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for its readership including regular biannual features: Anzac Day continues to be a big and WE CAN NEvER FORGET THE SACRIFICE OuR SERvICE PERSONNEL CONTINuE TO MAkE AROuND THE respected part of the NRL calendar. For more WORLD AND AT HOME AND HOPEFuLLy THIS MATCH information, log on to www.nrl.com. Anzac Day CAN HONOuR THAT LEGACy IN SOME SMALL WAy.
sport matches on the Monday holiday, was quickly “Everyone knows what the ANZAC tradition established. means and it is important that as a game we Through the 1930s ANZAC Day in Sydney continue to pay tribute to the significant place it also signalled the opening round of the holds in our nation.” Premiership seasons club matches and in the Roosters skipper Braith Anasta says the decades that followed, club or representative ANZAC Day game provides an important stage Regular Features : Finance, Travel, Interviews etc. & the NRL matches were played almost every year on for Rugby League to pay tribute to Australian The Sydney Football Stadium has become a Rugby League boasts a proud history in ANZAC Day or the Monday holiday. and New Zealanders who have served in all gathering point for war veterans and current honouring Australia’s service personnel. The Sydney Football Stadium held its first wars, conflicts and in peacetime, service personnel who, after the city’s ANZAC It’s a tradition that dates back to 1926 when, ANZAC Day match in 1989 and since 2002 “For me, to be standing there as part of a Day march, join thousands of Rugby League on the first ANZAC Day holiday Monday, Easts the Dragons and Roosters have featured ceremony dedicated to our troops both past fans to again honour and commemorate all of and Balmain played in front of 20,000 fans at each ANZAC Day in a match that continues and present is a very humbling experience,” Australian servicemen and women, past and the Sydney Cricket Ground and Newtown and to capture the hearts of all Rugby League Anasta says. present, and to remember those who made the Sydney University played at Glebe’s Wentworth supporters. We can never forget the sacrifice our service ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Park. There has always been a great rivalry personnel continue to make around the world The traditional ANZAC Day match has The first match on ANZAC Day was in 1927, between our two clubs but this match has a and at home and hopefully this match can become one of the most exciting events of when Glebe met Western Suburbs at the SCG special atmosphere unlike any other, Dragons honour that legacy in some small way. • Finance (by Mark Harris of Taylor Collison) the Telstra Premiership season and this years and a tradition of ANZAC Day matches, or Premiership-winning captain Ben Hornby says. contest will carried even more significance as it marked the first meeting between two of the games fiercest rivals since their historic Grand Annual ly, rugby league Final clash last October. Each year a pre-match ceremony developed fans join Australians in consultation with RSL NSW and the Australian Defence Force provides an inspiring around the world to yet solemn tribute to Australian and New • Travel, Insurance, Heath and Fitness, Bequests, Living Gifts Zealand service personnel, past and present, remember and honour many of whom have sacrificed their lives in service of their country. those who have served our This years ceremony again featured the Australian Army’s elite Parachute Display Team, nation in a special pre- The Red Berets, the Australian Army Band, the Federation Guard, a flag parade displaying the match ceremony at the bond between Australia and New Zealand and a formal ceremony involving former Dragons • Ron Barassi - an interview with Greg Ross ANZAC Day blockbuster. and Roosters servicemen and representatives of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, known for their compassion and care of Australian troops injured in Papua New Guinea during World War II. The game also included a special post-match ceremony including the presentation of the perpetual ANZAC Cup which an Australian Army Blackhawk helicopter delivers to the centre of the field prior to kick-off -- to the • Family History - Tracing family ancestry with the assistance of the OAWG winning team and the Spirit of ANZAC Award to the Man of the Match. The traditional ANZAC Day match is one of the most moving days on the Rugby League calendar, NRL Chief Executive, Mr. David Gallop, says. Rugby League has always had strong ties to the ANZAC tradition and this match provides a stage for the games fans in Sydney to come • Interviews with well known Australians - John Bertrand, Ita Buttrose, Peter FitzSimons, Anne Lambert etc together and pay tribute to the courage, determination, mateship and character of those service men and women, both past and present, who dedicate their lives to the service of their nation. • Stories and articles from some of Australia’s best writers - Martin Flanagan, Michael Short, Bridie Smith 52 THE LAST POST SPRING 2011 THE LAST POST SPRING 2011 5 3 • Sport - A look at Tennis, AFL, NFL Extracts from the first issue • Whatever Happened To....? The Last Post looks at the well knowns of yesteryear and catches up on what they’re doing now.
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John Edwin Bertrand is a well known public TLP: That’s an incredible excerpt of history there’s a lot that you don’t know that’s in as a goose’ in textacolour and that was really speaker and yachtsman from Australia, who John. Grandpa Tom used to say you could ‘smell your brain that only comes out when you’re about backing off and stop trying to force skippered Australia II to victory in the 1983 the wind’. Is that something that helps to make requiring decisions to be made and, in fact, I decisions and to let those decisions flow. Gender By Age America’s Cup, ending 132 years of American you such a great yachtsman? was talking to Greg Chappell about this subject Within an America’s Cup race, over a two-and- supremacy. Bertrand won the bronze medal JB: Well, I guess, you know, I’ve been sailing over Christmas at the Boxing Day Test and he a-half hour period I’d probably, as skipper, be in the Finn competition at the 1976 Summer since I was about 7 and I still enjoy the sport was saying that only when he became a coach called on to make maybe a thousand decisions. Olympics in