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What (or who) is our man Joh shooting at? Is it an undergraduate humorist? Is it a Gamut editor? Is it our man Malcolm (shades of political unrest!)? Is it a clay pidgeon with only a left wing? Dear Editor, An effigy of ? (And how fast are they running?) AUow me to say a few words about The answer is yours, and so jre two free tickets to the Schonell Theatre for the best one of the coUeges on campus: Inter­ answer. national House (Qld Uni). One thing Send answers to Gamut, 1st floor. Union Office. which wiU strike you when you visit IH for a meal is the fact that you have to be "thonged" or "shoed." This is regardless of the condition of state of health of your feet, before your meal is Last week we recieved a curt letter Dear God, Dear Allun, served. This is one of the rules of the from an aware student. The theme of God I'm lonely. What am I to do? Next time you must enclose your his letter was, "Gamut is deadpan". If Please, please tell me. coUege made almost a decade ago, and address. even up to now there is no sign that these you have a sincere problem, please send yours sincerely, love it to us and we will then forward it to Ms JuUette Sweet rules wiU be revised, although so many God things have changed since. God. If it is not sincere or pathetic Dear God, enough, we wUi forward it to Hayden Dear Ms^weet, Do you exist? It is not unusual for "college pre­ Sargeant. You always thought God It's lonely at the top too. I wish I philosophicaUy fects" to revive one of these rules from was the editor of the Catholic Leader? could help you. Serbian Jane time to time. Most of these so-caUed You are wrong • we have established a God. Dear Ms Jane, prefects are actuaUy power hungry and direct Ime with him. At last here is your Congratulations - you have just won discontented persons, who look at quiet chance for *divine comment' to solve Dear God, two free passes, to sec "Jesus Christ overseas students as easy prey. 'human problems*. We look forward / am 14 yean old and have not yet Superstar" at the SchoneU Theatre. IH is the only coUege on campus with to receiving your extreme problems started shaving yet. Am I homosexual? love a reputation for intenrionally accepting addressed to God, c/- Gamut. more overseas stude;nts. Fifty per cent of perplexed, God Allun Martin. the 150 coUege residents are overseas and the rest are Atisl^aUan nationals. IH is supposed to be a melting pot for the various cultures. Every Monday tea-time is a special occasion when "May Brotherhood PrevaU" is enchanted by the warden before everyone gets seated and meab-served. But despite aU these under­ takings, the mixing is very meagre, instead the different cultures are actuaUy miniature nations. The Warden, Mr Ivor Cribb, -af^aUy deserves credit for the part he is playing in initiating understand­ ing between the various students in his coUege. If you are going to be a resident in IH it won't escape your notice to be told that the coUege is run on donations and provided everyone observes good conduct the fees will always be kept low (at the moment $38/week, cheaper tlian the other on-campu3'.coUeges). With this impUed atmosphere of conditioning and added to this, with the rig^dan d anach­ ronistic rules, one is left to wonder whether; Hi is not actuaUy an old colonial reUc in disguise right ere oh campus. (Name suppUed) - ^ • UQ

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Qt^ Airman 2:. • !• IE CHEAT Karen Green refused benifits by Radlta Rouse Legal liassTes over whetiier school leavers have the rightt o the dole could begin all over again following the decision by the Director-General of Social Security Laurie Daniels not to grant it to Tasmanian woman Karen Green. Ms Green won a High Opposition spokesperson is not reaUy an argument. Court case to determine Senator Don Grimes has a He said, "The govemment different view of the situation. whether or not she had should make it perfectly clear Mr Damien Sweeney, Secretary of the AJA in Queens­ He said "What Mr Daniels and that if someone leaves school ' taken reasonable steps to the govemment are trying to do or goes back cr to university land, addressing the seminar. find work but Mr Daniels is to be excessively legalistic they should have to pay back decided she didn't take and thereby to avoid paying any unemployment benefits adequate steps and refused Karen Green and other school they had received. Those people leavers the unemployment have in fact UlegaUy received to grant her the dole NO STOPPER benefits due to them. unemployment benefits. during the December- "They acted iUegally, we toid •"There is a mechanism in the January holiday period. them they acted iUegally and the Act for that now, there is no judge told tiiem they acted trouble at aU in catching cheats This case had been regarded WRITS Ulegally. They won't succeed but there arc very few cheats. as a test case for all school when it goes back to court." Why wipe everybody out to by Ross Peake leavers' right to the dole. At the School leavers are not re­ catch a few cheats, especiaUy time of going to press the Tlie group in our community most sensitive about their garded as unemployed during wlien it disadvantages the poor reputations is the horse racing fraternity, according to Mr Fitzroy Legal Service which the school hohdays. The reason people." Keith McDonald, chief executive of Queensland News­ started the original action for appears to be that it is diffi­ High school student Malcolm Ms Green was considering issuing cult to determine their inten­ Warman agrees that students papers. a writ in the High Court against tions. should get the dole when they "This group lias obtained "Most Congressional commit­ Mr Daniels. tees are open to the press; the Senator Guilfoyle said, leave school. "It's their entitled about S65,000 from There is a deal of confusion "Many students are awaiting right and many need it" he most dramatic example was the over what the High Court judge­ examination results and deciding said. Queensland Newspapers in Uve telecasting of proceedings of ment actuaUy meant. Federal what sort of career tlicy are to Mr Warman, who is in his last seven actions," he said. the Congressional hearings into Social Security Minister pursue. It is generaUy accepted year of school doesn't believe "This confirms the view Watergate. Margaret Guilfoyle is taking the by people that leaving school students .should be dependent on that this lias less to do with "No one knew where these line that the Higli Court decision one day would not necessarily their parents until they get a job liearings were going to lead found that Karen Green was not restoring reputation than entitle you to unemployment cither, "In many cases depen­ but it seems to me that the eligible for unemployment bene­ with another form of gamb­ benefits immediately. It's a dants can cause a lot of financial opening of the sessions to the fits; that she had not proved hardship in Uie famUy unit. ling. I refer to wagering the world via Uve television was a eligibility. matter of determining eligibility. "Until the date of enrolment School leavers have got to live, legal costs against tlie pos­ solemn and deeply impressive is passed or the commencement and in a low income household sible outcome. The uncer­ demonstration of the commit­ "Government acted illegally" ment to the principle of the of the school year, this can't it could be very hard for that tainty of the situation adds "The judgement went on lo family to function." people's right to know. be done." to the element of a true say amongst other things she liad No trouble catching cheats taken reasonable steps to find School students' association gamble." "Writs flying around" work but the judge could not However, Senator Grimes said the argument that school leavers Mr Warman has been involved According to Mr Damien usurp the responsibUity of in a group of students trying to Sweeney, the Queensland Sec­ Director-General to determine can't be paid the dole during the Mr McDonald was addressing holidays because they miglit go set up a secondary students retary of the Australian Jour­ whether she proved eligibility," a Defamation and Privacy nalists Association, the issue is . to University or bacic to school association. That project hasn't Seminar, held at the Queensland Senator GuUfoyle said. got off the ground yet but why Watergate could not happen University last Saturday. The here. meanwhUe the students have got' seminar was - organised by an issue which directly affects "As soon- as you'd written them to campaign about. JoumaUsm Studies in conjunc­ the first paragraph, you would tion with the AustraUan Law im\5URMLE Vs "We might try to get a have enougli writs flying around Reform Commission. petition signed by students who to keep the papermUls working WiU be affected this years saying for a week," he said. that they want their right. That He said the press was re­ USABU way we might get some action in stricted by the present defa­ Lawyers died waiting letting the pubUc and the poli­ Mr McDonald advocated mation laws. Marihuana Precedent Established ticians know how the kids are speedier trials in defamation "But the opposite is some­ by our Court Reporter feeUng on the issue-and a lot cases. He cited a case first raised thing like the American system, The Students Legal Aid Scheme established a precedent of them wiU be voting in the in 1960 when members of a which 1 think we aU agree, is a next few years!" Uttle too wide." recently in relation to offences for possession of cannabis. union management brought an action against the Courier-Mail. Mr Keith Wright, Member for A past student had been INDICTABLE offence. No job The case was not resolved until Rockhampton, said the Stopper charged with being in pes- in BjeUce's pubUc service.) 1976, but in the interim, two Writ was an impediment to session of a small quantity ^The case and the legal pre- lawyers and one of the plam- ParUamentary debate. 7^ . J It 1 -Il .,.^^A cedents referred to by Mr tiffs had died. The Stopper Writ is a writ "In many instances witnesses talc en out solely m the effort to of the deadly killer weed ^^^^^.^ ^^^ ^^^^ interesting can not recaU significant events stifle further reporting and dis­ (you can get brain-dam age!) points for the dope connoisseure bottom of her handbag. The his/her "roaches" but (slovenly) because they occurred so long cussion on an issue. Only one which was scraped from the who doesn't like to hang on to ago. With time ticking away at of the 248 defamation writs case was heard by Mr leaves them around in ashtrays and other incriminating re­ "OK LISTEN, $20 a minute for legal costs, it issued in the period 1972 to Jacobs, stipendiary magi­ ceptacles which the search men SEE...WHERE must seem to an observer from mid 1975 reached court. strate of the North Quay tend to home in on with their another planet that we have "In the last session of parUa­ Ma^strate's Court handy BisseU sweepers. Having WERE YOU rocks in our heads." ment, debate on three vitaUy The poUce case was that the discarded the roach can he/she. AT MIPMWHT_, important issues was prohibited grass, was found in the bag .be convicted if it is subsequenUy Open meetings law on the Speaker's ruling that such Professor-Charles Duncan, a matters were subjudice," Mr belonging to the accused. A found m his/her Possession? Wright said. Crowf botanist gaye evidence N°!,''°''"=^°^f« 1° t„Se FuUbright scholar lecturing with Journalism Studies at Queens­ He said the Queensland that he had checked the stuff (and a number of impressive land University, said that all ParUament had no standing rules and found it to be "caluiabis law cases, which ci ations are meetings of government com­ to deal with Stopper writs, and that the debate was entirely at diidebris.u IUU1." UWiUia I mI Beattie from hereiing thn e producelack ofd leganotwithstandl readership- mittees ih0 ALR P5oy law, and an Open Meetings between the pubUc benefit and the need to protect the privacy smaU (approx .5-lgm)-and the fJl'ff pj,/"*'^^^' ^^^''^l law had been passed by 38. The heads no doubt wiU get of individuals. seafacmt thaof tht eit bag wa, ssuggeste found dm it wathes lNi.i.ts.mio. "In Oregon, only Executive together on this Case. Police- meetings concerning personnel "We need a more sophisti­ not for use. The quantity was cated procedure than that "measurable" but not "usable," heads may stiU decide to appeal matters are restricted," he said. in other words. Mr Beattie against the decision in which "But the press stUl attend already proposed," he said. "I argued that the pgUce had to case our' Ulustrious Supreme these sessions. Although they do would like to see a judge in prove that the material was Court may yet have to distin­ "No independent inqiiiry not report the proceedings, their chambers asked to define the usable. The Magistrate, amaz­ guish the legal principle involved is needed into the activ­ presence there is seen as legiti­ issues and define those matters ingly, agreed with this reasoning, in measurable Vs usable. Perhaps ities of the Queensland mate for background informa­ StiU free for comment." they wiU look at the women's To take the Stopper Writ out and acquitted the defendant. Police Force." tion. Not GuUty! and a sigh of reUef Uberation itcrature which pomts Professor Duncan said the of defamation law would be a from aU concerned. (Remember, out the faUacy of relatmg sat to Joh Bjelke-Petersen. tendency towards secrecy in major step forwards for free a conyictiori counts for an enjoyment, x^ govemment was natural. speech. 40 YEARS BEHIND Probing Medical Education

