Editing Bundaberg (section)

===Bourbong Street===
Bourbong Street is the main street of the city. and there is some controversy in regards to its spelling and meaning. Bourbong was alternatively spelled Bourbon or Boorbong, which was a local Aboriginal title given to a large waterhole in the area.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39384989 |title=Correspondence |newspaper=[[Cairns Post]] |volume=XXIV |issue=641 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=18 January 1910 |access-date=9 December 2018 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=25 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325050842/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39384989 |url-status=live }}</ref> The main street was historically also gazetted in the [[Bundaberg Mail]] as "Bourbon" street, but by 1941 there is no reference to "Bourbon" street. Robert Strathdee's farming selection in the vicinity of the watering holes was recorded on early survey maps as 'Boorbung'.<ref>Rackemann (1992), ''Bundaberg'', p. 48</ref>

A pioneer pastoralist of the region, [[Nicholas Tooth]], wrote that "Bourbong" was derived from the local Aboriginal phrase "bier rabong", meaning "plenty dead". Tooth, who took up land in the area in the early 1860s, found that Aboriginal people resolutely avoided the "bier rabong" vicinity. He later found the skeletal remains there of around twenty Aboriginal people who were apparently massacred in a raid by the [[Native Police]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3595688 |title=MEETINGS. |newspaper=[[The Brisbane Courier]] |volume=LI |issue=11,556 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=28 January 1895 |access-date=9 December 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=25 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325050821/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3595688 |url-status=live }}</ref>