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This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/20 # B.B.King and his playmate Lucille.. .Interview # Prospecting for GoldTops “THE TREASURER'S Vol.2No.10 March 12-18 1974 3 ( ) c TRASH MADE ME VOMIT” We steal the garbage of the greats.Mick Morris lifts the lid off the private,smelly refuse of BOB HAWKE, ANDREW PEACOCK, GRAHAM KENNEDY, FRANK CREAN, RON BARASSI & their families .first in a series of tasteless We must he white workers hand HE SHOW AND TELL SESSION TSYNDROME IS ALIVE AND TNEVER HAD IT SO GOOD: A admit... t n O WELL: Cleverly disguising their charm­ senior master in political science and ing racial attitudes behind a flurry of English literature at a Melbourne school AST WEEK Oliver Strewe and Ian high sounding rhetoric, the ACTU exec­ was fined $400 for assisting in the LStocks went to the NSW south utive has moved to block the army o f management of a brothel, after detec­ coast, to Nowra, the home of Robert colored Filipino car workers (35 in all) tives told a court hearing that his McLeod, the young aboriginal militant Richard Beckett about to descend on Australia’s shores establishment, known quaintly as the who took his people’s frustrations to the by refusing to check out the credentials, Love Craft Relaxation Centre, special­ offices of aboriginal affairs and pulled a beats up thus effectively barring their entry. ised in “ relief” massages. The Victorian gun on the public servants. Robert’s the week’s news ACTU president Bob Hawke in an­ Teachers Union is understood to be action was prompted by the Perkins nouncing the decision said, “ We will not using the case in its fight for a higher Affair, but it was instigated by the 'F YOU WORK ON AN AS­ tolerate a situation where, if a company minimum wage. conditions of all aboriginals in Australia. SEMBLY LINE, YOU’VE GOT cannot attract local people to an unsat­ i ‘ PEN THE LETTER BOMB HID­ Nowra is a good example of white *:$: TO BE HEALTHY: The head of Aus- isfactory job with inadequate renumera­ DEN BEHIND THE RADIATOR exploitation. Pelaco — the shirt, white tralia’s national poverty inquiry profes- tion in a dehumanising industry, it can O TO FIND THE ANSWER: Aboriginal shirt people — had a factory there. sor R. Henderson, in a startlingly resort to other sources” . Apparently affairs minister senator Cavanagh said Readers may remember the image of the modern approach to the lack o f man- those white workers who have already that after receiving a death threat he black, holding a boomerang, wearing the power in the ditch digging division, has been “ dehumanised" by the Leyland was totally unable to understand why dazzling shirt, saying, “ Mine tinkit they said in a report to the federal govern- process, dont matter a bugger, as the anyone would want to kill him. Perhaps fit” . Over 75 percent of the factory’s ment that impoverished mass breeders ACTU hasnt exactly been in a wild it had something to do with the fact female staff were aboriginal. It still goes of dullards should be paid large sums of hurry to do anything about car plant, that senator Cavanagh refused to see the on: now members of the white commun­ money ($8 per week for the third child conditions in the past. In fact, if mem­ secretary of the aboriginals consultative ity are digging up sacred ground to erect a :j:$: and over) to enable them to continue to ory serves one correct, most of the council, Mr Phillip Hall, unless the said breed dullards. The money to finance action to humanise car plants has been sports monument, a booze palace where Mr Hall was searched beforehand. Mean­ blacks arent welcome . . . it’s called a this bread and circus’s doctrine, first taken by white local and migrant work­ while back in the federal madhouse, it leagues club. Oliver and Ian interviewed evolved by a number of seedy Roman ers themselves, and they have been was discovered that the gun used by the town’s aboriginals (p.5). emperors, will come as usual, from the condemned by their own executive for Bob McLeod to hold officers of the spent members of the workforce — the wild cat and irresponsible action. It However repetitive and childish dope aboriginal affairs at bay while the queen stories may seem to middle class terrace pensioners. Professor Henderson has would also be interesting to hear Mr was opening parliament was loaded after house closet puffers, kids are still getting recommended that the federal govern- Hawke’s opinions if he were asked all. In other words, Mr Perkins aside, suddenly by either industry or the busted, bashed and incarcerated by thugs ment abandon its very moderate plans they really do mean what they say. in uniforms. Pre-signed blank search war­ for dropping the pension means test, federal government to allow Israeli rants were recently left behind during a which already has been negated by kibutz workers into the country to ELL THE PRICE OF STEAK Melbourne dope raid, yet no action was :W: legislation making the pension taxable. alleviate the acute shortage o f rural W HAS GONE UP: Backbench poli­ taken against police. In fact, they trailed :•:& As usual, in reports of this type, profes- labor. ticians in the New South Wales parlia­ and busted the person who brought the sor Henderson made no mention of ET’S HEAR IT FOR THE WIDE ment are to get $80 more a week in rises matter to light. . . making large corporations pay more. LBROWN ATLANTIS: For the worked out by themselves. Premier sir This week a scarifying report of a bust :$i:: After all, what’s the point in giving second time this year, parts o f Brisbane Robert Askin will get a mere $116 a beat up from Surfers Paradise, page 18, W j more money to the aged, the buggers started to disappear beneath the water week more. from a correspondent who must remain can’t even dig a decent ditch and they as floods began to hit Australia’s east anonymous. Daylights calls for the im­ are absolutely useless as cannon fodder, coast, proving that contrary to popular E DIDNT KNOW WE HAD ANY: iiijij: mediate legislation of “ growing your being unable to lift a machine gun or belief by himself and his party, Joh HThe future world would not be own” marijuana — with, no doubt, piss-all £:£: throw a napalm grenade. It is totally Bjelke-Petersen is not God. able to afford many o f the freedoms :j:*: effect — but we intend to intensify a ■S:-: untrue to suggest that professor Hender- people were now fighting for, professor decriminalisation campaign over the next *:&: son’s report was financed from a slush N A FEW MORE YEARS HE’D Henry Mayer told a Melbourne press few months, until it reaches such a fund provided by BHP, GMH, Ford, IHAVE BEEN READY FOR club lunch. In a look at the world to crescendo o f outrage, that sane legislation Leyland, ICI, Colonial Sugar or APM (to WORLD WAR THREE: Hiroo Onoda, a come, professor Mayer said government must surely follow. Is that how democ­ name but a few); all of whom have a sub lieutenant in Japan’s imperial army, would control the right to have children racy works? strong interest in maintaining a captive has finally surrendered to authorities on and even issue licences for people to In our Letters column some weeks work force of willing troglodytes on low the Philippine island of Lubang after have thgm. Future government would back, “ Anxious” pleaded for elucidation wages. After all if they can get away hiding in the jungles since 1944. Despite also base their policies on the needs of on the subject of the magic mushroom. with paying a worker $60 a week and the official explanation that Onoda the generations which came after them, This week a wayfaring botanist by name *£• get the government, via the pensioners came out of hiding after being contact­ thus leading them to restrict the use of jijijij: of “ Dutch Fred” wrote in, generously and the middle class to pay the rest, ed by his former wartime commander, the earth’s resources materials and en- SB imparting the fruits o f his experience why shouldnt they go ahead and give it rumor has it that he’d heard that there ergy. At least it would be a pleasant § $ upon us. In view of the fact that autumn is a bash? That’s what pseudo socialism is were great opportunities for car as­ change from the answers o f the present upon us and that soon the enlightening all about. sembly workers in Australia. bunch of spendthrifts. fungi will spring into the morning sun, we print Dutch Fred’s letter on page 9, with some beautiful drawings sent from our Sydney office. ^ W^mCrToN CON 5P//V1C V Incidentally, thanks for all the encour­ aging “ the paper’s getting better mes­ sages” . . . we think it is too, although not quickly enough for our satisfaction. We have a solid market in three states, steadily climbing, and plenty of action packed pages in the pipeline. Several people have asked us to serialise a new cult bestseller, Total orgasm, which is less to do with sexual gymnastics, more a whole philosophy of mutual ecstasy. (Anyway, most men never reach proper orgasm at all . . .) So watch out for it. Also next week: The decline and fall-out of Sylvia & the Synthetics (Madame Lash & Co) by one who was there from the beginning . . . plus the Ecology o f Shit and, no connection, a rap about Baba Muktananda, currently in the country. Also, Nat Young writes about how B. B. King ODed on the music at the Sydney concert and the parallels of riding high the wild surf. P. S. In a fortnight we publish the issue on AWARENESS. Thanks for the contribu­ tions . . . any last minute thought on awareness, frem any aspect, are welcome, The Living Daylights is published every tuesday by Incorporated but hurry — Eds. Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn street, West Melbourne, Victoria. You can write to us C/- PO box 5312 BB, SUPERBOOKMARKET GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03)329.0700, Telex AA32403. SYDNEY OFFICE: Stephen Wall, 18 Arthur street, N o t bloody likely. N or are we a job-shop specialising in commercial Surry Hills, 2010. 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MICHAEL MORRIS mere hippie prank. Garbage got “ respect­ black plastic bin standing in front of their marker pen, able” . “ smart” home, waiting for us beneath a Birdseye crinkle cut potato pack, OU ARE what you throw away. So spotlight. During the transfer I feel some­ remains o f “ TA A Survival Kit” , said A. J. Weberman, the father of Y E CHOSE public figures, two politi­ thing running down my arm. I smell Toorak times, garbology — the science o f rubbish re­ cians, two TV stars, a unionist and tomato soup. I’ve been blooded! Dish washing detergent pack. search, of journeys into the trashcan. W a football hero. In order that personal Back home to the “ lab” . In this case 6 picture hangers, Careful and undaunted investigation of bias wouldnt enter into our work we we give (only once) a complete list of the eraser, peoples rubbish reveals in a very short selected people for whom we held a “ material” : hair clip, time their personality, their lifestyle, grudging respect. 4 milk cartons fuse box, their day to day habits, their quirks Then we laid out our game play. Only Vi bread roll, Vincent’s powder wrapper, and the DARK PRIVATE side of their one of our subjects was listed in the gelati container, newspaper clippings (Melbourne Sun-pic), life. Garbology will - we determined phone book; but by consulting Who's Cottee’s blackberry conserve jar, Notepads, in week two of our work - replace who, reading through electoral rolls and letters sundry, Time, the official government census; for it is by making a few inquiries we found their Brockhoff Chocolate Ripple wrapper, 2 pieces of cardboard with childish easier, quicker, and more reliable and addresses. Next we rang the city councils 3 Carefree tampon packs, sketches, honest. A trashcan, filled to the brim for the day of garbage collection. The rest Tuft o f brown hair (wavy) commonwealth department of health with what has been thrown away, shows was relatively simple: wait until midnight, brown paper bag, quarantine order for “ one maidenhair what wasnt thrown away. Trash is the in­ then, with our own garbage can, drive to Berri orange juice can, fern” , stant anthropology o f the affluent age. the subject’s home, empty the goodies Nancarrow’s supermarket bag, 2 membership cards for Golden Bowl The dirt tin is a diary, a personal state­ from their can into ours, drive home, lay 2 party hats, Sports Centre, ment, a time capsule, Garbology is a mod­ it out, list the evidence (leaving no bone 2 Campbell’s spaghetti and meat balls invitation to “ gala preview - Misadven­ ern, if perverse science. Sure, it’ s messy, unturned), save the “ highlights” in her­ cans, tures o f Candide", but isnt surgery? metically sealed containers and put out Vz loaf of mouldy bread, envelopes sundry. A. J. Weberman discovered the GAR­ the rest. It didnt quite work out that way. bandaid pack, The first thing we noticed was the BAGE CAN when, one day, he passed by * * * Clinic shampoo bottle, absence of organic matter (with the ex­ Bob Dylan’s apartment. There, open to Colgate toothpaste tube, ception of the hank of hair. What did it the world, was Dylan’s trash. Weberman NDREW PEACOCK, Liberal poli­ Weet-Bix pack, mean: was it a "love lock” , disgarded nonchalantly reached in and picked out a A tician, shadow minister for foreign Bulla ice cream pack, after a tiff; a memory of baby’s first hair letter; it was a personal note to singer affairs, darling of the Victorian branch of 2 playing cards (8 diamonds & 3 spades), cut, the sort of thing my mother has kept Johnny Cash, eureka! A s Weberman said, the Liberal party, the only Lib in the shoe box, in a book called Baby’s first year; an he was “ hooked” . Every day for a fort­ previous government to handle his port­ tinsel, aborted act of barbery; an act of savag­ night Weberman collected Dylan’s refuse, folio (minister for external territories) A subscription reminder to Sir inter­ ery?). Where’s the meat, the veg? Is this took it home and put it under the with any understanding and competence national “ mens” magazine, comix from how the upper class family lives? Chips microscope. His findings caused an uproar AND . . . HIS WIFE SUSAN, social but­ Sunday telegraph and Sun-herald, and ice cream? in the musical world. What an evocation! terfly, panellist in the Cleo-type after­ % cake, No, the Peacocks must have a garbage (Dylan now burns his garbage.) noon womens TV program No mans shoe laces, disposal unit. Next, Esquire commissioned Weber­ land, reporter for A current affair, daugh­ Estee Alliage perfume bottle, Where were the bottles: soft and hard man to “ do” other celebrities: Cassius ter of Victorian chief secretary Mr Palmolive soap wrapper, drink? They must be out the back, Clay, Yippie Abbie Hoffman, playwright “ Punchy” Rossiter. 3 toothbrushes, waiting for the next boy scout bottle Neil Simon, and others. Thus garbology To Canterbury, in the blue ribbon dob o f butter, drive. Andrew in his slacks, on Saturday was accepted by the serious world - no belt, through quiet, tastefully lit leafy small rubber animal, morning, showing the woggled young lads longer could people sneer upon it as a vistas, to the Peacocks lonely red and earplug for transistor radio, to the stack of empties. ..

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974-P a g e 3 The two cards, the drawings and the the Barassis are gardeners . . . transistor plug: why those? One is guess­ Then there was a pack of after dinner ing here. The cards were “ lying around” mints in there. The choc had melted and the house. Susan said to the kids: “ Put was running over the cardboard. Here’s those cards in the pack, Anne and how I figured it: Ron is sitting up late at Caroline (as revealed by the Golden Bowl night, writing training orders for his team membership cards, swimming lessons)!” - no one to get married during season, One (Anne signed) was preoccupied, everyone turns up for training, no late drawing a thing called “ Mr Kite" and nights, no booze, diet will be as follows nosireebob she wasnt gonna stop now. . . . He noticed something melting in his And Caroline was plugged into Norman mouth, Ahhh, chocolate and mint! Gag, Banks’ talkback radio program and this what am I doing??? He throws the whole person was asking something very import­ , kaboodle into the trash bin with a teeth ant . . . besides she couldnt hear what cij gritting rage. What’s for the boys is for mum was screaming about. “ Right” , says i ^ me too. He cracks a passionfruit. Seeds Susan, tearing the plug out and grabbing *jC explode in his mouth. He returns to his the drawings, throwing them into the 5 memo . . . rubbish bin, “ NOW MR MORRIS WILL § One thing that actually worried us. KNOW WHAT NAUGHTY CHILDREN The bin was sitting on a little trolley. YOU ARE. GO TO YOUR ROOM!” 5 Ron’s driveway has a pretty stiff gradient. That done Susan settles down to work. Highlights of the Barassi garbage Does he have a crook back? We hope not. She is writing in a small notebook, “ 2 quarts milk” . The word “ milk” didnt bombers, of batteries of guns, of the just to see “ Barass” do his thing. Not a k k k come out right, she retraces the word so defiance of Germans. Monte Cassino, the huge man, he swept all aside. A raging, Andrew is perfectly sure what’s needed. monastery that ground armies to a halt. blasting, steel limbed bowling ball in red OB HAWKE, president of the She goes on: “ 2 cordials” (what flavor, Such is Kennedy’s home. and blue, a snarl over his mouth, fire BACTU, federal president o f the Andrew will muse when he gets to Nan- We came in the back way, weaving licking from his eyes, he was our inspira­ ALP etc, had two garbage cans, full to the carrows), “ 1 packet Lux” . . . through dark and sinister streets, to a tion when we played footy in the back brim, waiting for us. F urther into the notebook Andrew is steep dirt road marked Private road. Our paddocks. Now he coaches North Mel­ Back at the lab, scientifically we laid it having trouble with the felt tip pen. In feeble machine could have gone down the bourne and is lifting them, grinding them, before us. The room immediately filled smudgy scrawl: “ Sensible negotiations slope, but it wouldnt get back up. to the top. with the aroma of earth, of life’s cycle, of but I only hope its acceptable to the Leaving the car, dogs began barking - Wow, what garbage! We almost em­ Mother Nature. This huge glob o f matter leftwing. So Labor party (indecipherable first one, then two and soon every dog braced it. The family, in contrast to the is the stuff the planet feeds on! It, folks, passage) won’t be. The leftwing won’t be within the radius of a mile took it up. Peacocks and Creans, eat food mainly of was throbbing, vibrant compost - mag­ silenced. It’s achieved only what the press Lights in houses went on. Ahhh, the geese the earth. goty and malodorous. It was like a small have told us he’d (who? Bill Hartley?) o f Rome. Where were the searchlights; Sweet corn: there must have been 15 universe, the centre of which was a achieved . . . Temporarily at least, SL where the flak; where the ack-ack, the husks, gnawed to the quick, in his bin. browning, half eaten banana. There were (socialist left) have revealed in short sirens and the home guard. Rehearsing Passionfruit rind: Ron digs passionfruit. beer cans. There was an empty can of pet term.” (End of joggings.) Puzzling. explanations the possible lynch gangs we Most people would eat about ten of these food full of cigar butts. The flotsam and Then, in the notebook, a memo: Kay continued to Kennedy’s. “ Dont worry” , I sweet, seedy lovelies a year. Not Ron and jetsam of the affluent age was doing its Cardwell. Kate Barrie phoned to say good said, “ it’s worth it. It will reveal treasures. family. I can picture the scene in front of own thing. It said in a roaring voice:“ Life luck . . . Drake International phoned sat’y The world will toast us.” Before us stood the TV; the whole family’s there watch­ goes on. Leave me alone.” we a) couldnt, 11 am re interview.” (Interview? Who?) the walls, the overpowering fences of ing World o f sport, and one of the kids and b) did. We reverently wrapped it up The january 7 issue of Time featuring Kennedy, the locked gates. Before us asks for another passionfruit. “ N o” , and took it outside. the face of judge John Sirica, says “ 3DB loomed Colditz. Before us . . . THERE says mum, “ you’ve had four already.” k k k WAS NO RUBBISH TIN. HE HADNT “ But” , says the kid, “ daddy’s had six.” 63.6409 Lester Hanson” and then the ARBOLOGY is a new science and PUT IT OUT. PERHAPS HE DOESNT Five empty strawberry boxes . . . Ron intriguing “ N /W Cape” . Was it for a radio our cursory investigations told us it HAVE A N Y . . . Yes, perhaps he has slurping into ’em . . . Lamb shanks; G interview; is there a Liberal plot afoot; demands a methodology of its very own found a life devoid of waste, the supreme zuchini, the Melbourne Sun-pic, revealing- are they connected with the oncoming and that we didnt do enough. The true existence. But he hasnt told anyone. ly opened to the second last page and a demonstration at the base? Think. No it face o f affluent modern man lies in his Maybe he’ll tell Bob Dylan . . . We wept. story about what a mean and tough coach would be for an interview. Andrew trash can. For, wrapped in newspapers, in Tears o f rage, tears o f grief/ Why couldnt is Ron; a Time wrapper (Ron follows the doesnt attend demos . . . plastic bags and in garbage disposal pits I be the th ief. . . (Dylan, almost.) world’s news); tomatoes, spuds, a florists A drab, but nonetheless thought pro­ lies the essence of the lifestyle. voking load of rubbish. card inscribed with wedding anniversary * * * We hope readers will take up where we love being declared to the good woman, k k k held/left off. Two minutes in someone’s ON BARASSI is our hero. The egg shells, Kit-Kat choc, remnants of trash bin reveals more than can be gleaned UR NEXT mission wasnt so reward­ greatest, the most gallant, the most Mayfair ham, and some puzzles . . . R from a mountain of press clippings. i— > ing. FRANK CREAN, benign and determined aussie rules footballer o f our Three green rubber gloves, soil fresh. O LONG LIVE GARBAGE. I | gentle federal treasurer. The man who is time! As kids we used to go to the footy Where was the other? Well, we now know dedicated to the national economy. The man who wages war on inflation It was a warm Sunday night the night Newtown eaten by white ants we hit Mr Crean’s “ comfortable” home in bayside Middle Park. We cruised up . . no believed by the Action Group that garbage! Our jaws dropped in dismay. But GRANT EVANS the department recently purchas­ then we saw a lane running behind the HE RESIDENTS of North ed a building on the western side house and there stood two tins. Were Newtown in Sydney feel of Missenden road. Stage two is they both his? Was one a neighbor’s? T caught in a pincer type military out of sight, but not out o f mind. There was only one way to find out - on manoeuvre designed to “ take out” The department has obviously the spot garbology. His, we thought must the community there. They are decided that the best policy is to be the neatest one; the one with Satur­ likely to be steamrolled by pro­ say nothing about what they are day’s Australian opened on page three. posed expressways encroaching doing while they quietly white ant Back at the lab we emptied it out. from the south and east, and from the area. After all it has the power Grog bottles — so the treasurer leaves his the north they are threatened by to disregard any local opposition. empties for the workers, the garbos. We the creeping expansion o f the Council zonings are not binding next came across a number of small Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. The on it, and although “ normal” plastic bags. Garbage disposal is a daily immediate battle is with the NSW policy is to negotiate rather than task for the Creans. We opened one after education department which plans resume, it has the power to re­ the other. The small room quickly be­ to extend Sydney teachers college sume what it wants. came a pocket o f lethal gas. We continued into North Newtown. A petition circulated locally working through the sludge. The treasurer This latter front was opened up gained over 250 signatures from is a common man — Safeway supermarket in february last year. The sale of a affected residents and the Action packaging told us this. The smeil attacked house in Campbell street fell Group’s stand has been publicised the nasal cavities. I was the scrutineer, through when the buyer learnt and supported in the local press. close to the subject matter. It wasnt until Over 60 percent of the property I fixed upon the unopened Safeways pack through a solicitor that the area owners in the affected area have o f mince meat, crawling with maggots had been rezoned. The seller replied to the education depart­ that I capitulated and threw up into the checked with the city of Sydney ment’s offer stating their “ un­ treasurer’s trash. The sting went from our council planning department and equivocal” refusal to sell. zeal. was told that the area was to be rezoned. The education department’s k k -k News of this sneak attack facilities and buildings will be of spread quickly and in early march little use to the mixed migrant E STILL had GRAHAM KEN­ the North Newtown Action and working class population of W NEDY the king of the flickering Group was formed to organise Newtown. It has admitted that blue and silver screen, the winner of resistance. Part of the land is al­ most of its students will come Logies, the darling of us all. Our trump ready owned by the education from metropolitan areas — so why card, Kennedy is interviewed by TV mags department. On this area it plans not build them in the outer sub­ more times than anyone in the world! to accommodate 2500-3000 stu­ urbs? The department’s proposals Yet he is still an enigma to us all. His dents. Another area is apparently will involve the destruction of garbage would be the ultimate delineation. required for “ some outdoor lower and middle income housing Kennedy lives in a fortress that is recreational facilities” and “ ade­ in good condition, worsening an practically unassailable. Thrown into a quate parking” . already serious shortage of such cliff overlooking the polluted waters of The department has already housing in the inner city. Typical­ Frankston, it would defy the efforts the responded to the resistance by ly it is the working class which is Gauls who scaled Rome. We were remind­ dropping all references to stage expected to bear the burden of ed o f Monte Cassino, of WW2, of waves of two to avoid controversy. But it is adjustment. 1 1

