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	The trouble with Keith Windschuttle - Gerard Henderson
		Windschuttle quotes Henry Reynolds as declaring in 1981 that his work as a historian "is inescapably political".
		The problem with Windschuttle's work is that, at times, you get the impression that he is a former Marxist - turned political conservative - who is waging a personal war on the very left-wing interpretation of Australian history that he once both embraced and proclaimed.
		What is missing from Windschuttle's book is empathy for individuals who were the victims of the WAP, which was often harshly administered by bureaucrats, along with a recognition that the WAP was a bad policy.
	www.kooriweb.org /foley/news/wd8dec04.html (0 words)

	Fabricating Aboriginal History
		KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: There was a government inquiry and the overwhelming evidence from both the white side and from reports from Aborigines themselves, not written by them, but people reporting their words, is that their main aim was to steal flour, sugar, tea and bedding and to them these were luxury goods.
		KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: And what they've done is transferred a concept that was around in the 60s, a sort of radical leftist romantic concept from the '60s, and imposed that on the Tasmanian Aborigines in the 1810s and the 1820s, where it simply doesn't fit at all.
		KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: The biggest single picture of the display is a photograph by Bell's Falls Gorge and there's testimony there, from the Aborigines of the Wiradjuri tribe, that many of their tribespeople were killed there by white settlers, and that their ghosts can still be heard at Bell's Falls Gorge.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/cover_stories/transcript_1286.asp (3871 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Lunch with the FT: The history wars
		Windschuttle’s book - and a subsequent one on the white Australia immigration policy - lambasts the historical establishment, accusing it of bias, deliberate misrepresentation, warped judgment and sloppy research.
		As Henry Reynolds, one of the academics targeted by Windschuttle, has put it: “Disdain drips from the point of his pen.” Reynolds is one of the contributors to the book Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, a collection of essays published in response to Windschuttle.
		Windschuttle clearly relishes a fight and is obsessive in his determination to set the record straight, as he sees it.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/a766281e-145c-11da-9df1-00000e2511c8.html (1536 words)

	ACLU website - Geoff Muirden reviews KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE, "THE FABRICATION OF ABORIGINAL HISTORY: VOLUME 1; VAN ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nevertheless, Windschuttle cites Lyndall Ryan, in her book, The Aborigines of Tasmania (1981) 2nd ed., as saying that Tasmanian aborigines were victims of a conscious policy of genocide.
		Windschuttle has been called an Australian revisionist, and so he is about the aboriginal scene, but he is not a so-called "holocaust denier" because he does not challenge the Holocaust orthodoxy.
		Windschuttle does not cite one writer, Patricia Cobern, writing "Who really killed Tasmania’s Aborigines?" in The Bulletin, Feb. 23, 1982,(pp.32-4) who arrives at conclusions similar to his own, and believed Tasmanian natives were starting to die out at settlement and would have become extinct if the whites had arrived later.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/aclu/windschuttle_review.htm (881 words)

	Back Pages: Windschuttle vs. Reynolds: The championship rounds (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Perhaps it's because Keith is short that Henry looked so tall, and he lost the voice contest outright: thin, tending toward high, reading from his text, and too quickly for my comfort.
		The burden of Windschuttle's land claim rests on several arguments, but apparently it mainly stands on a contention that Tasmanian Aborigines didn’t have a word for 'land' in their languages.
		Amid the prodigious Reynolds output, Dead-Eye Keith has spotted one empirical error and one incorrect footnote, both about to be corrected in new editions of the books they're in without disturbing the accounts to which they relate.
	backpagesblog.com /weblog/archives/000013.html (1328 words)

