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 …

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John Olsen: A Gift to the Nation.by Professor Ross Fitzgerald AMMy dear friend, the great Australian painter John Olsen was, at 77, the oldest artist to win the Archibald Prize.

In 2019, over a long lunch at Catalina restaurant in Rose Bay facing the Sydney Harbour, I was with John and Barry Humphries when they yarned about what might happen to John’s …

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In last Saturday’s state election, the Liberal National Party of Queensland has decisively ended the ALP’s nine year run in office.

This means that, in Queensland’s one-house parliament, LNP leader, the MLA for Broadwater on the Gold Coast, David Chrisafulli will be able to form government with a workable majority.

As readers of Pearls & Irritations may remember, on 21 October I predicted an anti-Labor swing in Queensland of up to 10%.

But the Queensland-wide swing of 7.3% is misleading.

The reason that there wasn’t an utter ALP wipe out was that, by …

The biggest challenge remains for federal Labor to reconnect with regional Australia. Otherwise they are cactus electorally, and will go the same way as the Miles government, with lingering support in the cities but being electorally toxic elsewhere,” writes PROF ROSS FITZGERALD.

In Saturday’s state election, the Liberal National Party of Queensland decisively ended the ALP’s nine-year run in office. This means that, in Queensland’s one-house parliament, LNP leader, the MLA for Broadwater on the Gold Coast, David Crisafulli, will be able to form government with a workable majority.

As readers of …

“Let’s hope that the next ACT  Minister for Corrections  actually makes root and branch corrections to the odious conditions at the Alexander Maconochie Centre and to the inhumane treatment of David McBride,” says Prof Fitzgerald. Photo: Andrew Finch 

“In between a mass of weasel words was this stark admission: ‘So far in the 2024-2025 financial year, three detainees have already died while in custody at the AMC’.” 

So far, the only media outlets courageous enough to publish my revelations about the inhumane treatment of whistleblower David McBride and other inmates at the odious Alexander …

The treatment of detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre federal prison in CanberraROSS FITZGERALDOct 24, 2024

So far, the only media outlets courageous enough to publish my revelations about the inhumane treatment of David McBride and other inmates at the odious Alexander Maconochie Centre federal prison in Canberra have been Pearls and Irritations and Canberra’s City News.

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 25 September 2024 email in which I directed a number of questions …

by ROSS FITZGERALD

“In Queensland, Premier Stephen Miles and his ALP government are seen as weak, incompetent and overwhelmed. This is an electorally terminal combination,” writes PROF ROSS FITZGERALD.

In the forthcoming state election, my prediction is that Labor in Queensland will get hammered.

As it happens, Labor in Queensland is the name of a political history that I co-authored with Sigrid Thornton’s brother, Harold Thornton.

In the recent NT election there was a 23 per cent swing against the ALP.All signs indicate that, on Saturday, there will be a swing against Labor of …

ROSS FITZGERALD

No. It’s not because November 5 is the date of the American election, in which Ronald Thump (my fictional creation in the Grafton Everest political satires) may win by a whisker.

No. It’s not because November 5 is the date of the Melbourne Cup, in which Francesco Guardi, trainer by Chris Waller is a good each-way bet at 26 to 1.

It is actually because on November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day) 1974, at the instigation of my long time friend Barry Humphries, I met the luminous model and actor Lyndal Moor …

By ROSS FITZGERALD

In the forthcoming October 26 state elections, my prediction is that Labor in Queensland will get hammered. As it happens, Labor in Queensland is the name of a political history that I co-authored with Sigrid Thorntons’s brother, Harold Thornton.

In the recent Northern Territory election there was a 23 pre cent swing against the ALP.All signs indicate that, on Saturday October 26 in Queensland, there will be swing against Labor of about 10 per cent.

The primary problem for the state ALP is that Stephen Miles and his government are …

 Prison shame passes unnoticed on the ACT campaign trail, by Andrew Fraser.

The Alexander Maconochie Centre federal prison in Canberra… “Even discounting for hatred of “the screws”, so many former and current inmates are speaking out and the picture is uniform: drugs are rife in the AMC.”

“Even in the very teeth of the ACT election campaign, it seems, reports of malfeasance by staff at the Alexander Maconochie Centre can be virtually ignored. There’s no votes, it seems, in the treatment of our most despised fellow citizens, which is supposed to be the …

Sunlight needed to eradicate prison horrors at the Alexander Maconochie Centre in Canberra

By Andrew Fraser

Reports of malfeasance involving staff at the Alexander Maconochie Centre, the ACT’s supposedly human-rights-compliant prison, are now too numerous and too frequent to lack substantial veracity.

Yet, even in the very teeth of the ACT election campaign, it seems they can be virtually ignored.There’s no votes, it seems, in the treatment of our most despised fellow citizens, which is supposed to be the measure of us as a civilised society.

As Professor Ross Fitzgerald so searingly spelled out …