Montreal. He is a member of the very much, so yes. A lot of the sailing at the top did he realise what he didn’t know and, what’s To get more of those questions right than wrong JohnRoyal Brighton Yacht Club in Melbourne and Bertrand level is very technical but in addition there’s happening here, he was talking about some is what it’s about and, as a follow on from that, currently competes in the Etchells class boats. a lot of intuitive feel to it because you’re of the aspects of cricket rather than knowing if you get about 70-80 per cent success rate, He has been married for many years to Rasa Bertrand, whom he met as a student in Boston, endeavouring to understand what mother it through years and years of playing it and you would probably win the yacht race so the USA. nature is doing, i.e. the wind and it’s interaction practicing but now, he was having to talk to issue is how do you make the right decisions at Male 59% 18-40 Years old 18% with the water and if you can do that better team members about it and the dialogue that the right time and a lot of it is by not forcing it Bertrand is currently chairman of the Sport than the opposition then you’ve got a good was coming from him, he was listening to and being ‘loose as a goose’ and backing your Australia Hall of Fame and the Alannah and chance of doing well. There’s a lot going on himself and he hadn’t realised he had all that judgement. Madeline Foundation. now in the sense of science and being part, knowledge and we think there’s a lot of stuff in TLP: The human mind is capable of many great John is a Member of the Order of Australia, a well, Chairman of the sailing selection team the head, between the ears, the human brain, things and your ability to relate to the ocean is member of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame, a for London, there’s a lot put on ‘backing your that is amazing. A magnificent computer with perhaps greater...... while most would have those Female 41% 40-70 Years Old 71% winner of the Australian Sports Medal and of judgement’ and we’re seeing this more as we so much still unknown, so back to backing things within, it’s really a matter of letting them the Centenary Medal. come to understand more of the human mind. intuition at the highest level of sailing, there’s come out. For those who participate at a high level, with actually a lot to that. And in the America’s Cup, JB: That’s correct. If you train in a particular TLP: What have you been up to lately? only taken me 18 years to win that so I was sixteen foot clacker speedboat and about a lot of experience in a certain activity, then I wrote inside the boat, Australia II, ‘As loose area and become very good at it then there’s a JB: Well, I’m very active in the philanthropy very proud of that result. six kids either side, including myself and my lot more knowledge and that’s the thing. I often stakes and I have business activities but I’m TLP: And that’s about, what size is the Etchell? brother, paddle furiously about and get about “ I OFTEN SAy TO PEOPLE, ‘IF yOu WANT TO BECOME say to people, ‘if you want to become good chairman of The Alannah and Madeline JB: The Etchell Class is thirty feet long. It’s three, four hundred metres off shore, turn at something, you need to become passionate Children’s Foundation who look after kids amateur racing before you go pro and pro is around, hoist the sail and sail back and we’d GOOD AT SOMETHING, yOu NEED TO BECOME about it’. I’ve never seen a world champion 70+ Years Old 11% who have suffered by violent crime and we’re Olympic Games or America’s Cup. We have think we were kings of the world, we couldn’t PASSIONATE ABOuT IT’. I’vE NEvER SEEN A WORLD that’s not passionate about what they do, actually doing programs in about eight hundred a lot of the Olympic teams competing in believe it. CHAMPION THAT’S NOT PASSIONATE ABOuT WHAT literally thinking about it seven by twenty- schools around Australia and the project is the Etchell class and they’re red-hot racing TLP: It was in your blood anyhow, I guess, THEy DO, WHETHER IT’S IN SPORT OR BuSINESS OR four, whether it’s in sport or business or life, called ‘E-Smart’ which we’re going to roll machines, that’s for sure. It was August last from Grandpa Thomas Pearkes who was it’s amazing the amount of knowledge that’s out to the majority of primary and secondary year we won the 2010 championships, 50 involved in the Lipton challenges for the LIFE, IT’S AMAzING THE AMOuNT OF kNOWLEDGE gained by passion for something. schools around Australia over the next few teams around the world, hotly contested and it America’s Cup. Apparently he still had a THAT’S GAINED By PASSION FOR SOMETHING.” TLP: I know that you were feeling very good years so there’s plenty on in that space and was a great thrill to win that. girlfriend when he was 94. as a group back in ’83 after winning the Louis there’s been a lot of help from the Victorian TLP: Remarkable...... a word that’s been JB: He certainly did. And yes, he did definitely Vuitton Cup that gave you the right to challenge and Queensland governments. I’m also associated with you since 1983 but you’d done help to plant the seed. He, and that side of the chairman of The Sport Australia Hall of Fame, a lot before that, you’d been to America before family came from Southampton and Thomas in fact my good friend Ron Barassi is on the to get your Masters degree. You and your Pearkes was Chief Engineer with Shamrock. board of that and our members come from brother Lex got a powerboat when you were He actually built five boats and never won all the sports around the country, started off kids and you bought a parachute from an army the America’s Cup but he did launch Lipton with Sir Don Bradman twenty-seven years disposal or something and used that as a sail. It Tea’s into America, very much on the back Average Age ago, he was our inaugural inductee and since must’ve been in your blood then... what was the of the huge profile he developed as a result then we’ve inducted five hundred legends feeling between you and Lex then? of challenging for the America’s Cup. My of Australian sport and I’m also Chairman of JB: Well, we were right on the water. Our house grandmother used to tell me stories about the the Australian Olympic Sailing Team selection was right on Port Phillip Bay at Chelsea which engineers from Scotland, who were considered committee for the London Olympics