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Aboriginal

Subject
Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay
Aboriginal Housing Company
Aboriginal Legal Service
Aboriginal Medical Service
Aboriginal People on Sydney's Georges River from 1820
Aboriginal Rugby League in Sydney
Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre
Aboriginal life around Port Jackson after 1822
Aboriginal migration to Sydney since World War II
Aboriginal people of the Cooks River valley
Aboriginal politics to 1945
Aboriginal settlement Narrabeen Lagoon
Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship
Aborigines Progressive Association
Anderson, Ellen
Appin massacre
Arabanoo
Archaeological evidence of Aboriginal life in Sydney
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association
Australian Hall
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Barangaroo and the Eora Fisherwomen
Bidura
Boatswain Maroot
Bondi rock carvings
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Cooperative
Building Bridges Association
Bungaree
Bungaree, John
Carangarang
Caruey
Colebee
Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant
Corrangie / Harry
Daringa
Day of Mourning 1938
Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
First people of the Cooks River
Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs
Giles, Biddy
Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan
Gogi
Governor Phillip and the Eora
La Perouse
Leane, Lucy
Lewis, Biddy
Lock, Maria
Making Fire: Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia
Manly Cove, Kai'ymay
Maroot the elder
McGarvie’s list and Aboriginal Dyarubbin
Murawina
Nanbarry
National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association
National Black Theatre
Parramatta and Black Town Native Institutions
Pemulwuy
Redfern Aboriginal Authority
Redfern Park
Royleston
Sally Bundil
Spelling Aboriginal Names in English
The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River
The Empress Hotel, Redfern
The colonial observations of Surgeon John White
Transcript: Miss Marjorie Tebb remembers a family story about Aboriginal people in the 19th century in Liverpool
Transcript: Mr Jack Healy remembers a local Aboriginal man from Williams Creek
Transcript: Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers 'Old Joe', an Aboriginal man and his horse and buggy taxi service
Willemering
Woollarawarre Bennelong
Yarra Bay House
Yemmerrawanne
Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983
Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1963
Aborigines Protection Act 1909
Basically Black
Beneath Clouds
Bondi rock carvings
Certificate of Exemption
Dave Sands Memorial Plaque
Dawn
Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal history, culture and stories of the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales
Edge of the Trees
Endeavour Project
Fellowship
Field sports &c. &c. of the native inhabitants of New South Wales 1813
First interview with the Native Women at Port Jackson New South Wales February 1788
Gumbery jah (Harry's song)
Kinchela Boys Home Ken Brindle Memorial Shield
King Bungaree
New Dawn
Nice Coloured Girls
Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales
Paul Keating's Redfern speech 1992
Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior
Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project
Return of Aboriginal Natives
Rev John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829
Stingray Rock
The Aboriginal Mother
The Cake Man
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
The Last Wave
Waterholes 2018 by Leanne Mulgo Watson
Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove)
Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay
Addison's Hall
Australian Hall
Empress Hotel
Tranby
Yarra Bay House
Aboriginal cricket tour 1868
Appin massacre
Black Moratorium
Day of Mourning 1938
Freedom Ride
Koori Art '84
Long March for Justice, Freedom and Hope
Native Conference Parramatta
New South Wales Annual Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout
New South Wales Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into Aboriginal Welfare 1967
Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board 1937
Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines 1845
Smallpox epidemic 1789
Survival Day
Survival Festival Concert
Urban Kooris 1986
Yoo-long Erah-ba-diahng 1795
Bull Cave
Burragurra (Devil's Rock)
Aboriginal Dance Theatre Redfern
Aboriginal Health College
Aboriginal Health Medical Research Council
Aboriginal Housing Company
Aboriginal Lands Trust
Aboriginal Legal Service
Aboriginal Medical Service
Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship
Aborigines Progressive Association
Aborigines Protection Board
Aborigines Welfare Board
Australian Aborigines Mission
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association
Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia
Birrabirragal
Black Lace
Black Power
Booker T Washington Club
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Cooperative
Building Bridges Association
Burramattagal people
Cabrogal
Cadigal people
Cameragal people
Campbelltown Aboriginal Men's Group
Coloured Progressive Association
Darkinyung
Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation
Darug Tribal Aboriginal Corporation
Department of Aboriginal Affairs
Dharawal people
Dharug people
Eora people
Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs
Gadigal Information Service Aboriginal Corporation
Gameygal people
Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council
Garigal people
Gweagal people
Housing for Aborigines scheme
Indigenous Land Corporation
Inner West Aboriginal Community Cooperative
Koori Radio
Koorie United
La Perouse Aboriginal Mission
La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council
La Perouse United Junior Rugby League Club
Metropolitan Aboriginal Association Inc
Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
Murawina
Muringong people
Muru-ora-dial people
National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council
National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association
National Black Theatre
National Centre for Indigenous Excellence
Native Institution
New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group
New South Wales Aborigines Protection Association
Radio Redfern
Redfern Aboriginal Authority
Redfern All Blacks Rugby League Club
Silver Lining
South West Metro Waratahs
St Johns Park Aboriginal Woman's Group
Stolen Generations
Tharawal people
Tranby Aboriginal Cooperative College
Tribal Warrior Association
Wallamattagal people
Wangal people
Wunambiri, Surry Hills
Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care Organisation
Gurangatty
Alderman, John
Anderson, Ellen
Anderson, Hugh
Anderson, Joe
Annan, William
Arabanoo
Baggara
Ballederry
Ballooderry
Bandler, Faith
Bangai
Barangaroo
Baswick, Johnny
Beetson, Arthur
Bele
Bellear, Kaye
Beller, Beryl
Beneláng
Bennelong
Bidgee Bidgee
Bitugully
Blanco, Raymond
Blewit
Bloomfield, George
Boio
Bondi Charley
Boorong
Bostock, Euphemia
Bostock, Gerry
Bostock, Lester
Brindle, Ken
Briscoe, Gordon
Buckenbah, Sophy
Budbury, David
Bugg, Mary Ann
Bulkabra
Bulmanna
Bundil, Sally
Bundle
Bungaree
Bungaree, Bowen
Bungaree, John
Bungaree, Rose
Bungaree, Toby
Bungraa, Ben
Burnum Burnum
Burragalang, Paddy
Campbell, Jacko
Cann, John
Cannabayagal
Carangarang
Carangarany
Carmody, Kev
Carradah
Caruey
Coe, Isobel
Coe, Paul
Coke, Thomas Walter
Colebee
Colebee c1760-1806
Colebee, Kitty
Colinjong
Colleano, Con
Cook, Kevin
Cooman or 'King Kooma'
Cooper, Joan
Cooper, William
Craigie, Billy
Croft, Brenda L
Cullabaa
Cunningham, Syd 'Doc'
Daramulan
Daringa
Dinah
Dixon, Charles (Chicka)
Dixson, Chicka
Dodson, Patrick
Durelle
Duren, Jane
Eatock, Pat
Ferguson, William
Fisher, Bettie
Flower, Dulcie
Foley, Dennis
Foley, Fiona
Foley, Gary
Foster, Tom
Fox, Fred
Friday, James
Ga-gulh
Geia, Joe
George Bomwrang
Gibbs, Pearl
Gilbert, Namut
Giles, Biddy
Giles, Billy
Gnung-a Gnung-a Murremurgan
Goggey, Jackey
Goggey, Jonathon
Gogi
Gombeeree
Goorah-Goorah
Gooseberry, Cora
Governor, Jimmy
Grant, Douglas
Groves, Bert
Gulpilil, David
Hardie, Bill
Hardy, Col
Harris, Jack
Harry ( Corrangie )
Hill, Edward Smith
Horner, Jack
Jackson, George
James, Ellen
Jumbler, Jerry
Kelly, Doreen
Kelly, Paul
Kennedy, Bill
Kennedy, Ellen
King, Norah
Kitty
Kombumerri, Dillon
Konishi, Shino
Krooi
Kurringy
Kurubarabula
Langford Ginibi, Ruby
Langton, Marcia
Leane, Lucy
Leon, Charles
Lewis, Biddy
Little, Jimmy
Lock, Maria
Lowndes, Jimmy
Lucy, Black
Madden, Allan
Madden, Charles (Chicka)
Maroot
Martin, Zac
Matora
Maugoran
Maynard, Fred
Maynard, John
Maza, Bob
McAvoy, Tony
McKenna, Ross
McKenzie, R
McLeod, Isabelle
Meninga, Mal
Merritt, Nathan
Merritt, Robert
Mety
Moffatt, Tracey
Mongo Mongo
Moorooboora
Morgan, Bob
Morgan, Lionel
Morgan, Sally
Mumbler, Eric (Nugget)
Munanguri
Mundine, Anthony
Mundine, Michael
Munro, Jenny
Munyarryun, Djakapurra
Murray, Charley
Musquito
Nakata, Martin
Nanbarry
Nangowrie
Nelolla, Narney
Newfong, John
Nicholls, Doug
Nurragingy
Old Bomwrang
Old Phillip
Old Wingle
Onus, Bill
Page, David
Page, Russell
Page, Stephen
Paniebollong
Passanisi, Mary
Patten, Jack
Patyegarang
Pemulwuy
Perkins, Charles
Pigeon
Potarlick, Thomas
Poyne, Jenny
Punch
Pundah
Rachael
Richards, Ron
Ridgeway, Aden Derek
Ridgeway, Alma
Riley, Michael
Roach, Archie
Rose, Danny
Rowley, William
Russell, John
Salamander
Salamander, Biddy
Samuels, Jeffrey
Sands, Dave
Saunders, Justine
Sen, Ivan
Seymour, Jasmine
Sherrit, WG
Silva, Mac
Sims, Wesley
Smith, Bob
Smith, Shirley (Mum Shirl)
Steele, Jeremy
Stewart, Bruce (La Pa)
Syron, Brian
Tadyera
Tamara
Tamara, Gertrude
Tedbury
Thomas, Ted
Thorne, Danny
Timbery
Timbery family
Timbery, Joseph
Tindale
Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth (Lilardia)
Vincent, Babs
Vincent, Ray
Wajin
War-re-weer
Warungin Wangubile Kolbi
Watson, Judy
Watson, Leanne Mulgo
Waway 
Wenberg, Vincent
Wilkins, Erin
Willamannan
Willemering
Willerri, Lucy
Williams, Claude 'Candy'
Williams, Gary
Williams, Iris
Williams, Merv (Boomanulla)
Williams, Tom jnr
Willmot, Eric
Wingal
Worrall, William
Wright, Rhiannon
Wright, Victor
Wurrgan
Wylo, Goomblar
Yarramundi
Yelloming
Yemmerrawanne
Yeranibe Goruey
Yuwarry
Zooch, Betty
Bandi Bandi
Blacktown Native Institute site
Boree Track
Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant site
Eveleigh Street
Frog Hollow
Guldulo
La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve
Lapstone Creek rock shelter
Redfern Oval
Redfern Park
The Block
Wowawme
Appin Massacre Memorial
A nulla nulla or wooden club from the Dyarubbin region
'A Family of New South Wales' from a sketch by Governor King, 1792
'Corroboree' poster from Royal gala performance, Tivoli Theatre 1954
'Lest We Forget' stencil - Remembrance in Marrickville, 2010
'Mackenzie's Point Stingray' Sydney Aboriginal Rock Engraving Series 2007
'Natives crouching emus' c1845
'One of the NSW Aborigines befriended by Governor Macquarie' c1810-1821
'Terrible and exemplary punishment' Page from Governor Macquarie's diary and memorandum book, 10 April 1816
'The End of the Odyssey - Children handed over to Child Welfare Department' March 1927
A View of Hawkesbury, and the Blue Mountains c1817-1819
A family of New South Wales c1790s
A native family of New South Wales sitting down on an English settler's farm c1826
A view in Parramatta N S Wales looking East 1825-1828
A view of Sydney Cove New South Wales c1800
A view of Sydney N.S.Wales on entering the Heads the distance of Seven Miles 1809
A view of the native burial of Baggara, a native of NSW 20 November 1813
Aboriginal Day of Mourning, 26 January 1938
Aboriginal Legal Service, Redfern 1974
Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern 1980
Aboriginal archaeological sites recorded in the Sydney region up to 2001
Aboriginal family at home in La Perouse, 1959
Aboriginal man William Worrall outside his hut, Rose Bay 1853
Aboriginal men in boat on Narrabeen lagoon, c 1905
Aboriginal painting on rock / cliffs, off the road, about 500 yards before the Bridge is reached over Manly Lagoon, towards Deewhy 28 September 1895
Aboriginal people and fishing spears on the banks of the Cooks River 1830
Aboriginal people with Mrs Long and Mrs Cook at La Perouse, Christmas 1903
Aboriginal woman sitting opposite child who is offering her something
Aboriginal woman sitting with child on her back c1805
Aboriginal woman with her baby, in a canoe fishing with a line c1805
