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A strong and talented voice
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The
leafy hills above Melbourne will soon no
longer reverberate to the gravel-voiced sound of the distinguished and scarred journalist , influential university
magazine editor, publisher and Federal ALP politician, Pete
Steedman , once declared Politician of the Year by the Canberra Times .
Pete is moving
from his 10
acre property at Hurstbridge - formerly
owned by playwright David Williams - into suburbia and has
sent out an
emotional email headed
THE LAST HURRAH . Nearly 40 years of history , parties , plotting
and political activities have taken place in what
he calls Chateau Hurstbridge , a hideaway not unlike that of Hunter S. Thompson's mountain compound , Owl Farm.
The last decade, he wrote , had been tough : “ I hid for a few years after Julie’s death and examined my entrails . I didn’t like what I found .” Moving , he says, has proved traumatic , with 50 years of files, books and records to sift through . Moved out have been an eight unit Compactus , hundreds of files , 12 filing cabinets and 350 boxes of books . Much of it will go to libraries , universities and museums . Mention is made of dirt files on political enemies . He is departing his rural paradise for Heidelberg where he will be strategically located one kilometre from the Repat Hospital , 800 metres from the Austin Health Complex and 600 metres from a cemetery . Readers of this blog have been treated to the long running Pete Steedman Chronicles covering his full on life . Be warned - there is more to come.
