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Category: Mapping Brisbane History
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Part 3:The Failure of an Educational Institution and How to Spiral Forward
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qtuiUHTbOdLdJWoNcaFGNEmuSPzGYjR2/view?usp=drive_link Featured Image: Ross with Book
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Part 2:The Failure of an Educational Institution and How to Spiral Forward
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1Ij3lOKA38c45y4imcSnDw_KOoAqCeH/view?usp=drive_link Featured Image: Ross Johnston. A Documentary History of Queensland
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Part 1:The Failure of an Educational Institution and How to Spiral Forward
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFif4d6r795_s3G2QQKAo2QSjUYVLyn9/view?usp=drive_link Featured Image: A Few of The History Ten and Partners, Christmas 2005
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What Happened to Ross Johnston?
Five Extracts from the Oral History Interviews on the 14 November 2018 with Gemini Notebook Audio Commentary directed by Dr Neville Buch: 181114_000. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_001. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_002. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_004. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 181114_006. Ross Johnston 14 November 2018 Why the UQ…
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The Epistemology of Fanaticism: Wishful Thinking, Political Exploitation, and the Reclamation of Higher Values in Sport
Abstract This essay examines the cognitive and political dynamics of sport-induced bias, focusing on how intense athletic allegiance can distort human reasoning and endanger broader societal values [Babad & Katz 1991, p. 1923; Swans Incident 2026, p. 173]. Grounded in Elisha Babad’s psychological formulation of Wishful Thinking (WT) —defined as the systematic alignment of expectations…
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The Nostalgia Trap
The “Why Pioneer Myths Buried Queensland History” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay critically examines the pervasive role of nostalgia within Queensland’s local historiography[1][2]. While nostalgia can provide individual psychological comfort, foster community identity, and offer an accessible entry point into popular history, its uncritical dominance has restricted the…
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Agency, Cultural Construction, and Synoptic Vision: On Matt Patterson’s Comprehensive Examination in Sociological Theory (2009)
Dr Neville Buch and MICE in reference to the work of Matt Patterson[1] Abstract This review essay provides a critical examination of Matt Patterson’s (2009) Comprehensive Examination in Sociological Theory, analysing its foundational synthesis of sociological agency, social constructionism, and the dialectic between cultural ideas and material forces [Patterson 2009, pp. 2, 13, 25]. By…
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Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto. Ciceronian Statecraft, Spinozan Toleration, and Prophetic Praxis
We are currently witnessing an erosion of our shared intellectual life that rivals the physical threats of antiquity. As a student of the longue durée, I must issue a prophetic warning: the systematic defunding of the humanities and the reduction of education to mere technical utility is a violation of salus populi suprema lex esto.…
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Esse Quam Videri: Integrity, Historiographical Practice, and the Ciceronian Imperative in the Scholarship
This essay examines the classical philosophical dictum Esse quam videri (“To be, rather than to seem”) originally articulated by Marcus Tullius Cicero in Laelius de Amicitia (chapter 98) and analyses its operationalization in the historiographical and sociological practice of Dr. Neville Buch. The essay begins by investigating Cicero’s historical practice of esse quam Vider through…
