What animals were domesticated by Australian Aborigines?

Only the dingo, sort of. There are no other native animals in Australia who would be worth the effort involved in domesticating them - if you want to keep kangaroos, for example, you need 20ft-high fences. read more

The second wave of Australian Aborigines who migrated to Australia after the last Ice Age (c.15,000 BP) were accompanied by dingoes. These were probably domesticated the world's earliest domesticated animals. read more

Australian aborigines knew that the land owned the people, not the other way around, so would never have treated the land in this way. Agriculture needs a social hierarchy, where some people must work for others, who have more power by having more wealth. read more