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Category: Letter
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Letter to the Honourable Minister for Education, Queensland
26 April 2026 Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA The Honourable Minister for Education PO Box 15033 City East, QLD 4002 AUSTRALIA Dear Minister, I am writing to formally present a suite of transformative curriculum packages developed by the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) in collaboration…
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Thank You. Community Advocacy for Southern Brisbane
Dear Professor Evans, On behalf of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum, and the Brisbane Southside History Network, I wish to thank you in your very supportive comments for our networks of community organisations, south of the Brisbane river. The recent article “penned” by you in The Courier Mail was extraordinary community advocacy for municipal benefits in Southern Brisbane. …
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What am I worth in the Americanised Economy? What am I worth in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, The timing of this ABC story and Angus Deaton’s Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality (2023), could not be better for me: “But will his colleagues listen to him?” But will my colleagues listen to me? The timing is that I completed a…
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Letter: Education ? All Types of Placement poverty in Australia
TO WHOM IT CONCERNS…who cares? Thanks for the information on what is being discussed in the communities and the media. Yes, we have two reasonable options here in policy: [below and to the ABC link] Free higher education for courses with large fieldwork programs. Or the industries of the industry partnerships in the fieldwork programs contribute significantly to the students’…
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What It Takes, Politically, Emotionally-Intelligently, and with Local-Global Intelligence: Public Conservations
Thank you for your email, [name removed]. But the majority of the hoi polloi and the political class do not have any idea of constructing history as entries in dictionaries or mapping tools, let alone a book. In fact the population has become so book lethargic, local history groups are finding it very challenging maintaining their existence. Without the population being encouraged to take…
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Re: What is happening in Higher Education Policy? An answer from the federal department
Dear Friends, I had made inquiries on the particular higher education policy reforms which were occurring, from the position of the federal government. I sent my enquiry off, back in October, to the PMO and it was redirected straight away to the department. I had no answer until today. The answer is we will have to wait…
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Are Queensland power-brokers to learn from the FREE VCE History Roadshow?
Hi Stephen, Just a friendly reminder that I am serious about a former answer to my question and the email to you on 3 August (attached); from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, the equivalent of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and also the National Trust of Australia Queensland, History Queensland Inc., and the Queensland…
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Letter to the Queensland Government and Heritage Council
Hi Birdie, and representatives in the Queensland Government and the Heritage Council, I am gobsmacked too. I am here in this reply to formally put a public complaint and accusation to the Queensland Government of ‘playing’ cognitive games in its bureaucracy. I can make this point as an expert in constructivist epistemology, critical heritage,…
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A Letter to Sussan Ley and the Liberal Party of Australia
Dear Sussan, if I can be so informal; since we are being so populist in the singular messaging (as if the population can ‘buy’ no more than the one message), I was struck by your sharing of an intimate set of moments with Peter Dutton, and “talking about a subject that he [Peter] may not…
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Letter. Explaining Myself in the Hope of Dialogue, 29 January 2023
Dear American friends, I am leaving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, tonight, for a country I have critically admired my whole life. It is the second trip, the last in 30 years (1991-1992). An intelligent conversation, the last few days, has indicated to me that I need to clarify where I am coming from as an American-Australian…