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The Pentium Primitivism of Greg Lehman.
TUCKED AWAY in the middle of Whitewash is a remarkable little chapter by Tasmanian academic and Assistant Director of the Riawunna Centre for Aboriginal Education, Greg Lehman. His contribution to the counter-attack on the first volume of Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History is titled: "Telling Us True". His style--scholarly, candid, eloquent--seems misplaced; his tack cuts across his co-authors', and while their shot rakes Windschuttle's rigging, his torpedo is fired below the waterline.
As a rule, Windschuttle's adversaries do not make explicit the philosophic premises that prime their polemics. Not many of them openly reject the search for ...
- 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 massacre question.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ryan, Lyndall December 1, 2003 700+ words
...four other massacres in Tasmania, at Risdon Cove and at Cape Grim, the John Batman massacre...on Mistake Creek, Phillip Tardif on Risdon Cove, Ian McFarlane on Cape Grim, James...it was found that in two cases--Risdon Cove and Mistake Creek--he had manipulated...
- 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...
- Robert Manne (ed.), Whitewash: on Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies Smith, Tony September 1, 2004 700+ words
...has either ignored inconvenient evidence or misinterpreted key events. Phillip Tardif sees the treatment of the massacre at Risdon Cove as 'metaphor' for Windschuttle's broader thesis. He appends the testimony of a former convict to a committee of inquiry...
- 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...
- 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...
- East Coast Venture Wins West Coast Capital.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 10, 2000 700+ words
...amp; Associates of Denver, Colorado. Said Metagenix CEO Greg Lehman, "With the economics of information compelling enterprises...the end of this year. Metagenix, founded in 1998 by CEO Greg Lehman, Bill Cowan and Lance Carroll, has 27 employees; 19 locally...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Pentium Primitivism of Greg Lehman.