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Barangaroo (c. 1750 – 1791) was an Aboriginal Australian woman best known for her interactions with the British colony of New South Wales during the first years of the European colonisation of Australia. A member of the Cammeraygal clan, she was the wife of Bennelong, who served as a prominent interlocutor between local Aboriginal people and the colonists.

Barangaroo was married to another man, and had two children with him prior to marrying Bennelong. Her first husband and two children all died before the second marriage, with the husband allegedly dying of smallpox. Barangaroo had a daughter named Dilboong with Bennelong, before dying shortly after in 1791; Dilboong only lived for a few months before dying. Barangaroo had a traditional cremation ceremony with her fishing gear, and her ashes were scattered by Bennelong around Governor Arthur Phillip's garden, located in the modern-day Circular Quay.

Like Bennelong, Barangaroo had a considerable influence on settler-Aboriginal relations during the first years of the British colonisation of New South Wales. When she first met the colonists in 1790, Barangaroo was described as being in her early 40's and was noted for her refusal to interact with the settlers in any significant way. Initially refusing to visit the colonists at Sydney Cove, she eventually went to meet Philip in 1791. Historians have argued that Barangaroo served as a matriarch of the Cammeraygal via her role as a fisherwoman.

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Woollarawarre Bennelong (c. 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 first British settlement in Australia. Bennelong served as an 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.

In 1789, he was abducted on the authority of 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. 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 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 in 1813, aged about 48, and was buried in James Squire's orchard.

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