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    AQ Book Reviews

    Dec 30, 2019 2 minutes

    Dark Emu

    BRUCEPASCOE | REVIEWBY: DRLILYHIRSCH

    Reading Dark Emu is both a stimulating and uncomfortable experience. Stimulating because of the astonishing paradigm shift it heralds for our understanding of Australia’s indigenous history. Uncomfortable because of the ignominy of our collective ignorance.

    Rather than using Indigenous oral histories – which Pascoe says are easily rebuked due to “the tenacity of the Australian delusion” –

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