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Klaus Neumann

Abstract

Trades Hall, Melbourne, 16 March 2003. An expectant buzz fills the auditorium. The capacity crowd, several hundred strong and mainly under thirty, is anticipating a spectacle: a contest between two members of a profession not otherwise known for staging fights in the public arena. This bout could have been billed ‘The Ugly v. The Righteous’. The Ugly is Keith Windschuttle, author of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. The Righteous is Patricia Grimshaw, Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.

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Author Biography

Klaus Neumann, Swinburne University

KLAUS NEUMANN is an academically trained historian. He works at Swinburne University’s Institute for Social Research. His A Doubtful Character, a piece of documentary fiction about the inventor Wolf Klaphake, was recently broadcast on ABC Radio National.