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Dear Foxy,

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The article on euthanasia was the second of a trilogy I wrote on justice and published in AQ Magazine in 2014. The first was “Justice – Back to the Drawing Board” and the third : “Justice: The Achilles‘ Heel of Democracy”.

Unfortunately, the full texts are not freely available on the internet but here are links to the AQ presentations :

http://aips.net.au/aq-magazine/back-issues/from2008/aq-back-issues-2014/aq-volume-85-issue-2/

http://aips.net.au/aq-magazine/back-issues/from2008/aq-back-issues-2014/aq-volume-85-issue-4/

Apart from that, I have published quite a few articles here on OLO as well as one, some years ago, in the Griffith Review (of the Griffith University in Qld), entitled “The Republic of Australia and New Zealand”, which you might find amusing. The full text is available here :

http://griffithreview.com/articles/republic-australia-new-zealand/

Also, if you can read French, here is a link to an article I published in Paris in the French intelligentsia magazine, “Esprit”, on what are purported to be local democratic institutions, but which, in fact, are democratic in name only (unfortunately, I can’t find a link to another article I published in the “Revue Urbanisme” on the same topic some years previously) :

http://esprit.presse.fr/article/crisp-rodney/democratie-de-proximite-39620

That's about the best I can do, I'm afraid.

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Banjo will read what I can find and thanks
My post, telling about my intention to not let others tell me I must live is true
Even know the name of my future [if needed] leap
The final milliseconds are planned too, that cliff has great Orchids half way down, if thinking is possible it is my intention to look at them on the waydown

Dear Banjo,

Thank You for the links.

I shall certainly read them and I'm sure I shall
enjoy them. I love your work. You're a breath
of fresh air on this forum.

Unfortunately I don't read French. I have a friend
who does though and I'll seek their help.

Again Thank You.

When my father died of a sudden massive heart attack I was too busy looking after mum, who was shattered to grieve much. By the time I had built a granny flat, sold her house, & got her & her gear it was really too late to start grieve for dad.

When mum went 20 years later, just after her 99 birthday I surprisingly started grieving more for dad than her, although there was plenty for her too.

It is strange how I could defer it for 20 years, then fell it as if it was just yesterday.

Dear Hassie,

Dad also died of a massive coronary at the age of
52. It happened on a very humid summer's day in
Sydney. Dad was on his way to work with a friend
and fell in the street. He was a very fit man.
He died in the ambulance on his way to hospital.
We were overseas in Canada at the time when we got
the phone call. I never got to attend the funeral.

I was shattered but I still think about it all even
today.

" The pain we feel for familiar things
That all too often in a flash
Bring back glimpses of days past
And then I remember him, but with difficulty
For he has been gone long

The memory is clear and always sweet
The grey at his temples
That turned white so quickly people said
His joy at his privacy
Able to forget briefly his daily bread

Giving,
Above all else I remember the giving
The smile, the talk, the laugh
Are all things that linger with moments shared
Now remembered

But the giving will be his epitaph
' Give and you shall receive'
Words etched in sweat on my father's grave
Now the legacy remains. "

VALE - Tim Fischer. Died 22.08.2019.

I just want to let you all know that
Tim Fischer former Nationals leader
and deputy PM has died from leukaemia
aged 73.

May he rest in peace.
We owe the man a great deal - especially for standing by
the introduction of strict gun laws after the Port
Arthur massacre.