Wemba-Wemba

The Wemba-Wemba are an Indigenous Australian group in north-Western Victoria and south-western New South Wales, Australia, [cite web | url = http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/strine/w-3.php | title = Australia Decoded 'W-3' | publisher = JoyZine | accessdate = 2007-11-01] including in the Mallee and the Riverina regions. They are also known as the Wamba-wamba.cite web | last = Tindale | first = N.B | authorlink = Norman Tindale |year = 1974 | url = http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/orig/tindale/hdms/tindaletribes/wembawemba.htm | title = Wembawemba (NSW) | work = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (extract) | publisher = South Australian Museum | accessdate = 2007-11-01]

Before European settlement in the nineteenth century, the Wemba-Wemba occupied the area around Swan Hill, Victoria, [cite web | year = 2004 | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/Victoria/Swan-Hill/2005/02/17/1108500207436.html | title = Swan Hill - Victoria | work = Travel | publisher = Sydney Morning Herald | accessdate = 2007-11-01 ] Dunolly [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://www.cgold.com.au/Dunolly.htm | title = Dunolly | publisher = Goldfields Online | work = Central Goldfields Community | accessdate = 2007-11-01] and Creswick. [cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.hepburnshire.com.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=85&h=0 | title = Creswick | work = About the Shire | publisher = Hepburn Shire Council | accessdate = 2007-11-01 ] Norman Tindale recorded the tribe as on the Loddon River from Kerang, Victoria north to Swan Hill; on the Avoca River south to near Quambatook; northeastward to Booroorban, New South Wales and Moulamein; near Barham; at Lake Boga and Boort, Victoria.

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