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The massacre question.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: In Keith Windschuttle's riposte (October 2003) to Robert Manne (ed.), Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History, there is a deafening silence about massacres.
This is odd, because Windschuttle made his recent debut as a historian of the colonial frontier as a massacre denialist. In an article in Quadrant in October 2000 he alleged that three of the five best-known massacres in Australian history--the Battle of Pinjarra, Waterloo Creek and the Forrest River--were either fabricated or exaggerated. In December 2001 in the Australian Financial Review, be alleged that a further massacre, at Mistake Creek in Western Australia, was a myth invented by the local Aboriginal community. In his book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, he repeated the latter allegation, together with the claim that four other massacres in Tasmania, at Risdon Cove and at Cape Grim, the John Batman massacre and the Swivel Gun massacre, were either fabrications or exaggerations.
In Whitewash, six historians present ...
- Reconciliation, Tasmanian style: the neglect of Risdon Cove.
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Watson, Reg A. March 1, 2008 700+ words
THE SITE AT RISDON COVE, across the Derwent River from Hobart...of the settlement at Sydney Cove. Risdon Cove was subsequently abandoned as the...Liberal Premier Ray Groom handed the Risdon Cove site (seventy-nine hectares) to...
- An analytical approach to the events at Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804.
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Refshauge, W. F. June 1, 2007 700+ words
Risdon Cove was the first English settlement in...closed down Bowen's settlement. But Risdon Cove was not just the first settlement...interest to examine just what did happen at Risdon Cove. The broad outline of what happened...
- The Pentium Primitivism of Greg Lehman.
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Dawson, John March 1, 2004 700+ words
...two accounts of an 1804 incident at Risdon Cove. The first is from a Wall Street Journal...killed in a skirmish over kangaroos at Risdon Cove in 1804 and that "at least one, but...t know how many Aborigines died at Risdon Cove in May 1804. Three deaths were confirmed...
- Tasmania's failed first settlement -.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 31, 2004 700+ words
...party, consisting of 48 soldiers, settlers and convicts, to Risdon Cove, where a settlement was formed. By the end of that month...of the vast changes in attitudes in recent years that the Risdon Cove site, little changed in two centuries, has now been returned...
- Keith Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume One: Van...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Lavelle, Siobhan December 1, 2003 700+ words
...settlers, was published in late 2002. The approach of the Risdon Cove bicentenary in September 2003 again saw this book and its...More interesting is his discussion of the decline of the Risdon Cove historic site and its presentation since its transfer to descendants...
- Tasmanian history prize to Canberra writer.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 24, 2004 700+ words
...Derwent River to forestall a rumoured French settlement. The expedition succeeded and a town called Hobart was formed at Risdon Cove. Yet within a year, Bowen's settlement was abandoned and he was blamed for its failure. Tardif's book reassesses the...
- Frank Bolt, The Founding of Hobart: a diary recounting the events on the...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Currey, John December 1, 2006 700+ words
...Town may have been selected by David Collins' party on the basis of information supplied by James Meehan, the surveyor of Risdon Cove. In support of this theory the author makes a very plausible case. Less convincing is his opening contention that the founding...
- Prize for Canberra historian.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 7, 2004 700+ words
...the state. Central to the story is young navy officer John Bowen, who was sent with soldiers, settlers and convicts to Risdon Cove, where he established a settlement called Hobart, which failed within a year. The book continues Mr Tardif's research...
- We must not woodchip Tassie's Recherche Bay -.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 17, 2003 700+ words
...of Polynesians. This was a significant incident in European art and philosophy a decade before the British settlement at Risdon Cove. These friendly racial encounters and the botanising across this humanised landscape is the essential reason why the entire...
- The Tasmanian aborigines. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Hiatt, Les April 1, 2003 700+ words
...were shipped off to Bass Strait where they could do no further harm. The first major attack on the colonists took place at Risdon Cove in 1804, shortly after the move to present-day Hobart. Upwards of 500 natives attacked a settler's hut, appropriated...
Source: HighBeam Research, The massacre question.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)