Bidgee Bidgee (c. 1787–c. 1837), a leader of the Burramattagal clan of the Dharug people, joined a number of sealing and whaling voyages to Bass Strait in the early 1800s, and acted as a tracker to an 1816 expedition aimed at quelling attacks against settlers in west and north-west Sydney. Bidgee Bidgee is held to have succeeded Bennelong, his half brother-in-law, as leader of the community centred near present-day Ryde on the Parramatta River, and in June 1816 Governor Macquarie issued him with a kingplate declaring him ‘chief of the Kissing Point tribe’.
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