Editing Bennelong (section)

== Legacy ==
Bennelong's legacy was long contested. Among many others, [[Manning Clark]] wrote: "Bennelong disgusted his civilizers and became an exile from his own people."{{sfn|Smith|2009|p=21}} He was seen as a tragic figure, due to being "caught between two worlds" as well as due to the alcoholism he developed later in life.{{sfn|Fullagar|2009a|pp=3–5}} In recent decades, he has been defended, as someone who saw the best and worst of [[Western civilization]] and, having done so, rejected it, recreating a modified form of traditional lifestyle at Kissing Point.{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=422-423}} Bennelong has also been recognised as a warrior who could switch between the British and Aboriginal worlds, and use the colonists' desire for conciliation as an advantage to both himself and his people.<ref name="gapps" />{{Page needed|date=November 2024}} His on-again, off-again friendship with the British governors ultimately saw other Aboriginal people being brought into contact with the colony at Sydney. In contributing to some of the first cross-cultural communication between the groups, he helped establish a tenuous peace between the Eora and the British that enabled some Aboriginal people to continue to exist as survivors in their own colonised land.{{sfn|Karskens|2010|pp=424–425}}
* Bennelong Park is a small park next to Kissing Point in Putney, Sydney, near where Bennelong died.
* A small plaque in Cleves Park in Putney marks the area near where he was thought to be buried.
* Nearby on the south side of Parramatta River, [[Bennelong Bridge]] crosses [[Homebush Bay]].
* The [[Division of Bennelong|seat of Bennelong]] in the [[Parliament of Australia|Federal parliament]], which includes Putney, is named after him; Bennelong was the first Indigenous Australian to be honoured in the name of an electoral division.
* Bennelong Point, today the site of the Sydney Opera House, is named after him.
* An [[ostracod]] genus, ''[[Bennelongia]]'', was named after him in 1981; this genus is endemic to Australia and New Zealand.{{sfn|de Deckker|McKenzie|1981|pp=53–56}}