Well, funny you should ask just now for research on the Australian Aborigines' diet. Just this week Tim Flannery's edition of William Buckley account of his 32 years with the Aborigines of Victoria has been published. I have been longing to read this book for years and now Flannery has issued it. Fantastic jackpot as Flannery has great credentials (See my review of his The Eternal Frontier on Amazon]. Buckley makes it clear that the Aborigines he lived with ate every animal, reptile, bird and shellfish they could get their hands on as well as many insects. This predominantly flesh diet was supplemented by roots and, in season, berries. He makes no reference to what we call greens or vegetables. Buckley was not an anthropologist, just a builder who escaped as a convict in 1803. The Life and Adventures of William Buckley, Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. Published by Text Publishing, May 2002. ISBN 1-877008-20-6. A great read! Can I also refer you to Weston Price's account from his visits here in the 1930s http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/australian_aborigines.html I should add that Australia is a big place and had about 200 main groups with a wide variety of cultural, climatic and nutritional traditions. The Tasmanians, for example, in the coldest part of Australia, had no fire for the 10,000 years to 1800. The mainland tribes had fire, but some were desert dwellers who never saw a fish and others were tropical islanders whose diet was predominantly fish. It is very hard to generalize about Australian Aborigines - because of their long history; they have been here about four or five times longer than the native Americans have been in the Americas, and their rich variety from Inuit down through Mohawks to Pueblos is even greater here in Australia. Keith