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Rehabilitating the convicts.

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| June 01, 2008 | Izzard, John | COPYRIGHT 2008 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

THERE ARE THREE cruel libels perpetrated against the Australian people. One is that we are a nation of racists; the second is that we have conducted a "genocide" against the Aboriginal people; and the third is that we are "stained" by our convict heritage.

Babette Smith, in her new book Australia's Birthstain, takes on the third libel with a passion that should re-invigorate those despairing of the last three decades of nihilist academic research and publication. Like an old B-grade black-and-white gothic movie, our history-writers have been happy to drag the swamp of our past in search of evidence of our "misdeeds". Smith has returned to that same swamp but ...

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