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 also added that I would be doing a paper on the status of local studies for the 50th AHA conference (4-6 July), and I was giving the Mayor an opportunity to respond.
It would be very helpful for me that – and if you did have a firm view on the Mayor’s response – you place comments in posts or emails. I am making a nation-wide appeal for feedback which I will work into my paper on the status of local studies nation-wide. In this regard, I have a thesis that, even as there has been a countrywide decline with the loss of local studies units at the universities, the municipalities of Sydney and Melbourne have a different historical attitude to its own past than Brisbane.
Let me know what you think, and if my thesis might be correct (or not) and why?
Kind regards,
Neville.
Neville Buch
Response to Simon Cole’s Proposal of Petition (Coopers Plains Local History Group) Simon Coles is the President of the Coopers Plains Local History Group, and wishes for Brisbane residents to call for the Brisbane City Council to own its own history, which is shared by Brisbane communities, through the 2023-2025 commemorative events. My reply: Thank you for the close reading of the Brisbane 2023-2025 commemorative issues in the reply. I support the proposal for a petition. I would though need to step back from that task, and, perhaps, Simon, you may wish to set-it up. I walk a tight line… Read more »