‘How and why the ABC [BBC] distorts the news to promote a liberal agenda’.
Michael Mansell
“For political reasons, journalists of the left wanted to believe Pascoe was genuine and put up the blinkers to any contrary view. Now they must eat humble pie and admit they got it all wrong” - Michael Mansell, Chair, Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, 22 January 2020
Testing for Aboriginal Descent - is it a Brand New DNA ?
“AncestryDNA® has updated its ethnicity estimate reference panel so customers will now have the ability to see a possible genetic connection with the Indigenous communities of Australia.” - March 31st 2020
Roger Sandall's Four Stages of Noble Savagery
Is Mr Pascoe a Screen-writer for the ‘Disneyfication’ of Aboriginal History ?“
To Be, or Not to Be, Aboriginal - That is the Question
Is Aboriginality defined by one’s Race, or one’s Land, Tjurrunga, and Kinship, or maybe it is just a Social Construct and Personal Choice? Mr Pascoe has certainly got us all thinking.
Mr Pascoe's Ancestry
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.
A Success Story - Professor Bruce Pascoe's Incredible Rise as an Aboriginal Writer
We Salute Aboriginal Man, Indigenous Professor Bruce Pascoe for his Achievements, Awards and Grants which Highlight the Path to Success for Indigenous Writers.
'Romancing the Stones - Part II of Mr Pascoe's Vague Claims
Permanently occupied stone houses and buildings on an island off the WA coast? Really?
We loved Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu” story - until we had doubts that maybe it was mostly just that - a “story”.
Innocent transcription errors or wilful attempts to slant the narrative? Read our review and critique and you decide!
Thanks to Mr Pascoe, we are all historians now, even Stan Grant and Peter FitzSimons
The sad, sad world of Stan Grant’s Politics
Aboriginal Grain Farmers? - Well Maybe Not
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.
Parents, Is Young Dark Emu Appropriate for your Child?
Distinguished academic Professor Marcia Langton has warned against “scaring the living daylights” out of children when teaching the history of violence against indigenous people.
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.
Did the Dutch Teach Aborigines How to Cultivate Yams?
Were Dutch survivors of the Batavia wreck responsible for introducing yam agriculture to the Aborigines?
Mr Pascoe is Full-Steam Ahead - No Stooking Here!
Innocent transcription errors or wilful attempts to slant the narrative? Read our review and critique and you decide!
Is this Intellectual Checkmate for Bruce Pascoe?
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.
Fact Checking of Mr Pascoe's Grain Stores
Is Mr Pascoe describing a real Aboriginal grain store or constructing a hypothetical, idealised one?
Bogan Picks and the Case of the Missing Hoe
Another case of Cultural Appropriation? Torres Strait Islanders had agriculture, but Australian Aborigines did not.
Mr Pascoe’s ‘Hoes’, 'Megafauna Butchering Tools' or a Simple Pounding Tool? - It’s your Bogan Pick
A 1 metre Bogan pick so large you can’t lift it above your waist.
Really?
Mr Pascoe’s ‘Stone Hoes’ - But Wait There Are More
If the Aborigines really had ‘stone ploughs’ to till and cultivate their crops, why weren’t hundreds found, complete with their wooden handles?