“Bondi” or “Boondi” is an aboriginal word meaning “water breaking over rocks” or “noise of water breaking over rocks." The Gadigal, who witnessed the arrival of the First Fleet, recorded their impressions of the Europeans by engraving a fully rigged ship at Bellevue Hill just outside Waverley.
"Bondi," originally "Boondi" is an Aboriginal word meaning "water breaking over rocks" or "noise of water breaking over rocks."
The name Coogee is derived from the Aboriginal word 'koojah' which means 'bad smell' or a 'stinking place'. In 1950 the anthropologist Frederick McCarthy gave alternative spellings as 'Kuji' and 'Kudji' meaning 'bad generally; stinking; a bad smell'.
The name “Bondi” comes from the Aboriginal word that means “water breaking over rocks” or alternately “noise of water breaking over rocks.” But when you check with the Australian Museum, you'll find out another reference for the word “Bondi”.
Gubbah, also spelt gubba, is a term used by some Aboriginal people to refer to white people or non-Aboriginal people.
However, Dr Misty Jenkins, who leads the Division of Immunology lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, said the ability to test DNA for Aboriginal genealogy does not exist.
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage is voluntary and very personal. You don't need paperwork to identify as an Aboriginal person. However, you may be asked to provide confirmation when applying for Aboriginal-specific jobs, services or programs (for example grants).
Why Stay in Bondi Beach? The beach boasts a 1-kilometer glimmering beach strip that also produces world-class waves, making it popular for surfing enthusiasts. It is also the only beach in Australia that is open all year round.
They dress in a Blue uniform because the volunteer lifesavers wear Red and Yellow. Lifeguards have very strong water skills. They use rescue boards, jet skis, rescue tubes, and common sense to manage water safety at the beach.
In 1851 Edward Smith Hall and Francis O'Brien purchased 200 acres (0.8 square kilometres) of the Bondi area that included most of the beach frontage, which was named "The Bondi Estate." Hall was O'Brien's father-in-law.
Dubbo, NSW
Is thought to come from a Wiradjuri word, Thubbo, which is in conjecture of two possible meanings; either 'red earth' or 'head covering', as the first permanent European settler, Robert Dulhunty's house may have looked like the shape of a hat to the local people.
Koori (or Koorie)
Koori is a term denoting an Aboriginal person of southern New South Wales or Victoria.
The name Warragamba comes from the aboriginal words Warra and Gamba meaning 'water running over rocks'.
Italian: from the personal name Bondí an omen or well-wishing name from buon di 'good day' (see Bonadio ). Italian: from a shortened form of the personal name Abbondio from the Latin personal name Abundius from abundus 'abundant'.
Bondi has been positioned as a destination for visitors for over 135 years, when Bondi Beach was officially opened to the public in 1882. Today, it is accepted that the gadigal, bidiagal and birrabirragal are clan groups that occupied the area between Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay which include the Waverley.
The first recorded name for the area we now know as Tamarama was in the 1830s when it was identified on a military map as Gamma Gamma, an Indigenous word. It is believed that this word means 'storm'.
Bondi Rescue's executive producer Michael Cordell, who apparently lives in a $4.9 million (£3.3 million) Bronte mansion, confirmed that the company does not pay the stars an additional salary, but insisted that the show is not a "millionaire's factor".
Bondi rescue star Terry McDermott has died, with the programme honouring him as "one of the nicest watermen to don a jersey".
But a Bondi Beach lifeguard earns up to $66,267, while a team leader is paid up to $78,633 a year. Lifeguards patrolling Coogee, Clovelly and Maroubra beaches are paid up to $72,921 by Randwick City Council, while the position of supervisor earns up to $94,025.
A mysterious and forbidding gateway to an alternate dimension appears to have opened on the sands of Bondi Beach.
Rediscovered in the late 1980s she was moved to Waverley Library, where, in 1999, the Friends of Waverley Library paid for her remains to be preserved by Sydney Artefacts Conservation. Jan the mermaid remains at Waverley Library today, held safe in her perspex box.
Early on 8 June, 1942 a Japanese submarine, about nine kilometres offshore proceeded over a four-minute period, to fire about a dozen shells from its 140mm deck gun over Bondi and into the Woollahra Municipality.
Aboriginal people can be dark-skinned and broad-nosed, or blonde-haired and blue-eyed. Let's get rid of some myths!
One Nation NSW has proposed to abolish self-identification and introduce a “new system” relying on DNA ancestry testing with a result requiring a finding of at least 25 per cent "Indigenous" before First Nations identification is accepted.