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The Forum > Article Comments > Book review: Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate rigorously critiques Bruce Pascoe's argument > Comments

Book review: Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate rigorously critiques Bruce Pascoe's argument : Comments

By Christine Nicholls, published 15/6/2021

For many Australians, Pascoe's book is a 'must-read', speaking truth to power. For such readers, Dark Emu seems a breakthrough text. Not so, in Sutton and Walshe's estimation. Nor mine.

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Yep, its true. Aboriginal farming practices were as advanced as others in the rest of the world! That's why everywhere you go in Australia there's ruins of ancient canals, aqueducts and granaries. And indigenous art work is littered with pictures of organized labour engaged in farming (just like there's is on some of the walls ancient buildings in just about every other continent). And those Dutch and their windmills, or the Aztec and their swamp draining techniques, knew nothing of making new land compared to the Aboriginals. I mean hell, didn't you all know that the whole of where Melbourne now sits was once was under the sea and is the result of a massive Aboriginal land reclamation process spanning generations.
Posted by thinkabit, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 9:46:34 AM
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Bushfires? The number of bushfire in 2020 was a record low.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:32:03 AM
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LEGO,

I thought that I had responded to you previously.
Perhaps I didn't make it quite clear though that
your accusation of me being a "useful tool"
to Marxists in Australia made no sense to me
whatsoever having grown up in a Liberal voting
conservative family. You provided no evidence to
your statement apart from tossing labels around
simply because some of my views differ from yours.
You should not make assumptions about people you
don't know. I can assume a great deal about you.
But that would be not only be unkind but uncalled for.

As for where would me and my family flee to if Marxists
"buggered up" Australia?

I believe in this country - having been born and educated
here. As I've told you in the past - I would not live
anywhere else.

If you're so concerned though, perhaps you should look
into your own resettlement options. Like the UK?
Although I suspect there's even more "Marxists" there.
And certainly "foreigners."
So instead of making suggestions to others - look at your
own options.

ttbn,

Regarding Lithuania?

Your general statement about people who "escaped" aiding
NAZIS in the persecution of Jews in that country - I'm
not sure what that has to do
with either my family or me - or why you even felt the
necessity to make such a statement.

However, there are also many who believe that
there are those who "escaped" and who aided the Soviets
in the deportations and persecution of Lithuanians.

History is clear that in 1939, in the evil minions of the
NKVD (KGB) and the Gestapo were Christians and Jews, Germans
and Russians, members of all nations caught in the
merciless war.

No faith, no nationality, no race was free of cowards or
collaborators. No group was spared from killers and
traitors in its midst. Some of these villains perished,
some were captured and punished, for the most part shortly
after the conclusion of the war.

Others escaped retribution, dying, as did Stalin and Hitler.
The evil architects themselves - without having been brought
to justice.

cont'd ...
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 10:52:51 AM
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cont'd ...

ttbn,

While half of the criminals, the Nazis,
have been pursued all over the world for their crimes,
the other half, the communist criminals,
were allowed to go free. They were, in effect, given tacit
permission to continue the operation of their concentration camps,
to expand their draconian systems to include psychiatric wards,
thereby raising torture, suppression, and murder to a science.

The fact that the process persisted was vividly disclosed to the
free world by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in his book,
"The Gulag Archipelago."
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:00:46 AM
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Given a predilection among some ("Aboriginal") activists for humbug and role-playing of the victim? I find I agree with most of this, Christine.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:02:05 PM
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Dear Foxy. I can't see why you allow these xenophobes/white supremists and neo Nazis, to use up your, rationality personified and polite posts.

They're just so full of irrational hate? That trying to debate them just gives them the opportunity to spew more of their hate laced shite storm/verbal vomit from the anonymity of assumed identities?

As they say things none would have the guts to say to your face or from behind their actual identities!

Personally, I'd advise them to shove it where the sun never shines and then do the world their greatest possible service by following it permanently! After all, it's clearly where they speak from!

It's a shame we closed up all the lunatic asylums and let loose the former inmates!

I say these things as I vehemently disagree with your position on the topic.
Warm regards, Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:28:18 PM
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