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Politics

by | Feb 1, 2007 |

What Anthony Baxter said. Sorry, I am too depressed to con­trib­ute my own obser­va­tions right now.

Funeral details for Aveline

by | Jan 29, 2007 |

A number of you asked me to post details when I had them: To be con­firmed (prob­ably by Wed/Thu this week) Date: Sat­urday 3 Feb­ru­ary 2007 Time: 2pm (for a 2.15pm start – fin­ish­ing around 3.30pm) Place: Fawkner Crem­at­orium, Cor­dell Chapel (www​.fcmp​.com​.au) 1187 Sydney…

Grieving/Celebrating

by | Jan 29, 2007 |

I spent this morn­ing doing “needed things” as Doug calls them, a good way to keep occu­pied. And I’ve come home to read the grow­ing list of trib­utes to Ave­line and lost myself in memor­ies of her. I wish I’d gone to Arcanacon to play Chil­dren of the Revolu­tion, now. I…

Bye, Aveline

Bye, Aveline

by | Jan 28, 2007 |

My good friend Ave­line (abiuro) had a brain aneurysm on her birth­day last Thursday. She was resus­cit­ated, but the doc­tors turned the machines off this morn­ing and appar­ently, she died quickly. She was 39. She was a fab­ulous woman: polit­ical, punk, pink-lover. And yes,…

The vindication of women

by | Jan 25, 2007 |

One of the few good things about Bush’s State of the Union speech was hear­ing him say “Madam Speaker”, watch­ing the look on Pelosi’s face as he said it and of course, seeing the stand­ing ova­tion that fol­lowed it. And recently, with her little “I’m in’ video, the other…

Stuff what needs taking care of

by | Jan 23, 2007 |

This is the first of many posts of this nature. Anyone want to rent a two-bed­room flat in Clifton Hill? Fur­nished or unfur­nished avail­able. If the flat goes unfur­nished, anyone want to buy/look after a queen-sized bed? Nice, wooden, mat­tress only about a year old.…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.