For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.

Stories from multiple Aboriginal groups across Australia include a recurring celestial figure: the Emu in the Sky. Not a constellation in the Western sense, this figure is outlined by the dark ...

Aboriginal astronomy is not uniform, Bhathal says, because of the many different peoples that exist in various parts of the country. For this reason different stars often have different meanings.

The characterisation of Aboriginal worlds at 1788 is the central debate between Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and Peter Sutton and Kerryn Walshe’s Farmers or Hunter-gatherers.

Bruce Pascoe’s bestselling book Dark Emu challenged thinking about Indigenous history – and sparked a fierce culture war – by arguing that Aboriginal people engaged in agriculture ...

To not know the basics of the Dark Emu wars you’d have to have been out in the desert somewhere — OK, bad metaphor, but the basics are this: in 2014, novelist and short story writer Bruce ...

Dark Emu, author Bruce Pascoe’s smash hit 2014 book that argued Indigenous Australians were not just hunter-gatherers but engaged in agriculture, irrigation and construction, won numerous ...

A book challenging pre-colonial European perception of Aboriginal society has won Book of the Year in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Aboriginal astronomy is not uniform, Bhathal says, because of the many different peoples that exist in various parts of the country. For this reason different stars often have different meanings.

Dark Emu was named book of the year and won the Indigenous writers' prize in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. In 2018, Pascoe received the Australia Council award for lifetime achievement ...