"Higher education has a culture of unhappiness: Professors in low-demand fields — feeling like we have no options — often practice resignation rather than pursue opportunities that might suit us better. Academe systematically convinces extraordinarily talented people...
Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History
Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher. His work covers those experiences of...
Draft SoFiA Position Statement (1 July 2024)
“SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.” ...
Disabling Professions and the Silence of our Fool Policy-Makers
Another friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made and that "Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning." My friend, who I...
The Challenge to the Educational Authorities
A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it's not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools,...
Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me
Dear friends, Yet Another Reason to Employ-Contract Me: the coming wave to Australia of the next stage in the Culture-History Warfare if Trump is elected, in the United States, at the end of year. What the American commentators are saying is, that...
The Evidence that the History of Urban Sociology has not gone forward in the State of Queensland Except for Marginalized Academics and Unpaid Scholars in the Fields
Dear Friends, I have attempted to demonstrate over the past years that our political leaders have not been thinking deeply and accurately. They have been thinking in shallow political terms and in skewed claims (falsehoods). I am not alone in these claims but I am the...
TASA Sociology of Education SIG Social Sciences Week Event: Expressions of Interest
The TASA Sociology of Education special interest group is inviting expressions of interest for presentations in a symposium for Social Sciences Week called ‘Levelling the Field - how do diverse students negotiate education systems between constraints and...
Hey, you, out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old; Can you feel me?
TO EVERY AUSTRALIAN CHANCELLOR, VICE-CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY SENATOR, UNIVERSITY COUNCILLER, STATE AND FEDERAL MINISTER, PARLIAMENTARY SENATOR, AND MUNICIPAL COUNCILLOR AND MAYOR. YOU ARE NOT THINKING CLEARLY, COMPREHENSIVELY, DEEPLY (as in 'deep...