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WHERE sYDNEY cOVE hER lUCID BOSOM sWELLS

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FROM The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770 – 1870, a 313 page ‘ancient’ razza authored by Anna Johnston of the University of Queensland: so Ladies I want you all to be on your best behaviour.. indeed, lend me some sugar: I am your neighbour

While with each breeze approaching vessels glide.\ And nothern treasures dance on every tide!

” ..the first Australian colony emerged from a sea of print. By September 1786, newspapers reported the British government’s decision to establish a colony at Botany Bay (or Norfolk Island), and both the London and provincial newspapers regularly commented as plans proceeded. Government efforts to establish the colony and the many motivations for colonisation are revealed in the late eighteenth-century record-keeping procedures of the British bureaucracy. There was also contention about its practicality. Convict transportation was a driver, given that the decision to establish a penal colony was made in the context of vigorous public debate about crime and punishment under the Pitt government after the disruption caused by the American Revolution, but the colony’s strategic value in the [Hemispheric or mega- “] region [“] and the potential for the new settler colonies to support Britons were also key factors. One vision of the colony’s potential emerged in January 1787 in the King’s announcement at the opening of Parliament. Several newspapers reported that

“ ‘.. It is an undertaking of humanity, for in all the islands of the South Seas, there is not a four-footed animal to be found but the hog, the dog and the rat, nor any of the grain of the other quarters of the world .. By the number of cattle now sending over of various sorts, and all the different seeds for vegetation, a capital improvement will be made in the southern part of the New World; and our ships, which may hereafter sail in that quarter of the globe, must receive refreshment in greater plenty than from the exhausted soil of Europe, consider that all New South Wales is formed of a virgin mould, undisturbed since the creation.’

Beyond convict transportation the benefits of agriculture and ‘capital improvement,’ and the promise of the Antipodean new world to refresh the European old world, were [troth prosaic,] ..pragmatic and metaphorical. In the configuration New South wales was the model for a modern English Enlightenment colony. Most notably, New South Wales provided a distinctive {SPACE] in which Anglophone Enlightenment ideas and evangelical Christianity coalesced3.

” .. So, too, was his metaphoric yoking together of imperial policy, natural history and the untested nature of penal reform in the colony.

” These visions of the new Australian colony – sometimes competing, sometimes mutually constitutive – were shaped and debated in popular print culture. Popularisations of Cook’s Endeavor voyage had created a market for colonial literature; pamphlets and stage performances featuring titillating accounts of Joseph Banks’s intimate exploits in Tahiti; drawings, woodcuts,, engravings, lithographs and vivid descriptions proliferated in the many books and collections devoted to the study of Southern natural history; and the popular genre of travel writing produced descriptions of people, places and environments, which circulated in newspapers as extracts and letters, as well as substantial bound volumes for the private libraries of elite book collectors. Publishers interested in marketing exoticism to British readers were matched by a rich public debate in print about legal and social reforms that addressed [DOMESTIC] crime and punishment problems3. So, too, the evangelical revival mobilised print to speculate and then report on the empire’s newest colony. Together, they produced a book market hungry for accounts of New South Wales even before it was established.

” .. ‘There the proud arch, Collossus-like, bestride

Yon glittering streams, and bound the chasing tide;

Embellished villas crown the landscaped scene,

Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between.

There shall tall spires, and dome-capt towers ascend,

and piers and quays their massy structures blend ..’

” Hope’s departing edict – to conjoin peace, art and labour – set a lofty ambition for the colony. Wedgewood’s made with Sydney clay were sent back to New South Wales to demonstrate the manufacturing opportunities of colonial materials and served to show, metonymically, how these resources could be refined by European industry and stamped with high cultural aspirations.

” This Utopian discourse occluded the penal origins of Botany Bay and the dispossession of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation; yet it resonated with older antipodean ideas that accompanied Britain’s newest imperial acquisition. A piece in the Lady’s Magazine in 1791 prematurely depicted the colony as a tame landscape, managed by canals to enrich agriculture and the flow of trade and commerce: ‘a civil settlement and polite norms, overseen by an improving colonial projector, Governor Phillip,’ Dierdre Coleman notes. Others imagined the Australian colonies as sites for neoclassical ideals.”

Oh my goodness, Auss-ie readership. I would love to go on [Liar, Kevin], but I’ve already missed a huge chunk of the Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne railway commuters heading home for a well-earned.. Some Tuesday huh. Are there trains in Hobart?

Damn, now they’ve all gone home. My kingdom for a mass worldwide audience but y’know, a horse.. But the document’s nice. That’ll do us cranky professors of stuff OK.

