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Blogging lite ·
Blogging will be light for the next who-knows-how-long owing to an ever-growing inbox. My primary focus will be study --... READ MORE
We must not fly in the face of nature ·
From the pages of the Westralian Worker comes this entertaining gem. In 1914, the paper's regular column, "Cleopatra's Needles: A... READ MORE
Keep funding him ·
When a Queensland doctoral candidate, Rollan McCleary, proposes that Jesus was gay, the reaction is not difficult to predict. Ken... READ MORE
A response at last? ·
I was all set to email Lyndall Ryan about her failure to respond to Keith Windschuttle -- in fact I... READ MORE
Season's greetings ·
I shouldn't let Easter pass by without commenting on it, but since I'm not really religious I don't have anything... READ MORE
Fending off vultures ·
I thought these words, written by John Curtin as the Great War drew to a close, resonate today.[T]he people can... READ MORE
Queensland genocide ·
I stumbled across an article of a few days ago in the Courier Mail today (not a newspaper I regularly... READ MORE
The Liberal ·
Another (edited and abridged) snippet from the Westralian Worker, this time from 26 September 1913:In the dawn of the year... READ MORE
Let's do the time warp ·
Dirk Moses' offering in today's Australian doesn't offer anything new on the Windschuttle debacle, but it does present a useful... READ MORE
In her own time ·
John Quiggin has expressed his hope that Lyndall Ryan will better defend herself against Windschuttle's claims that she told tall... READ MORE
Nothing's changed ·
A little tidbit from the Westralian Worker's first issue, 7 September 1900:Good old private enterprise, ancient moan of the ponderous... READ MORE
More on Windschuttle ·
Criticism of Windschuttle's work is not limited to left-wingers who have pre-judged his efforts. Take, for example, Ron Brunton's review... READ MORE
Clement coincidence ·
Almost as soon as I suggested that Dr Clement begin blogging, I came across Gary Sauer-Thompson's latest post: "In the... READ MORE
Chipping away at the wall of lies ·
This blog is rapidly turning into a one-trick pony. Perhaps I'm paying too much attention to Windschuttle's nonsense, but I'm... READ MORE
Rewriting history, redirecting institutions ·
The Windschuttle business is more than just an airy-fairy theoretical debate amongst academics with their heads in the clouds. It... READ MORE
The battle continues ·
Lyndall Ryan has offered her first defence (not counting the "multiple truths" time-buyer) of The Aboriginal Tasmanians against Windschuttle's attacks... READ MORE
A distortion of history ·
The Windschuttle controversy is unlikely to subside any time soon. In fact, as more scholars have the chance to read... READ MORE
Hearing things ·
Tim Blair hints that his high school reports were littered with Fs. We also know that his high-school English teacher... READ MORE
Denialism by nitpicking ·
Windschuttle's new book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, has been doing the blogging rounds. Scott Wickstein kicked off with an... READ MORE
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