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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 stake.’ Photograph: Vicky Shukuroglou Thu 24 Jun 2021 21.40 EDT Last modified on Thu 24 Jun 2021 2...

Good Weekend letters to the editor: June 26 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss June 25, 2021 — 1.44pm Normal text size Send us a picture or Instagram one of Good Weekend in your life, using the hashtag #goodweekendmag. We choose one each week to publish here and in print. Flakiness has probably been used to describe me before, but flakiness is good! Credit:@LEONIEMANDME For the record From my research across more than 80 journals by early white explorers (for my book on the interaction between Aborigines and the explorers, due for publicat...

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For many Australians, Pascoe's book is a 'must-read', speaking truth to power. For such readers, Dark Emu seems a breakthrough text. Not so, in Sutton and Walshe's 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.