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| name               = Bennelong
| image              = Bennelong.jpg
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| caption            = Portrait (signed "W.W.") thought to depict Bennelong
| birth_date         = {{circa|1764}}
| birth_place        = South of the [[Parramatta River]]
| death_date         = 3 January 1813 (aged about 48)
| death_place        = [[Kissing Point, New South Wales|Kissing Point]], [[Colony of New South Wales]]
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| nationality        = 
| spouse             = 1. Unnamed first wife<br/>2. [[Barangaroo]]<br/>3. Kurubarabulu<br/>4. [[Boorong]]
| children           = Dilboong<br/>Thomas Walter Coke
}}

'''Woollarawarre Bennelong'''{{Efn|Also spelt '''Baneelon'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bennelong |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG243358 |access-date=30 November 2024 |website=The British Museum}}</ref>}} ({{circa}} 1764 – 3 January 1813) was a senior man of the [[Eora]], an [[Aboriginal Australian]] people of the [[Port Jackson]] area, at the time of the [[History of Australia#The colony of New South Wales|first British settlement in Australia]]. Bennelong served as an [[Interlocutor (politics)|interlocutor]] between the Eora and the British, both in the [[colony of New South Wales]] and in [[Great Britain]]. He was the first Aboriginal Australian to visit Europe and return.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015 |title=Woollarawarre Bennelong |url=https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/woollarawarre-bennelong/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519014100/https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/woollarawarre-bennelong/ |archive-date=19 May 2024 |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=The Australian Museum |language=en}}</ref>

In 1789, he was abducted on the authority of [[Governor of New South Wales|Governor]] [[Arthur Phillip]], who hoped to use Bennelong to establish official dialogue with the Eora people. However, Bennelong escaped after several months. A tenuous relationship subsequently developed between Bennelong and the colonists, with various attacks and reconciliations occurring throughout their ensuing association with each other.{{Sfn|Fullagar|2009b|pp=33–34}} Despite this friction, he came to be a significant ambassador of the Eora.

Bennelong was taken to Great Britain in 1792 and he resided in London for three years. Eventually his health deteriorated and in February 1795 he was returned to Australia. Back in his homeland, Bennelong was rejected from British colonial society and branded an [[alcoholism|alcoholic]] "savage" for vigorously maintaining his connection to a traditional lifestyle. He became a respected leader of the surviving remnants of the various local Indigenous clans in the Sydney region. He died at [[Kissing Point, New South Wales|Kissing Point]] in 1813, aged about 48, and was buried in [[James Squire]]'s orchard.

== Background ==
Woollarawarre Bennelong, the son of Goorah-Goorah and Gagolh,{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=12}} was born circa 1764 on the south shore of the [[Parramatta River]].{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=10}} He was a member of the [[Wangal]] clan, connected with the south side of the Parramatta River, having close ties with the [[Wallumedegal]] clan, on the west side of the river, and the [[Burramattagal]] clan near today's Parramatta. He had several sisters, Wariwéar, Karangarang, Wûrrgan and Munânguri, who married important men from nearby clans, thereby creating political links for their brother.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=12}} [[Goat Island (Port Jackson)|The island of Memel]] in [[Port Jackson]] was part of his personal property, inherited through his father.{{sfn|Smith|2009|pp=10–11}}

He had five names, given at different times during the various ritual inductions he underwent. The other four are given as Wolarrebarre, Wogultrowe, Boinba, and Bundabunda. According to British officer [[Watkin Tench]], Bennelong preferred to be called Woollarawarre.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=9}}

== Capture and life in the British settlement ==
[[File:Taking of Colbee and Bennelong 25 November 1789.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left|Taking of Colebee and Bennelong 25 November 1789 by William Bradley]]

