I remember Roger as a fine, very committed and dedicated union representative during a time that the then NSW Department of Community Services was undergoing a restructure with trade staff in its Metro North region were being made redundant. He was driven in supporting the workers yet always a gentleman. When I quoted the Latin motto, Festina Lente, he told me that it was his family motto and that his forebear was one of the Irish Easter Uprising patriots shot whilst sitting by the English. I since presumed that another forebear was the fine groundbreaking NSW Attorney General and magistrate, John Hubert Plunkett, about whom Mark Tedeschi has since written. J.H.Plunkett was a champion of justice in pursuing the 'Myall Creek Massacre' of local Aboriginal first Australians. It is in line with my sense of Roger's dedication to justice that another Plunkett would so uncharacteristically, for that earlier time in colonial history, pursue the law to get justice against the white killers in the Myall Creek Massacre case. I was deeply saddened by Roger's untimely death. The world was the better for his life. Susan F. Israel
I remember Roger as a fine, very committed and dedicated union representative during a time that the then NSW Department of Community Services was undergoing a restructure with trade staff in its Metro North region were being made redundant. He was driven in supporting the workers yet always a gentleman. When I quoted the Latin motto, Festina Lente, he told me that it was his family motto and that his forebear was one of the Irish Easter Uprising patriots shot whilst sitting by the English. I since presumed that another forebear was the fine groundbreaking NSW Attorney General and magistrate, John Hubert Plunkett, about whom Mark Tedeschi has since written. J.H.Plunkett was a champion of justice in pursuing the 'Myall Creek Massacre' of local Aboriginal first Australians. It is in line with my sense of Roger's dedication to justice that another Plunkett would so uncharacteristically, for that earlier time in colonial history, pursue the law to get justice against the white killers in the Myall Creek Massacre case. I was deeply saddened by Roger's untimely death. The world was the better for his life. Susan F. Israel
I remember Roger as a fine, very committed and dedicated union representative during a time that the then NSW Department of Community Services was undergoing a restructure with trade staff in its Metro North region were being made redundant. He was driven in supporting the workers yet always a gentleman. When I quoted the Latin motto, Festina Lente, he told me that it was his family motto and that his forebear was one of the Irish Easter Uprising patriots shot whilst sitting by the English. I since presumed that another forebear was the fine groundbreaking NSW Attorney General and magistrate, John Hubert Plunkett, about whom Mark Tedeschi has since written. J.H.Plunkett was a champion of justice in pursuing the 'Myall Creek Massacre' of local Aboriginal first Australians. It is in line with my sense of Roger's dedication to justice that another Plunkett would so uncharacteristically, for that earlier time in colonial history, pursue the law to get justice against the white killers in the Myall Creek Massacre case. I was deeply saddened by Roger's untimely death. The world was the better for his life. Susan F. Israel
I remember Roger as a fine, very committed and dedicated union representative during a time that the then NSW Department of Community Services was undergoing a restructure with trade staff in its Metro North region were being made redundant. He was driven in supporting the workers yet always a gentleman. When I quoted the Latin motto, Festina Lente, he told me that it was his family motto and that his forebear was one of the Irish Easter Uprising patriots shot whilst sitting by the English. I since presumed that another forebear was the fine groundbreaking NSW Attorney General and magistrate, John Hubert Plunkett, about whom Mark Tedeschi has since written. J.H.Plunkett was a champion of justice in pursuing the 'Myall Creek Massacre' of local Aboriginal first Australians. It is in line with my sense of Roger's dedication to justice that another Plunkett would so uncharacteristically, for that earlier time in colonial history, pursue the law to get justice against the white killers in the Myall Creek Massacre case. I was deeply saddened by Roger's untimely death. The world was the better for his life. Susan F. Israel
I miss havig a beer with you.....
You made me the man, husband and father I am today.
Me, Candice and Isaac miss you with all our heart!