No. The Australian Aborigines may have hunted platypuses when they pursued their traditional lifestyle, but no-one else eats platypuses.
No.Whilst the Aborigines no doubt hunted and ate platypuses, it is illegal to eat a platypus now.
Platypus
The first people to live in Australia so the Australian aborigines
Kangaroo was a popular food for the Australian Aborigines anywhere on the mainland.
It is unlikely that the Australian Aborigines eat cooked echidna nowadays, but they certainly used to, when they still lived a traditional lifestyle.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd officially apologised to the Stolen Generations of Australian Aborigines on 13 February 2008.
The Australian 20 cent coin features a platypus on the reverse.
Australian Aborigines are not a civilization, they are a people native to the Australian mainland including the island of Tasmania. It is widely believed that the first Aborigines migrated to Australia over 40,000 years ago.
Yes. The Australian Aborigines found that koalas were easy to catch and kill for food (despite the fact that Europeans did not even notice koalas for the first decade of colonisation).
The Australian aborigines
Yes. The platypus is native to Australia alone.