Bennelong was brought to the settlement at Sydney Cove in November 1789 by order of the [[Governor of New South Wales|governor]], [[Arthur Phillip]], who was under instructions from King [[George III]] to establish relationships with the indigenous populations. At that time, the Eora conscientiously avoided contact with the newcomers, and in desperation Phillip resorted to kidnapping. A man named [[Arabanoo]] was captured, but like many other Aboriginal people near the settlement, he died in a [[Smallpox_in_Australia#Outbreak of 1789|smallpox epidemic]] a few months later in May 1789.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=11}}{{sfn|Fullagar|2009b|pp=32–33}} Bennelong was captured with [[Colebe|Colebee]] on 25 November 1789 as part of Phillip's plan to learn the language and customs of the local people. [[William Bradley (Royal Navy officer)|William Bradley]] painted a watercolour of the occasion and described the capture in his journal as the "most unpleasant service" he was ever ordered to undertake.{{sfn|Hoskins|2009|loc=between pp. 40–41}} At the time of his capture, Bennelong's age was estimated at 25, and he was described as being "of good stature, stoutly made", with a "bold, intrepid countenance". His appetite was such that "the ration of a week was insufficient to have kept him for a day", and "love and war seemed his favourite pursuits".<ref name="Dark">{{harvnb|Dark|1966}}</ref>{{sfn|Tench|1793|p=44}}

Colebee soon escaped, but Bennelong stayed in the settlement for several months, then slipped away. Four months later, he was sighted by officers in [[Manly Cove]], and Phillip was notified. The governor hurried over and approached Bennelong, who was with a group of roughly 20 warriors. Phillip took a gesture by Bennelong towards another Aboriginal man, [[Willemering]], as an invitation for an introduction, and extended his hand to the latter, who responded by spearing Phillip in the shoulder.{{sfn|Daley|2018}} A scuffle broke out, but the officers managed to assist the governor away to safety where the spear was removed and a full recovery followed.{{sfn|Tench|1793}}

Willemering was a [[kurdaitcha]] of the Kayimai clan from the area now known as [[Balgowlah]]. It has been suggested by some historians that he had been enlisted by Bennelong to carry out [[Revenge|payback]] for the latter's sense of personal injury on having been kidnapped. In this view, some form of atonement was necessary as a prelude to any further arrangements with the colonists.{{sfn|Van Toorn|2006|pp=60–61}} Phillip ordered that no retaliation take place and Bennelong, some days later, turned up to visit him as he was recovering from the wound, and their relationship was renewed.{{sfn|Fullagar|2015|p=36}} In a gesture of [[Australian Aboriginal kinship|kinship]], Bennelong bestowed upon Phillip the Aboriginal name Wolawaree and learned to speak English. In 1790, Phillip built a hut for him on what became known as [[Bennelong Point]] (now occupied by the [[Sydney Opera House]]).{{sfn|Tench|1793}} 

However, their association remained tense after Bennelong's friend, Bangai, was shot dead near [[Dawes Point, New South Wales|Dawe's Point]] by soldiers in December 1790 for his supposed role in stealing potatoes. Bennelong led a counter-raid by robbing settlers and demanded Phillip to tell him the name of the soldier who killed Bangai. Phillip still wanted to maintain the friendship and by February 1791, Bennelong and the governor had again reached a reconciliation.<ref name="gapps">{{cite book |last1=Gapps |first1=Stephen |title=The Sydney Wars |date=2018 |publisher=NewSouth |location=Sydney |isbn=9781742232140}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=November 2024}}

== Visit to England ==
Bennelong and another Aboriginal man, named [[Yemmerrawanne]] (or Imeerawanyee), travelled with Phillip on ''[[Atlantic (1783 ship)|Atlantic]]'' to England, boarding on 10 December 1792.{{sfn|Fullagar|2009b|p=36}} Many historians have claimed that they were presented to King [[George III]], but there is no direct evidence that this occurred.{{sfn|Fullagar|2009b|p=40}} Soon after their arrival in England, they were hurriedly made clothes that would have been suitable for their presentation to the King.{{sfn|Brook|2001|pp=36–47}}

Jack Brook reconstructs some of their activities from the expense claims lodged with the government. They visited [[St Paul's Cathedral]] and the [[Tower of London]]. A boat was hired, and they went bathing; they also went to the theatre. While in London, they resided with [[Henry Waterhouse]], and when Yemmerrawanne became sick, they moved to [[Eltham]] and resided at the house of Edward Kent, where they were tended by Mr and Mrs Phillips, and met [[Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney|Lord Sydney]].{{sfn|Brook|2001|pp=36–47}}

