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Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant

Historic site in New South Wales, Australia

Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant is a heritage-listed former farm at Richmond Road, Colebee, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Colebee and Nurragingy's Land Grant, Colebee Release Area, 773, 777 and 783 Richmond Road. The property is owned by Transport for NSW.

History

The history of the Colebee/Nurragingy Land Grant must be understood within the context of the early colonial history of Sydney. The spread of colonial settlement from Sydney Harbour to the western plains occurred quite rapidly within the first 15 years of European arrival in Australia. As British settlers took up allotments, their farmlands expanded to the west across traditional Aboriginal hunting grounds. With this increasing European presence, traditional Aboriginal resources were subsumed and conflict inevitably developed. Conflict between the two communities was particularly prevalent during periods of drought.^[1]

A period of drought between 1814 and 1816 resulted in the escalation of

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Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant

In 1983 the New South Wales Government passed laws that recognised Aboriginal rights to land – the Aboriginal Land Rights Act NSW 1983. These laws, which pre-dated the High Court's 'Mabo' decision by a decade, responded to Aboriginal people's campaign over many generations for recognition of traditional rights over territory. As European occupation intensified and resources were depleted, Aboriginal people sought secure land to settle. The Aboriginal Land Rights Act amounted to a social justice package, funded for 15 years, encompassing a mechanism to recover limited land held by the Crown and a network of representative Aboriginal organisations to manage land and cultural heritage.

The New South Wales Act was a comprehensive response to Aboriginal land justice claims and has endured for more than 30 years. However, since colonisation, there have been rare instances where the colonial government recognised Aboriginal interests in land, and made land grants. The motivations for the

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Colebee Boorooberongal (bef. 1791 - abt. 1831)

ColebeeBoorooberongal

Born before in New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Son of Yarramundi Boorooberongal and [mother unknown]

Brother of Bolongaia (Boorooberongal) Lock

Husband of Kitty Warmuli — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Father of Unknown Boorooberongal

Died about after about age 40in New South Wales, Australia

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The Birth and Death Dates are a rough estimate. See the text for details.

Biography

Colebee (also known as Coleby and Coley) was a Darug man of the Boorooberongal clan ^[1], which has been defined by colonists in some sources as the Richmond Tribe (sic). He should not be conflated with another notable Wangal man also named Colebee.

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However, 'Creek Jemmy' was an alternative name for Colebee's life-long friend Nurragingy, Chief of the 'South Creek Tribe', according to Governor Macquarie^[2] when he wrote in his diary on 25 May 1816 of a grant of 30 acres of land on