He was and probably still is a professor at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research. Not for nothing is he known admiringly as Uncle Teflon!
People hurl all sorts of nasty accusations at Uncle Bruce but nothing sticks and the great man remains squeaky clean. Even the Australian Federal Police were no real match for him and skittered off at a tangent when they saw him coming. I ask you, dear readers, could you bring even one of these famous gentlemen to his knees? Josephine Cashman, a well-known Aboriginal lawyer, lost her job after having a disagreement with Professor Pascoe. Here we have a man who has bravely taken on the big names in journalism and politics, such as Andrew Bolt and Mark Latham, and come out on the winning side. René Descartes, the seventeenth-century philosopher, foretold the coming of Brilliant Bruce when he stated, “I think therefore I am.” If Brilliant Bruce thinks something, it becomes the truth. But it is this: Bruce Pascoe is amazing! Now is the moment for you guys to take a knee, wave some of Ernie Dingo’s sacred smoke around and acknowledge that Bruce is more than amazing. The time has come for us to admit an uncomfortable truth. I have been thinking that Quadrant readers, writers and many others have been treating that great Australian and Aboriginal superhero, uncle and elder, Professor Bruce Pascoe, with a certain amount of irreverence and undeserved disrespect.
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