History Wars
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It was the imperial custom to honour service in colonial wars with medals or bars, even to the most minor campaigns involving but a few score soldiers or sailors. Are Brendan Nelson and his fellow wind vanes on the AWM Council not even a little curious that no such decorations mark what Professor Reynolds insists was a bona fide 'colonial war' on Aborigines?November 3, 2022
8 mins
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If the decline in academic standards is to be rectified, it will only happen when the broader public is made aware of our real history, rather than myths that grow, layer upon layer, by those who add their own own jaundiced scholarship to the errors and misrepresentations of their predecessors. Books such as 'Truth Telling at Risdon Cove' are key to this processJuly 27, 2022
6 mins
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The obits for Melbourne University's Stuart Macintyre, dead at 74, will be replete with paeans for his role in shaping the history curriculum taught in Australian schools. Less noted, and certainly not critically, will be his Marxist adherence to the class struggle, his slight academic achievements and, as Keith Windschuttle noted in 2008, his shameful and unseemly defenestration of Geoffrey Blainey. One normally shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but in this instance it is unavoidableNovember 24, 2021
23 mins
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'Changing the day' is more than a slogan to be chanted while blocking traffic. As an annual exercise in the promotion of identity politics, the movement to disparage Australia's origins is a crucible in which victimhood, myth and needless guilt are kept on the boil to produce the acid of perpetual and implacable resentmentJanuary 26, 2020
12 mins
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In 1877, an extraordinarily imaginative artist at the 'Australian Illustrated News' depicted Aborigines by a towering circle of standing stones evocative of Stonehenge. Bruce Pascoe makes much of the image in 'Dark Emu' but his silliness is as nothing beside the web of sophistry and victimhood woven by a pair of Monash academicsNovember 24, 2019
19 mins
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On the 20th anniversary of the Mabo decision they are still pretending that terra nullius was part of our colonial history – it wasn’t.
June 3, 2012
2 mins
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Rather than leading to reconciliation, the Risdon Cove site disseminates propaganda about the alleged massacre and hints at similar atrocities across the state. Visiting groups of school children are encouraged to read a plaque which inflates the numbers killed and ignores any evidence to the contrary.
May 29, 2011
3 mins
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The 2011 Australian/ Vogel fiction award has gone to a novel about our past built of blood and genocide. It’s timely to look again at this chapter from Keith Windschuttles’s book to see how the bloodshed the author dipped into was invented.
April 29, 2011
22 mins
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After this book, no one can now plausibly argue that Risdon Cove is a massacre site. John Owen’s book establishes beyond reasonable doubt that, as far as Risdon Cove is concerned, the case for atrocity does not stand up.
February 6, 2011
5 mins
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The history of Australia that the SBS documentary “Immigration Nation” overlooked. The White Australia Policy was introduced for economic and cultural reasons, not primarily because of racial prejudice. A proper reading of its history reveals there is no ghost of racism haunting mainstream Australia culture.
January 13, 2011
12 mins
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Why am I mixed up in this controversy? Because, as a journalist, I want to make Keith Windschuttle’s rigorous and magisterial research on the “Stolen Generation” accessible to the public and especially, to students.
January 8, 2011
4 mins
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The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is proposing to introduce a radical national history curriculum that encourages students to criticize, ridicule, and debunk (‘deconstruct’) the Anzac tradition.
October 31, 2010
6 mins
