Seek and ye shall find!
This is where I write about what I’m questioning. Mechanical engineer, farmer, father of four. Fifty-three years on the planet. Eighteen years in oil and gas. Grew up in Sale, Victoria, with family connections to Murray River country. Lives and works around Newcastle, NSW.
A personal archive: posts, memos, photos, books and links. Seven long-form streams: Life & Science, Religion, The Arts, Chains of History, Politics, Statecraft, Etymology. A life timeline runs underneath.
Decipher and review. The official chronology of any subject — the textbook account, the encyclopaedia summary, the headline version — is the surface. Underneath sit the chains: the events that caused the named event, the older naming that the current name has covered over, the second-order consequences that took five generations to land. The work is to follow those chains back to where they started and forward to where they ended.
Twenty years ago a single person could not do this at scale. Tracing one chain across a dozen primary sources, three languages, and a millennium of historical record was a full academic career. AI changes the arithmetic. A mountain of sources can be read and cross-referenced in an afternoon — chronicles, charters, etymologies, archaeology, modern scholarship — and the chains that the experts already know but the public has not been shown can be deciphered, written down, and made public. This site is the running record of that work. Drafting, structuring, and citation handling are AI-assisted. The reasoning, the conclusions, and the standard for evidence are the author's. Every memo is signed and stood behind.
A maker’s mark is the stamp a craftsman puts on the work to signify they stand behind it. Same principle here. Everything signed. Nothing anonymous. Sits alongside the Moral Majority Party (moralmajority.com.au) in the four-site family.
Moral’s Mark is one of four sites covering different sides of one project. Each carries a colour signature drawn from nature:
Every published account. No accounts hidden. Same person, same public record.
Email: brett.murrell@multimodalcorridors.com.au. Phone: 0406 852 054. Or any of the social channels above.