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Terry Lennis

Terry Lennis is a proud D'harawal man, local elder and Aboriginal horticulturalist known for leading Aboriginal walking tours of the Cooks River in Sydney's Inner West.

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Sep 27, 2026

Goolay'yari Cooks River Radio

Goolay'yari Cooks River Radio

Ep 8: Finding the Long Lost Swamp

Sep 27 · 1h 0m

Niall Edwards-FitzSimonsHOST

31:13

Do you think it's possible for people around here to come to a different kind of relationship with the idea of the swamp?

Terry LennisGUEST

31:19

I wouldn't call it a swamp.

Terry LennisGUEST

31:20

You know, I'd call it that marshland, that wetland.

Terry LennisGUEST

31:24

You know, that word swamp gives people that negative connotation straight away.

Terry LennisGUEST

31:28

They think, you know, decay and death and smell.

Terry LennisGUEST

31:33

So more or less a wetland where you were going to have that water there occasionally.

Terry LennisGUEST

31:39

So the people are actually coming to terms with it and they're liking it.

Niall Edwards-FitzSimonsHOST

34:52

Is that