Walbunja
{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales}}
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The Walbunja, also spelt Walbanga, Walbunga and Wulbunja, are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales, part of the Yuin nation.
Language
The Walbunja language may be a dialect of Dhurga.{{sfn|Dixon|2002|p=xxxv}}
Country
The Walbunja people are a subgroup of the Yuin nation.{{sfn|Reconciliation Australia|2014}}{{cite web | title=Sharon Mason | website=Australian National Maritime Museum | date=3 May 2023 | url=https://lab.sea.museum/en/saltwater-cloud/featured-community/sharon-mason | access-date=8 June 2024}}{{cite web| title=NSW Environment Awards honour the grassroots | website=Nature Conservation Council of NSW | date=1 August 2018 | url=https://www.nature.org.au/nsw_environment_awards_honour_the_grassroots | access-date=8 June 2024}}
Walbunja Country covers {{convert|2,500|mi2|km2}} a region from Cape Dromedary northwards to the vicinity of Ulladulla. Their inland extension is as far as the Shoalhaven River. Braidwood, Araluen and Moruya all lie on what is Walbunja land. The Wandandian peoples lay on their northern boundary, and to their south are the Djiringanj{{sfn|Slattery|2015|p=122}} and Thaua.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=199}}
Alternative names
Alternative spellings include Walbanga,{{AIATSIS|S53}} Walbunga,{{cite web | title=Our Culture and Heritage | website=Wagonga Local Aboriginal Land Council | url=https://www.wlalc.com.au/our-culture-and-heritage/ | access-date=20 August 2021}} and Wulbunja.{{cite web | title=4 March 2024 | website=NACCHO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health News | date=4 March 2024 | url=https://nacchocommunique.com/2024/03/04/4-march-2024/ | access-date=8 June 2024}}{{cite web | title=Kiama Downs community battery goes "live" | website=Kiama Council | date=24 May 2024 | url=https://www.kiama.nsw.gov.au/Council/News/Kiama-Downs-community-battery-goes-%E2%80%9Clive%E2%80%9D-joint-press-release-Kiama-Council-Endeavour-Energy | access-date=8 June 2024}}
According to Norman Tindale, alternative names included:{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=199}}
- Thurga (tirga, is the Walbunja word for "no")
- Thoorga
- Bugellimanji (A Walbunja horde)
- Bargalia
- Moruya tribe
Walbunja Rangers
The Walbunja Rangers Programme was established by the Batemans Bay Local Aboriginal Land Council in response to the Black Summer fires in 2019–20 . The group comprises 10–15 young Indigenous rangers who undertake cultural burning, pest eradication, and monitoring species monitoring on Country. In March 2024 the group won the Marie Byles Award for the most inspiring community action initiative in the NSW Environment Awards, a group of awards given by the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales.
Notable people
- In 2023, Aunty Maryanne Nye, a member of the Walbunja community, was given the Paul Harris Fellow Award (a Rotary Club award) for her work at the Boomerang Meeting Place in Mogo, New South Wales.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-08 |title=Aunty Maryanne Nye awarded for her dedication to Boomerang Meeting Place |url=https://www.batemansbaypost.com.au/story/8340710/aunty-maryanne-nye-awarded-for-her-dedication-to-boomerang-meeting-place/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Bay Post-Moruya Examiner |language=en-AU| url-access=subscription}}
References
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| last = Dixon | first = R. M. W.
| author-link = Robert M. W. Dixon
| year = 2002
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MSqIBNJtG0AC&pg=PR35
| isbn = 978-0-521-47378-1
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- {{Cite book| title = The native tribes of south-east Australia
| last = Howitt | first = Alfred William
| author-link = Alfred William Howitt
| year = 1904
| publisher = Macmillan
| url = https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319345/AU0094_NativeTribes_SE_Australia.pdf
}}
- {{Cite news| title = Returning to country brings wellbeing
| website = Reconciliation Australia
| url = https://www.reconciliation.org.au/returning-to-country-brings-wellbeing/
| date = 6 May 2014 | access-date = 19 December 2018
| ref = {{harvid|Reconciliation Australia|2014}}
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| last = Slattery | first = Deirdre
| year = 2015
| publisher = Csiro Publishing
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RhXKCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130
| isbn = 978-1-486-30172-0
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- {{Cite book| chapter = Walbanga (NSW)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| year = 1974
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| publisher = Australian National University
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/walbanga.htm
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples in New South Wales}}
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