Simon Wonga
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Simon Wonga,b?-d.1875, was an elder of the Wurundjeri indigenous people who lived in the Melbourne area of Australia.
In 1859 some Wurundjeri elders, led by Simon Wonga petitioned Protector Thomas to secure land for them at the junction of the Acheron and Goulbourn rivers. This was refused and instead land was provided, though importantly not granted as freehold, at Coranderrk, near Healesville.
The Melbourne suburb of Wonga Park and Wonga Road are named after him.