Following this week's Monday Conference on medical education, GRAHAM COLDJTZ, President of the Australian Medical Students' Association, probes further into the reasons behind current medical training's iailure to meet community needs.

The fact that Australian Medical Teaching-a very low priority Schools are not producing graduates In addition to many of the teachers trained to meet the community health in pre-cUnical medicine being non- care needs is now a well accepted reaUty medically quaUfied, the totality of the of medical education. promotions system within Universities Present medical courses contain a does very little for the improvement of minimum of exposure to medicine in the medical education. With academics being community, the majority of ciinincal promoted on the basis of their research teaching being carried out in specialised ability, teaching takes a very low priori­ ty througliout all departments of a wHifffNoyy^? units within teaching hospitals, rather than the primary care level. This has led university such as ours. Hence, students to graduates who on entering the commu­ react against the pressures of the system Responding fo Educafion cuts nity leave much to be desired as is now and lose interest in their own training. wcU evident by the reaction of many Another adverse effect of the present medical consumer groups througliout the medical course on the graduate entering IAN CURR, UQU Education Resource Officer, and a protagonist country. the conimunitjj is the present of the April 28 campaign, continues his views on why students failed to Today's medical courses have changed examination system. With the examina­ little in their basic structure from those in tions concentrating on theory rather boycott classes, dispite the impending cuts to education funds (May 7 effect some 40 years ago. During this than practical skills, students are en­ Courier-Mail), and asks, Wliat now? same period, we have seen the greatest couraged to learn unneccssarUy complex expansion of medical and scientific knowledge at the expense of the basic knowledge ever experienced by the skills required to practice as a graduate. Australian students have been amaz­ raUy in King George Square was not the liuman race. The majority of medical We bcUeve there is a need to rationalise ingly compliant to the Fraser Govern­ poor turnout (approximately 1000 courses stiU commence with a year of the emphasis of the teaching and the ment's program to encourage Individ­ people) but the lack of response of the examination of material in clinical years. basic sciences, which supposedly provides ual restraint in demands for money, participants to the speeches made. There the ground work for all the scientific In addition to the above problems, the despite the overwhelming failure of the was no strong feeling of support bemg facUities required for medical education methods to be encountered in medicine. wages-prices freeze. ^ roused by the issues voiced by the speak­ However, these courses arc taught by have not kept pace with the rapid in­ ers, certainly not by the AUS speaking purists in their own fields, with little or crease in student numbers over tlic past The lead up work to encourage Ust. As the issues were broadened by no knowledge of clinical medicine with 10 years. As an example of this, we note students to ciitically evaluate what is speakers such as GQOBOSE of the the result that the teaching is not rele­ that the University of Queensland wiU going on in Education under the Fraser PAN-AFRICANIST MOVEMENT, by vant in the eyes of the students. This not receive any allocation for a building Government had not then and has not BRIAN LAVER of SELF MANAGE­ applies to subjects in years two and three program in teaching hospitals until 1979. now been done. Of course, this inade­ MENT Group and ANNE MONSOUR also. The subsequent loss of interest is By this ^time, the medical faculty will be quacy has been aided considerably by a some sparks of response could be seen; often never regained for the duration of graduating in excess of 230 students per trend in tertiary institutions which has the medical course. year. This represents double the graduat­ developed significantly ui the past three but certainly not a feeUng of strong ing number from this school in 12 years. to four years-that is, to keep the student support that would make a meeting such as this "successful." Massive waste of resources However, over this same period there has busy through appUcation of continuous been no provision for increase lecture assessment and semesterisation. On this Secondly, this first year of study theatre space, or Ubrary faciUties within campus the extra curricula cultural and Tactical error and poor press repeats much of the work already com­ the cUnical teaching areas. Hence, the poUtical activities of students have coverage pleted at secondary school. This refiects present facilities are totaUy inadequate slumped markedly in comparison to the a lack of communication between the Certainly AUS in Queensland erred for the present student numbers. This is activities of students in the late '605 and two levels of education in the past, and through making it a" campaign to the in addition to the lack of funding to cater early '70s. subsequently results in a massive wastage Press rather than directiy to the Govem­ for the increasing numbers in the pre- of community resources as funds are What AUS has faUed to expose is the ment. By holding the meeting m KING cUnical departments where crowding is channelled into repetitive instruction of underiying framework which is enabUng GEORGE SQUARE, it was only possible particulariy evident in practical sessions. previously learnt knowledge. The lack of the present government to get away with to have the events that took place there We believe there is an urgent need for an change in this area of the course is its present policies. What students need to reported to the Government via the influx of funds to bring facilities in. all indicative of the conseuqences of the see js that AustraUan Universities are press (as it turned out, this was the most medical schools in Australia up to a level Univeisity funding system which only mcreasingly becoming "the Univenal unsuccessful education. mobUisation in adequate for the training of competent ever encourages demartments to increase Church of our technological society, terms of press coverage-second page medical graduates. their teaching load (and hence to gain incorporating and transmitting its ide­ treatment m the Courier-MaU, small more staff, maintenance, and research ology, shaping 'our minds' to accept this third page caption in the AustraUan, a funds) rather than to encourage rational The isolation of universities ideology and conferring social status in brief mention on ABC-TV NEWS weU planning of courses to produce graduates proportion to its acceptance" (Reimer, down the Ust of items). Certainly a trained to meet the health care needs of We beUeve there is a need for the 1971). delegation should have been sent to the the community. establishment of a permanent mechanism The kind of rationale being used by Department of Education in AustraUa the present Govemment is manifest in House. It should be appreciated that this The problems that traditionally pre- to evaluate the quaUty and efficiency of the MARTIN REPORT: "Education campaign was never intended to lobby cUnical.subject such as Physiology have in the health care systems. By estabUshing should be regarded as an investment Government support but to bring direct attracting medically qualified personnel such a mechanism we believe that the which yields direct and significant econo­ pressure on the Fraser Govemment for their teaching staff, are not unique. deficiencies of the health care system as mic" benefits through increasing the skill • through a formal show of dissatisfaction Subjects such as Pathology, Clinical assessed by the consumer can be dis­ of the population and through acceler­ of an important sector of the communi­ Immunology, Radiology, Clinical Bio­ covered. This invormation can continu­ ating technological progress. Staff and ty; this is the stuff that influences chemistry aU require medicaUy qualified ally feed back to the medical school in students of universities arc far too readUy Govemment opinion. personnel. To teach these subjects with­ order that the course may be altered to pving themselves over to tiie concept of out access to human disease is manifest produce graduates trained to meet the higher educational institutions as capital absurdity. Yet this is happening through­ changing health care needs of the com­ What nowl factories, where the staff are foremen, out Australia today. munity. It is important that this mechan-. If the "AUS campaign has taught us ism be a permanent establishment and and their students are potential units of something, it's that we as students need human capital; that is, tertiary institu­ Thus, relevant often essential material that the alteration of the coutse be an to reflect more deeply into the influ­ ongoing process rather than the present tions are increasingly becoming less ences at work on our Uves, that we should is being taught by non-medical person­ interested in the developments of the • piecemeal •tfttempt every 5 to 10 years to take more control of our' own Uves and nel, in isolation from patients. The person, but rather in producing sonieone bring the medical course back in line with not let them be run by extemal bureau­ knowledge gained is no longer tied to the to perform a certain function, to be a the supposed needs of the community. cratic forces whether they be the Uni­ basic practice of medicine ahd medical certain type of doctor, teacher, lawyer, versity Administration, the Fraser counes subsequentiy fail to produce engineer or social worker. Ifmedical education Is to get back to Govemment or even AUS. graduates trained to meet the health care producing graduates trained to meet the The Ausb-aUan student has faUed to Certainly one way of ensuring that we needs of the community. We would in health care needs of the commvinlty we reaUse that the quaUty of his/her educa­ wUl not have a repetition of the sense of fact recommend that aU teaching of beUeve that there is need for a transfer of tion is being detrimentaUy affected by futUity that I felt on April 28 is if we put medical students be carried out within the funding for medical education to a the introduction of the notion of "ac- aside one afternoon each week free of the health care dcUvery system. We be­ health education commission. In addi­ countabiUty" by the Fraser Government. lectures, tutorials and seminars (say Ueve that the education of medical stu­ tion, we beUeve that the instruction Just as the Nixon regime m the US mbro- Wednesday afternoons) where open dents should be the responsibUity of within the medical training should be by duced the necessity for educational discussion at the-Departmental, Faculty medically trained and practicmg medicaUy quaUfied peisonnel, who are institutions to justify and rationaUse and flnaUy Univenity community level personnel, educated in the basic princi­ framed in the principles of teaching, and their funding more and more so too is can be entered into by students and ples of teaching. Through such a system who have a continuing involvement in the the Freser Govemment, thus rratructur- staff together. as this, the teachers could be involved in practice of medicme. Above all else, we Ing education mstitution to fit interests I would propose that Plenary session the