Altrav,

Skin colour has nowt to do with it, for example, if one has one Irish grandparent then one can claim Irish Citizenship, as a right, and the Irish Government (after checking the truth) will recognise the claim and record he fact in the Book of Foreign Births and citizenship and Irishness is automatic.
{some of our politicians found this out recently!!]

In the case of Pascoe one Aboriginal ancestor would be enough, (not necessarily a grandparent), but it seems that that ancestor is illusive to the point of nonexistence..

SR,

I'm not sure what you're on about. If you mean that I'm attacking Pascoe rather than debunking the dangerous rubbish that he is pushing (i.e. which demeans Aboriginal hunting and gathering), well, no. I'm pointing out both, that this whitefella is taking Indigenous position and money, AND what he writes, or fabricates, is without evidence.

He is in the position of an Indigenous professor, of Indigenous Studies, no less, on a salary of (?) $ 120,000. But he has not shown that he is qualified to take that position. But that's up to his employer, the UTS, to sort out.

He has not provided evidence, apart from dodgy mis-quotes from early observers, that there was anything like what is conventionally taken to be 'farming', and in opposition to the vastly more comprehensive observations of thousands of anthropologists, historians, missionaries, functionaries, Mission and community staff in every part of Australia.

In the process, he has promoted a negative view of Aboriginal people as 'mere' - even 'primitive' - foragers, like we all were just a few thousand years ago - and now probably every schoolkid in (at least) Victoria will forever take on that view.

So real history has to be denied, in order to believe this stuff. This will eventually rebound very badly.

Joe

I suppose if Nancy Pelosi can identify as a catholic while racing off the planned parenthood to plan more murders then Bruce's case of identification is a little less deceitful.

It's not a matter of anti-black, it's a matter of anti pretend-black !

Dear loudmouth2,

You write; "He has not provided evidence, apart from dodgy mis-quotes from early observers"

Show a single mis-quote please.

issy, I'm sorry but I don't care about subjectivity and political agenda.
I am very objective with a fair share of pragmatism.
I remember the case of the Kiwi polly who got pinged because some moronic Kiwi law doesn't give a sh!t about truth.
And the truth was, as I remember, even though he was born in Australia, he was still regarded as a Kiwi, by the Kiwi's.
Well BIG DEAL!
He was born here, so in fact and truth, he IS Aussie, with Kiwi parents! (if that's what they are/were)
So the same goes for this clown.
If he was born here, he is an Aussie, with mixed blood, because he's not black of skin.
As I've said many times before, what arrogant pricks these people (like him) are to completely dismiss all the other nationalities that were involved in them being here today.
What a moron!