Page 4 - T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974 PISSING ON THE BURIAL GROUNDS IAN STOCKS & OLIVER STREWE S THE land rights battle hots the depth of bitterness and oppres­ A-up all over Australia — as sion that drives aboriginal militants. This is a picture o f a typical coun­ public servants and government try town — Nowra on N S W s south ministers start to feel the backlash coast — which, although not overtly DEVELOPMENT BY SW8E COUNOL M B ,a from their own mishandling of abo­ racist, provides an accurate and NEW MEMBERS riginal problems — most o f white horrifying picture of the treatment COPE : Australia still remains ignorant o f o f Australia’s blacks.

Looking out from Alexander Berry's flogging shed Site for the league's club — after virgin bush was bulldozed Nowra’s close to Australia’s second oldest aboriginal settlement and is the When the land rights battle began in birthplace of black militant Robert Canberra, the Nowra blacks took a new McLeod. So, as black anger grows, and interest in their land. Real opposition death threats are made against white began last year when the local rugby politicians for their efforts to manipulate league club planned a club building and black affairs, Nowra gives the opposite sports area on tribal land. side of the picture: the continuing The Crookhaven rugby league club violence which blacks suffer every day of gained a lease for 24 acres inside the their lives. reserve boundaries. Initially the dub NOWRA services a rich farming area development was to be a 50-50 project which was carved up by white squatters between a black football team and a in the middle 1800s. They used convict white team. The whites got the lease on labor and employed aboriginal stockmen the strength of this cooperation and soon on low wages. Most industries, farming, opened their books for members hip. timber and fishing made great profits Strangely, the books closed on black using cheap aboriginal labor. Until the members very quickly, while whites late 1880s, however, many aboriginal enrolled in large numbers. Soon the mem­ families and tribal groups had small bership was almost all white. The bush holdings alongside white properties, was levelled and late last year preparation which were cropped and gardened. These for building started. four or five acre blocks were hardly Local blacks erected tents on the block and faced up to the council heavies. self-sufficient, and handouts of rations In the night, embarrassed club officials were available at local police stations. In the 1880s the forced resettlement hastily spray painted their names off the of the blacks began. Rations were cut off, development sign. But the last hand is children separated from their parents if still to be played. While almost every able they refused to move to the missions - bodied Nowra black confronted the concentration camps. In some areas in the queen in Canberra last month their tent far south coast, waterholes were poisoned was stolen, and now sits in a leagues club and blacks were hunted with dogs. Near official’s garage. Ironically, a search Brush Island aboriginals were rounded up, through council records revealed tKat no driven on to the sand and shot. High clear title to the Orient Point larpd was winds still uncover skulls with bullet ever established by the local council or holes in the back of the head . . . men, the state government. Thus, these bodies women and children. may have been acting illegally when parts of the reserve were excised and sub­ At Nowra, blacks were moved to Orian divided for sale. The residents o f Rose­ Point, which was gazetted under queen bery Park have found evidence that they Victoria as being set aside for the use of may be able to claim the entire area. aboriginals and administered by the They express no wish to evict white Aboriginal Protection Board. Orian Point residents from their homes, but if the was a wasteland isolated from the town. local council and stage government have The area consisted of 700 uncleared acres blundered there will be a very heavy with good fishing grounds nearby and compensation claim indeed. oyster leases. Under a dictatorial manage­ ment the “concentration camp” persisted * * * until after world war two, when the value ORIAN POINT and the struggles o f the of the land was realised. The navy had Aboriginal burial ground with council toilet rampant Jerringa people may well be one of the already taken a bit, the council resumed most important land rights battles in the some more, and in the 60s large chunks state of NSW. If this is won there are were pared off. Orian Point itself was other gazetted areas which would benefit surgically removed and subdivided for from the precedent established. Seven white homes. Other areas of 30 odd acres hundred acres lie within the naval base at also went up for grabs. The council took Jervis Bay, currently used as a bombing a bit for a caravan park, thoughtfully range. This is traditional Jerringa walka­ building a shithouse and amenities block bout territory, and was gazetted on Sep­ on top of a sacred burial ground. As in tember 2 6 ,1 8 8 1 , under the title Reserved other areas o f the south coast where from sale for the use o f aboriginals, which burial grounds have been disturbed, the has never been revoked. It’s a nice piece bones disappeared, presumably sold to o f land apart from the shellholes and we museums and universities. hope they get it. At the same time the homes of the remnants of the Jerringa tribe also came k k k under attack. Repairs were discontinued, SIMILAR situations exist all over NSW, families encouraged to “assimilate" into but the Askin government, anticipating housing commission homes. When they land rights claims, has already acted. It moved their old houses were bulldozed. recently formed the Aboriginal Lands Rosebery Park reserve was being quietly Trust - which appears to be a stooge run down - the population dropped from body designed to keep actual ownership over 300 to about 100 (to live in the 11 out of community hands. The members houses standing today). The school was were elected by postal vote, many of closed, the gardens ran wild, the oyster them unopposed, despite the call for leases sold off to white businessmen. democratic nominations and ballot box There was a rapid increase in value of elections. prime waterfront land and the ubiquitous The feeling is that the rewards of any L.J. Hookers put up a proposal for a land rights cases will be handed over to tourist resort. It was rumored he offered the trust which will then be manipulated the local council a $90 million deal. to thwart full usage of the land. Residents of Rosebery Park settlement

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974 — Page 5 McLEOD: A YOUNG MAN FIGHTING FOR HIS ELDERS

Mrs Isobel McLeod, — “ If Robert had paid with his life for what he believes in, I'd be proud o f him as a mother." SABEL McLeod is the mother ago. Darren, another son aged 22 is Iof Robert McLeod. In her going to live with tribal blacks for early 40s she had to raise her family six months. Mrs McLeod despite in the tin shacks that blacks were her strong religious beliefs (she was allowed to use by white farmers. a delegate to the Eucharistic Con­ Robert’s father spent most o f his gress in Melbourne last year) fully life being pushed around from mis­ supports her son in whatever action sion to mission. He died two years he takes.

QUESTION TIME IN THE SENATE: what we should have had years ago - MARCH 5. because we never knew anything about Will the minister give an assurance that tribal society. We were brought up in an the pistol in the possession o f Mr urban society like the white people. Dis­ McLeod at the Department o f Abori­ crimination was very prevalent because we ginal Affairs was not loaded? had to live in tin shacks. We were the Senator Cavanagh: Mr Chairman, I will fringe dwellers o f the district, and because not give that assurance - the gun was we had to live like that our kids were definitely loaded. made to feel ashamed of being aborig­ )ert McLeod inal. The young j * * * "M y husband was very abdriginal and society do this to our old people, because land rights. Our people should be given he had a chip on his shoulder and he had ISABEL McLEOD they couldnt get up and talk for them­ part o f the land back, because when a complex about his color. He came from selves. So he made up his mind then and captain Cook hoisted the queen’s flag it “ I FEEL that what Robert did was right Lake Tyers and his mother died at an there that he was never going to let a was already inhabited by human beings. I and I make no apologies for what he did early age. They were kicked around from white man beat him. So Robbie always believe that like the maoris we should be because I know that what he has done is pillar to post, always chased by welfare - had an instinct to fight for his family, for given back part of our country. The because he believes in his people. Right trying to take the children away. Robert his mum and his brothers and sisters. biggest part of it is controlled by foreign throughout his life, ever since he was a always felt for his father in this way. He “ What he did it wasnt for one person enterprise, anyway. White Australia little boy, Robert had to fight for his felt he had to take the place o f being the alone - it was for Charlie (Perkins) doesnt own it either. color because he was black. Every school head of the family because he had more because we believe we havent got another “ Robert’s always said to me: ‘What­ that my children went to they had to education than his Dad did. And always it person like Charlie who can stand up ever I do Mum I never want you to stick up for their color. Robert was was in Robert’s mind that we shouldnt against the treatment o f the dark people. question because you know whatever I do always in trouble with the teachers have to be intimidated in this way. You know it’s only since the referendum I do for the love of my people’ . . . and because if anyone called him a black “ He was brilliant in school but he that we’ve been counted as human beings that’s his life’s ambition - that he might nigger he’d whang them first and then never finished his schooling because of - if we filled our census paper in and we bring some respect and dignity to the life he’d tell the teacher why he did it. No hardships . . . then he got in trouble with said we were aboriginal or part aboriginal of the aboriginal race of Australia. matter he got the cane for it he felt that the police. The first sentence he ever got the paper was tom up and put in the “ And if it has to be him, if he was shot no one had the right to call him a black he would have never been convicted if for what he believes in, then I know in nigger. wastepaper basket. Therefore we werent he’d been properly represented in court. even counted as human beings and myself that I’d feel proud of him as a “ When my children were small we Tfijs is another thing that turned him Robert knew these things. mother. were always made to feel ashamed of bitter and sour. “ His fight is for equality and for “ Regardless of what anybody else what we were — of our color - because "Robert has seen right back from people to have respect for us like we have feels, he’s made his point. Robert feels o f the cruelty of white society. We should when he was 12 years old — he was a man respect for other people. and I feel that if we dont do something have never been like that - and since at 12 years old — he could see how our “ Soon as I heard the news I knew it now the children to come and his nieces Robbie has gone and lived amongst tribal old people were treated. He always had was Robert. We were at the demon­ and nephews will feel the backwash of society he’s got a real set of values on this instinctiveness . . . not to let white stration because we firmly believe in our what wasnt done.” The landlord sure is earning...

GRAEME DUNSTAN build college space they need to Hunters Hill as the highest rental Teachers College. They had enrol­ The dean of the college found meet ■growing enrolments. And district in NSW. led too many first years, 47 too out about it and met them to wish HAT makes Armidale a partly because students no longer O f course inflation helps. Land many, and put them in accom­ his support. In fact the support W thriving town is students. Its want to live in colleges - the need and property is safer than banks modation of the later year stu­ from bureaucrats was embarras­ economic base is education and it is for houses where friends can at this time so the surplus of dents. The latter arrived with their singly generous. For bureaucrats it has a university, a CAE, a tech gather as families or communes salaries of academics and admin­ gear but found no roof for their was at least a temporary solution, college, two high schools and five without the hassles of dead hand­ istrators get invested in specu­ heads. for whereas Newling has two to a boarding schools for the children ed bureaucracies. lation. Last year’s housing officer The meeting decided to occupy room, here were students volun­ of the rural rich. at the university is a landlord, as is the commonroom at New ling tarily accepting 40 to a room. So there is a demand for town the mayor (who is also a real House. This is a collection of fibro Furthermore it was a dramatic Academic salaries are spent and accommodation. In the past cou­ estate agent) and nearly every buildings after the style of those tool to use to lever more funds invested there and students have ple of years landlords have dis­ member of the Chamber o f Com dreadful migrant centres. It was from the bureaucrats up the line got to eat and be housed. There covered that students dont mind merce. originally put up as temporary with the purse strings. used to be a policy of providing crowding a house and, wow! The fester opened into conflict gentlemens accommodation by But the tenants union secre­ college accommodation for all stu­ MONEY! Rentals have soared and last tuesday. A tenants union call­ the teachers college back in 1953. tary, Marea Stapleton, is a take no dents but it has ceased to work. so have land prices. According to ed an emergency meeting to deal By 10.30 pm the move was com shit lady. She saw the problem as Partly because the institutions can the Daily telegraph Armidale is with a bureaucratic bungle at the pleted and some 40 students set a general one and she recognised no longer get enough money to second only to Vaucluse and CAE, previously known as the up digs there. Page 6 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS , march 12-18, 1974 THE GUBBO SPENDTHRIFTS

EITH Smith is the elected of the south coast, extending south K member of the National Abo­ into Victoria and west almost to riginals Consultative Council (which the South Australia border. recently renamed itself the National He works out of the offices of Aboriginal Congress) and has an the Aboriginal Legal Service in electorate which covers large areas Nowra.

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The Rosebery reserve KEITH SMITH take it home and if it didnt fit she’d run “ OUT of the $117 million allocated to around the missions trying to find some­ the welfare o f my people about 75 one that it would fit to sell it to ’em and percent is spent on white organisations - pray to God they had the money to pay it's the structure of the public service for it. And then go back to the lucky dip. department. Put it this way: they’ve got This is the sort of town — this town here to change this system to suit us because — and they say it’s not racist! We’ve had the system doesnt suit us and we can’t 11 year old kids held for days at the benefit the way the system is now. We’ve police station. And the police havent got to Koorie-ise this system, aboriginal- recognised the Aboriginal Legal Service. ise it. We havent been allowed to go in and “ We’ve been taught to share. They say interview our own people. that the aboriginal’s a drunken bastard and “ There’s no community centre: there’s his women are all sluts. Because they see no vocational guidance; there’s only one an aboriginal woman standing outside a aboriginal apprentice who’s employed by hotel she’s a slut. What about all the the local council to be a diesel mechanic. white bastards who get in the pub and You can go all up and down the business hawk their fork for a quid? Why dont they streets and you won’t find one aboriginal ask themselves the question: ‘Why are working in a shop, a bank or in any these young girls standing outside hotels?' administrative job. You won’t find one ‘Why are they forced into this way of life?’ aboriginal adult working for the council. The only education facilities available to K,eith Smith the girls are four gallon kero tins a great “ The local council gets $27,000 from big bean paddock and a big white boss to the federal government to spend in work works: if he can’t beat you one way he’ll amongst the aboriginal people on the stand over ’em It’s been going on up and projects, employing aboriginals and sup­ try another. The greatest spear that he’s issue o f half caste and full blood. Put it down the coast for decades. I’ve seen the plying material for particular projects. No thrown into my people at the moment is this way: three years ago I was ‘nothing days when koories were picking in bean funds are given directly to aboriginal division — saying ‘ urban blacks' and but a drunken black bastard’, today I’m paddocks and getting 20 cents a bushel, groups and the council rips the cream off. ‘tribal blacks’. Immaterial of what the a white man fighting a black man’s and next to them whites earning 30 cents Most of it just goes down the drain, on whiteman wants to call us we are aborigi­ cause’ . These are the divisions they're a bushel. white administration and organisations nals - we’re all one. Under tribal law putting amongst my people. But my “ They say Nowra’s not a racist town. that rake off the money. once the elders make a decision this people know this and they dont accept it. I’m talking about the days when this “ The Kangaroo Valley historical becomes law. They have decided that WE ARE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE. town was filthy, like every other town in museum was built out of the grant for we’re all aboriginals. We act on their “ Now is the time for us to unite. NSW. They used to rope us off in the aboriginal groups and built with koorie decisions. We’ve waited 200 years for a chance like pictures. If I took my wife and kids we labor, but it had nothing to do with “ When I go to Canberra on a National this. We’ve got to unite right across this were forced to sit down the front, roped blacks. The restoration o f the Shoalhaven Congress meeting I dont go on my own country from the east to the west and off like bloody animals. My missus has river bank was funded out of common­ initiative. I go right along this coast and I north to south. If there is a change of gone into Fossie’s to buy a dress and she wealth money for aboriginals. And that’s discuss all the policies with the elders. government in the next two years it’ll be for the benefit of the local white com­ They’re the ones making the decisions . . . the end of the aboriginal race, because wasnt allowed to try it on - because she munity - not the blacks. I’m only a mouthpiece. under a dirty filthy Liberal racist govern­ was black. She had to buy the dress and “ This is how the white european "T h ey’re trying to create divisions ment we’ll get nothing!”

