I would say that the news.com.au article is quite sensationalised, as news articles often are, and that it makes quite a big deal about how revolutionary Pascoe's work is...but it isn't really. Generally speaking, academic reviews of Dark Emu are complimentary, but the book is aimed at more of a pop audience, and so academic reviews mostly focused on its ability to be educational. Pascoe is more of an established writer than an established academic historian, but Dark Emu fits fairly firmly within a fairly established body of work which does involve academic historians such as the 2012 Bill Gammage book The Biggest Estate: How Aborigines Made Australia - which itself is based on decades of work by historians and geographers, as Gammage credits in a Conversation piece here. There's also this year's Aboriginal Bioculture Knowledge In South-Eastern Australia by Cahir, Clark & Clarke, which is more academic in focus.

References to the work in academic papers, looking through Google Scholar, take the book as factual or query issues with definitions; Cahir, Clark and Clarke query the idea in Pascoe (and Gammage) that Aboriginal people were 'farmers', largely because they think that what Aboriginal people did in terms of landscape management was no less advanced than European farming, but was conceived rather differently to suit a rather different landscape; they argue that Pascoe calls it farming because he is coming up against European prejudice/ignorance about hunter-gatherers and their skills and landscape management.

I came here to ask the same question. I read and enjoyed the book. It's comprehensive in it's use of secondary sources - ie the diaries of European pioneers and explorers. The arguments seem convincing on the page but I've read reviews which say it's very selectively quoting from them.

I've tried to follow up some of the more astounding claims eg that bread making in Australia is far older than in the middle east. There is indeed very early evidence of grinding stones found in central NSW: https://australianmuseum.net.au/indigenous-grinding-stone-from-new-south-wales

It seems like despite this apparently amazing discovery there's very little academic analysis to say with certainty what these grindstones were used for.