THE MYTHS OF FRONTIER MASSACRES IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY.

From: Quadrant | Date: December 1, 2000| Author: WINDSCHUTTLE, KEITH | Copyright information

PART III: MASSACRE STORIES AND THE POLICY OF SEPARATISM

HENRY REYNOLDS' book This Whispering in Our Hearts (1998) is a history of those humanitarians and missionaries in Australia who over the past two centuries have taken the Aboriginal side and who have tried to change the behaviour of their fellow Europeans towards the indigenous people of this continent. Reynolds notes that many of his subjects have been regarded by other colonists as "self-righteous, disturbing, dan...

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