Award-winning Australian writer, editor and anthologist, Bruce Pascoe, is coming to Blaxland for the Lower Mountains Neighbourhood Centre’s next community forum.
Pascoe will talk about his recent book, Dark Emu, which won the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year for 2016.
Dark Emu contests the idea that Aboriginal society, prior to the arrival of first fleet, was exclusively a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence.
Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia’s past is required.
He revisits early explorers’ accounts to argue that Aboriginal people were engaged in farming practices long before Australia was colonised, painting a richer and more sophisticated picture of Aboriginal societies than has been acknowledged.
Lower Mountains Neighbourhood Centre will host the talk on Friday, November 11 from 7pm-9pm. For booking call 4739 1164 or visit www.lmnc.org.au. Books will be available for purchase.