The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?

Context is all important in asking any question? And these days a key question is the importance of history. Pragmatic agendas of the daily grind obscure how significance the study of the past is for getting a perspective on how to live a better life. This blog looks at how different present contexts are better understood from what preceded.

Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People

Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People

  We Are the People Song by Empire of the Sun We can remember swimming in December Heading for the city lights in 1975 We share in each other Nearer than father The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes We are the people that rule the world A force running in...

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How to provide the Educative Message?

How to provide the Educative Message?

Dear friends,       Educational theories from unusual places, an e-newspaper in Los Angeles, discussing housing and homeless policies. Text below.       The messaging follows the email I just sent to the Mayor, Deputy Premier, and the...

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Thinking on the Excuses of the Premier of Queensland

Thinking on the Excuses of the Premier of Queensland

The Correspondence     TF-23-1204 - Message for Dr Buch from the Premier (attached): Gmail - TF_23_12404 – Message for Dr Buch     In response to my short plea to save The Gabba Community from the pain of losing a primary school and a park, the...

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A Moment of Grief: Memory and the Presence

A Moment of Grief: Memory and the Presence

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdP4AfKGr-I     I am crying, tears which have not been shed for some time. I am unwell. I had the flu on Friday, which was the onset of a nasty intestinal bacterial infection. I have been told from a...

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2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities

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...

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