Andrew Bolt: New fake claims by Professor Kerrie Doyle obviously absurd

Professor Kerrie Doyle, who claims to be a member of the “Winninninni” tribe, has now topped Bruce Pascoe for teaching obviously absurd fantasies.

I shouldn’t be surprised that white academics who claim they are Aboriginal might then teach other things that are fake.

Professor Bruce Pascoe, of course, uses fake evidence to claim Aborigines were “farmers” living in “towns” of “1000 people” with “pens” for animals.

But Professor “Aunty” Kerrie Doyle has now topped Pascoe for teaching the most obviously absurd fantasies.

Doyle, associate dean of Indigenous Health at Western Sydney University, has been recorded by students teaching a Welcome to Country song she claims was sung by the warrior Pemulwuy, who died in 1802.

“Now, we have actually a recording of Pemulwuy singing it, and he’s really good,” she says, before singing it, too: “Barrabula barra ma …”

Amazing. A recording made in Sydney before 1802 of an Aboriginal man? And silly me thought the first recording of the human voice was of Au Claire de la Lune, recorded 58 years later by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

Professor Aunty Kerrie Doyle.

It seems Aborigines not only discovered modern agricultural techniques but the phonograph. Hear Doyle’s rendition for yourself at dark-emu-exposed.org.

Doyle also sang this song last year for a Zoom meeting of top medical experts, none of whom questioned it.

Nor did any ask Doyle why a map she showed of the hundreds of Aboriginal tribes, compiled by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, didn’t include the Winninninni tribe to which she’s long claimed to belong.

In fact, there’s no record anywhere of the Winninninni, even in Norman Tindale’s magisterial Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, and Doyle repeatedly refuses to tell me where her tribe lived and who else is a member.

Nor will she explain how she can claim to be Aboriginal through her stepfather, artist Robert Doyle, when he adopted her only in her mid-teens, and was not even Aboriginal.

Does no one check these things before handing out prizes meant to help real Aborigines get ahead?

Perhaps not. Doyle has won a Roberta Sykes Scholarship for Aborigines to study at Oxford, a Melbourne University Indigenous Research Scholarship and at least two other grants for Aborigines.

Yes, there may be an innocent explanation – or was she joking – missed by me and the Doyle kin who doubt her claims, but Doyle on Sunday wouldn’t reply to my calls, texts or emails asking for evidence.

Again I ask: how can the Albanese government create a new Aboriginal-only advisory parliament in our constitution before it’s defined what a real Aborigine is?