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Why I left the left.(aboriginals)

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| June 01, 2006 | Windschuttle, Keith | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

So THIS IS WHAT it has come down to. The great debate of the History Wars is no longer about whether Australia was invaded or settled, whether the Aborigines resisted or acquiesced, whether they died from guns or germs, whether academic historians made inadvertent errors or deliberate fabrications, nor about the character of the nation or the corruption of the humanities.

Robert Manne's response to my critique in the April Quadrant of historians who persist in supporting theories of genocide, stolen children and postmodernism ignores all of this to focus on my political views of thirty years ago.

Having failed in his collection Whitewash to find the ...

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