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Postmodernism in Aboriginal History – Part 1

  • Keith Windschuttle
  • 1st April 2006
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In this article, I want to show how the two postmodernist tactics of language games and character assassination have been deployed in this debate.

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Postmodernism in Aboriginal History – Part 2

  • Keith Windschuttle
  • 1st April 2006
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Bain Attwood has spent a lot of time, and a good deal of university money, in an obsessive pursuit of my past. For this project, he had two research assistants and funding from the School of Historical Studies at Monash University.

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The Invention of Terra Nullius

  • Michael Connor
  • 8th December 2005
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It took less than thirty minutes in the Law Library at the University of Tasmania to suggest that the definitions of terra nullius given by historian Henry Reynolds, which I had been trying to understand, did not make sense and were not supported by the references he gave.

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Against the bullies

  • John Dawson
  • 6th December 2004
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It did occur to me from time to time that attacking a score of the most renowned academics of the country may not be the smartest thing I have ever done. But whenever that thought struck me, I would re-read a Whitewash essay, and the pounding of another thought would start up again – if academics of such renown can get away with what they do in that book, then honest intellectual enquiry is finished in academia.

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Nativity Sydney

  • Michael Connor
  • 3rd March 2003
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This is us. In 1803, when George Howe began publishing the Sydney Gazette, most of our families had not arrived in the new homeland. But from the very beginning of our first newspaper its editor captured something familiar and typically Australian.

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The extinction of the Australian pygmies

  • Keith Windschuttle and Tim Gillin
  • 1st June 2002
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From the 1940s until the 1960s, it was fairly widely known there were pygmies in Australia. They lived in North Queensland and had come in from the wild of the tropical rainforests to live on missions in the region.

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Myths of frontier massacres

  • Keith Windschuttle
  • 1st October 2000
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In October, November and December 2000 Quadrant published the three parts of a long essay by Keith Windschuttle which heralded a new beginning to the writing of Australian history, prepared the way for the first volume in his Fabrication of Aboriginal History series of books, and set in motion what became known as the History Wars.

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