There is clear evidence, particularly in the form of significant Aboriginal rock carvings, that Aboriginal people occupied sites in the area now known as Waverley, in the period before European settlement. An important type of tool was first found in the region and is still known as the Bondi point. The indigenous people of the area at the time of European settlement have generally been referred to as the Sydney people or the Eora, meaning ‘the people’. There is no clear evidence for the name...