Just how ‘productive’ were so-called Aboriginal ‘farmers’?
All in Academic Rebuttals
Dark Emu was so bad even AIATSIS rejected it
How low can Bruce Pascoe go in spinning the fiction that is Dark Emu?
The Critics of Bruce Pascoe and his book, Dark Emu
Approximate Chronology of the Criticisms of Bruce Pascoe and his book Dark Emu
'The Blacks are Coming' - Or Maybe Not?
Is Professor Reynolds, like Bruce Pascoe, ‘Just Making Stuff Up’, about our Colonial History?
Farmers, Hunter Gatherers or Ideologues? : The New Dreaming - Part 1
Is the new book by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe just as Ideological as Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu?
We Answer Some Academic Critics
What’s wrong with Social Evolutionism? We’ve all done it at some time.
The Legacy of Slavery Part 1 - Henry Reynolds and his 'Hypocrisy of Slavery'
Henry Reynolds calls the Slave-owning Signatories to the American Declaration of Independence, ‘hypocrites’. Is that true or just another Pascoism?
A Harried Dark Emu
Australian Archaeologist Harry Lourandos picks over the bones of 90% of Dark Emu
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.
Professor Pascoe cites the Journals of William Thomas - but has he really read them?
William Thomas witnesses Professor Pascoe’s tribe, the Bunurong, as nomadic hunter gatherers. Professor Pascoe claims his people were ‘farmers’, but he also acknowledges William Thomas as a ‘true’ source of history. Who do we believe?
A Tale of Two Professors - And the Death of the Scientific Method at The University of Melbourne
Is The University of Melbourne Heading Towards ‘Toy-Town” Status?
Is this Intellectual Checkmate for Bruce Pascoe?
For an uninitiated Aboriginal man, to have read a copy of the book Yiwara, would be sacrilege, punishable by spearing or death - for a non-Aboriginal historian, to ignore the evidence in Yiwara that the Aborigines were solely hunter-gatherers, and not ‘settled farmers’, would amount to a deliberate hiding of evidence. Mr Pascoe says he has read this book.
Professor W.E.H. Stanner and The Selectivity of Mr Pascoe’s Scholarship
Mr Pascoe’s Selectivity Bias – Just ignore the Facts that don’t fit the Narrative
Real Examples of Non-farming Aboriginals
There is abundant, authenticated evidence of the Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherer society. But you may need to put on your ‘Rose-Coloured-Glasses’ to find the “evidence” of Mr Pascoe’s Aboriginal Agriculture!
Other Historians and Anthropologists Agree - Aboriginal Society was a Hunter Gatherer Society
No other academic seems to agree with Mr Pascoe’s Theory
Where are the Coconuts?
Why weren’t there any coconut plantations in Aboriginal Australia?
Tommy McRae - The Aboriginal Source
Don’t trust the Imperial British Version of our history? Let’s see what a contemporary Aboriginal had to say.
The Gerritsen-Pascoe Theory of Aboriginal Agriculture - a Scholarly Rebuttal
This is not “domesticated yam farming with sowing, cultivation, irrigation and crop protection”, but instead is traditional foraging and gathering.
Why No Agriculture? Maybe it was due to Aboriginal Fundamentalism?
Did Aboriginal Blasphemy Laws Snuff Out Any Agricultural Advances by Aboriginal Women?