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Thinking on the Excuses of the Premier of Queensland
The Correspondence TF-23-1204 – Message for Dr Buch from the Premier (attached): Gmail – TF_23_12404 – Message for Dr Buch In response to my short plea to save The Gabba Community from the pain of losing a primary school and a park, the Premier of Queensland has sent me a two…
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Interdisciplinary research is ‘paid lip service’
Dear friends, What I have been saying for the last few years in the local context, and I just get ignored. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/universities-paying-lip-service-interdisciplinary-research The article I assumed is paywalled. So here is my extract of the take-home messages (less than or equal to 10% for fair research…
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That’s just the way it is; Ah, but don’t you believe them
That’s just the way it is Ah, but don’t you believe them ***** The Way It Is Song by Bruce Hornsby Standing in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime ‘Cause they can’t buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old…
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Shout. There are Things I Can Do Without. And Truth Matters
Listening to the Tears For Fear’s song, “Shout”, when faced with The Cynical Voice towards The Voice Referendum completed October 14, I think of the lyrics: In violent times You shouldn’t have to sell your soul In black and white They really, really ought to know Those one track minds That…
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Truth Matters, Now and Later
It has been said so many times, but who listens and understands? Featured Image: ORDER NUMBER: 27495; DATE: October 9, 2023; TOTAL: $35.00; PAYMENT METHOD: Credit Card Home
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Hope from a Letter
Well, this was unexpected. PM Acknowledgement Letter A letter from the Prime Minister of Australia, and, although not personally but through his Office, it is the first time I have had an acknowledgment from the highest office in our beloved country; a life changing event, and, seriously, proud to be Australian existentially. …
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What I do?
Someone said to me this morning: “I do not do philosophy. I get up early in the morning. I go to bed late at night”. Well, that sounds to be a particular philosophical idea. Nevertheless, it demonstrated to me confusion on my work. What I do, is explained in this diagram. “It is not…
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Rousseau without Hume and Hume without Rousseau: The Modernist Tragedy
The Conversation piece by Chris Fleming (Published: September 26, 2023 6.06am AEST) is informative but there is oddly no mention of Hume. It is a weird absence, since contemporary history of philosophy has successfully argued that we can not understand Rousseau without Hume, and, indeed this has been established as the public culture-history warfare of…
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Heritage Values in the Queensland State Government?
Heritage Values in the Queensland State Government? Don’t believe it! After 5.00 p.m., today (29 September 2023) at the end of business, I and a senior bureaucrat were sent an email of a s36A Notice – Non Complying Application (below) which will lead to the demolishing the “Yeerongpilly Railway Station Building_20230929” in the…
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The misery of rankings and machine thinking
“Oxford University’s Professor of Higher Education Simon Marginson said he disliked the Times rankings because there was no rationale for the mix and ratio of the weightings. Meanwhile, he said survey responses from academics were subjective and often unduly amplified some trends.” “University of Melbourne Professor Michael Wesley, who this year wrote a book…