Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early ColonistsIndigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predatorprey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and under appreciated by non Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely fractured. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South eastern