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Bennelong’s burial site to be preserved

The burial site of Woollarawarre Bennelong will be preserved after the New South Wales Government announced in November that it has purchased the Sydney property on which it sits: 25 Watson Street, Putney. Bennelong was a mediator between Indigenous people and

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