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A Challenge to Bruce Pascoe: Let’s Have a Debate
I have just listened to the podcast of an interview with Rick Morton on the subject of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, in which The Saturday Paper scribe criticises Andrew Bolt for his expose of Pascoe’s slipshod, slapdash scholarship in support of his claim that Aborigines were not nomadic hunter-gatherers but sedentary agriculturalists with “skills superior to the colonists who stole and despoiled their land”. Morton’s podcast dishes out what can only be described as a stream of nauseating piffle, not least in his dismissal of Quadrant and its readers as nutcase “conspiracy theorists”.
As he is his publication’s “senior reporter” it makes me shudder to think of the howlers his Saturday Paper junior colleagues must be producing.
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