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Alternative title: Whitewash : On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Whitewash
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'In December 2002, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One by Keith Windschuttle was published. It argued that violence between whites and Aborigines in colonial Tasmania had been vastly exaggerated and sought to rewrite one of the most troubling parts of Australian history. The book soon attracted widespread coverage, including both high praise and heated criticism.'

'Until now, Windschuttle's arguments have not been comprehensively examined. Whitewash collects some of Australia's leading writers on Aboriginal history to do just this. The result provides not only a demolition of Windschuttle's revisionism but also a vivid and illuminating history of one of the most famous and tragic episodes in the history of the British Empire - the dispossession of the Tasmanian Aborigines.' (Source: Publisher's website)

Notes

  • This work includes:

    Introduction -​ Robert Manne

    Overview Fantasy Island -​ James Boyce

    In general The Character of the Nation - Martin Krygier &​ Robert van Krieken

    Terra Nullius Reborn -​ Henry Reynolds

    Re-Inventing Social Education -​ Shayne Breen

    History and the Nation -​ Marilyn Lake

    Telling Us True -​ Greg Lehman

    In Particular Windschuttle's Debut -​ Neville Green

    Mistake Creek -​ Cathie Clement

    Statement of Peggy Patrick Risdon Cove -​ Phillip Tardif

    John Glover's 'Mount Welington' -​ David Hansen

    Who Is the Fabricator? -​ Lyndall Ryan

    Robinson and Robertson - Cassandra Pybus

    Cape Grim -​ Ian McFarlane

    Counting the Cost of the 'Nun's Picnic' -​ Mark Finnane

    Archaeology and History -​ Tim Murray &​ Christine Williamson

    In Conclusion Revisionism &​ Denial -​ A. Dirk Moses

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      Melbourne, Victoria,: 2003 .
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      Extent: 385p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography and index
      ISBN: 0975076906
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