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White settlement in Australia: violent conquest or benign colonisation?
Two of Australia's high-profile historians go head-to-head in
Melbourne's Trades Hall.
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE debates PAT GRIMSHAW
WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH @ 6.30PM
New Council Chamber, Trades Hall
Last year, the independent historian Keith Windschuttle published The
Fabrication of Aboriginal History, a study of settlement in Tasmania
which claims to debunk the orthodoxy that white colonisation meant
murder and dispossession. On Wednesday 5th March, he debates Pat
Grimshaw, the Max Crawford Professor of History at Melbourne University
and author of numerous historical works, including a forthcoming
co-authored study of the place of indigenous peoples in the political
structures of British settler colonies.
Roger Kimball in The New Criterion, New York declared The Fabrication of
Aboriginal History a 'scholarly masterpiece - destined to become an
historical classic' while Dr Shayne Breen from the University of
Tasmania attacked it as 'replete with misconceptions, distortions,
character assassinations and unsupportable generalisations'.
The issues in dispute go to the heart of Australia's past, present and
future. Have the conventional historians of settlement got it wrong or
was this country founded on a deep and abiding injustice?
This is an important event, not just for historians but for anyone who
cares about black-white relations in Australia.
Keith Windschuttle is the author of The Killing of History: How Literary
Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past (2000), now in its
fourth edition, as well as five other books on contemporary social issues.
His most recent book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One,
Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, was published by Macleay Press in November
2002. He is also a publisher and a frequent contributor to The New
Criterion and Quadrant.
Pat Grimshaw holds the Max Crawford Chair of History at the University
of Melbourne. She is the author of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand
(revised edition 1987) and Paths of Duty: American Missionary Women in
Nineteenth Century Hawaii (1989), and co-author of Creating a Nation
(1994). A co-authored comparative study of the place of indigenous
peoples in the political structures of British settler colonies is
currently in press with Manchester University Press.
The event will be chaired by Associate Professor Joy Damousi, Editor of
Australian Historical Studies.
ENTRY: $5 FULL / $3 CONCESSION / RMIT & LATROBE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FREE
Further information from Gillian on 9925 2910 or Jeff on 9662 3744
www.advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au or www.nibs.org.au
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Bookshop, Australian Historical Studies, the Australian Historical
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