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Category: 2022 East Australian Tour
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The Idiocy of Managerialism
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay investigates the primary intellectual threat facing contemporary Australian society: the systemic rise of managerialism, institutional “bubble thinking,” anti-intellectualism, and a-historical framing. Drawing upon the historical and sociological scholarship of Dr. Neville Buch, the essay demonstrates how this cognitive crisis degrades critical inquiry across four core public domains.…
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Series of Articles on Traveling through Life
Series Introduction: The Series of Articles on Traveling through Life (1–6) documents the intellectual and existential road trips of Dr. Neville Buch between 2022 and 2026. This series analyses the thematic triad of landscape, travel, and thought, framing physical transit as a “cathartic-therapeutic-life accounting experience”. The series is grounded in Dr. Buch’s foundational axiom that…
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The Story of the 2026 Canberra Trip: Intellectual Lessons
The Story of the 2026 Canberra Trip 22 June 2026 Dr Neville Buch I am alive. That is what is the most extraordinary thing about a road trip. That you survived the road and the sojourn of the unfamiliar landscape. The feeling is of a solider returning home from war, although much less traumatic. Let…
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Tackling Australian Historical Ignorance Head-On
Said in a tradition of Australian politicians. I was thinking this morning would Australians talk of “defending the constitution”. Would they know what they were defending? Certainly, defending the Australian constitution is not defending gun rights, nor free speech, nor “inalienable rights”. If we were to defend the Australian constitution, then there…
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Freedom in both The Domestic Home and The Open Road
Three years I was somewhere else on my journey. There are many ways to think about this past. A few thoughts from where I am at, **in** (not simply ‘at’) ‘home’, is that I am just as alone as I was then. The open road never gave me companionship, but neither did I expected it.…
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The Memories – Road Trip Day Gundagai: Neville Still Alive, Ruth as History, the Great Journey we Wanted
Image 1: The Tuckerbox Mythology, Gundagai Time: 12:30 p.m. Date: 23 November 2022 Place: The Dog on the Tuckerbox, Snake Gully, approximately five miles (eight kilometres) from Gundagai, New South Wales. Image 2: Dog on the Tuckerbox, Gundagai I never been, before, to “the dog on the tuckerbox, five…