Aborigines day of mourning, 26 January 1938
Australian Aboriginal cricketers 1867
Australian Aboriginals pre 1806
Australian Aborigines. Cabramatta Tribe c1840
Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating giving speech at the launch of the United Nations' International Year of the World's Indigenous People, Redfern Park 10 December 1992
Australian native in his bark hut c1826
Backed artefacts from sites in Sydney region
Balmoral Beach shell midden
Bara (eels) 2020
Benelong; a Native of new Holland, 1804
Bennelong Point from Dawes Point c1804
Biddy Giles 1880
Biddy Salamander, Broken Bay Tribe 1834-5
Blueit, native of Botany Bay, New South Wales; whole-length naked man, except for loin cloth, standing to left, holding a spear and spear-thrower in his right hand, and club in his left 1810
Boon-ga-ree Aboriginal of New So. Wales 1819 who accompanied me on my first voyage to the NW Coast
Boongaree chief of the Broken Bay tribe and his wife Matora 1820
Bora Rock: aboriginal markings near Manly Water-works Gully 13 September 1891
Bungaree, Chief of the Hawkesbury Tribe c1836
Bungaree, a native chief of New South Wales 1830
Bungaree. Late Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe N.S. Wales c1836
Burning a Corpse c1798
Captain Waterhouse's house, Sidney [sic], the Vineyard, about 1798
Captains Hunter, Collins & Johnston with Governor Phillip, Surgeon White &c. visiting a distressed female native of New South Wales at a hut near Port Jackson 1793
Charcoal European ship in rock-shelter in Lane Cove River Valley
Charles Leon, Col Hardy, Charles Perkins, Lazarus Lami Lami, Ted Noffs in Martin Place for National Aborigines Day 13 July 1962
Children on the banks of Salt Pan Creek in the mid 1920s
Clients at the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern 1974
Climbing Trees 1813
Cobble chopper found at Castlereagh by Eugene Stockton in 1974, later dated at 50,000 years old
Cockle Bay, now Darling Harbour c1819-20
Colebee applying grilled fish to Nanbarry's gum after having his tooth struck out c1798
Contest with spears, shields and club c1817
Corroboree, Empire Theatre, Sydney 1950
Cover of book 'King Bungaree' by Keith Vincent Smith 1992
Darug Land 2019
Darug woman Jasmine Seymour with the paperbark scar trees beside Cattai Creek June 2020
Darug women Erin Wilkins and Leanne Watson examine one of the wooden guni, yam sticks, held in the collection of Hawkesbury Regional Museum at Windsor
Darug women Leanne Watson, Rhiannon Wright and Jasmine Seymour at Dorumbolooa/ Sackville October 2020
Darug women Rhiannon Wright, Leanne Watson and Erin Wilkins with Rene Breuls visiting a rockshelter in the Maroota area September 2019
David Gulpilil, Paddington Festival Sydney 1978
Day of Mourning poster 1938
Detail of 'Sydney from the western side of the Cove' showing Aboriginal people and Europeans c1803
Detail of 'View in Broken Bay New South Wales. March 1788'
Detail of Panorama of Sydney 1829
Detail showing Aboriginal people, British soldier and others in picture 'Governor's House, Port Jackson' 1791
Dorumbolooa, Sackville Reach June 2018
Douglas Grant, draughtsman and soldier, with his ornamental pond and Harbour Bridge, Callan Park, between 1932-1940
Dyarubbin at Dorumbolooa, where the river turns spectacularly into Kent Reach June 2020
Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, With the bark Huts for the Natives 1821-23
Ellen Anderson with her husband Hugh at their home on Salt Pan Creek, now Charm Place Peakhurst c1925
Ellen Anderson, Salt Pan Creek c1925
Engraved kangaroos or wallabies at Shaws Creek, Nepean River
Engraved whale at Balls Head, Port Jackson
Explanatory description of the Publick Buildings &c of the Town of Sydney, Port Jackson, as express'd in the View engraved under the inspection of Mr Thomson late acting chief surgeon in the settlement, published April 10 1804
Farewell dinner for visiting boxer Jack Johnson (centre back) held by the Coloured Progressive Association, Sydney 1907
Field's transcription of Harry's song 'Iah, iah, gumbery ja' in The London Magazine, November 1823
Fifth page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829
First interview with the Native Women at Port Jackson New South Wales February 1788
First page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829
Fish hooks of New South Wales and a feather of the cassowary c1789
Fishing line made of twisted brown bark fibre from Port Jackson, pre 1844
Fourth page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829
From Mud Bank Botany Bay - mouth of Cooks River 1830
Fruit bats, 1991
General orders issued by Governor King concerning Pemulwuy, November 22, 1801
Goosberry [i.e. Gooseberry] One Eyed Poll, wife of King Bongarry April 1844
Gooseberry, Widow of King Bungaree, Brocken Bay Tribe 1836
Grinding grooves beside a rock pool on sandstone rock-platform, Gosford area
Ground-edged hatchet with wooden wrap-around handle
Ground-edged implements
Group portrait of Aboriginals from La Perouse and elsewhere 1900-1910
Gurangatty 2020
Headstone of Cora Gooseberry in Devonshire Street Cemetery c1901
House built for Woollarawarre Bennelong by Governor Phillip on Bennelong Point 1789
Hugh Anderson, Salt Pan Creek c1925
Hutte d’aborigènes près de Sydney, femme surnommée Queen Gooseberry 1845
Illustration of rock carving showing man with axe and hat that was done by Hiram c1855 in the Hawkesbury area 1896
Implements of New South Wales; viz, a War Spear, Fish Gig, Hatchet, a Sword, and Basket c1789
In memory of Black Santa, plaque commemorating Syd 'Doc' Cunningham on King Street, Newtown 24 July 2010
Jeffrey Samuels, Boomalli workshop, Chippendale 1987
Jim Brown, Joe Brown, Joey, Biddy Giles and Jimmy Lowndes, Aboriginal workers on the Holt Sutherland Estate 1880
Jones Royal Circus. New South Wales; Or, Love in Botany Bay, playbill from London 1798
Kangaroo Jack, King of Cockle Creek 1834-35
Kids & Dogs, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
King Bungaree 1829 Sydney
King of black Native 1826
Koala engraving at Westleigh, now destroyed c1970
La Perouse Aborigines' Mission: music at the annual outdoor rally of the United Aborigines' Mission 26 January 1931
Mark Munyarryun in 'Laka bunkul' from the 'Dance clan' season November 1998
McLeod family and Chief Secretary, Mr C A Kelly at opening of Housing for Aborigines scheme, Green Valley, 5 July 1963
Memo from Lachlan Macquarie regarding the engraving of plates as reward for Harry and Tindale, 29 December 1816
Movat 1820 [Boatswain Maroot]
Mrs Elizabeth Shelley's quarterly accounts of expenses on account of the Native Asylum, ending 31 December 1817
Mrs Gibbs, Aborigines Welfare Board 16 August 1955
Murawina, a centre for young Aboriginal children, Redfern 1980
Native camp near Cockle Bay 1813
Natives of N.S. Wales as seen in the streets of Sydney 1830
Natives of New South Wales, Biddy Salamander of the Broken Bay Tribe, Bulkabra Chief of Botany, Gooseberry Queen of Bungaree
New Aboriginal members, Aborigines Welfare Board, February 1964
Newspaper clipping concerning the marriage of Michael Yarringguy and Robert Narringguy to Betty Fulton and Polly from the Native Institution on 15 March 1821
Newspaper clipping reporting death of Ellen Anderson May 16 1931
Newspaper clipping reporting death of Ellen Anderson May 22 1931
Newspaper report of the massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin on 17 April 1816
Newspaper report of trial in the Supreme Court of the perpetrators of the Myall Creek massacre, 15 November 1838
Norou-gal-derri s'avançant pour combattre 1802
North and South Heads in Port Jackson c1818
North-West View taken from the Rocks above Sydney in New-South-Wales, for John White, Esqr 1793-95
Nouvelle-Holland, Gnoung-a-gnoung-a Mour-re-mour-ga, dit Collins 1811
Nouvelle-Hollande: Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Grottes, chasse et peche des sauvages du Port Jackson c1800
Nouvelle-Hollande: vases, armes, peche
Number of Aboriginal archaeological sites established in each millennium (cal BP) (based on earliest dates in stratified sites)
Number of radiometric ages in each millennium (cal BP) in Sydney region Aboriginal archaeological sites (N=164 ages from 164 sites)
Opening of the Housing for Aborigines scheme, Green Valley 5 July 1963
