Worimi people are Indigenous Australians from the eastern Port Stephens and Great Lakes regions of coastal New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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. Before contact with settlers, their people extended from Port Stephens in the south to Forster/Tuncurry in the north and as far west as Gloucester

Gloucester, New South Wales

Gloucester is a town in the dairy and beef cattle country of the Manning district on the Mid North Coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia in the Gloucester Shire....

. They were said to be taller and stouter than those living around Sydney

Sydney

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and were said to be more prone to laughter than tears.