Published: January 23, 2020
Australian federal police say ‘no commonwealth offences have been identified’ after the author’s Aboriginality was questioned
The Australian federal police has rejected a request via the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, that the author and historian Bruce Pascoe be investigated for what was claimed to be benefitting financially from claiming to be Indigenous.
The Aboriginal businesswoman Josephine Cashman wrote to Dutton late last year after she had been critical of Pascoe and had called for the government to set up a formal register to assess people’s Aboriginality.
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