


“Shame on you the State Library of NSW for ensuring Dark Emu won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. In Dark Emu, and the children’s version of the book, Young Dark Emu, and a teaching resource, Dark Emu in the Classroom, a photograph shows a large pointed dome house, inferred to be Aboriginal. Something we have to mention is that this doesn’t fix a very similar-looking black line issue present when using anisotropic filtering values higher than Default with AMD and Intel GPUs. “Shame on you so-called educators who instilled the children’s version of Dark Emu into the curricula to brainwash school kids. “In other words, the same thing we and other presenters here have said for the last few years, only to be accused of racism,” Mr Bond said. The authors noted that Mr Pascoe’s book was “littered with unsourced material, is poorly researched, distorts and exaggerates many points, selectively emphasises evidence to suit those opinions, and ignores large bodies of information that do not support the author’s opinions”. His remarks came after one of the Nine papers last week reported two leading academics – Professor Peter Sutton and Dr Keryn Walshe – “savaged” Mr Pascoe’s claims in their new book “Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate”. Emu feathers are less water-resistant than other birds' feathers. When new feathers grow, they are almost black in color, but the sun soons fades them to a grayish brown while the shafts and the tips of the feathers remain black. Other ratites share this feathery design. Sky News contributor Caleb Bond has heaped “shame” on people who endorsed and propagated Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu” thesis. Young Dark Emu contains many historical primary sources, some of which contain language and descriptions regarding First Nations People that are considered inappropriate today. Instead, each barb hangs loosely and gives emu feathers a hairlike appearance.