so there’s is a beachside suburb, south of Melbourne and the best engineers in the world at that stage a bit on in that space. our backyard was the beach and bay so we - they used to come down and live at my great- TLP: I was going to ask you if you get much played footy in the winter and mucked about grandfather’s home, while these Shamrock’s time to relax but it sounds like that may be at a with boats in the summer. We did actually were being built and that was, like over an 56 years old Frequency premium. buy the parachute and my mum stitched up a eight-month period. So my grandmother used JB: Yeah, and we’ve just won the World Etchell square rigger sail and we used to paddle this to talk about these Scottish engineers in the Class Sailing Championships in Ireland and it’s thing furiously out into the Bay, this big, heavy, house while the boats were being built. Published Biannually in 6 THE LAST POST SPRING 2011 THE LAST POST SPRING 2011 7 Anzac Day, April
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Grand Final day is the culmination of a year’s We work extremely closely with the RSL four premierships, and more than 90,000 For Australian Football worth of dreams and tears, where one side for the production of each Anzac Day match flocked to the MCG to witness the occasion. is crowned as the champion after an intense knowing that, for many people, the clash may It was Sheedy’s view that a big game on – our country’s only season of competition. It’s a day of celebration be their closest involvement with Anzac Day Anzac Day could both draw huge crowds and ANzAC DAy and commiseration. remembrance services. Before the match, pay suitable tribute to those who had served indigenous game - In contrast, Anzac Day is about reflection a special Anzac Day service is held at the their country. and recognition, with equal importance for MCG. This ceremony includes the recognition A meeting was organised with officials By State Anzac Day stands on the the game overall. It is recognition of those who of Australian War Veterans as well as a Flag from Essendon and Collingwood, and the have served our country and reflection on the Ceremony, including the playing of the Last then RSL President Bruce Ruxton, who was a podium alongside Grand sacrifices they have made, that enable us to Post and Australian National Anthem. keen Collingwood supporter. It was agreed to AND THE AFL enjoy the pleasures of a day celebrating sport. The modern version of the Anzac Day promote an Anzac Day match as an event to Final day as the pinnacle The game is a commemoration of the spirit clash was conceived by then Essendon coach honour those who had served. The first match and sacrifice which is the very essence of our Kevin Sheedy, following a discussion with in 1995 drew 94,825 fans, the second largest for the sport. great nation. Collingwood football manager Graeme Allan. home and away crowd in history, and the two Queensland 21% It is the AFL’s view that the focus on Anzac Sheedy served two years in the army during teams have since met on each subsequent Day has enabled many of our youth, who the Vietnam war and, as a player, was part of a Anzac Day. thankfully have no experience or understanding record-breaking match in 1977 when Richmond Each year, a different section of the armed of war, to be able to connect with those who played Collingwood on Anzac Day. This match services is honoured, and thanked, for their have served our country, to understand what was the first for legendary Richmond coach contribution to the way of life we enjoy today they went through and to honour them. Tom Hafey as the new boss at Collingwood in Australia. New South Wales 26% opposed to the club where he had engineered THE FIRST MATCH IN 1995 DREW 94,825 FANS, THE SECOND Victoria 25% LARGEST HOME AND AWAy CROWD IN Suth Australia 12% HISTORy Western Australia 10% 46 THE LAST POST SPRING 2011 THE LAST POST SPRING 2011 4 7 Tasmania & Northern Territory 5% Extracts from the first issue Overseas & Miscellaneous 5%
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Total people All over Australia, RSL travyyel branches and sub-branches A s career breakthroughs go, this one took exist with help from a a while for the Melbourne-based stand-up comedian, actor and radio personality. dedicated list of varying DeniseDenise has been treading the boards for Scott membership numbers. From longer than she cares to think but it goes 10,000 copies per edition back nearly thirty years when she first the large city branches to started working as a professional actor and the smaller rural and outer comedian. It has been in the last five years though that Scotty has been selling out theatres suburban sub-branches they and finding her books creeping towards best seller status. Scott’s wealth of experience has continue the good work Much to see helped her to now be recognised as one of the started by members with the country’s strongest live comic performers. As Melbourne’s Sunday Herald-Sun says, “she only formation of the RSL back has to look as if she’s going to say something in 1916. and everybody laughs”. beyond the quake zone She has appeared frequently on Australian Shoalhaven Heads is quiet village on the television since her regular slot on ABC TV’s NSW coast about 2km`s east of Nowra ,with some 250 and Vietnam Veterans Day about 150. stone dedicated to National Servicemen and ‘The Big Gig’ in 1990 and a weekly segment a permanent population of about 2700. This The Shoalhaven Heads Bowling Club provides Reservists. The seats in the park are dedicated on ‘Tonight Live with Steve Vizard’. In 2004, obviously swells during the summer and school breakfast on Anzac Day and space for the to areas of conflict that Australia served in. They include the French-inspired village “I’m not suggesting that people go into Scotty received a Barry Award nomination for holidays. office and meetings. The park is maintained by members with very With not long to go until opening match kick- market days, to major outdoor New Zealand up with like-minded local hosts, and be invited While Christchurch has of Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula, about central or eastern Christchurch because it’s a Best Show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival The RSL Sub-Branch was granted its charter Members participate in the traditional badge grateful assistance from the Shoalhaven City off, excitement is mounting throughout New music concerts; fashion shows and horticultural to events and activities around the country. 70 minutes drive away, which is a popular war zone,” Hunter says. for her sold out festival hit, Scotty and Son, on 25th February 1996 and its membership selling for Anzac Day and Remembrance Day Council in Mowing and Tree maintenance Each Zealand for Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC displays to wine and food festivals, farmers’ been ravaged by two recent destination for sailing, cruises and swimming “It’s getting better – the roads have been which featured her 19 year-old son. She also now stands at 55.,starting from the dozen that and each year conduct a Charity Bowls Day in day members raise and lower the Australian 2011). New Zealand will be in the spotlight markets and tree plantings with legendary New Being hosted by Kiwis offers international with dolphins. completely rebuilt in a few weeks. penned a book, All That Happened at Number attended the first meeting. The Sub-Branch aid of Legacy in which is raised in excess of Flag at the memorial flag pole. during the Tournament, with more than 85,000 Zealand rugby players (including Sir Colin ‘Pine visitors an authentic, personalised experience earthquakes, there is plenty Or there is the Waipara wine region, almost “Aftershocks are coming and going but 26, a memoir tracing life in Denise’s house with was formed by some dedicated RSL members $3000 . This year the Sub-Branch was very proud international rugby fans expected to visit the Tree’ Meads!). of New Zealand, and creates a great 40 minutes drive, where you can swim in hot compared with the big quake, they’re pretty her husband, his circus equipment, a king-sized who had moved into this idyllic area and Ever aware of the moving on of older to have seen Treasurer Frank Ashby presented country and an estimated viewing audience of environment for making new and enduring in Canterbury that’s ready pools or book a spa treatment. minor.” futon sans base, a Ventolin inhaler (to cope wished to continue an active participation in members, the Sub-Branch is very aware of with the Leagues Meritorious Service Medal. millions. The REAL New Zealand Showcase will present relationships. Hosting comes in many forms, Or there is the town of Methven, just below Out of 33 hotels in Christchurch, only 15 are with stress-induced asthma), no savings and a a the League and pursue the Leagues ideals the need to create other sensible means of Whilst comparatively small in number the the best of New Zealand business and industry from a Kiwi beach BBQ to an afternoon out to welcome visitors back Mt. Hutt, which is about 80 minutes drive and a operating – the others having been damaged or couple of kids. .The Sub Branch though small is active in the membership. Shoalhaven Heads Sub-Branch is very active in The NZ 2011 Office is the government to the world during Rugby World Cup 2011. fishing, or attending big-ticket cultural or trade well known spot for skiers in winter. in areas that are still cordoned off. Out of 110 In 2009, Scotty brought community in charity work and by ensuring The Sub-Branch takes a great deal of the support of members and the Ideas of the organisation responsible for maximising the Through a diverse programme of more than event at the REAL New Zealand Festival or to the South Island, writes “Australians might have the view that motels, 105 are now open. All That Happened at Number “SHE ONLy HAS TO LOOk AS IF SHE’S that commemorative days are conducted. pride in their Memorial Park , located in the League. Distribution opportunities offered by New Zealand’s hosting 200 events, the Showcase will demonstrate REAL New Zealand Showcase together. the whole of the South Island is broken but Accommodation will be at a premium this 26 to the stage in a brand The Anzac Dawn Service now attracts centre of the village, with the main memorial of RWC 2011, and focuses on getting New New Zealand’s world-class products and Angela Saurine. it’s very localised – it’s not even the whole year because there are so many aid workers, new solo show that became GOING TO SAy SOMETHING AND over 1000 people ,Remembrance Day ,25pdr gun, anchor ,propeller and a memorial Zealanders behind the Tournament, welcoming services, innovation and new technologies. On top of the fun and excitement of the rugby of Christchurch city”, Christchurch and engineers and consultants booking out available another sell out hit with our international visitors and showing them Among the Showcase programme are events matches, the NZ 2011 Business Club, the REAL Christchurch is largely regarded as the Canterbury Tourism chief executive Tim Hunter rooms during the recovery process. seasons in the Melbourne EvERyBODy LAuGHS”. a great time, and showcasing New Zealand’s such as the Rutherford Innovation Showcase, New Zealand Festival and REAL New Zealand gateway to New Zealand’s South Island, so the explains. “If I had a choice of where to spend “People aren’t going to have problems Comedy Festival and the unique talents through the REAL New Zealand the Real New Zealand Music Tour, and Flair Showcase offer international visitors plenty of recent destructive earthquakes haven’t just had my first night in New Zealand I’d love to stay in getting in and out of Christchurch Airport Sydney Opera House. It was, reprised in 2010 Festival, the REAL New Zealand Showcase and 2011 New Zealand Aviation Exposé. opportunity to make the most of their trip by a devastating impact on local residents but on Akaroa. It has no earthquake damage.” but we can’t give them that nourishing city with two sold out shows at Melbourne’s the NZ 2011 Business Club. taking the long way round and experiencing the country’s tourism industry as well. Hunter visited Australia recently to meet experience,” Hunter says. Comedy Theatre. The NZ 2011 Business Club is a key initiative a bit more of the country as they follow their While the city is facing an accommodation airlines to discuss changing schedules so flights But, he adds, he is optimistic about the long Scotty is a favourite guest on many By direct mail and in bulk to: The REAL New Zealand Festival is the biggest of the NZ 2011 programme, and connects favourite teams. crisis after the disaster, it’s airport is fully arrive into Christchurch earlier, giving people term future. of Australia’s favourite TV shows, celebration New Zealand has ever staged – it international business people with local hosts operational and tourism representatives are more time to drive to towns outside the city. “It’s really important that we bring that including Spicks and Specks, The 7PM already has more than 600 events happening who have similar business interests. Anyone For more information go to: keen to get the word out to travellers that they While Air New Zealand has cancelled 27 central Christchurch area back,” he says. Project and Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation, The nationwide during the Tournament, with more who’s coming to New Zealand for the Rugby can still fly there. trans-Tasman flights until July – between “There is an opportunity to build world-class Circle, The Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala being added every day. The Festival events and would like to be hosted by a Kiwi can sign nz2011.govt.nz/business Instead of spending the first day or two Christchurch and Sydney, Melbourne and buildings and create something quite special. and Good News Week. She is now a regular cover all spectrums of the community – from up to the Business Club online for free. Before realnzfestival.com exploring Christchurch, they are encouraging Coolangatta – it has agreed to reschedule many In the meantime, it’s important to remember co-host on 7PM Project. tiny towns hosting community rugby games and the Tournament kicks off, they will be matched realnzshowcase.com people to hire a car and head straight to some remaining services, which previously arrived only 1 per cent of the land area of the South Now Scotty is focussing on her second book, of the lesser-known towns dotted around the late evening, to arrive in daylight hours. Island was affected by the earthquake. a novel and a return to the stage in 2011. She Canterbury region. The buildings in central Christchurch – many “Don’t forget the other 99 per cent,” Hunter is recording her first comedy DVD and a TV of them historic – suffered extensive damage in says. special for ABC TV. State and Federal Government the shallow, 6.3 magnitude quake. Thanks to Escape/NewsLtd. 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TLP: You lived in the bungalow out the back and time there. Some say that’s it’s a waste of looked at you in that light and did you look A conversation with of the Smith’s, a neat bungalow, right or was it money. I can’t agree. If nothing comes of it we apon them as kids in need. Casual a right royal mess? will be broader inside because we’ve tried to R.B. They might have thought I did but I R.B. No, no it was always perfect. (laughing) grow. So, it’s a good thing that we’re trying to know what you’re getting at. In my view it’s Oh, sometimes it a mess but I was only a do. I believe that good things will come from it. all about a strong club and that’s why a strong teenager. TLP: You would work with the understanding club with strong ethical views on the field (All prices inc GST) TLP: Talking of sticking up for things you that it’s better to try and fail than to use the and off the field is essential. You’ll see clubs believe in.....what happened...... There was an possibility of failure as an excuse not to try? that have a long run of success have a solid (per issue) 2 Issue 4 Issue people episode in Las Vegas, a detective, a Brendan R.B. I should have had you alongside me structure and their ideas and ethics are great Tumulty...... is that right? He broke your nose? when I was giving addresses to people in the with a culture. The most important thing for R.B. That was in a game of football in New past! That’s very good and that’s exactly what a successful football team is good off field York. We were playing the Irish in New York I mean by that. leaders and administration. They then choose and this big guy, the four of us met later, after TLP: Well, you’re articulate in so many the people that go on to choose the players. It’s the game which ...... I think they won actually! ways.....just ask the North Melbourne players...... all about good people choosing good people We’d beaten the top teams in Ireland but we talking of discipline and we were talking and that’s why certain teams who don’t have a couldn’t beat the Irish in New York. Anyway, before and you touched on the suggestion that good culture will find it hard to succeed. the four of us met later at the hospital. There kids today and discipline and etc etc, when TLP: Ron, what’s it like to be an Australian, were two Aussies, Hassa Mann with a broken you did the Kokoda Trail, did you find that for you? thumb, me with the broken nose and they had was something that brought you closer to an R.B. When you think about it we are a little bloke and the big bloke comes in and, as understanding. Did it bring you closer to an so lucky. We have a lot to be thankful for. he took off his coat he’s got a gun in a holster understanding of what Australian soldiers in the Our standard of living, the freedom, the Ron Second World War went through? opportunities we have. With the benefits - he’s a policeman you see, .so we snapped to attention. But Brendon was a terrific guy and R.B. Yes it did. One of our group was a though come responsibilities. Freedom is a we’ve been friends for a long while since. What retired Qantas pilot whose uncle had been legacy which people have died for. We can’t happens on the field is generally not taken off killed on the Kokoda Track. He brought with take that for granted. . Double Page the field...... He was an Irishman in New him letters from his uncle. His uncle was in TLP: So you’re saying that something as $3100 $3000 $2900 A former Australian Rules footballer and York so imagine how much he could talk! the middle-east like my father who would have good as this comes with a responsibility to be coach, Barassi’s name is synonymous with TLP: I was just thinking about the American been in New Guinea too had he not been killed. vigilant and, well, maybe just by being just a Australian football. He received All-Australian thing and the Irish connection. I know you did Actually a lot of Aussies who’d been fighting good person. B arassihonours in 1956, ’58 and ’61. Barassi was the Jim Stynes thing....a big success. Have we in the Middle-East came to New Guinea so, for R.B. I couldn’t agree more. I’m not a religious made a Member of the