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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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Part 3:The Failure of an Educational Institution and How to Spiral Forward
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qtuiUHTbOdLdJWoNcaFGNEmuSPzGYjR2/view?usp=drive_link Featured Image: Ross with Book
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Part 2:The Failure of an Educational Institution and How to Spiral Forward
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1Ij3lOKA38c45y4imcSnDw_KOoAqCeH/view?usp=drive_link Featured Image: Ross Johnston. A Documentary History of Queensland
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Part 1:The Failure of an Educational Institution and How to Spiral Forward
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFif4d6r795_s3G2QQKAo2QSjUYVLyn9/view?usp=drive_link Featured Image: A Few of The History Ten and Partners, Christmas 2005
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What Happened to Ross Johnston?
Five Extracts from the Oral History Interviews on the 14 November 2018 with Gemini Notebook Audio Commentary directed by Dr Neville Buch: 181114_000. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_001. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_002. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_004. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_006. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 Why the UQ…
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Thank you, Richard: Knowing the message but then acting
Richard Denniss What’s the point of neoliberalism?October 5, 2026 https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/whats-the-point-of-neoliberalism
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Academic Rigour, Epistemic Renewal, and the Crisis of Inquiry: A Scholarly Review of the Vanderbilt Commission Report on the State of Scholarship
The “How Activism Replaced Truth in Academia” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This review essay evaluates the findings and structural critiques presented in contemporary assessments of higher education, taking the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences (Boghossian et al., 2026; Vanderbilt Commission…
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The Nostalgia Trap
The “Why Pioneer Myths Buried Queensland History” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay critically examines the pervasive role of nostalgia within Queensland’s local historiography[1][2]. While nostalgia can provide individual psychological comfort, foster community identity, and offer an accessible entry point into popular history, its uncritical dominance has restricted the…
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Agency, Cultural Construction, and Synoptic Vision: On Matt Patterson’s Comprehensive Examination in Sociological Theory (2009)
Dr Neville Buch and MICE in reference to the work of Matt Patterson[1] Abstract This review essay provides a critical examination of Matt Patterson’s (2009) Comprehensive Examination in Sociological Theory, analysing its foundational synthesis of sociological agency, social constructionism, and the dialectic between cultural ideas and material forces [Patterson 2009, pp. 2, 13, 25]. By…
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Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto. Ciceronian Statecraft, Spinozan Toleration, and Prophetic Praxis
We are currently witnessing an erosion of our shared intellectual life that rivals the physical threats of antiquity. As a student of the longue durée, I must issue a prophetic warning: the systematic defunding of the humanities and the reduction of education to mere technical utility is a violation of salus populi suprema lex esto.…
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Esse Quam Videri: Integrity, Historiographical Practice, and the Ciceronian Imperative in the Scholarship
This essay examines the classical philosophical dictum Esse quam videri (“To be, rather than to seem”) originally articulated by Marcus Tullius Cicero in Laelius de Amicitia (chapter 98) and analyses its operationalization in the historiographical and sociological practice of Dr. Neville Buch. The essay begins by investigating Cicero’s historical practice of esse quam Vider through…