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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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The Language and Ignorance of the Culture Warrior and Knowledge of Religion & Culture in Late 20th Century Queensland
This is a blog post to set everyone straight, which makes me open to the critique of being one of Manning Clark’s ‘straighteners’; but that’s another story. My arguments, as a general framework, is based on a basic critique of the neo-conservative paradigm. The paradigm is a defence of a cultural position(s) which has become…
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Phenomenology of Ruth Memory (also webpage in The History of Ruth story)
“Is that really you, Ruth.” I was really feeling her hand on the side of my face, and my finger held in her other hand, as her alive body snugged against my bum, lying on the bed. A dream. A dream very deep in the prefrontal cortex, and after a night of heavy drinking…
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Who is objecting to the Voice of the Historian?
“History and historians play a crucial role in Australian culture. They are foundational to other fields in the arts, with historical research often underpinning film, theatre, literature and even, on occasion, dance. A government serious about implementing a cultural policy for the future must make space for history and historians in the formulation of that…
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Please Read Carefully
I was recently shocked by email replies to a short comment I made, as what I thought was a extending out a hand of friendship with an intelligent comment. The replies were hostile in the first case, and extremely annoyed in the second. Both replies misunderstood my intent for the comment, and misunderstood the…
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Extraordinary Times and the Wisdom of Ages
“…it’s one of these moments where you feel like an era has come to an end and the world is a little emptier,” so spoke the wisdom of Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, on the occasion of the passing of Olivia Newton-John. In a matter of only a few days, two Australian icons in…
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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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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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Acknowledgement of contact to the Lord Mayor: We demand multi-governmental solutions delivered
The Council is possibly in crisis, I sent the email, Tuesday 8 March 2022 to Lord Mayor, stating that his media response, to the criticisms of the Council’s Flood Management Plan, and the policies which framed it, is unacceptable to the majority of residents who know anything about public administration policy. Today, 34 days…
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The First Week of 2022
The first week of 2022, of “Januray,” as the artist wrote (image below), has passed, indeed! In Australia, after the first week of January in the new year, in the Covid-19 numbers we have 381,269 active cases, 3,979 hospitalised, 275 in ICU, and 2,319 total deaths (as of 10:30 AEST, 8 Jan 22). “Why,” we…
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Melbourne, Brisbane Southside, and Urban Development
I lived in Melbourne for a decade. Coming from Brisbane, what struck me is the largeness of the diverse landscape. The foliage and species differed, as well as the contours, but diverse suburban landscapes were paralleled in Brisbane, at a different scale. You had a grander ‘intercity’ region which the streetscape reminded me of South…