Support mounts against McBride’s treatment at the AMC

PROFESSOR ROSS FITZGERALD exposes new developments about imprisoned whistleblower David McBride and ‘deeply disturbing’ revelations about the treatment of prisoners at the Alexander Maconochie Centre.

Ever since the CityNews last week published my piece “Inhumane treatment of David McBride”, I have received a flurry of support and public interest in my campaign to expose the true nature of conditions in the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) in Canberra, and in helping remedy Mr McBride’s current situation.

In regard to the latter, Australians will understand that one …

Despite the alarmist claims of Communications Minister Michelle Rowland (“Gambling ad ban risks boom in offshore sites”, September 19), there is no evidence that when a nation bans advertisements promoting gambling, punters and gamers switch much of their money and attention to illegal offshore wagering sites.Instead of allowing Australian gambling businesses to thrive, the Albanese government should implement proven measures to mitigate the terrible harms caused by gambling.

Rowland should take note of the fact that, in comparison to the $2.7 billion Australians annually lose to scans, we lose more than …

To highlight the current scourge of gambling in Australia, public attention deserves be drawn to a brilliantly incisive cartoon by Wilcox in The Sydney Morning Herald on September 18It reveals the hypocritical travesty of the Albanese government’s lack of action in regard to the terrible harms caused by gambling.

It is a fact that, in comparison to the $2.7 billion Australians annually lose to scans, we lose more than $27 billion per annum to gambling.

These days, the scourge of gambling rivals the personal, medical and societal havoc caused by alcohol and …

Heironymous Merkin

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

It is an excellent 1969 British musical comedy film directed by Anthony Newley and starring himself, Joan Collins, Milton Berle, George Jesseland Bruce Forsyth.

This very funny movie was written by Newley and Herman Raucher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Can_Heironymus_Merkin_Ever…

Roscoe

‘Inhumane’ treatment of imprisoned David McBrideby Professor Ross FitzgeraldCityNews Canberra, 18 September 2024.https://citynews.com.au/wp-admin/post.php?post=329274&action=edit

“Whistleblower David McBride’s debilitating conditions of imprisonment at the Alexander Maconochie Centre comprise cruel and unusual punishment,” writes ROSS FITZGERALD.

Australian Defence Forces Army whistleblower lawyer David McBride – convicted for revealing war crimes in Afghanistan – is currently imprisoned in Canberra.

Before Mr McBride was sentenced by the ACT Supreme Court on May 14 to five years and eight months incarceration, he was leading a sober and useful life.

Whatever one thinks about his guilt or innocence, it is my …

The shortest poems in the world

1. FLEAS (by anonymous)Adam had ’em

2. THE MATING OF FROGS (by me)The embrace may last several days

Ross Fitzgerald

Independence or cowering vassal state?

Former ALP Foreign Minister Gareth Evans is utterly correct in maintaining that the AUKUS submarine agreement is a dangerous deal.

AUKUS not only represents an abrogation of our sovereignty but is a major threat to our security as a nation.

By provoking China, instead of protecting Australia, AUKUS substantially increases the possibility of attack.

Ross Fitzgerald, Redfern, NSW

The Australian, Wednesday, September 18, 2024, p 10.

A celebration of the life of Kenneth William Gooding (1941-2024)

Hello friends. My name is Ross and I’m an alcoholicJesus, for a second, I thought I was speaking at my local AA meeting, and not at Ken’s favourite Sydney pub, The Merton. I’m so nervous, I nearly said The Merkin! For those who don’t know, a merkin is artificial pubic hair hand tied to skin-coloured lace or netting. They are sometimes still used by sex workers and models, including my late wife Lyndal Moor when she was Australian model of the …

Ross Fitzgerald’s political history piece in The Australian yesterday (“We almost housed a Jewish state in west”,10/9) is utterly fascinating.Before reading this article I had no idea that there was a detailed plan in the late 1930s to create a Jewish homeland in the Kimberley region as a sanctuary for tens of thousands of Jewish people fleeing the Nazis.If this visionary scheme, backed by Western Australian Labor premier John Willcock, had been adopted, what a positive economic and cultural contribution it would have made to Australia. It would certainly have …

The Australian September 10, 2024. We almost housed a Jewish state in Australia by Ross Fitzgerald

Persecuted Europeans Jews tried to build a homeland in Australia

The Kimberly plan would have significantly increased our European population and helped develop the northern and far western areas of Australia.

In the 1930s, most Australians agreed with the idea of 16,500 square km of the Kimberley being purchased by Jews for an unlikely homeland.

ROSS FITZGERALD

With virulent anti-Semitism gripping Australia and many Jewish students now afraid to attend some of our educational institutions, how many readers are …

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, …