They strongly repudiate racist notions of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers as living in a primitive state. On the basis of long-term research and observation, Sutton and Walshe portray classical Australian Aboriginal people as highly successful hunter-gatherers and fishers.
But this willingness to accept Pascoe’s argument reveals a systemic area of failure in the Australian education system. It has led to converts to Pascoe’s dubious proposition. This proselytising is partly achieved by painstaking “massaging” of his sources, a practice forensically examined by Walshe and Sutton. When I told my mum, she thought about it and said, “It’s possible for people in church to be good.” I said, “Yeah, Mum, but they could be better.” Then she said, “And Bruce, so could you.Underpinning Dark Emu is the author’s rhetorical purpose. My mother would say, “Well, what it’s about, Bruce, is goodness and fairness.” But what I saw were church people leaving their shops – where they were screwing people for every dollar – and going to church and being sanctified. RELIGIONĭid you grow up with religion? My parents met in the Baptist Church, so we were surrounded by Christianity. The opportunities available for 70-year-old men are much overstated. Do you care to correct the record? I could relieve them of their ignorance. When you say, “It still is”, a lot of people, probably unfairly, don’t associate people in their 70s with sexuality. I had this opportunity to watch, think and wonder. It gave me the opportunity to watch and care, and to look for people who had a good heart. Not being a popular male to women didn’t hurt me at all. Why do you say that? Because it hasn’t done me any harm. If you could go back in time and give a younger version of yourself a pep talk, what would you tell that younger self about romance, sex, beauty and women? Wait.
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