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Blogging lite · Tuesday, 29 July 2003, 10:54pm
Blogging will be light for the next who-knows-how-long owing to an ever-growing inbox. My primary focus will be study --...
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We must not fly in the face of nature · Friday, 25 July 2003, 5:09pm
From the pages of the Westralian Worker comes this entertaining gem. In 1914, the paper's regular column, "Cleopatra's Needles: A...
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Keep funding him · Thursday, 29 May 2003, 9:44pm
When a Queensland doctoral candidate, Rollan McCleary, proposes that Jesus was gay, the reaction is not difficult to predict. Ken...
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A response at last? · Thursday, 22 May 2003, 3:52pm
I was all set to email Lyndall Ryan about her failure to respond to Keith Windschuttle -- in fact I...
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Season's greetings · Monday, 21 April 2003, 3:34pm
I shouldn't let Easter pass by without commenting on it, but since I'm not really religious I don't have anything...
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Fending off vultures · Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 5:01pm
I thought these words, written by John Curtin as the Great War drew to a close, resonate today.[T]he people can...
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Queensland genocide · Monday, 27 January 2003, 10:02pm
I stumbled across an article of a few days ago in the Courier Mail today (not a newspaper I regularly...
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The Liberal · Thursday, 16 January 2003, 1:38am
Another (edited and abridged) snippet from the Westralian Worker, this time from 26 September 1913:In the dawn of the year...
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Let's do the time warp · Monday, 13 January 2003, 10:41pm
Dirk Moses' offering in today's Australian doesn't offer anything new on the Windschuttle debacle, but it does present a useful...
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In her own time · Saturday, 11 January 2003, 8:17pm
John Quiggin has expressed his hope that Lyndall Ryan will better defend herself against Windschuttle's claims that she told tall...
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Nothing's changed · Thursday, 9 January 2003, 11:57am
A little tidbit from the Westralian Worker's first issue, 7 September 1900:Good old private enterprise, ancient moan of the ponderous...
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More on Windschuttle · Wednesday, 8 January 2003, 9:22pm
Criticism of Windschuttle's work is not limited to left-wingers who have pre-judged his efforts. Take, for example, Ron Brunton's review...
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Clement coincidence · Monday, 6 January 2003, 11:25pm
Almost as soon as I suggested that Dr Clement begin blogging, I came across Gary Sauer-Thompson's latest post: "In the...
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Chipping away at the wall of lies · Monday, 6 January 2003, 8:20pm
This blog is rapidly turning into a one-trick pony. Perhaps I'm paying too much attention to Windschuttle's nonsense, but I'm...
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Rewriting history, redirecting institutions · Saturday, 4 January 2003, 10:41pm
The Windschuttle business is more than just an airy-fairy theoretical debate amongst academics with their heads in the clouds. It...
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The battle continues · Saturday, 4 January 2003, 12:01pm
Lyndall Ryan has offered her first defence (not counting the "multiple truths" time-buyer) of The Aboriginal Tasmanians against Windschuttle's attacks...
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A distortion of history · Tuesday, 24 December 2002, 1:07pm
The Windschuttle controversy is unlikely to subside any time soon. In fact, as more scholars have the chance to read...
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Hearing things · Friday, 20 December 2002, 3:25pm
Tim Blair hints that his high school reports were littered with Fs. We also know that his high-school English teacher...
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Denialism by nitpicking · Friday, 20 December 2002, 2:21am
Windschuttle's new book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, has been doing the blogging rounds. Scott Wickstein kicked off with an...
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