Featured Image: An artificial intelligence ChatGPT created, Ghibli Studio styled representation, of an old bushwalking photo taken at Square Rock ACT. The request took seconds. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 22 September 2025 This is article two in a series on AI. The first article in the series is 1 Artificial Intelligence Explained. Toby Walsh The Shortest History of …
Trump’s Tariffs, Making America Poorer Again
Featured Image: Trump with his Tariff Board, 2 April 2025, Whitehouse-Facebook Breadtag Sagas ©: Author John, 23 May 2025 Preamble The present article is a first for me, I am showcasing another author. Many articles have been written about 2 April 2025, President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ but John Madden I think clarifies the history and the issues better …
Artificial Intelligence Explained
Featured Image: Ancient technological artefact, detail from Tony Stewart, Hovering Christ 2011. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 6 September 2024 This is article one in a series on AI. The second article in the series is Artificial Intelligence History, Toby Walsh. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explained Simply Main Points Definition of Artificial Intelligence Preamble Visual overview: Go, AI companion, sex …
Welwitschia
Featured image: Intrepid Welwitschia Hunters in the Namib Desert, Namibia, 1 October 2023 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 24 November 2023 This is the second article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours and Kruger …
A Lark in Africa
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 8 November 2023 This is the first article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours and Kruger National Park in South Africa with Lion Roar Safaris. The articles in order …
What is History 13: World History and Big History
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 11 September 2023 My what is history series somewhat naively perhaps looks at history from the broad perspective of what processes an intelligent naked ape might go through to develop civilisation. From that perspective the study of human history should also consider the external forces, including geography, environment, disease and natural disasters that have …
What is History 12: References from Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 14 August 2023 My what is history series somewhat naively perhaps looks at history from the broad perspective of what processes an intelligent naked ape might go through to develop civilisation. From that perspective the study of human history should also consider the external forces, including geography, environment, disease and natural disasters that have …
Organisational Thermometer
Featured Image: Jock Macneish My Elbow Room Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 28 March 2023 Several things coming together at once prompted me to think about Fred Emery’s ideas and my involvement in them from 1979 to the end of the 1990s. First was involvement in doing politics differently and getting an independent senator David Pocock elected into the …
Cathy McGowan Lessons in Activism
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 5 November 2022 Lessons in Activism by Cathy McGowan Notes for Activists from Cathy McGowan, Cathy Goes To Canberra, 2020 Cathy Goes To Canberra is a gem of a book and I’d encourage you to buy it and read it. But, for those who want to put doing politics differently into action, hopefully this summary …
Participative Workplace Design
Featured Image: Jock Macneish and Tony Richardson The Choice 1994 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 October 2022 Several things coming together at once prompted me to think about Fred Emery’s ideas and my involvement in them from 1979 to the end of the 1990s. First was involvement in doing politics differently and getting an independent senator David Pocock elected …
McQuitty Causal Path Statistics
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 September 2022 Several things coming together at once prompted me to think about Fred Emery’s ideas and my involvement in them from 1979 to the end of the 1990s. First was involvement in doing politics differently and getting an independent senator David Pocock elected into the Australian parliament. After the election, I thought search-based …
The Search Conference Fred Emery
Featured Image: Merrelyn Emery Ed. Searching: for new directions, in new ways for new times, Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University 1976. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 August 2022 Several things coming together at once prompted me to think about Fred Emery’s ideas and my involvement in them from 1979 to the end of the 1990s. First was …
Annotated Emery and Trist Causal Texture Paper
Featured Image: FE Emery Ed. Systems Thinking, Vol 1 Penguin, 1981. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 12 July 2022 Several things coming together at once prompted me to think about Fred Emery’s ideas and my involvement in them from 1979 to the end of the 1990s. First was involvement in doing politics differently and getting an independent senator David Pocock …
Clive Purcell WWI Soldier
Featured Image: Frank Hurley, Infantry Marching in Single File to the Front Line, Western Front 1917, State Library NSW Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 March 2022 Also see the article about Clive’s sister Annie Purcell WWI nurse. Clive Purcell WWI Soldier, Gallipoli and France/Flanders, 1915-1919 Main Points What was the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) in World War I (WWI)? …
Annie Purcell WWI Nurse
Featured Image: Clive and Annie Purcell, Studio Portrait, Sandhill Camp, England, June 1918 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 February 2022 Also see the article about Annie’s brother Clive Purcell WWI soldier. Auntie Nam, Annie Watkins Bennett Vize Purcell, WWI Nurse (1887-1941) Introduction My mother called her Auntie Nam. She liked and admired her greatly. She was the sister of …
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