Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) is an Australian writer, historian, and former ABC board member.
Major published items include Unemployment, (1979), which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a socialist response; The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia, (1984), on the political economy and content of the news and entertainment media; The Killing of History, (1994), a critique of postmodernism in history; The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, (2002), which accuses a number of Australian historians of falsifying and inventing the degree of violence in the past; The White Australia Policy, (2004), a history of that policy which argues that academic historians have exaggerated the degree of racism in Australian history; and The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, which argues the story of the "stolen generations" of Aboriginal children is a myth. He has been editor of Quadrant magazine since 2008. He has been the publisher of Macleay Press since 1994.
Read more about Keith Windschuttle: Biography, Political Evolution, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One, Van Diemen's Land 1803 - 1847, Critical Reception, Windschuttle's Responses, and Critical Replies, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three, The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, Future Volumes, Hoax, Major Publications
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“Our civilization has decided ... that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.”
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