Aboriginal cannibals demonstrated a number of distinctive culinary preferences. It appears that they greatly favoured the taste of Chinese people, whom they found and killed in remote areas of settlement, over the apparently saltier taste of Europeans:

“Urquhart says his boys always told him the blacks did not like the taste of whites much—they were too salt [sic]—but that they relished Chinamen, hundreds of whom were killed while packing provisions across the Peninsula to the Palmer River goldfields [in Queensland] in the days following Mulligan’s discovery of the field. This fact was put down to the salt-beef diet of the early whites, while the Chinese lived more on rice. Urquhart was called out to hunt up the murderers of a Chinaman living in a lonely hut by the roadside … Following up the blacks, Urquhart came upon them while engaged in the preparation of a meal. He and his troopers dashed into the camp and scattered the natives in all directions. On the fire was a looted pot, and simmering inside it was the Chinaman’s foot and some sweet potatoes.”  –-Hudson Fysh, Taming the North (1933), referring to the period after gold was discovered in 1873.

the late Dr C.G. von Brandenstein, who learnt at least four Pilbara languages, told me once that in hard times, dead infants would routinely go ‘into the pot’.


Carl-Georg Christoph Freiherr von Brandenstein (10 October 1909 – 8 January 2005) was a German linguist who took up the study of Australian Aboriginal languages.

Australian work on Aboriginal languages
Brandenstein's field work lasted some three decades, beginning in the 1960s. He initially concentrated on the languages of Aboriginal groups in the Pilbara area of Western Australia, and then gathered recordings and made analyses of southern tribal languages such as Ngadjumaya and Noongar.: 321–335  His major contribution consisted in challenging the use of the term and concept of totem adopted throughout anthropology from an original Ojibwa word, and widely used in kinship analysis. For Brandenstein, an etymological approach indicated that the majority of 'totemic' terms could be traced back to the vocabulary for human and animal bodies, and temperamental qualities. In short, identity was not reducible to belonging to one or another segmentary division of a tribe, but involved far more concrete traits. Throughout the Australian totemic system he believed he could isolate a logic, which in its fullest form, evinced 8 combinations of three paired terms of primary properties. Two totems in a binary tribal moiety could be shown to each involve a set of up to 20 features that could be distributed as traits over all human and non-human members of each of the two groups.

Actually.
It's a true fact that the Solomon Islanders practiced cannibalism and of 200 Chinese boat people who landed on one of the islands, only two were left alive. When asked why these two boys weren't eaten - the Islanders responded that they were too scrawny to eat.

Cannibalism has been a part of nearly every culture through the ages. Be it a Uruguayan Rugby Union team in the Andes trying to stay alive after their plane crashed, to the crew of the Whaling ship the Essex from Nantucket eating each other in the life-boats during a record 93 days adrift, to South American tribes keeping their tribe from over-populating when food was scarce (droughts, etc).
I have no doubt that even early Europeans and Britons cannibalised when food was scarce.
White Americans have done it, Asians have done it, etc, etc.
Maybe Aborigines have done it though there isn't any real cement proof recorded beyond the occassional racist propaganda by White Colonialists with the right to own a gun and genocide less able people to fight back fairly.
A lot of this racist propaganda has been proven to be lies as in a case like the couple who were stranded in Queensland's north and cared for by the local Aborigines only to be rescued and later making the statements that they were mistreated harshly by the 'inferiors'. Considering they were alive and in good health also proved they were racist liars.

There was the Maori v Koori Rugby League test where after the Haka, the Aborigines did their effort (with spears too) and one aborigine was gesturing that he was going to eat the Maori player standing just a few metres away from the approaching Koori haka.

Would I cannibalise>? If survival merited it - sure.

A white Tasmanian Convict escaped twice. Luring 6 other Convicts to escape with him - they became his source of food on their run to West Tasmania. He would linger behind and knock the stragglers off one by one after he deserted them and followed.

Boris reports of Cannibalism in the far north by Aborigines.
If that is a fact, does he know 'why' they need to do such and with concrete evidence to prove it?

The moment 'Whites' took over this most 'virulent' Region of the world, they took on the responsibility of the locals - but for both British and more so American influences, they were treated abominably - especially in the north and Tasmania (War of the Worlds by HG Wells).

Little wonder that despite all the Biden fruitcake supporters reporting UFO's of late. I very much doubt Humanity deserves and has earned the right to find life and intelligent life out there. We are simply way too violent and 'primitive' in our way we exist with just ourselves. We may not find intelligent life for 40,000 years and come to experience what the Aborigines did on this little blue dot.

For a superior intelligent people, for arguement's sake, discovering a more primitive people - in nearly every point in history. Those that are like cultural children are basically abused and that's how the 'superior' whites treated the more 'primitive' people's here except for the early harmonious existence of the Sydney penal settlement being a rare thing in history.

Hawaii accepted the Union Jack on their flag and a lot of things British, because as the main chief explained - it was a lot better than having his culture 'cannibalised' by the British via force against their opposition.

The Aborigines here are a 'reflection' of ourselves in many ways. I've had to deal with the worst of them no different to any other peoples here and I've had the good fortune to deal with the best of them as well.

With the rules of Colonisation - the previous inhabitants always split into two (good and evil 'duality' as in Zarathustrianism - the first monotheism) against the incoming Singular culture, as was the case in North America with the Civil War over the newer 'Black' peoples.
You will find that there is a faction of Aborigines who will try to do good, as there will be the bitter bad that take a more hostile and bitter approach. Good cop, Bad cop - so to speak. As too will Australian society break into two for the incoming 'Yellow' man. Colonisations and this process happens everywhere like the Spanish culture dying an indigenous 'Conquistador' death in South America for being the Portal to Europe.

Me thinks Boris is a Vegan to be honest. 

Boris wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2022 at 9:47pm:


Where is the evidence, Matty?  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

Eye witness accounts is evidence from a man who spoke 4 Aboriginal Languages and worked with them for 30 years - from 1960 to 1990.

Boris wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2022 at 10:22pm:

His knowledge of Aboriginal languages was unimpressive... 

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Do you have a PhD in Linguistics?