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BONDI BEACH - From Indigenous Land to Tourist Mecca - Sacred Sand to Tourist Paradise

BONDI BEACH - From Indigenous Land to Tourist Mecca - Sacred Sand to Tourist Paradise

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 Episode one traces Bondi's transformation from Aboriginal sacred land to Australia's most beloved beach. For tens of thousands of years, the Gadigal and Bidjigal people called this coastline home, naming it "Boondi" for water breaking over rocks. Colonial dispossession came swiftly after seventeen eighty eight, and the area slowly developed through private ownership. Victorian moral panic banned daylight bathing until William Gocher's rebellious eighteen ninety two swim sparked a revolution. By nineteen oh seven, the world's first surf lifesaving club was born at Bondi. Through the nineteen twenties and thirties, this former forbidden territory became the people's playground, where working class Sydneysiders and immigrant communities found democratic space on sand and surf, forever changing Australian culture.
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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.