Wiradjuri

Wiradjuri country extends across a large inland region of southeastern Australia, encompassing the Lachlan, Macquarie and Murrumbidgee river systems. River valleys, plains and wooded hills supported numerous local communities joined by language and kinship. British expansion inland in the early nineteenth century brought settlers into Wiradjuri lands and provoked violent resistance, including conflict around Bathurst in the 1820s.