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Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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Open Letter to Unawares and Intended No Voters
Dear friend, You are intending to vote ‘No’ in the upcoming referendum, and yet I call you ‘friend’. I have no animosity to those who wish to vote ‘No’. The purpose of my open letter is create some awareness in your consideration of the vote, one way or the other. …
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Behind the Wizard’s Curtain: Social Media and the Early 21st Century
Apparently, “I am being blocked by Quora”, and I thought I was (not so). There have certainly been times when Quora has blocked my scholarly answers. On this occasion I wrote a post commending an answer about “What is it about Australian culture that Americans just don’t understand?”. Then I wrote, …
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Re-Thinking Australian-American Paradigms
Without doubt, Allan Megill is the best intellectual historian in the United States. His paradigm on what constitutes historical knowledge, and what constitutes historical error, is the framing for my multidisciplinary work. There are three American scholars, who have continued to shaped my thinking in the Australian-American discourse, the other two are historical geographer David…
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2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities
In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from the ethos of the Covid-19…
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Speaking Truth to Power: Range Of Personal Semantics
My response to the LinkedIn campaign, “How do you combine research and teaching in higher education?”, “Powered by AI and the LinkedIn community”. I combine research and teaching in higher education by being personal. And it seems as if that is difficult for many to understand, but understood by billions of persons who…
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We Know What We Are Talking About, But Do the Corporates?
A comment on the state of intelligence in the global corporate world, here in Australia and elsewhere. Apologizes to the poets, including myself. The point is that the corporates have no poetic sensibility nor interest in the insights of poetry. We Know What We Are Talking About, But the Corporates DO NOT! Image:…
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2023-08-28 Plea to the Queensland State Government
28 August 2023 Hon. Steven Miles Minister, State Development PO Box 15009 City East, QLD 4002 RE: The Gabba and Raymond Park Re-development Dear Premier, Deputy Premier, and the Queensland Cabinet, I am writing to you, for the senior members of the Queensland Government, to make a personable plea after listening to…
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Conversation out in the community of the Southern Brisbane region
Dear Councilors and State Members, This is a conversation out in the community of the Southern Brisbane reigion on the Council’s and the State Government’s capacity to think on heritage issues at the standard of contemporary scholarship and education (bcc). The current Liberal-National-led Council and the Labor State Government is not only out of touch with their communities,…
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The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc.’s Briefing-Submission on the State Government’s South East Queensland Regional Plan 2023 Update (SEQRP).
The Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc.’s Briefing-Submission on the State Government’s South East Queensland Regional Plan 2023 Update (SEQRP). Please read and download the document here. SBSF Briefing on the State SEQ Plan (Final 18 Aug 23)
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The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors
The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors…the world has changed and you are left at its margins, raging with no clear intelligence. You have become marginalised in understanding the new world, as you are marginalised in your poverty, both concrete and abstract. That poverty comes from power-brokers who have played you in the…