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Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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What’s the brand plan? Games boss wants to nail the essence of Brisbane — The Complex Answer
Dear Editor, InQueensland , I am a member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc., Australian Historical Association Inc., and my work over the decade goes to the Mapping Brisbane History (MBH) Project, and the Brisbane Southside History Network (BSHN), and I am the President of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum (SBSF). …
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Strong-Intellectual Rhetoric in Petitions
There is some concern that in petitioning governments that we should avoid strong-intellectual language. The contrary argument is as follows: Masking political realism in the community has been the way governments have put it over us when they wish to resist the community’s desires. Such, that in actually delivering in strong-intellectual language, I…
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How are we learning? The Intellectual Failure of History and Heritage in Australian Capital Cities
“And while people in New York celebrate its cycles of boom and bust, ask Melburnians about their city’s recent history and many draw a blank. It barely features in school curriculums, which take a broader approach. Even at the municipal museum, the wing dedicated to the city’s history dwells on its colonial roots, before galloping…
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NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE
Short Blog Report NEVILLE’S 48 HOURS (OR SO) IN ADELAIDE My first tip to Adelaide was a very quick and short time Friday late night to Sunday early morning. The nature of the business – the mission and budget – meant that the time for extensive sightseeing would have to be the next trip…
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Understanding Reference and Meaning, and Fair Evaluation of All Worldviews
“The first thing to realize…is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel…
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Literature Review: Taking Jesus Seriously
A contextual review of the literature. Jethani, Skye (2020). What If Jesus Was Serious ? Moody Publishers. Jethani, Skye (2022). What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church? Moody Publishers. I never thought I would be seriously reviewing Christian pop literature again, since 1994, when I exposed the mind-numbing stupidity in the cultural…
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“Double Reign”? Caught in Nostalgia – Howard’s “Conservative Constant”
What is this “conservative constant” that John Howard talks about? It is fortuitous that this month, at my book club, we are reading Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. I certainly would not defend that version of American modernism, however, its critique of aristocratic and traditional conservatism is an eye-opener, if only the hoi…
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What is Education, and Why are Educational Policies Failing?
Is ‘Schooling’ Education? Or is it behaviour modification, and is it that necessarily a bad thing? What I am suggesting is that the problem is not so much around the institutional commitment to modify behaviour for socialisation, but much, much, more that ‘schooling’ fails to produce comprehension in the educational needs and “outcomes.” Schooling…
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C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite, the Old-New Left, and Queensland lived Ideologies
Wright Mills’ The Power Elite (1956) has been a major sociological work that has repeatedly been the right framework to understand the political and social chaos I have experienced and witnessed in my lifetime. It is not a perfect work and not a perfect model. The sociologist examines three firmly interlocked prongs of American power:…
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The Language and Ignorance of the Culture Warrior and Knowledge of Religion & Culture in Late 20th Century Queensland
This is a blog post to set everyone straight, which makes me open to the critique of being one of Manning Clark’s ‘straighteners’; but that’s another story. My arguments, as a general framework, is based on a basic critique of the neo-conservative paradigm. The paradigm is a defence of a cultural position(s) which has become…