Order of Australia in tapped into the American thing with the Irish me there was that extra connection. The letters person but if you don’t have rules or you’re plus GST plus GST plus GST 1978 and Victorian of the Year in 2009. In there? helped him figure out to within 300 metres careless and focus only on yourself then you’re Spread 1996 he became an inaugural inductee in R.B. Well, the Irish being the Irish, I mean where his uncle had died. We held a service asking for trouble. Simple as that. the Australian Football Hall of Fame. For his .wherever they are around the globe, they play there and it was very emotional. Moments like TLP: Your energy and zest for living is what’s 70th birthday he did a trek of the Kokoda trail their own game and they’re very proud of it this bring home to me the stupidity of war, and made you who you are. What part do you think and he continues to take an active interest in and good on them for that. It’s a very similar the waste of young lives...... the loss of your father played in that? politics and the environment. game to ours except there’s no tackling and it’s TLP: I understand. There’s an emotional R.B. I’ve got very good adaptability and I The Best Player in the Under-17 International a round ball. That’s the two biggest differences. barometer. . don’t hold on to the idea of the past sinking me. Rules Series is awarded the Ron Barassi Medal. That’s why we ended up playing them in our R.B. Returned Service Men and Women are It’s nice to think about these things because travels around the world. As far as getting often reluctant to speak of their experiences it’s the past and a lot of people depend on me TLP: Welcome Ron to The Last Post. Just a boundaries are and if we don’t provide that I enjoyed most of the hard work associated players from America, the Gaelic game isn’t big and their part in the war. Their bond with each and I depend on a lot of people who are part of general question. Has Australia changed and to we’re letting them down? with that area of sport. It has it’s own rewards. what degree since you started being a public RB: It’s easier if there are boundaries, a TLP: Did you enjoy it from the start Ron, figure or playing football? lot easier. But there are many challenges now because you had a mentor in someone like “IF yOu DON’T HAvE RuLES OR yOu’RE CARELESS AND RB: Fortunately, not too much. I’m a bit that kids are expected to deal with, take drugs Norm Smith. Is it important for kids to have a worried about the future. I think the last two for example. Some say we’ve been too soft on mentor? FOCuS ONLy ON yOuRSELF THEN yOu’RE ASkING FOR generations, therefore my generation and the that. I’m very big on appropriate punishment RB: It’s certainly a great help and, how lucky next one are to blame for anything that’s going and this should be the case with drug dealers. was I? I often say, at gatherings, the best way TROuBLE. SIMPLE AS THAT” wrong. In my opinion, young people seem to Some people say to me, when I’ve raised this to get a game in the AFL is to live with the have less respect. They seem to listen less and point, ‘Hey Ron, but you used to have a couple coach, which I did for four years. But he was enough there. Most of their good footballers other must be a very close and emotional one the living thing and a lot of these people who appear as if it’s ‘hey, hey, look at me’ . It’s of hotels, didn’t you?’ and that’s a good point, actually harder on me because he didn’t want play gridion which offers huge money if they that’s a reason when I thought of bringing my you might be emotional about, the dead people not everyone of course as there are a lot of however alcohol’s been around since time anyone pointing the finger at him about his are successful. America would probably be father’s body back from Tobruk, I chose not are looking down or in the case of my father, good young people, just as there were before began. We could be stricter there, also with the ‘little favourite Ronny’ . He was very hard on the last country we could get players from to. I reckoned he would have preferred to have looking up, I don’t know, he would say, ‘ No, but there seems to be a lack of discipline at professional criminals, the one’s that live and me and in the same position I would have been because the younger players are so wrapped up stayed there with his mates. no Ron, stick to what’s going on today’. I don’t schools now and there’s bee lack of focus on profit by crime. very hard too. in completing a university college education. TLP: Do you think the Ron Barassi we know get dragged down by any past. that. Maybe it’s the fact that mum and dad are TLP: I know that with the structure of your TLP: Yes, well, you did have a reputation Ron After college It’s much too late for them to would have materialised regardless of the input TLP: What’s Ron Barassi up to now? out working. This may be why Australia is one life there are and have been things you have to and we’ve seen a few of the old film clips...... come into a new code of football. from your father, limited as it was, or Norm R.B. You mentioned something this morning of the wealthiest countries because we work do and whilst you mightn’t like doing them, if RB: Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Absolutely TLP: Is South Africa a chance? Smith? about the sailing and we may be going to the hard and we’re very proud of that and should they’re for the betterment of not only yourself wrong! (Hah hah) R.B. Yes it is because they welcome anything R.B. I do but another person in the mix of all boat racing on the Whitsunday’s with John be but there is a downside As a grandfather, I but the team, or on a social level, society, then TLP: Oh, it must’ve been someone else, I that’s not English for a start. .As a matter of this of course is my mother. She was fantastic Bertrand as captain. think it’s affected the kids. I think the future they have to be done. mean, the players seemed genuinely scared of fact I think the AFL are right onto South Africa and that was the reason I was connected to the TLP: If you need any extra crew let us know. $1800 $1700 $1600 can be very, very good if we keep an eye on RB: You’re probably alluding to training you..... as a spot to perhaps blossom our game. Of Smith household. Mum was great friends with R.B. Our crew are called Once Were these things. sometimes when you don’t feel like it. That’s R.B. Well, ah, I hope not. Other people have course we all know what natural athletes the Norm and his wife Marj. I just had very good Worriers! We’ll be on a sixty-footer. We Full Page TLP: Do you think, discipline being an when you have to draw on your own self- said so but they weren’t there. black South Africans are. 