Jonno

Adelaide Hills

Meat Pies, Kangaroos, and Hyundaes Yeh

Neurocognitive Health-education

Thematics Logic

1 Garvey, Nathan. Where Sydney Cove Her Lucid Bosom Swells: the Songs of an Imagined ‘Nation, ‘ 1786 – 1789. Literature Compass 4, no. 3 (2007): 599-609

2 Gascoigne, John. The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002

3 Garvey, Nathan. Selling a Penal Colony: the Booksellers and Botany Bay. Script & Print 31, no. 1 (2007): 20-38

‘No Time Left for Climate Politics’

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You give me, reader, with the honour of your readership, the opportunity to study and expand and teach new thematics for the benefit of everyone..

Here's I think/ is it/ an Ultra-violet photo of what stupid greenies call the 0₃ layer, Nyok-nyok

Therefore don’t take the categorisations thrown up by this mental exercise to be ‘Writ’ or complete as they are merely a first-outing or a beginning for me in this ‘corner’ of my scholarship: the terrible Age of Romance when in the eminent Alex Miller’s terms the socially-prescribed Conditions of Faith were inimical to Locke’s 325 year-old and others’ Human-understanding per Reason, and learning itself was obscenely and psychotically promulgated to be the scripture of the patriarchs, is dead and gone.

SUNRAYSIA DAILY I May 06 2022

‘I think the conservative tone has done more harm than good, as it seems we are all OK with going along with the idea that “it’s OK, we will get to carbon neutral by 2050 [.”]

‘The world meteorological organisation has recently declared that limiting a temperatur rise to 1.5 degrees [is] unattainable. At the same time the Australian Bureau of Meteorology states that Australia’s [average 24/ 7/ 52] temperature has risen 1.47 degrees.

‘While Australia is heating faster than the global average (but not as fast as the polar regions), it is obvious that the world met has been extremely conservative in [its] announcements – I guesss to avoid turning people away.

‘I think the conservative tone has done more harm than good, as it seems we are all OK with going along with the idea that “it’s OK, we will get to carbon neutral by 2050 [.”]

‘The mallee is likely to lose so much productivity it’s not funny, yet we hear nothing from our representative who says [he or she is] here to support us farmers.

‘It’s very simple, we need strong representatives saying we will be neutral by much earlier than 2050.

‘We have no more time for politics and scaremongering. As evolution shows us, only the most adaptable will survive – never those that cling to old habits.‘

Carl Young,

Wernen

STUDENTS

Would you be so kind as to leave aside Mr Carl Young’s content – at least as presented by the Mildura (Vic) newspaper and put in say 10 or 12 minutes examining the communication process ploys and techniques used.

The categories for scrutiny ‘go from’

..the textual micro functions punctuation capitalisation abbreviation spacing/ conjunctors..

..the meso or word-sequentia operations of grammar, linguistic pairings, syntax..

..macro or global-reach ideational framing, formatting or ‘construction’ incl paragraphing with acute observation on various common tropaic (or utterly tedious Aussie FTA television anodyne stand-up larrikin gag) or psycho-cultural religious or so-called atheist belief or superstition sweeping through electoral politrics in countries like Australia please

I’d be delighted to receive emails of your notes – to “Billionaire Monkeys with Olivetti Group at @MIT Typewriters” or of course the ‘electric’ – Zip zap kerpowie – @greeneconomyact (GEA)

Enchanté 9

John Blundell

AUTHENTIC Post 1890s Groves-of-political-class-academe QR Logic, Economy, Neurolinguistic Health, Worldwide Educational Reform, the Human Project

Australia

6 in French means enchanted, delighted, overjoyed, smitten, or bewitched and please no chicks’ naked bodies or Australian 1960s drunken Papua Niugini Patrol Officers’ Masturbation-rings or theme songs ‘come’ 2 think of them

Notes, Satiric ..It’s Jungle Out There You Young People You..

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They [executive implied direct deductive behavioural bodily-indicated micro and the inductive thoughtful derivative inferential macro] lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle—you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?

*reflective, conceptual ideational

Star Signs, the Game of Thrones, Dungeons & Dragons, an Appetite for Chicken Crimpies & Wikipedia Navigation Patterns May Reveal ‘Curiosity-types’ or dyslexic, discordant, dysphoric, divergent, aberrant or socially, politically & psycho-culturally isolating broadly aphasic neurocognitive-operations which we your exclusively allopathic surgical, therapising alternative-care-arrangemrnts-when-sadly-or cheerfully-there-doesn’t-seem-much-choice & dispensing diagnosticians wait in the wings of your stage-crafted advertising industry driven radically misconceived nonetheless vaguely if not intensively pleasureable lives to help manage collecting reasonable fees from you OK?

