My response to the LinkedIn campaign, “How do you combine research and teaching in higher education?”, “Powered by AI and the LinkedIn community”. I combine research and teaching in higher education by being personal. And it seems as if that is difficult...
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We Know What We Are Talking About, But Do the Corporates?
A comment on the state of intelligence in the global corporate world, here in Australia and elsewhere. Apologizes to the poets, including myself. The point is that the corporates have no poetic sensibility nor interest in the insights of poetry. We Know What We...
Letter to Professor Carolyn Evans, Vice-Chancellor, Griffith University (30 August 2023)
Dear Professor Evans, Many thanks for acknowledging my story. The only reason to share it with you is that there are no positions for a person of my high caliber. Looking, this morning, in the 'Jobs at Griffith' and filtering for the School of...
Types of Races — Rats, Foxes, or Tortoises
The "The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and...
The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc.’s Briefing-Submission on the State Government’s South East Queensland Regional Plan 2023 Update (SEQRP).
The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc.’s Briefing-Submission on the State Government’s South East Queensland Regional Plan 2023 Update (SEQRP). Please read and download the document here. SBSF Briefing on the State SEQ Plan (Final 18 Aug 23)
The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors
The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors…the world has changed and you are left at its margins, raging with no clear intelligence. You have become marginalised in understanding the new world, as you are marginalised in your poverty,...
Are Queensland power-brokers to learn from the FREE VCE History Roadshow?
Hi Stephen, Just a friendly reminder that I am serious about a former answer to my question and the email to you on 3 August (attached); from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, the equivalent of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and also...
Part Three: Urban Rebellion and Community Education
Today, I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on linking "town planning rebellion" and the Brisbane history(ies) of local studies and the examination of municipal governance. Two names. In the case of the former, Rod Fisher, and, in the case, of the latter, John...
PART TWO: Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood
The political rhetoric diverts from the critical challenges and the better solutions. But it is even worse, in that a moment of thought, any "John, Dick, or Harry" can see through the masking -- and I am sure Harry, Dick, John, have already. Then what? Surely we must...