![]() ![]() His recent business ventures – the Black Duck Food Co. Rarely does a day pass without another invitation to address the public. Since the publication of Dark Emu in 2014, Pascoe’s life has been transformed. Watching him closely, I saw a man of the people – a self-described “storyteller” and “broken-down cricketer” an avuncular mediator who had come to explain the sophistication of Indigenous cultures to an eager, largely non-Indigenous audience a popular writer whose books and sage-like public persona have become a cultural phenomenon.Īs the session came to an end, the audience rose to its feet in rapturous applause. ![]() Pascoe doesn’t regale his audience so much as woo them with parables. We’re witnessing a public argument about Aboriginal people and their cultures, rather than a discussion with themĪs we talked, I marvelled at his ability to shift effortlessly from firsthand experience of the fires that had decimated coastal towns little more than 12 months earlier, to frontier history, forest ecology, traditional Indigenous culture, national politics and the afternoon’s AFL match. ![]()
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