A spokesperson for the Australian federal police
announced late last Thursday that it would not be pursuing an
investigation into claims author and historian Bruce Pascoe lied
about his Aboriginal heritage for financial gain, as "no
Commonwealth offence had been identified".
Worimi entrepreneur Josephine Cashman alleged Pascoe was lying
about his Bunurong and Yuin ancestry. She wrote to Peter Dutton
last month requesting that the author be investigated in regard to
dishonesty offences. And the home affairs minister referred this to
the AFP on 24 December.
These complaints link to a campaign aimed at discrediting
Pascoe's heritage, which
has been led by conservative commentators, like Andrew Bolt.
And this seems to have been sparked by the writer's Dark Emu,
which debunks colonial myths, specifically that First Nations were
hunter gatherer societies.
