Much can and should be written about Windschuttle’s rotten legacy, which exceeds the bounds of his attacks on Aboriginal Australia. Instead of the comprehensive intellectual thrashing he deserves, this antibiturary is a modest commemoration of the passing of one of our worst thinkers.

The new UA definition of antisemitism moves us closer to the possibility that scholarly work calling for the elimination of settler colonial states could be deemed antisemitic. This should be of concern to scholars working on the theory and praxis of anti-racism, anti-colonialism and decolonisation.