What was the greatest invention from Australian Aborigines?

The boomerang's distinctive sound and remarkable return flight has made it famous throughout the world. Other cultures invented throwing sticks with controllable motion and spin, but the boomerang was a purely Aboriginal invention. read more

The ancestors of the Australian Aborigines managed to get across the Wallace line [1] (35 km of open ocean) in relatively large numbers sometime close to 50,000 years ago [2]. This was long before anyone else in the world managed such a feat. Wallace Line - Wikipedia; Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia; Note. read more

Aboriginal people invented countless ways to yield food and bush medicine from Australia's landscape. They fished, hunted, rendered poisonous seeds edible, turned certain moths and grubs into delicious meals, made sweet drinks from native honey and nectar, ground grass seeds to bake an early form of damper. read more

Australian Aborigine David Unaipon is known as "Australia's Leonardo" for his contributions to science and the Aboriginal people. His inventions include a tool for sheep-shearing, a centrifugal motor, a multi-radial wheel and mechanical propulsion device. read more