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Great book, great launch

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Feb 26 2010

5 mins

At a history making Quadrant Dinner on February 24 Andrew Bolt launched The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume 3, The Stolen Generations by Keith Windschuttle.

Listen to Andrew Bolt and Keith Windschuttle’s speeches here…

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Blogger Andrew Bolt:

I’m flying back from Sydney, where I last night launched Keith Windschuttle’s superb The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume 3, The Stolen Generations, which really should end the careers of three academics who have done most to propagandise the “stolen generations” myth.

As I said last night, the sin isn’t just the falsification of our history, or the trashing of pride in our past – so necessary to build a sense of community. It’s the price Aboriginal children have had to pay in their own blood for a myth which counts it a sin to save Aboiginal children from sometimes lethal black communities.

I fear I may have got a bit a heated. Still;, among those kind enough not to say so were…

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