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In short: Bennelong walked in two worlds, and was decisive in convincing the Eora people to 'come in' to the settlement in 1790.
But it is framed by his recent discovery that the very area of New South Wales just north of Sydney where he grew up in Anglo-Celtic, middle-class comfort, and where he has spent some important moments of his adult life, was also the site of the formative years of an Aboriginal academic colleague of the same age, Dennis Foley, who lived a culturally rich but tenuous existence there with his family, members of the Gai-mariagal group who are part of the Eora people.
 
 
 
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