Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, "I apologise as Public Service...
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Why every aspect of Propaganda needs to be Challenged, including click bait?
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, "Why Scholars Should Stop Studying 'Misinformation'." Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was 'click bait', and for...
The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, https://www.academia.edu/123734421/The_Role_of_the_Intellectual_in_the_Australian_Economy The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy In 2002 Raewyn Connell and Julian Wood produced an article in the Journal of Sociology...
What are real solutions?
Featured Image: Paid. Invoice #: 00235-2024. 240909.highres.aitool In 1966, Abraham Maslow, originator of the Hierarchy of Needs, made this well-known observation: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything...
This is WHY we need paid professional community education: To Destroy the Lies Before they Grow
Dear friends To Destroy the Lies Before the Grow: Community Education, paid because it cannot survive if it is not funded. It is a Call for true Public Education in Brisbane, South-East Queensland, Queensland. ...
Why Politicians Cannot Make Intelligent Captain’s Call.
Higher education works theoretically as a collegial enterprise. In denial of the culture-history nonsense, a collegial process does not end up in a mess of indecision, if the principles of collegial dialogue are adhered to. There are more agreement than disagreement...
Ruth at the Turn of the Century
His work so absorbed him. Could she hear him? Could she see him? All aglow was his room, Dazed in this light. He would touch her, He would hold her. Laughing as they danced, Highest colours touching others. Did her eyes at the turn of the century, Tell me plainly. …...
Redirecting the Anger at the Blips
“And it seems possible now, as online television, to service seriously thinking community workers. The best way to deal with the anger, at the blip who deliberate forced closures of community enterprises, is to restore community enterprises anew against the wishes of...
“School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools
An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.” “[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on...