Dear ALTRAV,

I'd admittedly given up on wading through your turgid offerings but the three Steeles lulled me into having a look.

And what little gem did you have for me?

“You see, he makes statements, claims and comments on things he cannot possibly have witnessed”

Gammage is a bloody HISTORIAN you clown. They examine historical events and they don't have to have been eye witnesses to them to investigate. If the world worked to your prescription we wouldn't have history departments at all.

Mate, you have elevated the garbage content in your posts to over 95%. Enough already.

Dear Is Mise,

You asked;

“What's petulant about asking how explorers journals have any insight into Aboriginal life thousands of years before Cook?”

Go read the book mate, Pascoe quotes archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, palynologists and environmental scientist to name a few. That is why I,m calling you petulant.

Steely, say what you like, him saying he referred to this or that may impress you, but it still doesn't answer all the questions, anyway so you pompous fool, what makes you stand in judgement, if it were not for people like us forever asking questions, there would be nothing but people like you telling us what to believe.
Before you shoot your mouth off, tell me, if the blacks were such wondrous farmers, and whatever the hell you lot want to adorn them with, where is any evidence of these spurious and yet 'unproven' claims of how wonderful they were.
Your arrogance precedes you and blinds you.
Can you not see the glaring hole in this whole story?
If these guys were only half of what these morons claim, would they (the blacks) not be further advanced in all these areas you and your mates claim.
In every other part of the world, civilization,(people) have progressed into what we call the modern era, complete with all the trappings of their ingenuity and development to where they are at today.
Heck even the slums have not deteriorated further and gone back into a pre-historic standard of living, even though they are poor and destitute.
You are as bad if not worse than what you accuse me of, because at least my position is one of seeking answers, unlike sheeple like yourself, by your own actions I might add, accept whatever is put in front of you, because they tell you it is so.
You must get conned a lot and don't even know it.
I would rather be suspicious, and inquisitive than gullible and naive.
So it is you who are talking garbage, I have conducted myself in a most responsible manner by questioning the topic and it's veracity, a more than admiral position any thinking, intelligent man would agree.
But that's not you, as you clearly don't agree and are prepared to be led, rather than lead.

Foxy,

"Is Mise,

You continue to nit-pick.

Bruce Pascoe used more than just the sources
of explorers.

Read the book"[I will when it's my turn at the local library]

We all know that he used more than just the explorers but to attribute insight into Aboriginal life thousands of years before Cook to explorers of the 19th Century is absurd.

Just shew us how he did it, you have the book.

My dear Forum Friend Il Duce (ALTRAV the leader), reading Bruce Pascoe's book 'Dark Emu' would give you a leg up when doling out the criticism. I know being totally ignorant of a subject has never held you back in past, but do you think it could be worth having a little knowledge when discussing a subject? In your case, I guess not.

Hi Foxy, great reading 'Dark Emu' well researched with lots of first sources (a favourite of Joe's).

Dear Is Mise,

Fair dinkum mate you are banging on about someone's review/opinion of Pascoe's book.

As you are the one claiming it is within its pages you can go look for it because I have read the thing and nothing stood out to me.

If you want to furnish a direct quote from it which substantiates your's or someone else's take on it be my guest and then we can discuss. But until then why should you be asking anyone to waste time on secondary opinions.

Steele,

"... you be asking anyone to waste time on secondary opinions"

Because Foxy put it up as evidence and evidence it ain't.