PIX article on the Redfern All Blacks 'Aboriginal Footballers' 1946
PIX article on the Redfern All Blacks 'Aboriginal Footballers' 1946
Page from 'Field sports &c. &c. of the native inhabitants of New South Wales' mentioning Harry in Parramatta 1813
Page from Collins' 'Account of the English Colony' describing the spearing of Phillip at Manly Cove 7 September 1790
Page of an Aboriginal language vocabulary from Collins' 'Account of the English Colony' c1790
Painted shield attributed to coastal Sydney region, 92cm long
Part of the Harbour of Port Jackson, and the country between Sydney and the Blue Mountains, New South Wales c1819
Pemulwuy c1801
Petition from John Connell to Captain Dumaresq recommending Aborigines of Botany Bay to receive donation of blankets 1825-1831
Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 1
Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 2
Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 3
Port Jackson: a native (possibly Bennelong) 1802
Port Jackson: a native (possibly Colebee), 1802
Portrait of Bennelong c1793
Portrait of Bennilong a native of New Holland, who after experiencing for two years the Luxuries of England, returned to his own Country and resumed all his savage Habits c1800s
Portrait of Bungaree, a native of New South Wales, with Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour, in background 1826
Portrait of Con Colleano high-wire artist, presented to Iris Shand, Australia c1925
Prime Minister Paul Keating with Anon Link, 7, at launch of the International Year of World's Indigenous People, Redfern 1992
Property, a page from David Collins 'An account of the English colony in New South Wales...' 1798-1802
Public meeting at Macquarie Place during the election 1857
Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project team members (l to r) Leanne Watson, Grace Karskens, Erin Wilkins and Jasmine Seymour above Dyarubbin at Sackville June 2018
Redfern Housing Project 1974
Report handed in by Mrs Shelley: A monthly report of the state and progress of the Aborigines children in the Native Asylum, Parramatta, from the 1st to the 31st of May, 1820
Reverend John McGarvie’s sketch of a gunya he saw Darug people building near his house at Mekoorabon (Percy Place) in August 1826
Rock carving on Darug country of an echidna 2006
Rules & regulations for the management of the Aborigines, or, Black Native Institution of New South Wales, established at Parramatta, on the 18th of January, 1815.
Sally Bundil a native of Kissing Point c1810-1822
Salt Pan Creek c1925
Salt Pan Creek c1925
Sauvages de Nouvelle-Hollande, Aux Terres Australies, Table II
Scene on Double Bay Sydney N.S.W. 1840-1842
Second page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829
Section of Aboriginal meeting in Australian Hall, Sydney, organised by Aborigines' Progressive Association mourners 26 January 1938
Segments of carved trees which were associated with burials on the Greendale Estate, Vermont near Narellan
Shell fish-hooks made from 'Turbo turquata'
Shell scraper which originally may have been hafted onto the end of spear-thrower
Silhouette of Yemmerawanie c1793
Sixth page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829
Sketch shewing the situation of Huts in the Parish of Botany belonging to Boatswain Maroot 1830
South west view of Parramatta in New South Wales by an unknown artist 1811
Stephen Page with poster for "Praying Mantis Dreaming" 1992
Stone artefacts exposed on the ground surface of an archaeological site in the western Cumberland Plain
Stone points and backed blades from Dyarubbin, photographed 2021
Students besides the school bus, Kirinari Aboriginal Hostel, Sylvania, 1980
Surface of shell midden at Berowra Waters
Sydney Cove, West side, 1810
Sydney c1802
Sydney from Darlinghurst c1818
Sydney from Surry Hills 1819
Sydney from the North Shore 1827
Sydney from the North Shore c1817
Sydney from the heights of North Sydney c1825-1830
Sydney from the western side of the Cove c1803
Sydney wharfies demonstrate in support of Aboriginal rights at May Day procession c1960s
Sydney, Government House 1802
