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Category: Blog
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Re: A Discussion Among Friends: SoFiA and Faith, Adelaide-Melbourne Progressivism and all that Jazz!
Dear folks, I felt the best thing I can do at this point is review different discussions in different quarters, and try to bring some mutual understanding. There are overlapping elements but they take the conversation off in different directions, and that’s okay, as we don’t need to be on about the same concerns to find…
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Open Letter to Unawares and Intended No Voters
Dear friend, You are intending to vote ‘No’ in the upcoming referendum, and yet I call you ‘friend’. I have no animosity to those who wish to vote ‘No’. The purpose of my open letter is create some awareness in your consideration of the vote, one way or the other. …
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Australian Higher Education System is Stuck, Why Can NOT the VC See nothing has changed in the last two decades?
Dear University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and Griffith Vice-Chancellors, From the RMIT VC, Professor Alec Cameron: “Higher education and vocational education can work together to support the myriad journeys through learning and work, giving people flexible options to meet their life goals as those evolve”, since “’the goal of reform must be growth for…
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A Moment of Grief: Memory and the Presence
I am crying, tears which have not been shed for some time. I am unwell. I had the flu on Friday, which was the onset of a nasty intestinal bacterial infection. I have been told from a reliable source that it is going around the Adelaide area. I was able…
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Behind the Wizard’s Curtain: Social Media and the Early 21st Century
Apparently, “I am being blocked by Quora”, and I thought I was (not so). There have certainly been times when Quora has blocked my scholarly answers. On this occasion I wrote a post commending an answer about “What is it about Australian culture that Americans just don’t understand?”. Then I wrote, …
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Rating or Ranting Business, for 2023 (Half-Joke)
Licensed Image: Order Receipt #1139-55.45 Rate me if you wish.
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Re-Thinking Australian-American Paradigms
Without doubt, Allan Megill is the best intellectual historian in the United States. His paradigm on what constitutes historical knowledge, and what constitutes historical error, is the framing for my multidisciplinary work. There are three American scholars, who have continued to shaped my thinking in the Australian-American discourse, the other two are historical geographer David…
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2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities
In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from the ethos of the Covid-19…
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Speaking Truth to Power: Range Of Personal Semantics
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 for many to understand, but understood by billions of persons who…
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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 Are Talking About, But the Corporates DO NOT! Image:…