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Bruce Pascoe

Author Bruce Pascoe is a Bunurong man and member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria. His rather diverse life has seen him work in education, publishing, farming, fishing and Aboriginal language retrieval.

His book Dark Emu challenges the claim that pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal peoples were hunter-gatherers. Join him as he discusses how he is rewriting our understanding of Australia through a lens of knowledge about Indigenous people, places and culture.

‘Sometimes nations have the chance to turn away from bigotry and selfishness and turn to their countrymen and women and embrace them as loved members of the human family.’ —BRUCE PASCOE