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Queensland Governance Reform
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay investigates the imperatives for transforming public and administrative decision-making, with a primary analytical focus on the historical and contemporary governance of Queensland. It argues that traditional political decision-making in the state has long suffered from a “techné mindset,” characterized by anti-intellectual administrative styles, short-term political expediency, and…
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Academic Charisma, Personalism, and the Structural Crisis of Higher Education
Abstract This essay presents a comparative analysis of William Clark’s historical-sociological monograph, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (2006, pp. 3–30), and Dr. Neville Buch’s contemporary philosophical framework of Personalism and Spiral Historiography. Both scholars provide indispensable diagnostic lenses for understanding the structural and intellectual failures of contemporary Australian universities. Clark demonstrates…
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The Unavailable Familiar – source of extreme discombobulation (David Pinder)
By David Pinder, new member of MICE Repost from https://davidpinder.substack.com/p/the-unavailable-familiar-source-of “a reorientation of wishes, habits, ideas, goals.” The above subhead – “a reorientation of wishes, habits, ideas, goals” – is the summary that American historian and sociologist Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) arrived at in 1934 to describe the human aspect of the Industrial Revolution. It hadn’t…
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End of an Era: Sir Lloyd Geering Passes at 108
From RNZ Digital reporters: 5 November 2026 New Zealand’s oldest man, Sir Lloyd Geering, has died at 108. His family said he died on Thursday morning at Bob Scott Retirement Village in Lower Hutt. Sir Lloyd, a theologian, was a member of the prestigious Order of New Zealand, and was knighted in 2009. He famously…
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The Limits of Gratitude and the Revival of Virtue
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay examines the epistemological, ethical, and organizational implications of Nakato Hirakubo and Hershey H. Friedman’s study, The Gratitude Advantage: How Appreciation Drives Engagement and Performance. Grounded in neuroscience, organizational psychology, personalist care ethics, and Dr. Neville Buch’s framework of Spiral Historiography, this paper evaluates how systematic appreciation combats…
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Volunteers Economically Abused: Neoliberal Formalism, MICE Philosophy, and the Capacity for Comprehensive Understanding
The “How Companies Outsource Labour to You” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Featured Image:
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The Numbers Game Problem: Neoliberal Formalism, MICE Philosophy, and the Capacity for Comprehensive Understanding
The “Beyond the Economic Numbers Game” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Featured Image:
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Politicians, Other Political Players, why your messaging does not land with the general public
The “Why Political Messaging Fails” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: The second audio commentary is the better conversation. 25 October 2026 Dear Nick, I know you are being political, but that is where your messaging does not land. In your case, your argument is that the “attack on Helen Hughes [sic]…
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The Human Being Above the Transaction and Why Markets Cannot Measure Human Worth
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The “Why Markets Cannot Measure Human Worth” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay mounts a systematic defence of the priority of human beings, cultural life, and the knowledge commons against the marketized orthodoxies advanced in Bevin Luchel’s Fixed Mindsets, Fixed Incomes (2026a) and Real-World…
