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Category: Mapping Brisbane History
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Social Media Request on Thoughts Re: the Lord Mayor’s Reply
The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland history (1823-1824, 1925; 2023-2025). I…
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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…
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Steps Back in Time – Personal History 1980-1982 Kangaroo Point, Brisbane QLD.
Time: 10:00 a.m. Date: 20 November 2022. Place: Gold Leaf Café, Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It has been quite awhile since I wrote in my notebook. Here I am in a small café on a corner that I once roamed, on the corner, the early 1980s. A classic radio station is playing…
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What’s the brand plan? Games boss wants to nail the essence of Brisbane — The Complex Answer
Dear Editor, InQueensland , I am a member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc., Australian Historical Association Inc., and my work over the decade goes to the Mapping Brisbane History (MBH) Project, and the Brisbane Southside History Network (BSHN), and I am the President of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum (SBSF). …
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Acknowledgement of contact to the Lord Mayor: We demand multi-governmental solutions delivered
The Council is possibly in crisis, I sent the email, Tuesday 8 March 2022 to Lord Mayor, stating that his media response, to the criticisms of the Council’s Flood Management Plan, and the policies which framed it, is unacceptable to the majority of residents who know anything about public administration policy. Today, 34 days…
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Has the History and Philosophy Schools lost it in the New World of Online Learning and Community Education?
“The Engineering & Design Institute, known as TEDI-London, which believes that its mix of online learning and collaborative hands-on tutorial teaching, allied with deep industry links, will prove a hit with students and would-be employers alike.” So, stated in the The Higher Education (THE) online email summary which arrives daily in my Inbox. Something is…
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Melbourne, Brisbane Southside, and Urban Development
I lived in Melbourne for a decade. Coming from Brisbane, what struck me is the largeness of the diverse landscape. The foliage and species differed, as well as the contours, but diverse suburban landscapes were paralleled in Brisbane, at a different scale. You had a grander ‘intercity’ region which the streetscape reminded me of South…
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Thomas Baines’ Painting ‘South Brisbane’
There is confusion over Thomas Baines’ painting, ‘South Brisbane’. This short article explains the problem in interpreting the landscape depiction from the painting by reference to a discussion between Tim Roberts and Dr Ray Kerkhove. Dr Kerkhove has argued that the painting is a conflated representation where problematically two artists shared their sketches with…