Facts about

1. How do Aborigines get
food ?
Ange li n a, Ji a n xi n a n d S elen a

2. Aborigines are the first people in Australia. They have
dark skin because of the sun.

3. Most of the food they get is from bushes. They get
sweet berries and all sorts of food in them.

4. Adults pick seed pods from Wakalpuka bushes, which is
a kind of wattle. When they get back home, they grind
them into flour to make bread.

5. Aborigine people go on trips to look for bush food, which
they call bush tucker. They find many sweet fruit.

6. People suck the nectar from honey grevilla flowers just
like the birds do.

7. Animals that live underground are also delicious to eat.
Children digs for witchetty grubs, which live inside the root of
bushes.

8. When old people were young they could find all the food in the bushes. There were no
shops and supermarkets then so all of the things they used, like spears and dishes,
they made themselves.