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Article: REPLY TO KENNETH MINOGUE.(response to article by Kenneth Minogue, Quadrant, September 1998)(Australian Aborigines)
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- Quadrant
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- November 1, 1998
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MORE THAN ONCE, Robert Manne and I complained that nothing that looked liked serious argument accompanied the hostile responses to what we wrote in Quadrant on the "stolen children". Professor Kenneth Minogue ("Aborigines and Australian Apologetics", September) says that is a sign of our "curious moral and intellectual vanity". Is it?
It would be if we had simply expected people to respond with detailed argument to our articles just because we had written them. But we expected no such thing. We assumed only that if our writings excited persistent abuse -- in letters to the editor of Quadrant and in newspaper columns -- then arguments should accompany, if not ...