The Fabrication of Aboriginal History

Historical Truth, Postmodern Theory and the Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Lecture to NSW HSC History Extension conference, Tom Mann Theatre, Sydney, May 26 2010
"Manne Avoids Main Debate", Quadrant, May, 2010
"Mind Your Language, Robert", Quadrant, May, 2010
"Flawed History Keeps Myth Alive", The Weekend Australian, January 30-31, 2010
"Why There Were No Stolen Generations", extract from Introduction to The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three, The Stolen Generations, 1881-2008, Macleay Press, December, 2009
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three, The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, by Keith Windschuttle, Macleay Press, Sydney, Published December 2009
"Bill Stanner and the End of Aboriginal High Culture", Quadrant, May 2009
"Aboriginal 'genocide' claim denied", The Weekend Australian, February 9-10, 2008
"Don't let facts spoil the day", The Weekend, Australian, February 9-10, 2008
"The Use and Abuse of Sources in Aboriginal History", Teaching History, 41, 4, December 2007
"The Culture Wars Down Under: Keith Windschuttle, the Aborigines and the Left", by William D. Rubinstein, Social Affairs Unit, UK [Part One] [Part Two]
"The Return of Postmodernism in Aboriginal History", Quadrant, April 2006
The Invention of Terra Nullius: Historical and Legal Fictions on the Foundation of Australia, by Michael Connor, Macleay Press, published December 2005. Terra Nullius and all those who have relied upon it.
Washout: On the academic response to the Fabrication of Aboriginal History, by John Dawson. The latest front in the history wars, published December 2004. [launch speech by John Dawson]
Keith Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, Macleay Press

Debate: Ralph Shlomowitz, "Keith Windschuttle's Contribution to Australian History: An Evaluation", Australian Economic History Review, 3, 45, November 2005; Keith Windschuttle, "Faith and Scholarship in Aboriginal and Islander History: A Reply to Ralph Shlomowitz", Australian Economic History Review, 3, 45, November 2005
"Guerrilla Warrior and Resistance Fighter? The Case of Musquito", Labour History, 87, November 2004. [in response to ...] [rejoinder]
"Historical Error versus Historical Invention: A Reply to Stuart Macintyre and Patricia Grimshaw on The Fabrication of Aboriginal History", Australian Historical Studies, 124, October 2004
"Who's still afraid of Keith Windschuttle", by Ean Higgins, The Australian, 22 July 2004; editorial in The Australian on same issue
Tasmania's Mournful Bicentenary, Launch speech for John Bowen and the Founding of Tasmania by Reg Watson, September 13 2003
Foreword to John Bowen and the Founding of Tasmania by Reg Watson, published September 2003
"Error Nullius", by Michael Connor, The Bulletin, August 20, 2003
"Requiem for a Genocide", by Neil McInnes, The National Interest, Summer 2004
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, paper to NSW Higher School Certiificate History Extension conference, June 2 2004
"No slander in exposing cultural brutality", The Australian, December 29 2003
Whitewash confirms the fabrication of Aboriginal history, Quadrant, October 2003
History Wars: Keith Windschuttle in debate with Stuart Macintyre on ABC-TV's Lateline, September 3 2003 [transcript and video]
History Wars: The TLS debate, August 29, September 26 2003
"My history thesis still stands", The Australian, September 1 2003
Enduring myth of 'noble savage' vs. a special at continuous war? review by Keith Windschuttle of Steven A. LeBlanc, Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful Noble Savage, in Washington Times, August 17 2003
The Construction of Aboriginal History: Fact or Fiction? debate with Henry Reynolds, University of New South Wales, May 29 2003
Fabricating Aboriginal History, reporter Helen Dalley, Sunday, Channel Nine, May 25 2003
Geoffrey Blainey reviews The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, New Criterion, April 2003
White settlement in Australia: Violent conquest of benign colonisation? debate with Pat Grimshaw, Melbourne Trades Hall, March 5 2003 ... audio version
Social History, Aboriginal History and the Pursuit of Truth, debate with Stuart Macintyre, Blackheath Philosophy Forum, March 1, 2003
"Rabbit-Proof Fence: 'A true story'?", The New Criterion, March 2003
"Why I'm a bad historian", The Australian, February 12, 2003
Book launch: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, speech by Keith Windschuttle, Sydney, December 9 2002
"History as a Travesty of the Truth", The Australian, December 9 2002
Table Ten: Aborigines killed by whites, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1834. Revised version
Table Eight: Aboriginal killings by colonists recorded by G. A. Robinson, 1829-1839
Robert Manne's allegation of plagiarism: a response by Keith Windschuttle
"The Historian as Prophet and Redeemer", Quadrant, December 2002
"The extinction of the Australian pygmies", Quadrant, June 2002
"Doctored Evidence and Invented Incidents in Aboriginal Historiography", Paper to conference on Frontier Conflict, National Museum of Australia, December 13-14, 2001
"The Fabrication of Aboriginal History", The New Criterion, September 2001
"History, Anthropology and the Politics of Aboriginal Sovereignty", Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference of the Samuel Griffith Society, Volume 13, Sydney, 2001
"A Voice from the Frontier", by Andrew Stevenson, Sydney Morning Herald, September 22-23, 2001
"When History Falls Victim to Politics", The Age, 14 July, 2001
"Black, White and Grey: the Truth about our Past", by Robert Murray, The Age, 13 July 2001
"Some issues are not just black and white", by Miranda Devine, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 July 2001
"Wrong on Mistake Creek", Australian Financial Review, 18 June 2001
National Press Club debate, Keith Windschuttle vs. Henry Reynolds, 19 April 2001
Lateline ABC-TV debate, Keith Windschuttle vs. Henry Reynolds, 16 April 2001
"Selected Readings", The Australian's Review of Books, April 2001 (reply to Henry Reynolds' article in March 2001)
Henry Reynolds vs. Keith Windschuttle, debate at Gould's Book Arcade, Sydney, 12 November 2000
"Exposing academic deception of past wrongs", Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 2000
"The myths of frontier massacres in Australian history, Part I: The invention of massacre stories", Quadrant, October 2000
"The myths of frontier massacres in Australian history, Part II: The fabrication of the Aboriginal death toll", Quadrant, November 2000
"The myths of frontier massacres in Australian history, Part III: Massacre stories and the policy of separatism", Quadrant, December 2000


     
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