Hi Steele,

"Bloody hell mate, where is all this guff coming from?"

Its a 20th Century fabrication by the far right to blame the victim for his own misfortune.

I've spoken with my Cousin (she has established her Aboriginal heritage) about life in the 19th century around the Wellington district of NSW, and how it affected the Aboriginal population. They lost their land to pastoralists, and that was an injustice. Remarkably many faired reasonably well working on runs as stockmen, boundary riders, general hands etc. It seems the black fella with his knowledge of the land, and tough conditioning, was the preferred worker to white blow-ins whom many were soft, lazy and unreliable. European accounts (Charles Warne) say Aboriginals were Christian and sober folk, not privy to the drink. After early conflict between black and white things did settle down by the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century. My relatives still have properties from the original run at Euchareena NSW.

Some interesting reading;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/curious-central-west-how-the-wiradjuri-survived-first-contact/10128822

"Previous criticisms of Dark Emu have been condemned as some conservative racist conspiracy. But Sutton and Walshe are not right-wingers. Nor is Indigenous lawyer Hannah McGlade, a member of the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, who told The Australian this week, “It’s a nonsense to say that we support truth-telling and at the same time support Dark Emu, which clearly is not very truthful or accurate.”

shadowminister,

Glad you think that.

Sutton says in the first chapter to the book "I have described our focus on Australia 'before conquest', not 'before settlement', for some very good reasons."

Are you happy to accept that view from an expert?

SR,

The choice of the word "conquest" shows that Sutton has the left whinge credentials to be believable in claiming that dank emu is bollocks.

Secondly "conquest" has such a broad range of meanings from "acquire, seduce, master and subjugate" that one can be correct and politically correct at the same time.

Well I have just started Sutton's book and it already has issues.

They include an appendix purporting to show how much the Wathaurung tribe of Geelong moved around.

I go to the mention of Jerringot because it is a place I am familiar with.

They quote from Morgan's the Life and Adventures of William Buckley page 83:

"we proceeded together to a lake called Jerringot - one of a chain of of that name - which supplies the Barwin River."

This was supposed to be evidence of the nomadic nature of the tribe.

Unfortunately the quote actually starts with these words: "The various families returned to their several camping places — except one old man, his wife, and children, who remained; and"

So Buckley with his mate and his mate's family head off on their own to a separate location.

They seem to be doing exactly what they accuse Pascoe of, abridging quotes to suit their own narrative.

Not a good look.

SR, what are you babbling on about? For someone who always professes to be so, so clever you do bang on about nothing consequential. I should not do so much posting until you actually have something to contribute in future.