History and heritage

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• Arts and culture
• What's happening
• Community engagement
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• Improve your community
• About our community
  • Community plans, studies and liaison groups
    • Community safety and crime prevention
    • Child Care Study
    • Youth Services Forum
  • History and heritage
    • Aboriginal heritage
      • Walking Tours - From inlet to bay
      • Language is the key to kin
      • The power of kinship
      • Hunting the fish of the harbour
      • Pictures in stone
      • Sheltering sandstone
      • Weapons and tools for many purposes
      • Signs of a feast
      • Rich in native flora and fauna
      • Bush food recipes
      • Medicine
      • Burial rites
  • Population and economic profile
  • Our approach to community building
• Accessibility

Local history

Find out all you need to know about our local history.

Oral history

Hear all about the history of our area from local residents as part of the Library's Oral History Collection.

Aboriginal heritage

Take a walk through history in the footsteps of the local Cadigal people.