Interesting question, I hadn’t thought about that. I assume they mean dingos.
"Australia’s Indigenous community has had a long relationship with dogs, dating back to the dog’s ancestor, the dingo. Dingo fossils in Australia date back thousands of years, and the first British settlers in 1788 recorded dingoes living with Indigenous Australians"
How? Dingos aren’t dogs, so how did they have a word for a species that they hadn’t seen before colonisation?
Interesting question, I hadn’t thought about that. I assume they mean dingos.
"Australia’s Indigenous community has had a long relationship with dogs, dating back to the dog’s ancestor, the dingo. Dingo fossils in Australia date back thousands of years, and the first British settlers in 1788 recorded dingoes living with Indigenous Australians"
https://outbacktails.com/blogs/news/the-important-role-dogs-play-in-indigenous-communities-celebrating-naidoc-week-2022
And dingos are a dog breed
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo