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An Advert for the Need for MICE
During the 2026 South Australian Australian of the Year Awards, an embarrassing blunder occurred when the Senior award winner was initially announced, then un-awarded, only for the original winner to be reinstated after a period of confusion. Meteorologist (?) Malcolm Benoy was first named, then told there was a mistake and…
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Why moralism does not work.
WHY MORALISM DOES NOT WORK Please Understand, for the sake of kindness. From Thomas Banchoff, Liberals and conservatives shy away from this core Catholic teaching, Cruelty is ravaging politics. What happened to mercy? The Washington Post. November 13, 2025 “Liberals and conservatives shy away from mercy…
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Redcliffe-Mt Glorious-Brisbane Valley: Road Trip for Pleasure
15 November 2025 This year I have had less road trips due to my impoverishment, due to “asshole” decision makers. Each member of the society makes a decision on how much they wish ‘to be aware of’ and what they wish to know. That is personal choice. But what I am talking about…
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Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Researcher and yet unpaid for work Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 November 2025 Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Available at https://www.academia.edu/144949291/Jack_McKinneys_Advanced_Thinking_Humanism_in_Queensland Attached: Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland …
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The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me?
An Academia.Edu Paper called “The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me”: https://www.academia.edu/144863959/The_Overwhelming_Argument_on_why_contract_or_employ_me The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me (PDF) This article is not self-promotion but an intellectual plea. This article is not advertising nor marketing, but the Most Intelligent Plea of Intelligent Pleas. It is…
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Where be the Arrogance (reference to Tittle 2004): The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004
The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004 Dr Neville Buch There is for Humanism in the 21st century and Trumpocene a correct way of thinking available (Toulmin 1953: 219, 235), and the singular here is one summative thought that combines many other thoughts. There is both diversity and a singular…
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“You Don’t Know What You Are Saying”: The Damage that “Local” Politicians Do…
Neel is yet to finish his HSC exams, and two of his dream uni courses are gone Year 12 students face uncertain futures as universities slash jobs and units while chasing millions of dollars in savings. The Sydney Morning Herald 4 November 2025 By Emily Kowal “…[to] spearhead a twenty-first century…
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Et tu? Authority on notice as more schools outed teaching wrong subject
“Et tu? Authority on notice as more schools outed teaching wrong subject” from In Queensland, October 30, 2025. “The spotlight has been placed on a curriculum authority after nine schools discovered they were teaching year 12 students the wrong topic days before final exams. The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority came under…
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Policy Problems that Governance does not want to face
“Year 12 students at eight schools were taught the wrong topic for final exams, as authorities rush to check whether even more pupils have been impacted by the bungle.” In Queensland, October 29, 2025 Whatever operational bundle emerges, there is still the policy problem behind that governance does not want to face. …
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Neil Van Leeuwen’s Précis for Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
The General Concept: A Two-Map Cognitive Structure Consider children playing with dolls on a playground during recess. from Neil Van Leeuwen Two things strike us. First, though the children are absorbed, they don’t lose their grip on reality. They remain aware that sand is sand, that wet sand builds better “castles,” that they…