Yemmerrawanne died while in Britain after a serious chest infection,{{efn|Medical science in the late 18th century was poorly advanced. "[[Chest infection (disambiguation)|Chest infection]]"<!--intentional link to DAB page--> could have meant any number of conditions.}} and Bennelong's health deteriorated. He returned to Sydney in February 1795 on {{HMS|Reliance|1793|6}}, the ship that took surgeon [[George Bass]] to the colony for the first time. Bass nursed him back to health and in exchange Bennelong taught him a sufficient amount of [[Dharug language|Dharug]] to enable the former to communicate with the indigenous Eora on arriving in Sydney.{{sfn|Shakespeare|2010|p=37}} Of the 2 years and 10 months he spent abroad, 18 months had been passed either at sea or on board ships in a dock.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=18}}

== Return to New South Wales ==
Bennelong arrived back in Sydney on 7 September 1795. A letter he had drafted in 1796 to Mr and Mrs Phillip, thanking Mrs Phillip for caring for him in England and asking for stockings and a handkerchief, is the first known text written in English by an Indigenous Australian.{{sfn|Brook|2001|pp=36–47}} 

Within a short time, he took to the bush, reappearing only occasionally to dine at the servants' table in [[Philip Gidley King|Governor King's residence]]. Many colonial reports complain of his refusal to rejoin "polished society".{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=19}} He participated in fighting contests over women and officiated at traditional ceremonies, including the last recorded [[initiation]] ceremony in Port Jackson in 1797.{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=422-423}} Bennelong also developed an [[Alcoholism|alcohol problem]] following his return to Australia.<ref name="Dark" />

===Spearing of a British soldier===
In December 1797, factional feuding between Bennelong's associates and their opponents resulted in Bennelong's colleague, Colebee, killing an Aboriginal man in a dishonourable fashion. Colebee was subsequently punished in public according to [[Indigenous Australian customary law|cultural law]], but when British soldiers interfered to protect Colebee, Bennelong became enraged. He threw a spear at the soldiers, severely wounding one after the weapon pierced right through the man's abdomen. Bennelong would have been instantly killed for this action had not the [[provost marshal]] Thomas Smyth, interceded and dragged Bennelong away. Bennelong was beaten on the head with the butt of a musket and incarcerated for a night. On being released, he threatened the white people and left the settlement.<ref name="collins">{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=David |title=An Account of the English Colony of NSW Volume 2 |date=1802 |publisher=Cadell & Davies |location=London |url=https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00011.html#chapter7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Turbet |first1=Peter |title=The First Frontier |date=2011 |publisher=Rosenberg |location=Dural |isbn=9781921719073}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=November 2024}}

After this incident, Bennelong became a disreputable person amongst the colonists, being described as "a most insolent and troublesome savage" whose retaliatory action of spearing a soldier had "rendered him more hateful than any of his countrymen". Bennelong also apparently expressed a desire "of spearing the governor whenever he saw him".<ref name="collins" />

===Leader of the Kissing Point clan===
Despite the disparaging view the colonists held toward Bennelong, by the early 1800s he had become the leader of a 100-strong group of Aboriginal people, remnants of the dispossessed Port Jackson clans, living on the north side of the [[Parramatta River]] to the west of [[Kissing Point, New South Wales|Kissing Point]] in [[Wallumettagal|Wallumedagal]] country. He was held in respect as an authoritative elder not only by his own group, but also by the remaining Kamaygal and [[Gweagal]] people of [[Botany Bay]].{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=22}}{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=423}}

