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The Night of Present Moment
The breeze is blowing. What will come With the wind? Passing memories Of you, love. The crest of The day. Light has gone. And thoughts turn to you. I sigh. What is there to be, I said Conversations have Past, and now The silence of the Night. Empty and…
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The Passing of Uncle Arthur
Stocker-Lohmann-French-Buch Eulogy for Uncle Arthur Arthur Edmund Sedgwick Ruckert 5 November 1930 – 25 July 2022 My role today is to pay tribute to a man known as ‘Uncle Arthur’, in regards to the four families which extended out on the family tree from the Ruckerts. Arthur Edmund Sedgwick Ruckert was a family man…
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Is Social Media to Blame for Academic Ruin?
The Philosophy Café Meet Up, Brisbane, Australia IS SOCIAL MEDIA TO BLAME FOR ACADEMIC RUIN? A Document to be Read by Academics: A Message from the Wider Communities Is Social Media to Blame for Academic Ruin (Corrections 7 Oct 22) Saturday, October 8, 2022 Is Social Media to Blame for Academic Ruin? Start Time 1.00…
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The 1967 Referendum And The Thinking For The Next Referendum
The change in 1967 demarked that, in the historical period before, Australian Aboriginals were not treated as citizens, but accounted in narratives of flora and fauna. There is unfortunately ambiguity in the narratives. Larissa Behrendt (2007) explains it best: “The focus on citizenship rights as an important part of the campaign for Indigenous…
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The Historiographical Argument for a ‘Yes’ Vote
In dialogue with a friend, I seek to meet his skepticism with a convincing vote for ‘Yes’ to the Uluru Statement. My message was (is) as follows: Friend, yes, I like your question, and it should be asked. And, yes, you are right, “First Nations are specifically NOT entitled to a unique voice unless…
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D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo (1923): One Hundred Years On, Questioning Social Philosophy and Policy for Today
THREE ESSAYS (REVIEW COMMENTS) IN ONE ESSAY An examination of D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo (The Cambridge Edition) in social philosophy, and demonstrating a fundamental policy problem in Australian political history. Image: Sydney Region and Central-South Coast Staging of Kangaroo (1923). ***** List of Site Markers. Order from north to south Narrabeen New South Wales 2101…
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The Ontological Compass
The Ontological Compass assists in mapping out our understanding of too many philosophical arguments which get conflated, and interpretations which overlap without clarity. It works on measuring out usual binaries in discussions, and provides the relational sense to these matters, avoiding meaningless cognitive relativism as well as out-dated absolutism. If there are any absolutism,…
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The Falseness of the ‘Woke’ Outrage: Sleepwalking into Present History
There has been outrage in recent years from right-wing media about a ‘woke’ pandemic, as a politically incorrect stance from a neo-conservative framework of thought. It has many academics and ‘non-school’ scholars perplexed. It has only been recently and systematically articulated as outrage in James Lindsay and Charles Pincourt’s (2021) Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual…
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Discussion: Religion, Culture, and Political Parties: The Silent Response to Zachary Gorman ‘s One Direction and Mike Seccombe’s Part 1 & 2: Collapse of the modern Liberal
Dr Neville Buch challenges a discussion with the views of Mike Seccombe, Zachary Gorman, John Warhurst, and Nick Cater. “I never got from Menzies what I feel about listening to modern Liberals, which is a contempt for the other. It’s a really, really harsh, harsh attitude – that your political opponents are the enemy. It’s…
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What are five facts about Australian History that you wish Americans knew?
I was invited to answer a Quora question, on ‘facts’ that I would like Americans to know. Here are my answers. Facts in chronological reverse order, all of equal importance. The Culture-History War from Prime Minister John Howard had obscured an adequate understanding of Australian History, but also this has been a longer path…