Unless comprehensive rebuttal—not just cheap shots—follows, Windschuttle has demolished the Stolen Generations story—to such an extent that reputations would be at risk if it was about a less politically correct subject.
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Robert Manne was unwilling or unable to engage in a genuine debate. Yet he knew that major sections of my book disprove the claim that Aboriginal children removed were as young as possible or that they were removed from their families permanently.
To sell its story to the public, the Human Rights Commission mounted one of the most successful public relations campaigns in recent Australian history.
Without The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: The Stolen Generations – Australian history would be so incomplete as to be a lie. In fact, without addressing the Keith Windschuttle hypothesis, we end up with a history of another country.
The real Australia would never have stooped so low as to try to eliminate the Aboriginal race by stealing its children. The fact that the film has been a popular success is telling. It shows that despite the best efforts of academics and schoolteachers to persuade us otherwise, Australia is not and never has been a country whose people would condone such practices.
Keith Windschuttle continues the battle to save the soul of the nation’s history in what can only be described as a tour de force in both academic research and masterful writing.
It is difficult to imagine a more horrendous accusation that could be made against a country than that its history is rooted in genocide and that every generation – past, present, and future – are forever and irredeemably complicit in this primal atrocity.
Audio of Andrew Bolt launching Keith Windschuttle’s The Stolen Generations: “How could a university keep employing a Robert Manne, or a Peter Read or a Sally Morgan? I think this is a scandal, an utter scandal.”
I taught for a year up near Port Augusta and mixed with an Aboriginal family in the town, so I was reported by my head for “consorting with natives and other undesirables”. When Maria and I got married in 1966, we enjoyed the frisson of being just three or four years outside of illegality.
Indigenous Australians, far from languishing in brute savagery under white domination, appear in the archives—and consequently in this book—as lively, irrepressible, audacious, ambitious, clever, eager, talented.
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