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Category: 2024 Brisbane-to-Adelaide Tour
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The Anatomy of Political Decay in Queensland. How does politics in Queensland destroy good governance?
Dr Neville Buch[1] Politics in Queensland has historically undermined good governance by replacing professional, evidence-based institutional frameworks with a system of personal patronage, anti-intellectualism, and manufactured folkloric myths. This dynamic often leads to what is described as a “systemic cognitive pathology,” where political survival and immediate utility are prioritized over social accountability and humanistic flourishing.…
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South-by-SouthWest: A Philosophic Journey Home
Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay maps the “South-by-SouthWest” journey from the coastal expanse of Moreton Bay back to the suburban heart of Sunnybank Hills, treating the transit as a philosophical reading of the Brisbane landscape. By traversing a corridor defined by significant environmental markers like Tingalpa and Bulimba Creeks and established educational and medical institutions, the traveller…
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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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Poor Dynamic of Cognition: Historical Case – Reactionary Phenomenon (Resistance)
Abstract This essay examines the systemic cognitive pathology characterizing the Queensland Cabinet’s resistance to the heritage listing of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) under Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. By applying the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework, the analysis identifies the poor cognitive dynamics driven by an aggressive obsession with State sovereignty and a narrow “techné mindset”…
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Detailed Intellectual History of Brisbane, Queensland; or “Brisbane’s Intellectual Ascent: A History of Humanistic Cognition”
BRISBANE’S INTELLECTUAL ASCENT: A HISTORY OF HUMANISTIC COGNITION https://www.academia.edu/162374166/Detailed_Intellectual_History_of_Brisbane_Queensland_or_Brisbanes_Intellectual_Ascent_A_History_of_Humanistic_Cognition_ Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract The intellectual history of Brisbane is a narrative of transition from a colonial outpost characterized by “historical forgetfulness” to a burgeoning centre for inclusive humanism and digital humanism. For too long,…
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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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The Political Class of Brisbane and Queensland, and solutions
28 December 2025 Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA cc. Drs. Michael Macklin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Dear friends with a wide range of political views who nevertheless…
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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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History: not the Hollywood costume drama we have come to imagine
The critic…“has realised that the chief way we relate to history today is as one big Hollywood costume drama”. Our country, and the world in the early 21st century, are being edged-on into stupidity by reactionary thinkers who are misguided into believing that they are God’s gift to “Man.” History is how we…
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Anti-DEI bureaucracy in Australia?
Dear friends, One wonders if there is also an anti-DEI bureaucracy in Australia? “American Colleges Must Comply With a Whole New Bureaucracy to Satisfy Republicans’ DEI Bans.” Let’s be frank and clear. The anti-DEI bureaucracy is uncompassionate in the anti-Christ spirit of political meanness and ressentiment. — https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-new-anti-dei-bureaucracy?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_10289606_nl_Academe-Today_date_20240627&cid=at&source=&sourceid=&sra=true — Featured Image: Meanness and painful human condition, pictured as a wooden human…