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Your question is a special case of the more general question why European settlers in many parts of the world used indigenous place names rather than making up their own. North American examples include many state names (Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky). Here is the first chapter of a longer work discussing indigenous and European place names in Australia. ...

Australian cultures did not have access to good starter crops. This is explored at depth in an allo-history available here: http://alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=110941 on the topic of what crops could have been good starter crops. Indigenous Australian cultures were highly developed, including development of aquacultural structures and ...

Australia was settled 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. They arrived by sea during period of glaciation when portions of Australia were still joined to the main continent. According to the below linked wiki page this makes them some of the worlds first mariners. All in all, based on the fact that it was 40,000 to 60,000 years ago it would seem the technologies ...