I went to an Extension History lecture day on the 4th of June last year.. While the lectures on Postmodernism and 'Gendered History' were interesting and useful, it was this day which introduced me to the one known as Keith Windschuttle. The only benefits of this were being made aware of his work (Which I have read, to give an actual basis for my judgements) and being able to win a moral victory in a brief debate with him, (This was after question-time, in which much of the audience were quite outraged at his claims, and justifiably so) criticising him for his seeming ignorance of changing contexts, hypocrisy, and flawed methodology..
It just seems all too coincedental that virtually every piece of evidence viewed as 'truthful' in The Fabrication and his lecture were those supporting his own viewpoint. For a supposedly 'objective' historian, it would have supported his case to incorporate contradictory evidence rather than just dismissing it. [I'm not exaggerating here..]
Ended up leaving early to go book-shopping, thereby missing the last lecture. Got a 28 page booklet of various notes, plus the summaries of the first two lectures made by our teacher. To those doing Extension, I'd say its worth attending. Just beware of Keith.
(My own contextually derived inherently subjective value judgement.)
