In his article in the February edition of the Monthly about my book on the Stolen Generations, Robert Manne accused me of being a racist for supposedly using terminology about the Aborigines that was equal in insult to the word “nigger”. Manne wrote: ‘He [Windschuttle] must be the only historian who is not repelled by […]

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Manne should apologize to the Aboriginal people of Australia for describing them in quasi-zoological terminology that, as he says himself, is the equivalent of using the word “nigger” without inverted commas.

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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.

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To sell its story to the public, the Human Rights Commission mounted one of the most successful public relations campaigns in recent Australian history.

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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.

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Two weeks before Christmas, the Literature Board of the Australia Council notified Quadrant of the outcome of our application for a 2010 literary grant. Although we had been led to believe our previous $50,000 annual grant would be increased, the new Rudd government appointees of the Literature Board decided our funding would be reduced by […]

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Robert Manne said he had a document that proved my accusations wrong. The document he read out was nothing more than one he had used in 2001 in his Quarterly Essay, In Denial. It did not have the meaning Manne attributed to it in his 2001 essay or in his ABC radio interview.

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For a professor of politics at an Australian university to write about a policy of the Commonwealth Government and to omit its most telling decisions is a serious dereliction of his public duty.

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For a professor of politics at an Australian university to write about a policy of the Commonwealth Government and to omit its most telling decisions is a serious dereliction of his public duty.

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“No state or territory in Australia ever wanted to steal Aboriginal children from their parents in order to eliminate the race or put an end to Aboriginality. No Aboriginal children were removed as part of an agenda driven by racism or genocide. There were no Stolen Generations.”

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