with the Awabakal . To the northwest, the Dharug country extends to the town of Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains meeting the Darkinjung .
Penrith is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located in Greater Western Sydney, 55 kilometres (31 mi) west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Nepean River, on the outskirts of the Cumberland Plain. Its elevation is 32 metres (105 ft). Penrith is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of ...
Hadley Park is a heritage-listed former Aboriginal land, farm, dairy and gravel quarry and now unused building at 14-278 Old Castlereagh Road, Castlereagh, City of Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1803 to 1812.
The word "koala" is derived from gula in the Dharuk and Gundungurra languages A Yuin man, c.1904The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yuin–Kuric group that was traditionally spoken in the region of Sydney, New South Wales, until it became ...
Emu Hall Former Arms of Australia Inn St Paul's Anglican Church. Emu Plains is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.It is 58 kilometres (36 mi) west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.3% of the population. 84.9% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England at 4.0%. 92.4% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 36.6%, Catholic 28.8% and Anglican 17.1%.
Burnum Burnum (10 January 1936 – 17 August 1997) [1] [2] was an Aboriginal Australian sportsman, activist, actor, and author. He was a Woiworrung and Yorta Yorta man, born at Wallaga Lake in southern New South Wales.
According to Norman Tindale's estimation, the Gamilaraay's tribal domains encompassed some 75,000 km 2 (29,000 sq mi), [6] from around Singleton in the Hunter Valley through to the Warrumbungle Mountains in the west and up through the present-day centres of Quirindi, Gunnedah, Tamworth, Narrabri, Wee Waa, Walgett, Moree, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge and Mungindi in New South Wales, to ...