Novotel Newcastle Beach - Family & Business trip hotel - Welcome to Country

Novotel Newcastle Beach acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we work and do business, the Awabakal people of the Mulubinba nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present, as well as to emerging leaders.   Our lobby features an Indigenous art gallery with many items available for sale.

The Traditional Custodians of this land are a people who belong to the oldest continuing culture in the world. They have a continuing connection to the land and waters, and unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters, and seas situated within the Newcastle local government area.

Newcastle is a city steeped in history and culture. A history and culture that stretches back tens of thousands of years to the Awabakal and Worimi people – the traditional custodians of the lands and waters across the city.

As the national conversation increasingly focuses in on themes of reconciliation and recognition, ensuring the voices of the traditional owners of Newcastle are heard, and that the culture and heritage of the Awabakal and Worimi people is preserved and acknowledged, is more important than ever.

Evidence of continuous and extensive Aboriginal occupation of Newcastle is reflected in the recent archaeological records. Multiple sites containing Aboriginal objects have been uncovered and documented throughout the local government area. This has included but is not limited to sites in Black Hill, Fletcher, Maryland and Shortland in close proximity to Burraghihnbihng (Hexham Swamp), in Burrabihngarn (Stockton), in Hunter Street Newcastle West, Wolfe Street The Hill, a shell midden at Meekarlba (Honeysuckle), and a tool making site at the Convict Lumber Yard on Scott Street.

Please take some time to view this story:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbMqrQd2FsI&t=4s