by Robert Manne | Aug 5, 2003 | Papers
IntroductionIn 1968, the anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner delivered what turned out to be perhaps the most consequential lecture ever broadcast on the ABC. Stanner called his lecture ‘The Great Australian Silence’. The point he was making has often been...
by Naomi Parry | Aug 5, 2003 | Papers
Windschuttle & MusquitoKeith Windschuttle has presented The Fabrication of Aboriginal History as ‘the most exhaustive study that’s ever been done.’ 1 Yet within its pages are many examples of errors and misrepresentations that cast doubt on his...
by Shayne Breen | Aug 5, 2003 | Papers
Keith Windschuttle & Tasmanian AboriginesRecent comment on Keith Windschuttle’s The fabrication of Aboriginal history concentrates on the book’s claims that both Henry Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan deliberately fabricated stories of frontier conflict,...
by Randa Abdel-Fattah | Aug 3, 2003 | Papers
Bringing out the worst A bomb goes off in the world: there are three choice labels: Islamic fundamentalist, Islamic terrorist, Islamic extremist. Handy and interchangeable labels which the media and our politicians relish using. Let’s take the term Islamic...
by Barbara Pocock | Aug 3, 2003 | Papers
My new book is about the collision between work and care and its consequences for life in Australia. It is about the interactions between the spheres of work, gender relations, consumption, community and family.Household patterns in Australia are changing. A quarter...
by Tony Moore | Aug 3, 2003 | Papers
Has John Howard won?So its come to this. Four Corners, one of the world’s longest running television programs, is now under pressure from an ABC executive that is less cultural visionary than a feral abacus.The ABC should not have to choose between current...
