Talk:Pat Eatock

Heritage

Are there any secondary sources about questionable aboriginal heritage, other than the oped from an interested party who was in court against this person? LizardJr8 (talk) 01:22, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes. Research shows that she was descended not from any aborigine but from a mixed race immigrant from the West Indies.

https://www.dark-emu-exposed.org/home/lucy-harriet-eatock-and-her-husband-william-eatock-were-they-aboriginal 92.31.72.31 (talk) 14:46, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

That seems to be anonymous blog postings, not a great WP:RS. LizardJr8 (talk) 18:37, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

It is an anonymous blog, but provides genealogical sources for its claims. 101.119.74.215 (talk) 09:46, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

The genealogical researchers have gone public having appeared on SkyNews the Bolt Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BIjpQYaVos&t=704s

SkyNews would be unlikely to run the story if their lawyers had not checked it factually regarding defamation 118.67.22.88 (talk) 02:15, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

New Evidence

In 2026, a re-appraisal of the Eatock v Bolt court case was published as the book Witness for the Prosecution.

New genealogical and archival evidence has been uncovered by the author to show that the lead applicant in the court case, Pat Eatock, was mistaken to believe that she was a woman of Aboriginal descent, as she had claimed in court. Her ancestry was shown to be predominately Scottish as Bolt had claimed, but her ancestry also contained a small amount of West African via an ancestor who had been a slave in the West Indies. Witness for the Prosecution also documents DNA analyses, supplied independently by other Eatock family members, that confirms the family’s ‘darker' skin-colour had originated in West Africa and was not derived from any Aboriginal ancestry. Based on these new revelations, Andrew Bolt now claims he was “stitched-up” in the legal proceedings of Eatock v Bolt., Rareunusualbooks (talk) 12:13, 8 February 2026 (UTC)