practice of medicine and hence their believe that the education should be of the employer. be run tiiroughout ^the afternoon (and teaching can be relevant to the medi­ conducted in areas of health care deUyery into the evening to include part-thne cine that their students must one day rather than the isolation of universities. The rally response students) firstiy at a Departmental level, practice. _ What concemed me most ^bout the then at a Faculty level and then through r open debate in the Great Court at the 6 The role of both student and staff University community level. Formal assessment. recommendations on changes in content In summary, how we as students are structure, and assessment of courses taught to consume our education in a STUDENT would be made by these plenaries to the system where we have little say in courses governing bodies of the University, the avaUable, content of courses, approach to SENATE. subjects, or form of assessment to be We would have to look at many prob­ used. To quote one of the speakers of lems that face education institutions the rally: "(WeJ are in fact told that CONFERENCES today especially universities. [we] need the courses and subjects From May 19 to 23 three national these slanderous attacks had confused 1 How the contemporary university is offered-just as consumers are told we conferences of major importance to the many students about the role of the very largely dependent on Government need a particular product. We learn too, AustraUan student meovcment were held AustraUan Union of Students, these could finance and how Government is having an in a specialised society, not to share our at Melbourne University. These were the not bUnd students to the deteriorating increasing say in the way the University knowledge and skUls, just as we are not to AUS National Education Activists Con­ conditions in aU courses. "As the Budget allocates its funds-the loss of autonomy share our belongings (sharing would break ference, the Socialist Youth Alliance approaches these frenzied attacks on. and hence the loss of the role of critical down comsumption in our society). seventh national conference and the student unionism wUl increase, but we analysis of our society. Students team that what is worthwhile is Conference of ALP Students, which can expect them to convince fewer and 2 How students are "tauglit to bow tauglit, and thaf anything worthwhile involved more than 300 student repre­ fewer students." to authority; not to make decisions or to must be taught. Hence we lose control sentatives from most Australian As the largest sociaUst youth organisa­ use their initiative and are denied the over our own learning process. [We) are campuses. tion nationaUy, the SYA has received a exercise of responsibility" (MONSOUR, taught that [we] are incapable of decid­ The AUS conference was called both fair deal of criticism in the conservative 1976). ing what we want to learn. We are, in aU to draw up a balance sheet of the April press. SYA member and Tasmanian AUS 3 The selection of University entrants institutions of so-called Icaniing, kept 28 education mobUisation and to consid­ Regional' Organiser Anthony Forward such that equal opportunity of or all perpctuaUy busy (ie the present semes­ er future action. The expressed intention spoke of the Trotskyists' record of socio-economic groups to obtain a ter at this university); for to keep of the Federal Government to further support for an active and democratic tertiary education is thwarted. students busy is to keep them from limit education spending made this con­ national student union. "We believe thaf 4 The encouragement of over- thinking." (A. MONSOUR) ference particularly important. anything less than a truly representative specialisation by our university depart­ Three pomts were emphasised by AUS union wUl be unable to defend the mental structure such that broad per­ To quote the author of "School is Education Vice President Craig Johnson interests of AustraUan students. The spectives of the direction and utiUty of an Dead, " E. Reimer, we have to cons'dcr in relation to April 28, in comparing it to violent methods used by the Maoist area of inquiry are lost. that our University is teaching "the value the September 30 action last year. Students for AustraUan Independence 5 The worth of the present semester of chUdhood, the value of competing for Firstly, because of the widespread has no place in AUS and should be system as it is now being appUed. the life prizes offered in school and the support for last year's action, AUS has opposed as an attack on the Union." value of being taught-not learning for come in for a massive slander campaign HiglUifihts of the conference also one's self-what is good and what is by the Federal Government and the con­ included a panel discussion on Malaysian true." servative press (with the help of their students presented by Malaysians Goh student supporters) who want to diminish Siong Hoe, Allan Pinjen and Peter Boyle. the opposition to this reduction in welfare spending. Secondly, while Sep­ ALP students support AUS tember 30 followed massive trade union democracy opposition to Fraser's economic policies, The inaugural national Conference of this year has seen an acquiescence by the ALP Students drew 60 participants from ACTU leadership. On top of this some 16 campuses. ALP member and leader sections of the union, in particular of the anti-AUS "Coalition to Reform National U, did Uttle to inform students AUS" Michael Danby came under con­ of the state of education spending and siderable fire at the conference. Danby the Union's policies. These three has attempted to draw campus ALP combined to make the national class clubs into the attack on the Union. boycott less widespread than last Sep­ Speaking at the opening of the con­ tember. Nevertheless, that 8000 students ference South Australian Attorney- demonstrated was a major rebuff to General Peter Duncan warned dele­ Fraser's continued attacks on education. gates of the threat to AUS. The It was also pointed out that AUS has Courier-MaU quoted him as foUows: never run a major campaign in first semester-this showed that the union has Duncan "told the National conference to be better prepared to take the policies of Labor Party students that Australia it adopts at its annual January CouncU was entering a period of Right-wing back to campuses as soon as the study reaction, and attacks on the Australian year commences in February or March. Union of Students was part of a larger campaign. There was virtually unanimous agree­ "He said the campaign by neo- ment among the 150 or so registrants at conservatives was aimed at destroying the the conference that the first priority for union movement as weU as other pro­ AUS in the coming months is to oppose gressive organisations.... any cuts in education spending in the " 'I beUeve you have every right to August Federal Budget. Central to this' involve yoiirselves in the political process: will be for students on each campus to To support whatever national liberation look at how the cuts have already affect­ front that you have democraticaUy ed particular areas and courses on their decided to support: To bring out Arab campus. PreUminary reports indicate that nationalists to put their side of the education spending along with aU areas of Middle East question, ifyou so choose.' " social spendmg wiU be cut in the Budget. The conference also condemned the The conference caUed for a national post-' "direct elections" campaign, with one" Budget mobUisation if this occurs. motion stating that the conference "condemns those persons who tied the Socialist Youth Alliance conference ALP name to the campaign for 'direct The Socialist Youth AUiance seventh election' in an attempt to le^timise their national conference was attended by 150 ciaims." delegates and observers from 20 campuses Tlie conference elected Flinden Uni­ in aU States as weU as menibers from 17. versity student Jeff Richards as national trade unions. The two m^or campaigns convenor and plans a second conference adopted by the conference were the next May. *^«JI«E.Ii-SlTV defence of AUS and the expansion of the Further information on resolutions Right to Work Campaign., and motions of these three conferences In delivering the Student Movement can be obtained from: AUS Queensland Report, Queensland AUS Regional Orga­ Regional Organiser Peter Annear; Uni­ niser Peter Annear described the anti- versity of Queensland SYA Club Presi­ CHOICE IS OURS AUS campaign as "an attempt by con­ dent Richard Wilson and UQ ALP Club servative forces to silence popular student Secretary Keith Horsely; all care of the opposition to the Federal education There are many aspects of education biUty for our own learning program. UQ Union, phone 371 1611. spending cuts." Annear said that while which are concerning students in post- Tiiese issues cannot here be discussed at' secondary mstitutions particularly at the length, .covering aU aspects-but the practical work, tutorial or seminar, oral negotiated on an individual basis, moment. WhUe I shaU delineate these choice component is vital in each, and dependent on variables siich as couise, areas, I believe they faU into a common students must begin demanding the discussion, workshops-or anythmg. But students, who prefer one mad hassle at number and type of subjects, type of concem, which is, the basic issue of stu­ choice. evaluation. dent rights. In discussing education, as In the present situation, students, 'the end of semester, instead of continu­ al assessable work, should have< that On one tramee teacher campus, relating to trainee teacher institutions, usuaUy, are told at the beginning of monitoring committees consisting of several themes recur continuaUy-compul- couises what content matter they wiU be choice. "Chofce should be ours" "equal numbers of lecturers and students, sion, irrelevance, frustration. We need to covering, how they wiU be lectured to have been instituted to continually moni­ consider the system of education m two and/or worked with, what assessment Each of us "learns" in different tor existmg couises and subjects, and ways-with a view to survival in the procedures wUI be used. If we accept that situations so that a variety of experiences propose definite changes for .the imme­ present, and change for the future. assessment other than self-evaluation is should be presented, from which w^ diate and removed future. Students valid (and I do not) then we must decide may chose ones we most relate to. Mass may convene meetings of monitoring Freedom and responsibilities which form is most relevant for us. lectures, individual study, group work, committees, and effect change, as a Assessment, or evaluation, semester­ workshop or experimental leaming are aU consequence of discussion and inter­ isation, coutse content, work-load, lectur­ Progressive assessment vaUd learning' methods, along with action, and sometimes bombardment. numerous others. The choice should be ing procedures, class or group sizes, and For those of us who dismtegrate in All of this faUs back again to student ours, mdividuaUy or as a group. funding, particulariy the bojd with the examination situation, obviously riglits, and we as responsible individuals trainee teachers, all relate to our right to progressive evaluation wUl be preferable, Work-load is obviously closely relat- exercising our right to choose. choose and freedom to take responsi­ whether in the guise of assessment or c ed to aU the preceding, and must be BULLIES IN A SANDPIT Big Tune Sand Shovelling Threatens Moreton fs.

