Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge has said that Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu should not be taught to children in schools. Dark Emu, published in 2014, claims that Indigenous Australians were not just mere hunter-gatherers, but were actually sophisticated agriculturalists. The validity of the claims have since been brought into question by experts, yet the…
The ‘Pascoe Fiasco’: 3 Thoughts on the ‘Dark Emu’ Debate
Commentary The “Pascoe fiasco” has well and truly been in overdrive since the release of Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s “Farmers or Hunter-Gathers? The Dark Emu Debate,” which expertly points out the many errors in the Dark Emu theory. The theory put forth by Bruce Pascoe in his 2014 work Dark Emu claims Indigenous Australians…
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