I reckon I’d be fascinated by his childhood, how he coped as an alien. Pascoe achieves this questioning with a somewhat controversial manoeuvre. Do they wonder if this person’s family was dispersed during the frontier wars? Bolt’s efforts to “fact-check” Pascoe’s book are based largely around a website called Dark Emu Exposed. Pascoe again suggest his Aboriginal descent is from his mother's side: His mother’s brother sometimes alluded to their Aboriginal ancestry but ­Pascoe didn’t begin investigating it in earnest until he was in his early 30s... [That means before he published Fox, in which he does not describe himself as of Aboriginal descent.]. [9][10], From 2001 to 2011, he was a regular guest on Insiders. False: Pascoe himself quotes from the journals of explorers who described what was before their eyes. [53], In an earlier article in the Griffith Review (2012, following Eatock v Bolt) titled "Andrew Bolt's Disappointment" (also reproduced in Salt: Selected Stories and Essays[54]), Pascoe had suggested that he and Bolt could "have a yarn" together, without rancour, because "I think it's reasonable for Australia to know if people of pale skin identifying as Aborigines are fair dinkum". I’m sure that in years to come the Aboriginal community will be under pressure from bureaucracies to exclude people whose heritage is from a great-grandmother who did everything she could to become white, to merge with the master class. All my heritage... We have Aboriginal family from both sides from Moonta in South Australia to Lockhart River in Queensland. He’s even been made a professor in the indigenous faculty of the University of Technology Sydney. My insight into Aboriginal Australia is as abbreviated as my heritage has allowed. Eight years ago, author Bruce Pascoe wrote about his Aboriginality — and how it felt being attacked by Andrew Bolt for “deciding to be black”. They have been married since 1989[1] and have three children. False: The historians have not argued that hunter-gatherer Aborigines were “backward”. ***************************************************. But, https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/abcs-excellent-reporting-20-untruths-in-defence-of-bruce-pascoe/news-story/3b45a971bcdfb043e969881b39438663. [55], In early 2020, the feud escalated when Bolt published a letter provided to him by Josephine Cashman, which resulted in Cashman being dismissed from the Federal Government's Indigenous voice to government's Senior Advisory Group. He has since won a NSW Premier's literary award for best Indigenous writer, and is a professor in the Aboriginal studies department of the University of Technology, Sydney. No, Aborigines weren’t primitive hunter-gatherers, but sophisticated farmers with an “agricultural industry” — tilled fields, big villages and huge overhead granaries. His roles at The Age included sports writer, prior to joining The Herald. The defence of “Aboriginal historian” Bruce Pascoe by ABC journalists is an indictment of the ABC. I’ve got birth certificates to confirm it. But Dark Emu records the firsthand account of David Lindsay on his 1883 survey of Arnhem Land, where he says he “came on the site of a large native encampment… Framework of several large humpies, one having been 12ft high: small enclosures as if some small game had been yarded and kept alive…”. NITV revealed on Tuesday that a letter denouncing Pascoe, supposedly written by Warramiri elder Terry Yumbulul, and published by the News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt, was not Yumbulul’s work. She married in Ballarat in 1875 and may have spent time at Cummererugunja and Ebenezer Mission. It comes after Mr Pascoe released his book 'Dark Emu' which has been criticised for its accuracy. Enter your email address and Crikey will send a Verification Code. Andrew Bolt (born 26 September 1959) is an Australian conservative social and political commentator. Melbourne Antifa, an anti-fascism group, appeared to claim a connection in the incident on Facebook, posting that Bolt attacked "some of our family in solidarity ... while they were protesting today". But why should a successful race of First Nations peoples be such a threat to modern Australians? Often that entailed white NZers challenging not dark enough NZers. Bolt has twice scoffed at the idea of animal yards being found by these explorers. False assumption: It isn’t. That is how one such settlement was referred to by a man in the exploration party of Thomas Mitchell in the mid-1800s. Perhaps even whiter than most Aussies? My great grandmother Sarah Matthews was born at Dudley, South Gippsland on or around 1848 and she gave birth to my grandmother, Gertrude Cowland. Bolt objected to this apparent change in Pascoe's heritage following the success of Dark Emu, a book written by Pascoe in 2014 that reexamines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia, and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture, engineering and building construction by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. In December 2019, the rate was 2,536 prisoners per 100,000 adults in the Aboriginal population, compared to 218 prisoners per 100,000 adults in the non-Aboriginal population. They have merely described what they were. A more inconvenient truth is that Bolt’s dislike of Pascoe began at least two years before the publication of the book, which has now become the focus of a minor culture war led by Bolt and others. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of the Indigenous charities you should consider supporting if you are hoping to make a difference. The myth is all, on the ABC. if history and Pascoe is correct, you would think outback aborigines would not be beholden to the welfare $dollar. I argued then and I argue now that we should not insist on the differences between us but focus instead on what unites us as human beings. He described how and why his Aboriginal ancestry – and that of many others – had been buried. You can find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out He has worked at the Melbourne-based newspaper company The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) for many years, for both the newspaper The Herald and its successor, the Herald Sun.

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