Sydney home bought by NSW government for $2.9m to be transformed into frontier wars museum and memorial to honour Eora nation elder
The last resting place of 18th century Aboriginal interpreter Woollarawarre Bennelong has been bought by the New South Wales government and will be turned into a public memorial site.
The residential home at 25 Watson Street in Putney, in Sydney’s north-west, was the burial site of Bennelong, an Eora nation elder who acted as an intermediary between British settlers and Sydney’s Aboriginal community.
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