Koori diets are affected

Koori diets are already affected by the scarcity of fish in the harbour. To compensate, people are beginning to use European foodstuff.

  • Tea and flour were basic Guringai commodities by 1840
  • Tea and sugar supplemented bush foods
  • Oysters, Burns Bay
  • Joseph Lycett's 'Distant View of Sydney and the Harbour', courtesy of National Library
  • Wattle seeds
  • Port Jackson figs