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Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu series for ABC TV likely to still go ahead We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size A Dark Emu documentary planned for the ABC is likely to go ahead, despite the criticism levelled at Bruce Pascoe’s acclaimed-and-now-disputed account of First Nations culture at the time of white settlement in a recently published book. Sources close to the production say they are confident a show can be delivered “that ...

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Save Share Uluru, the Kimberley … Mount Isa? The Queensland outback mining town doesn’t usually come up in conversations about sacred sites, but it is one of the destinations featured in a recently published book that explores this country through an Indigenous lens. Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia takes a deep dive into 18 regions across the country, from Albany in Western Australia’s south to the far reaches of Cape York up north; from alpine valleys to coastal fore...

MarkMcKenna The culture wars make it difficult to see what this moment is: an opportunity to deepen our knowledge of Indigenous people ‘Given the popularity of Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu, and the widespread historical illiteracy regarding Australia’s First Nations people, much is at stake.’ Photograph: Vicky Shukuroglou ‘Given the popularity of Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu, and the widespread historical illiteracy regarding Australia’s First Nations people, much is at stak...

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For many Australians, Pascoes book is a must-read, speaking truth to power. For such readers, Dark Emu seems a breakthrough text. Not so, in Sutton and Walshes estimation. Nor mine.

In 2014, Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu revolutionised interpretations of Indigenous history, arguing that Aboriginal people engaged in agriculture, irrigation and construction prior to the arrival of Europeans. Now, in a new book, two highly respected academics say that there is little evidence for these claims.

In this episode, academic Peter Sutton and freelance writer Stuart Rintoul discuss the factual gaps in 2014 publishing phenomenon Dark Emu.

A controversial bestseller that described a flourishing, advanced Indigenous civilisation prior to colonisation has been “debunked” in a “damning” new book.

A controversial bestseller that described a flourishing, advanced Indigenous civilisation prior to colonisation has been “debunked” in a “damning” new book.