The Australian is launching a major response to Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, and the blurbs tell us that there will be more to come on Saturday, with the usual suspects lining up to respond.
Keith Windschuttle
Guy Rundle: Windschuttle screams blue murder over Quadrant funding cut
Quadrant has had its Australia Council Grant cut by $15,000 and is screaming blue murder and about the fix being in, because every left wing magazine –- Overland, Meanjin(!), Australian Book Review (!!) — has seen its funding maintained or bumped up.
Guy Rundle: Windschuttle hung out to dry on the rabbit-proof fence
Keith Windschuttle’s appearance in last week’s Oz Spectator may be the first example of Howard-era retro-chic, in an article focused obsessively on the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence
ABC board no longer in the orbit of Planet Janet
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.
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
…that will be implemented to reinvigorate the nation…
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 […]
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.