The ABC and Screen Australia have provided funding for a documentary series written by Pascoe. The book won the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Award and has sold over 100,000 copies. Their civilisation was, he wrote last year, “one that invented bread, society, language and the ability to live as 350 neighbouring nations without land war, not without rancour … but without a lust for land and power, without religious war, without slaves, without poverty but with a profound sense of responsibility for the health of Mother Earth for more than 120,000 years.” According to him they also invented democracy and government. They were not nomads but lived in large towns in permanent dwellings. In his landmark book Dark Emu, Pascoe claims indigenous Australians were not hunter-gatherers but were sophisticated in the ways of food production, aquaculture, and land management. If indigenous author Bruce Pascoe is correct, most of what we were taught of how Aboriginals lived prior to the arrival of Europeans was based on a combination of ignorance, omissions and lies. Dhinawan embodies the quiet ingenuity of Indigenous knowledge systems: there, right before your eyes, yet requiring a different way of seeing.Įxtolling of Dark Emu ignores the doubt about its historical accuracy Dhinawan is found in the dark space between the lights. But clever, industrious Dhinawan isn’t made of stars he’s subtle and elusive. In the night sky, you can see Dhinawan the emu in the glittering sprawl of the Milky Way. Indigenous author Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu continues to be lauded by ABC personalities. If authenticity was measured by the ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from ABC types, Dark Emu would be known as magisterial, rather than as an implausible Aboriginal history.īy THE MOCKER, The Australian, Thursday 28 November 2019 Known for his friendship to Diana Spencer.ĭescribing religions as "advertising agencies for a product that doesn't exist", James was an atheist and saw it as the default and obvious position. Born in Sydney in 1939, moved to England in 1962, becoming a TV critic for the Observer Newspaper in 1972, then became a famous television personality, an author, and a poet. A heavy drinker and smoker, he'd had leukaemia the past 9 years. Introduction preamble Clive James passed away last Sunday 24th November, at the age of 80.
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