A celebration of the life of Kenneth William Gooding (1941-2024)by Ross Fitzgerald
On the evening of Thursday September 5, my oldest friend, Ken Gooding, died of cancer at home in the Sydney suburb of Rozelle. At his side, were his daughter Nicole and his devoted second wife Iliana. They were married on November 6 2021, Ken’s 80th birthday.
Ken Gooding and I grew up close to each other in the Melbourne suburb of East Brighton – he in Elizabeth Street, me at 41 Charles Street.
In the 75 years we knew each other, …
On the evening of Thursday September 5, my oldest friend, Ken Gooding, died of cancer at home in the Sydney suburb of Rozelle. At his side, were his daughter Nicole and his devoted second wife Iliana. They were married on November 6 2021, Ken’s 80th birthday.
Ken Gooding and I grew up close to each other in the Melbourne suburb of East Brighton – he in Elizabeth Street, me at 41 Charles Street.
In the 75 years we knew each other, Ken and I never had an argument. This was even the …
“The vape black market is thriving in Australia and will continue to sell unregulated vapes with unknown ingredients and unknown nicotine levels to anyone of any age who has enough money to buy them,” writes PROF ROSS FITZGERALD.
Countdown to failure of pharmacy vape schemeby Ross Fitzgerald
Australia’s failed prescription policy for vaping nicotine was finally scrapped by a federal Senate vote on June 25. It has been replaced by an utterly unworkable pharmacy supply scheme that begins operating on October 1.
The fact is, pharmacists and vapers both hate the new system. …
Ceramicist Lyndal Moor-FitzgeraldCeramicist Lyndal Moor-Fitzgerald confessesto having two sides to her per-sonality reflected in her two dis-tinct types of sculpture.
One aspect isexpressed in porcelain, resulting indelicate, almost fairy-tale like pieces.The other produces large, boldstoneware effigies and busts reflectingEgyptian and Malaysian influences.
The combination of the two hascreated a successful formula for LyndalHer recent exhibition at Sydney’s Holds-worth Galleries sold out before itopened. She said that although her stylechanges frequently, she stays withporcelain and stoneware because shecan use a different range of techniquesand effects with each.
Lyndal first studied art at the EastSydney …
Re THE ASCENT OF EVEREST by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen (Hybrid Publishers: Melbourne, 2024)
How many pundits know that, in the boxed set of Grafton Everest political satires THE ASCENT OF EVEREST, the autocratic American president Ronald Thump and Russian dictatorial president for life Vladimir Putrid are both assassinated?
How spooky is this!
Prof Ross Fitzgerald AM 0419 661869
I do think that was pretty incredible to have those two assasinations in your books. I reckon some people do have an ability for one reason or another to get flashes of things that …
Ronald Thump and Vladimir Putrid
Re THE ASCENT OF EVEREST by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen,(Hybrid Publishers:Melbourne 2024).
How many pundits know that, in the boxed set of Grafton Everest political satires THE ASCENT OF EVEREST, the autocratic American president Ronald Thump and Russian dictatorial president for life Vladimir Putrid are both assassinated?
How spooky is this!
Prof Ross Fitzgerald AM0419 661869
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THE ART OF FAILING UPWARDS
THE ASCENT OF EVEREST (BOXED SET) by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyenHybrid Publishers, 2024ISBN. 9781922768278RRP: $49.99 (PB)Reviewed by Rocco Loiacono
The four novels of the satirical series concerning Professor Grafton Everest, a rambunctious, overweight, fictional academic written together by Ross Fitzgerald (emeritus professor of history and history) and Ian McFadyen (of the Comedy Company fame) have now been published as a boxed set so that readers can chart from start to finish the uproarious story of how this hapless, work-shy anti-hero made it from a provincial Australian …
The Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Vaping Reforms) Bill 2024 is set to be debated and voted on in the Senate on June 24. If the Senate bill is passed, Australia’s eight state and territory parliaments will each have to pass corresponding legislation. If they don’t, the survival of Australia’s restrictive approach to vaping is doubtful.
The federal Health Minister, Mark Butler, is leading these de facto prohibition changes.
Australia began restricting nicotine vaping, a much safer way of taking nicotine than deadly smoking, in 2011.
Since then governments have intensified the …
The Muddle-Headed Wombat Abroad
Matthew WhiteQuadrant, June 2024 pp 81-84
Is there any point in being a satirist in the postmodern world, especially in present-day liberal democracies? How can one create a sense of just ridicule of social and political conduct when the daily newsfeed promises to produce examples that are more absurd than the satirist’s imagination, leaving even his or her best work the loser in a sinister game of psychic one-upmanship?
Who can better as satire the Prime Minister refusing to comment on his telephonic argument with Father Frank Brennan about …
‘Waggy Bill’ (William Norman Kerrigan) funeral service,10.30am Tuesday 28 May, 2024 at St Mary’s Church, Manly.
As a long-time member of Alcoholics Anonymous, I would like to pay tribute to ‘Waggy Bill’ (William Norman Kerrigan) who was a great help to me and to so many other alcoholics, especially to newcomers.
Although he took some time to stop drinking, Bill was one of a kind.
As a member who would have been 60 years sober on 28 May, the day of his funeral, he was a fine example of AA in action.
In …