	Eureka Street - October 2003
		Windschuttle entered this field of inquiry by pouring scorn on Henry Reynolds’; figure of 20,000 Aborigines killed during the entire course of the British settlement of Australia.
		Windschuttle’s 118 deaths is reliant almost entirely on the scholarship of Brian Plomley, who believed it impossible to calculate the number of violent deaths.
		Windschuttle thought at first that Peggy Patrick was referring to the killing of her mother and father, not to her grandmother and grandfather.
	www.eurekastreet.com.au /articles/0310manne.html (3912 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		Windschuttle's book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One, is a full frontal attack against what he calls the "orthodox" or accepted history fed to students by the leading historians of the past three decades.
		Windschuttle told Sunday there was plenty of bloody confrontation, but he calls it a crime spree, not warfare: "...The overwhelming evidence from both the white side and from reports from Aborigines themselves, not written by them, but people reporting their words, is that...
		You may not agree with Keith Windschuttle that there has been a fabrication of Aboriginal history by some Australian historians, but you would have to agree that this battle is proving our history is anything but boring.
	www.eniar.org /news/sunday.html (5719 words)

	Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle's The Fabrication of Aboriginal History An assault on historical truth Part 3
		Windschuttle develops his thesis by taking up an argument advanced by historian Henry Reynolds that the Aborigines should not be seen simply as helpless victims of the invaders.
		Windschuttle argues that a book by Perth journalist Rod Moran on the infamous Forrest River Massacre in 1926 in the Kimberley region of Western Australia prompted his change of view.
		But the reliance of the ruling elites and their media mouthpieces on Windschuttle’s distortions and falsifications is the surest sign of their ideological and political bankruptcy—and that the tides of history are moving against them.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/sep2003/hist-s18.shtml (1692 words)

	Stove's Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism. Critique by Rafe Champion
		Keith noted that Popper made his reputation with his 1934 book (in German) and his criticism of logical positivism.
		Keith considers that Popper's theory of conjectural knowledge is defective because it does not provide "sufficient grounds for gaining from science anything as concrete as 'knowledge' in the usual sense of the world.
		Keith went on: "A logical positivist could argue that the real difference between astrophysics and astrology is that the findings of the former are established by a large body of evidence while the latter remains largely speculative.
	www.the-rathouse.com /AnythingGoes.html (3672 words)

	AsiaMedia :: PM's contempt for ABC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Keith Windschuttle, whose appointment to the ABC board was announced on Thursday, first came to public attention in late 2002, with the publication of his denialist work The Fabrication of Aboriginal History.
		Among the many types of public intellectuals, there is a curious category to which Windschuttle belongs: disillusioned former ultra-leftists who begin to move to the right and, because of a temperamental incapacity for moderation, are incapable of stopping until they reach an equivalent extreme.
		In a recent piece, Windschuttle vilifies the journalism of the leftist Robert Fisk, and heaps highest praise on the journalism of the American right-wing warmonger Victor Davis Hanson.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=47727 (800 words)

	Gallowglass: Bellesisles down under?
		Windschuttle first raised the issue of false footnoting in Lyndall Ryan’s book over 19 months ago, she has had plenty of time to produce sources which support her claims, if they exist.
		Windschuttle doesn’t claim that “the Tasmanians were responsible for their own destruction because they sold off all their women”.
		Windschuttle’s point is that historians shouldn’t be making up figures or atrocity stories; they should be presenting facts supported by solid evidence and then drawing conclusions that are consistent with those facts and the evidence.
	www.henryfarrell.net /movabletype/archives/000153.html (2604 words)

	Welcome to The Sydney Line
		Windschuttle's book -- and his imposing research and intellectual framework and cogency in debate, at least a match for Manne's own -- acted as a red rag to a bull for Manne, who has become the leader of the anti-Windschuttle forces on the Australian academic left.
		Keith Windschuttle is pleased to announce that an action for defamation he launched against The Bulletin magazine over an article written by Catherine Lumby in its February 12 2002 edition has been resolved.
		Windschuttle struck at the heart of the accepted view of Australian colonial history in the past 30 years -- that the settler society had engaged in a pattern of conquest, dispossession and killing of the indigenous inhabitants.
	www.sydneyline.com (0 words)

	Keith Windschuttle on Noam Chomsky
		A major flaw with Windschuttle's piece is that it doesn't provide citations for many of his more interesting claims, limiting its usefulness.
		Windschuttle mentions, for example, a forum held in New York in December, 1967, at which Chomsky spoke.
		As Windschuttle points out later, the upshot is that today per capita income in the Philippines is about twice that of Vietnam, and all without the revolutionary terror that Chomsky argued was justified.
	www.leftwatch.com /articles/2003/000046.html (0 words)

