Historical accounts of Aboriginal housing, farming and fishing were suppressed for most of the past 150 years. decided everybody would have a house, everybody would have enough to eat, everybody would take part in the culture.Īnd the final part of his thesis is that: Not only did Aborigines invent democracy, pioneer humankind’s first complex fishing systems and bake the first loaf of bread, they were agriculturalists with skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it.Īboriginal people, who invented government 120,000 years ago, decided that the worst thing they could do in a society was fight for land. Recently I became aware of the work of Bruce Pascoe, described in an article in the Australian on September 8 as “our most influential indigenous historian”.
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