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Munro, Harold
Munro, Henry
Munro, Jenny
Munro, Malcolm
Munro, William
Munyarryun, Djakapurra
Muogamarra Nature Reserve Park or open space
Murawina Community organisation
Murch, Arthur
Murdoch, Keith Arthur
Murdoch, Rupert
Muringong people Ethnic group
Murphy, Daniel
Murphy, Graeme
Murphy, Helen Mary (Ellen)
Murphy, James
Murphy, Lionel Keith
Murphy, Samuel
Murphy, Stephen
Murphy, Theresa Mary
Murphy, Viva
Murray Brothers Commercial organisation
Murray, Agnes Ann
Murray, Alec
Murray, Charley
Murray, David
Murray, GA
Murray, Les
Murray, William
Muru-ora-dial people Ethnic group
Muset, Joseph
Museum of Contemporary Art Museum or gallery
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Cultural organisation
Museum of Sydney Cultural organisation
Museum of Sydney Public building
Museum railway station Railway station
Musgrove, Frank
Musgrove, Jack
Music Hall Theatre Restaurant Theatre
Musica Viva Cultural organisation
Musical Association of New South Wales Cultural organisation
Muskett, Alice Jane
Musquito
Mustard Seed Uniting Church Ultimo Place of worship
Mutch, Gordon
Mutch, Thomas
Mutton, Judy
Mutual Fire Insurance Association Commercial organisation
MV Hexham Bank Ship
MV Malabar Ship

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Munro, Harold

Sydney defence lawyer operating during the time of the razor gangs. His clients included key underworld figures including Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and Iris Webber.

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Munro, Henry

Early land grant holder in northern Sydney.

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Munro, Jenny

Aboriginal activist and child welfare worker.

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Munro, Malcolm

Landscape architect based in Canberra who won the competition held by the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1961 for a garden design which would serve as the Reserve Bank of Australia building's interface with Macquarie Street.

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Munro, William

Architect and local councillor

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Munyarryun, Djakapurra

Dancer from northeast Arnhem Land who received the inaugural Australian Dance Award for outstanding performance.

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Muogamarra Nature Reserve

A wildlife sanctuary on a plateau of Hawkesbury sandstone.

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Park or open space

Murawina

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Community group which provides culturally appropriate childcare for Aboriginal children.

Community organisation

Murch, Arthur

Artist and sculptor who trained and taught at East Sydney Technical College and was official war artist for six months in World War II.

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Murdoch, Keith Arthur

Conservative newspaper tycoon whose impact on journalism and newspaper publishing was felt across Australia.

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Murdoch, Rupert

Media magnate who inherited his father's newspaper business and built it into an international conglomerate through acquisition and expansion.

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Muringong people

A clan of the Dharug people who occupied the Camden area with land stretching between the Georges, Nepean and Cataract Rivers.

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Ethnic group

Murphy, Daniel

Surveyor.

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Murphy, Graeme

Dancer and choreographer who has brought contemporary dance into a more commercial arena.

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Murphy, Helen Mary (Ellen)

Illiterate Irish servant who was sponsored to travel with her mother in 1859.

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Murphy, James

Lime merchant and plasterer who was Mayor of Sydney in 1860.

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Murphy, Lionel Keith

Lawyer and politician. An industrial lawyer who became a barrister and high court judge, and a Senator, Attorney-General, and Minister in the Federal Whitlam government in the 1970s. 

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Murphy, Samuel

Soldier settler at Bankstown.

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Murphy, Stephen

Coroner and magistrate who began his career as a public servant in 1867 as a clerk with the mounted police at Bathurst and then in the prison system. Murphy was sworn in as a general coroner for the colony in 1897. At the time, he was an appointed police magistrate and the Chief Emergency Officer of the Department of Justice. By 1900, he was appointed to the position of acting coroner for the Parramatta district. Soon after, Murphy was promoted to the position of Clerk of Petty Sessions at the Water Police Court in 1903. He would also take on the role, unofficially, of Sydney City Coroner following the promotion of John King to the Stipendiary Bench in October 1907. Murphy was officially appointed to the dual role of Sydney City Coroner and special magistrate of the Children’s Court in January 1909. Due to his age and workload, Murphy resigned from the coronial position in March 1912 in order to focus on family law, but only remained in practice until 1913 when he retired.

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Murphy, Theresa Mary

Adopted daughter of William and Honora Holmes who married her cousin, a jeweller, William Joseph Murphy and raised 10 children in Sydney.

