«H^ ediioriai I The media coverage ot the fees protest rally held on May 6lh was unusual for the sympathy which it showed to Ihe campaign. A couple of T.V. stations even showed inten/iews with Union Secretary, Jorge Jorquera,emphasizing thalstudentsfelt they had CONTENTS a common bond with many economically disadvantaged groups in Australia. For the firsl time since the beginning of the fees campaign, it was stressed that the anti-fees 3. THE SECOND COMING Amer/can T.V. evangelism took a dive the protesters are nol merely protesting at having to pay $250 themselves, but rather are other month when it was revealed that multi-million dollar minister Jimmy protesting against the disincentive Ihal the fee represents for people from lower socio Bakker was into beastiality, promiscuity and other un-Christian activities. Our economic groups. Ivy League correspondent TISH DUN KIN prepared a screenp/ay/ora This link-up with the dispossessed of Ausiralia was inevitable. A very strong basis for our outrage at the fee, is that students must beallowed to be a force for change.They are luture T.V. soap opera. the members of society who are specifically set the task of research inlo the way society operates and Ihe ways in which il could be improved, 11 Ihis kind ol research is to be 4. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT QUOTAS The English Department is conducted in a balanced and ngorous manner then ail sectors of the community should debating whether or not to introduce guotas to subjects, and whether or not to be allowed to participate. As soon as the researchers are representative of only the cut research grants MAN DY JOHNSON reports on this drastic turn ol economically well-off sector of society then there is no incentive to advocate change. events I would argue that this is exactly the situation in which we find ourselves. Very many students inherit their professions from Iheir parents. The children ol professional go to 6. POV ERTY Susan Ryan has claimed that the majority of university students private schools, and then to university and Ihen into the professions. What kind of a force protesting against the Tertiary Fee are 'spoilt middle-class brats". KAREN j for change is this? Why do people seem surprised and outraged that universities are FLETCH ER spoke to four students living below the poverty line, and bastions of consen^atism? Perhaps I am being loo black and while. There are still many students who are discovered that Senator Ryan's fingers weren't quite on the pulse. conducting genuine inquiry intoJhe disciplines Ihey are studying. This kind of inquiry is threatened by lhe$250 fee, bythe onslaught of privatisalionand by thecuts in education 10. TH E DEATH OF QUS Every so often, student politicians inflict funding which are hitting all educational institutions. themselves on the general public, and ask to be loved. Failing that, they Despite all the disincentives and downright impediments, there are students who are content themselves with knifing each other in broad daylight Scarred war still workina for social change. veteran HOWARD STRINGER comments on the background battles in Few sons or daughters of poor families make il to university. 01 those ihat do, some go student politics, ruthlessly illustrated by the recent QUS campaign all out lor themselves, aiming lo beat Ihe nch kids at their own game. But most students Irom poor backgrounds do not act this way ihey do not forget where they come from, 13. MUTANT HORROR! Recently, Buildings and Grounds sprayed the and feel a heavy responsibility to use Ihe new knowledge around them and the solidanly ol others to strike a blow for the ordinary people of the wortd. Architecture Department with toxic chemicals. Shortly afterwards, students and staff complained about nausea and headaches JO BESLEV talked to the From amongst the middle cla;?s students (who comprise the majority in an Australian tertiary institution) there is a percentage who also aspire to sen/e something higher Ihan department and to Buildings and Grounds and filed the following report... theirown self advancement. They articulate what is besl in theirown class background... the demand for social justice. 14. Fl N E ARTS The Fine Arts Department is threatened by education cuts, and Students have requested, and received help from trade unions in their light against could possibly be amalgamated into the History Department in the near future. tertiary fees. In the new phase of the campaign we will be calling upon the unemployed, Art History student AN DREW ENTSCH was concerned about the fate of pensioners, Abonginal and womens' organisations and all those sectors of the com the department, and sent us this article... munity who most acutely feel the need for social change, for their support in ourdemand for "education for all. not just the nch". We are all in this together. 15. THE WINNER SUPPLIMENT Funsters take note! In this especially So, when disadvantaged groups such as these call for support students should meaty edition of Winner we look at surting, beachwear, Dreamworld, the answer Ihe calL In our research we should be looking always lo achieve social justice, a non-exploitative, humanized health system, an equitable and sustainable economy, a Grundy's waterslide, Cavill Avenue, Terry Towelling hats, Mango Singlets and fair and informative media... in every discipline there are advances which can be made, the great Australian Dream! REGGIE AS PIN comes out of the closet! so long as we are always questioning. MAUD SHAHKS has an appointment at the Dentist! HERBERT In the wake of the anti-stnke legislation Queensland workers desperately need our LEVEN is mad as all hell and won't take anymore! help. Similarly, Ihe federal welfare cuts have left many needy people in even greater need. We, the siudents. must be vocal in our support for these groups, and they will be 23. ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON f EES Ruthless foreign vocal in their support for free education. Our cause is theirs, and theirs is ours. correspondant BRUCE WESTERN recently held KAREN KAREN FLETCHER FLETCH ER'S household at gunpoint and personally threatened to kill (With thanks to Mei Shu Shu GAVIN SAWFORD unless his demands were met One ofhis demands at Adelaide University) was that Semper publish a serious article by him about tertiary fees... Reluctantly we agreed...
24. APOCALYPSE NOW OR LATER Semper action-person COMMANDER HARRISON B\SC(J\J winds up his mission to terminate NCC leader B.A Santamaria, in an Ampol Roadhouse on the road to credUs Victoria. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro... 29. THE POLITICS OF SELLOUT Angry young peop/e from the EDITORS: Howard Stringer ideologically sound faction of the Student Union respond to Tim Grau's article Karen Fletcher about Labour politics in the last edition of Semper.
31. CHILDREN BY CHOICE CAROLYN SCHMIDT reports o/me LAYOUT ARTIST: David Holden possible shutdown of the pregnancy counselling sen/ice, Children by Choice, • due to lack of funding... TYPESETTER: Lou Larder 32. T.V. SOAP and NIGEL THE WALLABY A new cartoon stripby GRAPHICS & BRENDAN O'SHEA graces the pages of Semper and proves that even PRODUCTION: John Carey inoffensive animals can be crushed by 'the establishment' in Queensland. Howard Stringer 33. LETTERS TO TH E EDITORS and CARTOONS Rupert Murdoch discovers life in the big city white Crocodile Dundee demonstrates new David Holden developments of Yuppie Technology The outcome could be fatal. Glen Thompson Hannah Cutts PHOTOGRAPHY: David Holden Look what we found in Marlon Smith's coiumn In the Sunday Mail, Dec 1 1985! Crumbs! What next?! PROOF READING: Bex Biderbek gcnf. (•'csi^ie pri-.i;J«nt. Bn.in Mu!i;n^. .*f.-: :-. *'«»« Crait tatt wMk w.h«n 500 enthu«i»e!« 10 fire up the judicnce r.t-; d.'gg.Rg
(Seven-thirty Sunday nighl. Yana speaks.) car, sunglasses shading her from flashbulbs Fallen from grace, Jim could not sell a On the television screen, a magnified stop and from hostile glances. Bible lo a dying convert. Bul struggling for watch ticks. A tomato explodes in bloody juice on redemption, he understands the average The cool green eyes of judgement peer YANA: In the beginning, there was Jim, He Jim's lapel) sinner, and he caters to his every need. was a preacher, he had a wife. into a dim livingroom. Jim tried and failed to calm them. (Camera pans a warehouse stocked with {Jim and Tammy, thin and pimply and smi these items: "I'm Yana Wendt". (An angp/ horde stampedes from the au ling, emerge from the Stone Baptist Church ditorium where Jim has taken the stage.) Bakker-blessed washcloths cleanse the In the dim livingroom there sits an enor where they were wed.) mous couch. A man at one end and a wo Housewives stalked him nightly, chant tainted flesh, while morning-afler mouth Then, there was salvation. man at Ihe other stare intently at the screen. ing, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Audultery". wash rinses the taste of sin away. Hairshirts He saved many souls, she grew many come in all men's sizes, alternated with sack The same couch, overbright, flashes on Jim tried to explain himself lo the PTL cloths complete with ashes. Kneepads aid a • the screen. It.is covered in crushed velvet. lashes. Board of Directors. {Jim and Tammy enjoy a light moment restful penance, while Resolution lollies Maroon. (Jim slides from a gleaming sportscar, calm the lustful man in moments of temp with the drycleaned gospel choir on the sel The same man and woman sit on il, only sunglasses shading him from flashbulbs tation. of PTL.) together. They look garish, but perfect. N ot a and from hostile glances.) Jim has recently sold the hardcover rights patch of skin dulls the surface of her tawny- YANA: Later came the revelation: He was a They shouted, "Crucify him!" of his recent sellout lecture series, "Adul rose-cream face, nol a crumb mars the va Only a miracle could save Jim Bakker. tery: How ll Was For Me", and ils soltcover nilla linen of his suit. womanizer, she was a lush. Lo and behold, one has. companion, a book of callisthenics lor men Her eyes sparkle. (Splitscreen photo of a young woman in a bathing suit and high heeled pumps.and an As Christ turned water into wine, Jim Bak who feel the urge to stray. His teeth sparkle. uncapped plastic bottle for prescription ker has turned penance into profit-for "no Notably absent from the scene of the sin, Jim and Tammy Faye hold hands drugs.) body's perfect" and Bakker has Ihe padded wife Tammy Faye participates actively in the Yana of the green eyes looks on. Great was the wrath of the people. wallet to prove il. salvation. While Bakker empathizes with un- On screen, photographic images roll. (Tammy waddles from a gleaming sports- (Yana continues.) faithlul men. Tammy soothes their scorned wives. Her product line features everything from good-luck garlic to keep the spice in life, to black silk sheets forthe marriage bed. Her etiquette column, specialising in civil behaviour toward the other woman, is syn dicated in newspapers across America; and after years of trying to make it in the music business. Tammy Faye has linally scored a hit with her own recording ol Lo- relta Lynne's Stand By Your Man. I mperfection has been very, very good to 1^ Jim and Tammy Bakker. Nol by coincidence ao the crucifixes, found in every room ol v.. their spacious home, now hang at a slant. (Focusonlargecructfixdangling overthe mantle. Then, broaden focus lo the original tableau ol Jim ana Tammy, nestled together in the middle of the couch. Yana, polite predator, stiflens herself im portantly in an armchair. In the dim livingroom, ol course, her arm chair is empty.)
YANA; Jim, Tammy, forgive me lor see ming skeptical-
TAMMY: I forgave Jim, Yana, I can forgive you.
YANA: Have you, though? Forgiven him.
TAMMY: (Blushing imperceptibly beneath her powder.) I'm here. (Screen Jim beams. Home Jim grunts and munches a chip.)
YANA: Some would call that a mere con cession to appearances -
TAMMY: Oh, no! Not Ihat I don'l care about my appearance, Yana. I get a manicure and a pedicure and a facial... but beneath the glamour, in my heart and in my soul and in my brain- (Home Jim chortles.)
TAMMY: - and my fingernails and to the ends ol my lippy tippy toes. 1 forgave Jim. I did I did I did. And it was-
YAN A: Let's backtrack to the affair. How did you leel when you lound out? (Screen Tammy pauses. Home Tammy spits.)
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Eversince Keating brought down a $250 fee on the students of Austra many more wealthy people being educated by the state than there are lia, Susan Ryan, Bob Hawke and all apologists for tertiary fees have economically disadvantaged people, Is this a reason to further dis been claiming that all students are middle-class spoilt brats.This is not advantage that minority who struggle against bureaucracy-bound true... yet. If tertiary fees are here to stay then this could well become a Social Security and Austudy offices, tyrannical part-time employers, self-fulfilling prophecy. As these case-studies show, it is becoming demanding lecturers and tutors, unco-operative parents and spouses more and more difficult for people from low income families and and an education department with its mouth open, screaming for people who have no independent income whatsoever, to study Be $250? Karen Fletcher spoke to four people who are in dire economic cause ot tne inequitable education system in Australia (a system for straits and are most unlikely to receive any assistance whatsoever in which Education Minister, Susan Ryan, is responsible), there are very their quest for an education ...