== Death ==
He died on 3 January 1813 at Kissing Point on the [[Parramatta River]] in Sydney and was buried in the orchard of the brewer [[James Squire]], a friend to Bennelong and his clan.{{sfn|Smith|2009|pp=23–24}} His death notice in the ''[[Sydney Gazette]]'' was dismissive,{{efn|"Bennelong died on Sunday morning last at Kissing Point. Of this veteran champion of the native tribe little favourable can be said. His voyage to, and benevolent treatment in Great Britain produced no change whatever in his manners and inclinations, which were naturally barbarous and ferocious. The principal Officers of Government had for many years endeavoured, by the kindest of usage to wean him from his original habits, and draw him into a relish for civilized life ; but every effort was in vain exerted, and for the last few has been little noticed. His propensity to drunkenness was inordinate; and when in that state he was insolent, menacing and overbearing. In fact, he was a thorough savage, not to be warped from the form and character that nature gave him, by all the efforts that mankind could use."{{sfn|Gazette|1813|p=2}}}} insisting that "he was a thorough savage, not to be warped from the form and character that nature gave him"{{mdash}}which reflected the feelings of some in Sydney's white society that Bennelong had abandoned his role as ambassador in his last years, and also reflects the deteriorating relations between the two groups as more and more land was cleared and fenced for farming, and the hardening attitudes of many colonists towards "savages" who were not willing to give up their country and become labourers and servants useful to the colonists.{{sfn|Fullagar|2009b|p=46}}{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=83-91,422}}

Bennelong's people mourned his death with a traditional highly ritualised battle for which about two hundred people gathered.{{sfn|Fullagar|2015|p=37}} As a profound mark of respect, Colebee's nephew [[Nanbaree]], who died in 1821, asked to be buried with Bennelong.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=24}} Bennelong's final wife, [[Boorong]], was also interred in the same gravesite. Bidgee Bidgee, who led the Kissing Point clan for twenty years after Bennelong's death, asked to be buried with Bennelong as well, but there is no record of his death or of where he is buried.{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=24}}

On 20 March 2011, Peter Mitchell of [[Macquarie University]] announced that he had located Bennelong's grave site under a residential property at present-day 25 Watson Street, [[Putney, New South Wales]], and stated that local Aboriginal authorities would be consulted about possible further exploration of the site.{{sfn|Duff|2011}} In November 2018, the [[Government of New South Wales|New South Wales Government]] announced that it had bought the house and would turn the site into a public memorial to Bennelong, together with a museum commemorating the impact of British colonisation on the Aboriginal people of the Sydney area.{{sfn|Anon.|2018}}

== Family ==
Bennelong had several wives. The first, whose name is not known, died prior to his capture, probably from [[smallpox]] in 1789.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Keith Vincent |author-link=Keith Vincent Smith |date=2013 |title=Woollarawarre Bennelong |url=https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/woollarawarre_bennelong |access-date=30 November 2024 |work=[[Dictionary of Sydney]] |ref=none}}</ref> He then married the widowed [[Cammeraygal|Cammeray]] clanswoman [[Barangaroo]].<ref name="Dark" />{{sfn|Anon.|n.d.}}<ref name=":0" /> Their daughter Dilboong died in infancy.<ref name="Dark" /> Upon Barangaroo's death in 1791, Bennelong cremated her remains in Arthur Phillip's garden.<ref name=":0" /> Bennelong then abducted and took up with a [[Gweagal]] woman, Kurubarabulu. They stayed together a year until his departure for England.<ref name="Dark" />{{sfn|Anon.|n.d.}} On his return, she had found another mate.<ref name="Dark" /> Bennelong had a son named Dickey with his final wife, [[Boorong]]. Dickey was adopted by Anglican priest William Walker and christened as Thomas Walter Coke.<ref name="Dark" />{{sfn|Anon.|n.d.}} Boorong was later buried with Bennelong when they had both died.{{sfn|Smith|2009|pp=16–18}}

