Journalist Spotlight | Interview with Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM, Columnist for The AustralianBy Darla Tejada20 December, 2024

Professor Ross Fitzgerald was born in Melbourne on 25 December 1944. Since the death of his wife, Lyndal Moor, five years ago, he has lived alone at ‘Greystoke’, an 1898 terrace in the Sydney suburb of Redfern.His books include a best-selling memoir My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey, and its sequel Fifty Years Sober. And in 2024 he published a major work of fiction, The Ascent of Everest. Professor Fitzgerald has co-authored, with …

“Journalist Spotlight | Interview with Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM, Freelance Writer.”

by Darla Tejada

Medianet, 19 December, 2024.

Professor Ross Fitzgerald was born in Melbourne, Australia on 25 December 1944. Since the death of his wife, Lyndal Moor, five years ago, he has lived alone at ‘Greystoke’, an 1898 terrace in the Sydney suburb of Redfern.

His books include a best-selling memoir My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey, and its sequel Fifty Years Sober. And in 2024 he published a major work of fiction, The Ascent of Everest. 

Professor Fitzgerald has co-authored, with Ian …

50 years ago today, my final year Politics student & fellow cricketer at the University of NSW, Jonnie Sheens and I, were in Mozambique when the revolution was in full sway.We seemed to be the only Europeans driving into the troubles.Coming from Swaziland (where we had won a motza at the casino) we were stopped at the border by armed and angry Frelimo fighters.Jonnie’s response, “We are friends of Gough Whitlam!.” was greeted with puzzlement.On the way in to Mozambique , we saw squads of Portuguese families fleeing what is …

“Alcoholism is an illness that can take your life before it kills you.”

 Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM

Author of FIFTY YEARS SOBER: An Alcoholic’s Journey 

(Hybrid Publishing :Melbourne Australia)

Coauthor with Neal Price of MY LAST DRINK: 32 Stories of recovering alcoholics

(Connor Court: Brisbane Australia)

Both books are available online from Amason etc

Have a peaceful,  productive, and sober New Year.

Ross Fitzgerald <r.fitzgerald@griffith.edu.au>

Some books to buy for Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 – in print and online

Ross Fitzgerald’s latest books published by Hybrid in Melbourne and available online, are a memoir Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic’s Journey and the Grafton Everest adventures The Ascent of Everest, in which American president Donald Thump and Russia’s Vladimir Putrid are both assassinated

The Ascent of Everest is a boxed set of four coauthored Australian political satires comprising Going Out Backwards, The Dizzying Heights The Lowest Depths and Pandemonium.

All these adventures of the corpulent, teetotal Dr …

The inhumane treatment of inmates at the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison  in Canberra

by PROFESSOR ROSS FITZGERALD AM

So far, the only media outlets courageous enough to publish my revelations about the inhumane treatment of  inmates at the odious Alexander Maconochie Centre prison have been Canberra’s CityNews and John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations website. 

Prof Ross Fitzgerald. 

On 22 October 2024,  I finally received a response on behalf of Richard Glenn, Director-General  ACT Justice and Community Safety Directorate.

This followed my September 25 email in which I directed a number of questions  to the then ACT Minister for Corrections and Justice …