When Europeans claimed this Continent there were 500 often warring tribes speaking 250 different languages.
Through personal experience I can state that many biases and violence still exist between different tribes and skin groups, I’ve seen it first hand between the desert people of the Kalgoorlie area and salt water people from Cairns that I was travelling with.

As they told me, “this has been going on for 10 thousand years, they are desert people and we are salt water, nobody knows why”.

Hi Donna Inter-tribal fighting was very common and many instances can be found in TROVE.

Hi John Yes it was very common for inter-tribal groups to attack each other and yes they would have been able to access rifles. Thank you for noticing the spelling error, all corrected.