Indigenous History in Gould’s Book of Fish

Abstract

Other publications – such as Theodore Dalrymple’s “Why Intellectuals Like Genocide” from 2007 or the now infamous work by Keith Windschuttle from 2002 The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Van Diemen’s Land, 1803–1847 – highlight the vehemence and emotion involved in the argument (cf. Madley: 77). More so for Aboriginal people; Brewster (3) quotes various voices on the subject of a living memory who say that as long as the conditions of the past are the conditions of the present, the past is not past; that victors can afford to forget while the ‘losers’ cannot; and that Aboriginal remembrance is a living experience of the past. Stephens (n.p.) states that the urge to rewrite Australia’s history appears to be driven by politics rather than a desire for truth and refers to The History Wars: