Equity and Access

Published in the Research School of Physics Event Horizon
Vol43 Issue20 5–9 June 2017

From the RSPE Equity and Access Committee

'Dark Emu' challenges modern re-tellings of early Aboriginal history.

The centuries-old notion that pre-European Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers who did not farm the land they occupied is under further challenge.

A book by award winning indigenous author Bruce Pascoe draws on the diaries of early explorers to provide evidence that Aboriginal people across the continent were sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing. He argues that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern re-tellings of early Aboriginal history.

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