BRUCE PASCOE AND HIS ABORIGINAL STORIES: FACT CHECK
Bruce Pascoe says he's Aboriginal. He's written a book that claims Aborigines were sophisticated farmers until the wicked white man came. Our cultural elite love it, showering him with prizes and positions, and the ABC will now present a documentary starring him and his theory. But how much of what Pascoe says is actually true?
Truth is now what activists say it is. Proof: the ABC will next year screen a two-part “history” by “Aboriginal writer” Bruce Pascoe.
Based on Pascoe’s prize-winning book Dark Emu, the film will make an extraordinary claim.
No, Aborigines weren’t primitive hunter-gatherers, but sophisticated farmers with an “agricultural industry” — tilled fields, big villages and huge overhead granaries. That is, until it was destroyed by wicked men as white as, er, Pascoe’s face.
This is the kind of anti-white story that the woke now love, and so Pascoe was given the NSW Premier’s Prize for Book of the Year and another for best indigenous writer. The Australia Council gave him a lifetime achievement award.
He’s even been made a professor in the indigenous faculty of the University of Technology Sydney.
But wait. Pascoe has repeatedly said he’s Aboriginal...