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March 3rd, 2010 |
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Culture, Education, History, Howardia, Politics | 26 Comments
A while back, Kevin Rudd proclaimed the history wars over. He may have been right, at least insofar as the combatants left on the field are looking decidely ghostly; witness the non-event of the launch of Keith Windschuttle’s latest tome. Yesterday’s grapeshot over the history curriculum will, likely, not be followed up by another offensive [...]
February 16th, 2010 |
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History, Indigenous, Politics, Race | 62 Comments
Naomi Parry reviews the reception (and content) of Keith Windschuttle’s new book at New Matilda: Late last year Keith Windschuttle released another book questioning the existence of the stolen generations. But this time, nobody cared. Very few people would be aware that Keith Windschuttle released volume three of his series The Fabrication of Aboriginal History [...]
September 28th, 2009 |
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Activism, Culture, Economics, History, International, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology | 38 Comments
As a sequel to my post on The Australian‘s series on the left, where I highlighted Guy Rundle’s take, I’m reproducing from today’s Crikey (with permission) his longer sequel to his take beneath the fold. Meantime, the Oz series meanders on, with a contribution from David Hetherington of Per Capita, proposing “a fairer design for [...]
September 1st, 2009 |
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Activism, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Science | 35 Comments
Those who recall the furore over the hoax of Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant earlier in the year might be interested in reading an article by the hoaxer in question, Katherine Wilson, in Meanjin, wherein she discusses her motivations.
February 8th, 2009 |
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Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | 8 Comments
Folks might recall the criticism from Jason Wilson bloggers were subjected to over the Windschuttle/Wilson hoax. John Quiggin has written an excellent post in response to the implicit claim that bloggers are “lazy amateurs”. In so doing, he also highlights the invalidity of one of the premises of the interminable “journos v. bloggers” arguments – [...]
January 30th, 2009 |
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Activism, Politics, Sociology | 32 Comments
In an earlier post riffing off the Katherine Wilson hoax on Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant, I made some comments about the absence of any real political force representing small l Liberalism, to the consternation of some commenters on the ensuing thread. It would seem that I’m not alone in holding this view, judging by Norman [...]
January 19th, 2009 |
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Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Sociology, The Web | 23 Comments
I feel like I’m flogging a dead horse here a little, but there are still some interesting posts being written on some of the issues arising out of Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Quadrant [see past LP posts here]. Most of the focus is now on the role of the blogosphere in revealing her identity, as [...]
January 17th, 2009 |
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Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Sociology, The Web | 92 Comments
There’s an interesting debate proceeding on a post by Jason Wilson at gatewatching on Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant [previous LP posts here]. I think there’s some useful clarification of some of the ethical issues in the thread, and it also goes to my contention that the bloggers v. journos frame really [...]
January 11th, 2009 |
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Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Science, Sociology | 22 Comments
One of the ironies of the Windschuttle kerfuffle is that Alan Sokal has a new book out. Perhaps all those Sokal analogies will help his sales. At any rate, blogger and UPenn cultural studies prof Michael Bérubé has some very interesting things to say in a review of Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture [...]
January 11th, 2009 |
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Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | 38 Comments
Years ago, I used to read Quadrant – incidentally before Robert Manne became editor, if I recall correctly. Back in the day, there was a sense that there was some sort of contest of ideas, and thus there was some purpose to reading, or at least casting a glance across a range of “little magazines”. [...]
January 8th, 2009 |
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Blogging, Ethics, Media, Politics, Science
Apparently it’s now the question on everyone’s lips – apropos of the Keith Windschuttle Quadrant hoax. “Sharon Gould” was the pseudonym used by a hoaxer who submitted an egregious article embodying “outrageous propositions” about GM research and splicing human genes into food to Windschuttle, which he published. Crikey revealed the hoax. Don Arthur, writing at [...]
January 6th, 2009 |
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Media, Politics, Science | 335 Comments
An enterprising hoaxer – claiming to be acting in the tradition of Ern Malley – has published a spurious article on a scientific topic in Quadrant with the aim of demonstrating that Keith Windschuttle would print “outrageous propositions” which accord with his ideological disposition. The article was also designed to lampoon Windschuttle’s mode of historical [...]
October 22nd, 2008 |
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Levity | 33 Comments
Thanks to the mysterious workings of Australia Post, I received in error this letter originally intended for Nigel Freitas: — Greetings, future Captain of Industry! I’d like to extend the warmest of welcomes to you and your trust fund sponsor for choosing Young Liberal University, Australia’s newest and fastest-growing campus. After careful consideration of your [...]
October 21st, 2008 |
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Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics | 16 Comments
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around here from time to time about the Rudd government’s proposals for ensuring merit based appointments to the boards of ABC and SBS, a matter of quite a deal of interest because of John Howard’s habit of appointing the most ludicrously provocative culture warriors possible. Even from the [...]
September 22nd, 2008 |
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Authoritarianism, Education, Media, Security, Terrorism, War | 58 Comments
My colleague Terry Flew takes a look on his blog at the latest controversy over teh evils of postmodernism (and neo-Marxism!) in academia. In regard to The Australian, he writes: In two articles (Sat and Mon) referring to the Culture Wars and ‘Terror Academics’ , it discussed claims made in the most recent edition of [...]
September 11th, 2008 |
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Education, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | 109 Comments
Now that the Howard gubbermint is ancient history – except in the memoirs of the ghost of Peter Costello who wants you to know that Howard LIED six times and failed to hand him the leadership on a platter (ps. don’t waste your 55 bucks on his stoopid book – it’s been scooped, and that’s [...]
October 27th, 2007 |
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Federal Elections, Howardia, Levity, Media, Politics | 36 Comments
Christopher Pearson joins his colleague Greg Sheridan in dissing the (formerly) Dear Leader for losing the culture wars. If only Howard had been more courageous the evil “latte-sippers” would really have been swept from their redoubts in the ABC, public service and universities (aka “37 publicly funded leftist think tanks”)… You can see where all [...]
October 24th, 2007 |
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Art, Levity, Music, Politics | 109 Comments
Quadrant must be the only “little mag” that gets to run its job ads for free via laudatory columns in the press – witness Frank Devine in The Australian a while back: THE worst paid – next to nothing as an informed guess – full-time job in Australian journalism has become vacant. It is editorship [...]
March 31st, 2007 |
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Levity, Politics | 146 Comments
Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler, authors of The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press, recently produced a two parter on the postmodern left at On Line Opinion. Part one begins: Pomo-bashing, like dragon-hunting, is an activity best undertaken in the suspension of disbelief. By imagining a world in which winged, fire-breathing reptiles [...]
June 15th, 2005 |
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Politics | 93 Comments
[Via Jo Jacobs]. Keith Windschuttle has published a long article on The Journalism of War in The New Criterion. Much of his argument is taken up with attacking the objectivity of Robert Fisk and John Pilger. I don’t want to spend time defending these journalists (though I’d happily do so, particularly in Fisk’s case) but [...]
