This episode examines the nuance of Aboriginal life in Australian bush pre-1788. Life in the bush was often fun along with the usual ups and downs of life … but it was a warrior society driven largely by competition over scarce resources in the absence of individual property rights. Through the detailed first-hand testimony of William Buckley and others who lived for years among traditional groups, the episode describes the good times but also the cycles of revenge, disputes over women, and night-time massacres, while contrasting this with the rapid decline of such violence once colonial authority and property rights took hold.
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