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Category: Was There Ever A Queensland Character?
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BCC Centenary Commemoration 1925-2025
The Letter From Councillor Vicki Howard, Civic Cabinet Chair for Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy, Councillor for Central Ward, to Mr Cole and Dr Buch, 19 December 2023: CAN CO09719-2023 FINAL ****** Reply… 26 December 2023 Hi Simon (Simon Cole, President of the Coopers Plains History Group Inc.), I think,…
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Heritage Values in the Queensland State Government?
Heritage Values in the Queensland State Government? Don’t believe it! After 5.00 p.m., today (29 September 2023) at the end of business, I and a senior bureaucrat were sent an email of a s36A Notice – Non Complying Application (below) which will lead to the demolishing the “Yeerongpilly Railway Station Building_20230929” in the…
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Defining a Broad-Humanist Outlook: A Summary of Pew Research Center Report, What Makes Life Meaningful? (18 November 2021) From an Australian Perspective
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the broad-humanist outlook which exists across multiple worldviews of actual thinking persons, by way of a summary of the Pew Research Center’s report, entitled “What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced Economies.” The report is produced by Laura Silver, Patrick van Kessel, Christine Huang, Laura Clancy…
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Range of Personal Semantics
We all speak of person and personal where meaning is entangled. Philosophy over millennia has precise terms to reference person. This is a model which will help to untangle our imprecise usage. The terms reflect technical debates mired in reflections, binaries, and boxes. The key here is relationship. How one person thinks are related…
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THE DRAFTING OF THE QUEENSLAND CHARACTER: An Introduction of the Argument
Drafting of the book, Horizon Worldviews in Queensland: Re-Imaging the Society Beyond the ‘Queensland Character’ The ‘Queensland character’ will be argued here as a literary device, both inside and outside of Queensland, which of more later times has become a political device for various motivations. Hence, the argument here is for a de-masking of its…