Taking of Colbee (Colebee) and Benalon (Bennelong), Manly Cove, 25 November 1789
The Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments... 25 October 1825
The Regent Hotel (formerly the Empress Hotel) 83-87 Regent Street, Redfern 3 November 1989
The TJ Hickey protest march begins between the block and Redfern Station 2004
The annual meeting of the native tribes at Parramatta, New South Wales, the Governor meeting them c1826
The death of McIntyre and Phillip's orders, December 1790, from Tench's 'A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales' 1793
The former hotel at 83 Regent Street, Redfern 30 January 2000
The remnants of a midden in Marrickville 2005
Third page of John McGarvie's list of 'Native names of places on the Hawkesbury’ 1829
Thomas Roberts in front of Aboriginal flag mural The Block, Redfern 2004
Timbere
Title page of 'An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island ...;' by John Hunter, 1793
Tomb of Queen Gooseberry of the Sydney Tribe of Aborigines showing the old Sydney Railway Station in the background c1900
Turning the first turf of the first railway in the Australasian colonies at Redfern, Sydney, N.S.W. 3rd July 1850
Two Aborigines spearing eels c1817-20
Two backed artefacts from the north Hawkesbury district
University students demonstrate for civil rights for Aboriginals at a rally outside Parliament House, 7 July 1964
View from the Archdeacon's house, Sydney, of the Bay 1833
View from the Government Domain Sydney 1833
View in Broken Bay New South Wales. March 1788
View in Port Jackson 1789
View in Port Jackson from the South Head leading up to Sydney; Supply sailing in 1788
View of Botany Bay 1790
View of Dawe's Battery at the Entrance of Sydney Cove, New South Wales c1818
View of Sydney Cove 1794-96
View of Sydney Cove from the North-West April 1793
View of Sydney from the east side of the Cove c1811
View of Sydney from the west side of the Cove c1806
View of part of Sydney c1804
View of part of the River of Sydney in New South Wales, taken from St Phillips Church yard Views in New South Wales 1813
View of the heads at the entrance to Port Jackson 1824
Watercolour illustration of a group of Aboriginal people fishing, c1790s
Waterholes 2018
White hand stencils in a rock shelter in the Macdonald Valley May 2019
White pigment hand stencil in rock-shelter in Middle Harbour
William Minam, Walamata Port Aitken 1843
Women of Dyarubbin 2020
Wowawme, the monster fish Waway’s lookout place June 2017
Wuganmagulya (Farm Cove) by Brenda Croft 2000
Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay 30 July 2007
Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay 30 July 2007
Yemmerrawanne's gravestone in the churchyard of St John the Baptist church, Eltham, London, UK May 2012
Yemmurrvonyea Kebbarah, a Native of New South Wales, died May 18th 1794. supposed to be aged 19 Years, at the house of Mr. Edward Kent, Eltham Parish Register
Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang 2, c1798
Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang 4, c1798
Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang 6, c1798
Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang 8, c1798
welcoming?, Redfern 2009
Dennis Foley recalls the camp at Narrabeen Lagoon, June 2009
Gumbery Jah (Harry’s Song) and Cooee (Guwi), sung by Matthew Doyle and Clarence Slockee, recorded by Kevin Hunt at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney 2010
Michael Mundine on the Aboriginal Housing Company 2009
Miss Marjorie Tebb remembers a family story about Aboriginal people in the 19th century in Liverpool, interviewed in 1986
Mr Jack Healy remembers a local Aboriginal man from Williams Creek, interviewed 1986
Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers 'Old Joe', an Aboriginal man and his horse and buggy taxi service c1914, interviewed in 1986
Norma Ingram, founding administrator, on Murawina 2006
Prime Minister Paul Keating's speech at Redfern Park for the United Nation's Year for the World's Indigenous Peoples 10 December 1992
Stephen Page on Bangarra Dance Theatre 2009
Story about Pemulwuy by Gadigal elder Allen Madden from These Walls Have Ears: Infamous, 2013