Lexi

At best your analogy of an opinion by Mr Abbott that you disagree with compared with hate filled bile often demonstrated by the aboriginal industry is very poor.

Dear runner,

Again you're presenting your views as facts.
You don't know what I agree with or disagree
with. Context is everything. Try again - reading and
comprehending what's actually been written and not
add your own version.

Lexi,
It would be very interesting to get one Government funded & one privately funded historian to write about history & compare them. Just to make it easy let's just try the past twenty years after all many people involved are still around to verify the stories.
How about a book on ATSIC Bureaucrats ?

Lexi there are some authors who's writings should be viewed with a huge dose of scepticism, & Reynolds is definitely one of them.

It is difficult to say weather the greatest number of lies ever put into print were produced by anthropologists, historians or climate scientists. In fact I think the historians probably have it by a hair. However in Oz the anthropologists are trying to reverse that.

Just because it made it into print does not make it so, & in fact you are more likely to find something more closely approaching the truth if it never made in into print, & was never meant to be printed.

After all most things were printed to sell at a profit, & a bit of spice, & or ideology added here & there, sure helps with that.

Australians are weird. You love to hate yourselves but heaven help anyone outside who judges you. Bizarre place.

Dear Hasbeen,

Yes there are some so called historians who
had their own agendas and ulterior motives
in what they had recorded. We know that from
history. Many twisted things to suit
themselves - many did not do the proper research
(from primary sources) of verified the facts.
They wrote what people wanted to hear - not
how things actually occurred.
These historians have since been discredited. Henry Reynolds
wasn't one of them - although heaven knows they tried
hard enough to slur his reputation.

The following website may be of interest to you:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fabrication.htm