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Category: Value of Local History
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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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Has the History and Philosophy Schools lost it in the New World of Online Learning and Community Education?
“The Engineering & Design Institute, known as TEDI-London, which believes that its mix of online learning and collaborative hands-on tutorial teaching, allied with deep industry links, will prove a hit with students and would-be employers alike.” So, stated in the The Higher Education (THE) online email summary which arrives daily in my Inbox. Something is…
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What Does It Mean for Brisbane as a City?
The Kangaroo Point and Districts History Group recently raised questions on what Brisbane had become as a city since Conrad Martens’ image in 1851, “Brisbane Views from Bowen Terrace Looking across Kangaroo Point.” I believe that the Council and the city’s residents need to wrestle with that question intelligently. This is very different to how…
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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…
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The Forgetfulness of Heritage in Local History
Who wants yesterdays papers Who wants yesterdays girl Who wants yesterdays papers Nobody in the world …. Living a life of constant change Every day means the turn of a page Yesterdays papers are such bad news Same thing applies to me and you From “Yesterday’s Papers” The Rolling Stones Anniversaries and commemorations come…
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The 1918-1919 Global Pandemic in the Local History of Brisbane
First, it is important to acknowledge the work of the historians in any writing of history. I am indebted to: Patrick Hodgson’s 2017 Ph.D. thesis at James Cook University, Flu, society and the state: the political, social and economic implications of the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic in Queensland; Helen V. Smith’s paper, When ‘Spanish flu…
