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“We’re looking at the same facts and we’re having a difference of opinion about the facts. In a second response after the Good Weekend feature was published, Pascoe encouraged more nuanced debate. The discourse around Bruce Pascoe & Dark Emu makes evident once again the price Indigenous people pay for using their voice

While he has a lot of support from the Indigenous community, the author had his roots questioned in 2020, when former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton investigated a complaint by Warrimay businesswoman Josephine Cashman to challenge his Aboriginality. Pascoe’s work has been divisive within First Nations groups too. “As such, I don’t believe Dark Emu should be part of the curriculum unless it can be more widely validated.” “The history curriculum needs to be balanced and based on well-understood facts,” Tudge said, in relation to Dark Emu being taught in classrooms. Last year, Bolt slammed Schwartz Media’s The Monthly and the ABC for defending the “error-ridden” book.Ī website titled ‘Dark Emu Exposed’ and an earlier book from 2019 titled Bitter Harvest: The Illusion of Aboriginal Agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, also exist.įederal Education Minister Alan Tudge weighed in on Saturday as well. The conversation was predictably picked up by commentator Andrew Bolt, who called Pascoe’s work a ‘fraud’, in an ongoing vendetta against Pascoe. Dark Emu has steadily provoked outrage since its release seven years ago as a go-to target for conservatives. While presentations like Walshe and Sutton’s are steeped in research, many use the book as an easy grab to shut down Indigenous voices.

“I speak to so many Australians, both black and white, who say the book changed their lives,” Pascoe said to The Wirein 2018.Ģ White Academics putting all that effort into debunking Dark Emu but no effort into debunking the Colonial lies that then led to this country being INVADED? that has them squatting this day! on unceded Sovereign First Nations lands.lol wow ok 🙄 It delves into the basic principle of historiography that the past is not unmediated, but rather constructed with agendas, and always has the potential for re-interpretation.