After a protracted battle between Local and State government and conservation groups the future use of Moreton Island will soon be known. KERRY DAVIES, coeditor of the recently released QCC book The Future of Moreton /s/anc^ discusses the history of the issue and argues that the island should become a national park.

Moreton Island is vital to the people of Zoned 60 per cent mining Brisbane as part of a spectrum of open The proposed Brisbane town plan space areas ranging from urban parks to went on pubUc display in February 1975 v.>- wilderness. In its proximity to large showing 60 per cent of Moreton Island urban areas and its undistuibed condition zoned extractive industry. In March 1975 it is unique in Australia the Premier was reported by the ABC as saying that he was powerless to prevent Its future management and use can sandmining on Moreton Island. f a-*: ?- best be considered in terms of its value as a large wUderness area for which there is When over 5000 objections to the no alternative. zoning were lodged by the Brisbane public, cabinet decided lo appoint an The findings and recommendations independent body to carry out an En­ of the commissioners of the Moreton vironmental Impact Study and strategic 'Degraded' dunes undergoing natural stabilisation process despite the activities offerrol animah. Island Environmental Inquiry, whose plan covering all levels of development of Should they be mined? report has been in the hands of the the island. State Govemment since December 1976 plexity is intrpducea into land tenure must be released in the immediate future. In August 1975, Brisbane City Council strategy B allows for commercial activi­ Aldermen, in one of their rare forays into ties in certain locations, that is, about considerations by a lack of unseistanding There has been no pubUc disclosure of "Town Planning" voted unanimously to 7 per cent sandmining. of an environmental park and the role either the findings of the inquiry or change the extractive industiy zonmg to that zoniiig provisions for national parks Cabinet's ultimate decision. open space, ie parkland. Stanton's report can play. Proposals for fire management threaten the island's ecosystem with more History of passing the buck Peter Stanton states in his report that The Inquiry "proposals for mining operations under harm from attendant roads and tracks The Moreton Island land use issue preferred strategy B are based on assump­ than is likely to ensue from a continua­ started way back in 1948 when Tanga­ From,.here state Govemment com­ tions which caniiot be substantiated con­ tion of present {naturall conditions. looma Minerals appUed for a number of missioned Heath and Partners to carry cerning ferral animal damage and the "An optimum strategy is proposed small mineral sands leases. These were the out the environmental impact study and extent of catchment areas. If mining is under which the island will continue as a first of many leases which would eventu­ announced, the appomtment of a com­ to proceed it is not possible'to guarantee largely undeveloped area with no mining ally cover 60 per cent of the island. mission of inquiry in June 1976. The inquiry heard submissions from a number the safety of some of the most important and few roads and a contmuation of FoUowing a report of the committee environmental values of the Island. In present difficult access. Vehicle access set up by Cabmet in August 1970 to of groups including the Queensland Conservation CouncU and the Brisbane general, the case for mining rests on the would be aUowed along east coast assess future areas of sandmining acti­ unproven assertion that much of the intertidal zones and a minimal road net­ vity, the State Govemment suggested that City CouncU, who happened to have the same environmental consultant, Mr coastal country south of Cape Moreton is work. Concentration of faclUty develop­ Moreton Island be transferred to the 'degraded.' ment along selected parts of the coast RedcUffe local authority. It seems that Peter Stanton. "In opposition to the assertion there would aUow maximum recreational use the RedcUffe authorities had some The QCC's submission from Petei without destroying the island's value for premonition of the problems Moreton Stanton is pubUshed in total in theit is much evidence from the morphology and vegetation patterns that coastal dune wilderness recreation, whilst aUowing for Island might create and so objected and recent book "The Future of Moreton most efficient supervision and manage­ the matter was dropped. Island." This report offers comment on instabiUty has been a long continuing process predating the introduction of ment." In September 1974 Moreton Island the basic strategies outiined in the Heath ferral animals and that natural stabilisa­ was transferred to the Brisbane city and Partners impact study. QCC's book "TTie Future of Moreton tion processes have occurred in spite of councU on the recommendation of the The Heath report has as its primary Island" In which Stanton's report the activities of these animals. local Govemment Minister (Mr . objective the maintenance of the island appears, is available from the QCC, McKenzie). as almost whoUy natural landscape, whUe "In both strategies unnecessary com­ 147 Ann Street, Brisbane.

Creek, and were told later that part of the Range a national park. The area, lying as area had already been clearfeUed. it does in the north coast hinterland, IT'S A FROG'S LIFE Since that tune, there were numerous behind the growing tourist centres of proposals submitted to the Government, Noosa Heads, Alexandra Heads and aU of which were rewarded with the Maroochedore, could become the Platypus Frog Bashing in Cononda/e Rangesston y sUence we have come to expect Lamington Plateau of the near north from the Govemment on these issues. The Qld Conservstion Council warns that if woodchipping is allowed in coast. The important thing about this issue is The area serves as part of the catch­ the Conondale Range a unique species of frog may be in danger. MARK that the people of the area, recognising ment areas for the Mary and Stanley HAYES looks into woodchipping and the "platypus frog." the immense tourist potential to be rivets, sources of water suppUes for derived from the retention of the area in Brisljane and Gympie, and irrespon­ The Platypus frog Is a rather innocu­ its natural state, far in excess of revenue sible management of the area could derived from forestry, are at the fore­ ous creature, about six or seven cm long, who. has, IncidentaUy refused to issue a jeopardise these water sources. The front of the growing movement to black on the bade, speckled brown on statement to Gamut on the woodchip existance in the area of a smaU goldmin- the sides and ^ite on the belly. It lives issue for the past two months, despite ing lease, with four holduig ponds fuU of in the creeks of the Conondale Range, repeated caUs for such a statement, the sodium cyanide, is a cause for concem. north-west of Brisbane, and is regarded future for a national park in tiie Conon­ Though the poison would not get Into the as being quite unique in the world. It dale Range area looks grim. watershed destined for Brisbane, any has only been known to man having The platypus frog is unique because It overflow from these pools would cause massive destruction of wUdUfe over the been discovered in 1973, for a short is the only vertebrate which takes its entire area. time, and is a most difficult frog to find, young into its stomach when they are tadpoles, and expells them out' some prefening to hide under lo^ and the Last weekend, conservationists caUed weeks later, as small frogs. The digestive on the State Govemment to declare banks of the almost inaccessable creeks processes are apparentiy suspended for 30,800 ha of the area as a national park. of the Conondale Range. the duration'of the growth period, the A short booklet.'The Conondale Range" It could become the centre of a poUti­ mother frog Uving on food stored in the was launched, and members of the media cal storm as a ms^ot issue in the forth­ lower Intestine. The Conondale Range is were invited to crowd around a fish bowl' coming State Election. The Queensland also home to the rare Marsupial frog, with eight platypus frogs huddUng wlthUi, State Govemment seems set on including which has smaU pouches along the side trying to hide from the glare of the TV Conondale Ranges in its intensive forestry of its body for storing young whUe they Ughts. One of the discoverers of the frog, program, which involves the clear-felling develop. Both these species are threaten­ Glen Ingram, curator of Amphibia at of the relatively untouched natiural ed if the State Govenunent stonewalls the Queensland Museum, was on hadn to forrest, and the replanting of Oie area .on the Conondale Range issue.. , . coax his charges into posing for the press. • with monoculture of Hoop pine. The people, of the area were the Jirat They floated In their'pool stoicaUy » The. entke area of the Conondale to call on ;the .Goyemment to^ set ,up, a - ignOrhig the attention of the' cameras, no ? Riange, wmt" Hhe ''spi^' exceptldn of a nation^ paric. in ..t|^^ area,, in 19^6i,.:and, "';^, doubt .'wishing they were home in their ; token ntftibijal. iiai^''bh the Eiiteni'edge .smce .that,,tim^, .th|^^."C^veipnjgijt.v.and, ;'inb^'fain^pools, an^d streams.. Put th^y ^of thcar^",' is'piz^tted'as astate forest, {FojcsttyFojcstty, b,»/u[;e;|i}cracy7hfjvebitte^ijciacy, hfiv*f shelved'; cyen|.cyen|.;; j . • i.,,. .»i.^, .„:.^ .^icdiil^ be destined' for feveii' metre atteh^ I which has felt the forester's saw and' fixe I modes' t" plans' ' fbr sraaUl'parlcs'ib• f- 'mo','>•- ! Pl^Wu'Jtop^nfiJHpsal^o^lV^^Platypus i [ ,tlbii as the Stiite Govemment denles.their \ for many yeats. With State Government idreS: .: • "-••":. r'iVt fj],^-^ .; •''?;';!•t glaretgfareofmedralU^k ofmedii ' '; iriiportance as unique hihabitointsorone I approval the sawmUlcrs woodchips propo- nor to this, In 1972, the conservation of the most important natural areas of I sal for taking sawmUl waste from the icaUed on the Govemment to. establish' 'movement submitted a proposal for a the world, regarded as just as vital to be

