Nominations are Open for the 2021 Dark Emu Hall of Fame Awards. Watch this Space!
Finally, the University of Melbourne Sends in Some Big Guns in the 'Emu Wars'
Better Late than Never - Finally Some Proper Academics Give Something Worthwhile back to the Taxpayer
Would it be Problematic if A.O.Neville was 'indigenous'?
This post is about one of those little quirks sometimes found in historical figures. It might be nothing, but then maybe in the Post-modern world of history revisionism it was influential? Send us your thoughts!
Has Henry Reynolds signed on as the latest 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' to learn some 'creative writing' skills?
Has Henry Reynolds learnt some tricky ‘selective editing’ techniques from ‘best-selling’ author Bruce Pascoe?
'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' - Part 3 : Stolen Lands
Can Stolen Land be a Property Investment? Maybe, Christine Gordon from Readings Bookshop can advise us?
A Harried Dark Emu
Australian Archaeologist Harry Lourandos picks over the bones of 90% of Dark Emu
'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' - Part 2 : Apartheid, here we come
Are The Greatest Threat to our Institutions the Second Generation Pascoites?
'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' - A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
Are The Greatest Threat to our Institutions are the Second Generation Pascoites?
A Tale of Two Scholars - and the 'Shallow' Scholarship of Professor Pascoe
Melbourne University Salutes ‘a gentleman, a political activist and a scholar.’
Dark Emu - Going, Going, Almost Gone......
We have reached the summit of debunking Dark Emu - and now for the downhill run.
Bruce Pascoe - Cherry Picker Extraordinare - Part 1
Mr Pascoe should win an award for ‘Australia’s Best Cherry-Picker’ after his selective quoting from an academic reference book on Aboriginal Hunter-gatherer Economy and Society!
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 to have a Respectful Conversation - and Agree to Disagree
The bona fides of Bruce Pascoe
A Tale of Three Elders - Democracy, Oppression and Liberty
Do we really want to give ‘serious regard’ to Professor Pascoe’s version of Aboriginal Law and Democracy?
Professor Pascoe cites the Journals of William Thomas - but has he really read them?
William Thomas witnesses Professor Pascoe’s tribe, the Bunurong, as nomadic hunter gatherers. Professor Pascoe claims his people were ‘farmers’, but he also acknowledges William Thomas as a ‘true’ source of history. Who do we believe?
Fact-Checking Mr Pascoe's Claims - Part 4 with Kerry O'Brien
Is Kerry O’Brien Finally Waking Up to Professor Pascoe’s Sloppy Scholarship and Outlandish Claims?
Is Dark Emu good history? - A New Student and Teacher Study Book
Robert Lewis’s latest book, Is Dark Emu good history? is designed to help ‘students investigate a controversial book on Australian Aboriginal history in the classroom.’