About Us - An Update June 18th 2022

Over the last 10 months we have completed Stage 1 of our work in Tasmania resulting in the publication of our first book, Truth-Telling at Risdon Cove, on sale now in all good book shops in Tasmania and online here.

Publicity and reviews for this book will start appearing in the media over the next two months.

Our research efforts will now leave Tasmania for the time being as we begin to focus on The Deep Fake Project, principally focused on the University sector in NSW.

We have recieved a torrent of tip-offs and evidence from ‘real’ Aboriginal people who are calling for a halt to infiltration of the fake’s into academic positions meant to benefit ‘real’ Aboriginal people.

After receiving a large funding donation, we are now ready to start exposing the ‘fake indigenous’ academics that have embedded themselves deeply into the Universities of NSW - they can try to hide but we will find them. Stay tuned.

About Us - An Update as of September 1st, 2021

Dark Emu Exposed was originally set-up to critique Bruce Pascoe and his book, Dark Emu, as explained in the ‘About Us’ section below (2018-2021).

From 1/9/2021 however, we are entering a new phase of research.

We have acquired a considerable number of new members and additional resources so we can amplify the skills we have honed in our critiques of Bruce Pascoe and his Dark Emu and use them more widely in Australian Aboriginal and Colonial history debates, with an initial emphasis on Tasmania.

So please check our Dark Emu Exposed website regularly for new interesting posts!

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The Original About Us - 2018 to August 31st 2021 Below

Dark Emu Exposed is compiled by a collective of Quiet Australians from many walks of life who question, and want to hold to account, authors who appear to be re-writing our Australian history to progress their own particular, political narrative. We believe in intellectual honesty and welcome genuine debate around historical facts and evidence.

A Brief History of this Project

When we first read Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, we were captivated by his story. Many of our friends had read it too and said they felt good about the “fact” that the Australian Aborigines were not “just” a hunter-gatherer society when the British settled Australia in 1788, but they were in fact, as the Judges of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards claimed “..liv[ing] sophisticated lives…[in an] Aboriginal democracy [that] created ‘the 'Great Australian Peace’ on a continent which was extensively farmed, skilfully managed and deeply loved.”

However, a little digging into the “evidence” presented by Mr Pascoe has deflated our enthusiasm and the more we dig, the more disappointed we become. When it comes to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, we all know they are not “true”, but it is nice to promote the narrative, as it is all in a good cause and a delight to our children. However for adults, the accuracy of history is important and historical facts should not be fabricated, bent or manipulated to serve ideological ends, or to satisfy the needs of a “virtue-signalling” readership.

As we upload our reviews and critiques in blog-posts over the coming months, let the reader decide as to whether Mr Pascoe :

“…puts forward a compelling argument for a reconsideration of the hunter gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians…[where] the evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag.” - from Dark Emu dust jacket blurb;

or whether his arguments fail to overcome the accepted, Australian belief of :

“They [the Australian Aborigines] are, of course, nomads — hunters and foragers who grow nothing, build nothing, and stay nowhere long. They make almost no physical mark on the environment…They move about, carrying their scant possessions, in small bands of anything from ten to sixty persons…Their tools and crafts, meagre — pitiably meagre — though they are, have nonetheless been good enough to let them win the battle for survival, and to win it comfortably at that. With no pottery, no knowledge of metals, no wheel, no domestication of animals, no agriculture, they have still been able to people the entire continent…”

- W.E.H. Stanner, The Dreaming & Other Essays, Black Inc Agenda, 2010, p 64,65 & 70 - (our emphasis)

The site is edited by Roger Karge and, as of December 2019, has around 30 independent researchers. Unfortunately, in the current climate in which we live, most of our researchers need to operate under pseudonyms to protect their careers. Some work within academia, or government departments, that are strongly Progressive Left and, needless to say, any criticism of Mr Pascoe and his book Dark Emu is likely to lead to their ostracisation!

We are independent and all the work by our contributors is on an unpaid, voluntary basis and we do not receive any outside funding. We are not aligned with, or funded by, the Herald Sun, The Australian or Quadrant magazine, but we greatly appreciate their interest in our project and their reporting on it from time to time.