the Minister for Forestiy, Mr Tomkhis, detailed research on wUdlffe hi the area, ^declare a masslve^area of Uie Conondale Island by scientists In AustraUa. ' have to plan for a different sort of future. I don't think that it is going to be - the sort of future that wUl be very uncomfortable for people. It wiU be different. I think that it wUI be a future with TIME10CHCX>SE less in the way of luxuries. I don't think that people wUl have the option of hav­ ing a huge motor car . ... These are the Hopefw the future sort of things that Carter is recommend­ ing. Insulating your houses. Insulation MARK HAYES interviews noted biologist Charles Birch on energy and the saves an enormous cost in heating, even future. in cities lUce Melboume ... That increases the initial cost of buUding the house, but it would save on the resources of the Professor Charies Birch is the Challis Professor of Biology at Sydney University. Earth. I don't think these things are going In late 1975, he wrote a book entitled "Confronting the Future" (Penguin 1975), to be great hardships on people, but it which suggested that Australia was in a uiUque position to lead the way in the worid in wUl mean less in the way of luxuries, and butiating a just and sustainable ecological and economic order. Tlie book has gone in the long run, I'd say in order that the into its second printing, having sold over 15,000 copies. Professor Birch has studied poor people of the world wiU have some oveiseas in En^and, BrazU, and the United States. He is a member of the Club of share in the riches of the worid. Rome, and is active in the Worid Council of Churches. That is what it wUl mean in the long GregAdamaon run, 1 think. lems. The second said that we should Hayes: Do you envisage that there reduce energy growth to about one third We're reaUy talking about ethics here, would be reaUy radical changes in the of the present, and that can be done aren't we? I'm aware of the philosopher style of Ufe of people in the Western largely by conservation, and reducing Ayn Rand, for example, and simUar world in the forthcoming decades? waste. The third one is to reduce energy people like her would argue that we have IRISH FEMINISTS HIT CENSORSHIP Birch: Oh, yes! There has to be. I to the pomt where there wUl not be any the right to use our energy, to use our don't think that there can be any doubt energy growth by the year 2000. Now, resources, to Uve an affluent life style The latest issue of "Banshee," publish­ about it. [US President] Mr Carter's President Carter has chosen the second and that our fulfUlment wiU come from ed by Irishwomen United, reports that speech about energy is an indication. I option. This is. very interesting. doing that. It b our right to do it, and The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir think that what Carter has done is that When the report came out a mere 18 virtuaUy damn the poor person. How do and Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae he has obviously said "We've got to months ago, most people laughed at it. you respond to these ethical things? Brown are banned in Ireland. Also the choose. . . !" 1 donLt know whether The economists said that it would be That is the phUosophy of . . . what's Project Arts Centre lost a grant because it you've read a book on energy poUcy in impractical. Now the president of the his name? That bloke digging up iron presented two playes about homosexuaU­ Uie United States, on various options, put United States has said that it has to be ore in Westem AustraUa?- ty, and the television series "Executive put by the Ford Foundation, caUed "A done. The people who are reaUy behind Lang Hancock. Suite" was withdrawn because it dealt Time to Choose." It says that there are are the economists of the world, be­ Year, that's the guy. He's said that the with abortion and lesbianism. three options. The first says that we can cause they are stUl planning for a 19th best way to help them is not to become Irishwomen United have begun a keep on going the way we are going now, century world. We are no longer in that one of them. If we all become rich, that campaign to overtum the ban imposed by doubUng energy use every 10 years, and world. There are some people in politics will wipe poverty off the face of the the Irish Censorship Board on the British yet come up with the most appalling who are startmg to realise that that sort Earth. It is aU very well to say that if feminist magazme "Spare Rib." limit, in which you wUl have real prob-- of world cannot continue to exist. We you are a rich person. WeU, these people are not facing the reaUties of the situation in the 1970s, They're Uving on a phUo­ DIVORCE IN COLUMBIA sophy which started capitaUsm off... in other words, Adam Smith and his notion Colombian authorities have granted WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY of capitaUsm as a system which turns the first divorce under a new law passed private vices of selfishness and egotism in 1976. The law appUes only to those into pubUc virtues ... it is not going to" married in civU ceremonies, a minority of FESTNAL do any good in the world in the 20th those married, and the grounds for di­ century. Partiy because, let's put it vorce are so extreme that it is stiU virtual­ For several years now the environmental movennent has been a significant political this way, the thing hasn't worked. I ly impossible to get one. think that it is pretty weU accepted now force in the Western World. We have seen a shift from unco-ordinated, locally based In Uie one divorce granted, the couple that there will have to be a "new econ­ action to the birth of international movements (Friends of the Earth and the anti- was married, according to one report, omic order" which wUl result in a greater ncuelar lobby! concerned with global issues. "for five years during which they had no productivity in the poor world, and that sexual relations since the woman refused In concert with this new global awareness of environmental issues the United wiU mean a lowering of the rate of to perform her 'duty.' Although they had Nations is promoting World Environment Day. The theme of this year's festival will be economic growth in the rich worid. "global interdependence in" the care and use of the earth's resources." such am obvious reason for gettuig a These Ayn Rand types are not happy divorce, they had to present witnesses In Queensland, Australia's first Environmental Festival will be held from June 3-5. types, you know. They are people that and fUe papers for almost a year." spend their time accumulating material DAY I (Friday June 31 KING GEORGE SbUARE-CHILD'S EfVIVIRONMENT goods, and find that there comes a point where satisfaction is no longer produced. Time Group Presentation RIGHT TO SUNSHINE All day Environmental Education Rainforest Ecologv slideshow, Chidlren's projects, You become unsatisfied with that sort of photographic displays, beekeeping. pursuit. There is another thing besides Sixty-two families of Moriguchi, Puppet Theatre: "Matt, the Ferral Cat" 1.15-1.45 National Parks & Wildlife the pursuit of material things, quaUty of Japan, took the Japan Expressway Pub­ All day Qld Govt Environment Beach protection, soil conservation, water & air pollution life. It is not only self-defeating, but also Control Council contro lic Corporation to court in 1971, chargmg defeats any sort of decent objectives that construction of the Hanshin Express­ that one might have for the misery of the way would deprive them of 30 per cent worid. of tiieir daUy sunshine. Finally, how do you think things have On March 29 of this year, the Osaka changed since "Confronting the Future" Summary Court ordered the corporation DAY I (Friday June 3) KING GEORGE SQUARE-CHILD'S ENVIRONMENT came out? What developments have you 10 pay "sunshine rights" compensation to seen? the plaintiffs. This was tiie first court Time Group Presentation WeU, when I wrote that, I was some­ All day Environmental Education Rainforest Ecology slideshow, Chidlren's projects, decision in such a lawsuit. photographic displays, beekeeping. what encouraged by some of the things that the Whitiam govemment was doing. 1.15-1.45 National Parks & Wildlife Puppet Theatre: "Matt, the Ferral Cat" All day Qld Govt Environment Beach protection, soil conservation, water & air pollution There was a lot there that was disappoint­ USA ON SELF-DETERMINATION Control Council control, national Parks & wildlife management and others ing, but there seemed to me to be a new way there. I was very disappointed when The United States has taken an "in­ INDOOROOPILLY SHOPPING TOWN the whole thing crashed to the ground. I transigent" stand in negotiating a new don't see any hope at aU fo pursuing any Canal Zone treaty, Panama's chief nego­ Noon Campaign Against Nuclear Power vs Uranium Producers Forum-Uranium debate sort of future with the present Liberal tiator, Romulo Escobar Betancourt, told government simply because it doesn't United Press International on AprU 28. DAY 2 (Saturday June 4) KING GEORGE SQUARE-TECHNOLOGY & ECO-DEVELOPMENTS have any poUcy about the future, it is However, Escobar said the main strumbl- only concemed with maintaining the 8-12.30 Mt Gravatt CAE Model houses displaying a solar oven. Solar barbecue, ing block had been overcome with United steam generators, wind generators, a ntethane gas digester, present sUuation and not thinking ahead States agreement to withdraw aU its a solar operated mono rail, and othen. at aU. There is no poUcy on science and troops from the canal by the yeai" 2000. All day Natural Pest Control Display of natural control techniques technology. All day Agriculture, UQ Casava as a harvester of solar energy-evaluation of the Where 1 see hope is that there is a potential of this crop in Queensland greater awareness among ordinary Aus­ CARTER BOOSTS ENERGY PROFITS All day Qld Solar Systems Various displays and llbereture traUans that some of these problems Various displays and Uterature All day Qld Conservation Council and that the time has come where Nahiral gas companies in the United 12 noon Jenny Noard "Getting got at" nutrition discussion Film showings including "Brisbane Needs Moreton" 28 mm color perhaps they could be concentiated in States wUl net about $1 biUion a year in All day some sort of focus, not through some 9am-5pm Pyramid Research Group Two-day seminar ombraclnfl pyramid experlmente, Kirlian added revenues under President Carter's RELAXATION CENTRE, photography, dowskini radlesthasia, bio-feedback, body poUtical party, but some ground swell. energy program, an administration FORTITUDE VALLEY fields I'm not pessimistic about things, though I official announced late last month. don't see aiiy tremendously encouraging LesUe Goldman, who is drafting DAY 3 (Sunday June 5) KING GEORGE SQUARE-FOLK FESTIVAL advances. I think that we have to go Carter's natural gas legislation, said the beyond govemments. increase would result from raising federal 2.06 Old Folk Fedaraiion The Wayfarers The people's right to decide, virtually. price ceilings on both intrastate and Hilltop Holdout Blue Gran Band And the people have to lobby,' more, RtdoKk Bush Band interstate gas sales. The president's plan ft othtr folk vthti and change govemments and elect.leaden would aUow natural pi prices to rite 7.30 ' SCHONEU. THEATRC "FantittleHantr that would do thinp, not only .if they about 20..per cent above thdr .current thouiht they had ,thc suppwt'of tht 9.00im UQ "Tht Man Who FtK to Evih" • leird. tlor Any Drop to Drkik" Fin: il.46pm people. There are soma tooi oani Not cmybody is twd. Thty're not aB t» btd aiMrPmcr. 1

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"The whole community has a very wide range of skiUs, and there are a lot of people who are more than ready to share their skUls ;iEMO'KOSIsiH;ilvvfotktHll with the rest of the community." igj;„(;nnvijm :iiul oxlrattii Real estate agents have advised how best to seU land; bush cooks, retired from 'IMJ NOSIAKilA r the droving traU, have told their secrets jitui mow I to "Bush Telegraph" readers; surfers, fishermen, motor mechanics and solar ON energy scientists have all written tiieii own material for the paper. SALE NOW "We ,don't want to be predictable. Each issue sort of changes a bit." Gerald explained, leaning over a copy of the paper and pointing out examples of different styles of page design. "We're trying to evolve a style at the moment. You evolve a style by workuig on with BUSH TELEGRAPH your thmg, and you look back and see what you like out of the best things you've done. Then you start evolving REBORN An Interview with the Editor from that." Going national MARK D. HAYES was down at Bangalow last week at a homestead called Eureka. In AprU this year, the "Bush Tele­ Amongst the emerald green fields Mark talked with GERALD FRAPE, editor of the new national weekly graph" went national. After considerable The Bush Telegraph. hassUng with Gordon and Gotch, tine paper became avaUable on newsstands Long before the Wlilte settlers arrived in Australia, the Aboriginal peoples used an effective communication throughout Australia. The response has been very encouraging. network to keep in contact over the country. The invaders called this a "bush telegraph." As the tribal society "I went down to Sydney with three died out, so did the "bush telegraph." other blokes, and we pestered heU out of Now, the "Bush Telegraph" is being reborn, in the shape of a monthly magazine coming from the small Gordon and Gotch for five days. We northern New South Wales town of Bangalow. The editor is Gerald Frape, a joumaUst who once worked in the drove them mad," Gerald said, recalUng city, but who now lives in a house in the middle of an emerald green paddock at a place called Eureka, near the experience with reUsh. "We had Lismore. phone calls coming in from aU over sides by vivid green fields deep in rich thing going, everyone was depressed, Sydney for them saymg 'Rim out "Don't ask 'What are you on about?,' grass punctuated by occasional brown busmesses were depressed. Anyway, we here, run out there.' We went in and just read the paper, and see what we are dairy cows, the sea shimmering on the went to Sydney and tried to interest hassled the circulation manager. He ' on about," Gerald said. "It is a paper that horizon, it is not hard to see why so people there, but they said it wovUdn't said 'The first one doesn't matter, it's many people are coming to the area to work. We thought it would, so we went we, a bunch of people working in the the second issue that matters." We said live. Gerald's wife made rosehip tea, and back, and did a dummy of the paper. medium of a magazine, are using to 'Uke heU it does, and if you do that we sat on the verandah, surrounded by Then we went around to businessmen in we're going to sue you.' We put on a big ' attempt to express what is going on potted plants and creepers, discussing the the area and sold ouiselves to them. act. We invited them to parties and around us," he said. history of the paper. We'd never sold ads before, and they launchings and got drunk with a guy and The idea came to Gerald 18 months "Look," he said, "it's fairly counter- didn't know us, but they bought $4000 told him straight out what we'd been ago, when he came to Northern New cultural, it's fairly surfing, it's fairly worth. The first edition appeared in hearing about Gordon and Gotch. It was South Wales researchmg a book on an mral, it's fairiy progressive, it's fairiy October 1976." a big psychological exercise, to psych old swagman he knew in the area. this, it's fairly that. You should not try them and the agents up." "I met another journalist up here. He and conceptualise it and see it for what it We were away The psych job worked. The initial said to me 'Have you ever thought of is. I'm pretty on to people about this People were given the paper free for print run for the first national edition doing.a regional paper up there?' 1 said because I'm very aware about how the the first two editions, and then were was 18,000 copies, 10,000 of which 'No, I've just got here, but it seems like media is able to slot things into cate­ charged.40 cents forit. "We thought that were for the northern New South Wales a good idea.' We must have thought about gories, and once they've got you into a if we were going to estabUsh this thing, area."A week later, they printed another it for six months or so. We went out and category, they then dismiss you. Each we're not going to estabUsh it by charging 4O0O copies and just days later, another asked people what they thought about it, issue we've surprised people by not for it first off. We deliberately went out 4000. Gordon and Gotch reported that, and most people seemed to Uke the idea. being what they thought we would be. and gave it to aU different groups oi after only a week on the riewsstands, the A couple of people I knew, an artist from The biggest thmg that they thought we people to see what their reaction would edition had sold over 40 per cent of its Melboume, Jeanette Rialton, and a were going to be around here was that we be. By the time of the second edition we stock. Sydney photographer, Lee Pearce, came were going to be some hippy, counter- were getting close with the money "Where we go now in terms of circula­ up, liked the idea and decided tp stay cultural magazine." situation, so we decided to seU it. tion is only up," Gerald said. and work on it. That is how it came "It was another six months or more Surprisingly, ui this area, the same The second national edition came out together," Gerald explained. before we really got into it after deciding number of people" who were picking it up last week, and the "Bush Telegraph" to start the paper because we had this were buying it. We were away." seems close to repeating the success of Not hippy incredible six months wet season," Though he was a professional journal­ the first national edition. The "Bush Sitting in his simply fumished house Gerald explained. "It rained every other ist in Melboume for almost 10 years, Telegraph" of the Aborigines has been on the top of a rise, sunounded on aU day, poured. We didn't seem to get any­ Gerald Frape beUeves that almost anyone reborn for the seventies. FREE PIZZAS! QUAUTY P^cfficiMm One free pizza for every four 8f)M lit your exposed }26,110 or 35 min Color or Black and mile itim for processing at regulir prices. When foa pick up your proceised you buy if you dine beihveen film wc wilt feptaceilwithi FacHie Color Print lllm Tues - Thurs ater 7 p.m. at Happy coats, happy panto, caftuis, at no extra cost wrap-around skirls, batik, Qiiheae, and Indian clothes for him ud her, at our Orioiial Buaar, at QOOOOOO O OO 0 0 Peppe's 393 George St, Brisbane Q ooo o Oo oooo ol 10% Student Discount fritchatds • a fair dinkum Mom Hire IMB Selectric 895 Pizzeria and Dad store ph. 221 3330 Dual Pitch corrector & manual typewriters

OPEN S PM -1 AM TUES*- SUN Munro's Typewri^r Agency 62 St Pauls Terrace, City Hawken Dve, St Lucia Village Phone 221 7855 ph. 371 5348 (take-aways) before. Soft beds and whole hot cross buns were more than enough compensa­ tion. We had arrived. And then it was time to come home ^/^nfS^-w.,^ again. Waving madly goodbye to Henri­ etta, the mad chook, we fought fiolently for the window seat. The dog, who has to watch her blood pressure, decided that this constant bickering was not at all good for her health and conveniently solved the dispute by claiming the seat for herself. I midht add that this decision was not popular with the driver, who suddenly discovered the back of his neck being bitten each time he exceeded the speedlimit, for the remainder of the journey. Rhubarb, the cow, was sorry to see us leave. No longer would she have the benefit of a chee-squad during her morn­ ing milking. Charlotte, who masquerades as a guinea pig, was, on the other hand, delighted to see what she hopes will be the last she will ever see of us. Her con­ siderable patience with the human race was fast being eroded by the fact that she had to eat chocolate Confessions of o Compulsiue Essay Ulriter Easter eggs for breakfast, two mornings in a row. April, the year old calf, could not have cared less whether we stayed or not. We explained to her at some length that or the feeling was mutual. Finally, we left. By this time, it was MV Holiday lu^pom^ksw^e^ap^ie. just a few minutes after six o'clock on Monday morning. Ten minutes past Miss Pickle was her name. Teaching insurmountable. I am glad to say that I the freezing, howling wind, which turned nine, to be precise. You must understand was her game. And nobody knew the have now ridden myself of the last traces my damp jeans to ice against my numb, that it takes a long time to say goodbye game (ike Miss Pickle. It was none other of this evil woman's ways, and am never blue tegs. Rather poetic, really. We did in the Australian outback. Especially If than she who introduced me to all the again likely to tell even my best friend not continue to sprout poetry, however, the path from the front door to the gate secret delights that shaping my s's like about my holiday. when we discovered, to our dismay, that passes by a goldfish pond. Each goldfish meathocks could bring. And who taught Why^do I feel this strange compul­ the hot cross buns which had been so must then be discussed individually, at me that Dick was the boy, Dora was the sion? Why do I want to tell my English carefully transported to our place of rest length. Choice specimens must, also be girl, and Nip and Fluff were the dog tutor about what I did on the Easter the night before, were the favorite food caught as a souvenir of the happy visit, and cat; cat being spelt c .. a . . t. Why, holidays, when I know only too well of the ants in the immediate vicinity. And and placed in plastic glad gabs for trans­ .Miss Pickle, of course. This selfless that he couldn't care less? Could it be for miles around, for that matter. portation to the home tank. All this •paragon devoted her entire life to making that Miss Pickle sfiK exerts some magical Let us move quickly along to the Fri­ having, been accomplished in the near absolutely certain that our scrupulously force over my mind? I can't help myself. day afternoon, after our mildly record time of three hours and ten clean fingernails hung motionless at our Miss Pickle, I will hate you forever. unsucessful (Miss Pickle never did teach minutes, we set off. sides, whilst she played the God save the My holiday started on Thursday me how to spell that word) attempt at Monday was an interesting day. Queen record on the ancient record moming (because being an Arts student, pioneering in the early hours of the Fortunately, it was only 24 hours long. player. And woe betide the poor I don't have any lectures after Wednesday moming. After a sumptious feast for .The interest lay" in the competition unfortunate whose handkerchief was npt afternoon). We got into the car and drove lunch, consisting of ants, hot cross bun which we were forced to invent to while folded neatly in her pocket. Miss Pickle and then drove and then drove some scraps, which had been well burnt over an away the travelling time. Who would prided herself on her well-behaved class. more. So much for Thursday. open fire, and some more ants; for die of boredom first? Bets were laid, and Among other things. On Friday morning, we woke refresh­ dessert, you understand; we resumed our competition was fierce. The dog lost. Every student ih Miss Pickle's class ed. Or as refreshed as you can be after previous positions in the car, looking Home, sweet home. Unloading the loved the holidays. Speaking without a sleepless night in the bush. My forward to a stimulating drive. It would smelly clothes took first priority. Then being spoken to, grubby fingernails and insomariia wasn't the problem, so much be an understatement to say that we were came the sleeping part. Glorious sleep. unshiny shoes. Pure bliss. But like all as the soggy mosquitos which would sorely disappointed. After driving, driving The adventuresome ordeal had come to good things, holidays too finally came to insist on landing on the extreme tip of and driving some more, which seemed to an end. Our holiday was over. Cheers, a reluctant end. Which meant the begin­ my nose. Of course, the air mattress that have been our predominant occupation muffled though they might have been, ning of Miss Pickle. And her special would not inflate because the rubber so far, we arrived at (Miss Pickle taught emerged from behind the closed bedroom torture methods which she used unspar­ around the plugholes had perished hardly me never to say "got to") our destina­ doors, as weary boddies were lowered ingly at the commencement of each new deserves a mention. So I won't. Mention tion. Our cousin's property boasted all into the paradise of inner-spring term. it, .1 mean. Where was I? Oh yes. The the comforts of our far distant home. mattresses, Ahhh ... "Attention class ... Thank you. Sit up refreshing Friday morning. Please note Well, almost. What did we care if the Next year, we're going again. Maybe straight, Johnathon. Now, we are all that I do not tell a lie when I say re­ water was the color of mud, and the though by then I will not feel compelled going to write a little story about what freshing. For how else could I describe flies as thick as the mosquitos the night to tell a soul. Miss Pickle will be cross. we did during the holidays." "But..." "No buts. I don't care if you stayed at home all day and watched television. You can just make something up." And so began one of the worst tortures ever divised by Western society. The Chinese would probably never have lawnted water torture tf Miss Pickle had taken the trouble to write them a letter in her scholarly hand, explaining that she had evolved a far superior method of driving human beings out of their minds. "What I did in my holidays"; the trial of pvery single primary school child in the world today. Somehow, word of Miss PicWe's amazing technique leaked to other school teachers with similar moral principles, and now the post holiday essay has become almost a national institution, of almost the same gigantic proportions as the vegimite sandwich, commonly found in Tupper- ware lunchboxes to this very day. Thank­ fully, Miss Pickle's Influence was not Gamut will make half a page df arts available for literary contrlbutions'for all students, Selection for publishing: however virill remain at the editors' discretion. n R Suspeit Rrgument

"URANIUM ON TRIAL" you can get it anywhere, and I'd still .Stuart Butler, Robert Raymond, Charles recommend Walt Patterson's "Nuclear ' Watson-Munro Power" on this score. This book is, Horwitz Book Group, Sydney 1977 however, perhaps a Uttle more readable than some. The diagrams are useful and ITELLVW,GWEH In the last year or so at least half a do clarify some of the processes which IHEARCOUNTW dozen books have come over my desk on MUSIC... are a little complex if left to words the topic of nuclear power and uranium alone. mining. Some have been rubbish, simply However, some of their material, on rushed onto the market to satisfy a public the reasons why we should mine uranium, demand for information on the issue but as seen from the Third World at any really only slick PR efforts for one side rate, is very suspect. Nuclear power is or the other. My own position aside not the most appropriate energy source (which is, by the way, one of unequivo­ for underdeveloped nations, and the cal objection tb the mining and export examples to date-Brazil, India, South of uranium) 1 am repelled by trash from Korea, Taiwan and Argentina, clearly whatever side. indicate that Nukes in the Third Worid This book, however, should raise only serve to exaccerbate poverty, elites, some problems for those who think that denial of human riglits and balance of most people in favor of uraniuni mining trade problems that beset these nations. are money-hungry capitalists out to make Also, a number of nations have diverted a fast buck from their dealing in death. nuclear material from their power Whether we like it or not, there are some rcactonJ and made bombs, and are pre­ people on the pro-mining side of the pared to use their new toys for their camp who arc sincere, concerned and own ends. who have come to conclusions about the In conclusion, this book is a con­ issue which arc different from the one servative examination of'a controversial lhat we have made. issue. It covers the issue, and the argu­ Here are three such people. One ments considered within, both pro and should get suspicious when a book is con, in an admirable way but comes to a launched by Doug Anthony, as this one conclusion which is by no means easily was, but after reading it, I have changed justifiable or defencible when the full my initial opinion. I still do not agree issue is objectively considered. 1 do not with them, but at least I am satisfied that recommend this book for these reasons, they arc not, at least overtly, being used and suggest the aforementioned Patter­ by the Uranium Producers Forum to son book, together with the recent FOE further that pack of gangsters' sinister book "Red Liglit on Yellowcake" as a nusTRflim 1972 ends. better buy than this book. The technical information is basic; Mark D. Hayes

"HARD AGAIN "THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROAD­ "MAGIC MOMENTS" Muddy Waters WAY" "PETER GABRIEL" CBSSB234957 Small Paces Genesis Immediate Records L 36002 Charisma 6369978 Charisma 6641-226 Gabriel's first work since Lamb Lies For followers of the mod era of the Down is something that has been im­ The Chess label outlived its heyday, You listen to Genesis on this '74 mid-'60s, this is a good but less than patiently awaited for a long while. It is as did a lot of other independent lables. double albuni and you are almost prepar­ perfect collection. It includes four an album called simply Peter Gabriel. When the label was resold last year, ed to believe that you have Io get in to memorable tunes; "Itchycoo Park," The production is handled by Bob Muddy Waters ended the association get out. In terms of rock n' roll, which is "Lazy Sunday," "Afterglow (Of Your Ezrin of Rock n' Roll Animal and which had lasted since the beginning of at best a momentary phenomena, this is a Love)," and "Tin Soldier." But where are Berlin fame, who reportedly handled all Chess back in 1947. moment to savuor. "Sha La La La Lee," "Whatcha Gonna the recording side of it. Considering Com.: . 977, and a 62 year old Muddy, Of courst, this was the best selling and Do About It," "My Mind's Eye" and Gabriel's solidly British rock background soudin,! iiUl and tired, was picked up by biggest selhng Genesis album. It was the "All Or Nothing"? WcU, unfortunately, it is strange that this album should be one .lounny Winter, the white blues one that signalled their big success story, the Small Faces were signed to a different recorded in Toronto using Amerikan wizard. The result-Hard Again-a re­ but it was also the one that Peter Gabriel label (Decca) when those hits were session players. It is none the less strange juvenated Muddy and a thundering band. left after. No more do Genesis feature released. 1 understand Decca are planning that Robert Fripp should appear next to The album opens in great fashion with Gabriel's distinctive vocals, "eno.'isified" a similar best of the Small Faces compila­ Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner or that the Mannish Boy, Muddy shouting the on this album, or his lilting flute. The tion. Both have been prompted by the latter two persons should feature on an lyrics over loud guitar (Johnny Winter), entire albuni was steeped in apocalyptic success of the re-release of "Itchycoo album with the London Symphony Wailing harp (James Cotton) and a thud­ mythology and surrealist metaphors; it is Park" last year and the reformation of Orchestra. The Orchestra introduce Down ding back beat. Blues is full of sexual a morality play lyrically and musically the band after the collapse of Steve Dolce Vita on side two rather statements and this is no exception. complex. Marriott's Humble Pie and lan MacLagan [exhuberantly. However don't get the idea that sexual and Kenney Jones' Faces. Only 'Ronnie Thematically the album is a step away expression in blues is restricted to men Lane is missing, preferring to continue from the cosmic evangalism of Genesis only. From 1935 we have these classic with his band Slim Chance. but only a step. The pessimism of an lines from one Lucille Bogan; Most of the remaining material on impending apocalypse dominates the "I got nipples on my titties, big as my "Magic Moments" is of interest certainly albuni. This is assisted by Exrin, who thumb, (eg, "Wham Bam Thank You Mam," cuts all the complexities out of the "I got something 'tween my legs '11 music, so that unlike Genesis material make a dead man come." "My Way of Giving," "The Universal") and for that the set is no doubt a valuable this is a slnctly dramatic album. But that's really an aside. The eyes on the inside cover, looking Back to Muddy. The album features one. But I cannot help feeling that Immediate and Decca should have collab­ metallically glazed and somewhat remini­ new tracks, a couple of modifications of scent of Bowie in Man Who Fell to old themes and one straight remake. I orated on one integrated album. That would have been one hell of a record. Garth, set the tone of the album, which Can't Be Satisfied was one that Muddy though not hopeful isn't a downer. recorded for the Library of Congress, in The typically inward looking British 1941. The album overall is heavy, in fact rock thing is here contrasted with the I found it too much to play straight American session men, who are more or through. There are a couple of light less Ezrin's houseband and adorn numer­ tracks but tjiey don't break it up enough. ous other albums he's worked on. But who cares, tracks such as Mannish Boy are classics. It's time these young Gabriel's whole trip is innovation, and rockers were pushed off their pedestals. he is part of that select crew that is so Muddy Waters was leadmg an all electric fascinating, jive, jive, jive, the really band before these youngsters had even humorous thing is his three page spread in wet their first nappies. This album is Melody Maker where he. talks about great ui short bursts, and the presence of escaping the "success trap," which he. Johnny Winter and James Cotton gives it defines as getting stuck in a rut and not real punch. If Muddy can do this in his being able to leave it on account of the old age, imagine what he was like in his financial set up,, which is rather funny prime. being in a trade rag n' all. Michael Mayer — 13 uoiMuon REFEC SCRUnNTZED Prices Compare Poorly

Perhpps I am naive but for tbe past three or so years I have held the childish belief that the Refectory was being managed to promote student interests. Friends built the idea by whispering tlie magic phrase "No profit" whenever the conversation turned to the food and its origin. I noticed tliat this idea of cost price food was "in the air," drifting with the wind from the veranda from cup of coffee to salad roll. This myth died a sudden death as soon as I took the time to go into town and check Refec­ tory prices against Myeis, Coles and David Jones. It began to seem very obvious that (he Refectory management cares little about student wishes, or, more importantly, the student's ability to pay. Let's be honest; David Jones, Coles More expensive and Myer arc in the business for the If the Union comprehends that we do cent more than the lowest price money. Their "philosophy of business" is not receive the income of a wage earner Paying more with less demanded for major food items by the to maximise profits to a level which will then Refectory prices fail to reflect it. cheapest of the Big Three. It would be a not exceed the tolerance of the market To be deadly honest current prices indi­ Of course Refectory prices do not saving of ten cents on Refectory prices and thereby drive the buyer elsewhere. cate that the Refectory is, with a number refiect the reality of student incomes. to buy your pie and milkshake in Coles. The Refectory should be a service to stu­ of major lines, more expensive than the Between April 20 1976 and January 24 It seems reasonable to expect the dents providing food at a price that Big Three. We are far from privileged to 1977 (the date of the last price increase) Refectory to be run with different aims students can afford. We are a financially pay 42.8 per cent more for Refectory there were sizeable across the board than the big stores in town. It seems disadvantaged group with only a third of fish than we would if we shopped at price rises. Of eight major food items reasonable to at least hope that the the buying power of the lowest wage Coles. Nor is it a pleasure to dine on a surveyed, the smallest increase was 11 Refectory would supply food at the earner in the community. The average large carton of chips at 40 cents Re­ per cent (sausage rolls) and the largest 64 lowest price asked in town. It seems student, with an income of S40 a week, fectory price with the knowledge that the per cent (fish, chips and salad). Even reasonable that prices should be within wilt spend three quarters of that on rent same carton costs 31 cents in David allowing for an infiafion rate of 15 per the buying power of the student. Obvi­ and necessities. So will the wage earner Jones, 32 cents in Coles, and 28 cents in cent this was an enormous increase. In ously the Refectory management regards on $120 per week. But the student is Myers. To be fair the Union is faced with the same period of time the maximum these commonplaces as unreasonable. I' left with SIO for entertainment, clothes, a large trading loss-which is being living-away-from-honie TEAS increased hope you wOl write in to Gamut and and Refector>' food. Ten dollars for a offset by a sizeable profit margin. But if by only 12 per cent. We are forced to pay agree with me that the Refectory should student in comparison with eighty or wc dare to talk of the "philosophy" of more with less income. be run with the student, and not 20 per ninety dollars for the wage earner. the Refectory then Union money, our The final insult is to find that wc are cent profit, in mind. Perhaps then the Obviously we cannot, and should not in money, should be used to blanket price not even cheaper than the lowest price management would make the attempt to our own Refectory, be expected lo pay increases so as to provide food al a price being asked in town. The Refectory is "keep the customer satisfied." the same prices as someone on a wage. students can afford. charging between 12 per cent and 71 per Peter R. Best A FEW COMPARISONS David Jones Coles Myer Refec. Refec. %age above low­ David Williams est price Director of Sports & Recreation SPRA Pie 31 33 50 40 29 Sausjge Roll 25 IS 18 20 33.3

Ham and 63 56 47 45 stitutes. The first eight teams to regis­ Salad RoU ter will be accepted (best of three games, SPOT 33 34 38 37 12.1 Milk Shakes score on every point). The games will be held at the ISP on Thursday and Fridays Small Cakes. 27 15 22 20 reduced 33.3 from 1-2 pm. to 18 rec. 20 Mixed Squash-four a side (two men 31 32 28 40 42.8 and two women). American scoring Chips (large) system, ie score on each pomt, first to Fish 40 35 51 60 in Feb. 71.4 15 points. Each player plays one game. now 50 42.8 INTRA MURAL SPORTS There will be a limit of eight teams and matches will be played on Wednesday ..I > Starting early in second semester we mornings between 8.30 and 10 am. The shall be organising Intra Mural games for first eight teams to register will be accept­ students. Our program will include ed. Basketball (mixed); volleyball (mixed); Touch Football (men)-eight players The professional's sound Squash (mixed) and touch football a side plus four substitutes. Fifteen now avallabie at (men). minutes per half. No 3 oval during lunch PKEE Teams can be made up informally hours 1-2 pm (Mon Tue Wed Thur). from any group of friends, a university the first eight teams to register will be department, or a staff-student group. If accepted. PREVIOUS you don't have a lable to go by, make up Umpires & Referees: are required by an appropriate team name and write it the Sports Association to control these OP£RATIOn Alls on the entry form. games. They will be paid $2.25per hour." Interested persons should see David Each team will be rostered to play Williams at the ISP. once a week with games continuing for eight weeks during second semester. Teams which register for the compe­ tition will be charged $5. Teams not SWIMMING POOL showing for a game will be fined $2.50. This winter the swimming pool is If they fail to show for two games they being heated. At the moment this heating FREE will be disqualified altogether. equipment is being instaUed. All being The draw for these games will appear well, we hope to be open by the end of in Gamut and at the Indoor Sports the fint week in June. CLASmEDS PavUion. It is up to you to find out when you play. Matches will begin the week starting August 1. FOR ALL RECREATION CLASSES-Semester 2 STUDENT Public address usage is possible for parties Next semester's Sports Association and meetings, using the mixing mike RULES OF COMPETITION Recreation Program has been finalised. (RK-888,222and112). Basketball (mixed)-five a side plus Below are the classes offered and the fees five substitutes. At least two girls must per class. 371 be on court for each side during the If you with to enroll for a class, come AUSSTUDENTTRAVEL game. Four quarters of 7.5 minutes. along and pay your enrollment fees at Games will be held on Mondays at the Indoor Sports Pavilion as soon as requires a Campus Sale^ and Prom­ lunchtime and Wednesdays 1-3 pm. possible. .Class sizes are limited and otions Officer. Previous Union enrollments will close once the quota has VolltSyball (mixed)-six a side (three experience necessary. Interviews men and three women)' plus four sub- been filled. 14 Saturday June 4. Call 370 8056. -^J:) X^^J^^Ul i-/

m^m abol'f UN? pwnf """^ "^''*' ^" *''°'" '•""'^"'^ y«"*^« been hearing lUCKT mm tJUH6EW a uiNl REVUE at Schonell Tlieatre in late July. tiek^uf'^m |T04fcPLAYERSl What excitement! This wUl be the Yes, that nieans YOU...there's a first time a Uni Revue has been organis­ place for everybody in the Revue, so why ed on Qld Uni campus in FIVE YEARS! not become INVOLVED! What do mM€ In the 1960's and very early I970's, you have to lose... a few weeks holiday? Uni Revues were a common event, but So what...you can't afford a holiday for some unknown reason they disappear­ anyway. Besides Uni students have ed along with may other extra-curricula another two weeks holiday in Ausgust! Thursday June 2 7.30 pm. activities on campus. A group of us feel So you have no wxcusc.you can be in End of Semester Rage, with Sounds of 7 and Flying Clouds. that it is about time Qld Uni campus the Revue and have a holiday in August. A smorgasbord feast in a marquee down by the lake with two came alove again!...it's time for theatre Activities, a department within the bands and Freewheels Theatre Group; $3.50, 42ZZ subs and on this campus to gain a strong foothold Qld Uni Students Union, is financiaUy persons in fancy dress, $3. again, and what better a way to start backing the Revue, and the performances than by presenting a hige prediction in will be from Monday July 25 to Saturday Schonell Theatre, supposedly the student July 30 in Schonell Theatre. The theatre on campus (???). production wiU be set in a commercial Mon - Thurs June 6-9,10 am - 4 pm. radio station situation, so that the Revue Revue workshops in Cement Box rehearsal rooms. Talent doesn't become lost in a series of unrel­ and interest needed; Ifyou want to be in it, come down some­ The REvue is called LIFE ated skits. The script is being written time and talk to Doug Anderson. Production will be in July. •WASN'T MEANT TO BE .... by a group of interested people and the and will be presentd'by a &oup of oitlius- music by Kaise Steen, p?us a few other Booklets for next semester's workshops should be available iasUc people, that means YOU if you people. PLease note tiiere will be a lot by the end of the exam period. Enrolments begin July 18 (next want to become involved. The wheels of dancing and movement, so if tliis is of production are already turning and where your talent lies, rather than acting, semester). Workshops begin August 1. and wiU be presentd by a froup of enthus­ don't hesfitate to become involved. iastic people, that means YOU if you You don't have to be a multi-talent­ want to become involved. The wheels ed personality! (although we won't reject of production are already turning and you if you are). Note there will also be NOW is the time for all to gather their slides and film used if fUm and photo­ energies, and help make this Revue graphy is your talent. reaUy happen! If you are interested it is never too late to step forward and become involved There is no end to the amount of in this exciting event. IT WILL BE AN energy...and creative energy... needed EXPERIENCE THAT YOU WILL to put a Revue on in a theatre as large NEVER FORGET! UNION'S as Schonell Theatre. WE need ACTORS, There is a big notice board with the DANCERS, SINGERS, ACROBATS. necessary information about the Revue PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL THEATRE set up in the ACTIVITIES office, near PREVIOUS OPERATION SKILLS, PEOPLE TO DESING SETS, the Creperie, and has a bam door at the PEOPLE TO BUILD SETS. • PEOPLE entrance...it's round behind 4ZZZ). TO HEOP SEW AND DESIGN COS­ Don't hestitate- to wander into 'Activ­ TUMES, PEOPLE TO HELP WITH PUB­ ities' and check the board out. Edwin LICITY, PEOPLE TO HELP BACK- Relf and Janet Price are Activities Direct­ STAG+, PEOPLE TO WORK ON FRONT ors and should be in Activities to help ADVICE PLUS.PraCE OF HOUSE, etc.etc. wiht enquiries.

REVUE COMPANY 1977 PRESENTS 'LIFE WASN'T MEANT TO BE EASY'. IF YOU'RE AN ACTOR, A MUSO, SCRIPTWRITER SFTAIMD COSTUME DESIGNER OR DANCER, CONTACT EDWIN OR PHILLIPA AT ACTIVITIES, QLD UNI UNION, PHONE 3711611.

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