From White Teacher, Farmer and Writer to an Aboriginal Writer and Academic - An "Anthology" of Bruce Pascoes

A selection of writings by Bruce Pascoe, principally from the Melbourne Age & Sydney Morning Herald plus a few minor papers. They are listed essentially chronologically with group sub-headings.

A. Bruce Pascoe the ‘white’ Australian Lifestyle Journalist

1. 1979 July 13 - The Dance

2. 1979 Oct 19 - Bush Birds

3. 1980 Oct 3 - Birds

4. 1980 June 13 - Farmer

5. 1980 July 12 - Lighthouse

B. Bruce Pascoe the ‘white’ teacher and critic

1. 1980 Oct 7 - Teacher

2. 1980 Oct 14 - Teachers Union Hits Back

C. Bruce the ‘white’ Lifestyle and Travel Journalist

1. 1980 Aug 16 - Rat Race Escape

2. 1980 July 4 - Warrandyte

3. 1981 July 31 - Beer judge

4. 1981 March 6 - Cricket

5. 1981 Feb 6 - Dimboola

6. 1981 July 31 - Noogee

7. 1981 Mar 6 - Visits Melbourne

D. Reviews of Bruce Pascoe’s Writings

1. 1981 Dec 13 - Gallipoli Story

2. 1982 Jan 31 - Contest Entry

3. 1982 Dec 18 - In Search of Readers

4. 1982 Dec 22 - Pascoe and Lorriane Phelan Aust Short Stories

E. The White King Islander & Controversy

1. 1982 June 26 - Pascoe’s Article on King Island

2. 1982 Jul 20 - Reader Critic

3. 1982 Jul - Critics from King Island 1

4. 1982 Jul - Critics from King Island 2

5. 1982 Jul - Critics from King Island 3

6. 1982 Jul 7 - Critics from king Island 4

F. Bruce Pascoe as a ‘white’ Victorian Travel Writer

1. 1982 Jul 2 — Lake Condah

2. 1982 Jan 22 - Wattles

3. 1982 May 1 - Dargo Pioneers

G. Bruce Pascoe as a ‘russet-bearded Celt’

1. 1983 Mar 26 - The Celt in Canberra Times

H. Bruce Pascoe Goes to Venice

1. 1984 Aug 24 - The Venice Pad

I. On the Road with Bruce Pascoe

1. - 1985 Oct 5 - On the road to Yuendumu

J. Bruce Pascoe as a Writer, Publisher and Editor

1. 1985 June 1 - Short Stories

2. 1985 Nov 8 - Frank Hardy’s mate

3. 1986 Oct 25 & 11 - Night animals and Night Animals 2

4. 1987 Dec 12 - Patrick White

5. 1987 Jul 25 - Pascoe as Publisher

6. 1988 Jul 30 -- Review of Bruce Pascoe’s first novel, Fox

7. 1988 Jul 16 - Another Review of Pascoe’s ‘preachy’ novel, Fox

8. 1988 Jul 16 - Illuminating feature on Bruce Pascoe - No hint of aboriginality but a confession the bush yarn and tall tale - a genre he put into real life

K. Bruce Pascoe’s Awakening Need to Be Aboriginal in July 1988

1. 1988 July 23 - The Infamous Canberra Times Critic: Veronica Sen

2. 1988 July 31 - Pascoe gets a Churchill Scholarship [and claims to go OS for the first time. Is this true? See his 1984 Venice sojourn?]

3. 1988 Nov 19 - Pascoe gets a grant

L. Bruce Pascoe becomes the Aboriginal Activist by December 1988

1. 1988 Dec 3 - Bruce Pascoe, the man who “has some Aboriginal blood inhis veins” boycotts the Myer store in Lonsdale St.

2. 1990 - Bruce Pascoe in his essay “Middens” in Gone Bush claims he has “a little bit of black blood struggling in its chamberr of Cornish muscle.”

M. Bruce Pascoe as Publisher

1. 1990 Nov 11 - Lighthouse resident but no mention of Aboriginality

2. 1990 Sept 8 - Pascoe self-piece

3. 1990 - Middens Essay in “Gone Bush”

4. 1991 Jan 31 - Pascoe Publishing gets Arts Council assistance

5. 1991 May 27 - Pascoe’s reminiscences of being a teacher

N. Bruce Pascoe as Footballer

1. 1993 Mar 23 - Apollo Bay Footballer - page 1

2. 1993 Mar 23 - Apollo Bay Footballer - page 2

3. 1993 Mar 23 - Apollo Bay Fottballer - page 3

O. Bruce Pascoe Calling Out for his Aboriginal ancestors

1. 1993 Jul 14 - - Calling out for Sarah Matthews in Koori mail

2. 1996 Nov 6 - Calling Out for Sarah Matthews again

P. On the road again with Bruce Pascoe Travel writer

1. 1993 May 30 - Bruce and his Mallacoota mate

2. 1993 Aug 23 - Up the east Coast

3. 1993 Nov 14 - Bruce calls himself a ‘‘whitish man’’

4. 1994 Jan 30 - Down the West Coast

5. 1994 Sept 4 - Bruce writes on gumbooted runner Cliff Young

Q. Obit for Frank Hardy

1. 1994 Jan 30 - Memories of my mate Frank Hardy

R. Australian Short Stories Publisher

1. 1995 Jul 2 - 50th edition reached

2. 1995 Jul 8 - Fiona Capp review

3. 1995 Aug - Short Stories review

S. Bruce Pascoe Family Stories

1. 1996 Jan 7 - Father Story

2. 1996 Nov 6 - Looking For Sarah Matthews, again

T. The Political Bruce Pascoe

1. 1997 Feb 6 - Bush Polls

2. 1997 Mar 29 - Revolutionary in West Papua/Irian Jaya

U. The End of Australian Short Stories

1. 1998 Sept 6 - Bruce Pascoe Quits Publishing

2. 1999 July 18 - Bruce Pascoe Sells Out

V. The Search for Identity

1. 1999 Dec 25 - Bruce Pascoe Profile: “A proud member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-Operative. He was 30 when he discovered that he was of Aboriginal descent on his mother’s side.” “Identity is everything says Pascoe”

W. Bruce Pascoe Now Writes as an Aboriginal Man

1. 2000 Oct 29 - “Skins” a collection by Indigenous writers

2. 2000 Jun 17 -Pascoe is now publishing with Magabala Books. Described as a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-Operative.

3. 2000 - Pascoe as a Contemporary Indigenous Writer: “ Tired Sailor”

4. 2001 May 26 - Bruce Pascoe is now “one of Australia’s foremost Indigenous writers.”

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Further Reading

1. Michael Connor, The Expanding Fictional World of Bruce Pascoe, Quadrant, AUG 25 2024

2. Michael Connor, Golden Emu: Notes on a Hoax, Quadrant, MAY 19 2023

3. Peter O.Brien, Bruce Pascoe Just Can’t Stop Himself, Quadrant, MAY 29 2021