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The history wars from a logical perspective.(Australia)
PROFESSOR Henry Reynolds contends that our white forebears murdered over 20,000 of our black forebears. Keith Windschuttle argues that this figure is grossly exaggerated, prompting a call from academics and others for all men and women of good will to rise against Windschuttle and bring him down. Curiously, those who oppose Windschuttle appear to be more interested in maintaining previously-held beliefs than in determining what really happened, and do not seem to realise that figures of the magnitude claimed by Reynolds arguably contain more insult to our black than our white forebears.
Perhaps because some of his defenders are now beginning to doubt the ...
- John Connor, The Australian frontier wars 1788-1838.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian War Memorial Manera, Brad April 1, 2003 700+ words
...20th century. In the early 1980s Henry Reynolds reintroduced Australians to this violent...off date, as it is the year of the Myall Creek massacre and the trials of the perpetrators...mainland Australia. It begins with the Myall Creek massacre and ends with the operations...
- LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant January 1, 2001 700+ words
...note. After having criticised Henry Reynolds for making a conservative and educated...smaller tally than the 20,000 claimed by Reynolds. According to Windschuttle, powerful...likely to report them, as happened at Myall Creek. This is, at best, naive and ill...
- ABORIGINES, MASSACRES AND STOLEN CHILDREN.
- Magazine article from: Quadrant November 1, 2000 700+ words
...speculation. While there certainly were some massacres -- Myall Creek and Coniston are well established -- others, like Waterloo...actions. The inventor of the 20,000 figure, Professor Henry Reynolds, admits it was a guess, but now claims it was a conservative...
- OCA and QGC seeking Surat gas.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence June 24, 2003 700+ words
...to drill a gas exploration well, Myall Creek East-1, in Block 2,656 of ATP...reservoir unit intersected in the nearby Myall Creek and Churchie gas fields. Gas flowed there at more than 4M Mcfd. Myall Creek East-1 is likely to be drilled...
- AFTER THE CORROBOREE.
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine HINKSON, MELINDA August 1, 2000 700+ words
...JOURNEY OF RECONCILIATION? Last month at Myall Creek, near Inverell in northern New South...commit themselves to ensuring that the Myall Creek massacre is preserved in history, to...by future generations. The story of Myall Creek is now etched in plaques set along a...
- Giving the Indigenous a voice--further thoughts on the poetry of Eliza Hamilton...
- Journal of Australian Studies O'Leary, John June 1, 2004 700+ words
...The Aboriginal Mother' was written in response to the Myall Creek massacre, in which some thirty unarmed Indigenous men, women...noted, Dunlop's piece draws on many of the facts of the Myall Creek massacre, mentioning such features as the tying up of the...
- Phillip Knightley's credentials.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant September 1, 2003 700+ words
...Forrest River massacre of Aborigines, which compelling research by West Australian writer Rod Moran shows did not occur (the Myall Creek massacre, which did occur, and for which seven white men were hanged, is not mentioned). Knightley writes of the West...
- Dianne Johnson, Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories.(Book Review)
- Journal of Australian Studies Esten, Antonia March 1, 2003 700+ words
...women's group, of imaginative co-operation between traditional and legal owners of land, the powerful memorials of the Myall Creek massacre, the effects on students of Sea of Hands experiences, and much more. All these efforts clearly work to retrieve...