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Aboriginal people inhabited the continent of Australia first. Various tribes lived in different parts of the continent, thriving wherever they lived by adapting their bush skills to the climate and landscape. When European settlers came, they occupied the areas where the land most suited them, usually along the coasts where rainfall was sufficient and soil was fertile. Europeans drove the indigenous people off the fertile coastal areas and deeper into the outback and the desert, until eventually that was the only place where they could continue their own lifestyle.

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