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Aborigines

Aborigines (Indigenous Australians) travelled to Australia thousands of years ago via a land bridge that once connected Australia to Asia. They relied on the land for survival and used knowledge of the annual cyclic weather patterns, to hunt for food shared with family and nearby tribes. What happend throughout the 17th to 20th centuries A […]

Traditional Australian Food

Australian cuisine was until recently influenced by its mainly British heritage and was largely based on the the concept of plate of food consisting of meat and three vegetables. In recent times however, Australia’s indigenous and multicultural heritages have introduced new foods and flavors to the Australian meal table. Many of these foods, mainly from […]

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History of Australia

Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians long before Europeans arrived. Ancient maps of the coastline predate the Dutch and Portuguese visits during the 15th and 16th century, and those of Indonesian and Japanese fishermen during the 18th century by at least 500 years. British explorer James Cook is credited with discovering Australia in the 18th […]

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