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    The Dharug or Darug people, are an Aboriginal Australian people, who share strong ties of kinship and, in pre-colonial times, lived as skilled hunters...
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    The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian...
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    The Dharug National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 14,850-hectare...
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    between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The word "wallaroo" is from the Dharug walaru with spelling influenced by the words "kangaroo" and "wallaby". Wallaroos...
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  • area was part of Marsden Park. The origin of the suburb name is from the Dharug Aboriginal language meaning a type of wattle found in the area. Melonba...
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    (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ PEM-əl-woy; c. 1750 – c. 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug, an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales. One of the most famous...
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    Bidjigal Reserve, Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River. They are part of the Dharug language group. The Bidjigal clan were the first Indigenous Australians...
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    language and rites. The major groups were the coastal Eora people, the Dharug (Darug) occupying the inland area from Parramatta to the Blue Mountains...
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  • known as the Eora people. "Eora" refers to "people" or "of this place" in Dharug language. Soon after his arrival at Port Jackson, Governor Arthur Phillip...
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  • the Hornet Bank massacre Bennelong (c.1764–1813) – representative of the Dharug people and pioneering interlocutor with the British Billibellary (1799–1846)...
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    The Wangal people (a.k.a. Wanngal or Won-gal) are a clan of the Dharug Aboriginal people whose heirs are custodians of the lands and waters of what is...
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    variously as Dharug, Eora or simply 'the Sydney Language' was spoken around Woronora at the time of colonisation (Troy 1994:61). Lists of Dharug words gathered...
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  • Boorooberongal man of the Dharug people, an Aboriginal Australian people from present-day New South Wales. Colebee and fellow Dharug man Nurragingy received...
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  • Bonnyrigg Heights is located on the traditional indigenous lands of the Dharug Nation. The elevation of Bonnyrigg Heights is between 42 and 90 metres above...
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    The name "wombat" comes from the now nearly extinct Dharug language spoken by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area. It...
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    Aboriginal Heritage Office: There is a move away from using words like Eora, Dharug, Guringai among some of those involved but still a sense by others that...
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  • locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  "S64: Dharug / Darug". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
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  • locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  "S64: Dharug / Darug". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
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  • north-west Sydney in the local government area of Blacktown. Nirimba is a Dharug word meaning pelican. Nirimba Fields was gazetted on 6 November 2020. A...
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    and bordering country of the Ngunawal and Yuin Their neighbours are the Dharug and the Eora to their north, Darkinung, Wiradjuri, Ngunawal and Thurrawal...
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  • The original inhabitants of the Lower Portland area were the Dharug people. The Dharug were the custodians of the majority of what is now the Greater...
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    young in a pouch. The word "pademelon" comes from the word badimaliyan in Dharug, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken near what is now Port Jackson...
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    the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language, it usually includes dance, music, costume and often body decoration...
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    Solanum aviculare, commonly called poroporo or pōporo (New Zealand), bumurra (Dharug), kangaroo apple, pam plum (Australia), or New Zealand nightshade, is a...
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    facilities. As well as a rich convict and colonial heritage in the area, the Dharug National Park and Yengo National Park are close by. The town was originally...
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    revived uses of spear-throwers (or the Mayan word hul'che); in Australia, the Dharug word woomera is used instead. The ancient Greeks and Romans used a leather...
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  • see Cadi (Surselva) Cadi (Phrygia), town and bishopric of ancient Phrygia Dharug name of Sydney and surrounds (El) Cadí or Cady (river), in SW Europe Serra...
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    5 lb). Wallabies are hunted for meat and fur. The name wallaby comes from Dharug walabi or waliba.[citation needed] Another early name for the wallaby, in...
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    languages. The koala is named from the word gula for the animal in the Dharug language, a Yuin–Kuri language within the Yora group, and the same word...
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  • distances and is used to attract attention, which has been derived from Dharug, an Aboriginal language spoken in the Sydney region. Cooee has also become...
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