Keith Windschuttle: People don't buy histories by conservatives

HISTORIAN Keith Windschuttle was wearing his publisher's hat this week, launching Michael Connor's book, The Invention of Terra Nullius, in Sydney. The event was attended by like-minded conservatives, including retired Court of Appeal judge Roddy Meagher, Leonie Kramer, David Flint, the NSW Liberal Party's David Clarke, Janet Albrechtsen and Christopher Pearson. Windschuttle will now settle down to write the second volume of his opus, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. But finding a market for this genre of book among the tight-fisted commentariat can be an uphill battle. "The truth of it is that the Left buy books," he said, "but the Right don't."