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Tasmanian way-a-linah, a cider-link drink produced by Palawa people for millennia, has been long overlooked in Australian history, along with all other Indigenous fermented beverages.
Records of many First Australians’ traditions, particularly relating to drinks and agriculture, were “eradicated early on by colonization, dispossession and the frontier wars,” writes Max Allen in
“Even where the practices or knowledge did survive and were recorded, those records have often been willfully ignored by the dominant culture over the last 200 years.”
It was so ignored that the belief that Australia is the world’s lone “dry continent,” that its early Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples were among the planet’s few Indigenous societies to live without learning to make alcoholic beverages, remains widespread Down Under.