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Public Transport System of Brisbane: A Conversation with the folk of South-East Queensland
Following Public Message on Public Infrastructure in the Lead Up to 2024 BCC and Queensland Elections, I have had a few conversations and enlightening feedback. One conversation was with a colleague and friend who described the Brisbane City Council (BCC)’s bus over rail policy in the observation that the state government is responsible for…
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Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History
It amazes me that the reaction thinking can swallow up social movements into the madness of the mob. Yes, when layout on a spectrum, it is only a minority position, but, in which case, the reaction thinking becomes the majority outlook through the echo chamber of the techne. We are doing the…
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Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It
Featured Image: Marketoonist, Tom Fishburne. Paid. 240122.highres.focused. Order #27607 (January 22, 2024). Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It For example, here are a few places of public discourse where big ideas are discussed without political distraction: Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education (AULRE) Australia and Aotearoa…
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Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
We Are the People Song by Empire of the Sun We can remember swimming in December Heading for the city lights in 1975 We share in each other Nearer than father The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes We are the people that rule the world A force running in every boy…
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Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi: The Homogeneous Trap
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”. It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French revolution and its aftermath, and as selectively applied the thinking in the framework of…
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Antiquarianism, Intellectual Confusion, and the Worship of Unintelligent Fiction
Let me be straight up, so as not to be confused on my clear and intelligent point. I do not expect fiction to be any closer to accuracy than what it is, fiction. It is rather an issue of the antiquarian, and what that truly means. Antiquarianism, according to the Wikipedia article should be seen…
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CALL FOR A QUEENSLAND HISTORY TEAM
For Local History Organisers and Funding Negotiators, Professional History Queensland Advisors, and Experienced Editors in the History Genre On (Hidden) Intellectual History of Queensland Publication Project Call for you to join a team to work together for the challenge to bring a manuscript to publication in Dr Neville Buch’s A Hidden Intellectual History of…
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Concept, Semantics, and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
Image: Marketoonist 240115.highres.ideakillers. Licensed paid. Marketoonist is a cartoon provider on marketing issues. Tom Fishburne is usually highly critical of current marketing practice. I support his conclusions and his work, and pay for the license to use his cartoons. In this blog piece are three cartoons to get to the point of needing a…
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Review of Frank Furedi’s “When Do You Think The Culture Wars Began? And Why Understanding Its Long History Really Matters.”
It may come as a surprise to some, that I read closely blogs and articles of scholars, who I believe, miss key or main points in their argument, whether from Left or Right. Open scholarship goes to the work I do as a philosopher and historian, and as a sociologist. These are the…
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BCC Centenary Commemoration 1925-2025
The Letter From Councillor Vicki Howard, Civic Cabinet Chair for Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy, Councillor for Central Ward, to Mr Cole and Dr Buch, 19 December 2023: CAN CO09719-2023 FINAL ****** Reply… 26 December 2023 Hi Simon (Simon Cole, President of the Coopers Plains History Group Inc.), I think,…