The Sydney Language Award shortlisted Cover images: Bill Simon ministering

Cover images: Bill Simon ministering on The Block

go hunting for tucker and play footy in the dust

Through the Australian Board of Missions (ABM)

Released May 2019

Michael Mansell

The Sydney Language Award shortlisted Cover images: Bill Simon ministeringThe Sydney Language was written to revive interest in the Aboriginal language of the Sydney district. It makes readily available the small amount of surviving information from historical records. Author, Professor Jakelin Troy refers to the language as the Sydney Language' because there was no name given for the language in these historical records until late in the nineteenth century when it was referred to as Dharug. The language is now called by