Bennelong’s grave: how history betrayed Australia’s first diplomat | Paul Daley

Woollarawarre Bennelong was a warrior and a peacemaker who became, perhaps, the country's most misunderstood Indigenous man

Woollarawarre Bennelong's grave could not be more underwhelming, given all the myth and drama attached to his short life as the most renowned and, perhaps, misunderstood Indigenous man in the first three decades of Australia's post-invasion settlement.

Bennelong was a warrior and a peacemaker for a time held captive in chains by his European dispossessors. He took the pragmatic path of becoming an envoy for the Gadigal of Sydney to the invaders.