Bruce Pascoe (author of “Dark Emu”)(2014) : “If we look at the evidence presented to us by the explorers and explain to our children that Aboriginal people did build houses, did build dams, did sow, irrigate and till the land, did alter the course of rivers, did sew their clothes, and did construct a system of pan-continental government that generated peace and prosperity, then it is likely we will admire and love our land all the more” ( Bruce Pascoe on the back cover of Bruce Pascoe, “Dark Emu”, Magabala Books, 2014).