Keith Windschuttle's claims disputing there was genocide against Indigenous Australians and guerrilla warfare against British settlement on the continent. Contributors included Henry A. Reynolds, who writes on frontier conflict; and Lyndall Ryan, whose book The Aboriginal Tasmanians is one of the main targets of Windschuttle's work. Manne was Chairman of the editorial board of The Monthly, a national magazine of politics, society and the arts, from February 2006 until his resignation on 18 August 2011. He wanted to focus on his writing, "including a new blog to be published on The Monthlys website." Manne's departure as chairman resulted in the editorial board's dissolution, with Monthly editor Ben Naparstek announcing, "We're not going to have one any more." Manne's blog, entitled Left, Right, Left, had its first post on 12 September. Manne is also Chair of the Australian Book Review, a board member of The Brisbane Institute, and a member of the board of the Stolen Generations Taskforce in Victoria. Influences Over the years, Manne has claimed a range of political, economic, philosophical, and academic figures as influences from across the political spectrum. These have included Primo Levi, Václav Havel, George Orwell, Richard Pipes, Sven Lindqvist, Friedrich Hayek, Eric Hobsbawm, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Stiglitz. Honours Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1999). In 2005 he was voted Australia's leading public intellectual in a survey conducted by The Sydney Morning Herald. Festschrift volume: Tavan Gwenda (ed.). 2013. State of the Nation: Essays for Robert Manne. Melbourne: Black Inc. Shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, 2012. API Top Australian Public Intellectuals (number 1) Officer of the Order of Australia, 2023 Australila Day Honours, for "distinguished service to tertiary education, to political and social commentary, to public affairs, and to the Indigenous community" Bibliography Books Quarterly Essays QE01 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right (2001) QE13 Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference (2003) – With David Corlett QE43 Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation (2011) Essays and reporting Quadrant editorials Book reviews References External links Manne's profile at La Trobe University Articles by Manne at The Monthly Articles by Manne at The Guardian 1947 births Living people Australian political scientists La Trobe University faculty Australian journalists Australian people of Jewish descent Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Melbourne alumni Quadrant (magazine) people Officers of the Order