Is Bruce Pascoe's 'Dark Emu' about to be walked backwards?

By Geoff Davies
Updated July 24 2021 - 4:39pm, first published 5:25am
'Dark Emu' author Bruce Pascoe before the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2018. Picture: Getty Images
'Dark Emu' author Bruce Pascoe before the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2018. Picture: Getty Images

Bruce Pascoe's popular book Dark Emu argues that First Australians lived complex lifestyles that included durable dwellings and cultivation of food and that they were far from the old "primitive nomad" label.

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