2016-future Public Cognition, Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series, Concepts in UQ Philosophy and History, MICE: Management Institute for Contributory Economy, Unintelligent Fiction

Australian Universities Afraid of Open Communication and Intelligent Conversation

June 27, 2025
I must apologise for posting in what would seem a simple matter of emailing the universities and asking them to stop blocking me in my legitimate, academic communications. However, you have the ‘chicken-and-egg’ problem. In order to let the authorities know they have either made a mistake or a deliberate unjust action (with no justifiable […]

I must apologise for posting in what would seem a simple matter of emailing the universities and asking them to stop blocking me in my legitimate, academic communications. However, you have the ‘chicken-and-egg’ problem. In order to let the authorities know they have either made a mistake or a deliberate unjust action (with no justifiable cause in context), I would have the email automatically blocked.

 

 

To date, three Australian universities put an automatic block on my correspondence email address, so that I could not legitimately contact academics in the university. First, it was the University of New England, then the University of Melbourne (where I once extensively worked without any complaint to have me thrown out), and now the Australian National University. All I was seeking, was to inform my colleague Associate Professor David Kim that Bill Moyer had passed and passed on the newspaper’s subscribers’ free link (I pay!)

 

 

I am left with the feeling that I am “not good enough” for Open Communication and Intelligent Conversation. So let me make a short statement to the contrary, which I have already stated, and add my CV:

 

 

In the meantime can someone let David I am trying to contact him.

 

 

I hesitate to take the matter further, but my colleague, Dr Neil Peach, a very active philosopher and former university registrar, stated:

 

 

I strongly recommend that you write directly to Dr Henry-James and make him aware of your view that this was prepared in order to assist him to re-consider his position; that the material previously forwarded to him was, indeed, an important work related to the history of thinking in Australia:  and as such that you would like him to re-read your previous work in this light.

 

 

Neil’s comment came after sending him the attached document. The document, “20th Century Continental Philosophy and Thinking Today” will not appear to you as relevant to Australian Intellectual History, however, the argument of the document is the background to work I have had done in the intellectual history of Jack Philip McKinney (1891–1966), but struggle to advanced since I am in this condition:

 

 

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It seriously raises questions as to why I have not been offered paid work when my wider work on Queensland intellectual history has been published, most formatively in:

 

 

Buch, N. (2024). Queensland History, Religious Education, and Belief, in Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope, Edited by David W. Kim and Duncan Wright, London: Lexington Books.

 

 

This is not the only work I have done in the field of Australian Intellectual History. I have done work on Donald Horne for the Australian Studies Institute, and on William F. Buckley in the Australian setting for the University of Manchester, which is merely mentioned in the report document I sent the Dean.  For a bigger picture of the work, I suggest you go to the attached CV and my online work site: https://drnevillebuch.com/ , and particularly to the-never-complete Dr Buch’s Full Listings of Articles, Essays, Chapters, and Books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So, in summing up, would you meet my plea for reasoning, lower the barriers of prejudice and bias.

 

NDB Full CV May 2025

 

 

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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