The Cumeragunja walk-off. Aboriginal food independence quashed

5 February 2026

In 1881 a group of forty  men living at David Matthew’s Maloga mission, who had heard of the success of the Kilun at Coranderrk, petitioned the New South Wales government for land on which to farm and raise stock and so come in a few years to support themselves

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.