Tea in Australia

Upon landing in Australia for the first time, Captain Cook noticed the aboriginal peoples drinking it and called it tea.

Tea is a large part of modern Australian culture due to its British origins.

In 1884, the Cutten brothers established the first commercial tea plantation in Australia in Bingil Bay in northern Queensland.

[4] In 1958, Allan Maruff started the first commercial tea plantings in Australia since 1886 in the Nerada valley, south of Cairns, Queensland, using seedlings from the former Cutten brother's plantation at Bingil Bay.

As a result of the growing Asian population in Australia, Australian tea culture has been mixed with several Asian tea cultures found in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, India and Sri Lanka.

Billy tea is the drink prepared by the ill-fated swagman in the popular Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda.

[14] Tea production in Australia remains very small and is primarily in northern New South Wales and Queensland.

Nerada Tea Plantation at Glen Allyn on the Atherton Tableland, 1986
Leptospermum scoparium (also called the "ti tree") foliage and flowers were used to produce an infusion drank by Aboriginal Australian tribes.
Black tea is most popular and often milk is added.