Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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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.…
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Social Media Request on Thoughts Re: the Lord Mayor’s Reply
The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland history (1823-1824, 1925; 2023-2025). I…
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Revelatory and Recovery Moments: Assessing Life’s Journeys and Directions
Evangelicals offer a providential worldview, that centres on evangelical message(s) of the promise to have special access to God, and beyond that, that they – each member of God’s Kingdom – enjoy special access to God, as revelatory knowledge, through the person of the Holy Spirit. Outside of the evangelical bubble, persons find such…
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FULLER VIEW FOR TELLING THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN EVANGELICAL HISTORY
© EHA Inc. and Dr Neville Buch For the 2023 Evangelical History Association (EHA) Conference, “Telling Our Story”, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. 10.45-11.15. a.m. Saturday 20 May, 2023, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. This is the presentation handout version which is not the abbreviated 20 minutes speaking presentation, nor…
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Why Machine Learning is Not Learning? The Human Factors
Machine Learning is Not Learning. The reason is simply that learning understood correctly is an human activity. Machines calculate in the algorithm, generating impossible numbers for humans to reproduce in short time. That is not learning in the clear concept of ‘learning’. At most, it may be called one process of mathematical ‘learning’, in which…
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Communication, Critical Thinking, Education, and Research: A Society Captured in the ‘PR’ Outlook
When I researched for an image, for this blog, I found this one below, one of three images, in my paid account provided for my business, which came up with the three results with the research phrase, “capture public relations”. This image is an excellent illustration of the problem-at-hand. Featured Image: Public Relations campaign…
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ANZACmania, Australia, and America
“…What we find today is the complete absence of the kind of concern with Americanization which one found in the United States in the 1880 to 1922 period. And this is a real problem. Possibly only in Australia, among the countries with mass immigration, does one find a basic concern for integrating and creating…
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Today’s Incantation: A Satirical Comment for the Times*
Hallowed Be Thy Name The Holy Father The Institution[i] (The Powers that Be) The Holy Son Secured Employment (Labor, Work, Career) The Holy Spirit The ethos, sorry, hauntings[ii] of the Figurehead (The Leader, CEO, President, etc., in the filter of ‘public relations’) Forgive us our daily sins:…