A Retrospective: Tony Robertson

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Geelong 1953-1971

• Born 23 February (Pisces)

• 1959 St John’s Primary North Geelong

• 1960-1964 St Patrick’s Geelong West

• 1964:

• Tasmania

• Beatles Tour

Geelong 1953-19711963:

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Daniel Patrick Mannix

Angelo Roncalli

Geelong 1953-1971• 1965-1970 St Joseph’s College Newtown

• 1968 Foundation Year of SJC Drama Group

• 1971: ANZ Bank Malop Street

Sydney 1971-1977

• Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

• 1972 Brisbane

• Theological Studies

• Labour Government reforms

Melbourne 1978-1989

• Communal Households

• 1979 Philippines Trip

• Peace activism

• St Joseph’s North Melbourne

• High-Rise Flats/ Fitzroy Rovers / Belfast

1990 –1991 Papua New Guinea• Kiunga –Daru Diocese

• Fly River / OK Tedi Mine

• Cross Cultural Learnings

1992: Brisbane1992-1994 Archdiocesan Youth Director

1995-1997 Australian Catholic University

1997: Launch of Just Living Consultancy Services

1999 Australian Government Award for Voluntary Service

2001 Return of award to protest Iraq War

1997-2006 Junction Park State School

2006: Micah Projects Inc

2006: Alice Springs

My Values

My Heroes• Yeshua of Nazareth• Francis and Clare of Assisi / Anthony of Padua• Christina the Astonishing• John Henry Newman / Edith Stein / Simone Weil• Dorothy Day / Dan Berrigan• Mum Shirl and Ted Kennedy of Redfern

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My Music• Hildergard von Bingen • Simon and Garfunkel/ Doors

• Bob Dylan / Joan Baez / Holly Near

• Skyhooks / Stones / Oils/ • Leonard Cohen /Paul Robeson

• Judy Small / Paul Kelly / Shane Howard

• Archie Roach / Ruby Hunter

• Xavier Rudd / Michael Franti

The joys and hopes, the grief and anxieties of the people of this age,

especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and

hopes, the grief and anxieties of the followers of Christ."

Vatican II, GS. 1

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a

service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is

desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has

always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been

proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of

the time. On Liberty John Mill

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