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From the time she stood on stage as a five- Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. (S.A), Rockhampton Big River Jazz Festival year-old and overwhelmed parents and staff A year later, Elly was making waves when she (QLD), Thredbo Jazz Festival (NSW), Clarence Professor McCallum is the first totally – even bringing some to tears - at a primary became a finalist in the ABC 612 Jazz Singers Jazz Festival (TAS), Noosa Jazz Festival (QLD) email: [email protected] AOblind person to have been appointed to a full school performance with a solo rendition competition, judged by Vince Jones. and the Devonport Jazz Festival (TAS). Most Ron McCallum professorship at an Australian university. of Silent Night, Elly Hoyt has been on stage Winning the renowned Generation in Jazz notably, Elly has returned from a trip to China The Senior Australian of the Year Professor McCallum was the foundation wowing audiences ever since. vocal scholarship, judged by James Morrison in 2010 where she performed at the Shanghai Professor in Industrial Law at the University of She grew up in the scrub in north-western in 2008, projected Elly into the Australian World Expo, Australian Pavilion. Sydney, and from 2002, he served five years as Tasmania where she often listened to her jazz scene where she has sung alongside a In late 2010, Elly launched her debut self- 2011 is equal rights campaigner Dean of Law. father’s collection of jazz greats, including Ella long list of top Australian and international titled album featuring sensational original He has fervently pursued equal rights for Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and jazz musicians and vocalists such as, James works and sophisticated arrangements of working people across the globe and was the Carmen McRae. Morrison, Tim Firth, Phil Stack, Matt McMahon, standard jazz tunes, backed by a Stella cast of Professor Ron McCallum AO of inaugural President of the Australian Labour At 13, she decided jazz was the road she John Morrison, Steve Newcomb, Mat Jodrell, seasoned professionals, including: Phil Stack, Law Association from 2001 to 2009. would travel after auditioning for the Tattersall’s Chris McNulty, Jim Pugh, John Hoffman, James Tim Firth, Matt McMahon, James Sherlock and He is currently Chair of Radio for the Youth Big Band. Subsequently she joined them Muller, Sam Anning, Tony Gould, David Jones, John Hoffman. The album won an Australian Artarmon, NSW. Print Handicapped of New South Wales and for three years enjoyed valuable experience Mark Fitzgibbon to name a few. Jazz Bell Award in 2011 in the category of Best Co-operative. 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A conversation with Ross Wilson “ ... THEN THE R AND B THING HIT, yOu kNOW, WITH THE STONES AND THE kINkS AND MANFRED MANN AND ALL THAT SORT OF STuFF AND I THOuGHT, ‘WOW, I LOvE THIS’. I WAS ALREADy INTO THE BEATLES AND THE MERSEyBEAT THING BuT I THOuGHT THIS WAS, LIkE, A LOT MORE DOWN My ALLEy, WILDER AND I LIkED email: [email protected] THE BLuES, yOu kNOW AND I TOOk uP PLAyING HARMONICA AND I GOT GOOD AT IT REALLy QuICkLy. ” people
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ilson was individually inducted into along, people always have a good laugh when Spectrum were starting to take off so it wasn’t R.W. Yeah, well ... I think what did it for me band and in a way we were trying to emulate TLP: What were the records you first bought? the Australian Recording Industry I say that. meant to last forever and when the members was ... ahhh, if you remember, around the early our older buddies at school by having a band R.W.Well, I had the singles I was slowly buying WAssociation (ARIA) Hall of Fame in TLP: I first saw you when I was fifteen and you from their other bands started to get a lot of sixties, there was sort of a gap where rock and played at this little church dance and i just but then I started to get into the blues so, you 1989 and again, as a member of Daddy Cool, played down the Glenelg Town Hall...... work and stuff and Daddy Cool started to take music became very kind of bubblegummy, felt I felt really comfortable on stage, I didn’t know, particularly in the folk era which threw in 2006. R.W. Yeah ... over we thought, ah well, that’s enough, we manufactured, Bobby Rydell kinda stuff and have any problem with it, it was like, ‘here I am, up all this, like blues music like Sonny Terry, Ross continues to record (‘I Come in Peace’) TLP: ... in Adelaide, just after Myponga? won’t do that anymore. so the excitement fell away and into the gap lets sing a song and get into it and play a bit of Brownie McGee and then I discovered John Kirstie Wyatt and tour.The legendary singer-songwriter and R.W. Well, no, I think ...... if my memories right TLP: Did music take off for you after seeing came folk music and trad jazz, well particularly harp’ and it was quite unlike my usual kinda Lee Hooker and early John Lee is extraordinary band leader who, as a kid, sang in church choirs the thing we did at Glenelg Town Hall was Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly or had it been in England and also around where I lived, stance which was pretty low key, at school for music ... and then Howlin’ Wolf, you know and in Hampton, has come a long way since going to probably the first...... was part of the ‘Glenelg stewing up before? down in Bayside, Melbourne. So there was a instance I didn’t like sport much so I like, tried these guys, I thought they were from another see Buddy Holly. Blues Festival’ or something that our friend R.W. Oh yeah, well I was already in to it, lot, like local jazz dances was the place to go to get under the radar and get out of all of that, planet, you know...just the sheer kind of rawness Early on a mild summers Friday afternoon Alex organised and that was the very first that’s why we went along and we nagged my Wand, er, one of the best bands from that were soi I was falling lsonbetween the cracks there and of it really appealed to me. So I guess that’s outside a cafe in