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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

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

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, intertrib 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.

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