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The European Collision: 1788 and What It Destroyed

On January 26, 1788, the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove. Within a generation, the most sophisticated food management system on Earth — 65,000 years of fire-stick farming, aquaculture, grain harvesting, seed processing, and seasonal management — began to be dismantled. The colonists did not recognise Aboriginal food practices as agriculture because they did not look like European agriculture. There were no fenced fields, no ploughed rows, no domesticated livestock. What there was — a continent-wide managed landscape producing hundreds of food species through fire, aquaculture, and selective cultivation — was invisible to eyes trained to see only wheat fields and sheep paddocks.

Overview

The destruction was systematic and cascading:

Source

AUSTRALIAN BUSHTUCKER — WAVE 2: THE DEEPER EXTRACTION

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

The colonial destruction of Aboriginal food culture parallels the suppression of Native American food traditions (forced removal, reservation system, replacement with commodity foods), the near-destru In every case, colonisation dismantled indigenous food systems and replaced them with imported monocultures