Woollarawarre Bennelong ( c. 1764 – 3 January 1813 ) ( also: " Baneelon ") was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal ( Koori ) people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia, in 1788.

The Koori ( from Awabakal language gurri, as spoken in the area of what is today Newcastle, adopted by indigenous people of other areas ) are the indigenous Australians that traditionally occupied modern day New South Wales and Victoria.

* The indigenous Koori people of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia

A bronze plaque placed by Ashfield Council names the reserve after the Cadigal ( Eora ) group of Koori people.

Canopus was identified as the moiety ancestor Waa " Crow " to some Koori people in southeastern Australia.

The history of the Aboriginal population in the Paddington area is hard to find, but it is known that, at the time when Robert Cooper began to build his first house there, approximately 200 Koori people were living in Woolloomooloo in huts which Governor Macquarie had built for them.

The Koori people of Victoria knew Alshain and γ Aquilae as the Black Swan wives of Bunjil ( Altair ), the Wedge-tailed Eagle.

The Koori people of Victoria knew β and γ Aquilae as the Black Swan wives of Bunjil ( Altair ), the Wedge-tailed Eagle.

* Koori ( or Koorie ) in New South Wales and Victoria

* Koori ( or Koorie ) in New South Wales and Victoria

Aldo Massola ( 1910 – 1975 ) was an Italian-Australian anthropologist, a curator at the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne from 1954 to 1964, who overcame scandal in his personal life to author a number of influential books about Victoria's indigenous Koori population.

* Koori ( or Koorie ) in New South Wales and Victoria

A Koori Court is a division of the Magistrate's court in Victoria, Australia, that sentences Indigenous Australians who pleaded guilty.

Koori Courts in Victoria are located in Bairnsdale, Broadmeadows, Latrobe Valley ( Morwell ), Mildura, Shepparton and Warrnambool.

* Koori Court of Victoria FAQ

Munkimuk also hosts a nationally syndicated weekly radio program " Indij Hip Hop Show " produced from Koori Radio in Sydney.

The Koori Courts have been successful in not only reducing recidivism but also in strengthening the role of community elders and family structures.

There are also two Koori Children's Courts, one in Melbourne and one in Mildura.

A Koori County Court, the only one of its kind in the state, also operates out of the Latrobe Valley Court.

The Koori Courts are an initiative of the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement, a joint partnership strategy between the Victorian Government and the Victorian Koori Community developed to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system and to improve justice outcomes for the Koori Community.

Magistrates presiding in the Koori Court ( which deals with Aboriginal defendants ) were originally of a mind not to appear robed ; however elders within the Indigenous community urged Magistrates to continue wearing robes to mark the solemnity of the court process to defendants.

The dreaming of local Koori nations incorporates tales of volcanic eruptions from the past.

* Koori Centre at the University of Sydney.

Smaller towns and hamlets include Durras, Nelligen, Mogo, Malua Bay, Broulee, Mossy Point, Rosedale, Bodalla, Potato Point, Nerrigundah, Mystery Bay, Central Tilba, and Wallaga Lake Koori Village.

* 24 October – Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist ( b. 1948 ).

This inspired Koori political activists, awakened positive media interest and commenced an era of protests.

Aboriginal communities from other regions of Australia include Koori, Anangu, Noongar, Nunga.

A song titled " Koori Punks Fuck Off " was recorded by Australian punk band TISM, but never released.

As a teacher, from 1985, he worked at the Eora Centre in Redfern and from 2000 was a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney's Koori Centre.

Since 2000 Little was a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney's Koori Centre.

In late 2005, Witt was photographed at the Radisson Kestrel Hotel, Manly ( now the Manly Sebel ) for the League Of Their Own 2006 calendar that was produced in the style of the famous Dieux du Stade calendars to raise money for the Koori Kids foundation, and following this Witt was included in Cosmopolitan magazine's Boys With Balls ' 06 feature which profiled 20 of the sexiest footballers of the year from both the NRL and AFL competitions.

At the time of British settlement in 1788 the inhabitants were Aborigines of the Darug language group and they called themselves Kuri or Koori.

Nearby Kooringa Reserve is derived from the Koori word for " sheoak.

The Victoria Dean of Students cancelled Novemberfest in 2003, when police discovered widespread underage drinking and over 800 people in the dining hall, in violation of the fire code.

* The Victoria English Country Dance Society is a group of friendly people who gather once a week to dance in Victoria, BC, Canada.

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation.

The Wotojobaluk people of Victoria tell of Totyerguil from the area now known as Swan Hill who ran out of spears while chasing Otchtout the cod.

Phrenology was not limited to the common people and both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert invited George Combe to read the heads of their children.

The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria named Rigel as Collowgullouric Warepil.

The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria named it as Neilloan, " the flying Loan "

* The Black Saturday bushfires – the deadliest bushfires in Australian history took place across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday February 7, 2009 during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in 173 people killed and, more than 500 injured and around 7, 500 homeless.

* January 13 – Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires.

A shocked Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | mandarin in Manchu people | Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria ( British Empire ), Wilhelm II of Germany | Wilhelm II ( German Empire ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicholas II ( Russian Empire | Imperial Russia ), Marianne ( French Third Republic ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan ) stabbing into a king cake with Chine (" China " in French ) written on it.

* February 16 – The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfires ever.

OzOpera ( Opera Australia's education, access and development arm ) presented the La bohème production in Victoria, Northern Territory and Western Australia, attended by 13, 350 people, while OzOpera's Schools Company performed to over 63, 500 primary age children in more than 360 performances in urban and regional New South Wales and Victoria.

Archaeological sites in Tasmania and on the Bass Strait Islands have been dated to between 20, 000 – 35, 000 years ago, when sea levels were 130 metres below present level allowing Aboriginal people to move across the region of southern Victoria and on to the land bridge of the Bassian plain to Tasmania by at least 35, 000 years ago.

They also clashed with the Wathaurung people near Corio Bay, killing their leader – the first Aboriginal known to have been killed by settlers in Victoria.

Many famous or well-known people worked and studied at the Victoria University of Manchester: see People associated with the University of Manchester and List of University of Manchester people.

On the 21st of June 2012, in an interview with Melbourne radio station Joy 94. 9 FM, Major Andrew Craibe, the Salvation Army ’ s Territorial Media Relations Director for the Southern Territory in Victoria, stated that non-celibate gay people deserved to die.

The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria saw it as Collowgullouric War, the wife of War ( Canopus ).

In 2010, astronomers Duane Hamacher and David Frew from Macquarie University in Sydney showed that the Boorong Aboriginal people of northwestern Victoria, Australia, witnessed the outburst of Eta Carinae in the 1840s and incorporated it into their oral traditions as " Collowgulloric War ", the wife of " War " ( Canopus, the Crow — pronounced " Waah ").

Famous people to originate from Southgate include Leigh Hunt, the English essayist and writer, who was born here in 1784, and Frederick Hitch, one of the men awarded a Victoria Cross for the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879.

To cite an example, people from a remote outstation called Yarralin, which is part of the Victoria River region, venerate the spirit Walujapi as the Dreaming Spirit of the black-headed python.