Bruce is a leading voice in the discussion about Australian Aboriginal land use and agricultural practice. His book, Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture, reconstructs the evidence of indigenous agriculture and challenges the colonial narrative of a hunter-gatherer society.

Today he lives on his farm on the shores of the Wallagaraugh River in East Gippsland where he and his team run Black Duck Foods, an Aboriginal social enterprise committed to traditional food growing practices. Bruce’s knowledge of landscape and cultural history mean he has long experience with fires and the fire ecology of eucalypts and in this episode he explores the relationship of vegetation and community.

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