Bennelong Putney Project | Businesses

Bennelong Putney Project

Phone: +61 474 597 443

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Businesses
• Non-profit organisation

20.01.2022 A working bee has been organised for the weekend of 5-6 September 2020, to clear the weeds from Collins Beach in Manly; the site of Bennelong's abduction. If you'd like to be involved email [email protected]

20.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php

20.01.2022 The first people described as "Australian" by Matthew Flinders included this man 'King' Bungaree of the Broken Bay Tribe, and a young Gadigal man by the name of... Nanbarry. In 2018 the Bennelong Putney Project committee convinced NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to buy the grave site of Nanbarry, who is buried with Bennelong and Boorong in Putney. Next Sunday 29th March at 10am, members of the public can join me (in numbers less than a hundred people, and stand 1.5 metres apart) at the ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park Sydney to listen to a speech I will deliver, announcing the first Victoria Cross recipient of Aboriginal descent. That individual was beheaded by the Japanese in WW2 as a prisoner of war. His great grandmother was a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman. Making him the only known VC holder of Indigenous Ancestry. His skull will never be located and buried with the rest of his remains in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in PNG. But, with a little effort on the part of the NSW Police Minister David Elliott MP, the skull of "King" Bungaree of the Broken Bay tribe might be located and reburied with the rest of his mortal remains. Standing with me will be Andrew Porter, a descendant of Captain William Piper, for whom Point Piper was named. The gatehouse to Captain Piper's mansion is today the Rose Bay Police Station. Behind which Bungaree was buried and from which his skull was stolen. I will also be joined by Dennis Jones, descendant of Bungaree, Rodney Kelly a descendant of Coomon, Des Madden, spokesman for the Gadigal, and others. https://www.dailymail.co.uk//The-untold-story-Aboriginal-e

18.01.2022 On 17th September 1790 Arthur Phillip took a long boat to the north side of Sydney Harbour, presented a metal hatchet to Bennelong and apologised for abducting him. Colebee and Arabanoo. The apology was accepted. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3494431490608260&id=100001243314341

17.01.2022 It's time the Sydney Metro Local Aboriginal Lands Council produced a thoroughgoing plan of management for the grave site of Bennelong, Boorong, and Nanbarry. One that celebrates the Wallumedegal, our continent's first foreign envoy, and two of the very first of the 'stolen generations' buried with him. But one that also celebrates the friendship they shared with the iconic brewer and farmer James Squire, and the positively disposed British figures of the early colony; Francis Bathurst Suttor, William Dawes, David Collins, Henry Waterhouse, and others.

16.01.2022 https://www.marketingmag.com.au//opinion-its-time-we-stop/

12.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3509234395794636&id=100001243314341

11.01.2022 Nanbarry, who is buried with Bennelong and Boorong in Putney joined Matthew Flinders and "King" Bungaree on the first leg of their circumnavigation of Australia. Here's the result of a small 'side project' our committee has pursued over this past year.

11.01.2022 Today is the 231st anniversary of the death of Arabanoo, the first colonial abductee who was held at Governor Phillip's house which is today the site of the Sydney Museum. He nursed a Burramuttagal girl, Boorong, who was brought into the surgery of John White suffering smallpox. While Boorong was cured, and went on to become Bennelong's fourth and favourite wife -- who is buried with him in Putney -- Arabanoo sadly succumbed to smallpox and died. 18th May will also be the 2...26th anniversary of the death of Yemmerrawanne, who sailed with Bennelong to London, becoming this continent's joint first foreign envoy. He died of tuberculosis in London and was buried in the grounds of St Eltham's church. He was only 19. This Friday night on NITV's 'Nula' news wrap up Sydneysiders discuss why there is a dearth of commemorations to the estimated 750 era who died of smallpox. Moves are afoot to install a commemoration near the Overseas Passenger Terminal -- where the convict Mary Bryant came ashore in 1788 bringing smallpox with her. The same place the Ruby Princess was moored in March this year.

05.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3464192850298791&id=100001243314341

05.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3530874186963990&id=100001243314341

05.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3320505534667524&id=100001243314341

03.01.2022 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3936739239710814&id=100001243314341