Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Mapping Brisbane History

  • 2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/         The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it.     Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing.     Cognition histories is simply an account of…

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  • BACK-UP. THE TECHNOLOGICAL ATTACK. Re: Education ? Placement poverty in Australia (Case Ref: LW62300)

    Dear …everyone thinking in Australia,       [This post reproduces an email to the Australian public persons. It was the second email sent. The system is attempting to destroy the capacity for the information technology as in email workhorses to handle large and critical thinking as substantial text; fightback to the dumbing-down of the commercial world ! swearword…

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  • Thank You. Community Advocacy for Southern Brisbane

    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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  • Swiftian Dream: Types of Invasion Fears

    Swiftian Dream: Types of Invasion Fears

    Swiftian Dream: Types of Invasion Fears       It must have been 3.15 a.m. or so. I was on the street near the water, a little way up the small hill. The noise first made me aware that something was happening. A few shots and shouts. From the sounds I could tell it was…

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  • Public Transport System of Brisbane: A Conversation with the folk of South-East Queensland

    Public Transport System of Brisbane: A Conversation with the folk of South-East Queensland

      Following Public Message on Public Infrastructure in the Lead Up to 2024 BCC and Queensland Elections, I have had a few conversations and enlightening feedback. One conversation was with a colleague and friend who described the Brisbane City Council (BCC)’s bus over rail policy in the observation that the state government is responsible for…

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  • BCC Centenary Commemoration 1925-2025

    BCC Centenary Commemoration 1925-2025

      The Letter From Councillor Vicki Howard, Civic Cabinet Chair for Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy, Councillor for Central Ward, to Mr Cole and Dr Buch, 19 December 2023: CAN CO09719-2023 FINAL ****** Reply… 26 December 2023     Hi Simon (Simon Cole, President of the Coopers Plains History Group Inc.),     I think,…

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  • My Message in the End of the 2023 Commemoration Season From 2022 for 2024, and the year after…

    My Message in the End of the 2023 Commemoration Season From 2022 for 2024, and the year after…

    Dear friends,     This is my message at the end of the 2023 commemoration season for Queensland and Brisbane, and speaks for work of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc., in 2024, 2025, and so forth.     In 2022 the Forum had an important discussion on how we can “Break the Cycle” of…

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  • Semantics, Power, and Local Politics in Misunderstanding Urban Sociology

    Semantics, Power, and Local Politics in Misunderstanding Urban Sociology

      By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA Third Paper, Exploratory, Version for 2023 Sydney TASA Conference   Slide 1. Introduction In preparing the publication and presentation papers for the Sydney TASA Conference, at the end of November 2023, this is a third paper, an exploratory pre-look at the arguments, explaining the sociological models in more detail…

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  • Thinking on the Excuses of the Premier of Queensland

    Thinking on the Excuses of the Premier of Queensland

    The Correspondence     TF-23-1204 – Message for Dr Buch from the Premier (attached): Gmail – TF_23_12404 – Message for Dr Buch     In response to my short plea to save The Gabba Community from the pain of losing a primary school and a park, the Premier of Queensland has sent me a two…

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  • 2023-08-28 Plea to the Queensland State Government

    2023-08-28 Plea to the Queensland State Government

    28 August 2023   Hon. Steven Miles Minister, State Development PO Box 15009 City East, QLD 4002 RE: The Gabba and Raymond Park Re-development   Dear Premier, Deputy Premier, and the Queensland Cabinet,   I am writing to you, for the senior members of the Queensland Government, to make a personable plea after listening to…

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