Title slide image: live audience for this event at John Curtin College of the Arts. This conversation was recorded live at the Quantum Words Festival in Walyalup / Fremantle on 16 September 2022. Bruce discusses his work with Anthony James. The event billing read: In Young Dark Emu - A Truer History, Bruce Pascoe uses the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, to argue for an understanding of Australia prior to the arrival of Europeans as a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and thriving villages. In keeping with its themes, we travelled deep and wide here, and in pin-drop attentive silence. The session’s touchstone was Bruce’s extraordinary book Young Dark Emu. This was Schools Day, so there were about 150 people, mostly students, in the theatre. Last month I was fortunate to host Bruce in conversation at the brilliant Quantum Words Festival here in Perth. Bruce Pascoe in an Aboriginal Australian man, award-winning writer, and farmer.
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