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...
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...
Back in 2012, I and Dr Jonathan Richards examined and reported on the 1982 Cabinet Minutes for the Queensland State Archives. By accident, in addressing a concern from a Brisbane resident, and looking over work of the last decade, I discovered that the State of...
As perspectivism -- that we perceive as a perspective in the moment; each person can decide for themselves how the world is. It is then the argument of social reality of each. I do not see how direct realism is possible, however, our theoretical orientation cannot be...
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...
This is a research note to preserve copyright and notice to this new and substantive thesis of the Anglo-American major belief-doubt systems, since the seventeenth century, which at the end of that century expanded, and transformed, the power of...
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...
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...
Hi Birdie, and representatives in the Queensland Government and the Heritage Council, I am gobsmacked too. I am here in this reply to formally put a public complaint and accusation to the Queensland Government of 'playing' cognitive games in its bureaucracy....