examples of dark emus :

‘…the historical data show…that our [Aboriginal] societies were not simple hunter-gatherer economies but were sophisticated, with farming and irrigation practices.’

- Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Marcia Langton AO FASSA of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.

‘When the colonisers came and invaders came along, they brought with them the patriarchy. And the symptoms of the patriarchy and colonialism is misogyny, sexism, racism, discrimination, homophobia, transphobia. None of those things existed before the colonisers came.”

- Indigenous woman Narelda Jacobs. speaking on the ABC of the arrival of the British in Australia

to dark emu :

‘How we can apply lessons from 120,000 years of cultivation in Australia to modern agriculture’

- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne

Renowned journalist, Kerry O’Brien asks Dark Emu author, Professor Bruce Pascoe,

‘You’ve said in interviews that roughly half of pre-colonial Australia was under crop to Aboriginal people. That sounds like a huge area of the country under crop. In desert and in more fertile soil. How did you arrive at that conculsion? Half the country?’

And Professor Pascoe answers,

‘Well, I didn’t arrive at that conclusion. Norman Tindale posited that theory because of where he had found grinding stones… It is roughly two-thirds of the Australian continent.’