How Bruce Pascoe rebounded from a summer of trauma

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Last summer the celebrated author Bruce Pascoe found himself in the middle of two life-changing events – the East Gippsland bushfires and a very public controversy surrounding his bestselling book Dark Emu and his Indigenous identity. In this episode, Guardian Australia’s Indigenous affairs editor, Lorena Allam, speaks to Pascoe about how he has rebounded, pouring his efforts into a historic agricultural project in Mallacoota

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You can read Lorena Allam and Isabella Moore’s photo essay on Bruce Pascoe here.

Bruce Pascoe looks into the harvest hopper at the burning chaff from seed
Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian
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