	Quadrant editorial.'History, Lies and Imagination'. March. 2003. Padraic McGuinness
		But Windschuttle's thesis is not that nothing bad happened, but that so much historians have claimed to have happened, by way of massacres and murders of Aborigines, simply did not happen.
		It is possible to address peripheral issues in Windschuttle's writings for example, whether it is a sufficient defense to charges of white murder to point to the religious underpinnings of colonial administrators.
		While concern and sympathy for the people whom they have studied for years is desirable and praiseworthy in anthropologists it should not permit them, qua independent scientists purporting to intellectual honesty, to indulge in falsification or exaggeration to support the claims put forward by the political leaders of their "clients".
	www.the-rathouse.com /quadedit52.html (2160 words)

	White Australia now has a history shaded grey - National - www.smh.com.au
		Windschuttle's thesis is that until the 1950s Australian historians held a much more benign view of the purposes and origins of the policy than they do today.
		Windschuttle concedes there were some politicians and intellectuals, among them Henry Lawson and a clique at the Bulletin, who took an anti-immigration stance based overtly on a belief in the biological inferiority of some races.
		Windschuttle's book accuses her of being part of a group of authors who deemed the word "Australian" to be racist.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/White-Australia-now-has-a-history-shaded-grey/2004/12/03/1101923341702.html (853 words)

	John Quiggin slimes Windschuttle
		Quiggin had the audacity to call Windschuttle a racist because of a book he is about to publish (or has published) on the White Australia policy.
		Now Quiggin accused Windschuttle of being "a consistent apologist for racism, [and one who is] happy to use racist arguments in support of his cause." This statement is about as defamatory and as vindictive as one can get.
		When it came to dealing with his vilification of Windschuttle it was Joe Cambria, an outsider, who had the guts to take him by the horns on the matter and expose him as a lying political bigot.
	www.brookesnews.com /041312quiggin.html (777 words)

	War of historians : Melbourne Indymedia
		KEITH Windschuttle's problem is that it's now more moral to seem good than be right.
		What makes Windschuttle's rebuttal so explosive is that he's checked their claims against their sources, and found that historians as admired as Professor Henry Why Weren't We Told Reynolds had misquoted some of them, and in a way that exaggerated the tragedy, or made it seem deliberate.
		But Windschuttle says Ryan's only source for this does not say anyone actually gave Aborigines the flour, but only that one boss worried his stockmen might.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2003/06/48757.php (893 words)

	Rank and Vile » Blog Archive » Keith Windschuttle fails again (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fact that Keith Windschuttle bends the facts to support his political views and his enthusiastic participation in the ‘culture wars’ is a well known fact.
		What we actually find in Keith Windschuttle’s article, “Tutorials in Terrorism,” (The Australian, March 16 2005) is a thin polemical canvas thrown over a series of gross simplifications, factual omissions and pre-emptive judgements in relation to the life and work of Italian philosopher Antonio Negri.
		Windschuttle’s version of the sordid trials that followed Negri’s arrest on April 7 1979 is a very loose account, and at times proceeds by exaggeration and generalisation rather than by outlining the facts and context of the case.
	rankandvile.dailyflute.com /?p=173 (1851 words)

	Keith Windschuttle speaks
		Last night Keith Windschuttle addressed a Quadrant dinner and presented the Sir John Latham Memorial Lecture entitled: "The struggle for Western values in an age of deceit" His presentation was wide ranging, insightful and very well argued.
		Windschuttle came across as someone who is very well read and has the capacity to link his reading into a coherent, unified whole.
		Unfortunately Keith didn't really outline how to defend Western values but rather told us about how these values were being undermined to various left wing intellectuals.
	www.aussiecon.net /keith-windschuttle-speaks (902 words)

	AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
		Having scored a bulls-eye with his practice round, Windschuttle proceeds to wound himself in the footnote by accusing Evans of “exaggerating” when he wrote that two white women were “violently assaulted”.
		That path is closed to Windschuttle because it would lead him back into the company of not just academic historians, but the Marxist kind whom he now affects to despise most.
		Despite having outlined the efforts by the Chinese to join their European fellow cabinet-makers, Windschuttle proceeds to tell us that it was “natural” for the latter to refuse the hand of comradeship because “the Chinese isolated themselves in a separate economic sector”.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~loge27/aus_hist/aus_hist_windshuttle.htm (2119 words)

