Author: Faith Duremdes

The water gushes at the new Cotter Dam opening on 12 October 2013. In the frame are John Dymke, Chief Engineer, ACTEW, Katy Gallagher, Chief Minister, March Sullivan, CEO of ACTEW, and ACTEW Chair Michael Easson.

(2013) Speech at Opening of the New Cotter Dam

Chief Minister, Katy Gallagher, Speaker Vicki Dunne, other Assemby Members, Mayor Tim Overall, Gai Brodtman, ACT Member of the House of Representatives, Senator Gary Humphries, other MPs, distinguished guests, Chief Executive Mark Sullivan, former ACTEW Chair Jim Service, former Director Ted Mathews, Board members, fellow ACTEW workers, our alliance partners, friends

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(2013) New Boots from the Old: Matthew Walker Robieson’s Ideas and the Struggle for Guild Socialism

This Ph.D. thesis, completed at the Australian Defence Academy of the University of NSW, revives interest in a philosopher, Matthew Walker Robieson (1890-1919), Assistant Lecturer in Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University from 1911 to 1913, Lecturer in Moral Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) from 1914 to 1919, and frequent contributor to The New Age journal and other publications.

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The issue of The Chesterton Review in which “To Cheese” appeared.

(2013) To Cheese

Tough little Miss Muffet,
Eating her curds and whey
Swaying on her tuffet
Would have thought about a better way,
And tastier stuff than her messy dish.

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(Various) Travel Messages:

Been a busy fortnight of mostly switching off and relaxing. New York is back to being my town. London beckons but the music, the variety and buzz of the Big Apple is hard to beat. Caught up with friends.

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(2011) Farewell to Banzic

What can one say about this bloke? As Adam [Geha] has noted he has been here a long time. One of the early starters. Not on a daily basis. I mean he has had an office in the west, then Melbourne, then here a bit, and back to Perth.

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Mary Easson, circa 1996.

(2009) Mary: A Series of Health Bulletins

In July 2009 my wife Mary Easson popped into Concord Hospital in Sydney for what we thought would be a routine operation, keyhole surgery to remove small fragments of gallstones left behind from a previous operation. She drove herself there mid-morning with the intention of my picking her up late afternoon the same day.

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