![]() It claimed that Indigenous Australians were not just hunter-gatherers but engaged in agriculture, irrigation and construction, and lived in stone houses in cities of up to 1000 inhabitants. Pascoe’s hugely influential 2014 book, which won numerous literary awards and was heavily promoted by the ABC, painted a radically different view of Aboriginal history prior to colonisation. ![]() ![]() It comes after Sky News Host Andrew Bolt called on Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt to apologise for “his part” in “Australia’s greatest literary hoax”, while a historian declared the claims in Dark Emu have been all but “demolished” by the rebuttal published this week. Two highly respected academics behind a devastating debunking of 2014’s smash hit Dark Emu say Bruce Pascoe’s controversial Indigenous history book should be pulled from schools. ![]()
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