Dharug and Dharawal Resources

Advance Australia Fair transcribed and composed by Richard Green for the 2000 Victoria Park Tent Embassy Protest and recorded by LOPEZ, Andrew, 'Out There Productions' for the City of Sydney 2009; can be heard being sung by young Indigenous singer Cory KIRK, as performed on ABC and Koori Radio 93.7 FM 2010 Australia Day Celebrations.

Advance Australia Fair in Dharawal from Sing 2003 written by Jacqueline Troy

Just the start of these examples

Some place names around Sydney and their meaning

Words to a Dharawal welcome to country

When you meet, how to greet

This site includes language words and recordings. We have some Dharawal recordings from the AIATSIS archives, and some new songs and words from speakers reclaiming the Sydney language or Dharug.

These are language lessons developed by Richard Green for use in teaching the language. They explain the process of reclamation

Watch this video of images of the Sydney Basin art works

Second part 

Some talk about country you are on. This is based around Sydney, some areas in the city and the grounds of the university. There was a borah ground in the Ultimo/Chippendale area and it was used for educational purposes for many thousands of years. We want to speak about this again in our language

These are examples that can be used in other applications as a wordlist or phrases. It is talking about our totem and our country. Also we want to extend this with more lessons about the weather and about our star trails.

Listen to this poem

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When travelling through the National Parks,  we all wonder of know the names of each place and living thing.