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'Mackenzie's Point Stingray' Sydney Aboriginal ...

'Mackenzie's Point Stingray' Sydney Aboriginal Rock Engraving Series 2007

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Bondi rock carvings

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Solness, Peter

Peter Solness is a professional photographer specialising in portraits and photo essays

Built environment

Built over tracks, campsites, rock art and middens used for thousands of years before the dispossession of the Aboriginal people, Sydney's early haphazard development was given form by public buildings. As public transport developed, suburbs spread, and throughout the twentieth century, town planners struggled with developers to direct the form and extent of the city. After World War II, city buildings got taller, outer suburbs sprang up ever further away, and issues of heritage and architecture were contested. In the twenty-first century, concerns about environment, urban density, public transport and renewed infrastructure are driving change.

Tamarama

Marked with the rock carvings and middens of its traditional owners, Tamarama became the site of pleasure gardens and amusements in the early twentieth century.

Aboriginal

Visual Arts

Bondi rock carvings

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Carvings in the rock made by the original inhabitants of Bondi.

Tamarama

South-eastern beachside suburb, with an Aboriginal name believed to mean 'storm'. Its beach has been described as the most hazardous patrolled beach in New South Wales.

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Bondi

Inner-eastern suburb adjacent to Bondi Beach, largely a working class suburb for much of the twentieth century and also home to a large population of Jewish immigrants. Its name comes from an Aboriginal word for 'sound of waves breaking on a beach'.

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Mackenzies Bay

Bay between Tamarama and Bondi.

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