Vale Keith Windschuttle

A fearless intellectual dissident with an abiding intolerance of bullshit

Keith Windschuttle was a fearless intellectual dissident who confronted conventional wisdom on the most pressing cultural issues of our age.

His meticulous work as a historian, particularly in the two volumes of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, challenged the myth of the noble savage and exposed the absence of empirical rigour and the ideological b…