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The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847

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I haven't finished reading it but I am convinced of the validity of his scholarship, his scientific method, his research and his exposure of lack of the above in various other publications.
I am, for instance, after reading this, totally convinced that the then Governor General's 2001 apology to the Kija people was an apology for something that clearly never happened and that people of that standing in positions such as that make errors of that magnitude shocks me, frightens me and boggles my mind.
Against that background the ravings of those reviewers attempting to accuse Winschuttle of being a Holocaust Denyer or somesuch are merely pitiful and evidence of just how far this 'non-thinking' paradigm that led the GG astray extends.
Winschuttle lays it all out for you to check for yourself. He does not engage in mud slinging, abuse, hysteria. He simply lifts a rock, which any of us could have perhaps lifted for ourselves, and exposes the rottenness beneath. This book is a must-read. And Winschuttle's logical, systematic, thorough, unbiased, scientific approach is something we should all try to copy.

A very eye-opening review of the historical evidence for alleged atrocities committed by white... settlers against Tasmanian Aborigines. Rather than viewing the Natives as little better than animals, the English at the time were influenced by humanitarian Evangelicalism and Enlightenment values which emphasized the unity and equality of mankind. These values had just prevailed in abolishing the English slave-trade.

Windschuttle combs thru the original sources and concludes that about 118 Natives were killed by whites--hardly genocide. The ancient Tasmanians were very suscepible to colds and the flu which decimated their numbers. Also the women on Robinson's Flinders Island community failed to breed, probably due to STD induced sterility as a result of widespread prostitution that was encouraged by their husbands and fathers.

I plan to read the rebuttal Whitewash but it will have to be GOOD to answer Windschuttle's claims. Every Tasmanian should read this controversial book.

Windshuffle's book would make David Irving proud. Same 'explanations', same claims. Our bad conscience has no better moppet that these type of lettered frauds. The Great Australian Silence, like the American one, the German one, the Zionist one... same guilty lies, the same miffed ego, the same hysterical individualization of shame. Nothing is worse than Scientific Racism. Compared to Windschipple, the drunken bigot is a harmless acolyte. In Windcripple, he finds a master.
So, cover up generations of murder with words like broken leaves, and as strong.