Buy Now iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac Free Delivery Worldwide Delivery in Australia & NZ Kindle, Paperback, The legal fiction of Terra nullius, that the Australia was an empty land before the arrival of Europeans, has always been one of the country's greatest scandals. In fact the revered, sacred lands had been carefully tended for many thousands of years by a peoples far more sophisticated than European histories and contemporary difficulties have ever revealed. Dark Emus , by Bruce Pascoe, presents a thesis that challenges Australian history. It has won the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for Book of the Year. Using early explorers' journals and other evidence, Pascoe argued pre-colonial Aboriginal people were not nomadic hunter-gatherers, but had a democracy that ensured peace across a continent which was extensively farmed, skilfully managed and deeply loved. In accepting the award Pascoe said: " Dark Emu t...