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A Message to Queensland University of Technology and the MATE Program

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To be fair, the only reason I showed interest in the program was to see what kind of ideologies are being spread around in our schools and universities. As feedback, there are some issues I had concerning aspects of the workshop. It minimised male problems walking while through a dark alley by very quickly skipping over male reactions to the situation, while focusing on accumulating more detail on the female side to make a gendered point. It didn’t acknowledge 2/3 murder victims are men, male suicide epidemic, perceived biases in the family court skewed in the favour of women, etc. It has not been possible to develop reliable estimates of the total percentage of the raw gender wage gap. When given more choice, women tend to choose less dangerous jobs than men, 3 in 4 part time jobs are held by women, and the necessity for breastfeeding and close mother/child relationship results in more women choosing to leave full time careers. By attempting to ‘fix’ equality of outcome, there needs t

Lotka-Volterra Model With Alternating Predator-prey Reversals in the Left-right Political Spectrum

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Predator-prey reversal: "In marine benthic communities, rock lobsters, Jasus lalandii, usually represent a keystone predator in diverse ecosystems. However, if its common prey, the whelk (Burnupena sp.), greatly outnumbers the rock lobster, it may result in an alternative stable ecosystem where rock lobsters are killed by whelks, which dominate in the alternated ecosystem." What if this system were bistable and looped indefinitely? The basic schematics of this system remind me of the alternation between left and right political dominance over time due to changes in a political landscape which shifts between two stable political paradigms, with the intermediate stance being centrism. The point at which the left-right political paradigm reversal is initiated might be explained by some kind of population threshold which, when reached, causes the 'predator' entity to become complacent and decline, or the 'prey' entity to adapt to the new paradigm and com