pictures which he had developed ond year — and how his taxes 15 minutes later. keep students and bums like me in in the rural town of learning In A man’s world where strides universities or on the dole. He can cost yer $25 a pair I spoke told of the woes of outrageous that a group living together in eight day old baby had died. The astounding arrogance, “ So what. I with Maguire. He was in the com­ interest charges and 16V£ percent protest is a group that can be man was out of work. The land­ have handled black bans before in rates. His rents arent high he mobilised for protest. lord proposed to put six CAE Albury, Wagga and Bathurst.” pany of his financial backer Doug explains. Others are charging $10 students in at $60 per week and So placards and pickets were Jackson and in minutes their joint She had been handling com­ per person and he is charging only so gave the family four days arranged for thursday night shop­ crassness had blown my cool. I plaints from tenants and a particu­ eight dollars (six to seven people notice. ping. Groups of students walked was raging. Heads like these, I was larly outrageous one had come to in a three-four bedroom house). up and down the shopping centre thinking, find their way to the top “ Why, arent you out picketing notice. In december 1973 a two Marea went to see the landlord. between Maguire’s shops. Surpris­ of pikes, come the peoples anger. others?” he asks. He tells how he bedroom house was rented at $23 His name is Greg Maguire and he ing sympathy was shown by other employs blacks - he has a trend­ per week. In january 1974 it was is a 20 year old, confident hip Q: “ Was a punch thrown at the shoppers, for previously students ily dressed black as a shop assist­ rented as a four bedroom (with­ capitalist. He owns nine other picketers outside?” were seen as the cause of high ant. He tells of the charities he out any alteration whatsoever), properties in Armidale which he rents. “ We’re with you,” said a A: “ My solicitor has advised supports, like crippled children, furnished house at $47 per week also rents. He also owns two pair of pensioner ladies. “ I’ll bring me not to answer questions and the Police Boys Club (where (three beds and one couch had clothing shops called Jeaneration it up at the next Chamber of (laughs). If I had been there it he does his weight training). And been added). A young aboriginal and A man’s world Sparks flew at Commerce meeting,” said a quite would have connected.” he scoffs at the idea that com­ family had taken it at that price. the meeting and Marea threatened irate burgher. And the local And so on. munes or any community can The woman has a 12 month old to set up a black ban on his shops photographic storekeeper hurried He told about the chip on his work except when based on greed baby and only a fortnight ago her to which Maguire replied with out of his darkroom to take news shoulder - he left school at sec­ like his own. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974 — Page 7 I N ERRATIC, rather ratty rave this IGHT on to Whitlam’s referenda to heads, lefties, radicals, feminists and A week, as I cannot find (without Rfor rehabilitation of municipal more of today's people . . . who see the contrivance) a linking thread to all the councils. It will probably be chucked out world in mechanistic terms and divide thoughts that tumble about this befud­ by the voters in the senate elections public personalities into Good Guys and dled brain like Grapeshot. So — a lucky through sheer spite, who will thus be Gals and Bad Guys and Gals. These are dip. chucking away a kind of freedom. The the people who complain to Nation re­ At last, the government is fan faring a only answer to continuing state corrup­ view about the presence of Knopfel- negative income tax, which means the tion, is to to de-ball the heavies and to macher . . . who muscle Enoch Powell poor will be paid by the less poor. This spread the loot among the undernourish­ from university auditoriums . . . who are modest, logical reform, has taken a long ed local bodies, which in turn will en­ blind to the charm and grace and wit of time coming and presumably the income courage greater participation by indi­ Malcom Muggeridge, and so on, right applies to the voluntary unemployed, the viduals in decisions affecting their own down to the measly intolerance exuded layabouts. The last thing Australia needs is communities . . . to everyday acquaintances. Fertile and more drones. Every single addition to the articulate minds, however unpalatable workforce is a boost to the creation of * * * their outpourings, should arouse stimulat­ meaningless products, inflation, pollution ing mental swordsplay, not disgust. HE CONVENTiONALITY of Mel­ and a host o f other inconveniences. Practically no one is a conscious vil­ burnians verges on the morbid. Of Whereas every addition to the layabout T lain. Nixon believes his objectives are all prehistoric obsessions that suffocate community greatly enhances Gross Na­ honorable. If one circulates among many tional Pleasure, as well as boosts the the city, it is the instinct to couple which people, regardless of their political be­ runs most rampant. The majority of balance of dreams and fantasies (normally liefs, the absurdity of most personal people are so terrified of aloneness that cribbed from overseas). hatred becomes obvious. Oh, one must they devote their lives to finding a twit­ take stands and all that, otherwise one It is time people were encouraged to secret societies, party organisations — tering companion, as with most cities, but ends up nibbling sauerkraut at Hitlers join the dole queue, made to feel proud, which go on in our city ...” Melbourne contains no floating popula­ dinner table (or most probably sniffing informed that not “ producing” is itself a Why continue? Just remember that tion of single free flowers. Everyone has a some of Goering’s famous cocaine) . . . contribution to future sanity. Gaudy this human cornerstone of western phi­ mate, duly possessed and constantly but the prejudices of today’s young Turks revellers in wealth will someday come to losophy and scientific method, would still paraded. Occasionally one observes the has made most rad-lib journalism a be seen as objects of pity, perhaps con­ be considered a moral outcast by most haunted expression of men and women thoroughly predictable bore and con­ tempt, rather than be draped with knight­ today; especially the Libs. between gruesome twosomes, looking at versations at hairy pubs become a litany hoods and emulated. Heroes of a materi­ their watches, as they hurry on down the of slogans inflated to soliloquys. alist age will yet become moral dinos- * * * tunnel of imagined love . . . and hopefully Attempts at “ ideas playing” meet with saurs. hastily to a dreary nuclear home. Even a nervous grin or a sledgehammer politi- When Socrates was convicted of cor­ among people who should know better, cism. People have lost the courage to rupting the minds of the young, he was HE SMALLER the town, the more life has become merely someone to come examine their convictions . . . or to dig up asked to plea to the court as to what T pompous the mayor . . . what an ass home to . . . Wake up Melburnians, you the cement of inherited conclusions . . sentence be imposed. (Customary alter­ we make of ourselves over the national boring, static, nuclear hasbeens . . . love the plurality they demand of a future natives: death, jail, fine or exile.) Socrates anthem, plumping for the martial mock freely, move loosely, live longer. society is belied by the singularity with argued that as he had devoted his life to heroics o f Advance Australia fair and which they view the present one. * * * persuading men to think less of material rejecting the haunting uniqueness of benefits than of their moral and mental Waltzing Matilda — if one accepts opinion * * * well being, he deserved reward, not polls, which I dont and won’ t. Most SCAR WILDE once characterised punishment, and that the state owed him survey questionnaires are completed by Olord Alfred Douglas as one who AVID FROST now says that he a living. “ Nothing could be more ap­ weary student employees o f research could not “ play gracefully with ideas but D hates women. He doesnt know any propriate” , he told his accusers, “ than agencies hurrying up their piece work. arrived at violence of opinion merely” . women. David Frost is the glamorous free maintenance at the state’s expense” Opinion polls have been wrong in major This son of the Marquis o f Queensberry international embodiment of the work . . . a statement that the Whitlam govern­ elections . . . and they are basically a (Bosie) turns out to be the father of our ethic; toiling frenziedly on three con­ ment may not disagree with; whereas the device of conformism and control, per­ age, and the Wilde one’s criticism of him tinents . . . members of his production elders of Athens dished out the hemlock. fected by ad agencies to con clients and saturates the spectacle of life today: dont crew are easily recognised by the stench A final quote: “ I have never lived an worshipped by the press as a sales restora­ you think? of amphetimine armpits as they run into ordinary quiet life. I did not care for the tive. Opinion polls are the enemy of It is easily recognised as stark intoler­ a room. Even as he sits on the lavatory, things that most people care about: mak­ individuality . . . how often has your ance to ideas different from one’s own. Frost is known to carry on with think ing money, having a comfortable home, opinion ever been sought? OK you dreary This is not confined to crochety wowers tank conferences, dragging his reluctant high military or civil rank and all the bombasts, choose Advance Australia fair, or rascist bucolic alfs — one expects staff with him into the bathroom. other activities — political appointments, but I aint never gonna singalong. bigotry from such quarters — but applied Would you marry the man? The mind factory is back in business Y THE time this TLD ap­ than change them - thus the since I was 16 and screwing since I time it was different - the ting down the arabs. Such organis­ B pears at the newsagents, engineering ocka writes himself could handle it, and besides I can vacuum was very quickly filled ation, coupled with the strong 200,000 student inputs will have off at the pub six times in the get it cheaper.” with angry jews. For . the AUS - pro-jewish bias in our culture re-entered the education machine. week instead of the one his study * * * with an eye to democracy — is means that the AUS motions will Even those who arrived at Uni/ timetable will normally allow. AT ITS annual council in january, sending these motions to each probably be smashed. But at least CAE for the first time in 1974 are Tribes of first year girls, fresh out the Australian Union o f Students campus to be voted on in student the three miEion Palestinian refu­ really going back to school for the of public school and just back passed motions supporting the meetings in the next couple of gees have become a political issue. 13th year in a row. Seven months from three months at Surfers or Palestine Liberation Organisation weeks (majority support will Not everyone is taking it too to the exams, folks . . . Eden or Portsea or whatever, sip and denying the state o f Israel the make them AUS policy) and al­ seriously. The Royal Melbourne However, the machine’s initial coffee and appraise the hordes of right to exist on the grounds that ready the jewish students societies Institute of Technology’s student impact is carefully muted. In the wouldbe fresher fuckers slowly “ the Palestine people have the have started a national “ NO” cam­ SRC decided to vote on behalf of past few weeks it has been subtly circling them. historical, cultural and moral right paign. its students, but this responsibility breaking in raw material all over The heavy politicos come out to the land of Palestine presently And on a rather large scale, was easily handled. Rather than the country, with a device called of their filing cabinets and hand embraced by Israel” . The Zionists have get tied up in boring political Orientation Week. (Sometimes, out advice to all and sundry. Now, student bureaucrats distributed argument, it allowed Arnold Roth depending on how long they think Some of this benevolence is mis­ passing motions in a vacuum has 80,000 and an AUS speaker one and a it will take you to be sucked in, it placed: one Monash student wrote happened often ______colored half minutes each and then took a is called Orientation Day.) to L ot’s wife as follows: “ Just for enough, but / . „ propaganda vote. * * * The official aim of Orientation the information of all those this ( Y O U j badges THE REGISTRAR of Tasmanian Week is simply to help first year (cost abou groovy, with-it, far-fucking-out D I S G U S T / CAE, a gentleman known as students get their bearings. In dope fiends who edited $5000) Black, has got things neatly practice just about all students the Orientation HE and have wrapped up. He was the man who seem to truck along, which en­ Handbook, thanks for sent their drew up the CAE constitution, president, ables fulfillment of the real pur­ all that handy and in it he included a provision Arnold pose — to gently transfer them all information on sex giving the registrar tenure for life. Roth, all unwarily from summer into the and dope, but This means the man can only be over the knowledge business, ready and I’ve been sacked if an act of parliament is country, willing to be processed. Purely as tripping put through to change the CAE put­ an exercise in orientation it is constitution. actually a failure, for thousands of * * * A FEW days ago a rather bewild­ people being spontaneous and ered Malcolm Fraser was sighted having a good time is about as wandering round RMIT. He ap­ unreal an introduction to the proached several people and asked machine as it is possible to con­ them if they knew where a ceive. “ Greek meeting” was being held. The sociology of Orientation Malcolm, it seems, was doing a bit Week is interesting though. Many of crawling after the ethnic vote tired, cynical academics undergo a but had got the address wrong. He remarkable metamorphosis: with finally left when one student told Pepsodent smiles they revel in the him that as a former minister for friendship o f hundreds o f students education he ought to have some before locking themselves in the idea what RMIT looked like. offices for the rest of the year. After all, it has a particularly Others are content merely to, crowded and dingy atmosphere extend their personalities rather- that is quite unforgettable. SIMON MARCINSON Page 8 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974 Kids contributions can be sent I to either the Sydney or Melbourne monitor. If you live elsewhere, choose either one and enclose a stamped addressed envelope. MELBOURNE: Rob King, “ Lodge Ralph’’, David Road, Lilydale. SYDNEY: John Geake, Residence 8, Calien Park Hospital, Rozelle, NSW

HILE the school holidays drew MacLean could be relied her apron strings. My father is an please. tional learning through their rejec­ W were on we ‘asked kids to upon to set his mind to the adult dry-cleaning commercial, Jennie MacPherson wrote from tion o f the scholasticism of Con­ tell us what they were doing with serious business of getting stuck who uses Solvol for no purpose Queensland "T o all the stoned fucius. It is hard to see that it themselves. Judging from the mail into the system. His thoughts arise but to keep clean. I’m holding this fish everywhere . . . with love, a would do much good to criticise we received (and the mail we out of a seminar he attended pen rather tightly, feeling my frus­ considerable amount of good Confucius out here, but a two­ didnt receive) the answer seems to during the holidays on self-assess­ tration. School is just another luck, and an aspro” . pronged attack on Pythagoras and have been anything unconnected ment, and a reading of John engine” . Interesting sounding It’s good to see that everyone sir Isaac Newton could well raise with school. Maybe it was our Holt’s The underachieving school. stuff, which develops into a well had such a nice holiday. However, the level of consciousness in the fault for prematurely setting the M.E. sent in a piece which nigh incomprehensible exegesis on during this time our revolutionary average maths class. first English essay topic for the begins, “ Hell, my mother is a engines and traffic. The author comrades in Chinese schools have In the meantime keep those year. drip-dry soap commercial. The notes at the end, “ I’ve got more once again seized the initiative in reports, outbursts, tirades, and However, “ old faithful” An- children stand at her feet and pull stuff like this if you want it” . Yes the world struggle against tradi­ artistic flowerings, flowing in. - R O B KING School: the graveyard of learning O O f t _ X i t t H i * W I T t r HERE’S JUST no need to T develop a child’s capacity to V JH W WK.1 TKVtl I A U ^ judge performance etc — kids all have an inbuilt capability to do cMteAtog**, 14 \f moo this but school destroys it by enticing the student with success kt in the form of high marks, honors Cu- wm**, ^ Htt W . C> i Sr and “ acceptance” . Perhaps the greatest of all the wrongs we do to children is to deprive them of the chance to judge the worth of their own work and thus destroy in them the power to make such * judgments, or even believe they can. We see two and three year olds, continually comparing their own talk to the talk of people around them; five and six year olds teach­ ing themselves to read, figuring out each new word on a page, continually checking what they know against what they have done, what they dont know against what they know. Then we see fifth graders handing in arith­ metic papers and asking the teach­ A Sydney schoolkid's view o f religious education er anxiously “ Is it right?” They have arrived at the perverted idea patient, determined, energetic, In school, he learns how not to In some circumstances, of knowledge. But virtually none of that Right is what the teacher says skilful learner. We sit him down at work when the boss isnt looking, course, tests are necessary. People the testing done in schools is of is Right and the only way to find a desk, and what do we teach how to know when he is looking, test themselves to check their own this kind. out if something is Right is to ask him? Many things. First, that how to make him think you are progress. The typist types exer­ Students are not, as a rule, the teacher. learning is separate from living. working when you know he is cises to increase her rate per min­ tested to prove they can perform Almost every child, on the first “ You come to school to learn,” looking. He learns that in real life ute. The tennis player serves doz­ activities they have chosen for day he sets foot in a school we say, as if the child hadnt been you dont do anything unless you ens of balls, trying to place them themselves, without endangering building, is smarter, more curious, learning before, as if living were are bribed, bullied or conned into accurately in this or that comer, other people or running a collec­ less afraid of what he doesnt out there and learning were in doing it, that nothing is worth is done for very different reasons, tive enterprise. Testing in schools know, better at finding and figur­ here and there was no connection doing for its own sake, or that if it and by and large we are not ing things out, more confident, - ANDREW MacLEAN between the two. Secondly, that is, you can’t do it in school. He very honest about these reasons. * * * resourceful, persistent and in­ he cannot be trusted to learn and learns to be bored, to work with a To the public we say that we dependent, than he will ever again is no good at it. Everything we do small part of his mind, to escape better know how to help them You sit down, and they tell be in his schooling. Already, by about reading, a task far simpler from the reality around him into to learn more. This is about 95 you it’s not good enough paying close attention to and in­ than what the child has already daydreams and fantasies - but percent untrue. There are two You hit the ground, your brain teracting with the world and peo­ mastered, says to him, “ If we not fantasies like those of his main reasons why we test children: is scattered to the far reaches of ple around him, and without any dont make you read, you won’t, preschool years, in which he play­ the first is to threaten them into the earth school-type formal instruction, he and if you dont do it exactly the ed a very active part. He comes to doing what we want done, and the Then they put you in a pound has done a task far more difficult, way we tell you, you can’t.” learn that school is just one long second is to give us a basis for You crack a joke to keep amus­ complicated and abstract than lesson on How To Turn Yourself handing out rewards and penalties ed, but only you laugh because anything he will be asked to do in Off. on which the educational system the joke’s on them. Ha! Ha! school or than any o f his teachers In short, he comes to feel that Schooling does an incredible —1 like all coercive systems - must Then, shit! You die laughing has done for years. He has solved learning is a passive process, some­ number of horrible things to kids operate. The threat o f a test So the bastards come up with the mystery of language. He has thing that someone else does to but most o f these are a direct makes students do their assign­ some crap about it being nature’s discovered it, and he has found you, instead of something you do result of testing. Almost all edu­ ment; the outcome o f the test way. Ha! Ha! out how it works and learned to for yourself. cators feel that testing is a neces­ enables us to reward those who That’s what turns you to stone use it. He has done it by explor­ , He learns many other things. sary part of education. I wholly seem to do it best. The economy in your machine-made box in ing, by experimenting, by develop­ He leams that to be wrong, uncer­ disagree - I do not think that of the school, like that o f most your machine-made grave. ing his own model o f the grammar tain, confused, is a crime. Right testing is necessary, or useful, or societies, operates on greed and Because it’s all a lie, spelt of language, by trying it out and answers are what the school even excusable. At best, testing fear. Tests arouse the fear and m. v. d. seeing whether it works, by grad­ wants, and he learns countless does more harm than good; at satisfy the greed. And pebble tears come crash­ ually changing it and refining it strategies for prying these answers worst, it hinders, distorts and cor­ Children are sensible people if ing out in tidal strength until it does work. And while he out o f the teacher, for conning rupts the learning process. Testers we give them half a chance to act Then eons into the future, you has been doing this, he has been her into thinking he knows what say that testing techniques are as if they were. Can we not treat grow yourself some gills and swim learning a great many other things he doesnt know. He learns to being continually improved and children with the same respect away as well, including a great many of dodge, bluff, fake, cheat. He can eventually be perfected. May­ and courtesy that we would offer Then when you think about the “ concepts” that the schools learns to be lazy. Before he came be so — but no imaginable im­ to any other human being? With your situation and giggle wildly, think only they can teach him, to school, he would work for provement in testing would over­ schooling the way it is, the answer Guess wot? and many that are more compli­ hours on end, on his own, with no come my objections to it. Our seems to be “ N o” . You’re a stoned fish Ha! Ha! cated than the ones they do try to thought of reward, at the business chief concern should not be to In short, all serious practice can And it’s still a lie teach him. of making sense of the world and improve testing, but to find ways be seen as a way in which the In he comes, this curious, gaining competence in it, to eliminate it. learner tests his own skill and - JENNIE MacPHERSON □ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974-P a g e 9 MAGIC MUSH II

DUTCH FRED

N ANSWER to “Anxious” (TLD, ate two each and ended up in hospital. plates, but I think that’s a kids story. I 2/7) I hereby deliver up all infor­ Goldtops, naturally, differ in size but Sometimes you may be lucky and mation I know on the subject o f magic they’re nearly always circular, and they find a magic circle, a ring of Goldtops mushrooms. Most of it is personal, some are a creamy color with a yellowy-gold with a red and white speckled mush­ not, and probably some of it is bullshit, blotch in the centre (natch). This color­ room inside. I’ve seen one and dont but it’s here, anyway. ing (gold) does not stop abruptly but believe the red and white variety The mushrooms growing in Australia rather fades into the cream. The stalks (Amanita Muscaria - the kind found in are commonly known as Goldtop, Blue are the same creamy color as the caps, fairy story books) grows in Australia. I Meanies (shades of Yellow Submarine!) and the underside o f the cap (fins or was told o f one being found at Kuranda, and Silvertop, or White Angel of Death. rays or whatever) is a browny color, but all the people who saw it were I think the latin names for the first two more dark than light. When picked (out already tripping, anyway. Goldtops have are Amanita Citrana (Goldtop) and of cow shit, naturally), unless the stalk a thick stalk and look like normal Amanita Phalloides (Blue Meanies) but I is broken, the bottom of the mushie mushies in nearly every respect, the can’t be sure . should be a vase sort of shape with main difference being the coloring and a Goldtops and Silvertops seem to ragged bits of mushie skin hanging off flatter cap. grow pretty profusely along the whole it. Blue Meanies look very much like east coast of Australia, with not many Goldtops with no gold. They are a The mushroom stalk should turn Blue Meanies, and the position is rever­ uniform creamy color on cap and stalk, blue within about 30 seconds of pluck­ sed in Darwin. (This being the extent o f and are brown underneath the cap. ing if it doesnt split the stalk. The my travels.) Goldtops and Blue Meanies amount o f blue coloring denotes the They also should turn blue, a lot Dluer give a pleasant stone (understatement) amount of Psylocibin, the active ingredi­ than m ost Goldtops and a lot quicker. but Silvertops are supposedly deadly. I ent in the mushroom The more Silvertops, or White Angels of Death, can’t comment on this as I’ve never tried (deeper) blue, the better off you are. have a flat white cap and the stalk is a them, but I met a guy at Kuranda, near Goldtops are usually about two inches lot longer and thinner than Goldtops or Cairns, who claimed that he across the cap when “ ripe” but I’ve Meanies. The underside of and a friend found a few as big as a large saucer, and the cap is a I’ve heard of them as big as dinner

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grey-silver color and the mushrooms are pick the mushroom, be nice, say hello slimy to touch. When picked they do before you uproot it, and believe. Just not turn blue. As Silvertops contain a as dope grows nice and tall if you love small amount o f Psylocibin, they may it, so do mushrooms flock to those who be a very, very light blue, hardly enough love them. to notice. Tell the two apart by break­ Dried out old mushrooms, if they’re ing the stalk open along its length and really dry, can be smoked, but they exposing it to the air. Goldtops and have to be mixed with tobacco before Meanies are “ meatier” inside than Sil­ they’ll burn. Crush them first, please. vertops, which have a stalk more like a What kind of a stone you get I’m not tube. If the inside o f the stalk doesnt around Brisbane (they report “ poison­ sure, as I’ve always been tripping before­ turn blue in a matter o f seconds, blow ings” pretty regularly in the paper), hand, but I’m told it’s pretty good. hard on it two or three times. If it still Noosa Heads, Ballina, Nimbin, Coffs Overindulgence over a long period doesnt change color, you’ve scored a Harbor, Grafton (big bastards, 2m can produce “ Psylocibin poisoning” , Silvertop. What you do then is up to north of the 3-way intersection just during which condition the body breaks you. outside town, left side of the road, out in small round sores, which some­ All three varieties grow only in cow- facing north), Buladelah, Dungog, Ray­ times “ weep” and bleed. It also pro­ shit and I’ve been told only in dairy-cow mond terrace, Hexham, Taree, Maitland, duces continual headache, nausea, fucks shit, but I'm not sure o f this. Goldtops Cessnock, Kurri-Kurri and Newcastle. up your sense of balance, and leaves you and Meanies can be cooked, either in a I’ve heard they grow around Melbourne, generally feeling like someone’s building stew or on their own for toast, etc. If near the peninsula, and Sydney but your coffin. A few of us went down you can handle the taste, they can also wouldnt know for sure. I suppose any­ with this at Kuranda after tripping once be eaten raw, especially if you disguise where where there are cows is a good a day, and a lot of times, twice a day, them slightly with peanut butter or bet. for 3-4 weeks solid. Psylocibin is alien to vegemite (or some such crap) sand­ Mushrooms are pretty much a one the human system, and the body needs wiches. On their own, raw, they taste day affair, growing-wise, it’s best to go time to get rid of it. Tripping too often like old stale bread (to me, anyway). picking around 9.00 am, after they’ve doesnt give your body this chance and Taken on an empty stomach, or had a few hours sun and before they get you “ overload” your digestive system merely with whatever you use to get too much heat and dry up and the and, I think, poison your blood to a them down, they seem to work quicker worms get them. If your mushy is certain extent. and better than after a heavy meal. If wormy (little white, fat maggoty Mushies can be juiced up in an you wash the mushies down with Coca- things), you can throw it away. But I’m extractor and mixed with port wine or Cola the whole thing will start quicker told if you cook the mushroom they’re some other alcohol to fool the pigs still. (At least Coke’s useful for some­ OK and you won’t die. I’ve never tried when they come round. thing.) Towards the end of the trip it. All three varieties are listed as Coke can be useful too, to prolong it. Once picked, mushrooms tend to dry poisonous plants, under the Poisons Act Mushies seem to have different effects out rather rapidly and take on the or some such shit. If you overeat depending on where they grow. The appearance and texture of old shoe mushrooms you’ll be sick. You can eat a mushies at Nimbin are “ fast” while the leather, but normally, if kept some­ few, and then suddenly be unable to ones at Kuranda slow you down. where dark, will last maybe two days. swallow any more, you’ll feel like your Mushies in Darwin and Newcastle alter They can be kept immersed in honey or going to puke. That’s your body saying your sense of height, you feel 100 ft. syrup, this way they’re supposed to “ Uncle” . Most people I know normally tall. They are very giggly, but easy to keep for over a week, but again I cannot get o ff on about three, but a lot handle. attest to this, as I’ve never gotten depends on size, color and the indivi­ Specifically, I know them to grow in around to waiting that long. When ,you dual. That’s about the extent of my the following places: Darwin (Humpty knowledge, but I hope it may help Doo, 40m south), Kuranda, Cairns, all someone, somewhere. the way down Queensland’s coast,

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BABY with Hepburn, $3.00 p.a.), 4.00 pm, 6.00 NFTA’s OFF HOLLY­ Russia: Art Gallery of 2.00-7.00 pm pm. R A D IC A L FILMS — Terra DOC WILLIS JAZZ Grant, ROOM SE R V IC E W O OD SERIES — Taking NSW, t o . 30 am (for the A L HEAD AND Em Transe plus Let The B A N D : Albury hotel, with Marx Bros: Union W ILD LIFE FILMS by Off plus Minnie and unemployed?), $1.00. FR IEN D S: Red Riley wine People Awake (Chile): Oxford street, Paddo. T h eatre, Sydney Uni, Robert Raymond: Opera Muskowitz: Aust Govt A HISTORY OF EROTIC bar, Surry Hills. Union Theatre, Sydney EAST COAST JAZZ 12.30 pm, $1.00. House, continuous from Centre theatrette, Phillip A R T — Dirty slides, FOLK/CONTEMPOR­ Uni, 7.30 pm, fri, sat, sun BAND: Unity Hall hotel, THE MARX BROS GO 10.00 am to 6.00 pm, and Hunter streets, $1.20, mister?: Humanist House, ARY: Edinburgh castle, only, $1.50. Balmain. WEST and A L E X IN $2.00, kids $1.00. 7.15 pm, members only 10 Shepherd street, 284 Pitt street, 26-6943. MATCHLESS (V. DEEP BAYOU: Stage WONDERLAND: Qoin at door for $3.00 per Chippendale, 212-2038, Door tavern, 211-0411. PACT FOLK: YWCA Papadopoulos '73): Film ­ annum). 7.45 pm, free. Academy Twin, Paddo, D O N D E SILVA: Cellar, Liverpool street. GARDENING makers Cinema, 31.3237, FRENCH C IN E M A — Last 11.30 pm, $2.00. Macquarie hotel, The ’Loo, City. tuesday-saturday, 8.00 pm; Year at Marienbad: 7.30-10.00 pm. ANN KIRKPATRICK, BAND ASSOCIATION OF 6.00 pm & 8.00 pm sat. Filmmakers Cinema, THURSDAY RHYTHM AND BLUES COLIN WATSON, DOUG NSW — 17th Battalion MIDNIGHT COWBOY — 31-3237, $1.00 members JAZZ BAND: White Horse RICHARDSON, plus R e g im e n t play their uncut!: Academy Twin only, 6.00, 10.00 pm FOLK THEATRE hotel, 21 King street, o th ers: Shack Folk, version of brassed reality at Cinema, Paddo, $2.50, Brookvale (near entrance 2.30, 5.15, 8.05 pm Newtown, 7.00-10.00 pm, EROS AND THANATOS: Hyde Park and Victoria DON M O R R ISO N : Red free. to mall), 8.30-1.00 am, Park respectively: VOYAGES Riley wine bar, Surry Hills. PACT, 264 Pitt street, $ 1. 00. 3.00-4.30 pm, very free. R E D LION F O L K City, 8.30 pm, STAGE free/donation. O C E A N M O N A R C H : CENTRE: Red Lion inn, ROCK Leaves 10.00 am from THE EAGLE HAS TWO TH E T A M IN G FORCE by 344 Pitt street, City, JAZZ KIDS C irc u la r quay. Bring 8.00-10.00 pm. H EAD S: See fri. Paul Burns — play about a WITCH’S BREW, failed commune: Old streamers. One thousand BEDRO CK: Chequers. DON DE S IL V A : Louis BATMAN, DESERT passengers, 15 day cruisers Church, cnr Palmer and T R A N S IT IO N : Oceanic tavern, Paddo (afternoon). HAWK, LAUREL AND on board. Cheer them, fall KIDS Stanley streets. East ROCK hotel. D A V E STEVENS and HARDY: Filmmakers in the water. Be fined by Sydney, 8.00 pm, $2.00, B ULLET: Brighton hotel. M E R V ACHESO N: Belle­ Cinema, Dario, 2.00 pm FLAKE, JACKI BATMAN, DESERT sat, sun, mon only. the water police. Enjoy vue hotel, Paddo, 3.00- IT A M B U : St M ary’s band HAWK, LAUREL AND THE MAGIC TRAVEL THE HOSTAGE by yourself. Pretend you’re CHRISTIAN, FLIGHT: club. 6.00 pm. HARDY: Filmmakers BOX: see sat. B ren d an Behan: Arts going too, go, don’t come Chequers. ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: Cinema, 31-3237, 2.00 pm. Theatre, Surf road, back. Send us a post card. T R A N S IT IO N : Oceanic Vanity Fair hotel, TV, R A D IO ADVENTURES IN FOC— Cronulla, 523-6888, 8.15 hotel. 4.0Q.-7.00 pm panto-type collection of VIDEO pm, fri, sat, only. 69ERS: Brighton hotel. JAZZ ON A FRIDAY NOEL CROW’S STONED fairy tales: Independent, TH E F AN T ASTI CS: Bondi N IG H T — Eric Child: ABC C R O W S : Red Ned’s, BUSH VIDEO THEATRE North Sydney, 60c, adults Pavilion Theatre, 30-7211, Chatswood, 8.30-11.30 Radio 1, 7.1 5 pm. twice the price. — Duval Creek workshop tues-fri 8.30 pm, sat, sun WEDNESDAY JAZZ pm. BY LOVE POSSESSED — THE MAGIC TRAVEL — video space workshop.- 5.00, 8.30 pm, $3.50, DOC W ILLIS: Beresford Feutron Building, 31 Bay FOLK movie with Lana Turner, BOX — kids fantasy by $4.00. PETER BOOTHMAN hotel, Surry Hills, Efram Zimbalist, stops John Mulligan: New street, Glebe, 8.00 pm, THE PHILANTHROPIST ENSEMBLE: Limerick where Bob, Ted, Alice etc 7.30-10.00 pm $ 1. 0 0 . JOHN EWBANK: Harry’s Theatre, Newtown, — a good drama, lotsa Castle, 7.30- 1 2.00 starts: Chan 10, 9.00 pm D O N D E SILVA: wine bar, 165 Flinders 519-3403, 2.15 pm, 70c. humor, a little blood: midnight. PASTOR DAVID KIRK Macquarie hotel, The 'Loo, street, Dario, 8.00-10.00 Independent, North DICK HUGHES: Stage HOPES FOR AN ALL 7.30-1 0.00 pm pm. Sydney, 929-7377, 8.15 Door tavern, 211-0411, BLACK C H U R C H — hear BLUES WITH JOHN MONDAY 7.00-10.00 pm. pm, wed-sat only. this angle: ABC Radio 2, BURKE: Limerick Castle, SUNDAY FOLK NO NEED FOR TWO IAN MASON: Stage Door 10.1 5 pm. Surry Hills, 7.30-12.00 ROCK B L A N K E T S : Australian tavern, 7.00-10.00 pm. TV , R A D IO IN C O N CER T with Curtis midnight. FOREDAY RIDERS: DARTS KELIMOCUM Mayfield, Seals and Crofts, DEEP BAYOU: Stage F L A K E : Victoria Park, present Bob Pomeroy, WEATHER, RIVER Door Tavern, 211-0411, Continued over page 1.00 pm, free. A LIFTOUT GUIDE TO W H A T’S ON IN THE WEEK AHEAD. LISTINGS ARE FREE

