Obituary for Keith Windshuttle

by Ross Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at Griffith University.

Fellow historian and long-time friend Professor Ross Fitzgerald said that “Windshuttle argued that, to support their own political and ideological agendas, some Australian historians had either invented or falsified the amount of racial violence that occurred in colonial times.”

“In this regard, Windschuttle extended the claims of pioneer Australian historian, Professor Geoffrey Blainey, by focusing on what he regarded as false statements about the extent of racial violence in early 19th Van Diemen’s Land,” Prof Fitzgerald said.

The Australian,10 April, 2025