Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, barman, fencing contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker and editor. He has written over thirty books, including Dark Emu (Magabala books), which won Book of the Year and the Indigenous Writer’s Prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2016. Recently, Bruce co-authored Loving Country – A Guide to Sacred Australia, with Vicky Shukuroglou.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.