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A Fraudster and his Obliging Cobbers
When even Crikey! concludes a much-championed and revered voice of the cultural Left is a rogue and fraud you can be sure the reputational rot has reached the stage. That’s the take-away lesson from David Hardaker’s gentle leap onto the anti-Pascoe bandwagon. Here he is, after a few paragraphs of soft-soaping Pascoe’s troubled relationship with truth, hammering some fresh nails into the coffin of his standing as a writer and researcher who warrants being taken seriously. The underscored passage in the excerpt below also explains how the Mallacoota mountebank got away with it for so long:
Questions have been raised about Pascoe’s facts in the years before Sutton and his co-author Walshe came along.
At the beginning of 2020, Melbourne lawyer Russell Marks, who has worked in Aboriginal justice, wrote in The Monthly that “throughout Dark Emu, Pascoe regularly exaggerates and embellishes”:
One example: he quotes Thomas Mitchell’s description of large, circular, chimneyed…
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