Major changes to our Constitution should not be decided over a tub of popcorn, no matter how good the movie
Where Aboriginal Customary Law Conflicts with Australian Law - Part 1
“Please help us…by supporting Aboriginal participation in the growing and marketing of our traditional foods”. - Bruce Pascoe, Gourmet Traveller, NOV 27, 2016
No Dark Emus to be Seen in 1788?
Dr Ian Keen’s 2004 book, Aboriginal Society & Economy, Australia at the Threshold of Colonisation, which precedes Mr Pascoe’s Dark Emu by 10 years, was a ‘systematic…study of pre-colonial Aboriginal societies…at the Threshold of Colonisation’. And guess what? There are no entries in the index under ‘farmer’, ‘farming’ or ‘agriculture’, but several entries unter ‘hunter-gatherers’. We rest our case.
How Low Can a Writer Go in Re-writing our Colonial History?
Fact checking of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, leaves the author open to a serious accusation of deliberately hiding evidence.
Chairman Pascoe’s Great Leap Forward - Do What I Say, Not What I Do
Rather it is a case of Chairman Pascoe’s Great Leap back to the Past with his Australian Agricultural Revolution!