Shadow Minister,

Pascoe has met all of the 3 legal criterias in
order to have his lineage recognised.

Pascoe can lie about his culture as much as he likes without hurting anyone or anything. It's his lies about aboriginal culture and history that are the problem.

Shonkyminister,

I understand you can trace your linage back to the 17th century when Great Great Grandfather Thaddeus Shonky who lived in Pudding Lane started the 'Great Fire of London' that was just after Great Great Uncle Remus Shonky's flea infested pet rat escaped, setting off the Great Plague. Its been all down hill for the Shonky family ever since.

Another liar is Barnaby Joyce, who, on the very morning of his election as leader of the Nationals, said that he had no interest in the job. Liars to the left of us, liars to the right of us. That's what Australia is all about these days.

Dear mhaze,

You chirp.

"Now that myriad fabrications have been revealed, SR suddenly decides that its OK for Pascoe to make it up because his book wasn't an academic work."

I challenge Joe now you to show a single fabrication and you haven't managed it once.

Of course I have read Sturt's diaries and accounts. You obviously haven't.

How is this for a description of another village within them.

"On the 5th, the river led us to the southward and westward. Early in the day, we passed a group of seventy huts, capable of holding from twelve to fifteen men each. They appeared to be permanent habitations, and all of them fronted the same point of the compass. In searching amongst them we observed two beautifully made nets, of about ninety yards in length. The one had much larger meshes than the other, and was, most probably, intended to take kangaroos; but the other was evidently a fishing net. In one hut, the floor of which was swept with particular care, a number of white balls, as of pulverised shells or lime, had been deposited — the use of which we could not divine. A trench was formed round the hut to prevent the rain from running under it, and the whole was arranged with more than ordinary attention. We had not proceeded very far when we came suddenly upon the tribe to which this village, as it might be called, belonged."

Cont..

And how is this for an explanation of why a village might not be inhabited or relatively recently abandoned.

“from the moment I approached him, I thought there was a shade of anxiety upon his brow, and an expression of sorrow over his features, the cause of which did not originate with us. I could see in a moment, that his bosom was full even to bursting, and he seemed to claim at once our sympathy and our protection, although we were ignorant of that which oppressed him.”

"As his tribe gathered round him, the old chief threw a melancholy glance upon them, and endeavoured, as much as he could, to explain the cause of that affliction which, as I had rightly judged, weighed heavily upon him. It appeared, then, that a violent cutaneous disease raged throughout the tribe, that was sweeping them off in great numbers. He called several young men to Mr. Hume and myself, who had been attacked by this singular malady. Nothing could exceed the anxiety of his explanations, or the mild and soothing tone in which he addressed his people, and it really pained me that I could not assist him in his distress. We now discovered the use to which the conical substance that had been deposited with such unusual care in one of the huts, was applied. There were few of the natives present who were not more or less marked with it, and it was no doubt, indicative of mourning."

That you and others are so determined to ignore substantial accounts like this is very telling.