I had no idea about that and suddenly I was turning up these facts in the history books that I was reading and I thought, ""How come I never learnt about this at school? ""How come I never learnt about it at university? ""How come they would allow me to be a history teacher without me knowing this?"" So I thought, ""Well, instead of whingeing about it, I better do something about it,"" so I wrote a book called Dark Emu, which talks about the Aboriginal agriculture that our people had before the British arrived. And while I was doing that, I started learning about the fact that Aboriginal people had agriculture. So I wrote a book called Convincing Ground, which was about the war in Australia, the war they said never happened, the war for the land between the British and Aboriginal Australia. But when I was investigating our family history, I realised that there were no books written about….the dispossession of Aboriginal people that really talked about families….and I was wanting to find out about my family, so I decided I'd have to write one. I've always been a writer, mainly stories, novels, poetry….anything, really. One of my uncles was very good in talking to me about it. My family didn't know a lot about the Aboriginal heritage in the family, or didn't say much about it, anyway, but gradually after I was about nine I became more and more familiar with the story. Bruce Pascoe: My name's Bruce Pascoe and I'm a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man, and I'm a writer.
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