Dear Professor Evans, Many thanks for acknowledging my story. The only reason to share it with you is that there are no positions for a person of my high caliber. Looking, this morning, in the 'Jobs at Griffith' and filtering for the School of...
As perspectivism -- that we perceive as a perspective in the moment; each person can decide for themselves how the world is. It is then the argument of social reality of each. I do not see how direct realism is possible, however, our theoretical orientation cannot be...
The Trip Song by Still Corners Time has come to go Pack your bags, hit the open road Our hearts just won't die It's the trip, keeps us alive Ooh So many miles So many miles So many miles Away The falling sun burns a line Tearing into the night Watching...
It seems that the Southern Baptist Convention is in the news again, and news in the scandal within Hillsong Church, and the fall of Australia's first and (I cautiously predict) only Pentecostal Prime Minister. 'Megachurch and Politics' is a disaster for faith and...
NEW DAWN This morning… This is what I said to my American colleague, Garrett Lang of the Free Thinker Institute (New York, NY), who I work with on these big ideas of education, and politics. … here today, on Sunday, we have a new government. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! It...
Any serious historian or a sociologist in the broad Australian Studies areas must be puzzled at the messaging of the recent Australian Lamb promotional video, and the, alas, popular response on social media. We have been here before, so many times. Clever? or humorous...
Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the...
Image: ID 151335952 © Photolucky | Dreamstime.com 31 years ago, I walked these streets with my lover. I am in a cafe on Gladstone Road, Dutton Park. Our first home is across the road, the home immediately after our wedding and honeymoon in 1988. We were young. The...
