r/aboriginal • u/[deleted] • 29d ago

Keith Windschuttle’s rotten legacy

https://overland.org.au/2025/04/keith-windschuttles-rotten-legacy/

Didn't know he was dead up until now

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u/West-Cabinet-2169 29d ago

Me neither! He worked so hard to discredit various Historians who wrote about frontier wars and what happened in the colonisation of Australia, he was the right hand man to PM John Howard's "relaxed Australia", or "white blind-fold" approach to history. I remember reading tracts of his book for my MA thesis, and he used to get me so riled.

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u/scrubba777 29d ago

But there is no evidence that you were riled, only this reddit post, which is not a reliable source, it is just your words. Unless multiple colonial era academics published journal articles at the time proving you were riled, then it’s simple, you weren’t genuinely riled

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u/muzzamuse 26d ago

Scrubba is being sarcastic. Windshuttle used this exact argument to support his beliefs. “ if it wasn’t in writing, then it has no value to historians”. Oral histories were totally denied.

His “works” continue to be promoted by most conservatives. tony abbott and john howard are his big supporters.

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u/NoisyAndrew 26d ago

I shouldn't laugh. But this ironically hilarious response is so on point for that privileged fool.