Wendy Brady:

"At one stage there was a European man who was receiving a flogging for some, you know, particular act that he'd carried out. And she intervened. And she did say - you know, this was where a whole crowd of military around - and she said it was unfair that the way this punishment was being meted out. Because he was tied up and so on. And she said 'This is wrong.' you know, 'Stop this'. And I thought that that took an awful amount of courage. But also for me it's significant because she was saying for the clan groups of the Sydney area that's not the way that you carried out a punishment. And it was unequal treatment basically to her.

And I think the other thing that really comes to mind with her is when she approached Governor Phillip and asked him if she could have her baby in Government House. Because Bennelong had brought him into the kinship group by calling him 'father uncle', and he said no and thought that she just wanted to go somewhere safe to have her baby, and said go to the hospital. Now, you know, she wouldn't do that, of course. And he didn't understand what she was trying to do. And for her, because the clan groups of the Sydney area had been so, you know, diminished in numbers by the effects of disease and so on, that she wanted to have her baby there because he was a 'father uncle' and also because it meant that that child would have responsibility for that particular area. And she was trying to re-establish that connection and also to establish a way of bringing in under the kinship system a particular European who she saw as having some power."