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Murphy, Viva

Community activist.

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Murray Brothers

Department store formed by WR Murray and EN Murray in Church Street Parramatta which also produced tweed fabric at their Darling Mills site.

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Commercial organisation

Murray, Agnes Ann

School mistress at Darlinghurst after the death of her husband Sir Terence Murray.

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Murray, Alec

Sydney photographer, a member of the so-called 'Merioola Group' of artists who, from the early 1940s to the early 1950s, lived and worked in Merioola, a boarding house in Woollahra converted from a Victorian-era mansion.

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Murray, Charley

Aboriginal man.

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Murray, David

Homeless man murdered in The Domain.

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Murray, GA

Early settler in Fairlight, owner of Roslyn Hall.

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Murray, Les

Poet, anthologist and critic who has published over 30 volumes of poetry.

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Murray, William

Manly painter and decorator who owned and subdivided land in Fairlight in the 1880s.

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Muru-ora-dial people

Aboriginal clan which lived a subsistence lifestyle in the La Perouse area.

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Muset, Joseph

Composer, teacher and priest.

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Museum of Contemporary Art

Office block constructed for the Maritime Services Board which was converted in 1991 to house the new Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Museum or gallery

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

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Museum dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from Australia and across the world.

Cultural organisation

Museum of Sydney

Museum run by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW focusing on the history of Sydney.

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Museum of Sydney

Purpose built museum designed to conserve the archaeology of the site of the First Government House which includes exposed drains and artefacts found during the excavations.

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Public building

Museum railway station

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Underground railway station constructed at the southern end of Hyde Park in 1922 on the City Circle line.

Railway station

Musgrove, Frank

Owner of the Criterion Theatre in Sydney from 1913.

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Musgrove, Jack

Theatre manager involved in vaudeville, film distribution and dance hall management.

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Music Hall Theatre Restaurant

Theatre-restaurant in Neutral Bay Junction. In its heyday it had stalls and a gallery which could seat 500 people at tables. It initially operated as a cinema and then for a short time in the late 1950s as a skating rink, before it opened as a music hall and restaurant.

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Theatre

Musica Viva

Independent professional performing arts organisation founded to bring chamber music to Sydney.

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Musical Association of New South Wales

Organisation to promote performance and scholarship in music.

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Muskett, Alice Jane

Artist and author who was the second pupil of the Julian Ashton Art School and also published verse and short stories.

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Musquito

Aboriginal man in Sydney in the early 1800s. After being speared under the heart outside the General Hospital in the Rocks on the night of Thursday, 9 January 1806, he was taken into the hospital and treated but died the following Wednesday. He had earlier injured a Aboriginal boy, young Pigeon, with a tomahawk while drunk, and was killed in retaliation for this. He had also fought with Boatswain Maroot outside the Wynyard Barracks earlier that day because of the attack.  He is often confused with the bushranger Musquito who was hanged in Tasmania in 1825.

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Mustard Seed Uniting Church Ultimo

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The third Presbyterian church on the peninsula was built on a half-acre block bequeathed by John Harris. The Manse was added in 1888 and a church hall in 1902. In April 1960, the Dutch congregation of the Presbyterian Church took over the buildings but by the mid 1990s the church had fallen into disrepair and was closed in 2001. The Mustard Seed group of the Uniting Church restored the building and it was re-consecrated in May 2006.

Place of worship

Mutch, Gordon

Active figure in 1960s underground Sydney and the city's theatre scene, Mutch later became an experimental filmmaker, sculptor and anti-nuclear activist.

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Mutch, Thomas

Labor politician whose ministerial achievements in education were obscured by the bitter faction fighting of the 1920s.

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Mutton, Judy

First female partner at Allen Arthur Robinson.

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Mutual Fire Insurance Association

Insurance company established by legislation in 1841 to insure Sydney properties damaged by fire.

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MV Hexham Bank

Coal ship of 1650 tonnes which was built in 1953 to bring coal from Newcastle to Mortlake Gasworks.

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Ship

MV Malabar

Motorship of 4512 tons which operated between Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore carrying passengers, fruit and frozen meat. In 1931 negligence by Captain George Leslie lead to its grounding on rocks in Long Bay where it broke up and sank. Visiting the wreck was a popular outing for Sydneysiders. The ship itself was named after Malabar, Java Indonesia.

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