Of course, the perception of Aborigines through the looking glass of either Political Australians or Media (fake political) Australians - are not the only perceptions of Aborigines and their Aboriginal cultural evolutions.

Everyone thinks there is only 'one' right answer.
That's when it all breaks down in the end and ends up 'wrong' overall.

Gee. I may pop a Vitamin occasionally. Maybe a panadol for back pain if needed.
Prefer the natural stuff like Raw eggs for the brain, cooked eggs for the body. Stuff like that.
I only eat McDonalds for sea-sickness. Sits heavy in the stomach and settles it down.

Setanta wrote on Feb 8^th, 2024 at 6:36pm:



Pascoe has suceeded to be totally wrong from ANY critical perspective. His talking up of quasi-agricultural development is is  full of nonsense:
" the book was “riddled with errors of fact, selective quotations, selective use of evidence, and exaggeration of weak evidence”, including the suggestion Aboriginal people have occupied Australia for 120,000 years. "


He is also wrong from the Aboriginal perspective, totally missing the significance of the ancient Aboriginal way of seeing and being in the world:
if Aboriginal people were farmers as Pascoe contends, Sutton asks, where is the evidence for it in Aboriginal languages, as there is evidence in Torres Strait languages? “If, as he says, they traditionally hoed and tilled and ploughed the earth, made gardens, selected and sowed seed or planted tubers, irrigated their crops, reaped the results and stored them, and thus were farmers on farms doing farming, should he not have tried to demonstrate that these categories and terms were present in at least some of the approximately 260 distinct languages of Australia in 1788?”

Aboriginal people knew about farmers, Sutton and Walshe write, from their trading interactions with Torres Strait gardeners and Macassans and Baijini from the Indies, but chose not to emulate them, for reasons that were cultural as well as practical. Economics without religion was “inconceivable” to the Old People, they write. “Gathering and hunting and fishing were not just economics: they were the Law.”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/debunking-dark-emu-did-the-publishing-phenomenon-get-it-wrong-20210507-p57pyl.html

Dnarever wrote on Feb 9^th, 2024 at 8:42am:

Of course not, but this fake is taking paid positions based, in part, on his being Aboriginal, so he is doing a genuine Indigenous Australian out of a job and the remuneration that goes with it.
He has received Government and other grants that were intended for Aboriginals, grants given, in part, as recognition of his claimed heritage.
Acceptance of those grants is fraud, criminal fraud.

I suppose it would be hard for Whities and their colonisation if they entered a part of the world where the 'natives' were superior to them, let alone smart enough not to be like them ( in chains and shackles).

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 8^th, 2024 at 2:06pm:



How do you know what I've read?

There is no weight of evidence on Pascoes side..

more fanciful bunkum.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Feb 9^th, 2024 at 8:59am:


... not to mention that his book in all its 'errors' and falsehoods is now used in schools as a definitive text on history rather than a fantasy novel - meaning as a tool to manipulate young and impressionable minds into accepting totally false conclusions ...

More like Shot Duck or Ruptured Duck than Black Duck - at least to this little black duck... the Black Duck is an honourable creature who is only what he is....... and makes no claims to be anything more.... even though descended and living here for many thousands of years more than any Aboriginal.

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 8^th, 2024 at 4:35pm:



What a ridiculous opinion. He is a race & cultural appropriator. That is as wrong & inappropriate as plagiarised Aboriginal art & artefacts being sold by non Aboriginals.

We, all born to this country, are indigenous.

There are no Aboriginals ... just descendants of Aboriginals.