Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: Important Public Statement
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American-Australian Relations in Global Context since the 1990s (since early 18th century)
There are confused thinking on politics today in the United States and Australia. Recently, a critic wrote as an attack on my Australian sharing, of an American interview, of a noted American historian on Trumpism. This social media person wrote: Good to see that my Australian colleagues live in…
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What you are seeing in the Image of Australian Employment
Featured Image: What the Image is, is a story of the cowboy employment industry in Australia and how governments have continued to allow a deregulated industry to rip off the taxpayer. It is time for accountability against the corrupt (intellectually if not by law). In this example, are three images…
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Unless YOU (Political Decision Maker) Stand Against Market Pressure to Corrupt Thinking, this is our future…
Purchase. Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne <[email protected]>
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Hey You, Academe Political Conformity
Hey You, Are You Listening, Are You Thinking? Mark Moyar, A Conservative Professor on Academe’s Political Conformity: Decades of ideological homogeneity have hurt everyone, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2024: In fact, no mobs materialized to bar my path. No leftists showed up to jeer my remarks…
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The Politics of Care, The Politics of the Politics of Care, and The real Care in the Politics of Care
“Academic careers often take people away from the support networks that help to raise a child, care for an aging parent, or weather a medical emergency.” For seven years (very late 2009 or very early 2010 to very late 2016) I cared for my terminal-ill wife while working on my scholarship. I was…
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History: not the Hollywood costume drama we have come to imagine
The critic…“has realised that the chief way we relate to history today is as one big Hollywood costume drama”. Our country, and the world in the early 21st century, are being edged-on into stupidity by reactionary thinkers who are misguided into believing that they are God’s gift to “Man.” History is how we…
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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 consider as one of the best community educators in theology and…
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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 Queensland cognition historian who has explained the set of…
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The Integrity of Learning and the Political Silence
“This issue of Encounters/recontres/Encuentros on Education reunites historians working in Departments of History and Sociology with historians and sociological historians working in Faculties of Education. History of Education brings with her particularities inherent to the subject matter and, when situated in faculties of education, the contextual power of teacher education programs. Historians of education in…
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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 opportunities?’ This half day event on 10 September will examine the current state of different…