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The Idea of Australia review – an ambitious but overstuffed series that will make you shout ‘slow down!’

Marcia Langton, Bruce Pascoe, Grace Tame and Kerry O’Brien are among more than 60 names wrestling with the national identity in this frenetic SBS series, presented by Rachel Griffiths

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Kylie Kwong, Bruce Pascoe and Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo head the first Australian Native Food festival

Kylie Kwong, Bruce Pascoe and Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo head the first Australian Native Food festival

Visitors at the Sydney event can shop native ingredients and watch cooking demonstrations

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‘Learning language is part of rebuilding our nation’: singing the world alive, one First Nations word at a time

‘Learning language is part of rebuilding our nation’: singing the world alive, one First Nations word at a time

A precious message for all Australians has been created by First Nations people with publication of Words to Sing the World Alive.

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NSW will remove 65,000 years of Aboriginal history from its syllabus. It’s a step backwards for education

The NSW Education Standards Authority has announced that teaching of the Aboriginal past prior to European arrival will be excluded from the Year 7–10 syllabus as of 2027.

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Imperial Harvest by Bruce Pascoe review – an epic tale of humanity, horror and hope

Set in 13th century Mongolia, this novel articulates a quiet, pragmatic optimism about the ways we can heal each other amid war and trauma

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‘Ideal for a night in, hiding from the cold’: the best Australian books out in June

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Three things with Bruce Pascoe: ‘My teeth were all over the place, like a dropped Mahjong set’

In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Dark Emu author talks about his childhood tooth brace – and what he grabbed from his property as a bushfire bore down

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‘Candid’, ‘remarkable’, ‘beguiling’: the best Australian books out in April

‘Candid’, ‘remarkable’, ‘beguiling’: the best Australian books out in April

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple

Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple

For almost ten years, debate has raged over the book Dark Emu by Aboriginal historian Bruce Pascoe. In it, Pascoe argues many pre-colonial Aboriginal groups were farmers, pointing to examples like eel aquaculture in Victoria, and grain planting and threshing of native millet in the arid centre.

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The Dark Emu Story: the legacy – and controversy – of Bruce Pascoe’s groundbreaking book

The Dark Emu Story: the legacy – and controversy – of Bruce Pascoe’s groundbreaking book

A new documentary airing on ABC explores the toll Dark Emu took on its author as it sought to challenge the way Australia once understood Indigenous people

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At What Cost? Nathan Maynard explores the fraught issue of who can call themselves Aboriginal, in the safe space of the theatre

At What Cost? Nathan Maynard explores the fraught issue of who can call themselves Aboriginal, in the safe space of the theatre

Tasmanian playwright Nathan Maynard is using the safe space of the theatre to examine the fraught issue of who can call themselves Aboriginal, in his play At What Cost?

Putting country first: private land-sharing agreement in Yambulla reckons with colonisation

Putting country first: private land-sharing agreement in Yambulla reckons with colonisation

Jim Osborne has offered his land for co-management by traditional owners in an experiment to restore and harvest native grasses

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Dark Emu has sold over 250,000 copies – but its value can't be measured in money alone

Dark Emu has sold over 250,000 copies – but its value can't be measured in money alone

Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, first published in 2014, represents that rare bird in small press and independent publishing in Australia: a long-term sales success.

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Quarries, trade and Dark Emu: unearthing treasures from ‘Australia’s Silk Road’

Quarries, trade and Dark Emu: unearthing treasures from ‘Australia’s Silk Road’

Researchers continue the search for evidence of traditional Aboriginal food production

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