Editing Keith Windschuttle (section)

{{Short description|Australian historian (1942–2025)}}
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'''Keith Windschuttle''' (1942 – 8 April 2025) was an Australian historian.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shlomowitz|first1=Ralph|title=Keith Windschuttle's Contribution to Australian History: An Evaluation|journal=Australian Economic History Review|date=November 2005|volume=45|issue=3|pages=296–307|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8446.2005.00140.x}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Patricia|title=The Fabrication of a Benign Colonisation? Keith Windschuttle on History|journal=Australian Historical Studies|date=April 2004|volume=35|issue=123|pages=122–129|doi=10.1080/10314610408596275|s2cid=162146174}}</ref> He was appointed to the board of the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] from 2006 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=ABC Annual Report 2010-2011: Part 7 - Appendices (PDF) |url=https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/75942966c7e65a57b6f776a4ab4d0541 |website=Australian Broadcast Cooperation website |access-date=11 February 2025 |ref=Appendix 2—ABC Board and Board Committees}}</ref> He was editor of ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'' from 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/windschuttle-to-edit-quadrant-20071024-gdrez7.html|title=Windschuttle to edit Quadrant|date=24 October 2007|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=27 June 2023}}</ref> to 2015 when he became chair of the board and editor-in-chief.<ref name="ed_2015">{{Cite web|url=https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/02/quadrants-new-editor/|title=Quadrant's New Editor – Quadrant Online|website=quadrant.org.au|date=11 February 2015 |accessdate=27 June 2023}}</ref> He was the publisher of Macleay Press, which operated from 1994 to 2010.

Major published items include ''Unemployment'' (1979),  which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a [[socialist]] response; ''The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia'' (1984), on the political economy and content of the news and entertainment media; ''The Killing of History'' (1994), a critique of [[postmodernism]] in the study of history;<ref>Roger Kimball, [http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-killing-of-History--why-relativism-is-wrong-3484 "The Killing of History: why Relativism is Wrong,"] ''The New Criterion'', Vol. 15, 1996, p. 22.</ref> ''The Fabrication of [[Australian Aborigines|Aboriginal]] History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847'' (2002), which accuses a number of Australian historians of falsifying and inventing the degree of violence in the past;<ref>R. J. Stove, [http://www.nationalobserver.net/2003_autumn_107.htm "Keith Windschuttle and Aboriginal History,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425180533/http://www.nationalobserver.net/2003_autumn_107.htm |date=25 April 2017 }} ''National Observer'', No. 56, Autumn 2003.</ref> ''The White Australia Policy'' (2004), a history of that policy which argues that academic historians have exaggerated the degree of [[racism]] in Australian history;<ref>R. J. Stove, [https://toqonline.com/archives/v5n1/TOQv5n1Stove.pdf "Goodbye to All That: Reflections on White Australia,"] ''The Occidental Quarterly'', Vol. 5, No. 1, 2005.</ref> and ''The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881–2008'', which argues the story of the "stolen generations" of Aboriginal children is a myth.