Although it's a more trivial matter than the farming fraud, it seems that Pascoe hasn't presented the slightest evidence that he has any Indigenous ancestry or relations, and in fact that his ancestry has been traced, presumably on Ancestry.com, solely back to England. And not even one convict in all that either. He's descended solely from free English settlers.

I'm baffled why Wyatt and Langton and Davis et al. oppose any examination of his appointment as an Aboriginal professor of Indigenous Studies. He's a whitefella, taking an Aboriginal job, and at a high level. He's shutting an Aboriginal person out of their rightful employment. And that means nothing ?

Are some people completely opportunist ? Or corrupt ? Or merely incompetent ? As long as something sounds alright, yeah, go with it, to hell with the truth ? He's one of ours, after all ? Yeah, slot him into an Aboriginal job, who's going to complain ?

AND nobody would have been allowed to carry out any sort of investigation if it were not for the AFP.

I wonder how many other whitefellas are out there in Aboriginal-designated jobs ?

Joe

Loudmouth, so are the AFP going to investigate or have I got it wrong?

Altrav,

It appears that the AFP have dropped the investigation into whether Pascoe improperly took benefits. Perhaps that's simply because the funds from which he is being paid don't specify how they are to be disbursed.

But meanwhile, there's this fascinating letter:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/bruce-pascoe-scandal-yolngu-now-denounce-this-aboriginal-historian-too/news-story/07f8fd7484f1fd5797df03f45362d225?fbclid=IwAR2kGwlv5txmqZabf78GQJgDRpIPNDLZsW_sdu58yF42xOzhOWYhZgJw3YI

Lot of legs in this fiasco yet.

Joe

Hi Joe,

Ethnicity is as much about identity as it is about blood. In my case I don't identify as aboriginal, yet last year my first cousin, told me I could, she has, good for her. My oldest son wants to be aboriginal, I told him; "just keep working boy". I suppose all families have secrets.

Loudmouth. c'mon, I know you're too polite to say or imply it, but I'm not!
This mongrel has mates in high places.
They are rorting the system, because he's as much a native as I am a koala.
They thought nothing of his appointment, and his appointee's must be in high or top level jobs.
Now we all know this whole thing is wrong, and yet whoever it is up there on the mountain, in the clouds, is so high up that he can tell the AFP to "drop it".
All we need is for someone to keep pecking away at this and we will see the very thing I am always complaining about, play out.
Corruption, nepotism, jobs for the boys, and so on.
This guy is sh!t from the very beginning when his name was first mentioned, he stank to high heaven.
I'm making a statement, that the guy is an opportunistic slime, not only because he is an impostor and nor do I care that he MAY be taking the job off a black fella, but that he is lying, cheating, stealing, and a host of other immoral and wrong doings.
I hope he gets exposed,along with his running mates, then and only then will I be satisfied that justice has prevailed.

Paul,

"Ethnicity is as much about identity as it is about blood."

Great, then everyone is aboriginal....