Right-wing commentator Janet Albrechtsen, a controversial appointee by the Howard government, will not be reappointed to the ABC Board when her term expires in February.
Keith Windschuttle
ABC/SBS board appointments: step up from Howard
It’s been a long wait, but the first fruits of the Government’s new ABC Board appointments process have emerged, writes Bernard Keane.
Sharon Gould hoax: Quadrant and Wilson respond
The March issue of Quadrant is out with a response from editor Keith Windschuttle to the hoax affair that made his previous issue a best seller, writes Margaret Simons.
Six ideas from the 2020 summit
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Rundle: Hoax a telling blow to the Right’s cred
Windschuttle didn’t need to suspect anything was amiss to do proper editor’s duty on the Sharon Gould piece, writes Guy Rundle from Mexico City.
Gould and Windschuttle: The fallout
I am trying to decide which part of the 24 hours since Crikey published news of the “Sharon Gould” hoax has been the most bizarre, writes Margaret Simons.
Windschuttle’s ‘gotcha’ game will haunt him
There’s nothing shameful about the editorial staff of a little magazine making a mistake, writes Jeff Sparrow, but glaring double standards can’t be ignored.
‘Sharon Gould’ speaks: the difference between hoax and fraud
It sh-ts me that some of the media outlets are comparing this hoax to the frauds committed by Norma Khouri and Helen Darville/Demidenko/Dale, writes Sharon Gould.
Keith is punk’d!
What really happened.
Redefining the role of SBS in the digital revolution
During the Howard years, Australian media underwent a revolution, writes Bernard Keane.
Quadrant: It’s ok to be a Nazi if you’re pretty
With Victoria’s Liberal Party in trouble over anti-Semitic slurs, an interesting contradiction appears in this month’s Quadrant, writes Katherine Wilson.
Tips and rumours
Windschuttle 1. I was at Martin Place for the Apology today. Standing in front of me, holding an Aboriginal flag, was Keith Windschuttle.
Windschuttle 2. I was at Martin Place watching the apology and saw a few rows in front of me in the crowd none other than Keith Windschuttle. He seemed to be alone and […]
Sorry: the merchandising opportunity
apology to the Stolen Generations on Wednesday is already turning into a sort of National White Guilt Day, with live coverage, big screens being set up outdoors, BBQs and dancing, classes being stopped and demands for a public holiday, writes David MacCormack.
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Debunking Windschuttle’s benign interpretation of history
Crikey / Tuesday, 12 February 2008
The Weekend Australian of 9-10 February brought news that the intrepid history warrior, Keith Windschuttle, bane of leftist historians, now has “the facts” about the stolen generations. It is another instance of Windschuttle taking information and skewing it to fit his particular political and cultural agenda writes Naomi Parry.