Keith Windschuttle

Keith Windschuttle is a right-wing historian who has been appointed to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He is a contributor to Quadrant Magazine.

He has been described as belonging to a category of intellectual who are "disillusioned former ultra-leftists who begin to move to the right and, because of a temperamental incapacity for moderation, are incapable of stopping until they reach an equivalent extreme." 

External Resources

 * David Rood and Simon Mann, The man behind the history wars takes on Aunty, The Age, June 16, 2006.
 * Michelle Grattan, ABC gets a culture warrior, The Age, June 16, 2006.
 * Robert Manne, PM's contempt for ABC, The Age, June 17, 2006.