	Windschuttle, history warriors and real historians - On Line Opinion - 11/4/2005
		Windschuttle, Bonnell argued, had misled the public once again about important matters of current political and historical interest, in particular, regarding my new, edited book, Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History.
		Windschuttle’s ploy is obvious: he is attempting to discredit my book by asserting that it is informed by Churchill’s views about genocide in Tasmania.
		For instance, Windschuttle omitted to mention an article (“An Antipodean Genocide?”, Journal of Genocide Research) I wrote in 2000 that argues against the genocide concept for Tasmania from his book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History although I had sent it to him and we had corresponded about it by email.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=3320 (0 words)

	Amazon.com: The KILLING OF HISTORY: Books: Keith Windschuttle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Australian scholar Keith Windschuttle is one of the fieriest participants in the debate about the practice of history.
		Windschuttle's passion sometimes carries him a bit too far, but he lands many solid punches, such as when he takes on the heavily published French scholar Michel de Certeau, who has called writing a tool of the power elite.
		Windschuttle's book very useful in understanding how the minds of "intellectual" snobs work, from where they get their bizarre thoughts and why it's important to fight for the maintenance of History as a serious academic discipline.
	www.amazon.com /KILLING-HISTORY-Keith-Windschuttle/dp/0684844451 (2260 words)

	Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History - www.smh.com.au
		Windschuttle's only evidence for this claim is that the Aborigines "didn't have a word for property".
		Nowhere has Windschuttle more notably disregarded these concepts than in accusing Patrick of fabricating her story of the Mistake Creek massacre.
		Windschuttle said it was not possible that Patrick's mother was killed in 1915.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/24/1066631621572.html (602 words)

	Keith Windschuttle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between 1977 and 1981, Windschuttle was lecturer in Australian history and in journalism at the New South Wales Institute of Technology, now University of Technology, Sydney before returning to UNSW in 1983 as lecturer/senior lecturer in social policy.
		Windschuttle argues that the task of the historian is to attempt to provide the reader with an 'empirical' history, as near to the 'objective truth' as possible, based on analysis of all the available evidence.
		Windschuttle's claims and research have been the subject of a series of rebuttals and counter-rebuttals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keith_Windschuttle (896 words)

	BOOKS: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, by Keith Windschuttle - 25 January 2003
		Windschuttle finds that Reynolds and Ryan have vastly overstated their case, and misunderstood the causes of violence.
		Windschuttle assesses all the claims for their reliability, classifying them as "plausible" or "implausible", sometimes "highly implausible".
		Windschuttle goes on to ask "Were the Aborigines fighting a guerilla war, or were their attacks merely aimed at plunder?" and "How many of the opinion-makers among the colonial population believed that extirpation was the best policy?"
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2003jan25_b1.html (0 words)

	Marxism message, Re: Dear Keith Windschuttle
		By Bob Gould Windschuttle's Chomsky article is of a piece with his general rewinding of his own psyche.
		Windschuttle now suggests that he was a naive young Stalinist at the time, but in fact he was a good deal better than that.
		Windschuttle's criticism of postmodernism was more than half correct (again see my Open Letter) but in retrospect that was an intermediate stage in a shift to the far right.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/2003w36/msg00003.htm (823 words)

	Windschuttle1
		Windschuttle is in danger because his mental pattern of work is pure Revisionism that we also apply to the analysis of the ‘Holocaust’.
		And so Keith Windschuttle is a Revisionist who does not touch the ‘Holocaust’, and according to Dirk Moses in Whitewash, Windschuttle remains safe because he has stated that he does not doubt the veracity of the ‘Holocaust’.
		The current court historians’ treatment of Keith Windschuttle is nothing new for Revisionist historians who have dared critically to look at the many ‘Holocaust’ fabrications that abound in any anthology dealing with this topic.
	www.adelaideinstitute.org /Dissenters/windschuttle1.htm (7339 words)

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