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=== Indigenous inhabitants ===
[[Aboriginal Australians|Indigenous Australians]] have long inhabited the area.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=Canberra in two centuries: A pictorial history |last=Fitzgerald |first=Alan |publisher=Clareville Press |year=1987 |isbn=0-909278-02-4 |pages=4–5,12,92–93,115,128}}</ref> Evidence indicates habitation dating back at least 25,000 years,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Osborne |first1=Tegan |title=New dating shows 25,000 years of history at Birrigai rock shelter in ACT |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/curious-canberra/2016-04-04/new-research-shows-human-occupation-in-act-extends-25,000-years/7288132 |access-date=20 August 2019 |agency=ABC News |date=5 May 2016}}</ref> and it is possible that the area was inhabited for considerably longer. The principal group occupying the region were the [[Ngunnawal|Ngunnawal people]], with the [[Ngarigo]] and [[Walgalu]] living immediately to the south, the [[Wandandian|Wandadian]] to the east, the [[Gandangara]] to the north and the [[Wiradjuri]] to the north-west.<ref name="Gillespie84">{{cite book |last=Gillespie |first=Lyall |title=Aborigines of the Canberra Region |publisher=Wizard (Lyall Gillespie) |location=Canberra |year=1984 |pages=1–25 |isbn=0-9590255-0-2}}</ref>