Aboriginal Agriculture for a Sustainable Australia

[@pineapple4722]

It’s anyone else here because of school

[@phoenixkuzey7277]

Yep 😂

[@trismickey2605]

me 2

[@milkyhigh2370]

We have to do an essay on how the aboriginals were sustainable

[@trismickey2605]

@@milkyhigh2370 rip

[@wadej347]

No but you need to go to school and learn to spell

[@firenzarfrenzy4985]

I am quite saddened by some comments. After extensive reviewing (not just a 5 minute google search), I can conclude that while Pascoe does have some dents in his book, but the main message remains constant. Most of the literary criticisms have been made by unreliable sources or (with a bit of backtracking) people of whom have conservative ideologies which reveal a clear agenda to disprove. Aboriginals were indeed to a good extent more than hunter-gathers, just not seen that way relative to the Eurpoean definition of a "farming society"

[@dormant3456]

Alr link?

[@damianjones8300]

he's clearly got his own agenda and he cant be trusted, talking up John howard ha ha

[@interestedobserver587]

Pascoe makes up shite

[@michaelharvest931]

What? So by definition they didn’t farm and you feel it’s wrong

[@leftin74]

This guy is English through and through. He has no aborigine dna at all .

[@SteveBarritt]

I can’t see a single aboriginal in this clip.

[@Michelle.A79]

The first old man is aboriginal you can tell because of he’s nose.

[@simonsays6481]

It’s a shame aboriginal culture didn’t record any of there “amazing” achievements in their history books. Now all we get is these white skinned “aboriginals” talking about what supposedly went on as if they were there

[@firenzarfrenzy4985]

If you knew an ounce of their culture then you'd know that Aboriginals convey most of their messages through oral tradition. Very few things were documented and even those were in the forms of paintings. They saw no need to document the way other societies did As for the skin colour thing. If you payed attention in high-school, it's just genetics. If a white person and aboriginal person have a child, there is a chance that child will indeed be white or a light brown.

[@damianjones8300]

Aunty Fran is the real deal, check her out

[@warrendargusch5873]

More Dark Emu bs ...exposed as bs! Just vote NO!

[@howabout8611]

If you believe this tripe I have a bridge you can buy. Its been established Bruce Pascoe has not a scrap of aboriginal heritage. Just a vivid imagination!

I actually think he knows what hes talking about...

[@howabout8611]

@ Well lets talk about a reasonable price for this bridge?

[@tullington9430]

sooo many yt tears in the comments

[@galoglaich3281]

terrible bs

[@chloeew4627]

How can this educated liar get so much recognition, he has made a lifestyle out of conning foolish University educated dills, unreal, the truth is never enough.

[@firenzarfrenzy4985]

What do you mean? Could you elaborate on how he is a liar?

[@chloeew4627]

For a start it’s a HE, and if I have to explain any more it’s a lost cause, dream on and kind regards….

[@firenzarfrenzy4985]

@@chloeew4627 Sorry the "she" was a typo. And without backup no one has any reason to believe what you say

[@chloeew4627]

@@firenzarfrenzy4985 Very true, my opinion is mine alone ,I do however have recorded proof of my ancestry ,Uncle Bruce has the same recorded proof of his as well. Let’s leave the rest of his dreaming out of it and look at the factual history of his Aboriginal linage,that is the first lie.I will let it lay there ,wish you all the best,and thank our lucky stars we are Australian…

[@damianjones8300]

@@chloeew4627 he's no expert, indigenous people still hold knowledge, but they guard it, Aunty Fran is amazing..

[@RollingEasy]

KINDLY go read the words of the country's greatest anthropologist, Daisy Bates who gave much of her life to the study of Aboriginal people and who actually lived much of her life with them all about the country in the early 1900's... Read her writings. (What you can find of them as sadly much has been cancelled). Secondly and the very same applies to the author Patrick White who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. He too has spoken of so many years of his experiences in the heart of the country and written much on what he saw and learned. But again much has been cancelled and I can only assume its because it does not fit 'today's narrative'... The easiest way to get people on board, is to tell them nice things and then to point the finger at other things and say that they are not nice.

[@benlangler7179]

Great job 👍👏👏

[@cooperblewitt8745]

BEN LANGLER it’s lit

[@giselle4367]

@@cooperblewitt8745 screw you dumby

[@roslynross2649]

What Aboriginal agriculture? Aboriginal peoples collected seeds from Kangaroo Grass in times before the British arrived. Such grass is common in many parts of the world. In both India and Africa it is called 'famine grass' something you eat when there is no other choice. Why would that be? For one thing, it is low in nutrition compared to other seeds/grains and also, the seed yield is low. Australia offered fewer alternatives before the British arrived with their grains. Some Aboriginal tribes collected yams and some planted yam fields. All primitive peoples collected yams and planted yam fields where they existed. This knowledge has existed in many parts of the world throughout human existence. How is any of that agriculture? All stone-age peoples, Europeans, Asians, Africans, Polynesians collected seeds, grains and ground them between stones, mixed it with water and tossed it on the fire. Agriculture is when humans plant and farm and harvest crops. Something else to remember, Kangaroo Grass requires fire to survive and thrive. And as we strive to prevent bushfires it means that such a low-nutrition plant has little future.

[@wally1166]

Aboriginals invented bush management by backburning during cooler conditions they most likely mention it but maybe not at a council/Government meeting where people don't listen

[@roslynross2649]

@@wally1166 Mate, all stone-age peoples burned. The Europeans, Asians, Africans did it. Nothing exceptional about burning the bush, forest or wood. Homo Sapiens are estimated to have been in Asia 120,000 years ago and in Europe and Australasia about 40,000 years ago. They all did the same things. Instinct, need, stupidity, survival.... nothing which even equated to what we call management.

[@wally1166]

Todays bushfires tells the world Australia hasn't got a clue about bush management maybe if you listen you would learn from indigenous people if you keep the colour out of it

[@roslynross2649]

@@wally1166 Oh please, let us inhabit reality. Aboriginal stone-age peoples in times past set fire to the bush to kill and scare out game. The fire burned until it ran out of fuel or it rained. All stone-age peoples did the same thing. I am sure they lit such fires some distance from their huts. However, such primitive practices are hardly relevant in a modern, highly urbanised society. As to bush management, the Europeans quickly worked out what needed to be done and the fact that fuel reduction practices have not happened in recent times is because of pressure from fanatical environmentalists. What indigenous people? Which tribe? The 100% ones or the less than 1% ones descended from mostly middle class urban Anglo-Europeans? Yeah sure, bet they know heaps.

[@wally1166]

Roslyn Ross Sorry your history search on google isn’t good enough as fact you lack the ability to learn which I’m sure your heard this before and most likely dropped out of the education system before getting facts about the indigenous people lol

[@saneman8147]

Couln't even invent the wheel!

[@frenchys_prospecting]

No one invented "the wheel" It was found all over the world, including the first nation Australians. They also invented "farming" but alas, the history books fail to mention that.

[@wally1166]

indigenous people have been the keepers of Australia for thousands of years show me in any book where it states white people lived in Australia for thousands of years?

[@frenchys_prospecting]

@@88njtrigg88 plenty of small scale farming from aboriginals in Tasmania. Even the first European explorers talked about the miles upon miles of purposely planted grain grasses

[@sneakymonkey6318]

@@88njtrigg88 imagine if there was a time before published literature...

[@tullington9430]

white people literally died from not knowing how to bathe properly...