THE H Y IN G DAYLIQHTS, rpar,ch 12,-1?, 1974— Page 13 A t MELBOURNE Chris & Eva 51 .9 5 6 3 or leave messages SK Y H O O K S : San Remo FRANK TRAYNOR: FILM C O N DO R (Sanjines) and 51.7425, write Flat 8, No. 7 Irving Exchange hotel, hotel. TOUT VA BIEN: Union BLUESTO NE: Di Marco’s SYDNEY avenue, Windsor, 3181. Cheltenham. PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM theatre, Melbourne uni NICHOLSON STREET hotel, Essendon. (M) and HERONIUS Union building, 7.45 pm. CONTINUED FILMS JOHN RUPERT AND THE REBOPPERS: Polaris Inn MERKEN (M): Trak, 445 Tickets at theatre office, or H ENC H M E N : Whitehorse hotel, Carlton. Toorak road, 11.45 pm, 347.4186. TUESDAY BIG BROWN EYES (1936, hotel, Nunawading. $ 2. 00. O N E ARMED Raoul Walsh) with Cary BIG PUSH: Croxton Park iTheatre, Newtown, ROCK P O R T N O Y ’S COM­ SWORDSMAN: Capitol, Grant, Joan Bennett — FILM hotel, Preston. 181-5 101, wed-sat, 8.00 pm. PLAINT and THE 11.30, see friday. SHANGHAI GESTURE T R ID E N T S and PIPPA I JESTERS — an unusual A YERS ROCK: Gippsland CRIMSON PI RATE: (1 941, von Sternberg) Gene BLACK GOD WHITE PEREZ — a floorshow: TV I comedy thriller: N imrod Inst, of Tech., Churchill. Union theatre, Melbourne Tierney: NFTA, Dental DEVIL (R ocha) and Sundowner hotel, Geelong. [Theatre, 10 Nimrod street, B L U E S T O N E : Council uni Union building, 1.30 theatrette, cnr Grattan PHASE 2: George hotel, St WHEN THE GIRLS TAKE I Darling hurst, tues-sun 8.30 Club hotel, Preston. ANTONIO DAS MORTES: pm. street and Flemington Union theatre, Melbourne Kilda. OVER (Night Owl I pm, wed and sat 5.30, 8.45 KUSH: Croxton Park B A R R IE R (Skolimovski) road, Carlton, 8.15 pm. AZTECS, ABEL LODGE: I pm. hotel, Preston. uni Union building, 7.45 and T H E C H R O N IC L E OF Theatre) — sexist CONCERT FOR BANGLA pm. 96 Dance, Brighton town counter-revolutionary I t HE EMPIRE BUILDER: ANNA M A G D E L E N A DESH: Union theatre, hall. fantasy with a sad ending: ■ New Theatre, 542 King F A M IL Y LIFE (try to see BACH: Union theatre, Melbourne Uni Union it) and FU TTO C K S END RED HOUSE ROLL Channel 9 ,1 1 .2 0 pm. [street, Newtown, above address, 7.45 pm. building, 1.30 pm, tickets (no, it is not mispelt): BAND, KUSH: Southside 1519-3403, fri, sat, sun MAINLY VARIOUS IN­ LA STRADA: Alexander at the door. Alexander theatre, Monash 6, Moorabbin (afternoon). RADIO jonly, 8.15 pm, $2.00. TERESTING MUSICIANS: th e a tre , Monash uni, LA HORA DOS HORNOS uni, Clayton, 1.30 pm. GARY YOUNG’S FAT | ONE SEASON’S KING: Clayton, 7.30 pm. (parts 2 and 3) and W HEN RADICAL FILMS: S.Y.A. CATS, C LO UD 9: Blaises, W O RLD OF JAZZ — Eric ‘Q’ Lunch Hour Theatre, Commune coffee lounge, CATCH 22 — adaptation THE PEOPLE A W A K E — a Latrobe uni, 7.30 pm. Ormond hall, Prahran. Child: 3LO, 10.25 pm. I AMP Circular quay, 1.10 580 Victoria street, North of the book, one of the doco on Allende: Union S K Y L IG H T : Prospect Hill AMERICAN TOP 40: ] pm, mon-fri only. Melbourne. fin es t anti-war films: theatre, above address, MEETINGS hotel, Kew (afternoon), 3KZ, 7-10 pm. W HO’S WHO: Ensemble, PETER PARKHILL: Athenaeum theatre, Collins 7.45 pm. Matthew Flinders hotel, MY LOVE MUST W AIT— 1929-8877, 8.00 pm, sat Frank Traynors, 100 Little street, city, 10.30 pm. RADICAL FILMS: S.Y.A. IS T H E R E A N A T U R A L Chadstone (evening). Joy Hollyer. Life of I 5.00 pm, 8.00 pm. Lonsdale street, City. O N E ARMED Latrobe uni, 6.30 pm. P R E V E NTION AND MISSISSIPPI: Matthew Matthew Flinders: 3AR, SWORDSMAN — authentic Flinders hotel, Chadstone 8.30 pm. MUSIC CURE FOR CANCER?: Chinese film: Capitol, MEETINGS Moorabbin town hall, 7.45 (afternoon). EXHIBITIONISM Swanston street, 1 1.30 pm. pm. Put on by Bahai, Polaris Inn hotel, 551 COMMUNITY ACTION Presented by chairman of FOLK JUS AND OZ FUNK ART Nicholson street, North TV SUNDAY AND THE ENVIRON­ Natural Health Federation. I — or “ What's Funk Art and Carlton. M E N T : Hopefully practical INAUGURAL MEETING: PETER P A R K H ILL : Dan ROCK 1 Will It Sell?” : The A r THE TOTAL SEDUCTION I Gallery of NSW, mon-sat ways of how you can help Bayside Contact, Port O ’Connell, Carlton, 3-6 FILM — Hitler’s propaganda FA N TA S Y : Croxton Park 110.00 am-5.00 pm, thur improve/stop destruction Phillip Environment pm. techniques: Channel 2, 8 hotel, Preston. 1 0.00 am-11.00 pm, Sunday of our environment, with Centre, 14 Spring road, DUTCH TILDERS, LA H O RA DOS HORNOS pm. M IS S IS S IP P I: Icelands, 12.00 noon-5.00 pm. Jack Mundey (BLF), Keith Highett. PETER LILLEE, PETER (part 1) (Solanas) and THE MR AND MRS SMITH Ringwood. MIMI JAKSIC BERBER — T a r ra n t (Port Phillip INGLIS: Commune, North CHRONICLE OF ANNA TV (1941) — Golden Years of Melbourne, 10-3 am. CAPTAIN MATCHBOX, (“ Lyrical Abstraction”: Environment Centre), MAGDELENA BACH Chris Loohran (P.I.R.G.) Hollywood. More ancient GUESTS: Outpost Inn, BOOTLEG F A M IL Y : Will ISebert Galleries, 39 (Straub): Union theatre, THE JUDGE AND JAKE flicks for image watchers: Gabriel Lafitte, Colin City. play in Werribee, only 30 iG urned street, Paddo, W Y L E R (1972) — with Melbourne Uni Union Benjamin (VCOSS), Peter Channel 9, 12 midnite. PHIL DAY, MIKE miles away. mon-sat 11.00 am-6.00 building, 7.45 pm. Bette Davis: Channel 0, IN CONCERT: Allman I pm Ellyard (adviser to Moss O ’ROURKE", JULIE SID RUMPO: Sacred Heart FIVE SHORT FILMS — Cass): Robert Blackwood 9.30 pm. Bros, Blood Sweat and WONG, PETER church hall, St Albans. [STONEWARE POTTERY GEOFF STONE’S World in Scars, Dark, Fallow Fields, hall, Monash uni, 1.30 pm. Tears, Poco: Channel 7, PARKHILL: Frank SKYHOOKS, GLENROW- I by Janet Mansfield: Diugla Camera: Channel 2, 10.15 1 0.30 pm. Stephany, Isolated: Agora Traynors, City. AN, ROCK GRANITE, |Galleries, B a lm a in , theatre, Latrobe uni., 8.00 pm. THE AFRICAN QUEEN — 827-3018, thur-sat, 11.00 OUTDOORS DADDY COOL Show: pm, Free. UG ETSU (1953) — Drama yet again: Channel 7, JAZZ Ormond hall, Prahran. | am-6.00 pm 11.10 pm. T R I BU T E T O T H E fantasy set in 16th century A T L A S : St Vincent’s [JOHN WILLIAMS pics Japan: Channel 7, 11.10 MEETINGS G O O N S : Treasury DAVE RANKIN AND Y.C.W., Strathmore. (exhibition: Photographers pm. RADIO Gardens, 12.10 and 1.10 THE ELASTIC BAND: KUSH: Teazer, City. (Gallery, 30 Ebley street, GROUP MEDITATION: | Bondi Junction, 389-0626, pm. Lemon Tree hotel, 10 SKYLIGHT: W in s to n Ananda Marga, 141 Barkly A R R E S T IN G MUSIC by RADIO THE PRIMARY YEARS: Grattan street, Carlton, 3-6 Charles, Toorak. | mon-fri 11.00 am-5.00 pm, 3AR, 7.15 pm. street, Carlton. the Police Band: Flagstaff pm. | sat 11.00am -4.00 pm. B U X T E H U D E and MISSA Gardens, 12.10 and 1.10 THE PLANT with MIFFY: FOLK BREVIS IN G — Bach: OUTDOORS pm. Polaris Inn hotel, Carlton. 3AR, 3.00 pm. JUNCTION CITY JAZZ PETER PARKHILL and DISTRACTIONS ARRESTING MUSIC — by BOOKS AND IDEAS: SATURDAY TV BAND: Prospect Hill hotel, more! Outpost Inn, City. 3AR, 7.15 pm. the Police Band (would ROCK Kew. D A N N Y SPOONER and lATOMIC ENERGY A MERRY PROGRESS: you believe): Treasury BLOW UP (1 966), VICTORIAN JAZZ CLUB: GORDON MACINTYRE: EXHIBITION — the Gardens, 12.10, 1.10 pm. 3AR, 1 0.15 pm. (A n to n io n i) — David MATT TAYLOR, RED Manor House hotel, City. Frank Traynors, City. (ultimate buzz: Australian TRIBUTE TO THE Hemmings and Vanessa HOUSE ROLL BAND, Atomic Energy GOONS: Flagstaff Redgrave, Vera Miles, FO X : Get It On at the FILM WHATEVER Commission, New Gardens, 12.10, 1.10 pm. FRIDAY lllawarra road, Lucas Verushka, Jill Kennington F.P.C.Y. Club, Frankston. ROCK SELF COMMUNICA­ Heights, 9.00 am-4.00 pm, — about trendy London: MADDER L A K E : CATCH 22 — adaptation TV of the book, one of the TIONS PROPOSITIONS: free. Channel 7, 9.00 pm. Caulfield town hall. AZTECS, ARTHUR UNI OF NSW FOOD THE LOVEMAKERS (AO) A Y E R S ROCK, fin es t anti-war films: Commune, North WAR AND PEACE: FU N K : Whitehorse hotel, Athenaeum, City, 10.30 CO-OP: crammed duck, (1962), Jean-Paul Belmon­ MACKENZIE THEORY, Melbourne. If you’re not in Channel 2, 8 pm. Nunawading. DUTCH TILDERS: pm. this scene you dont know out of stock: mon-fri do, Claudia Cardinale, Paul T H E CHAPMAN RED HOUSE ROLL BLOOD OF THE where it’s at, man. 12.30-2.30 pm, 4.30-5.30 Frankeur — drama: Teazer. REPORT: Heavy BAND: Sundowner hotel, J pm, thur 5.00-9.00 pm. Channel 7, 11.20 pm. sociological nostalgia, Geelong. ITARONG A ZOO — eat Channel 7, 11.10 pm. PHASE 2: George hotel, St 1 there or take away, RADIO whatever’s yuh bag: Ferry Kilda. RADIO C LO U D N INE: Prospect from number 5 wharf, JEANNIE LEWIS AND THE CONTEMPORARY Hill hotel, Kew. Circular quay, info T H E MAID OF BAND OF L I G H T , 969-2777, $1.50, kids 40c. AUSTRALIAN SONG — ORLEANS: Tchaikovsky’s PA NTHER : Teazer, City. NSW SQUARE DANCE Selections from Free Fall Opera, 3AR, 8.00 pm. FO X: Jan’s Dance, Lincoln SOC — The Happiest through Featherless Flight: Room, Trak Centre, 445 1 Looking People In Town 3AR, 9.12 pm. Toorak road, City. |Are Puttin’ on a Demo: WEDNESDAY MATT TAYLOR: | info 798-5361, free. ROCK THURSDAY Moorabbin town hall. MISSISSIPPI: Gordon ROCK HOT CITY BUMP BAND: Institute of Tech, Geelong. BOOK NOW Whitehorse hotel, BLUESTONE: Di Marco’s peace MISSISSIPPI, TRAIN: Nunawading. hotel, Essendon. D O N BURROWS Waltzing Matilda hotel, RED HOUSE ROLL MATT TAYLOR, AYERS I Q U A R T E T: Opera House, Springvale. BAND: Croxton Park ROCK, BUSTER BROWN: tues march 26, $5.00, RED HOUSE ROLL hotel, Preston. Chelsea city hall. $3.35, $2.50. BAND: Whitehorse hotel, AZTECS, CLOUD NINE: KUSH: Hotel Internation­ H E RB IE M A N N : Opera Nunawading. In concert at Sandown al, Broadmeadows, also at House, march 21, 25, 8.30 JIGSAW: Croxton Park W in d s o r Regis hotel, of mind Park hotel. pm, $5.30, $4.20, $3.20. hotel, Preston. KUSH: Sundowner hotel, Prahran. (THE FIRES OF LONDON BIG PUSH: George hotel, SKYLIGHT: W in d s o r ( — heavy UK classical Geelong. discover it St Kilda. BIG PUSH: George hotel, Regis, BJ's, Prahran. I group: Opera House, 8.15 B. B. KING, SID RUMPO: HOT CITY JUMP BAND: pm, $5.00, $3.75, $2.50. St Kilda. Festival hall. Matthew Flinders hotel, ABC RECITAL SERIES TRINITY: R . M . I . T . : FOLK Chadstone. 1974: april-nov, Opera Lunch. House, see sat papers for KUSH: Matthew Flinders COBBLERS: Polaris Inn FOLK subscription forms. hotel, Chadstone. |the N A T I O N A L ho tel, 551 Nicholson street, North Carlton. D AN N Y SPOONER, inside BALLET OF SENEGAL: FOLK JULIE W ONG and others: I Capital Theatre, march 25 D. L. M. INTRODUCES JAZZ Outpost Inn, 52 Collins to april 19, $3.70, $4.70, JOHN AND JUANITA, street, City. $5.70. PHIL DAY, SAM HALL: VARIOUS A R T IS T S : JACQUES LOU SSIER FRANK TRAYNOR: Beaumaris Dan O’Connell, cnr Union hotel, Carlton. T R IO — classical jazz, hotel, Beach road. C an n in g and Princes COBBLERS: Polaris Inn | sorta: info 212-2244, Bal Bhagwan Ji streets, North Carlton, MELBOURNE CHAMBER hotel, Carlton. march 20, 22,24. 8-12 pm. ORCHESTRA plays jazz JOHN CROWLE, DIANNE [SYDNEY P H IL H A R - ROB FOOT, BRUCE to speak about the experience o f Camberwell Civic Centre, HOLLINS, JIM KENVYN: M O N IA SO C IETY — 1974 McNICHOL: Tankerville 8.00 pm, $4.50, $3.50, Frank Traynors, City. season: info 929-6215, or Arms, cnr Johnson and spiritual Knowledge revealed by $2.50 students. Jazz music I Box 3454 GPO, Sydney. Nicholson streets, Carlton, at classical prices. JAZZ | OPERATION ROCK ’N 8-1 0 pm. his brother GURU MAHARAJ JI ROLL — Billy Thorpe and JOHN CROWLE: Frank BLUES BRIAN BROWN [ the Aztecs, La De Das, Traynors, City. QUARTET: Commune, to all who ask i Band of Light, Stevie North Melbourne. Wright: Hordern Pavilion, JAZZ STORYVILLE JAZZMEN: I march 24, 1.30-7.00 pm, DUTCH TILDERS BLUES SYDNEY TOWN HALLl8March 8PM BAND with Julien Casser: Manor House hotel, cnr $1.60. DAVE RANKIN AND Frank Traynors, City. Swanston and Lonsdale ADMISSION FREE MARGOT F O N T E Y N , THE ELASTIC BAND: streets, City. IV A N NAG Y and THE Alma hotel, 32 Chapel NEW MUSIC DAVE RANKIN AND SCOTTISH B ALLET: info street, St Kilda. THE ELASTIC BAND: I SMH, Box 2525, GPO, O W E N YEATMAN: YO U: Commune coffee Railway Club hotel, Port 1 Sydney. Prospect Hill hotel, High Melbourne. lounge, North Melbourne. street, Kew.

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I Barry Conyngham: 3AR, FILM ROSSINI, MAHLER, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN JAZZ SH OST AKOVITCH: 8.55 pm, New Australian (Dalton Trumbo): Carlton O N E ARMED Melbourne Symphony c in e m a , Faraday st, SOUTHERN JAZZ BAND: SW O RD SM A N: Capitol, Orchestra. Robert thurs-sun, 7.45 pm, 90 Flagstaff hotel, South 2.00 pm. Blackwood hall, Monash cents, 347.5524. road, Darlington, 70 cents, uni, 1.15 pm. ALL WEEK FIDDLER ON THE ADELAIDEi students 50 cents. ROOF: Footscray Grand, MEETINGS N IA G G R A : La Mama, 205 Merran and John, P.O. Box 135 Upper Faraday street, Carlton. FETES Paisley road, mon-sat, 7.40 OPERA THE RELEVANCE OF POOR TOM’S POETRY pm, $1.40, 68.1 138. Sturt 5156. Phone: 278 1811. If you know of any, please ENGLAND MADE ME (M) BUDDHISM: Theosophical BAND: Commune, North let us know. THE EXCURSIONS OF Society, 188 Collins street, Melbourne. and T R A V E L S W ITH M Y North East road, M R BROUCEK: see City. THEATRES AUNT (M): D e n d y Inglewood, 8.15 pm. Free. W ednesday. FILM Malvern, Glenferrie road, 7 TUESDAY days, $2.50, 509.0555. TV ON Y E R M A R X — the MUSICAL EVENTS OPERA CLASSICAL COUNTESS FROM HONG Aussie Marx Bros: Pram A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (G) — re-release GOIN’ TO TOWN (1935) KO NG : Union theatre, Factory, 325 Drummond THE FIRES OF LONDON THE EXCURSIONS OF ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY of Robert Shaw’s film: — Mae West and Paul M elbourne uni Union st, Carlton, tues-sun, 8 pm, — Peter Maxwell Davies. MR BRO UCEK — Janacek — Bach recitals: Adelaide Dendy, Brighton, Church st, Cavanagh: Channel 0, building. Tickets at door, $2.50, $1.50 students, Musical Viva subscription — new opera of SA: town hall, 11 am. 1.00 pm. nightly 7.45 pm, sat 3.30 11.15 pm. 347.7133. concert: Adelaide town Festival theatre, 8 pm, pm, $2.50, $1.40 students, T O K Y O STO R Y (ozu) SESSIONS — lay back hall, 8.15 pm, $2.20 to $3.00 to $5.00, students MILITARY 92.881 1. RADIO plus 10th Tokyo Motor music with Rod $4.20, students half price half price. Show: Prince Philip the­ THE SENSUALIST (R): F reema n-Smith, Gareth ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY ARMED SERVICES AMERICAN TOP 40: atre, Melbourne uni, Breach and Moses Carmen: Trak, 445 Toorak road, — Partitas Nos. 3 a nd 6 by MUSICAL EVENTS MASSED BANDS: 3KZ, 9-12 pm. 7.30 pm. Back theatre, Pram nightly 6, 8.30 pm, sat Bach: Adelaide town hall, Memorial Drive, 8 pm, CLEO LAINE AND TONY Factory, above address, 2.30 pm, sun 5 pm, $2.50, 11 am, $1 to $2, students THE FIRES OF LONDON $2.50, $1.50, students half HYAMS QUARTET; ASIA FESTIVAL thurs-sun. $1.20 students, 24.9333. half price. — Peter Maxwell Davies; price. TH E H IR E L IN G : Rivoli Wavedon: 3LO , 9.30 am. WHY BOURNEMOUTH? VAL DOONICAN IN HYMN TO SAINT Twin-1, Camberwell ELVIS PRESLEY — hits At Melbourne uni. and THE M ISSING L IN K CONCERT: Centennial MAGNUS and MISS Junction, nightly 7.45, sat, FILMS and background story: both by John Antrobus: hall, 8.30 pm, $5.50, DONNITHORNE’S 3LO, 10.00 am. LION DANCE: Concrete sun 4.15 pm, $2.25, $1 Actor’s theatre, 196Church $4.50. M A G G O T: Adelaide town SA M E D IA RESOURCE Lawn, 11.30 am. • students, 82.1 221. SHE M E A N T TO T E L L st, Richmond, fri-sun, 8.1 5 hall, 8.30 pm, $2.20 to CENTRE: New Australian HIM ON THE ISLAND — FOOD FAIR, CHOP­ LO V E (G) — a tender love pm, $2, $1 students, POETRY $4.20, students half price Cinema, Baptist hall, cnr STICKS COMPETITION: story with a difference: Francoise Kenakis: 3AR, 419.1630. Norwood pde and Church 4.00 pm. Concrete Lawn — tour the Rivoli Twin-2, above THE ONE DAY OF THE IRVING L A Y T O N — FILMS ave, 8 pm, 80 cents. orient through your address, nightly 8.15, sat, SUNDAY NIGHT RADIO YEAR by Alan Seymour: poetry reading and THERESE D E SQ U EY- 2: 3AR, 7.30. One of the stomach: sun 5 pm, $2.25, $1 R.A.G.A. ARTS CO-OP Alexander theatre, Monash discussion of modern R E A U X — Georges Franju CHINESE COOKING students, 82.1221. best programs on radio. uni, Clayton, mon-sat, 8.15 Canadian poetry: North 1 presents films by SA and SIGNS O F L IF E — HAPPY FAMILIES — EXHIBITION: THE GODFATHER (R) — fjlmmakers: Elder Park, 8 pm, sat 1 pm, $3.50, $2 lecture theatre, Flinders Werner Hertzog. National Undergraduate Lounge, from thursday: Hoyts growing up in Australia in students, 541.3992. uni, 1 1 am. pm. Film Theatre of Australia. 1.00-2.00 pm. Malvern, Glenferrie road the 50s: 3LO, 8.02 pm. T H E NATIONAL “ Images of the Mind” and Dandenong road, DANCE PROGRESSIVE ALBUMS: BALLET OF SENEGAL — THEATRE season. 7.30 pm. State 3XY, 8.00 pm. TV nightly 8, sat 2 pm, 5 pm, ends sat: Palais, lower Govt Theatrette, State sun 5 pm, $2, $1 students SLA N SK: see tuesday, but E sp lan ad e, St Kilda, T H E IMAGINARY Administration Building, T H E LIVING RAIN also at 2.30 pm. nightly 8.15 pm, sat 4.15 (not sat), 50.31 93. IN V A L ID — Mo Here: Her Victoria square. Members FO REST — Web of Life, pm, $2.50, $1.50 students, C R Y S T A L V O Y A G E R (G) Majesty’s, 8.15 pm, only. Membership $3.00 MONDAY intended to show what 94.0651. — surf movie, with some Stratford National Theatre THEATRE (over 18 years — join at ecology is all about: ROCK THE GLASS CURTAIN: music by Pink Floyd: of Canada, $6.00, $4.50, door). Program $1.20, Channel 2, 8.00 pm. Tait theatre, 107 Leicester Brighton town hall, students half price. T H E IMAGINARY students 80 cents. B L U E S T O N E : Prospect st, Carlton, fri-sun, 8.15 mon-fri, 8.30 pm, Geelong A R E M N A N T — Jack IN V A L ID : see tuesday, RADIO but also at 2 pm. Hill hotel, Kew. pm, $2.50, $ 1.50 students, Pix on Sunday, 63.1039. Emery: A.M.P. theatrette, THEATRE JOHN RUPERT AND THE 347.1515. 8.30 pm, $2.50, students THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL HENCHMEN: Croxton ROOM TO MOVE: 3LO, PLACE: see tuesday. THE RE MOV A LI ST by half price. Three Australian one act 8.00 pm. JAZZ A REMNANT: see Park hotel, Preston. David Williamson: Russell CORALIE LANSDOWNE plays: THE LES D A R C Y C H O P S T IC K S — 24 tuesday. Street theatre, City, Y A R R A YARRA JAZZ SAYS NO: Theatre 62, SHOW — Jack Hibberd ALLSORTS variations and 17 short CORALIE LANSDOWNE mon-sat, 8.15; pre-dinner Burbridge road, Hilton, (world premiere); A pieces by Borodin, Lizst, BAND: Old Melbourne SAYS NO: see tuesday. fri/sat, 5.15 pm, $4.20, 8.15 pm. Nimrod Street M A R R IE D M AN — James R im s k y -K o rs a k o v and Motor Inn, Flemington GARGOYLES: see PHIL DAY: F ra nk $1.75 students. Season theatre, $3.00, students Searle; TH E FROG — others: 3AR, 8.15 pm. road, North Melbourne, tuesday. Traynors, City. ticket available. 654.4000. half price. Patrick Whelan: Matthew MBOC by Ross Edwards 7.30 pm, mon-sat, and 3 GERTRUDE S T E IN ’S BLUESTONE: Prospect LOCK UP YOUR G A R G O Y L E S — bawdy Flinders theatre, 8.15 pm, and ICE CARVINGS by pm Saturday afternoon. GERTRUDE STEIN: Scott Hill hotel, Kew. D A U G H TE R S — a musical medieval revue directed by $2.00, students $ 1.00. theatre, 8 pm, $3.50, comedy: Pumpkin Players, Murray Copland: Theatre T H E IMAGINARY students half price, also 314 Church st, Richmond, FLO O R SHOW 62, 11.15 pm, $2.50, IN V A L ID : see tuesday A.M.P. theatrette, 1 pm, tues-sat, 8.15 pm, $1.50, $2.00, or cushions on floor THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL $ 1 .0 0 — Nancy Cole. 42.8237. C A P T A IN ROCK nightly $ 1. 0 0 . PLACE: see tuesday. SN O O K ER ED!: Adelaide WHAT THE BUTLER at the Flying Trapeze THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL A REMNANT: see Uni Footlights Club, New SAW produced by Loris restaurant, 201 Brunswick PLACE — Esson, South tuesday. Blake: Williamstown Little st, Fitzroy, 41.3727 Australian Theatre Little Theatre, 11.30 pm. CORALIE LANSDOWNE Theatre, 4 Albert st, Company: Arts theatre, Late night supper revue, SAYS NO: see tuesday. W illiam s to w n , wed-sat, Angus street, 8.15 pm, Adelaide uni, New Union GERTRUDE S T E IN ’S CLASSICAL Keatons 8.1 5 pm, $1, 397.7812. $3.70, students half price. Building, $1.50, students GERTRUDE STEIN: see ENEMY by Robin $ 1. 0 0 . Wednesday, but 8.30 only. Sydney S A IN T SAENS — Sonata Maugham, directed by DANCE EUREKA STOCKADE — GARGOYLES: see for bassoons and piano, IS NOW Elizabeth Heinds: Viaduct musical play directed by tuesday. POULENC — Sonata for Robert Kimber: Union theatre, 27a Cromwell st, S LA N SK — The Polish SNOOKERED: s e e ENTERTAINMENT. clarin et and bassoon, South Yarra, wed-sat, 8.15 National Song and Dance theatre, Adelaide uni. W ednesday. GLINKA — Trio HELLO AND GOODBYE pm, $2.50, $1 students, C om pany: Apollo EUREKA STO CKADE: pathetique for piano, — Athol Fugard. The Little 318.1937. Stadium, 8 pm, $3.50 to see W ednesday. cla rin e t and bassoon, LILIES OF THE FIELD: $5.50. Theatre, Adelaide uni, 8.15 HELLO AND GOODBYE: p e rfo rm e d by Phillip pm, $3.50. We want floorshows, Malvern theatre company, see wednesday. Miechel, Max Niel, Brian 29 Bourke road, East KIDS HAMLET ON ICE — Chapman: Union theatre, KIDS Malvern, thurs-sat, 8.15 Michael Brodie and Ron M elb o u rn e uni union bands, acts, YOU. pm, $1.40, $1 students TALES FROM Blair. Adult pantomime: building, 1.10 pm. Free. THE CHESKOO RAREE 25.6650. NOONAMEENA — Sheridan theatre, 50 SHOW — pantomime: THE OPTIMISM OF THE Marionette Theatre of Mackinnon parade, North Telephone 61.3883 MISADVENTURES OF Scott theatre, 10 am, POETRY Australia: Prince Alfred Adelaide, 8.15 pm. CANDIDE by Voltaire, College theatre, 10 am and $1.50, kids 60 cents TALES FROM performed by the National DIAL-A-POEM, ring 8 pm, $2.00 and $1.50, Keatons — 45 Oxford St., Theatre of the Deaf NOONAMEENA: see DANCE 329.6039 any time. children 60 cents. (mime): Princess theatre, ZAGREB CARTO ONS: tuesday but 8 pm only. ZAGREB CARTO O NS: SLANSK: see tuesday. Darlinghurst. Spring st, City, mon-sat, 8 TV AND RADIO South Aust Govt Tourist pm, matinee sat 2 pm, Bureau Theatrette, 1 pm, see tuesday. $5.50, $6.50, $8, children GTK: mon-thurs, Channel 2.30 pm, 4 pm. Free. KIDS and pensioners half price, TV 2, 6.30 pm. Really brilliant! 662.291 1. TALES FROM L ATELINE: mon-thurs, FROST OVER EVENTS N O O N AMEEN A: see 3AR, 10.15 pm. HO LL Y W O O D — Zsa Zsa FILMS tuesday Garbor on womens R.A.G.A. ARTS CO-OP — ZAGREB C ARTO O NS: GALLERIES liberation. Far out! These may change at a poetry, music, munga: see tuesday. moments notice, so check F IV E PIECES — Jeff Elder Park, 8 pm. Free. DAN MORGAN AND THE with cinema to be sure. W R ITERS W EEK — John WRITER’S WEEK Stewart, block of ice, wall BOUNCING BUNYIP OF Updike: Festival theatre, BANDICOOT R E A C H drawing, five questions, PETER PORTER: State 8.30 pm, $3.00. Students directed by Warwick woman in p ettico at Library Lecture theatre, half price. Cooper: Playhouse, 15 lighting system: Ewing 9.30 am. Lome avenue, Magill, 4.15 Gallery, Melb uni union, POETRY READING: TV pm. 10 am-6 pm, til sat. Museum lawn, 12 noon. PAINTINGS PAST AND READING OF ERN PRESENT — a selected THE COSMIC POINT OF M A L L E Y POEMS: Scott MEETINGS group of painters born after VIEW — documentary on 90 year old hippie, Fred theatre, 2 pm. 1930: Realities, 60 Ross st, Robinson: ABS 2, 10.05 SPEAKING OF BECKETT A.U.S. — involvement in Toorak. Special preview, with Jack Emery: Scott the Middle East: Flinders wed, 6-8 pm; mon-fri, pm. theatre, 5 pm. uni, 1.10 pm. 10-5.30; sat, 10-2. RADIO BARBARA GROSSMAN FLORA AND FAUNA — paintings, John Loane — MAJOR AUSTRALIAN EVENTS etchings: Powell street POETS: VL5UV (Radio FLO W ER D A Y : flowers all gallery, South Yarra, university), 11.30 am and over the damn place CINEMA OF SURPRISE mon-thurs, 10.30-5.30; fri, 8 pm. particularly at the Floral AND PARTICIPATION 10.30-7; sat, 10-12. WOMEN, OUR BODIES, Fiesta — Edmund Wright event devised by George CHINESE M ODERN OURSELVES: V L 5 U V , 10 House. Anderson. Drama studio, PA IN TE R S of the 19th am. Flinders uni, 11.15 pm. a n d 20th c en tu ry, NEW MATHS FOR PAR­ CHICKENS w a te rc o lo r and ink, ENTS: VL5UV. 1 1 am. hanging in traditional GREAT CHICKEN W R IT E R ’S W EEK scrolls, including DISHES: NWS9, 1.50 pm. calligraphy: Melbourne uni Lars Gustafsson, Richard gallery, 4th floor, John WEDNESDAY OTHERS Tipping, Geoffrey Thurley, Medley building, tues-fri, ROCK D o n a ld Horne, Barry 11-5 pm. LAUNCHING OF Oakley, Peter Colman, “Hatfield’s the department RAG AB A G — a magazine Mungo MacCallum and BOOK NOW store that never closes — in a bag. Free eats, drinks o th ers. State Library Hatfield’s the supermarket and movies: Elder Park, 6 Lecture Theatre, 9.30am < R < G A L L £W H E R B IE M A N N — March of love and understand­ pm. to 5.15 pm. 15, 23, Dallas Brooks hall, ing”: Maugham Church, NADINE G O R D IM ER : p r e s e n t s a s e r i f s OF $5.30, $4.30, $3.30. Rock opera, $2.50, $2.00. Adelaide town hall, 8.30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS AUDITION/CO N C E R T , pm. CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN Ormond hall, Prahran, FOLK THURSDAY winning group wins $500 FLORA AND FAUNA SINGERS SONGWRITERS MUSICIANS A N D a spot (yes folks, JEFF R Y A N : Plaza, 1 pm, ROCK PERFORMING ORIGINAL MATERIAL spot) on New Faces, get it, Flinders university. ANOTHER FLOWER iazz folk country rock classica ha ha. Second prize $250 “ Hatfield’s the department DAY: see Wednesday. blues flamenco c and instant fame with top JAZZ store ...” etc: see wed. every Sunday 8pm name entertainment kirk gallery 422 Cleveland st surry hills every Sunday 8pm $$.50 agency. Ring Jovan COLONEL BOGIE’S: Continued over page Promotions, 93.5278. Inglewood Inn, Lower

