If you're Bruce Pascoe, the key to riches and acclaim is simple: get conservatives and genuine historians to condemn your book's bogus scholarship and, in a mad stampede, the useful idiots of the Left will fall over themselves to endorse its lies. The New York Times' Damien Cave is the latest to salute the flag of falsehood

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In another Australia, the Ern Malley hoax had intelligent people laughing themselves silly that anyone could have taken the fictional author's nonsense seriously. Today, well things are sadly different. Instead of scoffing at 'Dark Emu' and deriding its author as a fraud, those who should be seeking truth are telling children his fabrications are 'irrefutable'. Yes, irrefutable

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One reason our schools have been slipping in international rankings might well be that today's children learn what to think, not how to think. In an award-winning teachers' guide to fauxboriginal Bruce Pascoe's fashionable lies about town-dwelling indigenous agriculturists the gulf between what is taught and what is true could not be more apparent

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It is four years since Bill Leak drew a cartoon that turned a brilliant spotlight on the abuse and neglect of Aboriginal kids, very soon finding himself vilified and harassed by people so low they would have needed a ladder to tie his shoe. We lost Bill not long after, but not those more determined to make a fuss about Captain Cook than a small child pack-raped in a remote community

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It's not just in the US that the civil-rights martyrs' preaching of faith, non-violence and what used to be called 'middle class values' is rejected by the BLM movement's agitators. Embracing anger and myth, rather than rationality, Aboriginal leaders are making the same tragic mistake

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Two young teachers at Melbourne's Williamstown High School have penned a guide to help their colleagues use the falsehoods, furphies and fictions of 'Dark Emu' to enlighten children about the 'truer history' of Aboriginal life. While the handbook runs to a slim 96 pages, the misinformation they are ardently passing on would fill libraries

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Many times I have heard blactivists dismiss high rates of community violence and child abuse with the throwaway line, 'Walk a mile in our shoes before you criticise.' Maybe they should try walking a few yards in the shoes of the police just to see what it's like

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During the Black Lives Matter protests Scott Morrison said there had never been slavery in Australia. Some days later he said his statement was wrong and apologized in parliament. However, he was badly advised, and had been right the first time, as this three-part historical series from Quadrant shows

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During the Black Lives Matter protests Scott Morrison said there had never been slavery in Australia. Some days later he said his statement was wrong and apologized in parliament. However, he was badly advised, and had been right the first time, as this second installment of Quadrant's three-part historical series shows

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During the Black Lives Matter protests Scott Morrison said there had never been slavery in Australia. Some days later he said his statement was wrong and apologized in parliament. However, he was badly advised, and had been right the first time, as this three-part historical series from Quadrant shows

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