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[18 Mar 2025 | No Comment | ]

Friends,

Here is the link for SBSTV’s Insight program on elder health Tuesday 18 March at 8.30 pm

The episode will be available at this link after 9:30pm on Tuesday 18h March – once it has finished airing on television.https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/news-series/insightProf Ross Fitzgerald, Redfern NSW 0419 661869

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[17 Mar 2025 | No Comment | ]

Re SBSTV’s Insight program about elder abuse and elder health

The episode will be available at this link below after 9:30pm on Tuesday 18th March – once it has finished airing on television on Tuesday 18th March at 8:30 pmhttps://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/news-series/insight

This program will also be available at any time afterwards on SBS On Demand.A YouTube version will be available for international viewers in the weeks that follow.

Professor Ross Fitzgerald AMRedfern , Australia 0419 661869

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[16 Mar 2025 | No Comment | ]

Queensland’s autocratic ALP premier and Australia’s only Communist Party MP:The St Patrick’s Day bash.

Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM

History and politics buffs should either be made aware, or be given cause to remember, that in Brisbane, on St Patrick’s Day 1948, Australia’s only Communist Party MP, Fred Paterson, was almost murdered by a Queensland policeman, almost certainly at the instigation of someone higher up.

From 1944 to 1950, Frederick Woolnough (‘Fred’) Paterson was the CPA member for Bowen in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.Soon after his election, it was said of Paterson that only …

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[11 Mar 2025 | No Comment | ]

Forgive my imperfect memory, but did I mention that SBSTV’s Insight program on elder heath has been moved forward to next Tuesday 18th March at 8:30 pm.

It is also available any time after 9.30am that night on SBS On Demand.

I’m told that my Weekend Australian article on elder abuse and our forthcoming novel Chalk and Cheese both get a mention.

Please spread the word that the program will be show next Tuesday

RedfernRossProfessor Ross Fitzgerald AM

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[11 Mar 2025 | No Comment | ]

Friends,

SBSTV’s Insight program on elder health has been moved forward to next Tuesday 18th March at 8:30 pm.  

Or any time afterwards on SBS On Demand. 

I’m told that my Weekend Australian article on elder abuse and our forthcoming novel Chalk and Cheese both get a mention.

Could you please spread the word.

RedfernRoss 0419 6661869 

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[3 Mar 2025 | No Comment | ]

Ian McFadyen, of ‘Comedy Company’ fame and I have nearly finished Chalk & Cheese, a novel about two 80 year old, ex radio stars (Bill & Ben) who hated each other and who end up in the same nursing home.

It is due to be publishedby our nimble Melbourne-based publisher Hybrid in a few months.

Eve though it has comedic aspects, Chalk & Cheese is not a comedy, but it is very filmic & would suit a number of actors who are no longer spring chickens.

Sam Neil or Geoffrey Rush as Bill …