But basically the elders stuck by me firm, and some of them came down here, some of them stopped me in the street, to tell me to keep doing what I was doing.” Not every Aboriginal person, obviously, because people tell me that social media was rife with other opinions. But I was totally supported by Aboriginal community. I’m not trying to say I’m this resilient character because I’m not. “It was hard for me, that period,” he says.
And wages then go back into Eden and they’re spent on the children, at shops where the shopkeepers are battling their guts out to stay alive, so I feel a lot of good has come out.”īut Pascoe says it was “the worst, worst time of my life”. “Sales boomed around that time so I was making money, and all of that money is going into wages. The road out of the farm near Mallacoota in East Gippsland. stopped me in the street to tell me to keep doing what I was doing Bruce Pascoe The elders stuck by me firm, and some of them. Cashman was removed from the senior advisory body to the minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt. Then the provenance of a letter Bolt and Cashman relied on to denounce Pascoe was called into question by NITV. The AFP said Pascoe’s Aboriginality “was not relevant in determining whether a commonwealth offence had been committed, as such there was no need to undertake these inquiries”. Cashman asked the Australian federal police to investigate allegations that Pascoe had received financial benefit from claiming to be Aboriginal. The personal attacks, largely driven by the Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt and a prominent Aboriginal businesswoman, Josephine Cashman, escalated. Terry looks into the harvest hopper, and burning chaff from seed.
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