ORIGINAL PEOPLE ONLINE
Over 400 Original Nations have lived on this continent since before the memory of man.
The original people of Australia hold the only known description of Pulsating Red Giant Variable Stars in any oral tradition in the world. Some of these Giants are called Kudlilla and Wolta.
The Milky Way, stretching from the Southern Cross to the constellations of Orion, Auriga, and Taurus, is a huge river in the sky. Reeds and huts run along the edge, and men hunt Emus along the banks. Women are also collecting berries and reeds along the river's edge. Astronomers know this group of stars as the Pleiades or "Seven Sisters."
“If this landmass represented a book of 1000 pages, [Australia] would represent the last paragraph on the last page of that book”
An anthropological view of Yarrabah Aboriginal Community in the early 1900s
Some years ago a noted German anthropologist, Professor K (Hermann Klaatsch), visited the Yarrabah Mission station and asked that the natives might be sent to him so that he might measure their skulls. He sat accordingly on the veranda with a big pipe and measured the skulls of all who came, and the more he measured the more he shook his head.
"Will you not come into the school and examine the children?" said the superintendent. "They have made remarkable progress, and up to the age of eleven do the same lessons as the children in the white schools." "No," said the Professor; - I do not want to see them. I know that they are incapable of learning anything. I have measured their skulls."
"But will you not look at our steam engine, which is run entirely by two aboriginal boys?" ''No," was the reply. - They cannot possibly understand machinery. I have measured their skulls." "But," persisted the superintendent, "will you not at least listen to our band, which is often in requisition when good music is required in Cairns?" "No, was the reply, It is no good. I have measured their skulls."
Comment on Hermann Klaatsch by Gilbert White, Anglican Bishop of Carpentaria - in Thirty Years in Tropical Australia (1918), pp. 158-59.