'Paul
You’re right it did go right over lol

SR,

It seems you've misunderstood the entire issue. The evidence against Pascoe wasn't about his claims as to the living arrangements in S-E Australia. This was well know and largely accepted way before Pascoe decided to spin his yarns. Indeed it goes way back to at least the 1970s with 'Triumph of the Nomads' where it was observed that these S-E Australian groups lived lives comparable to the poor of London. I've mentioned this often over the years of these debates.

The problems with Pascoe were his claims about agriculture in aboriginal society and his extrapolation of living conditions of those in S-E Australia to the whole of Australia. This is where his arguments fell apart and this is where he saw the need to fabricate and falsify.

And you, as is your wont, do the same. Just because there were some groups along the Murray-Darling basin who had relatively sedentary lives doesn't mean it proves it happened all over. Whatismore, the idea that some structures were permanent doesn't mean they were permanently occupied.

Reading Sturt, you see that most of the structures were flimsy and of little value to the aboriginals who abandoned them easily. Reading Sturt on his later expeditions beyond the Murray basin, you see the contrast between the facts and Pascoe's made up fantasies.

Can't help but notice SR that after making a big to-do about not finding any fabrications in Pascoe, as soon as a few (of the many) are pointed out you suddenly drop the issue. SOP for SR.

The issue is that Pascoe deliberately falsified information to prove a point. Nothing he says subsequently can be trusted.

It seems that there was a motion, moved by Mark Latham, in the NSW Parliament to remove ‘Dark Emu’ from schools; defeated.

Hannah McGlade, Aboriginal activist and Human Rights adviser has described the book as ideological, subjective and offensive to Aboriginal people.

Issy,

Latham lazes around in the NSW Legislative Council (upper house), a member of your brothers in arms, the racists One Nation and Shooters and Hooters. Any motion moved by that useless slug if carried is not binding, so if Latham wants to grandstand so be it. What did he want it replaced with, Mein Kampf?

Paul1405,
In 1970, the Aborigines were said to have been around for 40,000 years. Then it became 50,000, then 60,000 then 65,000 & for the past year or so it has become as many as 80,000 years.
Is this a case of "how time flies when you're having fun" ?