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Ross Fitzgerald

The Australian

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Australia’s experiment with drug summits 

Australia’s experiment with drug summits 
23.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Ross Fitzgerald

The lessons of the Queensland election

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...

31.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

 Ross Fitzgerald

The treatment of detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre federal prison in Canberra

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

23.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

 Ross Fitzgerald

Jack Iverson was, my father often told me, the finest bowler to whom he ever kept

Playing against England, in the home Ashes series of 1950–51, Iverson led the Australian bowling averages with 21 wickets at 15.24 runs per...

18.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

 Ross Fitzgerald

The forthcoming Queensland state election

In the forthcoming October 26 state elections, my prediction is that Labor in Queensland will get hammered. As it happens, Labor in Queensland is...

13.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

 Ross Fitzgerald

John Olsen’s gift to the nation

My 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...

07.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

 Ross Fitzgerald