‘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 …
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, …
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, Ken and I never had an argument. This was even the …
“The vape black market is thriving in Australia and will continue to sell unregulated vapes with unknown ingredients and unknown nicotine levels to anyone of any age who has enough money to buy them,” writes PROF ROSS FITZGERALD.
Countdown to failure of pharmacy vape schemeby Ross Fitzgerald
Australia’s failed prescription policy for vaping nicotine was finally scrapped by a federal Senate vote on June 25. It has been replaced by an utterly unworkable pharmacy supply scheme that begins operating on October 1.
The fact is, pharmacists and vapers both hate the new system. …
Ceramicist Lyndal Moor-FitzgeraldCeramicist Lyndal Moor-Fitzgerald confessesto having two sides to her per-sonality reflected in her two dis-tinct types of sculpture.
One aspect isexpressed in porcelain, resulting indelicate, almost fairy-tale like pieces.The other produces large, boldstoneware effigies and busts reflectingEgyptian and Malaysian influences.
The combination of the two hascreated a successful formula for LyndalHer recent exhibition at Sydney’s Holds-worth Galleries sold out before itopened. She said that although her stylechanges frequently, she stays withporcelain and stoneware because shecan use a different range of techniquesand effects with each.
Lyndal first studied art at the EastSydney …
Re THE ASCENT OF EVEREST by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen (Hybrid Publishers: Melbourne, 2024)
How many pundits know that, in the boxed set of Grafton Everest political satires THE ASCENT OF EVEREST, the autocratic American president Ronald Thump and Russian dictatorial president for life Vladimir Putrid are both assassinated?
How spooky is this!
Prof Ross Fitzgerald AM 0419 661869
I do think that was pretty incredible to have those two assasinations in your books. I reckon some people do have an ability for one reason or another to get flashes of things that …
