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Traditional Owner Groups

• Tharawal
  Phonetic

  Dharawal

  Description

  The Dharawal, or Tharawal are indigenous or Aboriginal people of Australia, identified by the Dharawal (or Tharawal) language. Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship, scattered along the coastal area of what is now the Sydney basin in New South Wales.
• Eora
  Phonetic

  Yura

  Description

  The Eora / j??r? (Yura) are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. Eora is the name given by the earliest European settlers to a group of Aboriginal people belonging to the clans along the coastal area of what is now known as the Sydney basin, in New South Wales, Australia. The Eora share a language with the Darug people, whose traditional lands lie further inland, to the west of the Eora.