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Beth Gott of Monash University has a description of [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~herring/seasons.htm Melbourne seasons], stating that in "Deep Winter" people moved to the uplands to catch koalas, citing "Autumn, Winter, Pre-spring, True Spring, Early Summer and Late Summer" Glen Jameson (Victorian Naturalist 1996, Vol. 1 13 pp.26,67,123,269,313. 1997, Vol. 1 14, p.4S.
Beth Gott of Monash University has a description of [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~herring/seasons.htm Melbourne seasons], stating that in "Deep Winter" people moved to the uplands to catch koalas, citing "Autumn, Winter, Pre-spring, True Spring, Early Summer and Late Summer" Glen Jameson (Victorian Naturalist 1996, Vol. 1 13 pp.26,67,123,269,313. 1997, Vol. 1 14, p.4S.
There is apparently a [http://www.dreamtime.auz.net/default.asp?PageID=68 dreamtime myth] that the Koala can be eaten but "his skin may not be removed or his bones broken until after he is cooked"; if the taboo is broken drought will come. But I can't find a primary source for this...
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang includes "Gundaroo bullock n. [late 19C] (Aus.) cooked koala meat" (Gundar is a town in SE New South Wales). There is a [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-gundaroo-bullock/ poem] of the this name by AB Banjo Paterson (1864-1941) that is probably the source. "An old man bear for breakfast is a treat in Gundaroo."
In 1840, the Polish explorer Count Paul Strzelecki survived a [http://www.latrobe.vic.gov.au/webfiles/media/link/december05/link%20dec%2005%20-%20page%2009.pdf diasterous trek] through the mountrain range named after him . "Starvation was only kept at bay by anindigenous member of the group hunting
koalas, which the men cooked and ate." Haven't found their report on what it tasted like.