CURRENT AND UPCOMING BOOKS BY CAMERON RICHARDS
1. Australian-based family histories, cultural/literary history and related essays
Prosperous: The Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in early Colonial Australia
• 2025
Exploring Ancestral Memories and ‘Lost Family Histories’
• 2025
Australiana: A cultural, literary and ‘post-colonial’ history of the emerging Australia
• upcoming
2. 21st Century knowledge-building for sustainable ‘global convergence’
Optimal lifelong learning from experience, reflection and ‘inner wisdom’: The four stages of the human lifecycle revisited (2026)
• 1 Jan 2026
• aimed at all ‘lifelong learners’ but especially those in their later years and in cross-cultural contexts
Words, ideas, and optimal knowledge-building: A ‘foolproof’ self-help guide to academic (and all other) thinking, writing, and problem-solving inquiry
• upcoming in 2026
• this book is especially but not only aimed at the postgraduates and early career academics who struggle whilst undertaking the writing and research of a PhD dissertation or paper
Related articles and ‘snippets’
- PROSPEROUS book afterword: The lost history of Evandale 1821-1848: A pivotal time and place not just of VDL but of early Australia
- PIMA article : What if the naïve enthusiasts of AI are wrong and it’s really ‘just a technological tool’? The implications of an ‘optimal lifelong learning’ perspective
- Introduction to ‘Words, Ideas and Optimal Knowledge-building: A “foolproof” self-help guide to academic (and all other) thinking, writing, and problem-solving inquiry’ (a preview)
- Harry Murray VC flier (2025), Murray Museum Evandale
- A brief bio of my cousin P.R. Stephensen, another descendant from Henry Tardent