PUBLIC TALK: Discussion Forum to Celebrate the Launch of Whitewash

School of Indigenous Studies and Institute of Advanced Studies,The University of Western Australia

Invite you to a discussion forum to celebrate the launch of

Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Edited by Robert Manne (Black Inc)

Featuring speakers: Cathie Clement, Neville Green, Marilyn Lake, Jill Milroy, Henry Reynolds.

In December 2002, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Vol.1 by Keith Windschuttle was published. It argued that violence between whites and Aboriginals in colonial Tasmania had been vastly exaggerated and sought to rewrite the most contentious part of Australian history. The book soon attracted massive coverage, including heated criticism. Until now Windschuttle's arguments, agenda and methods have not been comprehensively examined. Whitewash collects Australia's leading writers on Aboriginal history to do just this; the result is an authoritative account of the history and politics of the colonial frontier and a demolition of revisionism.

Whitewash is edited by Robert Manne, and is the first in Black Inc.'s new Agenda series.

Introduced by Sally Morgan

ALL WELCOME

Books are available for sale, courtesy of University Co-op Bookshop.

The Speakers:

Dr Cathie Clement, MPHA, is a Perth-based historian and heritage consultant. She specializes in researching and writing about people, places and events in Australia’s north-west. Her curriculum vitae lists 40 books, articles, reports and papers in which she has presented her findings on that region

Dr Neville Green, MPHA, is a Western Australian historian specializing in Aboriginal education, Native Title research and the study of contact and change in indigenous societies. He is the author of The Forrest River Massacres (1995).

Professor Marilyn Lake holds a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe University. She formerly held the chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University. Her most recent book is Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist, winner of the HREOC Arts Award for non-fiction in 2002.

Jill Milroy teaches Aboriginal History at the University of Western Australia where she is the Head of the School of Indigenous Studies.

Professor Sally Morgan is Director of the Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts at the University of Western Australia, a writer of international acclaim and a visual artist.

Professor Henry Reynolds is currently an ARC Senior Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania at Launceston. He was for many years at James Cook University in Townsville. He is the author of many well-known books including The Other Side of the Frontier, Law of the Land, Fate of a Free People, and Why Weren’t We Told? His latest book, North of Capricorn, will be published next week.