Robert Manne

Robert Manne is a professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals.

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La Trobe University - Melbourne - Australia - Public intellectual

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Manne was born in Melbourne in 1947. His earliest political consciousness was formed by the fact that his parents were Jewish refugees from Europe and his grandparents were victims of the Holocaust. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and Oxford University during the 1960s and 1970s. His university teaching focuses on twentieth-century European politics, Communism, and Australian politics, and he has made extensive contribution to public debate in Australia on topics such as censorship, anti-semitism, asylum seekers and mandatory detention, the Stolen Generation, and the "history wars" of the 1990s.

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Holocaust - University of Melbourne - Oxford University - Communism - Australian politics - Censorship - Anti-semitism - Asylum seekers - Mandatory detention - Stolen Generation - History wars

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Manne's allegiances within the Australian political scene have moved from left to right then back to left again. Between 1989 and 1997 Manne edited the conservative magazine Quadrant, resigning when his editorial policies diverged from the views of the magazine's management committee. In 1996 he published a widely discussed and cited book, The Culture of Forgetting, which explored the controversy surrounding Helen Demidenko's 1994 Miles Franklin Award winning novel about the Holocaust, The Hand that Signed the Paper.

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Quadrant - Helen Demidenko - Miles Franklin Award

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Robert Manne edited the 2003 anthology, Whitewash. On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History, as a rebuttalhttp://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/109.html to Keith Windschuttle's claims disputing there was widespread genocide against the Australian Aborigines and the existence of a widespread guerrilla warfare against British settlement. Contributors included well known researcher into the frontier conflict, Professor Henry A. Reynolds, and Professor Lyndall Ryan, whose book The Aboriginal Tasmanians is one of the main targets of Windschuttle?s polemic. Among Manne's other books are The New Conservatism in Australia (1982), In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right (2001), and Do Not Disturb (2005). Manne regularly contributes essays and columns to the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

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Keith Windschuttle - Australian Aborigines - Henry A. Reynolds - Lyndall Ryan - Melbourne Age - Sydney Morning Herald

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