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Geo-Political Debate in Australia: An American-Australian Relational (Intellectual-Cultural) Reading
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s intervention on the Labor Government’s decision on the AUKUS agreement for increasing Australia’s defence capability in the Asia-Pacific region, is as helpful as it (also) muddies the waters of local-regional-national interactional discussions. ANU’s Mark Kenny is reported in The New York Times as he explained the essential problem: …
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After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia
The timing of it was interesting for me personally on the global narrative of the collapse of SVB and Signature. On Monday my application with the Commonwealth for a credit card was denied, and I put it down to my income and budget based on a slow business model. The Big Banks will not support…
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HA Inc. Medium Publication. A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland
A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland, published by Humanist Australia Inc. on the Medium platform. Follow the link: https://medium.com/australian-humanist/a-critical-review-of-2022-theos-annual-lecture-by-tom-holland-d4268e11e7c0
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Explaining Neville’s Historiography (Dr Neville Buch ABN 86703686642)
In a conversation with one of the members in the international Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Mathematics Facebook Group, it came to me how I can explain my historiography. The context here is community education and research, but the university academics have missed much in the significance of my work for their own historical conclusions.…
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Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) and an Honest Conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology
I am quite excited to find Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) on YouTube. It opens up an honest conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology in the year 2023 among those interested in the related history of popular culture studies. We are in a cosmic shift for Americanised and populist Christianity. The only way forward for…
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Regarding Our Education Systems Needing Thinking in Contemporaneous Compatibilist Epistemology
The 2022 Australian and New Zealand History of Education (ANZHES) Conference From selections of the ANZHES Newsletter December 2022, with comments. This blog article — call it what you like — “academic”, “populist”, “community”, any political semantics, to ignore it, Minister of Education, cannot be so dismissed. The communities demand an answer on the state…
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Neo-Orthodoxy Today from Historical Legacy
Introduction Today, we hear stories of Orthodox Judaism, and in this recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, we learn that ‘new orthodoxy’ is a ‘thing’. Image: Online story, Sylvia Goodman. ‘Alternative’ or ‘Sham’? Yeshiva U. Created a New LGBTQ Club — but Won’t Recognize the One That Sued, The Chronicle of Higher…
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A Message to the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools
I am responding to the below-mentioned Campaign and the thinking in reaction to a meme, posted on the Facebook page of the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools. “This, in a nutshell, is why [meme] there should be no religious instruction in public schools. It doesn’t get more divisive and judgemental than this.…
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Strong-Intellectual Rhetoric in Petitions
There is some concern that in petitioning governments that we should avoid strong-intellectual language. The contrary argument is as follows: Masking political realism in the community has been the way governments have put it over us when they wish to resist the community’s desires. Such, that in actually delivering in strong-intellectual language, I…
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NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE
Short Blog Report NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE My first tip to Adelaide was a very quick and short time Friday late night to Sunday early morning. The nature of the business – the mission and budget – meant that the time for extensive sightseeing would have to be the next trip…