to educate himself he also faces very great Kennedy suffers from choreao athetosis, In his initial years at university he boar problems with cirriculum access. He can a variety of cerebral palsy which involves ded at facilities which could deal with the not lake notes and he cannoi access re severe spinal pain, difficulty with fine motor problems he faced because of his disabi search materials without constant assistance lities. At one time he lived across the river movements, hearing, speech and involun or some kind of computer aided curriculum and came to University on the ferry. This was tary movements associated with spasm. access system. He is currently helping to quite expensive and the walk was quite long. He is thus entitled to an invalid pension, develop such a system with some of the staff from the department of social security. He has very great difficulties with transpor tation and the costs can be quite greal. These in the Prentice Computer Centre on this cam However, the DBS reduces this pension days he lives with his parents on Sir Fred pus, Kennedy's work is therelore helpful to by one dollar for every two dollars that Ken Schonell Drive. He pays them board of $50 all people with disabilities/impairments. nedy, or any invalid pensioner, receives as perweek, since they are nol particularly well And yet he faces constant and insurmoun income. The TEAS payments to which Ken off themselves. The walk into the University table financial barriers. nedy was entitled, as a student, were clas is slill quite long and causes Kennedy some The pension which is paid lo the blind is sified as income by the DSS and his pen discomfort, not reduced if the recipient has another sion was decreased accordingly. In fact source of income, such as AUSTUDY. This they were decreased to such an extent that Kennedy has taken out a loan from the is because the blind population is a very he was no longer entitled to a health care University lo pay for the special equipment strong lobby group, and they have been card or any ol the pharmaceutical benefits he requires to be able to study. This inclu able to show that such reductions are very KENNEDY McConnell that would have been associated with his des a computer and video monitor, a video strong disincentives to the blind to become Mature Age Student pension. recorder, video and audio tapes and com- educated and/or employed members of the puterdisks. He has been paying off this loan COURSE: Education Kennedy's medical and pharmaceutical community. Why does this clear logic not lor some years at the rale of $100 per also apply to less politically poweriul disa Kennedy McConnelt graduated from the expenses are astronomical. He was forced month. Arts Faculty in 1983. Because he was over to meet them all himself. His pharmaceuti bled people? He is now enrolled full time in a Bachelor 25 he qualified lorTE AS as an independeni cal bill alone comes to approximalely $30 Kennedy is no longer enlilled lo AUSTUDY of Education Studies, Apart from the huge He received full TEAS for the entirety of his per fortnighL because he is on his second degree. His. financial problems he faces in his attempts course. only source of income is his pension. Tony had based his TEAS application on the DSS. They wouldn't give him any money. his "willing and able benefactor" in the mea his father's income, since it had been his He slept on their doorstep on a number of ning of the TEAS guidelines. father who had financially supported him occasions to show them what desperate Bul of course, he heard nothing from through his final two years at highschool, plight he was in. They still wouldn't give him them for months. This year he enrolled in even though he had been living in the ga- any money. One of them even suggested Science part-time because the Engineering rageathis mother's house inTownsville. Bul that he might try the Salvation Army for food Faculty would not permit him to enrol part- the TEAS ofiice based Iheir assessment on and shelter! time in engineering. He will not be able to his mother's income, and on Ihis basis he During these weeks of desperation Tony credit any of the subjects he is currently was nol eligible for TEAS. was living in a household of eight people. studying to his Engineering degree. In ef So Tony was stuck in Brisbane, halfway He was losing many friends by borrowing fect he has lost two years. He is on the dole through first-year engineering, with no in constantly and amassing large debts. He and the DSS is hassling him to find fuli-iime come whatsoever and a bill for $1,600. was looking for work, with no success what work, All Tony wants to do is study engi He lived on some money that his lather soever, and he was studying lor the exams neering. managed to lend him, until October, when which were looming in his three remaining Finally, in April, he got a hearing date for he finally decided that he could no longer subjects. He says this was a time of im the Studenl Assistance Appeals Tribunal. At live by begging and borrowing from his mense stress, anxiety and depression. that hearing the Tribunal set aside the ori friends. He applied to the Engineering Fa ginal decision ofthe Education Department culty for special permission to study Engi During this time, also, he was appealing and found Tony's father to be his parent in neering part-time. It is not usually permitted lo the TEAS office to show mercy. He was as the meaning of the guidelines. He is now unsuccessful with them as he had been with TONY ROBERTS to study Engineering part-time, but in Tony's entitled to the full living away from home case they found it in their hearts to lei him the DSS. According to regulation 3, sub AUSTUDY rale, but he cannot enrol in En AGE: 19 section 2, they said, your mother is your COURSE: Engineering/Science drop two thirds ol his workload and con gineering three quarters of the way through tinue with only three subjects. "willing and able benefactor", and she the semester. He no longer ov/es the go Tony Roberts enrolled in full-time engi should be supporting you. It seemed to vernment $1,600, but is in fact owed Si ,015 neering as soon as he finished school. He Having achieved this he went down tothe have escaped their notice that she wasn't had to live away from home because his DSS to apply for the dole. The DSS refused in back payments, by them, and has sent to let him register for the dole without proof On the day he finished his last exam he them a nasty letter giving them notice that mother lived in Townsville and his father went down to the DSS and signed a statu lived overseas. He received full living away thai he was a part-time studenl they have fourteen days to pay! tory declaration stating that he was no lon from home TEAS. He went back to the Engineering faculty If, as al some Australian terliary institu ger a studenl They gave him a cheque lor tions, payment of the $250 administration Until August of his first year... 1986. He and asked them for some official statement $88 on the spol charge had been a pre-requisite forenroll- got a nasty letter informing him that he had of his part-lime status. Because of the irre But despite all of this Tony still wanted to menl Tony would not have been able to "misunderstood the regulations" and would gularity of the case, they said, such a state be a student! In December 1986 he ap enrol at all Ihis year. He has been depen no longer be receiving TEAS. He also got a ment must receive a variety of bureaucratic pealed to the Students Assistance Appeals dent on Ihe boycott campaign for his con bill for the money he had already been sent approvals, consents and permissions and Tribunal (SAA'T) and laid out the grounds for tinued existence as a studenl The surpri (around $1,600) and notice that he had four would take a couple of weeks. his appeal in a letter. He also got his mother sing thing is thai in Ihe face of all of this teen days to pay. He went back to the clerks at thedesks of to write a letter explaining that she was not adversity, he slill wants to BE a student!
So she enrolled in Arts in 1981. Because exceptforasixmonth periodwhereshe took Once again she was stranded wiih no of serious family problems she moved out of a job with the CSIRO, because the DSS was visible means of support. She enrolled part- home in second semester. She was not eli- hassling her so much to get a job. Amanda time and collected thedole in firsl semester, gibleforTEAS because her parents'income is not the kind of person anyone could ac and then in second semester, because the did not pass the means tesl She was not cuse of being a "bludger", but she, like any DSSweregivingherso much agro, she went prepared to have a Justice of the Peace one, finds il hard to concentrate on study off the dole and took a job in a cafeteria. She investigate the reasons that her parents while working full-time.She wanted to study was earning less than the dole, working 20 would nol supporl her. Her family situation full-time, but with no economic support this hours per week, and she didn'lget any of Ihe has always been delicate and stressful. was impossible. benefits afforded a welfare recipienl such Finally, in her filth year at University, she as a health care card. But it was worth it just She took a part-time job in a fruit shop, for to keep the DSS olf her back. which she was paid $36 per week. For three was admitted to Law, because she had im months she lived on this pittance. Her rent proved her TE score by completing an arts This year she has enrolled full time for the was $25 per week. She lived off the gene degree... an arts degree that, instead of ta first time in years. She is very anxious to rosity of her housemates, and she hitched to king three years to complete, took an agoni finish her degree, She is working up to fif Univesity. After three months of this intole sing five! Bul the ultimate irony was her TEAS teen hours per week in a book shop, again rable situation she look some extra work. By application. She would have been eligible lor less than the dole. In the University holi the end ol her first year at University she was for TEAS because she had been working days the book shop closes dov/n, she is working Ihreejobs: the fruit shop.agolf club lull-lime for over two years (which, under the entirely without money. and a hotel. She passed 100 credilpoints in TEAS guidelines means you are 'indepen Amanda has not paid the $250 lee be dent') but they rejected her application be her first year. cause she simply does not have the money. AMANDA BENSON cause she was working on a second de In second year she enrolled full-time If she had gone part-time and collected the AGE: 23 gree! If she had been able to enrol in Law dole Ihis year she v/ould have been exempt. COURSE: Law once again. She was working 30 hours a from the stari or if she was enrolled in an week at two jobs and the problems in her Because she has been at University lor six Amanda Benson wanted to study Law as Arts/Lav/combined degree she would have years, living on the poverty line, she is un family were causing her considerable anxi been entitled to TEAS ... but because she soon as she finished school. HerTE score ety and stress. She failed one subjecl as a derstandably anxious to finish the damn was not considered high enough by the had slaved for five years on an Arts degree Law degree and gel the hell out. If the stu result of this stress. In second semester she she wasn't entitled lo any financial support QTAC people, so she enrolled in Arts, with quit full-time study and went part-time. She dent union boycott doesn't come olf and the intention of improving her notional TE whatsoever... again! The inflexibility of Ihe sheiseventuallyforced topayuporgetoul was still working 30 hours per week to sup AUSTUDY Office in thesekindsof situations score so Ihal she would eventually be per port herself. all ol this agony may have been in vain. mitted to study Law. (It is interesting that is unbelievable. Amanda is only one case in Amanda once had lo phone lifeline for a Amanda received the highest mark in her In third year Amanda finally applied for the thousands who are caught in the twilight care package because no-one in her house- year for Contract Law when she was finally the dole. She studied part-time and collec zone of the AUSTUDY guidelines. hotd had enough money lo buy food. Is this admitted to the faculty. ted the dole for both third and fourth years, the act ol a spoilt middle-class brat?
leagues below the poverty line. She was en- end ol semester and Michelle, and many I'm going to touch them for ten or Kvenly tilled to a small amount of TEAS ($35 per others like her, has not yet received any dollars. 1 owe so many $20 and $30 that I week) based on her mother's income. Her money from the education department One don't know how I'm ever going to pay ihem mother is resident in Canberra and so she is can only wonder what they expect people in back. As soon as that cheque arrives I'm obliged to live away from home. She does her position to live on ... They are busy going to go round them all and give it all not give her any financial support whatso threatening to disenrol students who have back. I've got il written down." ever. She cannot afford to. not yet paid their "Administration Charge"... She rushes to the money machine with So she was living on $35 perweek. Her and then they are five months late with her keycard with depressing regularity, full rent was $23 per week in a share house. AUSTUDY payments! of hope that today will be the day the money Such low rent accommodation is extremely Michelle has finally broken. Last week is paid inlo her account. It never is. She then difficult to find, especially within any rea she withdrew from full time Science and re- borrows twenty cents to ring the AUSTUDY sonable distance from Ihe university. Trans enrolled part-time. She will make an appli Office to ask ihem where it is. The firsl cou port has always been a major problem for cation forthe dole in the next coupleof days. ple ol times she did they were rude and Michelle. She hitches, walks or bums lifts II will be interesting to see if her applicalion abrupt; "Just wait." Of late they have been where ever she wants lo go. is accepted. The DSS is cracking down on more apologetic, but no more helpful. She also had problems with food.$12 per students very hard these days, Siudents "We're really overworked, we know you're in week does nol go very far. She also points must show that they are very actively see trouble, there's nothing we can do, we're just out that it does not enable one to put aside king work or their benefits are cul entirely. snowed under... 1 don't know if we'll ever gel MICHELLE ELLIS much for gas and eleclricity bills. Michelle Michelle has been looking for part-lime through all of this!" Very comforting. AGE: 19 is nol a snappy dresser. Shoelaces and work eversince she moved lo Brisbane, but COURSE: Science A housemateof Michelle's has alsogiven shampoo are luxuries which she can sel she has never been able lo find any. up waiting and gone on the dole because As in the previous two cases Michelle Ellis dom afford. Michelle recalls the past few months as she just couldn't keep going any longer. Are has been forced to drop out of full-time study But at least she had $35 per week last very painful She has been living almost en there no lengths lo which the education de because she cannot aflord to remain. She year. This year her AUSTUDY cheque, like tirely on credit and has strained very many partment will nol go lo ensure that poor peo was enrolled in Science lull-time last year, so many AUSTU DY cheques, has not come close friendships in the process. She says ple have to fighi every inch ol the way to gel 1986, and completed that year while living through. It is now three weeks before the "When people see me coming they know an education? Young people of Australia .... READ THE BOOK THAT TEACHERS AND LECTURERS ARE TOO FRIGHUNED TO RECOMMEND
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The University needs to look into alternative pest control methods. Although toxic chemcials are still being used on campus, it seems that the Univer sity is adopting a more judicious approach to the use of pesticides. All stocks of diel drin, chlordane, lindane, DDT, copper sul phate, amitrole and 2,4-0 have been dispo sed of and the discontinuation of the use of Heptachlor and Alachlor (lasso) has been AND recommended. Ron Wilson agrees that the University is basically okay on big safety issues such as the RSI issue. On smaller, yet vitally impor tant issues such as the wearing of proper work shoes and adequate surveillance of jobs, they are not so good. This results in situations such as the spraying with Dieldrin of a hornet's nest in room 134 of the Parnell Building late last year. It is also extremely important that the University publicise all uses of p>esticides and their implications; this is not done adequately at the moment Ron Wilson believes that the University is more concemed with reducing their pre mium for compensation than it is with the Architecture Students in Cancer Horror! health ot its employees. It is not unreason able to blame government cutbacks to edu cation funding as being responsible for this attitude. Itis not unreasonable, either.tobe critical of govemment attitudes to pesticides vM>rid- wide. The current attitude is that a pesticide is "innocent until proven guilty" - with the environment we can't afford to be so demo cratic. The "banning" of pesticides by govern ments is not effective. It often only entails a restriction of who can use a pesticide and where it can be used or a change in label' ling rather than actual prohibition. In Aus • On the weekend of the 21 st/22nd March, was not treated properly upon its construc tralia, the National Health and Medical Re 1987, the Architeclure/Music building was tion. Subsequently, further treatment has search Council and State Departments of treated with the pesticides Aldrin and Diel- beer) required resulting in what should have Agriculture and Health have agreed to drin to kill the lemnites and borers that sha k>een an unnecesary use of a dangerous "phase our the use of highly persistent red the building withstudents and staff.The chemical. chlorinated pesticides bythe 1990's. What lack of infomiation about this has greatly • does this really mean? concerned all occupants of the building. T^e notification of the treatment was in What actually happens when a building is But it is not only farmers and Universities the form of a typed mempthatwaspiostedon who are responsible for the extensive use of treated? Is this another example of negli noticeboards arourjd the Unh^erslty. It ap gence on the part of the University to effec pesticides in the environmehtTStudies in pears that this was not enough as several the USA have shown that about one third of tively protect the long term welFbeing ofthe students visited thebuilding during the week University environment and its inhabitants? all chemclal pesticides are applied for non- end and have since expressed coricem agricultural uses, including home gardens, The answers to these questions are hard to overthe consequencesofthis.According to come by and difficult to assess - here's an lawns and trees. A survey taken by the En attempt to sort out the mess. vironment Protection Agency in USA also "The natural environment showed that 92% of all homeowners used Aldrin and Dieldrin are chlorinated hy- cannot cope with the constant pesticides and that they applied them al a drocarbons-ahighriskgroupof pesticides and severe damage that higher amount per acre than farmers. I would that also includes DDT, heptachlor, kepone expect similar figures in Australia. and chlordane. Generally, the chlorinated pesticides cause..." hydrocarbons are extremely resistant to breakdown, persist in the environment, are passed up the food chain and reside for Barry Pratt, the University's Director of Oc "... There have been long periods of time in body fat It has also cupational Health and Safety, there should complaints of nausea and been discovered that they are able to cause be no adverse effects on health from the stomach pains from cleaners cancer, birth defects and neurological dis treatment due to the method of application who worked on Monday the orders. of the chemicals and their involalile nature. 23rd of March..." Aldrin and Dieldrin are also, however, re Ron Wilson, a representative of ttie Misc. gistered for use as a means of termite con Workers Union, is not so sure. A Buildings trol in Queensland. It is compulsory, by law, and Grounds employee, he expressed con Obviously, there needs to be a drastic lo treat every new slab construction buil cern about the University's reluctance to change in the public consciousness to ding for termites. Aldrin is one of the most makeanysubstantiat assurances about the wards pesticides. The natural environment effective ways ol treating a building because effects the treatment may have on the oc cannot cope with the constant and severe of the properties mentioned above. It per cupants of the building. He has received damage that pesticides cause. In addition manently binds itself lo the day particles in complaints of nausea and stomach pains to Ihe many ecological and health concerns, the soil and remains in the area as a poi from cleaners who worked on Monday the the efficacy of pesticide use has also begun sonous barrieragainst termites. This is also 23rd March. His main objection,however, is to be questioned. Despite increased use of one of its adverse environmental properties the short notice of the treatment that was chemical pesticides, annual agricultural los - it persists in the soil and hence travels given and the resulting inability of the em ses due to pests have remained the same or through the food chain. ployees lo have the option of slaying away have increased. from the building if they so desired. Aldrin and Dieldrin were injected into the So where do we go from here? It is dif ground all around the architecture/music Barry Pratt maintains, however, that the ficult to believe that a total ban on chemical building to remedy what has been descri university is nol complacent on the issue of pesticides will ever be possible due to many bed as a "desperate termite problem". The pesticides. "Our first concern is with the political and economic reasons. However, pest control operator who is atgreatest risk, the approach ot Integrated Pest Manage our second concern is with the occupants ment - a combined use ol environmental, of the building and our third with the Uni genetic, chemical and cultural means of "The major problem is that versity environment", he said. It appears pest conlrol - is infinitely possible as a these chemicals are very that although Aldrin and Dieldrin are highly liighly effective method of pest conlrol that dangerous, and misuse can toxic chemicals, all proper safety precau causes litlle damage lo the environment tions were taken and the firsl two groups Alternative methods have to be tried out occur due to ignorance, should not be in any serious danger. The An across the board reassessment of the laziness or accident..." marking of the areas that had been treated use of pesticides is required to find control was inadequate and Ihis may cause pro measures that are less harmlul to the en blems. The University environment may not vironment What belter place is there to be have fared so well. Aldrin and Dieldrin are question that immediately springs lo mind gin than "a place of light and learning" - the toxic to fish, birds and earthworms, all of University of Queensland, is why this situation exists at all in such a which are part of our environment The ma new building. It appears that the building JO BESLEY