Albert Park, I was having performance of Daddy Cool...... we were like.... Dad to go along and see Buddy Holly and The The Red Onion Jazz Band, well they were our until I got into...... got onto stage and found where it all ... I started buying ... there was 0419 035 000 coffee when Ross Wilson arrived. After going we later went on to do Myponga, which is like Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis and Dad had heroes because a couple of members were a there was am extrovert side of me that felt a place, a folk and jazz club we used to go insid e to get a short black, I returned and while forty years ago this week. But that was the a mate with two sons so we all trooped off few classes ahead of me at school, so we were comfortable and that’s been true ever since...... to, hitchhike into on a Saturday night called, we made ourselves comfortable and waited for very first appearance of Daddy Cool, we were together and had a good time but I was already like, ‘wow, these guys are really exciting’ and some would say, “Ross, I’ve never seen you play ‘Frank Traynor’s’ ... upstairs, it was little, up the coffee I turned on the recorder ... over there with this experimental band called diggin’ the...... I knew who Jerry Lee Lewis was we started muckin’ around ourselves, just before and when I saw you on stage I couldn’t around Little Lonsdale Street, in an old terraced TLP: In Canberra, the Australia Day concert ‘The Sons Of Vegetal Mother’ and Daddy Cool and I think I’d bought ‘That’ll Be The Day’ me and my friends, like I was playing a bit of believe it was the same guy” and, you know, building that has since been pulled down. If you said something like, “this is a great country was like a side project from that so we had all by Buddy Holly and The Crickets so, we were trumpet and that but...... then the r and b thing that’s good because I have my stage side but you went upstairs there after school, we’d go because we have three national anthems ... the members there and I said to Alex, ‘Could into it but the excitement of the actual live gig hit, you know, with the Stones and The Kinks when I’m off stage I have a regular life too. straight in after school on a Friday night or a [email protected] You went on to introduce Waltzing Matilda, we just have a blow on this’ and he went and ... made a big impression on me and I used to and Manfred Mann and all that sort of stuff TLP: Daddy Cool had attitude. Saturday morning ... there was this guy, Tony Advance Australia Fair and then, without a from all the other performances we did soon fantasise about being on the stage at Festival and I thought, ‘Wow, I love this’. I was already R.W. Well, we weren’t kow-towing to the Standish and he had a record shop. Well, the blink, you went straight into ‘Eagle Rock’. And after they all went nuts, so we thought we were Hall myself and, wow, it only took about five into The Beatles and the Merseybeat thing but audience, we were just, like, “We’re in this record shop was so minimal it was like, a couple the crowd, of all ages, loved it and knew it. Has on to something, you know. or six years before I was. But, you know, in I thought this was, like, a lot more down my together, let’s all have a good time”, and I think of crates with L.P’s in it, you know that he’d Daddy Cool’s first single and their number one TLP: Were you getting tired of the seriousness teenage years, everything goes real fast, it’s alley, wilder and I liked the blues, you know they picked up on that. imported and I found my first John Lee Hooker hit worked it’s way into the national bode that of ‘The Sons...’? sorta so washed up, so...there I was when I was and I took up playing harmonica and I got good TLP: What was life like back in Hampton if you and Howlin’ Wolf there and really it just took much? R.W. Well, The Sons Of Vegetal Mothers was sixteen in ‘Battle Of The Bands’ playing on that at it really quickly. weren’t a school kid or beach kid. off from there ... of course, I was getting into R.W. Oh yeah, that’s my little joke....the national a band that was quite eccentric. You know, we same stage, you know, ...... I never imagined it TLP: Horrie Dargy, Brod Smith and you? R.W. I was bit of a beachie, you know, you’re soul music which was getting a big bash from anthem. I stole that from Frankie J. Holden sang about, we played ... rock but it wasn’t was going to happen but it happened and a few R.W. There’s a lot better people at playing trying to find your tribe, which one you belong all the Atlantic stuff was coming out and you actually ‘cos he used to perform ‘Eagle Rock’ hard rock in the sense of what’s hard rock years later I was headlining with Daddy Cool on the harmonica than me but I do have my own too and I was into surfing for a while but I could buy all those singles from Batman’s, and he’d go, er, “now everyone all stand for now...... it was very angular kinda music...... you the same stage so if you put the ideas out there, style. I just picked it up by ear and I was able to wasn’t any good at that. I still love surfing, you brand new so I’d go down and trawl through the national anthem” and they’d think, okay know, we sang about food (laughing ...like they do come to pass if you ... improvise pretty quickly because that was not know, watching surfing and the surf culture those ‘cos I was very much into seeking things and so they’d all stand up and he’d play ‘Eagle brown rice (more laughing) that had this really TLP: Spot on and I suppose, we were talking an alien idea because my Dad had lots of jazz and that but I was never any good at it myself. out and finding good sounds that appealed to Rock’. I like that. I wasn’t arrogant enough to heavy edge to it and ... it was a lot, a lot of fun about...... it’s all about....well, hard work, talent records, so the idea of like, hearing a bunch of And so, the music thing was always there on me. think of it myself but since that idea’s come but the members were from all other bands so, and focusing on good stuff. Your enthusiasm for chords and improvising came quite easily to the sidelines, discussing music with people of TLP: For an example, Side 2 of Sex, Drugs, particularly Mike Rudd from Spectrum and music, was it there since you first heard it? me...... so then I fronted my first schoolboy like minds...... Rock ‘n Roll ... which, what , was called
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