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?