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CREATIVE CULTURE

DARK EMU BLACK SEEDS: AGRICULTURE OR ACCIDENT?

Bruce Pascoe Published by Magabala Books, Broome $35.00 inc GST, 172 pages paperback

The hunter-gatherer tag is central to the whole story we’ve been taught about how Australia was settled then colonised. But what if that story is all wrong? Author Bruce Pascoe presents compelling evidence to show that early explorers did record the full range of activities of Aboriginal people — but that Australian society simply decided to ignore all those primary records and stuck with the hunter-gatherer

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