Editing Keith Windschuttle (section)

==Biography==
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Windschuttle was born in 1942.<ref name="death">{{cite web |title=Vale Keith Windschuttle, 1942–2025 |url=https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/tribute/313194/ |website=Quadrant |access-date=24 May 2025 |date=9 April 2025}}</ref> He attended [[Canterbury Boys' High School]] (where he was a contemporary of [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] Australian prime minister [[John Howard]]).

Windschuttle was a journalist on newspapers and magazines in Sydney. He completed a BA (first-class honours in history) at the [[University of Sydney]] in 1969, and an MA (honours in politics) at [[Macquarie University]] in 1978. He enrolled as a PhD student but did not submit a thesis; instead he published it under the title ''The Media'' with Penguin Books. In 1973, he became a [[tutor]] in Australian history at the [[University of New South Wales]] (UNSW). Between 1977 and 1981, Windschuttle was lecturer in Australian history and in journalism at the New South Wales Institute of Technology (now the [[University of Technology, Sydney]]) before returning to UNSW in 1983 as lecturer/senior lecturer in social policy. He resigned from UNSW in 1993 and founded Macleay Press, a [[small-press]] publishing company. Published authors besides Windschuttle include [[Leonie Kramer]] and [[Michael Connor (historian)|Michael Connor]]. He was a regular visiting and guest lecturer on history and [[historiography]] at American universities.

In June 2006, he was appointed to the board of the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] (ABC), Australia's non-commercial public broadcaster, for a 5-year term which ended on 14 June 2011.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Grattan|first1=Michelle|title=ABC gets a culture warrior|url=https://www.theage.com.au/news/national/abc-gets-a-culture-warrior/2006/06/15/1149964674485.html|access-date=14 February 2018|work=[[The Age]]|date=16 June 2006}}</ref><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>

Windschuttle died in Sydney on 8 April 2025.<ref name="death"/>