Editing New South Wales (section)

=== Aboriginal Australians ===
{{Main|Prehistory of Australia}}
The original inhabitants of New South Wales were the [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] [[List of Indigenous Australian group names|tribes]] who arrived in Australia about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement there were an estimated 250,000 Aboriginal people in the region.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aboriginal settlement|url=http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/aboriginal-settlement/|publisher=About NSW|access-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922194236/http://about.nsw.gov.au/encyclopedia/article/aboriginal-settlement/|archive-date=22 September 2013}}</ref>

The [[Wodiwodi|Wodi wodi]] people, who spoke a variant of the [[Tharawal people|Dharawal]] language, are the original custodians of an area south of Sydney which was approximately bounded by modern [[Campbelltown, New South Wales|Campbelltown]], [[Shoalhaven River]] and [[Moss Vale]] and included the [[Illawarra]].<ref name="Illawarra">{{cite book|title=History of Aboriginal People of the Illawarra 1770 to 1970|year=2005|publisher=Department of Environment and Conservation, NSW|page=8}}</ref>

The [[Bundjalung people]] are the original custodians of parts of the [[Northern Rivers|northern coastal areas]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

There are other Aboriginal peoples whose traditional lands are within what is now New South Wales, including the [[Wiradjuri]], [[Gamilaraay|Gamilaray]], [[Yuin]], [[Ngarigo]], [[Gweagal]], and [[Ngiyampaa]] peoples.