It is not the Australian community who are insisting that Mr Pascoe prove his Aboriginal ancestry – it is in fact, Mr Pascoe who is insisting that the Australian community accept his Aboriginal ancestry, so the burden of proof falls to the initiator, Mr Pascoe, to clear up any concerns regarding his alleged ancestry.
Permanently occupied stone houses and buildings on an island off the WA coast? Really?
Innocent transcription errors or wilful attempts to slant the narrative? Read our review and critique and you decide!
The sad, sad world of Stan Grant’s Politics
No truly agricultural society can be based on native grain species that grow abundantly in wet years, but will not grow in dry years. Settled, Aboriginal ‘farmer’ societies would not have survived Australia’s ruthless swings from droughts to floods.
Distinguished academic Professor Marcia Langton has warned against “scaring the living daylights” out of children when teaching the history of violence against indigenous people.
Fact checking of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, leaves the author open to a serious accusation of deliberately hiding evidence.
Were Dutch survivors of the Batavia wreck responsible for introducing yam agriculture to the Aborigines?
Innocent transcription errors or wilful attempts to slant the narrative? Read our review and critique and you decide!
For an uninitiated Aboriginal man, to have read a copy of the book Yiwara, would be sacrilege, punishable by spearing or death - for a non-Aboriginal historian, to ignore the evidence in Yiwara that the Aborigines were solely hunter-gatherers, and not ‘settled farmers’, would amount to a deliberate hiding of evidence. Mr Pascoe says he has read this book.
Is Mr Pascoe describing a real Aboriginal grain store or constructing a hypothetical, idealised one?
Another case of Cultural Appropriation? Torres Strait Islanders had agriculture, but Australian Aborigines did not.
A 1 metre Bogan pick so large you can’t lift it above your waist.
Really?
If the Aborigines really had ‘stone ploughs’ to till and cultivate their crops, why weren’t hundreds found, complete with their wooden handles?
Mr Pascoe claims this photograph is of an Aboriginal ‘Dome’ house that his great, great grandfather may have used while living at Lockhart River in Queensland. Actually, we find that it is a ‘Dome’ house constructed by the Meriam people from the Torres Strait Islands and shows Melanesian and Polynesian influences. It is not Australian Aboriginal at all, and is not from the Australian mainland.
The few, recorded Aboriginal dams were constructed to conserve flood waters for drinking water, not to irrigate crops.
Mr Pascoe’s Selectivity Bias – Just ignore the Facts that don’t fit the Narrative
There is abundant, authenticated evidence of the Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherer society. But you may need to put on your ‘Rose-Coloured-Glasses’ to find the “evidence” of Mr Pascoe’s Aboriginal Agriculture!
