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Keith Windschuttle

Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) is an Australian historian. He was appointed to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2006. He was editor of ''Quadrant'' from 2007 to 2015 when he became chair of the board and editor-in-chief. 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; ''The Fabrication of 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; ''The White Australia Policy'' (2004), a history of that policy which argues that academic historians have exaggerated the degree of racism in Australian history; 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. Provided by Wikipedia