== Legacy ==
Bennelong's legacy was long contested. Among many others, [[Manning Clark]] wrote: "Bennelong disgusted his civilizers and became an exile from his own people."{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=21}} He was seen as a tragic figure, due to being "caught between two worlds" as well as due to the alcoholism he developed later in life.{{sfn|Fullagar|2009a|pp=3–5}} In recent decades, he has been defended, as someone who saw the best and worst of [[Western civilization]] and, having done so, rejected it, recreating a modified form of traditional lifestyle at Kissing Point.{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=422-423}} Bennelong has also been recognised as a warrior who could switch between the British and Aboriginal worlds, and use the colonists' desire for conciliation as an advantage to both himself and his people.<ref name="gapps" />{{Page needed|date=November 2024}} His on-again, off-again friendship with the British governors ultimately saw other Aboriginal people being brought into contact with the colony at Sydney. In contributing to some of the first cross-cultural communication between the groups, he helped establish a tenuous peace between the Eora and the British that enabled some Aboriginal people to continue to exist as survivors in their own colonised land.{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=424–425}}
* Bennelong Park is a small park next to Kissing Point in Putney, Sydney, near where Bennelong died.
* A small plaque in Cleves Park in Putney marks the area near where he was thought to be buried.
* Nearby on the south side of Parramatta River, [[Bennelong Bridge]] crosses [[Homebush Bay]].
* The [[Division of Bennelong|seat of Bennelong]] in the [[Parliament of Australia|Federal parliament]], which includes Putney, is named after him; Bennelong was the first Indigenous Australian to be honoured in the name of an electoral division.
* Bennelong Point, today the site of the Sydney Opera House, is named after him.
* An [[ostracod]] genus, ''[[Bennelongia]]'', was named after him in 1981; this genus is endemic to Australia and New Zealand.{{sfn|de Deckker|McKenzie|1981|pp=53–56}}

== Portrayals ==
Bennelong was played by actor Charles Yunupingu in the 1980 TV series ''[[The Timeless Land#Television production|The Timeless Land]]''.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Actor [[Jacob Junior Nayinggul]] portrayed Bennelong in reenactment sequences in the 2022 documentary series ''[[The Australian Wars]]''.{{sfn|IMDb|2022}}

== See also ==
{{Portal|Biography|Australia}}
* ''[[Destiny in Sydney]]: An epic novel of convicts, Aborigines, and Chinese embroiled in the birth of Sydney, Australia''
* [[List of Indigenous Australian historical figures]]

== Notes and citations ==
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=== Citations ===
{{Reflist|18em}}

