Repository file
Capture — professor of Indigenous Agriculture
evidence/2020/indigenous-agriculture-professor/source.md
From Can’t Explain Raw capture
Capture — professor of Indigenous Agriculture
- Claim filed: “Bruce Pascoe has joined the University of Melbourne as Melbourne Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture.”
- Who: University of Melbourne
- URL: https://science.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/bruce-pascoe-appointed-enterprise-professor-in-indigenous-agriculture
- Date on page: 2020-09-02
- Publisher: University of Melbourne
- Captured: 2026-08-16
- Method: official news URL (JS-thin on capture); staff profile (
unimelb-profile.html); contemporaneous report (country-news-2020-09-04.html)
Verbatim
University announcement (headline, 2 September 2020):
Bruce Pascoe appointed Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture
Bruce Pascoe has joined the University of Melbourne as Melbourne Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
Role, as reported and later cited: designed to build knowledge and understanding of Indigenous agriculture.
unimelb-profile.html — still live 2026-08-16
Prof Bruce Pascoe Honorary (Enterprise Professor) School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences
country-news-2020-09-04.html
Mr Pascoe has been appointed as Melbourne enterprise professor of indigenous agriculture in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Mr Pascoe is best known for his 2014 non-fiction work Dark Emu, documenting and arguing for the restoration of forgotten food production and land management techniques used by indigenous communities over thousands of years.
The other meter
Sutton & Walshe, Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, Melbourne University Press, June 2021 — same university group, nine months later. Conversation review in the Dark Emu evidence folders.
What this file does not do
It does not file “universities must not hire writers.” It files a public-university chair in “Indigenous Agriculture” named from Dark Emu against the same press’s subsequent finding that the agriculture thesis does not hold.