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Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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My Message in the End of the 2023 Commemoration Season From 2022 for 2024, and the year after…
Dear friends, This is my message at the end of the 2023 commemoration season for Queensland and Brisbane, and speaks for work of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc., in 2024, 2025, and so forth. In 2022 the Forum had an important discussion on how we can “Break the Cycle” of…
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The Semantics of Work: Reference and Meaning
A response to Justine Toh’s, “Work has conquered every day of the week. How do we remain human in a world that worships toil?” The Guardian, Monday 20 November 2023, online. I find these days with journalism, the semantics is so much more unclear, such that one reads an enjoyable piece, about…
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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 Brisbane City Council. Here we have community intellectuals in Los Angeles, bringing down heavily the sociological…
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Semantics, Power, and Local Politics in Misunderstanding Urban Sociology
By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA Third Paper, Exploratory, Version for 2023 Sydney TASA Conference Slide 1. Introduction In preparing the publication and presentation papers for the Sydney TASA Conference, at the end of November 2023, this is a third paper, an exploratory pre-look at the arguments, explaining the sociological models in more detail…
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Misunderstanding interdisciplinary studies and research
Dear friends, It seems that university academics have existed for too long in the ivory tower, that they do not understand the dynamics of interdisciplinary studies and research. Take, for example, the Monash Study where “50 Monash executives and researchers found that ‘tangible’ factors were the main barriers to multidisciplinary research.” My paper for…
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Economics by Judy Horacek
Featured Image: [I am tired of singing the song, the image says nearly all of the government’s unaddressed problem] Economics – The Musical | Judy Horacek Cartoon All cartoons © Judy Horacek Published in Truth, Lies and Consequences | Between the Lines 27 October 2023 The Australia Institute for fair research purpose. I am so…
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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 Premier of Queensland has sent me a two…
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The Worse Parliamentary Process
This is the worse parliamentary process undertaken, globally, in my living memory, and although I am not the expert historian, I do not recall in history anything I have read – if so, please tell me. The former U.S. parliamentary speaker, Kevin McCarthy, was thrown out of his office by his own…
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AI and the Future of Work – MARKETOONIST
Marketoonist’s cartoon rides on the concept of productivity in managerialism. Since the 1990s the neo-liberal economy contain a noble motivation of group meetings to allow open participation of service workers in the managing of their work space, but in actuality it was the activities of an older paradigm, known as groupthink: a restrictive form of…
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It is a done deal, one way or another: The Spiral of History
Dear friends, Marcia Langton is correct. From my white liberal view, and keen on the conversation between European philosophies and Aboriginal philosophies, if it is Yes, Australians would have achieved recognition as far as it can go by voting (the rest is advice and legislation); if it is No, like Langton, I see no way forward.…