=== Sources ===
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* {{Cite web |author=Anon. |date=n.d. |title=Coke, Thomas Walter |work=[[Dictionary of Sydney]] |url=https://dictionaryofsydney.org/person/coke_thomas_walter |access-date=2023-05-31}}
* {{Cite news |author=Anon. |agency=[[Australian Associated Press]] |title=Bennelong's burial site to be turned into public memorial |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/18/bennelongs-burial-site-to-be-turned-into-public-memorial |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=18 November 2018 |access-date=24 November 2018}}
*{{Cite journal |title=The Forlorn Hope: Bennelong and Yemmerrawannie Go to England |journal=[[Australian Aboriginal Studies ]] |last=Brook |first=Jack |year=2001 |pages=36–47 |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The%20forlorn%20hope:%20Bennelong%20and%20Yemmerrawannie%20go%20to%20England-a082259106}}
*{{Cite news |last=Daley |first=Paul |title=Bennelong's grave: how history betrayed Australia's first diplomat |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/19/bennelongs-grave-how-history-betrayed-australias-first-diplomat |access-date=24 November 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=18 November 2018}}
*{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Bennelong (1764–1813)|last=Dark|first=Eleanor|author-link=Eleanor Dark|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|volume=1|year=1966|id2=bennelong-1769|access-date={{TODAY}}}}
*{{Cite journal |title=Bennelongia, A new Cyprididid Ostracod Genus from Australasia |last1=de Deckker |first1=Patrick |last2=McKenzie |first2=Kenneth G. |journal=[[Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia]] |year=1981 |volume=105 |pages=53–56 |url=http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/dedeckker_p/pubs/83.pdf|archive-date=20 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020053034/http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/dedeckker_p/pubs/83.pdf}}
*{{Cite news |title=Bennelong's grave found under a front yard in Sydney's suburbs |last=Duff |first=Eamonn |url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/bennelongs-grave-found-under-a-front-yard-in-sydneys-suburbs-20110319-1c1l0.html |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=20 March 2011 |access-date=20 March 2011}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Fullagar |first=Kate |date=2009a |title=Preface: Woollarawarre Bennelong: rethinking the tragic narrative |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24046820 |journal=Aboriginal History |volume=33 |pages=3–6 |jstor=24046820 |issn=0314-8769}}
*{{Cite journal |title=Bennelong in Britain |last=Fullagar |first=Kate |journal=[[Aboriginal History]] |volume=33 |year=2009b |pages=31–51 |jstor=24046822}}
*{{Cite book |chapter=From Pawns to Players:Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens |last=Fullagar |first=Kate |title=Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World |editor1-last=Jackson |editor1-first=Will |editor2-last=Manktelow |editor2-first=Emily |publisher=[[Springer-Verlag|Springer]] |year=2015 |pages=22–42 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFdOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |isbn=978-1-137-46587-0}}
*{{Cite news |title=Bennelong |last=Gazette |work=[[Sydney Gazette|The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser]] |date=9 January 1813 |page=2 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/628604 |via=[[Trove]]}}
* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|IMDb|2022}}|reference={{IMDb title|qid=Q116693019|id=tt22771720|title=The Australian Wars|description=(TV mini series 2022)}}}}
*{{Cite book |title=The Colony: A History of Early Sydney |last=Karskens |first=Grace |publisher=[[Allen & Unwin]] |date=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fEH0okroLiUC |isbn=978-1-742-69058-2}}
*{{Cite book |title=Sydney Harbour: A History |last=Hoskins |first=Ian |publisher=University of New South Wales Press Ltd |date=2009 |isbn=978-1-921410-16-1}}
*{{Cite book |title=In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World |last=Shakespeare |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Shakespeare |publisher=[[Random House]] |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMI1_Hv2PzMC&pg=PA37 |isbn=978-1-407-07415-3}}
*{{Cite journal |title=Bennelong among his people |last=Smith |first=Keith Vincent |journal=[[Aboriginal History]] |year=2009 |volume=33 |pages=7–30 |jstor=24046821}}
*{{Citation |title=Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson in New South Wales Including An Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony; of the Natives; and of Its Natural Productions |last=Tench |first=Watkin |author-link=Watkin Tench |publisher=[[George Nicol (bookseller)|G. Nicol and J. Sewell]] |location=London |year=1793 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_eNCAAAAcAAJ}}
*{{Cite book |title=Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia |last=Van Toorn |first=Penny |publisher=[[Aboriginal Studies Press]] |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uEl8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 |isbn=978-0-855-75544-7}}
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== Further reading ==
*{{cite journal|url=http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/the-bridge/features/133/bennelong |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831205623/http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/the-bridge/features/133/bennelong |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 August 2011 |title=Bennelong (Archived version)|date=25 January 2008|journal=[[Time Out Sydney]]|issue=11}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Dortins |first=Emma |date=2009 |title=The many truths of Bennelong's tragedy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24046823 |journal=Aboriginal History |volume=33 |pages=53–75 |issn=0314-8769 |jstor=24046823}}
*{{Citation |last=Dortins |first=Emma |title=History, Tragedy and Truth in Bennelong's Story |date=2018a |work=The Lives of Stories |pages=115–136 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9hj9nv.10 |access-date=2024-11-30 |series=Three Aboriginal-Settler Friendships |publisher=ANU Press |isbn=978-1-76046-240-6 |jstor=j.ctv9hj9nv.10}}
*{{Citation |last=Dortins |first=Emma |title=Bennelong's Rise and Fall |date=2018b |work=The Lives of Stories |pages=91–114 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9hj9nv.9 |access-date=2024-11-30 |series=Three Aboriginal-Settler Friendships |publisher=ANU Press |jstor=j.ctv9hj9nv.9 |isbn=978-1-76046-240-6}}
*{{Cite journal |jstor=41447881 |last=Fullagar |first=Kate |author-link=:d:Q106036740 |date=2008 |title="Savages that are come among us": Mai, Bennelong, and British Imperial Culture, 1774–1795 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41447881 |journal=The Eighteenth Century |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=211–237 |issn=0193-5380}}
*{{cite book |last=Fullagar |first=Kate |author-link= |title=Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled |publisher=Scribner |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-76110-817-4 |ref=none}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/08/08/3821136.htm |title=Treasure Trove: Bennelong's letter |last=Maher |first=Louise |date=8 August 2013|website=[[666 ABC Canberra]]|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ref=none}}
*{{Cite book |last=State Library of New South Wales |url=https://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/events/exhibitions/2006/eora/docs/eora-guide.pdf |title=Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney 1770-1850 |date=June 2006 |publisher=State Library of New South Wales |isbn=0731371615 |access-date=30 November 2024}}

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