The piece published by both The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald drew national attention: And this week, even the newspapers that once defended him have acknowledged as much. Dark Emu has since inspired a children’s book and a stage play, and is being taught in Australian schools.īut Pascoe’s scholarship is shoddy. The book sold a quarter of a million copies and attracted some of Australia’s most prestigious literary awards, including Book of the Year and the Indigenous Writers’ Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. Dark Emu even claimed that this history goes back 120,000 years - twice that of current scholarship. Pascoe’s book asserted that before European colonisation, Aboriginal communities were not ‘hunter-gatherers’ but used complex farming practices, baked bread, built houses, lived in large settlements and invented democracy. Written by Bruce Pascoe in 2014, Dark Emu claimed to recover a forgotten history of Indigenous Australia.
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