Cessnock Give Local
The Give Local provides up-to-date information for community organisations who provide services in the Cessnock area.
Traditional Owner Groups
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Wonnarua
Phonetic WanarruwaDescription The Wonnarua people, otherwise written Wanarruwa, are a group of Aboriginal Australian people united by strong ties of kinship, and who survived in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of what is now known as the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Their creation spirit is Baiami, also known as Koin, the creator of all things and the Keeper of the Valley. -
Awabakal
Phonetic /?'w?b?gæl/Description The Awabakal people /?'w?b?gæl/, are those Aboriginal Australians who identify with or are descended from the Awabakal tribe and its clans, Indigenous to the coastal area of what is now known as the Hunter Region of New South Wales. Their traditional territory spread from Wollombi in the west, to the Lower Hunter River near Newcastle and Lake Macquarie in the north. -
Darkinjung
Phonetic DarkinjungDescription The traditional boundaries of Darkinjung (Darkinyung) land extend from the Hawkesbury River in the south, Lake Macquarie in the north, the McDonald River and Wollombi up to Mt Yengo in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the East.Phone (02) 4351 2930Email DARKINJUNG@DLALC.ORG.AU
Our Neighbouring Councils
Our Localities
- Aberdare
- Abermain
- Abernethy
- Bellbird
- Bellbird Heights
- Big Yengo
- Black Hill
- Branxton
- Brunkerville
- Buchanan
- Buttai
- Cedar Creek
- Cessnock
- Cliftleigh
- Congewai
- Corrabare
- Dairy Arm
- East Branxton
- Ellalong
- Elrington
- Fernances Crossing
- Four Mile Creek
- Greta
- Greta Main
- Heddon Greta
- Kearsley
- Keinbah
- Kitchener
- Kurri Kurri
- Laguna
- Lovedale
- Loxford
- Millfield
- Moruben
- Mount View
- Mount Vincent
- Mulbring
- Murrays Run
- Neath
- North Rothbury
- Nulkaba
- Olney
- Paxton
- Paynes Crossing
- Pelaw Main
- Pelton
- Pokolbin
- Quorrobolong
- Richmond Vale
- Rothbury
- Sawyers Gully
- Stanford Merthyr
- Stockrington
- Sweetmans Creek
- Watagan
- Weston
- Wollombi
- Yengo National Park