And did i mention fire flood food shortage new viruses and levels of ultra-violet radiation hitting the surface of the earth unknown to insect, fungus, bacterial culture, fish, crustacean, phytoplankton, beast, bird, humble herdsman, beadle, magistrate or housewife in 10,000 years, rioting and quite possibly acts of insurrection against your democratically elected governments local, state & federal in the obviously mistaken beliefs that people on good wages can’t do all three of feed household members satisfactorily, pay the rent or attend school outings or any public event that charges admission AND that the hard-working 🗣️🗣️🗣️s in the people’s multifarious chambers, halls and prayer rooms of garbment don’t give a monkey’s about them adversely influenced by activists, pro-Palestinians who oppose genocde & ethnic cleansing conducted hygienically in the national interest of our allies for goodness’ sake and aocial media.

I mean we ask you ladies and gentlemen, arbiters of common sense and good home cooking though you do sneakily admire talking crap to a tortoise about dinner along with huge blue forbidding superannuation savings yak thingies, little children’ cots violently hopping across the room, Ikea hoseholds doing awesome deft shit throwing junk into boxes thus cleverly relieving the landfill waste problem which is politically awesome but we mustn’t talk about it lest we upset Kerry Stokes or Kerry Packer oh he died but never mind and the old-fave violent National Australia Bank house with huge ostrich legs – how’s the old IQ, slipped afew points has it? – every boy-child in your home now on Ritalin huh? – the son of that unfortunate loudmouth who began his career studying rattlesnakes at a USAF base in Arizona so have taken to getting in devitalised downgrade stuff in boxes because contrary to our aforementioned high expectations of you it does in fact appear you have significantly more money than sense.

– Be very careful I’ll have a word to that public expenditure & waste sleuth Angus Taylor and if i can pluck up the courage to put my best foot forward, nose to the grindstone & shoulder to the Sisyphean wheel National Party stalwart Geraldine Clumpstock..

‘The searching patterns of nearly half a million people browsing Wikipedia suggests that users demonstrate three unique styles of curiosity. The ‘hunter’ logically pursues specific answers, the ‘busybody’ searches for diverse nuggets of new information and the ‘dancer’ links unrelated concepts through exploration. The study used two months of anonymized browsing data from more than 482,000 users of the @Wikipedia mobile app from 50 countries and territories. The team suggests that understanding people’s different styles of curiosity could improve teamwork. “We can be more aware of the fact that we ask questions differently and we investigate knowledge spaces differently, and embrace that diversity,” says human curiosity and learning researcher and co-author Dani Bassett. Nature | 5 min read ‘

Reference: Science Advances paper
  1. The doughty Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force is the same
    principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a
    question of dividing up their numbers.
  2. Fighting with a large army under your command is
    nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is
    merely a question of instituting signs and signals.
  3. To ensure that your whole host may withstand the
    brunt of the enemy’s attack and remain unshaken—this
    is effected by maneuvers direct and indirect.
  4. That the impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg—this is effected by the science of weak points and strong.
  5. In all fighting, the direct method may be used for
    joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in
    order to secure victory.
  6. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible
    as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers
    and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to
    begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to
    return once more.
  7. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the
    combinations of these five give rise to more melodies
    than can ever be heard.
  8. There are not more than five primary colors (blue,
    yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they
    produce more hues than can ever been seen.
  9. There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour,
    acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them
    yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.
  10. In battle, there are not more than two methods of
    attack—the direct and the indirect; yet these two in
    combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.
  11. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in
    turn. It is like moving in a circle—you never come to
    an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?
  12. The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent
    which will even roll stones along in its course.
  13. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop
    of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
  14. Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his
    onset, and prompt in his decision.
  15. Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
  16. Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be
    seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all; amid
    confusion and chaos, your array may be without head
    or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.
  17. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline,
    simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness
    postulates strength.
  18. Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage
    under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent
    energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.
  19. Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on
    the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to
    which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something,
    that the enemy may snatch at it.
  20. By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march;
    then with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.
  21. The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and
    utilize combined energy.
  22. When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting
    men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones.
    For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if
    four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if roundshaped, to go rolling down.
  23. Thus the energy developed by good fighting men is
    as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a
    mountain thousands of feet in height. So much on the subject of energy.