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Geo-Political Debate in Australia: An American-Australian Relational (Intellectual-Cultural) Reading
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s intervention on the Labor Government’s decision on the AUKUS agreement for increasing Australia’s defence capability in the Asia-Pacific region, is as helpful as it (also) muddies the waters of local-regional-national interactional discussions. ANU’s Mark Kenny is reported in The New York Times as he explained the essential problem: …
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After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia
The timing of it was interesting for me personally on the global narrative of the collapse of SVB and Signature. On Monday my application with the Commonwealth for a credit card was denied, and I put it down to my income and budget based on a slow business model. The Big Banks will not support…
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Jesus Revolution: Film Propaganda or History?
Night 25 of the 2023 American Tour I am pleased for lives transformed in such a way that a person is taken out of a spiral downwards and into a stable and sustainable lifestyle, BUT does it have to be at the cost of understanding a bigger world? Take the film “Jesus Revolution” and Cannons’…
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School Shooting as Normality?
School Shooting as Normality…When will Americans “get it” Comment on: https://wapo.st/3YtMR4g Perspective by John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich, “After Parkland: What we’ve learned tracking school shootings for 5 years.” The total number of children exposed to gun violence at school has exploded, rising from 187,000 in 2018 to 338,000 now, a Washington Post analysis…
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Ruth the Squirrel
Ruth the Squirrel Live to Work Work to Live Like Squirrels Of Winter In Boston Common. Pressure to Grow Delights of Sex Like Squirrels Of Spring In Boston Common. Tourist Performance Sing for your Supper! Like Squirrels Of Summer In Boston Common. Income only No expenditure Like Squirrels Of Autumn In Boston Common. Expending All…
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Sinclair Lewis Collection at PWPL
Featured Image: Dr Neville Buch in the Sinclair Lewis Collection, Port Washington, Long Island, New York State (USA). Dear Dr. Buch, It was a pleasure to meet you this afternoon and show you the PWPL’s materials on Sinclair Lewis. Here is a link to a Google Arts and Culture page the History Center put together…
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Letter. Explaining Myself in the Hope of Dialogue, 29 January 2023
Dear American friends, I am leaving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, tonight, for a country I have critically admired my whole life. It is the second trip, the last in 30 years (1991-1992). An intelligent conversation, the last few days, has indicated to me that I need to clarify where I am coming from as an American-Australian…
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HA Inc. Medium Publication. A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland
A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland, published by Humanist Australia Inc. on the Medium platform. Follow the link: https://medium.com/australian-humanist/a-critical-review-of-2022-theos-annual-lecture-by-tom-holland-d4268e11e7c0
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Persons, Ideology, and Cognitive Mapping
Ideologies are like social science models. Historians point out that that such boxes are useful for mapping (another form of modelling) but persons and their cognition do not fit with mathematic precision into such spaces. Such hardline arguments (“ideological”) about ego identity end up blindsided. At best it is shorthand expression, giving fairly accurate…
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The Case of Birkbeck and Adult Education
From Times Higher Education, 12 January 2023 Tom Williams, How Birkbeck was squeezed by years of neglect for adult education, London’s revered ‘night university’ enters bicentenary year mired in financial crisis. Quotes: “Professor Michie, president of Kellogg College, Oxford, has charted how for much of the 21st century the UK’s policy environment has undermined the…