SR,

If you can find a ten-year-old to explain to you what 19 health professionals means, two doctors and 17 other professionals, ask him to go slow. Take your time to absorb it all. Nineteen health professionals for 2280 people at Wadeye cracks out at one for every 120 people. Not to mention the frequent visits to Katherine and/or Darwin.

If you really don't know what you are talking about, it's best if you sit back and at least try to learn from others who have been in the business for decades like Big Nana.

One professional for every 120 people - hmmm ........ sounds pretty comprehensive.

Actually, even one professional for every 1140 people sounds pretty ordinary for country towns. I recall as emergency driver, taking people to the nearest hospital twenty kms away at three in the morning and, so it seemed, always the same doctor who we all went to during the day. One doctor for a town of maybe three thousand people. Lovely bloke, I had blood poisoning once and raved to him about Semmelweis. One young bloke I drove to the hospital around one or two a.m. with (I thought) burns but when we got there, he laughed and said it was a joke. I advised him to go down to the cafe, and drove back home without him. For a joke.

So you think Pascoe is, in some arcane way, Indigenous ? No ? Yes ? Evidence one way or the other doesn't matter ?

Joe

Has Pascoe profited by the apparent deception that he is of Aboriginal descent?

So, has he been obtaining advantage by false pretences?

As I siad his book 'Dark Emu' is badly written, badly edited and , to be charitable, somewhat mishandles the truth.

I haven't read any of his other works, "Dark Emu' has put me off him as an author or an authority. I haven't really read 'Dark Emu' either, scanning it was enough to convince me that to really read it would have been wasted effort.

Hi Is Mise,

"Bruce Pascoe

"POSITIONS
Professor, Jumbunna Inst for Indigenous Education & Research

"Core Member, SIC - Strengthening Indigenous Communities

"QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Education

"EMAIL
Bruce.Pascoe@uts.edu.au"

So what sort of salary do you reckon he'd be on, as a "Professor" ?

i.e. an Indigenous person's salary ?

The man is a fraud. He's taking somebody else's job and salary. And he's by no means the only one. The entire Indigenous Industry is corrupt and incompetent like that, in its own cock-eyed way - a whitefella getting a Blackfella's job, and nobody complains.

And then demeans Indigenous hunting and gathering. What a hero.

Joe

Is Mise, yes he has benefited from claiming to be indigenous. He won an indigenous writers award for his book, don’t know how much that was worth but it’s never peanuts

Well, if he identifies as an aboriginal man that's all there is to it!
If he identified as a woman could she hear about woman's business ?
If you object you will be in trouble with the gender police and the
feminazies to say nothing of the GBTJI brigade.

Perhaps he is only an aborigine from 9 to 5 ?
Ahh, that might be why Bolt cannot get him on TV.

Dear Is Mise,

You prattled;

“As I siad(sic) his book 'Dark Emu' is badly written, badly edited and , to be charitable, somewhat mishandles the truth.”

Well mate this should be easy, why don't you give us a single instance where he wrote badly, edited badly, or mishandled the truth then we can judge for ourselves if you are once again gilding the lily.

Dear loudmouth2,

Stop mate, you are embarrassing yourself. The discussion I was having with Big Nana is regarding doctors. If I could be bothered going and looking up the ratio of other health professionals in my town I would, but I can't, because all you are interested in is deflecting once again.

Enough already.