• "Barangaroo" was selected from over 1,600 entries submitted to the NSW Government State-wide naming competition in 2006.
  
  
• “Barangaroo” was a powerful indigenous woman who played an important role in the early days of colonial Sydney.
  
  
• Barangaroo was also the wife of Bennelong, after whom Bennelong Point - the site of the Sydney Opera House - is named. The name therefore completes an historical bookending between the eastern and western points of Sydney's CBD.
  
  
• The name Barangaroo was gazetted in 2007.