This, like all history, is fabricated All history is a fabrication of some kind. Records of the past are incomplete, written records carry their author's bias, historians their own prejudices, no matter how well controlled. A fabrication is the result. The title of Keith Windschuttle's book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History is some crazy tautology. Maybe this is why the discussion about it continues to go round and round in circles. Windschuttle argues in the final chapter of his bo...

Keith Windschuttle: No slander in exposing cultural brutality December 29, 2003 In December last year a group of demonstrators stood in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, outside the book launch of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History holding up signs denouncing the author as racist. They were employees of the SBS indigenous affairs unit and readily admitted none had read my book. Instead, their protest was sparked by an article on this page where I said the Tasmanian Aborigines had died out no...