13 FINE ART Fly The Art History Department(formeriy Fine "Furthermore, in a few years, Ihe James Arts) is in jeopardy because administrative Hardy Library, and James Baker's Comtem- and linancial expediencies are overriding porary Art Gallery will be located in Bris academic principals. This is because aca bane. The Library is considered by Ihe art demics have only a marginal role in issues establishmenl to be one ol the most impor of University funding. With educalion spen tant collections of Australian Art Historical ding cuts the administration may be con documents, and James Baker's comtem- North fusing Iheir priorities to the detriment ol the porary art collection is asfineacollection as University's academic standing. exists in Australia, and that includes all the The department of Art History was esta State Galleries", Mrs Underhill said. blished in 1978 after a long running debate "In 6 few years there wili be a general shift over its feasabilily. Eighl years on, the De of the study of art history to Brisbane, and partment offers fifteen course-wort< subjects yet the University is stifling the growth of its for in Art History and both an Honours and Mas own Art History Department!" ters degree programs, yet ils recent forma So what does the Administration gain fi tion and comparatively small size has made nancially by amalgamating Art History with it the subject of administrative scrutiny. In some larger department? The '86 review com 1986 this culminated in an official review of mittee determined Ihat there could be no the department by an independent com major alterations to the staffing if the de mittee appointed by the Vice-Chancellor, partment were lo be subsumed. The imme the comprising eminent academics from both diate savings, therefore, would amount to inside and outside the University. The pur the difference between Ihe present head of pose of Ihe review was to assess its aca the department's salary and her proposed demic, linancial and administrative viabilily. salary as a lecturer. This amounts to an in significant figure. The real consideration is the cost of a professorial chair. Could the reason for this new review be that the Vice Winter "... the potential financial Chancellordoes nol want the department to ligitimately require a Chair? Professor Wil gains are small, the son declined to answer questions submit academic loss is great ted by Semper as he felt unable to comment until he had consulted the new review com mittee. Furthermore, since the Art History Winter Department has been able to attract com The central issue of the review was whe munity support in Ihe past, the Dean of Arts '• ther the department could accommodate believes Ihat an external endownment for a Ihe Vice Chancellor's long term policy that Chair may be possible in the future. Even every department should have ils own pro without a professor, Mrs Underhill believes in fessorial chair. This would confer academic that the academic prestige of the depart and administrative leadership of a perma ment can be enhanced through its unique nent nature onto the department The finan scheme of "distinguished visiting lecturers". Hong Kong cial aspect of Ihis issue however, is Ihat a Indeed, it is from these scholars thai ap professor costs lots of money. The ability of plications for the position of a Chair can a deparimeni to make claims on funding is arise. The Dean of Arts, Professor Don Bar dependent upon Ihe number of students it China rett said "I find it difficult to see how there has enrolled. The student load considered could be significant saving of money in amal able to justiiy a professorial chair was 80 gamating this department with another," W.S.U. (weighted student units), but is said Concerning the detrimental aspects of to be rising. The Art History Department does amalgamation, the Arts Group (the Art His Depart Brisbane 10 Dec n't have this many siudents. tory Students' Society) expressed doubts as Return within 90 days The Vice Chancellor's administrative point to the validity of Iheir degrees. Professor Bar ol view, therelore, is thai the Art History De rett said "An Art History degree in another de partment should be subsumed into some partment, say. History, would be meaning larger department. Fortunately, the indepen less", f^^rs Underhill said that the depart dent review committee of 1986 thoughil Ihe ment was concerned as to theabilityof ano department viable enough to recommend ther department to effectively administer the $960.00 that the present Head of Department (Mrs Art History areas. Nancy Underhill) be reinstated lor another three years when her present term expires in (Limited Seats Available) December 1987. The question ol amalga mation would therefore be delayed until "...the University is 1989. The review commiltee also recom stifling the growth of its "Chinapak" mended many specific strategies the de own Art History partment could adopt to increase its num ber of siudents. Department..." for the independent traveller The fate of the Fine Arts Department suf fered a nasty twist in April 1987, when Ihe Professor Barrel said that ihe amalga Vice Chancellorset upa new infernal review mation would have 'a depressing effect' on oi She review committee with Ihe intention of the Art History department bringing the department's re-evaluation dale The bottom line is that the Vice Chan from back to 1987. $294.00 cellor is proposing to alter the decision of At this point the shit hit the fan. his own review committee in a move of ad The central conflict between the depart ministrative and financial expediency. Since ment and the administration revolves around the potential financial gains are small, the Includes the fact that by reducing ihe time period academic loss is great and the administra • 2 nights accommodation in Hong Kong advised by the original committee, the de tive gains of burdening another department partment is not given a chance to streng with an unrelated field are dubious, this • 2 nights accommodation in Guangzhov then its position. move may reflect some larger policy on the While the Vice Chancellor's move may be allocation of funds. Let's face it under the • train Hong Kong/Guangzhov economically expedient it does not consi present government the University is being • China Visa der the recent expansions within the depart forced to find its own funds and the free- ment itself, and in the general Brisbane Art enterprise education policies of the oppo • 820 page "Survival Kit in China" guidebook scene. sition parties don't appear any more com forting. Those funds raised through UNI- Nancy Underhill is cynical about the train QU EST, a universily-run organisation for Ihe of events jeopardising the growth of her de harnessing ol monies generated by tech CAMPUS TRAVEL, GROUND FLOOR, partment nological research, is becoming an impor "We were given recommendations bythe tant resource. This does not however, justify UNION BUILDING, UNIV OF OLD review commiltee, we followed them and indiscriminate rationalisation of other legi have increased our studenl load way past timate areas of tertiary study. TELE: 371 2163,371^2925; 371 2433 Ihe level predicted in the 1986 review", she safdr ANDREW ENTSCH
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This indecent man worshipped He revelled in ihe"art of farting" this artform and ils ghastly conse and wanted lo spread the word to quences. He recommended boo the uninitiated. In a thorough ana ming farts for the military-minded, lysis of the subjecl, he describes musical farts for sensitive souls, the signs lo recognise that a fart is and the odourous variety for those imminent, tells how to provoke a of us who would wish to break up a fart,hov/todisguiseone(onlytobe tedious gathering. He pleaded for TH E VlfAY used when absolutely necessary, the fart to be accepted, and loved. lor farting is a healthy practice, he Count Trumpet wanted to inflict 7 Masters of beer are called en maintains!) and of course he gives smells on our polite world, in a man gineers. As for the other arts, those us a complete list of the various ner that I can only describe as dov/n- who master scotch are called Sco right cruel and indecent, imagine, tchmen, those who master gin are permitting and encouraging every called gin men, those who master one to fart freely His ideas were goon are called stupid arseholes. Count Trumpet wanted nothing short of dangerous, and But we do not call masters of beer to inflict smells on our could create uproar, dear readers, 'slubbiemen', nor do we speak of polite world, in a if we all gave tree rein to our in 'kegmen'. To master the virtue of nermost beastial nature. beer is to rule the world and one manner that i can only self, thus beer is the basis of life. describe as downright Thank goodness Count Trum The principle ts to "be a beermon- pet's terrible turbulent plans have ster". cruel and indecent. never been v/idely accepted. What Susan Scunthorpe a cheek he had - the "art of farting" 8 There is a time and place for indeed! the use of all forms ol alcohol. The best use of scotch is when you According to the late Count types of farts. It was disgusting. Can you imagine whal might have no mixers. The besl use of Tnj m pet, there is a proverb that says have happened if his insidious re tequila is when you have limited The Count was so proud oi his volution had been taken up by the "to live healthily and long, let your own farts that he rarely disguised lime. The besl use of Scrumpy is art make wind". masses? You could be going along for killing weedy patches in your his creations. He even recommen to some seemingly innocent hap from the Engineering Needless to say, the Count him ded the production ol "thunderous" lawn. Beer can be used effectively pening - like the opening of an Faculty in all situations. self was a strong believer in Ihe sounds, so as "not to tire the lis exhibition - and next minute you'd benefits of farting, and he publi tener by forcing him to make too discover to your horror, that some 9 Coolers are inferior to wine. shed a short but most informative much ofan effort tohear". The Count arty fartyness in the full extent of With wine you take the initiative. piece on the subject called "For has much to say about- valuable the term! whereas the cooler is defensive. In the Guidance of Constipated Per advice, he claimed - on the 'spe Today's reading Ihe hands of one of two men of sons". I've just finished reading cial usefulness of silenlcreepers", Talk about avant garde. It'd put equal ability, Ihe cask ol wine gi this distasteful book, and can re and how farting is of such benefit you right off your wine and cheese is from Vs 7-15, ves extra strength. Bolh wine and liably inform you thai the Count to society! wouldn't it? coolers have Iheir uses but neither Book of Massive are beneficial for prolonged drin Proportions... king or in confined spaces. 10 11 you learn 'indoor' techni ques, you v^ill think narrowly and It is the time of year when the forget the true way. Thus you will engineer concerns himself with suc have difficulty in actual encoun cess and lack of success. Remem ters. ber these oral traditions; "The true Way of the Engineer is revealed in 11 Scrumpy is tactically useful at an alcoholic strategy", "Give your the commencement ot a session, EXHIBITION especially sessions in trees, as il is body beer". Only by careful strate- gems may the Engineer find suc possible to spew quickly Irom of themonth cess. In the Engineering Handbook among the branches. However, it we are taught Ihe meaning of al is unsalisfactoryin prolonged ses f\/lark Davies is a painter, musi there was any value in a straightart "Once such a system is adof>- sions, or when standing is requi cian and teacher who has an ex cholic strategy.The book deals chie history course for someone who ted then the individual is allowed fly with strategy in relation to al red. For this reason there are now hibition coming up at THAT Art wants to be an artisi. some sort of freedom instead of adays few traditional schools of Space in f^day/June. Despite the cohol, but may be applied to stra "Well no, not really. The reason being so utterly contused by this tegy in all things. It is wrilten, 'to Scrumpy. There is litlle use now fact that he has speril many years conceptual morass that we tend to adays for this kind of skilL studying music and art, he descri being that for those who want to be^ know one beer is to know ten thou artists and are genuine in their de-' find ourselves in. I feel that people sand beers'. So it is lo know the !2 Once mildly off your skull, te bes himself as "self-taught". This who are drawn towards expressing quila has no equal among alco statement, as much as anything sire, those things (an history etc.) strategy ol alcohol is to know the surely become part and parcel of themselves obviously have some strategy of ten thousand things. holic beverages. It is the supreme else he says, is indicative ol his thing to say It's so obvious to me alcohol once the taste buds have feelings towards current art edu what Ihey are attempting to do. Of The Wayof the Engineer is the stra course it's nice to have some gui that I feel no desire to impose to a tegy of alcohol. been numbed, but if you still have cation. Now he runs his own art great extent on what Ihey do have a sense of tasle, tequila becomes classes and declares that, in the dance and structure and of course To learn how to succeed with a strong idea of how people are to say. but rather, to provide them useless. Lemons and salt are use context of contemporary educatio with the tools to say it." alcoholic strategy, first learn the placed in history Is most important ful for destroying the sense ol taste. nal trends, his methods are quite Five Approaches and the Five Atti Men of ages past have handed radical, due, surprisingly enough, He goes further to saying that tudes, and absorb the Way of the But the thing is that history itself is the "apprenticeship" approach of down the tale of 'Lick, Sip, Suck'. 10 their "consen/atism'\ . , Engineer naturally into your body. 13 Many years ago Ohaniman, a fairly arbitrary constmction that the guild system is a desirable tea You must understand strength and We discussed current airt edu is forced upon us, especially in a ching method. the Chemist, created a beverage cation: "There seems to be a dis timing, handle the pot glass natu of stupifying effect bul ol vile laste. country where most of the westem "tt you realiy look into the tra rally, and not throw up until you're tinct move away from information artworks are seen second hand. So he went lo the people asking in the sense that fine arts lecturers dition of the arts, the guild system really pissed. Whether drinking their advice as to how best dis havebecomeTaiher more like Zen I'm finding now that the process actually provided the very basis one pot or two, you wil! then know guise the taste. Buddhist monks than pun'eyors ol of finding new artists from the past, for a lot fo the finest, more refined values in strategy. 'Lick salt', cried one. present, future or whatever, is dif relevant detail. Their presence art forms, both inside and outside We read today from the'Book of 'Suck a lemon', cried another. ficult because I always want to look seems to be more important than Western culture. If one considers h/lassive Proportions'. This book 'Use both*, said Bedemeer, the at ttie painters I was told were the body of information they hold. the idea of a guild in context of the deals with strategy of drinking, wide man. So it is now that we, as great I think thauhere are definite tradition of painting, sure it was a and of the use of all the alcotiolic did our forefathers, drink tequila "To my way of thinking, people problems with this because we consen^tive idea. When, however, beverages. Consider that which is with a lick of salt and a suck of go to a teacher to learn things be have become strongly biased in a cause that teacher has detailed . that idea is considered now in the big in your lile and you consider lemon in the traditional ceremony particular direction. But there's a twentieth century, it can quite ea the strategy of situations. Under information that seems to be in place forall things, lormal or in for 14 You should nol have a favou accessible or unavailable. I think sily be considered as a radical no stand this. rite alcohol. To become over-fami mal, depending on the needs ot tion simply because of its context" that fine arts education got carried the individual." Study the contents of this rea liar with one alcoholic beverage is away, in a practical sense, with the So, what can one expect from ding, taking one item at a time, and as much a fault as not knowing it So how would he like to see art idea of not imposing on the indi the exhibition? A slight indication through drinking with friends you sufficiently well. You should not vidual, very, very carried away. As a taught? is given by the sub-title,"ln the ho will come to know the Way,. copy others, bul use alcohol which result, many people are leaving art "In all honesty I would like to mage to human form" but apart Deliberately with a patient spi you can handle propoerly. it is bad schools, and not only art schools see rigiht across Ihe board, a very, from that neither ihe title ("invoca rt, absorb the virtue ol all this, from forengineers to have likes and dis but many areas, without really de very basic, fundamental approach tion et dense"), the poster nor the time to time heaving in a toilet likes. Let the situalion, and not tailed skills." to materials and methods whether artist himself give much away. bowl. Maintain this spirit whenever your prejudice, determine your it is oil oaints, mixed media, video you enter a pub. choice. These are things you must Here at the University of Queens or whatever. Students need a clear learn thoroughly land the only art course oflered is MARK DAVIES,"INVOCATION ET idea of how things actually work Step by step walk the thousand 15 It was once said "All the nu- in the Arts Faculty- the study of art DANSE" - MAY 26-JUNE 12, and why. A clear understanding of mile road. cleans in a model of 32/i5p are pai history. I asked Mark if he felt that craftmanship also give you a clear OPENING: 8 P.M."THATSPACE" This reading is taken from Vs 7-15, 20 CHARLOHE STREET, CITY. red to zero angular momentum, ex understanding of how not to use it, 'Bookof Massive Proportions', The cept for the 25'/j prof on and the it gives you a broad choice. JOANNA SESLEY Engineering Handbook. 1 dv2 neutron". This is bullshit.
