Dictionary of Sydney

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Kelly's Bush

Bushland on the Woolwich Peninsula which became the focus of the first Green Ban to stop clearance and development of the site.

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Kelly's Bush

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2008

Part of the Woolwich Peninsula and originally home of the Wallumedagal clan, Kelly's Bush was saved from development by an unlikely coalition of middle-class women and communist union leaders in an action that saw the imposition of the first Green Ban.