Pascoe’s sour brew

ANDREW BOLT




The Dark Emu author wrote in 2012 that I’d “pilloried” him for “deciding to be black” but he could straighten me out.

“I could have a yarn with Bolt over a beer,” said Pascoe, “except he doesn’t drink beer, I’m told, just good red wine.”

Actually, I had a beer with my T-bone just last night. Yet Pascoe still refuses to yarn with me about the fake stories he’s told about himself and our history.

But no excuses now. Pascoe at last has his magic beer to convince me he really is linked – as he’s claimed – to seven Aboriginal tribes in five states, even though genealogical records show all his ancestors are of English descent.

Who knows, if I drank enough of his new Dark Emu Dark Lager I might even believe Pascoe’s baloney in his bestseller book that Aborigines were not “mere” hunter-gatherers but “farmers” living in “houses” in “towns” of “1000 people” – absurd claims long discredited by conservatives (me, author Peter O’Brien, Jacinta Price) and now by the Left (academics Peter Sutton, Keryn Walshe, Ian Keen, Victoria Grieve-Williams).


No, it’s the unquestioning support he’s got from politicians, universities, judges, the ABC, journalists and philanthropic law firms – all supposedly in the truth business.

Yet anyone who loved truth would realise after just an hour of checking that Pascoe regularly tells untruths, even about his racial identity.

Pascoe used to tell how his mother’s grandmother Sarah Matthews was born in Dudley, South Gippsland, and “may have spent time at Cummererugunja and Ebenezer Mission” before “her daughter was taken from her as an infant” – the stolen generations, of course – and she chose to “become white, to merge with the master class”, even though she for some unexplained reason spoke the Wathaurong language of a tribe near Colac. Only years later did Pascoe confirm what birth records say – Matthews was born not in Dudley, Victoria, but Dudley, England. Pascoe had invented a whole story from a fake assumption.

But it was too late for Pascoe to stop calling himself Aboriginal, or for the organisations that made him a messiah to stop, too.

Even today, Pascoe’s books are taught in schools in NSW and Victoria, and Victoria’s Curriculum and Assessment Authority teaches students he really is Aboriginal through his (English) great-grandmother.

Even today, Melbourne University pays Pascoe as its Professor of Indigenous Agriculture – a fake discipline he invented – and the NSW Premier has still not asked Pascoe to return his Indigenous Writer’s Prize.

The ABC still promotes Pascoe in schools, and the Judicial Commission of NSW, which trains judges, still has “Uncle Bruce Pascoe” listed to teach judges and lawyers about “the cultural perspectives and experiences of First Nations people”.

People like Pascoe, whose falsehoods sound so sweet to the Left that they call them true, because objective truth is dead, and political “truths” now rule instead.

Karnal wrote on Jul 19^th, 2021 at 7:16pm:


Are you taking over from Jasin?