Capture — world’s first bakers

• Claim filed: “Aboriginal people were the world’s first bakers and they invented bread.”
• Who: Bruce Pascoe, restated by ABC Education
• URL: https://www.abc.net.au/education/digibooks/bruce-pascoe-aboriginal-agriculture-technology-and-ingenuity/101734320
• Date on page: published 2022-12-06 (digibook); Pascoe’s “invented bread” line is older (2018 talks)
• Publisher: ABC Education
• Captured: 2026-08-16
• Method: same ABC Education and Conversation captures as evidence/2014/not-hunter-gatherers/ (abc-education.html, conversation-sutton-2021.html). Not copied twice.

Verbatim (ABC Education)

Bruce Pascoe states that Aboriginal people were the world's first bakers and that they invented bread.

Archaeologists have recently found evidence that Indigenous Australians were producing flour 65,000 years ago. Were they the world's first bakers?

Pascoe, ABC regional promotion (same slogan, his voice): “I come from the country that invented bread. And that’s Australia.”

The other meter

conversation-sutton-2021.html — Sutton & Walshe via Christine Nicholls

implements… not for “tilling” or “ploughing” the soil in preparation for planting seeds.

Sutton and Walshe portray classical Australian Aboriginal people as highly successful hunter-gatherers and fishers.

Grindstones and seed-processing are in the Australian archaeological record. “Invented bread” / “world’s first bakers” is the leap the classroom page repeats.

What this file does not do

It does not file “Cuddie Springs is a hoax.” It files “invented bread” as a government-classroom slogan against the difference between a grindstone and a crop.