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GERTRUDE S T E IN ’S OPERA Band in the World — The CHO RUS — Open Air Mineral Foundation, The Common, Beaumont, 11 am to 6 pm. GERTRUDE STEIN: see Rolling Stones: Concert: 2.30 pm. Conyngham street, FRIDAY Concepts — exhibition of Wednesday, but 1 pm THE EXCURSIONS OF Documentary. NWS-9, 6 Glenside. ROCK A.M.P. theatre only. M R BROUCEK: See pm. WRITER’S WEEK conceptual and post-image W ednesday. KEITH MICHELL AT DANCE art: 14 Porter street, “ Hatfield’s the department Parkside, 2 pm to 6 pm. DANCE T H E L Y R IC — recalls past Poetry Reading — Barr store . see Wednesday. THEATRE Free. SLANSK: see tuesday. performances at the Lyric Smith Lawns: Adelaide Aust. Dance Theatre: See theatre. London: ABS-2, Uni, 3 pm. tuesday. Mungarra Arts BLUES THREE AUSTRALIAN Australian handcrafts in KIDS 7.30 pm. silver, timber, copper, ONE A CT PLAYS: See ROCK ON — Top SUNDAY SCHOOL KIDS SMOKESTACK thursday. stoneware and pewter: Da TALES FROM Australian Rock Groups in L IG H T N IN G : Eagle hotel, T H E IMAGINARY ZAGREB CARTOONS: Costa Arcade, monday to NOONAMEENA: see Concert at Rymill park: MAN IN QUESTION — Hindley st, 7.30 pm, IN V A L ID : See tuesday JOHANNES B JE L K E - See tuesday. friday 9.30 am to 5.30 pm. tuesday ABS-2, 6.10 pm. $ 1.00. also 2 pm. JOURNEY ON A COBB Saturday 9.30 am to 11.30 ZAGREB C ARTO O NS: PETERSEN — Interview THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL with Queensland’s famous A N D CO. COACH — by am. see tuesday. WRITER’S WEEK JAZZ PLACE: See tuesday. the Performing Puppet Co: DAN MORGAN AND THE flying premier: ABS-2, Art Gallery of South CORALIE LANSDOWNE State Government BOUNCING BUNYIP OF R. K. Narayan: Edmund 8.55 pm. Australia — Sydney Nolan, DICK FRANKEL AND SAYS NO: See tuesday. theatrette, 9.30 am, 1 pm, BANDICOOT REACH: see Wright House, 8.30 pm. aboriginal art and German T H E DISCIPLES: A REMNANT: See CIRCUS 2.30 pm. 30c. thursday. $3, students half price. expressionism: North Tee. Somerset hotel, 9 pm, 80 tuesday. Avenel Bee Gallery — cents (to Red Cross), 197 GARGOYLES: See CIRCUS GREAT MOSCOW RADIO Indonesian arts and crafts: Pulteney st, City. EVENTS tuesday. CIRCUS: See friday. 16 Lockwood road, SNOOKERED!: See WOMEN, OUR BODIES, KAIRO S ’74 — Jesus rock GREAT MOSCOW Erindale, 10 am to 5 pm. CLASSICAL Wednesday. OUR SELVES: VL5UV, 8 concert. 8 pm, Rymill CIRCUS: See friday. Eilean John Studio — H A M L E T ON ICE: See MONDAY pm. Park. Australian and New KARL GUNTER and thursday. N E W MATHS FOR CINEMA OF SURPRISE CLASSICAL Zealand weaving. Help N O R EEN STOKES play PARENTS: V L 5 U V , 9 pm. EUREKA STO CKADE: SUNDAY build a woven house in a Bach, Mozart and AND PARTICIPATION: See W ed ne sd ay. CLASSICAL COLLEGIUM MUSICUM garden: 78 Jerringham Beethoven: Adelaide town see thursday HELLO AND GOODBYE: — Zurich: Adelaide Town TV street, North Adelaide, 12 hall, 8.15 pm. THE GREAT BEAST — See W ed nesd ay. SOLOISTS FROM Hall, 8 pm. $5 to $2, AN EVENING WITH . . . HANS H O TT E R : Public multi media happening noon to 5 pm. presented by R.A.G.A. COLLEGIUM MUSICUM students half price. — An hour with public A Lady of Fashion — an Master Class, Edmund DANCE Arts Co-op: Elder Park, 8 — Zurich: Adelaide Town personalities sharing their exhibition of womens Wright House, 8 pm, OPERA pm, $1.50, students $1.00. Hall, 8.15 pm. favorite stories, poems, fashions from 1800 to $1.20, students 60 cents. S LA N SK: See tuesday also WILLEM VAN plays, songs and anecdotes 1940: Carclew, North RECITAL OF NORTH at 2.30 pm. OTTERLOO AND THE OPERATIC ARIAS AND featuring Don Dunstan and INDIAN CLASSICAL W R IT E R ’S W EEK Adelaide. 60c, kids 30c. Australian Dance Theatre. SYDNEY S Y M P H O N Y ENSEMBLES: Festival L iving Daylights boy Llewellyn Galleries — MUSIC: Festival theatre, 8 CHILDREN OF TIME — e&Yy*<«D MICHALI: ORCHESTRA play theatre, 8 pm. wonder reporter Richard Paintings — Adam Kriegel, pm, $3.00 to $5.00. Liz Dalman, HAI-KYO — AND SO TO MUSICK — Scott theatre, 8.30 pm, Mozart: ABS-2, 8.20 pm. Neville: ABS-2, 10 pm. prints — Lyn Collins, The Triton Trio: Edmund Japp Flier etc: Scott IT H A D TO BE Y O U — sculpture — Ron Rowe: 88 FILMS $3.00, students $1.50. theatre, 8 pm. M O R E MUSIC Wright House, 8.15 pm. Ginger Rogers: NWS-9, 12 Jerningham street. North $3.50, students $1.75. noon. ALICE'S RESTAURANT CIRCUS Adelaide. 11 am to 6 pm FILMS HERBIE MANN AND HIS tuesday-friday, 2 pm to 5 a n d YELLOW MUSICAL EVENT GREAT MOSCOW S E X TE T : Festival theatre, CIRCUS pm Saturday and Sunday. SUBMARINE: Roma A L IC E ’S R E S T A U R A N T CIRCUS: West Parklands, 8 pm. $5.50 to $3.50. GREAT MOSCOW Pr*e. Cinema, 21a Gilbert place, CARNIVAL OF THE 8 pm, $4.20 to $6.20. a n d YELLOW OTHERS 11.40 pm, $1.60, students CIRCUS: See friday. S U B M A R IN E : See friday. FILM A N IM A L S — Saint-Saens $1.40. featuring Don Nimbin Karavan — arts, P E R FO R M A N C E : Windsor OTHERS KIDS A L IC E ’S R E S T A U R A N T Dunstan reciting at the crafts, music, poetry, theatre, 1 Commercial SATURDAY M A R G ARET ROAD- a n d YELLOW Adelaide Zoo: 8 pm. $2 dance, theatre, clowns, road, Brighton, 8 pm, ROCK KNIGHT — HISTORY OF DAN MORGAN AND THE S U B M A R IN E : See friday. students half price. acrobats and food: Raga $1.00, students 80 cents. BOUNCING BUNYIP OF TH E BLUES: Sheridan W O M EN V IS IO N — Films Arts Co-op tent in Elder “ Hatfield’s the Department theatre, 11.30 pm. $1.50. BANDICOOT REACH: by female members of THEATRE THEATRES Park. Constant excitement Store . . .” etc: See See thursday but at 11 am Sydney Film Makers Mackinnon parade. North Free. Wednesday. and 2 pm. Adelaide. T H E IMAGINARY Co-op, 80c. Elder Park, 8 T H E IMAGINARY pm. IN V A L ID : see tuesday BLUES EVENTS IN V A L ID : See tuesday. THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL THEATRE ALL WEEK BOOK NOW PLACE: see tuesday. SMOKESTACK CINEMA OF SURPRISE PLACE: See tuesday. FILM CORALIE LANSDOWNE CORALIE LANSDOWNE National Theatre of the LIGHTNING: See friday. AND PARTICIPATION: THREE AUSTRALIAN TRASH and FLESH — SAYS NO: see tuesday. SAYS NO: See Tuesday. Deaf: march 25th to 30th. See thursday. ONE ACT PLAYS: See Andy W a rh o l: Capri THREE AUSTRALIAN THE GREAT BEAST: See GARGOYLES: See Her Majesty's. FOLK thursday. Cinema, Goodwood, 8 pm. ONE ACT PLAYS: see friday. tuesday. LA FILLE MAL GARDEE H A M L E T ON ICE: See $2.25 and $2. thursday. Somerset hotel. Anyone FESTIVAL CRAFT MAR­ SNOOKERED!: See also OTHELLO — GARGOYLES: see thursday. wed nesday. Australian Ballet: Apollo welcome to sing. Free, 197 KET — Craft Association KIDS tuesday. Pulteney street. of SA Elder Park plus Craft T H E ICE AQ*E — Dorst: Stadium, march 25th to EVENTS A lm o s t Free Spaces: 27th. HAMLET ON ICE: see Demonstrations and T h e a tre 62, Regional thursday. Theatre Co, Prince Alfred Children invited to join in EXPERIMENTAL AND CLASSICAL strolling minstrels, 10 am CINEMA OF SURPRISE SNOOKERED!: see College theatre, 8.15 pm. drama, music, dance & OTHERS — New till dusk. AND PARTICIPATION: Wednesday. COLLEGIUM MUSICUM HELLO AND GOODBYE: pappetry in Rymill Park. Experimental F ilm s See thursday. (Australian): Matthew EUREKA STO CKADE: — Zurich. Paul Sacher, TV See wed nesday. EXHIBITIONISM see W ednesday. conductor: Adelaide Town ARM ED SERVICES PERFORMANCE Flinders theatre, Flinders Lidum's Art Gallery — HELLO AND GOODBYE: Hall, 8 pm. $5 to $2, ROCK ’N’ ROLL LIVES — M ASSED BANDS and SYNDICATE — Rex Uni, march 2Sth to 27th at □avid Boyd and others: 8.15 pm. see W ednesday. student half price. The Greatest Rock 'n* Roll ADELAIDE FESTIVAL Cramphorne: Australian

country, write him with info at 15 Armidale (NSW) that anyone in­ Arundel Gardens, London W 11. terested in Australian aboriginals Small Ads UK. should find invaluable. Basically, in * * * the editor simply prints letters and The Living Daylights articles sent to him and it seems a OME FEEDBACK from $7.00. lot of aboriginals use the news­ SVictoria. "Most Australian For information contact letter to put their thoughts in Rosslyn on 329.0700. libraries are unfortunately stuffy, writing. The newsletter is one of STEPHEN WALL middleclass institutions catering the few print sources around that almost exclusively for the medi­ doesnt come on as a bunch o f RE YOU really interested in ocre middleclass mind — however paternalistic shit. Send $3.00 for a WILDLIFE FILMS the sort of info minutia that USA, 95969; he'll send you an A this situation could soon change year's sub to Ned Iceton, A borig­ Two Films Every Sunday I/Access regularly indulges in? This attractive brochure I'm sure in Victoria — librarians are about inal human relations newsletter, "The Small World" 1 one is for you then — The inter- But hurry. to get their collective conscious­ Department of University Exten­ "A Land of Birds" tnational directory of little maga- ness raised. And not before time. sion, Armidale, NSW. Sydney Opera House \zines and small presses, "the only The Committee of Younger Lib­ Music Room, Continuous 1 continuing international record of rarians has organised a seminar on * * * I Screening 10 am-6 pm. Adults $2, living literature". Huh? Feel asfnig- LEM Gorman, an Australian alternative literature covering HE US Central Committee l children $1, family of 4 $ 5. gin of guilt laying this one on ya Cw riter and publisher living alternative lifestyle, radical and T of Correspondence (another 'cause I havent seen it myself. So in London, has been commis- counterculture (did you say con­ CIA front?) has published a mail­ what . . . I'd probably misjudge its signed by Paladin to write a book sciousness raising, Bruce?). This ing list of movement organisations Happy Reading from ★ McKEOUGH’S W worth anyway. Besides, the depth to be called People together, on seminar happens on Saturday, in the States. It lists about 1500 BOOK EXCHANGE of my research is now equal to the the subject of communal living march 30, at the Toorak library groups and change organisations 342 Pitt St., Sydney — Corner flow of readers feedback. If the and working ventures. The book conference centre, 338 Toorak in the US and Canada — arranged Pitt & Liverpool Sts. 6 1 .3 1 3 3 . directory doesnt do much for will mainly be concerned with the road, $outh Yarra." region by region — also lists a few COMICS, SCIENCE FICTION, you, then maybe the Small press British experience but the pub­ Well I can't see the "conscious­ foreign activists. Costs a buck ART AND ALL GENERAL review will quench your thirst for lishers (bless their little hip poc­ ness" of ya average bookworm from 310 N 33 Street, Philadel­ READING BOUGHT, SOLD a bit of your living literature — kets) want considerable 0Z and being drastically changed let alone phia, PA 19104, USA. AND SWAPPED.______comes out six times a year, costs NZ coverage. Clem is trying to raised with yet another seminar. $5.00; the directory sells for gather information on communes, Still, for more info, contact the TANDEM $4.95. Since I have no idea what food co-ops, co-operative child Committee of Younger Librarians, END PURE and applied either publication looks, feels or creches, worker-owned factories, c/o 3/36 Jolimnnt terrace. East BOOKSHOP info gems, recipes fo r | reads like. I'm justifying this craft co-ops, artists collectives, Melbourne. Phone (03) 341.2064. S OPEN 7 DAYS enlightenment, "how to hit higher rough nugget purely 'cause I like film co-ops, community-run play A N D 7 NIGHTS [ the concept. Oh, screw the justi­ schemes and adventure play­ consciousness" game plans and anything else you th in k might | 75 DARLINGHURST RD| ficatio n and write a speedy aero grounds, etc, etc. It could be a KINGS CROSS. •HERE is a little monthly help me get my rocks o ff to PO to Len Fulton/Dust books, PO good book. If you want to help PHONE: 358.5660. Box 1056, Paradise, California, our Clem doin' his thing in the old newsletter coming out of Box 8, Surry Hills, 2010.

