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Bruce Pascoe, Tribal Elder of the Seagull Mob
I have been astonished at the reaction of the Twitter mob to the latest development in the Bruce Pascoe Affair. Astonished but not surprised, if you can appreciate the subtlety of this apparent paradox. I am astonished that so many people, many not obviously cretins (pathologically at least), can so readily and deliberately misinterpret the clear-cut issues underlying the referral of Bruce Pascoe’s aboriginality to the AFP. But I am not surprised because they have form in this respect on many other issues, from climate change to free speech and every other issue on which remaining in good standing with the mob trumps reasoned argument, facts and truth.
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I have pored through the Twitter record to see if there is any support for Josephine Cashman’s (not Peter Dutton’s) initiative and could find just one instance – Mark Latham.
Here’s a sample of the other side.
Jonathan Green:
Coloured clothing patches will be issued shortly…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins