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In this national bestseller Robert Manne attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them home report that revealed how thousands of Aboriginal children had been taken from their parents.
What was the role of Paddy McGuinness as editor of Quadrant? How reliable was the evidence that led newspaper columnists from Piers Akerman in the Sydney Daily Telegraph to Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne Herald Sun to deny the gravity of the injustice done?
In a powerful indictment of past government policies towards the indigenous Australians, Robert Manne has written a brilliant polemical essay which doubles as a succinct history of how indigenous Australians were mistreated and an exposure of the ignorance of those who want to deny that history.
About the author
Robert Manne is an emeritus professor of politics and vice-chancellor's fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne. From the late 1980s he wrote regular, often controversial, columns on current affairs for The Herald, The Age, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald, and was a frequent commentator on ABC radio and television.Between 1990 and 1997 Manne was the editor of Quadrant. Appointed as a well-known opponent of communism, he resigned over right-wing opposition to his call for uncompromising recognition of the crimes committed against the Indigenous peoplesof Australia. Since 2005 he has written widely for The Monthly and The Guardian.Manne is the author or editor of somethirty books, including The Petrov Affair, Left, Right, Left, The Mind of the Islamic State, On Borrowed Time and three Quarterly Essays.In 2005 he was voted Australia's leading public intellectual.A fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Manne was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2023.