Page 16 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974 THE L IV IN G D AYLIG H TS, march 12-18, 1 974— Page 17 URFERS PARADISE is es­ U TERRY: I'd had enough beating Ssentially a moneymaking for one night, I didnt want any proposition - a “ hole” for the old t h e OTHER SIDE more. There was nothing I could and affluent to die in. It’s not do. some civilised town where young ROBERT: They took me in last and old can live peacefully and for my statement and I was told without glimpse, at least, of bu­ OF PARADISE all this crap about how everyone reaucratic gangsterism and all that had turned me in. They made me shit which goes with bigtime admit I’d been smoking. They money grubbing. spent about an hour and a half on On february 17, a Saturday my statement, also putting in im night, the local cops raided a antique top hat. They smashed a have proof of that we certainly He was a uniformed policeman criminating evidence about de block o f flats they had been drawer in half, they tipped every­ heard it. He came out and he was with one stripe who I could iden­ facto relationships which had watching for some time. Saturday thing on to the floor. Searched it shaking and he looked like he was tify. He was the meanest of the nothing to do with the case. Sim­ ran into Sunday and Sunday into 9 very thoroughly and didnt find going to be sick because I saw him lot, and said he would do any­ ply because I am living with my am monday when they ceased anything. They made a few then. They took us off - three thing to put “ druggies” behind girlfriend who I am about to their activities in time for morning threats. cops, one guy. The rest of the bars. He said, “ Well, son, I’ve been marry. At the bottom they said, court sessions. What kind o f threats? cops were in the main room. ttirough an your things and found “Do you have anything you The outcome of monday’s nothing. I’ve been through you would like to add, beware that it ROB: They said well, seeing you H ow many police were there courtcase fed Queensland state and found nothing, but I’m going can be taken down as evidence live here, it’s your flat and I said altogether? papers with gutsy frontpage news. against you.” I said the flat wasnt no, although I am staying here. to arrest you before tonight’s fin­ The Brisbane Telegraph announc­ KERRY: Five in the room, 15 legally in my tenantship and the They said we’ve got enough evi­ ished.” He was trying to scare me. ed “FIFTEEN ON DRUG altogether we were told. They judge is supposed to read that in dence, if we dont find anything I asked on what grounds and he CHARGES” and followed it up were outside as well. court. But he didnt. They made us on anybody you two get the said, “ Well, I’ll pin something on- with an account that made one you.” sign those statements under pres­ whole rap, that type of threat. ROB: The first three went and poor guy arrested on a provable sure. Alan and Gary were admit­ Then they started on Terry. rang up some more. They arrived phony rap look like a giant crim. TERRY: There wasnt any ques­ ted to the Southport lock-up at about three quarters o f an hour What happened - and shouldnt They took you behind a cur­ tion about how we looked. I had a five in the morning. Terry and I after the first lot arrived. After a have, everybody made mistakes tain? blood nose when I walked back went in at six or so. On sunday few hours they’d been through that night — was just another big TERRY: Yeah. The cop searched into the room and Gary had a afternoon Gary was taken away the whole place, beaten up Gary ballsup of truth and justice. The my shoulderbag and couldnt find blood nose, too, and he was limp­ and questioned by senior detec­ and Terry, taken Alan away and story is an often repeated one and anything. He asked me where my ing. He could hardly walk three tive sergeant Bignell. He had a arrested him. Incidentally, four a sad lesson for those involved: it grass was and I said I didnt have days later. phony dealing charge planted on other guys were in the flat. They is one of young, uninformed guys any. They proceeded to beat me him. Gary told a lady he was were also taken into separate ROB: Alan had a cut nose and who broke under police pressure, up. Another cop came in and held beaten, he was in for about three rooms, beaten a little and let go), they broke Gary’s glasses, he who didnt have a chance from the me while he hit me. Held me up hours being interrogated. as a warning, I suppose. wears glasses. And he had a cut start; of pigs who bully and by the hair. He hit me a couple of down his face. Sunday night went around and "persuade” using.that age-old cop times, then I was on the mattress TERRY: They said to me — this it came up to monday morning. trick of promising a “ light” sen­ was, I think his name’s Zoppy, Cary is a working musician, All the time we were in the tence. he’s a short bloke with blond hair, too? lock-up we were refused legal ad­ They knocked you down? vice. We were refused a phone call Everybody should know the the one who was holding me up TERR Y: Yeah, a drummer. His policeman’s idea of a light and we were refused bail, al­ TERRY: Yeah, a couple o f times. was the most severe beating. sentence can be up to five years though we could have a visitor for That was through a punch in the ROB: Soppa. behind. When being questioned, ROB: Anyway, at the end of it all three minutes. Not enough time stomach. The other cop walked in TERRY: After about half an hour dont confess anything, you dont — Alan was already at the police to organise anything, especially and grabbed hold of me and pull­ he said to the other guy, “ It’s all have to. station - they took us all down since it was sunday. On monday ed me up by the hair and said right, we’ve found grass on him.” Below, an honest description and put us in this room at the morning we were processed and “ stand up for the sergeant” . And I said, “ No, you havent.” This was of the bust by two participants, bottom and sat us all apart. This fingerprinted and photographed. while he said that the other was still in the bedroom He said, muso’s on the local scene, whose cop who didnt have anything to We werent given a briefing by our hitting me in the stomach and “ Well, we’re going to say that, is first names I use. With occasional do with it, who was on duty, respective arresting officers . . back of the head. that all right with you?” I said no comments by Kerry, Rob’s girl­ came out with a roll of news­ Did any o f you have a chance and they continued with the beat­ friend. Were you aggressive at all, was papers and started hitting us around to say anything in court? Did you. ing until in the end I said yes. He anyone? the head. say the statements you signed ROB: We came back from doing a said, “ Will you sign a statement were in fact not true? concert and we’d been back about TERRY: No way, I would think. saying that we found it?” First of He was trying to get you to half an hour, three quarters of an ROB: They had Alan for posses­ all I said no, then I said I would. answer questions? ROB: No, we couldnt. The judge hour. Somebody left a key in the sion. They took me into his bed­ He said I could get up in the in my opinion was most unfair. door. Subsequently the door room and stripped me and didnt courtroom on monday morning ROB: No, he did it out of malice. That was Rutherford, SM, South­ opened and two uniformed police find anything. In fact, they didnt and say any amount of bullshit. We could have him for assault, port. He did all the drug cases as a and a detective walked in. They find anything in the whole flat too. block. He read the charge to a Did you sign the statement? sniffed the atmosphere and claim­ although they went through it for person, made him stancj up and TERRY: Yes, I did. A t Surfers TERRY: The cop took about an ed to recognise the odor of can­ over three hours. plead and then went on to the police station. hour and a half making out my nabis. They immediately started Except for Alan who had it in statement. He wrote it out and next. He did it all as a unit. examining cigarette butts and ROB: While this was going on his underpants? said, “ Is this alright?” He made it However, he sentenced everyone ashtrays on the table. Kerry and I were called in by one up the whole way. Then he pulled individually. He sentenced me TERRY: He was the only onp Did they have a warrant? of them. One of the legal tenants a bag of grass from his drawer and with a $100 fine, no time to pay who had it. Apparently they pull­ ROB: No. I asked them for a is in hospital and he went through said, “ I want to charge you for and in default six months jail. For ed a knife on Gary, too, a big warrant. Apparently it’s the law her bedroom asking questions possession. I’m going to let you a charge, allowing my premises to breadknife. they can search anywhere without pertinent to her articles of cloth­ pick out how much we got down be used for smoking cannabis, a warrant. ing about which we knew nothing. my arresting officer told me I ROB: Tjey threw an orange at there.” Out of his own bag, his TERRY: They said they didnt would only get a light sentence him and put his head in a sink of K E R R Y : He said if he didnt find own drawer! So I just picked out need a warrant for a bust. when he advised me to plead guilty. water. Threw him around the anything here he’d make up a a pinchful and he put it in an ROB: They immediately started kitchen. There were three girls charge for both of us. envelope. He wrote down what So you did plead guilty? That antagonising people there. Accus­ there they didnt touch. They took he’d “ found” and I signed it. was a mistake, you know. ing them of being "druggies” . . . ROB: Before that, in my room, he Alan back into his room and beat "W e hate druggies!” . They got said that he hated “ druggies” , too. What do you think would have ROB: Yes, I know now. The judge him up again. Although we dont there at one and left at about five happened if you'd not signed it? set up ten people to go to jail in the morning. They went because he didnt give them time through all the material in the to pay. We were all told we were ashtrays and found things which vagrants and drifters and we had to them were suspicious. Pieces of no right to be on the coast. We foil and things like this, implying were given an hour and a half in that the foil was used as a wrapper which to raise our fines behind for the “ dangerous” drug cannabis bars, not being allowed to see in the form of hashish. anyone. In all, we hocked $1300 TERRY: We were just sitting worth of guitars for a $250 loan. there listening to a tape before We lost our jobs, we lost the place that. They pointed one of us out we were living in. at a time and asked us if we had All this, of course, indicates an any drugs on us. We said no and infringement of one’s private life, they asked whose flat it was. They something the Queensland state took Alan to his room, it was his government doesnt hold as sacred flat. Searched his room and found or to be respected. To the horror nothing. None of us saw it but of resident legal men and home­ they hit him a few times - that is owners alike, a recent bill gave the what he says - so he handed up police full go-ahead to bust into what he had on him. They came peoples houses sans warrant. Now, out and said who’s Gary and under the Health Act, the pigs can who’s Terry? So we identified our­ do over your home on any pretext selves and they went back into at all - but they’ll be looking for Alan’s room again. Came out and those “ illegal drugs” you can bet! picked up my shoulderbag and Someone has written to the asked whose it was. I said mine. local mayor, Council for Civil They took me into Rob's room. Liberties rep, Queensland police ROB: Before this happened one chief and Mr Whitlam about the of them took Kerry and me into affair. But, for what it’s worth, I our room and searched the room. dont believe there’ll be any inves­ They broke a few things. An tigation.

