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"...another favourite fishing technique (of the Cadigal) was to stand in the lee of a point with a spear poised over the still water, spitting chewed-up mussels into the water as berley. The fish of the harbour have been hunted in these ways for 15,000 years."

Tim Flannery, The Birth of Sydney

Early painting of Sydney region

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Woollahra Municipal Council
Woollahra Council acknowledges that we are on the land of the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people, the Traditional Custodians of the land. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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