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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Of interest to Australians
> This is fairly a specialised argument, Doug: the only historian I know of
> mentioned in the piece is Keith Windshuttle. And Windshuttle is notorious
> as a "revisionist" historian who claims, among other things, that
> estimates
> of Aboriginal massacres are vastly over-inflated by historians who accept
> oral stories in Aboriginal communities as a basis for investigation. He is
> an aggressively conservative historian, in line with Howard's Australia
> and
> thus much beloved by right wing think tanks.
>
> This article seems a little wonky, since on the one hand he blames trendy
> 60s historians for a "pan-Aboriginal" ideology and then confesses that the
> single-race model long predates them. As to the justice of his
> accusation:
> I admit I had no idea that there were Negrito people in North Queensland.
> But I'd be, initially at least, a bit sceptical about his j'accuse to the
> trendoids.
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
At this time of the night you should be in bed Alison!
I cant remember which newsgroup I found this link and I cant find the thread
anywhere so the truth of it is up for grabs. Very political but
scientifically interesting if there is any truth in it.
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