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Category: Important Public Statement
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Corruption in the Australian Economy
Dear Virginia, I wonder if it would be correct to lodge a reason/request for non-lodgement for the 2024 taxation return. My circumstance has not changed in either the 2023-2024 or the 2024-2025 period, and I struggle to buy a loaf of bread. When circumstances change I will inform you…
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Australian Universities: The Australia Institute Report
The Australia Institute Media Release Australian universities slash costs, staff and courses, while lavishing hundreds of millions on themselves April 30, 2025 Economics Law, Society & Culture Australia’s universities spend hundreds of millions of dollars on travel, marketing and consultants, while cutting costs, staff and courses, according to new research by The…
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CHASS Election Statement: what makes us human
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has just released its 2025 Federal Election Statement, urging Australia’s next government to strengthen national capabilities in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). HASS plays a vital role in shaping an informed, democratic, and globally engaged Australia. From training the future workforce to…
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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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AI and the Quest for Wisdom Essay
Artificial Intelligence and the Quest for Wisdom by Neville Buch Introduction On Artificial Intelligence, “The Perennial Philosophy” shows how to do better in the combinations of wisdom and knowledge which is open to learning. The term refers to a comprehensive understanding of philosophical thinking, and also theological thinking that follows. This is…
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The Future Lies Ahead not Above…(Dr Neil Peach)
The Future Lies Ahead not Above… by Neil Peach Exteriorisation [and the Implications of a Delinearised and Inseparable Hyperlanguaged Technology] Abstract This report examines exteriorisation as a driving force in human development, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically Google’s Notebook LM (NLM), as a modern manifestation of this process. It analyses…
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2025 and forward, Dr Neville Buch’s Message
Drawing on the sources, Dr Neville Buch’s message across time, as reflected in his curriculum vitae, publications, and other writings, centres on the critical understanding of history, cognition, education, and their intricate relationships, particularly within the context of Queensland intellectual history and policy. His work consistently emphasizes the importance of historiography as a tool for…
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Phlebas the Phoenician
Phlebas the Phoenician, for modernity, is introduced by T.S. Elliot as a character from his poem The Waste Land, in Part IV. ‘Death by Water’. It is the shortest section of the poem, describing the aftermath of the drowning of Phoenician sailor Phlebas, an event forewarned by Madame Sosostris. His corpse is still trapped…
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“I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right
“I rather be Right than Correct”. If you have intelligent ears to hear, intelligent eyes to see, and intelligent mouths to speak, the statement is perceived in the Age of Trumpism. Today, assertion is increasingly made without the intelligence. There is a confusion between the term “right” and the term “correct”. “Right” means…
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I CAN PAY YOU, I HAVE BEEN PAYING YOU, YOUR MACHINE THINKING FAILS THE PUBLIC
BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 23 February 2025 RE: Prevented from Making Immediate Payment through Machine Thinking Dear Medibank Executive Officer, This morning I was ready to pay the bills and this was what I was confronted with: 1. the machine would not allow me…