the earliest account in australia that i am aware of, is from a good friend of ours,

around nimbin and mullumbimby,

he was somwhat of a oldskool chemistry student and avid tryper from 70s way back when,

full self trained mycologist and lsd deadhead type.

still lives in a caravan up in the hills near nimbin to this day,!

he had heard about dmt from terrence through the grapevine,

and somehow had heard that acacia phleaphyla in victoria had dmt present.

so he went up that mountain in about 88-89 and collected some phyllodes.

did a basic extraction ,and was the first person i know of in australia to extract dmt.!

and he said that he used a passionflower extract to potentiate that.

he said that it was avery strange experience that he was not able to talk  with anyone els

that had smoked dmt aswell for about 5-6 years,

said that he didnt think anyone els woud like it or even get it.!

so was all by his loansome with this experience for sometime.

and he was the one who actually help the first people to do semi large extractions from acacia obyucifolia.

the same people we have been talking about.

and even though it was only shared within a small community of people.

they used it quite extencively within there own group for many years .

and had access to large quantities of peganum harmala.

as one of there friends was of persion decent and knew where to get it from

persion spice shops in sydney.

so yes people did knowabout it quite earl on in OZ as well,!