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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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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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The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc.’s Briefing-Submission on the State Government’s South East Queensland Regional Plan 2023 Update (SEQRP).
The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc.’s Briefing-Submission on the State Government’s South East Queensland Regional Plan 2023 Update (SEQRP). Please read and download the document here. SBSF Briefing on the State SEQ Plan (Final 18 Aug 23)
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Part Three: Urban Rebellion and Community Education
Today, I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on linking “town planning rebellion” and the Brisbane history(ies) of local studies and the examination of municipal governance. Two names. In the case of the former, Rod Fisher, and, in the case, of the latter, John Laverty. Both have past. It is not only…
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PART TWO: Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood
The political rhetoric diverts from the critical challenges and the better solutions. But it is even worse, in that a moment of thought, any “John, Dick, or Harry” can see through the masking — and I am sure Harry, Dick, John, have already. Then what? Surely we must act, but act effectively. So,…
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Judith Brett on Character
Judith Brett on Character https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/august/judith-brett/pwc-and-question-character I am very impressed with Judith’s (if I can be informal in my personal character) essay in The Monthly (August 2023). There have been a few of us Australian historians and urban sociologists thinking about the concept of character in Australian politics, including politics of the…
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SBSF Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct
Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning (the Planning Minister) PO Box 15009, City East, Queensland 4002 Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.1 of 2023 (Brisbane City Council) – DSDILGP Dear Stephen Miles [Planning Minister], cc. Environmental Minister cc. Health Minister Please accept…
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Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood
On sending out an article from The New York Times, on how a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana claimed the American Federal administration was trying to silence its critics on social media, a dear friend asked me, “Isn’t free speech part of their constitution?” “Free speech” is not…
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Social Media Request on Thoughts Re: the Lord Mayor’s Reply
The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland history (1823-1824, 1925; 2023-2025). I…
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Revelatory and Recovery Moments: Assessing Life’s Journeys and Directions
Evangelicals offer a providential worldview, that centres on evangelical message(s) of the promise to have special access to God, and beyond that, that they – each member of God’s Kingdom – enjoy special access to God, as revelatory knowledge, through the person of the Holy Spirit. Outside of the evangelical bubble, persons find such…
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FULLER VIEW FOR TELLING THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN EVANGELICAL HISTORY
© EHA Inc. and Dr Neville Buch For the 2023 Evangelical History Association (EHA) Conference, “Telling Our Story”, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. 10.45-11.15. a.m. Saturday 20 May, 2023, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. This is the presentation handout version which is not the abbreviated 20 minutes speaking presentation, nor…