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This is pure rubbish, invented aboriginal history. When examining historical citations or their interpretations it is crucial have an open mind, have critical thinking and most importantly, HAVE MULTIPLE SOURCES OF EVIDENCE AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH. BRUCE DID NONE OF THIS. He went straight into this topic with a political agenda and historical bias. Obviously purposely misrepresenting evidence and at times relying on fictitious work and WILD EXAGGERATIONS. There was a point where he claimed aboriginals had "sophisticated agriculture" and stored excess food in houses and sheds then, further down it says they stored the food in logs, bags and huts. So which one is it ??? The claim about aboriginal people being the world's first bakers, harvesting grain and seeds baking them into bread 15,000 years before the Egyptians is based on (what he believes) is "grind stones" and pushed over bales of grass mounds despite aboriginal people having a diet of very little carbohydrates. Where is the evidence to support this claim other than his own interpretation of what he calls "grind stones" and pushed over bales of grass ??? Bruce Pascoe was already exposed as being a fraud and making this whole thing up which is the only reason I decided to read this book after hearing about years ago and was wanting to know if it was actually true or not. Now I wish I never read this thing. I wonder if Michael Cathcart, Fran Kelly, Suzanne Hill, Jonathan Green all ABC presenters still feel the same way about this book after they publicly stated, quote "Dark Emu is a beautifully grounded history, a real game changer." "thriving indigenous culture with technology, settlements and argiculture." "they grew houses, they grew crops, they irrigated them. It's not the story that we're used to." "There are not many books that changed the way people think, that actually change ideas. Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu is one of those books." respectively.