"He also seeks to revive these systems and develop a national industry of Aboriginal foodstuff"

Could be a growth industry; spurred on by Government subsidies.

It's heartening to see my beliefs and comments on the truth about the wannabees finally being discussed, vindicating me and putting paid to my detractors.
I don't care if Pascoe wants to call himself a black or a brick, only that, if it's not true, then it's not true.
I re-iterate, by asking why he and all the other wannabee's choose to call themselves blacks, when it is patently clear, he is not.
I draw everyone's attention to the fact that because he has obviously had European ancestors in his lineage, why oh why does he and all these other wannabees single out their black ancestors to descend from.
I won't make comments or suggestions about the true answer to my question, I suspect those among you are well ahead of me in knowing the true answer.
But the short answer to the posted question is: ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Steele, regards those atrocities and massacres. My understanding comes from reading first hand letters and journals going back to early 1800s. On top of that I have first hand accounts from a father in law raised in one of the last settled, and most remote missions in the Kimberley, where white men didn’t reach until 1910, and grandparents in law raised in another mission in the Kimberley that was started in 1913.
None of my inlaws related anything of persecution or massacres or even dispossession. To this day those tribes still live on their own land, under Native Title. They were fed, clothed, housed and educated by the missionaries. And not under any duress, they were free to leave the missions at any time, which some did, to go working as stockmen and truck drivers and lugger crew.
No one has ever denied that killings happened, to both races but the majority of deaths were caused by diseases that aboriginal people had no defence against and no treatment for. And dispossession has happened to every race that ever existed. They all adapted or became extinct.
As for the gap in health and life expectancy, most of that is due to lifestyle choices some aboriginal people make. Obesity is a huge problem these days, contributing to hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. And in the more remote areas, poor hygiene is a contributing factor, not due to lack of facilities but more lack of caring by those involved. Multi millions of dollars have been spent training aboriginal health workers in remote communities and regional towns. Lack of improvement in aboriginal health should be raising questions about their role in the problem.

Altrav,

Pascoe doesn't have any non-English ancestors, unless you go back to the Danes. He doesn't have any Indigenous ancestry. He's a whitefella claiming to have Indigenous ancestry, taking Indigenous jobs and prizes that he has no claim on. He's a whitefella fraud, and they're two a penny.

End of that story. Well, it ought to be.

As for Aboriginal farming: what evidence would one expect to find ? Buildings, artifacts, tools, fence-lines, storage pits or silos, on the one hand; and rituals, ceremonies, Dreaming stories, legends, on the other. Has anybody found any evidence of these, any anthropologists or archaeologists ? Most are pretty quiet, but very few have lent their names - and reputations - to this sort of fraud.

Oh, the villages were all destroyed ? How do you eliminate all traces of a multitude of stone villages and all their evidence of farming ?

As for early accounts, most missionaries (usually the one and only whitefella on-site, so 'herding people onto missions' must have presented challenges) almost immediately - after building a school - tried to set up vegetable gardens and orchards. If at all, those initiatives usually took a decade or two to get going, and even by that time, only with Aboriginal men who had lived away from their tribal roots, as orphans or foundlings on whitefella farms. Few if any now exist.

So has there been any rush by Aboriginal groups - now that people have Native Title all over Australia, and I welcome that - to set up vegetable gardens ? In remote areas, vegetables are very expensive. But communities have running water (i.e. flush toilets and sewage ponds), so why not gardens ?

In fact, the more recently that groups have been brought into settlements, the less likely there seems to have been to set up gardens. Any vegetable gardens and orchards in Aboriginal settlements now ? Not just some outside-inspired and -funded enterprise with one or two Aboriginal employees, but all-Aboriginal-run ? Community-run ?

So why this disparagement of traditional hunting-gathering society and economy ?

Joe

End of that story. Well, it ought to be."

Yeah. But the idiots who are wrecking the joint already are treating him like a hero instead of the shonk he is.

Bruce Pascoe's heritage like many "aboriginals" today appears to be mostly from European settlers.

With respect to his book "The dark emu" BP has cherry picked excerpts from various explorers diaries etc and then made some heroic interpretations, using techniques similar to those that advocate that aliens built the pyramids.

That this has been lapped up and treated as gospel by the left whingers fixated on identity politics is no surprise, nor is their disdain for the complete lack of archeological evidence to support it.