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Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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1982 and 2023, looking to 2032
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 Queensland is politically stuck: the same issues, and the same…
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Conspiratorial Force, mostly no, mundane force of inertia, mostly yes…
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 simply stated (full-stop). There is not only mere…
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Judith Brett on Character
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 have been a few of us Australian historians and urban sociologists thinking about the concept of character in Australian politics, including politics of the…
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RESEARCH NOTE: ANGLO-AMERICAN MAJOR BELIEF-DOUBT SYSTEMS
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 the English monarchy to a new entity known as the United Kingdom of…
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SBSF Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct
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 (Brisbane City Council) – DSDILGP Dear Stephen Miles [Planning Minister], cc. Environmental Minister cc. Health Minister Please accept…
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Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood
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 of their constitution?” “Free speech” is not…
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Letter to the Queensland Government and Heritage Council
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. I can make this point as an expert in constructivist epistemology, critical heritage,…
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A Letter to Sussan Ley and the Liberal Party of Australia
Dear Sussan, if I can be so informal; since we are being so populist in the singular messaging (as if the population can ‘buy’ no more than the one message), I was struck by your sharing of an intimate set of moments with Peter Dutton, and “talking about a subject that he [Peter] may not…
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Whither Local History: A 2023 Australian Historical Association Presentation, with full paper to follow
The following is a 1777 word presentation to fit the 20 minutes at the 2023 Australian Historical Association conference in Melbourne. Those who are interested or concerned about municipal governance and understanding the local studies are invited to provide feedback, comments, criticisms, questions, and other thoughts. New Version PDF Re-Write here. Old Version PDF Copy…
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Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 1: The Collapse of Schaefferan Apologetics
Image: An image of Francis Schaeffer, http://www.pcahistory.org/images/schaeffer01.jpg on the Wikipedia entry site. INTRODUCTION James Fodor, Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity (Hypatia Press, 2018) is a very generous critique towards the Christian apologist. Foder is making the argument for me on how apologetics completely miss the wider disciplinary critiques.…