Bruce Pascoe’s 2014 best-selling book Dark Emu ignited a raging debate and challenged Australians to rethink our history. The Dark Emu Story explores the cultural impact of the book which claimed that First Nations people were not only hunters and gatherers but also farmers who were part of a complex economic system. The book, inspired by the journals of famous British explorers, makes the argument that First nations people settled in villages, lived in houses, devised extraordinary methods of aquaculture and astronomy and were, amongst many other achievements, the world’s first bakers.