Well - I suppose that gets to the heart of the matter.... fleshes out the bones of the discussion .... shows a bit of muscle and guts.... gives the argument legs .....

They used to - it was their custom and culture for millennia - this is backed up by historical evidence. Did they stop being Cannibals?

No - it was going on into the 90s and it still goes no today as far as I know and I believe it is so.

Cannibalism is practised by all natives on the north coast with whom I have come in contact, with the exception of a very small tribe inhabiting the immediate neighbourhood of Port Essington … The eating of grown-up people—that is, of natives—is, as far as I can ascertain, not practised. Only children of tender age—up to about two years old—are considered fit subjects for food, and if they fall ill are often strangled by the old men, cooked, and eaten, and all parts except the head, which is skinned and buried, are considered a delicacy. Parents eat their own children, and all, young and old, partake of it. The only instance I have heard where grown-up people have been eaten, was that of two Europeans who were out exploring in the neighbourhood of the Tor Rock, about forty miles inland from Mount Norris Bay; this was in 1874. These unfortunate travellers were, according to the statements of the friendly natives, killed by the ‘Tor Rock’ tribe, cooked and eaten; and…

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/australia/the-incidence-of-cannibalism-in-abori

ginal-society/

So did they just suddenly stop?

No. And anyone who thinks so is a total fool - they still spear each other and club each other to death and they still are Cannibals.

This is exactly right - a young one dies and he or she goes "into the pot".

Exactly as I have been told and have said here for months.

"Only children of tender age—up to about two years old—are considered fit subjects for food, and if they fall ill are often strangled by the old men, cooked, and eaten, and all parts except the head, which is skinned and buried, are considered a delicacy. Parents eat their own children, and all, young and old, partake of it."

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 6^th, 2025 at 9:44pm:


This is the reality - you know the thing you fear?

"Only children of tender age—up to about two years old—are considered fit subjects for food, and if they fall ill are often strangled by the old men, cooked, and eaten, and all parts except the head, which is skinned and buried, are considered a delicacy. Parents eat their own children, and all, young and old, partake of it."

They did this for millennia and I believe it still happens now - and it was recorded up to the 1990s but according to you it never happened - they still rape and murder children and even babies and you are happy with that but you refuse to accept the children are still been or were until very recently - cannibaliused.

You really are a deluded fool.

Noble Savages are they?

Brandenstein recorded it in the Pilbara when he was there. Were you there?

the late Dr C.G. von Brandenstein, who learnt at least four Pilbara languages, told me once that in hard times, dead infants would routinely go ‘into the pot’.

The Linguist von Brandenstein who worked with these people for 30 years was an eye witness and spoke of "dead infants would routinely go ‘into the pot’."

So that is from 1960 to 1990 from an eminent scholar...

But according to you it never happened.

Not ever? Never?

It fits with this:

Cannibalism is practised by all natives on the north coast with whom I have come in contact, with the exception of a very small tribe inhabiting the immediate neighbourhood of Port Essington … The eating of grown-up people—that is, of natives—is, as far as I can ascertain, not practised. Only children of tender age—up to about two years old—are considered fit subjects for food, and if they fall ill are often strangled by the old men, cooked, and eaten, and all parts except the head, which is skinned and buried, are considered a delicacy. Parents eat their own children, and all, young and old, partake of it. The only instance I have heard where grown-up people have been eaten, was that of two Europeans who were out exploring in the neighbourhood of the Tor Rock, about forty miles inland from Mount Norris Bay; this was in 1874. These unfortunate travellers were, according to the statements of the friendly natives, killed by the ‘Tor Rock’ tribe, cooked and eaten; and…

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/australia/the-incidence-of-cannibalism-in-abori
ginal-society/

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 10:33am:

1890s.

Cannibalism is practised by all natives on the north coast with whom I have come in contact, with the exception of a very small tribe inhabiting the immediate neighbourhood of Port Essington … The eating of grown-up people—that is, of natives—is, as far as I can ascertain, not practised. Only children of tender age—up to about two years old—are considered fit subjects for food, and if they fall ill are often strangled by the old men, cooked, and eaten, and all parts except the head, which is skinned and buried, are considered a delicacy. Parents eat their own children, and all, young and old, partake of it. The only instance I have heard where grown-up people have been eaten, was that of two Europeans who were out exploring in the neighbourhood of the Tor Rock, about forty miles inland from Mount Norris Bay; this was in 1874. These unfortunate travellers were, according to the statements of the friendly natives, killed by the ‘Tor Rock’ tribe, cooked and eaten; and from my own knowledge of the natives in that neighbourhood I have no reason to doubt this statement to be correct.” (P. Foelsche, “Notes on the Aborigines of North Australia”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 5, 1882.)

Boris wrote on Jan 6^th, 2025 at 8:02am:


but you're not talking about history you dumbarse

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 1:39pm:

Who specified the 1990s, other than you?