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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where

Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless

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My guest this week is an independent scholar of early Australians who goes by the pseudonym Mungomannic.

In our long and wide-ranging conversation,

he spoke to me in detail about many aspects of pre-colonial Australian life,

including local religious practices, initiation rights, intertribre warfare, sexual mores,

the relationship with the local environment, the introduction of dingoes, and the few but important points of contact with the world outside Australia.

Because of Australia's almost unique isolation from the rest of the world for so many centuries, ancient Australian history provides us with a window into humanity's deep past and with many insights

into what it means to be human. I hope you enjoy my interview with Mungo Manick. Welcome Mungo.

It's very good to be here. Thank you so much. So I'm going to refer to you as Mungo throughout because I know you'd like to remain anonymous

and that's fine, just to let people know that I do know your real identity.

So I know that you're not an imposter or a serial killer or something.

Well, actually, I don't know that for certain, but it seems highly unlikely.

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