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the door to cinematographic im "MULLETS MAULING" was Ju in "HADDOCKS HACKING". Four toilet as their scope concerning mortality would magically open, lian's brainchild. Conceived while teen hours in the making; it blowed locations for action shots broade without even the need for the words he was constipated and reading ned..Their wonderful use of the ve "Open Sesame", and then Julian its budget by some $6.41 - which I Santamaria's "News Weekly", the laterdiscovered had been pilfered randah lor the bondage scene be and Derek would live happily ever film was shot on location in the tween RICKY and ROCKY ROCK after. ; from the tin into which we put the toilet of our Toowong home by Ju phone money. Derek and Julian LOBSTER entra:ncedmany critics. Julianjoined U.D.S., not so much lian and Derek and they took turns said they were pretty glad that "HAD Video sales of "ROCK LOBSTERS from Derek's pressure but rather slttingonthet:an.';"" " • DOCKS HACKING" had failed be ROOTING" continue to soar In the • h»ecau9e he found the high cost of cause they felt it was too commer wake of the unparalled success of film eqOipment to be a constant cial and didn't truly represent the "FROGS FUCKING". It was a sim thorn in his side and saw a slight theme they were dealing with-fru ple story about the fulfillment of augmentation of the U.D.S. Bud ... it was shot on stration with a dorsal fin. Julian's desire of two ceramic frogs and of get as way of having Clubs and location in the toilet voice-over did add a little interest. the despair of coitus interruptus Societies fund his excursions into to the film. His hostile interpreta being turned into the pleasure ol celluloid. Once Derek was shown of our Toowong tion of the "RUBAYET OF OMAR simulated copulation to the strain that he and J ulian could make mo home... KHAYEM" matched with graphic of RAVEL'S "Bolero" when the Fe vies for free, he joined in Julians scenes of. paper fish swishing stival of Light in the guise of the venture wholeheartedly and the around in flatulent breezes stirred three monkeys who see, hear and two set about making a movie that my soul as I realised I was missing speak no evil, is catapulted off Ihe would make Ihe world sit up and I viewed the final edition, I "SAY G'DAY". The cutaway to the dining table (where the film is set) take notice. thought it had parallels with Hitch greasy spot in the garage where during a sudden earthquake. Film buffs such as Julian and cock's" Ro pe". since both were set my Zephy silently broods whilst 1 The skilful use ol the camera Derek had long pondered over their entirely in one room. Unfortunately sfeep was poignant and brought during the chaotic earthquake 1 used to share a house with two Coco Pops about triumphs such the cheap special effects, lack of home the fact that we are indeed scenes and the explicitly passio film buffs. Like all film buffs, Derek as "Bambi", "Godzilla vs the Smoke dialogue and plot and its extreme alone. But I must admit "HAD nate love making scenes between and Julian had high aspirations- Monster", "Flesh for Frankenstein", length were the short-comings of DOCKS HACKING" left me unsa Frieda and Freddy Frog smack of they wanted to make It to the top! and"Eraserhead"andduring Iheir "MULLETS MAULING". It seems tisfied and, I also admit was res professionalism and it is no won-- Theydreamed of being Hollywood preponderance had always won that the Brisbane public just was ponsible for the growing animo der that Derek and Julian have movie moguis; having a Belair Man dered whether a spark of genius n't ready for five and a half hours of sity 1 was developing towards the been offered the iob of co-direc sion, a shelf full of Oscars and a was being nurtured deep in their paper fish dangling from bits of paper fish hanging from our toilet ting the ali-mongoloid cast in the casting couch covered with stain- loins or large intestine tike it ob cotton tied to the toilet paper hol paper holder. big-budget soon to be realised resistant leather. Derek was an ac viously was with the inner body der. There quickly followed an array "CHILDREN OFA LESSER HU tive member of the University Dra 'parts of the creators of the afore Derek and Julian weren't the of sequels - "GROPERS GRO MAN". Despite its "R" rating - ma Society and said that his na mentioned magnificence. PING", "SALMON SCREWING" "FROGS FUCKING" has broken tural flair and talent would shine least bit fazed. They claimed vic Until my two friends produced tory, saying that Joe Average was and"ROCKLOBSTERS ROOTING". all box office attendance records like a becon and beckon talent Trogs Fucking", they believed that .Some critics claim the latter lilm world-wide and is already being scouts from afar, eager to sign him too shallow to appreciate the dee there was the slightest possibility per intricacies of "MULLETS MAU 'laid the foundation for the film heralded as a near-certainty to up lo help entertain the bored mas that they did not possess that spark which shot Derek and Julian to in swoop the pool at Cannes and the • ses ol non-entilies who lived in the LING", but they decided lo com-, of genius or that it had spluttered promise with their next film and in stant mega-stardom - "FROGS Oscars. real world. Julian was a little more and died out through lack of fuel. FUCKING". Indeed, "ROCK LOB realistic. He said that if he and De clude a bit of dialogue and maybe 1 just hope success won't spoil Their early films lacked that un even a storyline. The phoenix that STERS ROOTING" marked their Julian and Derekand that they re rek were to realise any of their am known essential element, that "je divergence from paper fish and bitions, they would have to(a)think ran from the ashes of that first abor member their roots and especially ne sals quoi" which separated their tive film quickly plummetted earth that haunting theme of frustration me, since it was my scissors they of an idea, (b) write a script; and {c) eflort from "Gidget Goes to Havvair with a dorsal fin. As well this film make a film of critical claim. Then ward. Derekand Julian had pro had to cutout their first paper fish- and the like. duced another monumental flop marked their emergence from the les all that time ago.
tar, and even tnes his hand at some percussion in one of the songs. Percussion is a very impor tant element in the band's style, and gives a very folky, gypsy-ish feel to much of the material. Lyncs are very important lo "Spin ning". Many of the original songs SPINNING have leminist and/or environmen tmmitmm tal themes One of their first gigs Stuart Page and Kate Pame for was the launching of the Univer med the jazz/folk/rockcombo "Spin sity of Queensland Environment ning", out of the steaming remains Collective.agroup with which they of the Brisbane band "Blue Ruin" have maintained a close associa (... not the Melbourne "Blue Ruin", tion. More recently they pertonned the Brisbane "Blue Rum") They atthe Palm Sunday Peace Rally, In originally called themselves "Any the Roma Street Forum, before an thing You Like" and perfonmed as audlence.ol nearly 5,000 people. a duo. Kate on; vocals, keyboards ' They havep'trong commitment to and percussion and Stuart also on vocals, alternating between baes and twelve string iguitar. These days they are a quartet, with the recent addition of old "Blue Ruin" guita tfle . iwasoneofthefuckV6nes.igo..... r^..^"i:'X .... t fiii?iL^V"'°*?'^S''1*'^.'^^'^*' • butaiive.Theamount6Mf9ani6ed -l!?lr"''*3**i?^^"^.°'^^%^^^' wmethaigoesontnQueensland '•fi ilsr ffil***, ^.^"^'*'^ ^'^ or'^^o-C^ te insignificant it n cprripariaoQjo ^SSi^'Sysfs P^sfl"9 out wi(h;-,fgorneofihel mt *.^aefe>thaustfonandnewousener«>*l.,aodown in i aW-' ?a? -•*.N< «N AS By choosing something a litUe ves" he has made extensive dilterentfortheirfifstbig 1987 pro to the last act duction, The Universfty Drama So While the las* play Phiiip Dean Rhinoceroses ciety have attracted much interest. directed (he condirecled "Stzue Ban- < The play is flWnoce/os, the play si is Dead" fast year- a play about wright, Eugene tonesco and here tne passbook system tn South In the Cement Box, the director is Africa) was highly poiiticai, the de Philip Dean. gree of political reference in Bhtno- In Cement ceros IS a matter ol debate Originally wiitten as a short play, Rhinoceros became a father leng The play is popularly believed thy three act play, first produced tobeacommenton the riseof Fas on the BBC in 1959. Later it was cism in Europe In fact when Eu Boxes made Into a film. gene lonesco received the Jeru in all forms, the story remains salem Prize lor the tola! body of his the same - a story which ts often work, Rhinoceros was especially difficult to telt. It is the story ot a praised aa being "one ot the 9i»at man who remains human as every demonstiations against totstfteufa- one about him turns inlo a rhinor ceros. What distinguishes hltt^frorn Before the first performance of everyone else is that while the rest the play In Pans, lonesco attemp of his soceity is very logical, moral ted to explain Rhinoceros by say and duty-conscious, he may be de ing he was obsessed by the pro scribed as lethargic and "slack' in w cess of peopfe changing Intodan- areas of duty, dressing and punc gerous monsters once they had tuality .J.<-<^^f {'i'. succumbed to some new fanati if thestoryof awholetown slow cism or ideology ^^ ly transforming into rhinoceroses m.' later he satd that Rhinoceros sounds a little unrealistic, it Is, Re was not specilicaify anti-Nazi but jecting the notions of naturaiisuc drama lonesco's play Is an exam ple of the Theatre ot the Absurd. As -^uch, It portrays a diflerent percep -bfe personlf ^;^rience pi this ta- , tion of the world Here, human lan naticism guage, effort and existence are ex .vnf> Although lonesco efeewtiere ' ^ tremely absurd There are no moral •v'j de8cribesbi$ptayas"anahtl'tla2l < - codes and everything is in contra- ptay^ he^mainfatrts thai It \^'PtV\ ^ mm tng wffif4^"onina!ofaflstiS^4|heatr|^;!: Ph!iipfounb^stHatthe^er&'nbr^|: set back by a predominantly >fe« uu9,r^niMoi; Vv polrticaf reason. Itwas simply that-c fthihoceros could fortunately ac- > commodate the oversupply of In m -mi^inl \^, y people talking and 'alot terested females ijecause of its non' of philosophizing' He said thatthe sibly reminds us^oMt^Mmlc na* naturalistic form only wayan act like this could work tureoftheplai^V',-/ ,t> The only other changes that Phi was with very experienced actors Rhinoceros runs from May 14 lip has made is to reduce the run who might be able to keep the au for fhe three weeks from Wednes ning time of the play The bulk has dience's interest So for fear peo day to Saturday nights at 8 p m. come off the last act which he saw ple may be "dropping off In dro- Tickets are $7 and $5 IT'S TIME WE OPENED THE UNION BaiLDING EVENT: GOaCH OPENS 12.15-12.45: Opening Union ONION COMPLEX 12.45-1.45: Lunch DATE: TUESDAY 21 JULY 2.00-3.00: Public Lecture in Schonell Theatre SPECIAL RAtES FOR StubENTS PLACE: AREA OUTSIDE "Constitutional Changelanges Td Help Elimihatci Thosi i UNION BOOKSHOP and the Bicenten niar ASSIGNMENT A THESES iaUIE§^ AND PHARMACY ''"""fc^iW'*'-.- • All Job Sizes Catered For, :;;• All: Worsts :Dbne?!drii:si;N^ After 3 p.m.: Wine and Cheese in • Deadlines are Met, TIME: 12.15-12.45 P.M. Schonell Foyer, all welcome. • High Quality PnniandPresentation,;v-;:>s&lltlhg81it»pie and :t^^ • Years' of Experie?hce 'wimyariQ\j^.^;:^^^^l^t:c 22 Yet another perspective on personalities within the Whitlam Govern Bruce Western has a seri ment in making the decision. ous side. He is a student of First, the Australian constitution has im political science, and he has posed severe limits on the powers of the focussed his mind on the sub federal government to pass social policy legislation, these powers having been his ject of tertiary fees for this a- torically reserved for the stales. Through a typical but highly rigorous and funding arrangement using the states as a conduit these limitations were circumven analytical contribution to the ted in the case of educalion. Only recently debate. We realise it is full of has the social policy jurisdiction ofthe Com monwealth widened to a significant degree. abstract concepts and big Second, the affluent and privileged, tradi words, but we can't always tionally a consen/ative sector ol the electo rate, were to be the principle beneficiaries of cater to the college audience. universal Iree tertiary education. Their pos Bruce will probably write sible electoral hostility was in some part over come. Thirdly, social policy in the Whitlam something funny next time... government was overtaken by people who A great deal of energy has recently been were closer in their outlook to the European devoted lo the issue of tertiary fees. Stu social democrals than any previous collec dents have demonstrated. Administration tion of Australian political decision-makers. buildings have been occupied. People The ill-fated Department of Urban and Re have been arrested. What has been notica gional Development is evidence of the Euro bly absent from this display of student ac pean-style planning authorities. tivism is a discussion of Ihe complexities of Under the specific conditions of the the fee issue. For studenl politicians rang Whitlam Government, the provision of uni ing from the International Socialists to the versal free tertiary education was initiated. right-wing signatories of Ihe anti-QUS cam Free universities were not the only example paign it is broadly accepted that students of sophisticated welfare provision, simply should not pay thefederal government's ad the most durable. The sister project of the ministration charge. The issue of fees is universal provision of health care under the much more complex than the current level auspices of Medicare was quickly eroded of debate would suggest.Specifically it pre when the Fraser governmeni assumed po sents a number of almost intractable pro wer. It remains to be seen if the Hawke go blems for Left politics which nearly all self- vernment can re-establish it as a pillar of proclaimed campus ideologues have mana welfare policy. ged to avoid. These problems have their basis in the history of free lertiary education What Australians are left with is a very in Australia and the nature of University po expensive, higlyexclusive system ol tertiary litics. education. Since the introduction of free edu cation the number of places available at Freetertiary education was introduced in universities has not significantly changed. the context of the social welfare fervour of The social composition of unversities has the Whitlam Government. Compared to not changed either. Children of reasonably other developed capitalist countries, Aus- affluent parents continue to lil! most of the • tralian social policy concerns were - and tertiary places. The most consen/ative fa continue to be - very unsophisticated. Un culties ol Medicine and Law continue lo employment benefits do not provide a sub draw their students disproportionately from sistence income. The provision ol nearly all the most well-off households. In short, free other transfer payments are limited by educationhashadnoredistributiveaflect.lt means and assets tests. Invalid, supporting has meant that an already privileged group mothers' and old-age pensions are all exam is being subsidised by most ol the people ples. (Family allowances are an important who are less privileged. exception.) Social planning facilities have either been short-lived, neglected or non The notion of universal free education existent Such things as the unrestricted pro remains an important part ol any concep vision of housing, care for the aged and job tion of a social democratic state. Bul in the retraining are unheard of in the Australian Australian context of a very undeveloped welfare state. welfare programme, universal Iree educa tion must be understood as an anomalous Compare the situation in Europe where luxury that should be made secondary to the priorityol social democratic parties has other social wellare priorities. Currently, been the institution ol social policies cha problems such as housing, the level of un- racterised by the structural and universal employmenl benefits, job training and sub provision ol wellare accruing lo the indivi sidisation are much more urgent than the dual as a right of citizenship. While displa continued support of what is already a very cing the prerogative of the market place, well-off group. This is not to say that govern economic redistribution is effected by the ment should not be financially supportive of way of a guarantee of a uniform level ol so education. It is only to suggest that the fees cial services. This "structural" welfare state issue is more complex than it appears on its is financed substantially through a high le face. And further, the politicians of Ihe Left vel of indirect taxation and a much lower should be forced to confront the issue ol level of income tax. social weilare pnorities, instead ol cynically The notion of the universal provision of and opportunistically jumping on a band welfare.common in Europe,has neverbeen wagon ol unusual activism. a significant part of the social policy stance' The dilemmas faced by the campus poli of the Labor movement in Australia which tician of the Left on the issue of fees is of has instead concentrated on arbitratkDn re course symptomatic of a larger difficuliy that, distribution. while being beyond the scope ol this article, Thus the introduction of universal free is worth mentioning bnelly. Lelt politics pnn- tertiary education is an anomaly in the his cipally advance the interests of "the wor tory ol Australian social welfare. It is exoli- kers", "the great unwashed", "the masses", cable in terms of the structure ol the Aus or even "ordinary people".These groups are tralian political system, the social groups very distant from the exclusive confines of concerned with tertiary education, and the •the University In the arena of University of Queensland politics, in special cases such as the fee issue, the left-wing studenl poli "What Australians are left with is a very expensive, tician is pushed in the direction ol serving two diametrically opposed masters: "the peo ple" and "the privileged". All we should ex highly exclusive system of tertiary education. Since the pect Irom the people in this situalion is some Ihoughtfulness and a presenlalion of introduction of free education the social composition the complexity of the issues involved. The fee issue has yet lo provide this type of res has not significantly changed." ponse. 23 Editorial Note: We repret to hform readers that we have had difficulty in -. As the drtjg ravaged juggernaut of Kom- until the last pregnant second. And then, locating Commander Harrison Buscultoverf/te past month. Afterview- bleVansrumbledominouslydownthehlgh- with the sun cresting on the highway Ijehlnd ing the content ofhis notes concerning his most recent mission I am way- the long snakelike twisting highway, us, we burst on them - in their faces like not surprised this is so. Commander Biscuit seems to have exceeded the distant blue uniformed mass of the rats. Kenny screwed the stereo up to the even his ov/n considerable talent for treachery and outrageous be N.S.W. Random Breath Testing squad grew max. and playing a continual loop of Simon larger and larger adopting individual forms Gallagher and Kim Durant dueling 'Love haviour. Such was (^e intensity of his paranoia when we finally con complete with breathaliser kits, megaphones You Brisbane' in vicious repetition, we crui tacted him that he tried to shoot both myself and the photographer with and speed guns... Poor bastards, they never sed in. In frenzied disorder.The cops turned whom I am travelling with. After calming him down we asked to see hisha d a chance One of Kenny's kombies had manic, their respect for the principle of 'firm notes concerning his activities since last contact We have tried to picked them up long before we hitthe beach, ness with courtesy* jeopardised undera hail A cop trap, and a big .one. tio matter said of pelted garbage from the back of two do salvage what sense we can from them and to fill in the gaps, ourselves,Kenn y they'd dealt with this before, zen panel vans cranked up to high speed. by means of interview. At the time, Biscuit was being ferried down "We'll come in on them out of the morning We hit them with everything - shaken up across the Queensland border by members ofa roving surfer's club. He sun", he yelled over the noise of the kom bie, coke cans, used condoms and half eaten was a/so accompanied &y a number of demonstrators making their way "About a mile out we'll put the music on". Kentucky Fried Chicken. Itwas ulgy. Under "Music?" I shouted back. a hail of gunfire and megaphone abuse, to Canberra to protest the tertiary fees. It would seem from reports in Kenny escorted our ute up a series of wind ^ "Yeah, Simon Gallagher My boys love it. the Daily Sun dated April 20th, 1987 that the expedition ran into some ing backroads till we made it to the Cabarita trouble. Scares the shit outta Ihe Southerners", pub. With our machines cranked down till you The Commanders account of the incident is sketchy It follows... thought Ihey might explode, we held it back Dazed and shaken, the anti-fees cam paigners and I climbed out of the ute. The 24 •kids from the Union seemed pretty much in just audible over the sound of thudding of Santamaria's name. His eyes would go all "Where are you from Biscuit?" he mum astate of shock. In the back, Lance could be llesh and the jungle rhythm of the night a scatty and he'd be running ofi at the mouth. heard making sobbing noises inlo the terry bled. single voice could be hear screaming, "Oh man. He's a great man", George "Brisbane Sir", I replied. towelling beachwear Ferrier, for her part, "Fuck you Ryan!" over and over with mono would mumble. "He just knows much more seemed complelely unfazed and helped me tonous regularity The lone voice of the anti "North or South of the river?" Santama than you and me. You can't judge Mr San ria's voice had that unnen/ing aspect of au down out of the cabin. I was massaging life fees campaign continued a tirade of abuse tamaria as you would an ordinary man. No back into parts of my lower anatomy when concerning the Minister for Educalion until no no! Now- just to give you an idea-1 don'l thority, and 1 replied formally to his every my shoulder was gripped firmly from be a field marshall of the law enforcement bri mind telling you, he wanted to shoot me too,question . hind. I wheeled round. It was Kenny still gade located the protester and cut her in one day for taking his picture - but i don't "More west Sir," I replied. "The Toowong, breathing heavily with exhilaration. half with a volley of rubber bullets. Heavy judge him. Si Lucia area," shit indeed. "Son", he said. "Son. You're on your own "You're off the rails George," I said kin He paused fora while. now- keep lo the beach roads, keep out of I turned the ute around and got Ihe hell dly. "C'mon Goerge, tell me where he is - "Is Bjeike-Petersen still screwing the trouble and you should be okay." He pau out What else could I do? The mayhem had Where is Mr Santamaria, George?" unions?" he asked. sed briefly then looked al me closely. I sta scarred by brain real bad. I drove Ihe ute red back- The man was a foolhardy asshole around the back roads of Sydney and linally -his machismo bullshit would have jeopar located the Hume Highway, and the road to dised the lives of his surfing companions Victoria, time and lime again, butthe stupid bastards I drove through the night My mind was would have gladly given their lives for him. constantly plagued with guilt, yet I had a The whole thing made me feel sick. mission lo take care ot I drove onward, ever Sensing my discomfort, Kenny clapped onward through the winding expanse of Higfv me on the shoulderonce more and dragged way As the sun rose through the trees I me into a fetid looking roadside diner op could hear the birds singing. The medislim posite the Cabarita Pub. tablets I had taken to assist me through the "Hey Lucio!" the former Iron Man supre long nighl of reckless driving were begin mo bellowed in his characteristically endea ning to wear oft I felt like an unwashed dog. ring bul nonetheless lifeless and badly scrip My insides were still shuddering with the ted voice - "Lucio! - two nourishing break- horror of the raw brutality I had seen in Syd . fasts! - The usual! Make it snappy!" ney The Brisbane contingent of Ihe anti fee protest were probably being subjected to His cries were rewarded by grunting noi indescribable humiliation even as I drove. I ses in the kitchen. Kenny smiled his forced tightened my hands around the wheel and smile and clapped his hands together ex kept going. citedly. "Sop - you smell that?" He bello- • wed, Two hours later, I stopped for a break at 1 snilfed curiously. The diner was-filled, an AMPOLroadhouse. I figured some grea with a grltly aroma - it had a sort of crunchy, sy food mighl help break my mental torment. Negus looked uncertain, Man, they said "Yes sin" I replied. yet greattastihg fragrance to it. 1 raised my " 1; switched off the ignition and staggered you were going to kill him. Oh Harrison, why inside., _ , I heard p\m chuckle in the distance. He eyebrows curiously would you wanna go and do a thing like said no more for what must have easily been "Son-.you smell that?" Kenny repeated, it was the seven levels of hell inside that that?" he whined pitifully The former jour- - the best part of an. hour. I lay on the floor punching me enthusiastically on the shoul place. Someone had turned off the air con- nalistabrupliy changed mood and grabbed controlling'the pain ol my beating, despe- der. 1 winced, Ihen nodded. .ditionihg ahdlthe tightly packed motorists-- the lapels of my flack jacket. "He's here!" he : ratelytrying to regain some strength. Finally . were^heavibg about in the closeness of Iheir- whispered conspiratoriaIly.'"He's here in Santamaria continued, "Thatis Nutri-Graln.son", Kennybellowed • ownvheatand.'smeli. Constant noise and a1rripstreverently-"That's Nutri-Grain, hand this roadhouse. but wait" He lowered his '"jHave you'come to assassinate me Com : crampedimbvemisnt-pressed in all round, . voice to a dry ras;p "They won't let you take madb and specially prepared bythe people and sotinewhere'i'nihe distance tinny music him, Harrison, He is like a god to them.". mander? Are you an assassin?"-. . of Northern.New South Vyales!" .. .,.' I sat Tn the dark, too numb to speak. The wailed;OtJt*of Ccheap radio. V llookedatthesteamingcdlleclionofmis-. :. Kenn^isucked^h-a great breath of air, '" I ordered m'yselfa wicked looking pile of • poun'ding in my head subsided to a razor ithen•exHaled,'sprayihg saliva around the ' fits populating the roadhouse, then rol|ed •. silence, and I couched on the tiles as San- dim sims and stumbled through the crowd my eyes in disbellet f. diner. ^ •• •;",, - • of tfuck dnversand Canadian tourists trying .tamari^ whispered a breathy monologue. ; " "God.'^he said,'"1 loyethesmel! of fslutri- ..desperately to find myself a place to rest 1 "He's here?"-1 breathed,"You're puftiiigj JjAJotJof peppXe.don't like- me Buscuit- Grain in the iTiprning." ' : ? ; - "•- jostled through the crowd and then saw in-_ me on." / _;-j _i_^ .!_. i,— "Tfave yoi4.^yideajO(4he pain of alienatiofi? ' /.Ferrier stormed Into the diner. _^_ ;_ _Jerposed4)etween the-orange'vl nynsflhe -• "They won't let yoiZtakehim,^Negus re'' "~'Pebp1e-bad mouth me, people attack me, -^--''-Are70trtwirgdihg.tp,cjQngratulale.your-, loungeseltirig and the plasTlc plaints ai man ' peated, vehbm drippifig from his voice., how people want me dead..:[ In the half light' 'TselVesairday'drwhlft?'"^siie said: "We've got undera hat like a cart-wheel beckoning per- ." t-looked"around me, then indicated the the shadows danced over his face. a'.campaign to win. I've loaded the ute up sistantly with his whole arm. His aspect re surging crowd inside the restaurant, . • "U's because I'm bald isn't it?" he whis- with petrol - let's hit the road!" minded me of something I had.sfeen. As h "Who won't I6i me?" Ihiss^d./'tfie'truck •pered accusingly."Bald guys neverget any manoevered to get alongside 1 asked my drivers? The Canadian tourists? The kitchen' of the breaks." . Wexollected Steph and Mr Sheen from staff?" , . ,.. the bar and grill self sen/ice section of the self "What does this fellow look tike?" Sud Hooked ahead, notquiteknowing what to ,_ puh,.and forcibly dragged them back to the denly i got it He looked like a harlequin-a Negus shielded his eyes with his hand. say ute. brown hairyharlequin.Eightdifferent came "Forthe past five months we have all waited "Close the shutter," Santamaria said sud "But we've ordered the prawn and lobster ras dangled from his hairy body, and he bab here in this roadhouse with him. Fellow tra denly. I did so. There was a silence. I craw mornay, Steph protested weakly as Ferrier bled confusedly about 'the big break' and vellers "come and stay here just to be near led towards him, malice in my heart. frog marched him to the back of the car. 'pulling the screws inlo that Wendt bitch'. As him. We all stay inside this roadhouse with "Oh but I will wring your heart yet!" the "Surely you don't expect us to campaign .he stripped me of cigarettes I realised that him and we wait." NCC supremo abmptly bellowed at me, ges against the overprivileged fascist middle there was something frighteningly familiar "You wait?" I said. "You wait - for what?" ticulating wildly with an old and tattered class establishment on an empty stomach- about him. He had the sort of face I was sure Negus took a deep breath before answe photo album wrapped up in old newspa do you? do you?" 1 had seen on TV Week. 1 slid onto the ring. "We wait for the communist menace. per. orange vinyl and listened to him as he spoke Ferrier sprayed him in the face with a can We wait for the apocalypse!" "Um-sorry?" I muttered, curious as to his in a curious babble of staccato sentences. Strong hands gripped me from behind. outburst of Aeroguard until he was quiet. We then "I am not so young as 1 look. I am lorty started down the twisting coast road for Vic An oily palm was smothered over my face. I "You've just linished a psychology de seven," he said. "The crew at Sixty Minutes struggled, but in vam. A group of denim jac toria and Bob Santamaria. told me to goto the devil,^' he'narrated with gree, have you not, Commander?" Santa We arrived in Sydney just after Ihe police ket wearing truck drivers manhandled me to maria queried, his voice once more under pureehjoyment"But I stuck to him,even the back of the roadhouse and beat me half had repressed yet another anti-fee demon throughout the ratings crisis. Now I write for conlrol. stration. It was an eerie sight The chanting senseless, belore throwing me inlo the la "That's right Sir", I replied. the Bulletin. It isn't much of a living, but it is dies restroom. The place was dark and damp. had died away to an unearthly drone. Itwas all that I can do to help keep him going. He's "Tell me then. Commander," he contin just turning dark, and the blue lights of the It reeked of an evil smell, and as I picked a wonderful man-a kind man. Oh if onlyyou myself up off the wh lie ti led floor I was aware ued ruthlessly. "Would anyone even con cop cars reflected dully in the grey granite knew..." that he was in the room with me. He was sider letting you practice psychology if they walls of the buildings along Macquarie "Who are you talking about?" I asked dis- there in the half light, sitting crosslegged knew about these photographs?" He waved Street interestly puzzling over the familiarity of the near the hand basins, eating nuts and roots the photo album at me. Hands trembling, 1 The roads were lined with carnage-woun harlequin's face. His answer and my sud and washing his bald head. took it and thumbed through the pages... ded students stumbling zombie-like, crad den identification of the person I was ad "The horror! The horror!" I cried out twice, ling their injuries in both hands, as the pigs dressing flayed the remains of my mind to a Santamaria. a cry that was no more than a breath... picked them off one by one. The drone of the light oblivion, , protest .crowd pulsated - swelled up and down propelled by angst The police had "I'm talking aboul Bob Santamaria of surrounded the Commonweath Building, course." said former journalist George Ne Editorial Hole: At this point, the Commander's notes make absolutely letting people out but screwing down hea gus. "This man has enlarged my mind." no sense. Apparently the photographs described in the above account vily on anyone trying to enter. The place was He opened his arms wide, staring at me of Biscuit's most recent mission presented photographic evidence of ultra-riddled with bad vibrations. with his little blue eyes that were perfectly the most horrific kind of the Commander's behaviour on a binge in Ferrier. Lance, Steph, and Mr Sheen slid round. Canberra, 18 months previous. silentlyout of the ute and madeatoken effort I couldn't believe how fucked up George to hook up with the protest organisers from looked. Here inside this Ampol Roadhouse, All the Commander would say regarding the incident with San Sydney University. They got about 30 me it was obvious that his return to the life of a tamaria, and his failure to carry out his mission, was that "some heavy tres before Ihey Were cut down by an on press secretary and his close contacl with shit was about to go down" and that someone was going to "nail his ass slaught of police savagery. 1 watched them, the hordes ol the NCC had twisted his brain to a tree". The Commander refuses to comment any more about his as if in slow motion, from the cabin of the ute like old rope. I tried to pump more infor experience in Victoria, and is presently under sedation at the Royal - the four of them, hailed one by one by the mation out of him, but it was a tedious pro leatherclad hordes-who flailed the shit out cess. He would shake all over at the mention Brisbane Hospital. As faras Semper is concerned, the case is closed. of anything that moved. In the background. or three years. You'll leam about BP's wide ranging operations... and because you'll probably be moving around the country on specific projects, mobility is essential. Of course, because of our size and diversification BP seeks graduates across the educational spectrum in areas ranging from science, accounting, economics, engineering to marketing, business studies, arts/law and computer science. Here's just a taste of the things you could be involved in... performance based ...Science graduates, promotion and opportunities for post graduate studies. 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Our Graduate Development particularly good rewards, Programme runs for a period of two The Quiet AcWever. < Last issue (no. 3, April) we printed a story by Tim Grau entitled "Horror Legislation: Heads Will Roll". We received a flood of comment about this article (see "letters"). Tiie Tlie ALP, the TLC Decmocratic Rights Activists Club atthis University dis agreed completely with Grau's analysis of the best way to proceed against the anti-strike legislation. It is because of his attitude, they say, and the similar attitudes of Labor and the politics of Party and Trades and Labor Council officials, that ordinary working people in Queensland have had their rights strip ped from them by the National Party Government. Their perspective has its foundation in the experience which DRAG members gained as student supporters of the lines men in the 1985 SEQEB dispute. Their story appears be low ... SELIII UT The day after the National Party introdu ced legislation which effectively outlawed industrial strikes, workers on building sites all over Brisbane City stopped work and massed in King George Square. From there they marched on Parliament House. They were metal the gates by Nev Warburton. On the day after the enactment of the most re pressive anti-labour laws in the history of this country the so-called leader of their so- called opposition sent this outraged crowd of workers back to their building sites. By resorting to the same passive and de fensive tactics which losl the labour move ment the SEQEB dispute in 1985-86, Ihe "leaders" of the ALP and the TLC (Trades and Labour Council) are selling out the rights and living standards of the working people in this state. Theyarguelhatthefightsshouldbeinihe courts and the ballot box. But as anyone who has ever lived in Queensland knows, the National Party will never be beaten at the ballot box, and, as Ihe SEQEB dispute pro ved, legal remedies are also doomed to lai- lure. The Industrial (Commercial practices} Act and Another Act Amendment Bill is the cul mination ol the long series of anti-worker, organised public meetings these boring law libility anti-democratic law used by the National yer-careerists in grey suits trot out mystify Party Govemment to smash progressive so Given that the public consists mostly of work, the rank and file of the trade unions ing bureaucratic hogwash aimed at pacify workers il can hardly be assumed that stri have become demoralised and disorgani cial forces which threaten ils rule. By crip ing rank and file militancy The officials ar pling the worker's capacity to organise, the kes and protests in defence of their basic sed. The officials are supposed to be pro rogantly believe they have the right lo dic rights would seriously jeopardise support viding effective leadership. They seem to National Party Government has linally ena tate strategy to their rank and file. Ordinary bled Ihe greedy fraction it represents to at for the Labour movemenl In the SEQEB have forgotten that the strength of the La workers know better than any official how dispute, which was over the use of contract bour movement lies in ils rank and file. Un tack the wage levels and working condi theywanllo defend theirown rights. AtaTLC tions of workers, with impunity Without the labour, public opinion polls showed ever less the rank and file is able to organise rally held al Festival Hall on April 23, Simon growing support for the ETU ... that is until effectively the labour movement will be sma right to strike workers have no way of de Crean, (President ol the Australian Council fending hard-won gains such as penalty ra they were abandoned by the ALP and the shed. ol Trade Unions), stated that "any union TLC! les, sick leave, holidays and even the 40 which struck as a protest against the new hour week. legislation could not expect the support of Only massive co-ordinated strike action either the ACTU or the TLC." The speaking will force the National Party to repeal this platform was closed and Crean was con "The SEQEB dispute was one of the worst legislation. By bringing industry and ser stantly heckled by workers. vices to a halt a sustained and determined The ALP, Ihe TLC and Tim Grau (author of sellouts in the history of the Australian industrial campaign will make effective go "Horror Legislation: Heads Will Roll", Sem vernment impossible and will inflict huge per, Edition 3, April 1987), are opposed to a Labour movement. " losses on employers. The government would campaign of protest and industrial action have no other choice than to concede to against the new legislation on the grounds The SEQ E B dispute was one of the worst Coal miners recently voted 20:1 to fight workers demands. that it will mobilise public support for the sellouts in the history of the Australian La Ihe new legislation with a prolonged cam National Party's anti-worker offensive. It All that is required to beat Petersen is co bour movement. It was lost because of the paign of industrial action. Forthe rights of all would seem that, for fear of awakening the ordinated action by sections of the working failure of the TLC to call and sustain major workers they are prepared to embark upon sleeping fascist monster that lurks in the class such as miners, transport workers, wa- industrial action and mass protest. Up until what will be a long and bloody war of at August 1985 the TLC could have won the trition with the Stale Government. Without SEQEB dispute. This would have been a the support ol the rest of the union move ''Without the right to strike workers have no major setback for the anti-worker offensive. ment theywill meet the same fate as befell way of defending hard-won gains such as Instead, the hegemony of anti-union, anti- the ETU in the SEQEB dispute. arbitration capitalists has been allowed to The new legislation makes it illegal for penalty rates, sick leave, holidays and even flourish. workers to defend their living standards Ironically the ALP is now using the me againslgreedyemployers.Thisisadenialol the 40 hour week." nace of the New Right, not only to justify the fundamental democratic and human rights. suppression of any effective counter offen The workers of this stale have no choice but hearl ol "ie Australian public, workers are to sive by workers, but also to excuse its own lo fight, even in the face of adverse media. terside workers and power workers. All ol attacks on Iheir rights and living standards. Labour leaders must slart doing something be give no other choice than to turn the these workers have a long history of mili The ALP naively believes it can reach a rap to help the people they represent, rather other c' ek. tancy On numerous occasions the Austra port with the Right ihrough social contract than hob-nobbing with the people respon lian Working Class has shown ils ability to The jgey ol a reactionary public is,a policies such as The Accord. It is becoming sible for this legislation. Contrary to the views take organised action. myth tt i Petersen's wealthy backers, using obvious that the Right, particulariy in this ol ALP andTLC officials, and people like Tim TLCandALPofficialsareactivelydiscou- their r nership and conlrol of the media, Stale, isn't interested in such compromises. Grau,theworking class of this state-nowno raging workers from exercising the same like to perpetuate. The fact that this mylh less than ever - has the power to defeat rights the National Party has outlawed with deceives TLC and ALP officials, not to men While ALP and union officials tie them Petersen. ils legislation, in the media, and at TLC- tion •• 1 Grau, is indicative only ol their gul- selves in knots trying to make the Accord 27 Campus Union Nem Travel EDUCATION 0 F F Over Ihe last lour weeks the Education so viewing learning as a process or journey Olfice has conducted educalion workshops rather than a product, a finished item. lo encourage students and staff to examine In order to change the education system, their experience of the educalion system or any aspect of society the general un Opening and discuss possible changes. derlying paradigm we live with needs lo be The first two workshops proved to be an changed. opportunity for students to express theirfru- For some time we have been living with a strations with the university system. Some of paradigm of dominance, of competition, of the issues raised at the workshops were pre power-over. A new paradigm is emerging, occupation with assessment rather than lear one of co-operation, the power that comes Week ning; absorption of lecturers material with trom within. out questioning; the tailoring ol assignment It is the belief that individuals who are content to the lecturer's beliels; the contin able to question, who are able lo recognise ued automation and lack ol student creative and overcome personal 'blocks' are more questioning and the isolation lelt by stu capable in all spheres of lite. dents bought on by the competition. 11 we are to sun/ive we must ask ourselves II was at this point, that v/e realised the 'howdo we overthrow, not those presently in Specials problem lies primarily with students. power, but the principle ol power over? How As siudents, we need to begin.to ques do we shape a society based on the prin tion conditioning we have received through ciple of power-from-within? out ouryoungeryears in school, society and A paradox seems to arise in that educa especially university. At the level of tutorials, lion is required for paradigm change and we can question the way tutorials are con 25-29 MAY changes to the education system require ducted, openly discuss the material, chal involvement from people who are questio lenge lecturers, tutors, students and oursel ning theold paradigm. ves. Mor all international bookings made during this week The workshops were well attended and At the workshops there were many exam people expressed enthusiasm at finding si ples given of alternative learning systems milar problems and issues being shared by presently operating in Australian tertiary in fellow students. A group ol interested stu FREE DEPARTURE TAX stitutions. The emphasis in this case is on dents Irom the workshops will continue lo • the student and not on the lecturer. meet to discuss ideas lor ongoing activities. Hawkesbury Agriculture College is anex- Enquiries are welcome at the Education Of *for all bookings on our ample of encouraging studenl directed lear fice, and look for following articles in Sem ning. At orientation, students and lecturers per. meet informally after which the leclurers MICHELLE MORGAN SKI GALORE retire lo their various rooms and students Education Vice-President are left lo their own devices. Students even tually become agitated and seek out the departures 4th & 11th July / 22nd & 29th August lecturers with various questions and inte U.Q.U. SEXUAL rests. The lecturers then communicate with siudents, answer their questions and help HARASSMENT COMMITTEE them develop. The emphasis is on student The Queensland University Student Union, Your chance to win the trip motivation rather than lecturers delivering in conlunction with its Staff Association and information to an inert student audience. the relevant Trade Unions, has established a Sexual Harassment Committee. It has been found thatstudents learn and FREE are assessed moreellectively by theirfellow Under the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984, Draw takes place: 25 MAY/1.30 P.M. students, than by authority figures, such as the Union as an employer organisation has lecturers. With this in mind, Ihe Newcastle a duty to prevent sexual harassment and OUTSIDE OUR NEW OFFICE University has a strong emphasis on group can be held responsible if it occurs in the CAMPUS TRAVEL, UNION BLDG, UNIV OF OLD work within its medical course. On day one workplace, unless all reasonable steps have students view a video of doclor and patient been taken to eliminate it. Tel: 3712163, 3712433, 3772925 in consultation, the students form groups The role of the Committee shall include: and discuss what they have seen. Assess • Raising staff and student awareness as to ment of assignments by students has been the nature, elfects and prevention of sexual found to be rigorous but fair. harassment. Learning conducted in this manner re • Hearing complaints of sexual harass quires lecturers of a certain temperament. ment and mediating between the parties RATULATIONS For many lecturers this kind ol education involved. system is seen as a loss ol status and ol power, others simply cannot adjust to chan Sexual harassment is a serious social pro to all the finishers ofthe 1987 ges in the education process which requi blem which will probably conlront both staff res some inner strength and flexibility and students at some time in Iheir lives. It Ansett University of Queensland refers to sexual advances or behaviour which The examples of Hawkesbury Agriculture is unwelcome, unsolicited and non-recipro College and Newcastle University indicate cal that changes can be made within the exis lOK FUN RUN ting system. The following two workshops, Nobody whelherstafforstudenis should took a more philosophical tack, investiga feel afraid lo lake action. (IOth May) ting the notion Ihat a change in paradigm is All complaints of sexual harassment will necessary for changes to education and to be dealt with in complete confidence. Please Results: Men other aspects of society. A paradigm is a feel free to contact Committee Members lor 1 st - Peter Berney 30 mins 18 sees framework of thought (from the Greek para- more information or to report complaints. 2nd - Peter Clarice, 3rd - Rod Lyons digma meaning 'pattern'). A paradigm is a The U.Q.U. Sexual Harassment Commit scheme for understanding and explaining tee Members are: certain aspects of reality It often involves Women: invisible assumptions that we use lo explain Diana Cogill (Chairperson) U.Q.U. Staff Association. our lives. 1 st - Carol Connolly 36 mins 35 sees Ruth Apelt U.Q.U. Women's Rights 2nd - Desirce Lethcrby, 3rd Jenny Lund The new paradigm ol learning emphasises Committe. learning for learnings sake, egalitarian rather than hierarchical structure, encouragement Scott Barclay U.Q.U. Executive binna ol students to question rather than acqui Representative of Industrial Union of the Durra ring the 'right' inlormalion; emphasis on a Worker, if a worker is involved. MOUNTAIN RESORT •ruurioM xisocuficw learning atmosphere that enables students Phone: 371 1611 to make mistakes (and be vulnerable) and 28 POLICY STATEMENT OF A basic principle of this policy is that the most suitable person is to be selected for EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT appointment regardless of sex. In practice THEUNIVERSITY this will entail matching each person's qua lifications against previously staled require OF QUEENSLAND ments, Such selection criteria may incor porate exptrience, education, demonstra The University of Queensland Act cleariy ted ability for performance, opportunity for Union Nem stales Ihat career promotion, and, in some cases, po "The University shall not discriminate tential for further promotion beyond that po against any person on the grounds of sition. For students, the Affirmative Action Ihat person's sex, religion or colour" (37A), Program wil! contribute to the provision of HEALTH SERVICE^ an educational environment v/hich is free In 1984 the University of Queensland be THE AUSTRALIAN from prejudice and discrimination on the EDUCATION PROGRAM E FOR come formally committed to the principle of basis ol sex. DEVELOPMENT MAY AND JUNE, 1987. promoting equal progress of women and men in academic v/ork, in staffing and in the In consultation with University staff and ASSISTANCE BUREAU DATES FOR YOUR DIARY;. ' decision-making structures in the Univer students as well as appropriate trade unions, (A.D.A.B) Wednesday 20th May: sity Under this policy the University accep an Affirmative Action Program will be de A.D.A.B. is the Foreign Aid unit of the De NUTRITION - Demonstration by ted responsibility both as an employer and veloped lo form a comprehensive and inte partment of Foreign Affairs. It is responsible Home Economist (Country Style as a provider of educalion, to take active grated plan of action. The Program will be for the welfare of A.D.A.B. - sponsored and Bakery) ^ steps to eliminate discrimination against wo based upon an analysis of the current work private overseas students from developing men in all aspects of Ihe University's work. force to establish Ihe employment patterns countries and Japan. Thursday 28th May: As part of this management responsibi of v/omen and men within the University, a Asocial worker from A.D.A.B. is available NUTRITION - Demonstration by review of personnel policies and practices lity and in compliance with the legislation for consultation on Wednesday afternoons Home Economist (Egg Marketing sel out in the Affirmative Action (Equal Em in Ihe areas of recruitment and selection from 2-4 p.m. al the Legal Sen^ices Office. Board) ^ ployment Opportunity for Women) Act, methods, promotion, stall development, trai University of Oueensland Union. 1986, the University will ensure that in all its ning, transfers, conditions of service, and Thursday 4th June: FITNESS Forappointmentstelephone3711611 or structures, policies and practices all deci termination of employment, ll will also in (Film) - "Fitness Factor" 225 2263- sions are based on the assessment of in volve an analysis of the courses of study A.O.A.B. social workers have special skills dividual ability and achievement, rejecting undertaken by female and mate students at PLACE: Abel Smith Lecture inappropriate distinctions on grounds of bolh the undergraduate and postgraduate in cross cultural counselling. The social sex. A conscious avoidance of sexism and a levels. The data derived from these reviews work sen/ice provides students with a pri TIME: 1 p.m.-2 p.m. continuing attempt to eliminate all forms of will enable the University to develop objec vate, friendly place to discuss problems of ENQUIRIES: Sr. Leila Madden - direct and indirect discrimination are en tives, strategies and actions that can be im any nature. Ext.2511. dorsed fully by the Senate, the Vice-Chan plemented within a specified timetable. The cellor, and all members of Ihe senior ad consultative procedures currently in opera ministration of the University tion will provide opportunities for the moni toring and evaluation of the Program. The process by which Ihe Universityaims An annual report on the Affirmative Ac to establish- an environment of equal op tion Program will be made available to all portunity is through the implementation of members of the University Affirmative Action Programs. Affirmative Ac tion is compatible with appointment and pro- The overall responsibility forthe Program NEXT TIME ' motion on the basis of merit, skills and qua is vested in Ihe Vice-Chancellor, while the lifications. The policy of equal opportunity Ofiice of Equal Opportunity will undertake applies to all women and men associated its implementation. Successlul achieve We'll cut your dicks off! with the University For general, academic ment of equal opportunity in employment and research staff it refers to all phases of and education will result in a fairerand more Here is some correspondence between the Studenl Union and St Leo's College employment including selection and ap effective use of human resources that will Club, about some sexist and offensive material which was printed, using union pointment, promotion, training, and terms benefit women, men, the University, and ul photocopiers, in the club's newsletter "Vox Leonis". The union hereby warns all and conditions of employment timately the whole community clubs and societies that if union facilities are ever used by a club again, to print sexist or racist material, that club will immediately have all its funds cut and disaffiliation from the union will commence. Studentdenfionstrators atthe May6th National DayofAclion against fees were met at the doors of the Education Department by this cordon of police. Eleven students were arrested. Dare we suggest that this incident bears an allegorical relationship to the exclusion of some groups from the Australian education system? UNION BUILDING THANKYOU TO COMPETITION BLOOD DONORS The dust has cleared, the rubble has To the staff and students of the University been removed, and the workmen are putting of Queensland - congratulations from the the last finishing touches on what was once Director and staff of the Red Cross Blood the Student Union Building. Only one thing Bank. is lacking: a nameforthe newcomplex.This The staff and students can indeed be is your chance to be a part of history- at proud ol their elforts during the visit of the least until the next time they disembowel the Red Cross Blood Bank to the University of place. To enter this competition, think ol an Queensland, 6th-9th April, 1987. appropriate name forthe refurbished Union The figures tabled below speak for them Building, and write it legibly on the back ot selves. an envelope, along with your name and pos tal address. Send the envelope to: RECORDED DEFERRED DONATIONS MEW TAKEN DONORS Name-the-Building Competition, e APRIL JdO IJ .VC, loa Universityof Queensland Union, T APRIL 383 22 361 140 8 APRIL 35 7 f 7 3J0 lib St, Lucia Q. 4067 9 APRIL 3M ?1 33? 17S TOTAL 13SB 74 1314 STS There will be a prize of a $50 voucher, redeemable at any ol the shops in the new Yes, during our visit a magnificent 1,314 complex, and a double pass to the Schonell blood donations were taken, this is the best Theatre to the winner, with a further ten dou achievement since 1977. ble passes awarded to the runners up. 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Take advantage of the campus trainli^ semiims, electronic bulletin board, free technkal ms^ne, Laserwnter Bureau and odier services provided by "rtie Byte Centre. . - i' / '• 'j To get the full story and arrai^e a test driwe ofa Macintosh pop iri and see our expert staff soon. INVEST IN YOUR •BYTE C I: N r R E A DIVISION OF BYTE TECHNOLOGIES ACADEMIC FUTURE HEAD OFFICE 49 Park Road, Milton, Brisbane. 4064. Ph. (07) 369 4099 BUNCH Omm • li EM Sncl.lacUua>|iua47D0irtt. ((79)21 )(I2 41 Suri Surci, TomnOlt. WH. I9i >M|r»T l<»d. Cilrv. Wn. HL (m) )l WI AMPOL TARINGA EAST '^y'^-'-^-r •JO THE CITY So you're pregnant There are two organisations in Queens placement there and representatives in even come from Zimbabwe, the Phillipines, make up well over half those who seek help. land specifically to counsel people in your 1986 addressed all final year med-students Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Crt/V- Most women who seek help are single and situation. They are Pregnancy Help and and large numbers of student nurses. dren By Choice is also used bythe media as about half of those pregnant claim a failure Children By Choice. Now Children By Choice is facing clo a reference centre for information about abor of contraception. That's a sobering thought, even the cognizant aren't safe. It should be Pregnancy Help is the counselling arm of sure because of lack of funds. They need tion. Even lawyers have rung the centre for noted,however, thatfailure of contraception Right lo Lite. It is run by Ihe Catholic Church $25,000 to remain open, despite being lar information aboutthe legal posilion of abor is olten due to misuse through ignorance and receives some lunding from the state gely run by volunteers with only two co tion. and that this percentage would be reduced government. Being a Catholic run organi ordinators receiving a wage - tha wage be The group operates from a house on Lut by sex education. sation, Pregnancy Help is going to lean to ing only equivalent lo a part-time payment wyche Road. Windsor, which they own. It the side of continuation of the pregnancy. (or full-time work and massive personal com was purchased in 1984 and was renovated, Children By Choice is an autonomous Despite this, an estimated 50% of the wo mitment. A fee of $15 is charged lor a con decorated by volunteers. The atmosphereis Brisbane group. It communicates with its men who consult them do go on to terminate sultation, but this is waived il the woman/ very relaxed and friendly. While emphasis is sister group in Rockhampton, but they are their pregnancies, usually after referral to couple cannot afford it- no one is ever tur placed on ihe women's position in deciding not connected alan organisationa 1 level. As Children By Choice. ned away. Nol a very profitable way to run a to maintain or abort pregnancy she is wel a Queensland group they cannot receive Federal funding directly. At present chan Children By Choice is a pro-choice group business, but Children By Choice is not in it come to involve her partner in counselling. ces ol State funding look as hopeless as which gives equal attention to the conse to make money. Children By Choice is a In some cases of pregnancy, mothers will ever, and since the organisation costs an quences of the decision lo keep or abort community run organisation providing an attendwiththeirdaughlers. Nancy says this estimated $1,000a month to run, it looks like pregnancy. They estimate that 90% of wo essential service for society. has been a very fruitful way for the mother to the end of the line, ii the projected figure of , men who go to them lor counselling decide accept her daughter as an adull, and in $25,000 is not reached. to terminate, but still emphasise that they many cases has brought mother and daugh "Children by Choice stand for ter much closer. aim not to lean to either side on the issue. a woman's right to chose what Children By Choice has been one of the "There is a real need in the mosl powerful lobby groups in Queensland happens to her body..." It would be sad to reflect that pregnancy for repeal of abortion laws. They stand for is required to bring mother and daughter community for professional together in this way, but the positive result to the woman's right to choose what ultimately Over the years, the number of women see counselling of pregnant individual relationships can only be good. happens to her body. At present a new sub king advice has dropped slightly. Nancy women..." mission for funding is being prepared and Leyton, one of the groups co-ordinators Nancy expresses much concern at the will be presented to Minister for Health, puts this down to two factors: one being the lack ot sex education in our schools. She In an effort to reach this, a pledge cam Mike Ahern. Mrs Chapman, Minister lor "The opening of a sister group in Rockhampton points to statistics showing Oueensland as, paign has been mounted whereby people Family" with her usual grace and open and another being that women are becom having the highest rate of teenage preg will be asked to contribute a certain amount mindedness has refused to receive a CO ing more comlortable with the idea of abor- nancy of any mainland state. She estimates yearly in support. Pledges should be avai PY- . lion as an option. She is quick to point out that very few of our teenagers lirst sexual lable on campus soon, gel in contacl with encounters are protected in any way. Peo Children By Choice has been operating though that many of the cases coming in are Women's Rights or contacl Children By ple still seem to believe that you are unlikely since 1972. From its very controversial be much more difficult than the majority used Choice on 357 5377 for details. to get pregnant the first time. It's not just the ginning when rocks were lobbed through its to be, which indicates that there is a real and teenagers who are ignorant of contracep Itwould be tragic to see this organisation windows, right up to r\ow, it has received no continuing need in the communily for pro tion either, adults show surprising lack ol shut down. They fill the gap between reli government funding. It is also not a legally lessional counselling of pregnant women. knowledge. gious counselling and none. No matter how recognised charity and so donations are There has been also an increase in post the world ought to be by your standards the not tax deductible. This is despite it having abortion counselling. The agegroup making up the largest pro gaps are real and won't disappear in the become an established and widely respec A lot of counselling is done by phone portion of Children By Choice clients is the immediate luture. II you can give, do. 19 and under group, closely lollowed by the ted part ol the community. Doctors refer pa especially (or women living in remote areas CAROLYN SCHMIDT tients there, social work students have done like the far west of Queensland. Calls have 20-24 year bracket These groups together 31 BUY A '^^r^'^r^sM CALCULATOR Jriu'"a OR POCKET COMPUTER FROM THE STUDENT'S .. UNION .BOOKSHOP * DURING APRIL AND MAY AND BE IN m * A DRAW FOR A * PORTABLE 34CM T.V. A; VALUED$500 * Also watch for our Specials in stationery for that week. 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Uiim (0 (he Editors infallible, but once an innocent has been JEFF RICKERTT Dear Editors, executed the injustice is obviously irrever Socialist Action Comedy must be sacrosanct, in Ihe long sible! Could it be that we have our own minia term censors are only making "persecution" ture Iranian Government D Generation scan worse. Surely the bulk of idealist jokes are We must ask ourselves whal kind ol so dal on campus. A very great man once said, aimed, not at defying the idealism, but the ciety do we want to live in? Do we want to live Dear Editors, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition". institution. Only opposing idealists would under the principle of retribution and ven The Chaplains were somewhat bemused Far be it from me to encourage rabid ar not fall into this category. Clashes between geance. Or do we wanl to live in a system by Semper's talk with the Lord. This should guments ol an almost serious nature, but individuals with opposing ideals, are how which lavours rehabilitation and responsi be great news! True, the Lord in the illustra that which is closest to my heart- comedy- ever, inevitable, I hope merely that such cla bility for the sick amongst us? Crime does tion looks ralhertwo-dimensional (not really hath been violated. Where would the Evan shes are conducted in a civil manner. The nol occur in a social vacuum. Happy, ful as we have found him to be; but you have to gelists be without the right to communicate writer ot the Interview, therefore, might be filled people do not rob and murder, make allowances for individual difference, beliefs? However no-one desen/es the right criticized, but, as it was genuinely entertain JENNICARGILL don't you?). to enforce their beliels or lo criticize the edi ing to many I can see no fault with the Edi Arts, 3rd Year But as we read on we began to doubt the tors for the publication of a story disagree tors. Anyone actually offended should be authenticity ol this iheophany It lacked ing with Ihem. The particular story is of trying to laugh along with or analyse the Dear Editors, something. Genuine reports of encounters course "Semper Talks to the Lord" and I cause of offence. If you couldn't laugh along with the Lord often have a joyousness, a re refer to the backlash it received Irom those I wish to take up the question raised in with "persecution", Ihen comedywould be a creating quality. Itbegan to dawn on us that who call themselves "persecuted". Most Tim Grau's article, "Horror Legislalion": small, painlul, twisted version of what it pre we were reading an interview with this au Christians beliove God looks after Himself, How should unionists and their supporters sently is. In essence these people seem to thor's own trivialisation of God-a God made He needs no defence. Christians themsel respond to Bjelke-Petersen's new industrial be arguing lor what is essentially a step lo in his/her own image. ves were not directly insulted, though their wards the destruction of comedy, and a laws. Another giveaway was the wimpish hu values may have beenquestioned. Imagine small and sellish one at that. Laugh along - Grau warns that "the labour movement mourless we detected in this straw "Lord". whal Ihese people would do with Monty Phy- it's much better value. I promise never to be needs to act calmly and with a great deal of Told us a lot about the author; not much thon's "Holy Grail" and shudder. Who's de olfended bya witty EvangelisKshould I find caution if it wants to maintain and/or gain fending comedy and the Arts and^Sciences one). public support. "The SEQEB dispute in ear about God. We suspect God's sense ol hu from a return to the Dark Ages? ly 1985 proved that street marches and de mour is classier! ANDREW LANCASTER We gol to thinking it was jusl a "trysee"- II the six letters in Semper 3 are the co monstrations do not win public support in to stir up all the Christians on campus to medy ol the after life then start sinning. Just Queensland," Grau says. come to the defence of God. We waited to as Peter Pre-Marital-Glew-Crouch and Tim Dear Editors, Certainly, Grau is correct in implying that see if they would gettheir knickers in a knot Goodwin,his straighlman, begin gelling the Recently a number ot pro-death penalty Ihe way forward is to build support. But his aboul it. Not much happened. A flurry of ini hefland brimstone in lhealmosphere,along letters to the editor have appeared in the claim that direct action does not build sup tial consternation, then mostly a good natu comes Bronvk^yr) Wealherhead with a letter Courier Mail. As a member of Amnesty In port is incorrect. Even as late as August red silence. Some Christians recognised written entirely Irom quotations. This might ternational and a person interested in wor 1985, thousands were prepared to stop that a few important issues had been raised, have been funny with friends, but really, this king tor a more humane society, I find this work in solidarity with the linemen. • and started rellecting on these. Others as is the big time. It succeeded in getting a distressing. ked, "What does the Lord really say?" chuckle, but, more importantly, it destroyed I think that it is very easy when discussing What prevented the SEQEB struggle from the build up. Similarly amateur, ! strongly the issue of capital punishment to imagine being waged effectively was that suppor But rush to thedefence of the living God? recommend that Rene Tail takes out her "I how we would leel il our mother or sister ters were never encouraged to go beyond No need. God doesn't need us to delend did a major in journalism" line for perfor were raped and beaten to death orourchild the narrow limits ot theTLCs strategy "Leave it him, but maybe we need to be detended mances al places without chicken wire. To kidnapped and sadistically murdered. We to us", the leaders said - and nothing even against delining God in our own (or some lop if off, Susan Anderson and Name With think of personal instances, we reactpure/y tuated. one else's) small image. held ruin the whole eflect by being rational. on emotion and then attempt to rationalise Serious opposition to the govemment will REV. D. BRANDON Name however, brings up some good the death penalty as a jusl vengeance only come when workers themselves take Chaplaincy Team points, where are the jokes about the Chess against cruel individuals, i too used to think up the light Militancy and organisation are Clubs and the Young Nationals? We paid this way until I was exposed lo some inte the main weapons workers have, and when our Union Fees. resting lacts and figures. industrial action is taken against the new SOAP UPDATE SOAP UPDATE SOAP UPDATE SOAP UPDATE Macho Australian hearthrob Neville Crowe Erin Wormsley the golden child of tl|e^;me pauses out of breath by the side of the weather Meanwhile, Television evangelist Anthony Generation' succumbs to mc Podesta puts on a brave face while the media board holiday house he has come to love ... accuse him of being into 'a bit of the other'... the American Dream . **''""Trr!riiiiner and presidential hopeful Former Colgate star turned newsreader, Looby Democrat ''^"iS emP^^"""^ ^""* '"'^ Watson earnestly talks about the insurrection i^a STngelerbacffim bar shooting pool in Fiji and wonders where she is going to take her next holiday... ith Iqosemcn. _wasteonime'..._. Stan nash previews the latest day to day life dramas of very silly people. 34 chuckling at the unlikely allies they have Dear Editors, enlisted. The names of Executive members ol St. It seems to me that the "left's" campaign Leo's College Student Club have recently Leffers to Ihc Editors against QUS represents a landmark in the appeared in publicity relating to the Q.U.S. stupidity of certain polilical parties who di As a result, we wish to clarify our reasons lor opposing the affiliation of the U.Q.S.U. with Dear Editors, rect their activists with more force than it is anti-worker governmeni and abandoned by necessary, to follow central directives with the Q.U.S. I write in reply to Tm Grau's article "Hor tbe Union Movement, (he State Labor Op out much thought tor the local conditions. position and the Federal Labor Government. Firstly, we have been given insufficient ror Legislation: Heads Will Roll" (Semper, information about the scope of the organi edition no3, April 1987). Those student elements v/ho believed Is it any wonder that, despite the stark sation. We fear that the Q.U.S. like the AU.S. "horror" of Petersens latest anti-worker legis the lies spread by Leo Ryan and his acolytes The history of Queensland politics has about how QUS was "equal to ALP then beforeitmaypass resolutions on moral mat not always been a history of free enterprise lalion, the rank and file are not leaving Ihe ters. We are a predominantly Catholic Club. factories and building sites to take to the equal to Fees" can be forgiven in their in conservatism and defeats for progressive nocence as many in the past have. II seems We are called to give love and compassion forces, There is a long history of pro-union streets. They not only have to fight Petersen lo those who commit sinful acts but we can and the National Party New Reich, but they that for Ihese people "politics" are only a militancy v/hich extends from the creation of bad thing when they are not the politics of not supporl any organisation which may en the Shearers Union in Western Queensland also musl battle the moribund bureaucracy courage behaviour which is contrary to The which used lo lead the Labour h/lovement. conformity and those espoused by right- a hundred years ago and includes the pro wingers lurking in colleges and Law facul Faith. tracted coal strikes of 1947. Whal has hap In 1987 v/orkers are hearing the same ties, All Ihe best to them in Iheir very peculiar Secondly, v/e believe that the fight against pened to this long tradition of working class lines as v/ere liotted out in 1985. Willis, Ihe quest for "tranquility". fees can be more effectively fought by our radicalism and how has it been allowed to Federal Industrial Relations Minister, has own Student Unions. The studenl bodies decline lo such an extent that draconian once again promised Federal Governmeni Why are they opposed to unions? Is it a should be able to unite to light lees without anti-union lawas have been introduced vir Legislation. Crean, Presidenl of the Austra moral opposition to power in any form? Are an additional Q.U.S. hierachy There is a real tually without any opposition from Ihe esta lian Council of Trade Unions, is again pro they really worried about "student politi danger that the fees issue may be clouded blished union movement, mising a High Court challenge and Demp cians"? I think Ihat the example set by the by the division which could result from the sey, the head of the Queensland Trades and NCC-inspired troglodytes al the QIT Union I believe the reason this has happened is duplication ol bureaucracies. Labour Council, is begging v/orkers nol lo disproves this, they are as power hungry as the SEQEB defeat. Workers are used lo set strike. Ihey come, but Ihey lack certain qualities Thirdly, we consider that the affiliation backs, but the SEQEB struggle was diffe necessary to make the exercise of power at fees could be more effectively spent by our rent, and the disillusionment that accom We can only hope Ihat these pathetic mew- least tolerable to the masses, such as ho own Students* Union. Why give away large panied the defeat was enormous, ll may not lings proved so useless in 1985 that no-one nesty and humility. sums of our money at a time when it should have entirely ended the militant traditions of will listen tothem this time and that Tim Grau be spent on matters of immediate student unionism in Queensland but il certainly re is in the fooled minority Whal do we leave, then, to the "left", en tering an unspoken and dishonourable al concern? The renovations to the Union Buil duced the standing and perceived inlluence SCOTT BARCLAY ding have lo be paid for. Refectory prices of unions in the eyes of tiieir memberships. liance with the reactionary elements? Their Dear Editors, arguments are spurious. They themselves continue to rise. Campaigns for increased The trade union movement, in conjuction staffing levels and increased academic stan The results of the QUS referendum can supported State unions until not long ago, with the Labor Party, has created a new Ihey themselves proposed State unions at dards need to be supported. arenaforindustrial disputes: the courts.The only please those opposed to student unity and to unions in general. II those in the "left" the 1984 "National Student Convention", Lastly, we stress that our opposition to new representatives of the workers are not and they themselves recognised that affiliation is solelyfortheforegoing reasons. workers at all, they are highly educated, high who campaign against QUS think that it re presented some kind olobscure triumph for Queensland is a "speciial case" as we face St. Leo's College Studenl Club has no poli ly paid lawyers. A whole generation has Ihe onslaught of a hostile State Governmeni lical alfiliations whatsoever. We believe that come lo power, in the labour movment, with the progressive forces, Ihey will have to change their minds quickly. Their failure to support QUS, indeed their studenl issues transcend political affiliations out ever having felt the strength which is in crucial conthbulion to its defeat, can only be whatsoever. We believe that student issues the hands of ordinary people who are united The recent history of student unionism is explained by iheir failure lo sland up to cen transcend political barriers. We maintain in a common cause. one long saga of clear victories for the N CC tral directives and to take into account that the involvement of political groups in inspired reactionaries who stop at nothing By 1985 the lessening strength of the Queensland's local conditions. The labour Student organisations results in needless to thwart any attempts al unity. We saw them trade unions had become obvious to all. movement isfull of graveyards of the victims factionalising, preoccupation with periphe triumphant during the long agony of AUS, Petersen moved in, and the SEQEB strug of "democratic centralism". Will we ever ral issues and frustration of student issues. we saw them at work at the so-called "Na gle was born, learn? tional Student Convention" and now we see MICHAEL WALSH 1,000 workers were sacked by Petersen's them rejoicing their victory over QUS and M. PEIRANO Secretary - St. Leo's College Student Club • „ ...was 111! »"*SteftpJS.'T "v.'*>?jit-.;,scho< fto'".-'?.Sicostesh«ts "i^^A.. fr\\ J|°«^«>n, priced at h"" '*'MVoste shuts If those guys th»"i^, l| relail outlets. then, the) " B „„( of lar Jl '^''rofsesitu.Sons 11 ll '^ il 1^ "^ |ig^^«M^^_/ a31' parties. parties.. 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