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Corruption in the Australian Economy
Dear Virginia, I wonder if it would be correct to lodge a reason/request for non-lodgement for the 2024 taxation return. My circumstance has not changed in either the 2023-2024 or the 2024-2025 period, and I struggle to buy a loaf of bread. When circumstances change I will inform you…
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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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Substantial Fairness in Semantics and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
“The State needs to act as a level playing field, treating all substantive belief systems fairly“. Dr Neil Peach’s Question. First, to recap what the Level Playing Field is: ***** Semantics and Strategies for the Level Playing Field by Dr Neville Buch (MPHA, Queensland; Interdisciplinary…
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Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man
Inspired by Sebastian Smee’s article in The Washington Post. Sebastian Smee, The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread, The Washington Post, 18 April 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. Smee writes, “Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ speaks more…
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Communication gap between scholars and the “organisation men (and women)”
In Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse is critical of Erich Fromm: In the beginning, he was a radical theorist, but later he turned to conformity. Marcuse also noted that Fromm, as well as his close colleagues Sullivan and Karen Horney, removed Freud’s libido theory and other radical concepts, which thus reduced psychoanalysis to a set of idealist…
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The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.
This essay has taken four books (in this order): Bakewell, Sarah (2023). Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Enquiry and Hope, London: Chatto & Windus. Hayot, Eric (2021). Humanist Reason: A History, An Argument, A Plan, Columbia University Press. Radhakrishnan, R. (2008). History, the Human, and the World Between, Duke University…
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2025 and forward, Dr Neville Buch’s Message
Drawing on the sources, Dr Neville Buch’s message across time, as reflected in his curriculum vitae, publications, and other writings, centres on the critical understanding of history, cognition, education, and their intricate relationships, particularly within the context of Queensland intellectual history and policy. His work consistently emphasizes the importance of historiography as a tool for…
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Three Options in Lebensphilosophie; the Third Option Not Philosophy — A Curse
“Nietzsche’s idea is that things and actions are already interpretations. So to interpret is to interpret interpretations, and thus to change things, ‘to change life.’ What is clear for Nietzsche is that society cannot be an ultimate authority. The ultimate authority is creation, it is art: or rather, art represents the absence and the impossibility…
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A CONSCIOUS EXAMINATION
The Setting I write this report, first thing after showering and dressing, eating with honey-toast and drinking coffee, to the computer with the Word document, to record the thoughts in the semi-dream state, an hour or so before. The occasions of the extraordinary phenomenological recall often come as a result of coming…
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Understanding possible global impacts upon Australian universities
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 March 2025 Re: Following on from the previous email about Nicholas B. Dirks’ thinking. Dear Vice-Chancellors, Another informative article from Nicholas B. Dirks. Following the email below, at the bottom of this blog. Remember…