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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 …
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“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 …
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“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>
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November 5 1974, November 5 1975, November 5 1976
ROSS FITZGERALD
Why is 5 November the most important date in my calendar?
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.
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.
It is actually because on November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day) 1974, at the instigation of my long time …
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“There should be a public inquiry, not just into the mistreatment of whistleblower David McBride, but also into serious allegations about the inhumane conditions other inmates face at the AMC,” says letter writer ANDREW WILLIAM HOPKINS.
The fact that Australian Army war crimes whistleblower David McBride has been granted a chance to appeal against his five years and eight months sentence at the dreadful Alexander Maconochie Centre prison in Canberra is long overdue.
It is important to understand that this occurred only because of the tireless efforts of Prof Ross Fitzgerald and …
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by Andy Hopkins
The fact that Australian Army war crimes whistleblower David McBride has been granted a chance to appeal against his five years and eight months sentence at the dreadful Alexander Maconochie Centre federal prison in Canberra is long overdue.
It is important to understand that this occurred only because of the tireless efforts of Professor Ross Fitzgerald and other key supporters who continued to reveal the inhumane conditions that Mr McBride was facing. In a number of articles, Prof Fitzgerald also documented in detail, with first person corroboration, deeply disturbing …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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A riotous work of comedy – full of twists and turns that would put an Olympic gymnast to shame
The eighth book in the Grafton Everest series is back in the hands of the prolific and visionary author Ross Fitzgerald, teamed up again with comic genius Ian McFadyen, and sees the hapless ex-President of the Republic of Australia, Dr Professor Grafton Everest, caught up in a web of international espionage and intrigue that he is hopelessly ill-equipped to handle.
Abandoned to his own inadequate devices when his wife Janet departs on a world …
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Professor Ross Ross Fitzgerald’s 42nd book, a memoir, FIFTY YEARS SOBER : AN ALCOHOLIC’S JOURNEY (Hybrid Publishers: Melbourne, $ 27.50) is now available.
FIFTY YEARS SOBER by Ross Fitzgerald can be purchased as a paperback and an e-book direct from Hybrid Publishers in Melbourne, and from the distributor New Holland.
Best wishes, Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM
