Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network, the ABC, actually takes Bruce Pascoe’s ludicrous Dark Emu seriously: so seriously that it commissioned a “documentary” series based on it.
This is, I might remind BFD readers, a book by an “Aboriginal” (despite having no identifiable Aboriginal ancestors that anyone has been able to find or whom he has been able to name) “historian” (despite having no credentials in the field) which claims, that, among other extraordinary achievements, Australian Aborigines invented democracy, built “massive dams” and grain silos, and “everybody had a house”.
Dark Emu is a wild fantasy that makes Chariots of the Gods look like rigorous scholarship. Naturally, ABC types just love it.
After all, the ABC and its guests have a long history of spouting the most obvious lies about pre-European Australia. Call it Australia’s oldest living fount of fake news.
Certainly, ABC types are not about to admit that all the available evidence – from historical accounts to archaeology – shows that Aboriginal Australia was a violent, brutal place, especially for women.
Evidently this is unknown to Channel 10 presenter and Indigenous woman Narelda Jacobs. “Women were equal, if not the leader of their families and their mob,” she told an ABC Q+A audience last Thursday week. “When the colonisers came and invaders came along, they brought with them the patriarchy. And the symptoms of the patriarchy and colonialism is misogyny, sexism, racism, discrimination, homophobia, transphobia. None of those things existed before the colonisers came.”
No show being complete without Punch, fellow guest Sarah Hanson-Young fervently agreed. Although Hanson-Young’s grasp of Australian history might best be deduced from her claim that Australia Day commemorates Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay.
But this is far from the first ludicrous claim aired and never corrected on the ABC. At least, though, they (eventually) corrected:
Indigenous artist Ziggy Ramo, who last year stated on the program “My father was born before ‘67. So my father wasn’t even classed as a citizen when he was born.”
This is perhaps one of the most persistent myths of the Australian left. The fact is that Aboriginal Australians have been citizens for as long as everyone else: from the instant Australia became a nation on January 1, 1901. And, no, they were never “classified under the Flora and Fauna Act”.
But the lies don’t just flow from the ABC. The revelation that the new Australian history curriculum will focus almost exclusively on Aboriginal history only serves to highlight the outright lies being officially peddled as “history”.
The National Museum of Australia’s so-called digital classroom also disseminates this misinformation. “On 27 May 1967 nearly 91 per cent of Australians voted ‘yes’ to change the constitution and legally recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australian citizens,” its website notes.
“It wasn’t until the 1967 referendum that Indigenous Australians were seen as more than flora and fauna,” noted one contributor last year to the National Library of Australia’s website. “My Mum, Nan, other family members and Indigenous Australians born prior to 1967, were not classified as human by the Australian government until this time.” The library does not provide a correction to this account.
A good idea of just what kind of garbage will be fed to Australian students comes from the Australian Education Union itself.
Last December, the AEU lauded the achievements of Parkdale teacher and Indigenous woman Katrina Amon, who oversees a five-week course for Year 10 students on Indigenous Australians, including subjects such as the Stolen Generation, land rights, deaths in custody, and Closing the Gap.
“In the Year 9 CONNECT program, students learn about the 1967 Referendum, before which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were considered ‘flora and fauna’ by the Australian government,” noted the AEU in an online article. “’The students are very surprised that I was not a citizen of my country for the first four years of my life,’ Katrina says.” Has not a single member of the AEU Victoria’s 50,000 strong branch noticed these errors?
[…]No reasonable person would object to students learning about Indigenous society, including the catastrophic upheaval that followed European settlement. But I fear history is increasingly subordinated to ideology, and that students, instead of being taught to objectively assess Indigenous claims of fact, will be browbeaten into accepting them as an article of faith.
The Australian
As it stands, Chinese students are more likely to get a more objective and honest account of their national history from the Chinese Communist Party than Australian kids will from the lying panjandrums of Australia’s taxpayer-funded media and educational bureaucracy.
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