Page 18 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974 LEPERS SMUGGLE SMACK ETAIL drug traffickers and drug selves forward and embracing wetly. In users, already worried by police and most cases this ends the investigation Rcustoms harassment, now face the threatbefore it gets underway. of leprosy, according to medical and If all these hurdles are crossed, con missionary sources working among lepers sideration is what to do with a leper in North Thailand. when he is arrested. Leprosariums are Like the opium poppy itself, the roots not jails and inmates are free to come and of this new problem originate in Burma. go as they wish. Police cannot put the With the disruption of traditional opium leper in a cell with others arrested nor can and heroin smuggling channels by Bur­ they be put in jail, if they are convicted, mese and Thai police last year, drug because other healthy prisoners will riot. merchants are now searching for new Further it would be blatantly unfair to ways to move their goods to the market the healthy prisoners. and they have hit upon the use of the The sources said that drug syndicates oldest outcasts, the lepers. have moved fast to capitalise on the Several factors, the sources said, advantages offered by lepers and there are recommend lepers for use as transporters increasingly numerous reports from their of narcotics. First, as outcasts they are patients of approaches by persons offer­ already on the lowest rung o f the social ing large rewards for stockpiling and ladder. There can be no worse stigma handling of narcotics. attached to them even if they are arrested Those who accept the offer, the; for possession o f drugs. Second, arrest, sources said, have been coached in itself is an extremely remote possibility. methods of secreting narcotics on various Even the most dedicated police offi­ parts of their bodies. Since, in advanced cers would rather turn away than risk cases, the lepers are too handicapped by contact through body search or examina­ their disease to handle drugs with any tion of a leper’s personal effects. dexterity, special body harnesses are Leper camps, the rankest and most often used inside their clothing to trans­ avoided areas in any country, are likewise port heroin under their arms or in other immune from search and provide ideal areas close to the diseased body. Meaty Madness sites for stockpiling narcotics. The Although leprosy continues to be a mystery disease, many authorities believe sources also said that the lepers have been LARRY DRAKE quick to learn to protect themselves from it is contagious. -Bangkok morning post occasional questioning by throwing them­ HELLEY, vegetarian, athe- fies in the intestine, generating S ist, poet of genius, had a poisons which cause diseases, theory that the idea of hellfire None of the other primates in dated back to the ice ages when their natural state, living on their man, the natural vegetarian, de- natural diet, suffer from cancers, prived of his vegetation, was fore- In Past centuries cancer was look­ ed to eat flesh to stay alive. The ed on as a rich man s disease and terrible consequences: tearing was known as the Royal Rot. In pains in the guts, horrible diseases, those days, only royalty and rich physical degeneration of all kinds men could afford to eat the most became, Shelley thought, inex- expensive foods - animal foods, tricably associated with the cook- It seems significant that the 20th ing fires that were needed to make century equivalent of royalty, the the eating of flesh bearable. Hollywood stars, have had an ex­ it is difficult to be sure, and traordinarily high ratio of death unwise to be dogmatic, about from cancer, anything in the complex field of In all the affluent societies, human health; but there is an where flesh-eating has, increased enormous amount of evidence to enormously in this century, can- suggest that Shelley may have cer has also increased at a terri- been right. fying rate. Nobody has compiled There can be little doubt that statistics of the cancer rate the human body evolved on a amongst vegetarians. A year or so vegetarian diet. The biological evi- ago I offered to make a survey for dence is overwhelming. Anthro- the Cancer Foundation, on an pologists group monkeys, apes, expenses only basis, o f the eating men, tarsiers and lemurs as pri- habits of cancer patients in the mates — meaning the most im- world’s leading hospitals. The portant group of animals — and foundation didnt bother to reply man heads the list. ALL the other to my letter, primates are vegetarians, except The biological evidence con- the tarsiers and lemurs eat a few tains many other significant insects which are much closer to points too numerous to be includ- fruits and nuts than they are to ed here, but one deserves men- ' animal flesh. Biochemist Frank tion: man’s kidneys are identical Wilson (in his book Food for the with those of the monkey; and golden age) writes: “ Many animals the kidney, more than any other will die rather than eat food organ (as the eliminator of pois- which is different from their ac- ons) indicates the amount of pro- customed diet. The lucky fools! tein that should be eaten. A lion’s They have an unanswerable in- kidney is twice as big as a bull’s stinct to guide them and no intel- and almost as big as an elephant’s, ligence to interfere. That is our The case against flesh-eating is doubtful privilege.” not based solely on health consid- The teeth of the primates are erations. The economic case is designed for biting and chewing equally impressive. An acre of soft vegetable foods like fruits, land will produce at least seven shoots, roots and nuts; and are times as much in vegetable food- quite different from the teeth of stuffs (measured by calories) as it the natural carnivores - dogs, will produce in animal flesh. In lions, cats etc - which are sharp Australia and other affluent soci- and daggerlike for tearing into eties, huge quantities of grain are flesh. grown for the sole purpose o f The intestine is one o f the producing pig flesh, the ratio of surest guides. Man and the other seven to one being roughly applic- primates have a longish intestine, able. That is, the grain fed to pigs not as long as the grass-eating would supply humans with seven animals, but much longer than times as much food value as does that of dogs, lions and cats. The the pig flesh which it grows. The carnivores can thus pass flesh same thing applies to the increas- foods through their short intes- ing trend towards the lot-feeding tines before it has time to putrefy, of cattle. In a half starved world, Man cannot do this and much of we simply cannot afford to have the flesh eaten by humans putre- many flesh eaters.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 19 74-P a g e 19 coverage. “ People sometimes say our m i i x V s papers are overloaded with sport,” he replied. “ But what they’re comparing them with are the qual­ ity papers. The popular press reg­ ularly devotes about the same m space to sport as to, say, finance. You can buy papers with pages of footy or ice hockey or whatever anywhere, ghost-written articles by fullbacks, the whole thing. In SPORT? most places, including Australia, there are papers, even dailies, which dont. If you compare the Sydney Mirror with the Times of JIM McKENZIE London, of course the Australian press is full of football. It’s just UCKING Australia, said not a fair comparison. Try one of Neil. I can’t stand this place. F the pop dailies in Britain, or, say, Australians are the most anti-intel­ the Minneapolis Tribune or some­ lectual, racist, sexist morons in thing. In fact, the educated classes the world. All they ever want to in Australia are quite unusual in do is get drunk and watch foot­ their lack o f interest in sport.” ball. Jesus H. Christ on a Harley “ What do you mean?” asked fucking Davidson. Judy, a shade hotly. She and the “Okay,” said the doctor, look­ doctor have a running battle over ing up from his usual corner. “ I’ll elitism. bite. I’ll argue that Australians are “ I dont think it’ s very rash to less like that than anyone else, but say that a higher proportion of on two conditions. The first is factory workers watch sport than that this is an argument about university graduates do, in any more and less. Australians may be country. But just as Australians in the least slobbish people and still general watch less sport than be pretty bad, provided everyone others, Australian university peo­ else is worse. I dont want to be ple are far less interested than understood as saying that every­ university people anywhere else, thing’s good enough. That way at least in English-speaking coun­ lies conservatism and apathy. But tries. You couldnt spend a year at looking at some of the ways in Oxford or Cambridge and not which we are less fucked up than know who won the boat race; or other places might enable our at Cape Town or Stellenbosch and attacks to be a little better direct­ not know who won the annual ed than the outburst you’ve just rugby game. American and Cana­ made. But get this straight. Even dian universities are something on the least thirsty days in sum­ else again. You’ve heard of the mer, I’m usually parched.” fund-raising campaign L et’s give “ I think I know what the our football team a university to second condition is,” smiled Judy, be proud of. But most Australian heading for the bar. students would be at a loss to give When the doctor had taken his the result of any intervarsity com­ first appreciative pull of whisky petition. The more I think about he began. “ Let’s start with the last it, the more amazed I am at how one. Watching football. I have to little interested in sport Austra­ show that Australians are less lians are.” spectator sportsmen than any “ The Melbourne Cup,” tried other country in the world.” Neil desperately. “ Australians "Y o u can try,” said Neil. watch racing. We’re the only “ Look at the VFL crowds.” country in the world to hold a “ Mmm. But consider compar­ holiday for a horse race.” able countries. I’ll have to leave “ Yes, other countries develop­ out Africa and most of Asia - ed their traditional holidays be­ you can’t have much in the way fore commercialised sport began, of spectator sport without a cer­ so they gave them different tain amount o f affluence, and I names. But whatever their origin, He was off again as soon as the work. A better example is Canada. city in the world is certainly not take it the point is that Austral­ holidays are days for watching glasses were on the table. They have a slightly bigger popu­ Melbourne. I've mentioned Glas­ ians are being accused of being sport for a large proportion of the lation, and at least as many hassles gow, havent I? And Manchester slobs compared to some allegedly “ I said fully professional, and population. New year’s day in with distances. But as well as ice too, and Rio and so on would be more civilised people, not that that made me think of something. America could equally be called hockey, which the Americans in it. But I think the prize would they have more spare time than All the developed countries - and Bowl Game Day. I dont think it’s go to Green Bay, Wisconsin. Popu­ Bengali farmers.” a lot of the underdeveloped ones watch too, Canada has a fully more significant that Victoria’s professional league, right across lation is about 63,000. The stadi­ “ O f course,” said Judy. “ Stop too — support a large number of spring holiday is called Cup day the continent, playing a variety of um holds 50,000. Every seat for bullshitting around and start.” fully professional athletes. That is, than it is that one of America’s gridiron. The Americans watch every game is booked out before “ Neil drew our attention to the people who earn so much from major holidays is called Thanks­ the season has even started. Of VFL. But european soccer crowds playing a game (and I dont mean their own version, so it's entirely giving. After all, another major course, a lot o f them fly in from are really enormous, and they’re coaching, or endorsing advertise­ Canadian supported. That’s where holiday in Australia is called interstate - but that really proves often violent. A game between ments) that they dont need to the Sydney Rugby League player Anzac day, but you could hardly the point, doesnt it? How many Rangers and Celtic, for instance, work at all. French cyclists, Jap­ Mark Harris went last year, if you make out a case that Australia is a Australians would fly anywhere to or one o f the lead ups to the anese sumo wrestlers, soccer play­ remember any of the reports. All particularly militarist nation. We see a home-and-away game? World Cup. Or the scenes in Am­ ers pretty well everywhere dont those men do is play football and havent had anything like a mili­ Americans do so every week.” sterdam after Ajax won the world have other jobs. Almost all the big train for it, and they play right tary coup for quite a while, and “ But look at the television club championship, if you want to VFL and RL stars work during the across Canada. All on the support military men dont hold a high coverage o f Australian sport,” said dismiss the Scots and Mediterran­ week, which is unheard o f else­ of about 20 million people, and place in public esteem.” their travel bills must be shocking. Neil. “ On Saturday in Melbourne, eans as hot tempered. South where. Not enough Australians “ We were talking about rac­ Australia can’t even organise a there’s nothing else to watch.” America is about the same. The watch footy to provide the ing,” said Neil. “ And you’d better league that takes in more than the “ Nor is there in America on largest ever stadium crowd was money.” hurry up a bit, the bar’s closed suburbs of one or at most two near­ Sunday,” was the reply. “ American just under 200,000 for a soccer “ Hold on,” I objected. “ What already, and you havent even fin­ by cities. Yet we play league in television gives over 24 hours a match in Brazil. That’s almost two about our golfers and tennis play­ ished sport, let alone racism, sex­ Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Woll­ week to sport - and that’s just VFL Grand Finals at once. Italy, ers? They dont have jobs.” ism or anti intellectualism.” Spain, Germany — who are you “ Sure, they’re full pros,” he ongong, Canberra - that’s five the national coverage, not count­ “ I’m sorry. I’ll try to finish going to put up as your cultivated agreed. “ But they’re not support­ large cities in a reasonably small ing local events. What does Archie racing, at least. We’ll have to leave european? They’re all soccer ed by Australian spectators. Most area. Or Adelaide, Tassie and Vic­ Bunker do on sunday? If you the others till next time. Racing is crazy.” of their money comes from tour­ toria for rules. Why not? There remember, Nixon intervened to pretty big business everywhere. A “ What about France?” I offer­ naments overseas. Australia pro­ simply isnt the support. They try and stop the 50 mile television horse called Secretariat made ed. duces a lot of good athletes, but can’t get in enough paying cus­ blackout around grounds. And the quite a stir in America, for in­ “ There’s fully professional soc­ that’s not at issue. Australians tomers to pay for the travelling, european networks are sports mad stance. The French have the Arc cer in France, and in the south dont watch sport as much as other let alone fulltime players.” too. The BBC gave 170 hours to de Triomphe, the English the Der­ both rugby codes have pretty people.” “ But I thought” , I spoke up the last Olympics. A few years by, the Irish ...” fanatical followings. But the “ But we only have a small for my home town, “ that, propor­ back, I remember the choice being At this moment, Fred the bar­ French really go for cycle racing. population,” said Neil. “ If only tionately speaking, Melbourne European Champions Cup soccer man rather forcibly drew his at­ The Guinness book o f records one percent of Londoners went to watches more football than any final on both BBC and ITV, while tention to the fact that we were estimates that the working time the football, you’d have a bigger city in the world.” BBC2 had a program of snooker. the last people left in the bar. The lost and so on due to the Tour de crowd than if twice that propor­ “ I’m afraid it’s very small Weekend television everywhere is doctor was promising to discuss France is more thah 300 million tion of Sydneysiders went. That’s beer,” said the old man, but not sport. It’ s enough to drive one to the other criticisms that Neil had pounds sterling. Now that’s not the reason there’s less money in another word would he say until I drink.” made of Australians at the next just drinking money.” sport here, not lack of interest.” had taken the hint and bought While Judy was complying, opportunity. While Neil was getting the next “ Holland has an even smaller another round . . . with this unsubtle hint, I asked round, the doctor concentrated. population, and Ajax players dont “ The most football watching the guru about the newspaper □ Page 2 0 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974 The show has a simple but FEW weeks ago Sydney cor­ tight structure. Starting with long respondent Cherry Ripe A numbers and long pauses between, slammed a Slade concert in a Cassidy thru the ages they get shorter and Cassidy’s review. And on seeing the concert strung out hipchat is dispensed it was difficult to disagree with OBYN, whose review of the ment was: “ Gosh, just imagine, the best, apart from David Cas­ with as he gets more breathless her musical judgment, but it was Cassidy concert in Mel­ him being there so close and me R sidy. They were only young and and the pace more staccato. also difficult to ignore the fact bourne is below, has been an being just here.” they sang and danced really well. He is the scrubbed-antiseptic that they thrilled a huge majority ardent David Cassidy fan since she - MARGARET MacINTYRE David Cassidy was really good California kid. The Clearasil pro­ of their audience. Or that a major­ first spotted him in the Partridge and he sang really well. And he mise. The overworkedness is real. ity of their audience is under 16. family a couple of years ago. She HE first group on stage on romped about the stage a lot. He’s On the TV set from six in the And o f course that follows with was very excited at the chance to T sunday was Mr George and a lot prettier than he is in the morning to six at night, then on David Cassidy, and Sherbert and see David Cassidy in the flesh as they were alright. They wore aqua Partridge family on TV. He sang to the recording studio, for . . . So this week we present some well as the chance to attend her colored clothes which made them his new songs first and he has got literally years on end. A sheltered views and reviews from some of first rock concert. When Cassidy look cool, and it was really hot. a really good voice. He played the billion dollar earner, the pressure that majority. finally appeared on stage her com­ Then two girls came on who were piano on stage in one song. from his lady-manager doesnt let Everybody was clapping and up. He’s her clockwork brainchild, David must have been hot because and his popularity is deliberate The classroom critics everyone was hot and because of and well calculated. the heavy breathing when he NE AFTERNOON last week “ She’s terrific, it’s got a really “ I’ve got it and I’m sick of it. None of this detracts from his finished a song. in Melbourne, photographer good beat about it. I like 48 crash We played it all night at a party charm. He is a spunky bronzed O I really like him because he is Manning and I took an armful of better though, and Sticks and one night ’cos no one else brought elder brother for every pre teen so kind, and so pretty looking and singles out to Fawkner technical stones. 48 crash has got some records.” posterpaster in the audience. He because o f his songs I suppose. I’d school to be reviewed by some of really good drumming and it’s got “ The beginning sounds as if has a knack for exuding youthfull- really like to meet him and talk to the discerning members of the a better beat than this. This is just he’s got a pain in the stomach. It’s ness in an almost forcedly honest him but I probably wouldnt know public - 10 members of form two all the same level.” not as good as See m y baby jive, manner. He learnt to handfe the to be precise. “ She’s a really great singer, it’s too plain. Sort of yuk. But it’s what to say. I’d like to touch him camera early. He’s a self-confessed and that is why everybody reaches F or the enthusiasm and because she sings pretty clear. not as daggy as some of them ” Media Child, a product of the very thoughts below we can thank You can understand her, but with ALICE COOPER: Teenage lament out down the front — to touch means he exploits. The audience Vicki, Bev, Kerry, Lee, Gael, others you can understand some '74 (Warner Brothers). him. are media children too, bound to Berry, Karen, Paul, Shane and the of the words but not all of them. (Which was one of the few I I liked his clothes. I didnt him by an instinctive empathy Great Baba (alias Rocky). It was And she’s great on TV .” really enjoyed.) expect him to move about the that their emotional idolatory clear that the singles most heard ROCKY: “ She’ s got the heavi­ “ It’s sick/alright/rough enough. stage as much. I liked the way he compounds to frenzy point. No moved up and down the stage. on the radio were those most est bass guitar and she’s got But (and all agreed) it’s not as arrival or departure at an airport loved, and it was also evident that it right down to her, to her . . . to good as School's out." I liked it best when he played goes unannounced. Try getting if Fawkner tech’s form two had her whatdoyoucallit.” JIM STAFFORD: Spiders and Cherish because it’s my favorite out of Heathrow on a day he’s their way Susie Quatro would “ She’s got a really good band snakes (MGM). song. I like the old songs he did going out: chances are you’ll miss take over the world. Requests for — if she didnt have that band I “ That’s good. It’s different. with the Partridge family better your plane. This sort of coverage Aunty Jack, Slade and Smoking in dont think she’d be too good just Some people just copy others like than his new songs. is something he encourages, at the the boys room all had to be as a singer." that stupid guy in Kush who tries It was really crowded and some same time having to go to elabo­ refused since we were trying to FLIP SIDE: “ Horrible. The rec­ to copy David Bowie. At the start girls were screaming which was rate lengths to avoid it like fleeing gather opinions on comparatively ord companies always put a good it sounded daggy, but it’s really pretty stupid because they didnt from concerts in equipment vans new singles. record on one side and a rotten good. I’d listen to it but I wouldnt have to scream If I had been that look more like armored cars. one on the other to sell them ” buy it.” down the front I might have The overestimated crowd at HUSH: Maneater (Warner Broth­ JACKIE MOORE: Sweet Charlie JAMES TAYLOR/CARLY SI­ screamed a couple of times be­ Randwick racecourse turned out ers). babe (Atlantic). MONS: Mockingbird (Elektra). cause I wouldnt be able to help it to be a rather meagre 15,000 Pro: “ It’s alright. It’s got a “ Ugh! That’s horrible. It’s PRO: “ It was grouse." with him so close. (Faces drew 30,000). The good beat and it’s sort of different really slow, I dont like it at all.” CON: “Nah, it had the same You couldnt really see well scorching asphalt flat in front of to every other sort of song I listen “ It’s alright for some people, sort of beat all the time.” enough and it was hot but I wasnt the stage was a jampacked mass of to. It’ll be a hit.” but we’re used to all those fast PAUL: “ It was dead - dead disappointed. I was very happy pushing fainting bare-little-bodies. Con: “ It’s alright, but there’s songs.” rock.” because I’d seen him. They managed to push the stage- not enough sort of going on in the “ Yeah, Johnny Famham sings M ARCIE JONES: Gonna get mar­ - ROBYN barrier down once, and there was band.” like that, or he used to but now ried (Atlantic). panic when they thought the stage LEO SAYERS: The show must go he’s changed, ’cos the times have (This was well known and a OING to a David Cassidy would collapse. Cassidy coming on (Chrysalis). changed.” firm favorite. The girls sang along Gshow is not like going to a on as an elder brother . . . “ Sit (This was greeted with shrieks “ Just hearing Susie Quatro and and the boys tapped their feet.) concert. The music is incidental. down . . . Sit down!” of recognition.) then turning on to that - well, it’s “ It’s terrific. It’s really rugged.” All those suppliant arms raised in Me, I wandered away well- “ Oh yeah, this is good. I really not on the good side.” (And they promptly played it quivering adoration. More like sunned, stunned. love this, he sounds like Rod KAREN: “ But it will pass.” again.) going to mass. CHERRY RIPE Stewart. It’s going to be good but MR GEORGE: Lazy Susan From this, a discussion about not a big hit. It’s entirely dif­ (Phillips). favorite artists arose with Slade, J0VAN PROMOTIONS ferent, the voice sounds different “ It’s got the clapping and the Gary Glitter and Susie Quatro em­ and it sort of echoes. It will sell different noises. It would prob­ erging slightly ahead (on points) of 'cos you need something dif­ ably be alright for a concert at Sweet and Alvin Stardust. Obvi­ STARS OF THE FUTURE ferent." the Music Bowl, you know, ‘Music ously it is the beat that matters - An agency which believes in looking to the future, invites bands to SUSIE QUATRO: Daytona for the people’ or something, but the melodies didnt rate a mention. appear in a mammoth Stars of The Future Concert. To be given at demon (RAK). not as a new record.” According to form two, the idea is Ormond Hall, Moubray Street, Prahran, on Saturday, 6th April. (Oh yeah, the heavy breathing. R O Y WOOD: Forever (Harvest). to play it loud and play it fast - Further details ring 93.5278 or 93.7358 office hours only. Everyone immediately joined in - “ Oh yeah, Roy Wood did See that is the way to make a hit An expert panel of judges will preside. “ Do you mind if we sing miss?” ) m y baby jive, I love that.” record. THE LIVIN G DAYLIGHTS, march 12-18, 1974— Page 21 DAREL NUGENT these musicians publicly claimed? T ’S friday mid-afternoon B.B.: I thank them, I’m grateful to Iand B. B. King approaches them. That had been one o f the his tiresome sixth hour of taking things that opened the door for to the Australian press. Suddenly me. It was mainly due to the fact everybody wants to know about that we had people like the the Blues Boy from Beale street. Beatles, Eric Clapton and maybe There are receptions to attend, UDIENC Michael Bloomfield. They are the television interviews, straight people that have said that they radio, art exhibitions to open, and listened to me, Muddy Waters and two days later he is to perform to many of the guys like myself. 5000 people at Sydney’s Hordern That had caused, I think, a lot of pavilion. WITH the doors to open. Because a lot Suddenly everybody wants to o f places wouldnt accept us until hear B. B. King. Quite amazing, a lot of the younger groups used seeing that his biggest selling al­ THE to go in and play in those places bum in Australia - B. B. King’s first. greatest hits - didnt even notch Are blues audiences younger to­ up national sales in excess of five day than your audience in the hundred copies. However, ad­ 40s, 50s and 60s? KING OF B.B.: When I started I was young vanced ticket sales in Melbourne and Sydney have given the tour and I had young fans but they promoters reason to provide addi­ were usually my age or older. We tional concerts in these cities. have more young fans today be­ * * * THE cause then there werent so many B. B. King is the most widely people interested in the blues. We heard blues artist in the world had very few whites, whereas today. He’s known and enjoyed whites today make up quite a bit by millions of people who arent BLUES o f the blues audience. Over the aware o f any other blues artist. To past few years we’ve begun to get an extent B. B. King has broken more blacks, young blacks. We’ve his “ blues” tag, because he isnt always had many older blacks, exclusively the property of the that’s what has supported me all blues or rock audience. these years. What actually turned you on to You have been involved in prison the guitar? They had a new product that sing one number. person was still there playing in reform for about four years; how B.B.: Well, the only instrument in was called “ Peptikon” . So I wrote I sang this particular number my ears. did you become actively involved? the area where I grew up - the a jingle for it, I never got paid for and it so happened that he had In the 50 you averaged over 300 B.B.: First, we were playing in a only instrument that you could it, which would be different to­ two jobs for that night and one of one night stands per year. At that place in Chicago called Mr Kelly’ s find around the house — would be day, but they put me on the them he didnt want because it time did you ever get to the point and it was the first time that they a guitar or maybe a harmonica or radio. I was new, the product was didnt pay much money. So he where you felt that you couldnt had ever had blues there. They something like that. There were new, they were new and believe it called the lady - her name was do one more? had just appointed a new director no music stores in the area, no­ or not all of us have been around Miss Annie - and he asked her if B.B.: Well I get lazy sometimes, I for the Cook County Directional body teaching music so that was through these many years. I saw she had heard his show and she guess like everybody. I’ve been Institution, who happened to be a about all you would find and my old boss, Mr Ferguson, about said yes. So he said did you hear like that many times, where I’ve black guy and he asked me if I usually you would find an old two or three years ago and now the boy sing and she said yes so he got lazy and didnt want to go on would come over and play for the guitar in the attic of everybody’s he’s a commissioner in Memphis. said “ Well I’m going to let him but I went on anyway. I was glad inmates as he had told them that home. Of course when you went He sold the radio station. To give play for you tonight and I will be I did because usually the concert he would ask me. So I told my to church, the sanctified church, you an idea, I think they paid back next week, is that OK?” So was out of sight. I have never management about it and they in the preacher played the guitar, she said, “ Fine baby, but you missed one by not wanting to go. turn told the record company that who happened to be my uncle’s $20,000 for the station and they better play” . It’s just like getting up in the I would do it, I had said that I brother in law, but in the larger sold it about 12 or 15 years ago for So I was at Miss Annie’s place, morning, there’s been many a would. churches, like baptist & catholic $2 million. Was it during this time that you that was in West Memphis, and I time I didnt want to get up but if They recorded it and the press churches, you had piano and or­ were associated with Sonny B oy played there that night. It was I had something to do then I got went in with me andwe found gan, but nobody had them in their Williamson? beautiful for me because I’d never up. So yes, that happens, you get that about 70 percent of the homes so you had no access to B.B.: Sonny Boy Williamson was made $12 a day in my life. I didnt to places where sometimes you people that were there were them. one of the reasons for me going to know there was that much money dont feel like going and yqu say; blacks. Young blacks, in their How did you break into radio? that station. I used to hear him in the world. “Oh my God, why do I have to go early teens. And that they had B.B.: Well, some people that I when he w?s on another station, So Sonny B oy actually gave you on” . But you still go on because been there, some of them for knew had just started a radio over in Arkansas. When I left your first professional gig? you know it’s your job and you months. Just arrested. So they station, which was the first black Indianola and went to Memphis, I B.B.: Yes. So the lady told me that must. But I have never played one told the press that if they were operated radio station in America. found that he was over in West if I would get a job with the radio that I didnt enjoy even when I found guilty, the time that they They were business men and they Memphis on another station, so I like Sonny Boy had, then she didnt want to go. had been in there did not apply to figured that I had talent when I went over there that day and would use me every day and I I’ve been 27 years on the road, the time they were sentenced to. went over there. In fact, the day I would get room and board and a I’ve only missed 13 days or 13 Say if they had been in there for went to the radio station was the asked him if he could let me go on day off. I started thinking about dates playing. I’m pretty proud of nine months and were given a day I went on the aip the radio. He said yes and let me it, $12, oh my God, it would get that record. One of the reasons year, then the nine months did not me a new pair o f pants, a new gui­ why I wouldnt miss them if pos­ apply to the sentence. The same tar, it could get me a lot of sible is because of the people. I’d thing, if you were found not things. think of the many people who guilty of any crime. They didnt My job was to entertain the had come from maybe miles compensate for the time you had girls you see, while the fella’s go around to see me that night. Some been in there. They told the press in the back and gamble. And you people had to maybe get off work that. know, I dug that. I was a very that day or maybe borrow money There was a press report the young fella at that time and they to get a ticket. I could go through next day and then we found out were beautiful girls. So the next a 100 things that I could think of later that one of the national day, after playing that night, I that would make me want to go networks did an in-depth story on went back to this radio station. I on and not disappoint the people. that kind of situation and inter­ only had ten minutes at first but So this is one of the reasons why I viewed a lot of the same people they would let me advertise where dont. Like I said, I felt like not we had talked with. What they I was working. going but I would go because I did, they started to speed up the SPECIAL FEATURE What musicians did you experi­ felt like the people were depend­ system then and not let people be ence playing when you were a ing on me. Not only the men that in that long. Or they made the “ Druga and the Mystical Experience” teenager? were with me, or the management bail so that a lot of the guys could B.B.: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lon- or the booking agents or the get out ’cause a lot o f the guys ON SALE NOW Boy was one and Louis Jordan promoters, but the people. there couldnt meet the bail. That and many others. T. Bone Walker. What number Lucille (his guitar) made me very happy, made me are you using at the moment? feel like I really did something. Distributed by Gordon & Gotch Aust. Pty. Ltd. I didnt get a chance to be around B.B.: This is Lucille the 14th. What do you think o f prisons in with them long enough to learn Each one o f this model I call general? anything from them but the Lucille and I’ve been buying this Riley B. King. What does the “B " KINGSTON HOTEL sound was like . . . maybe you’ve particular model ever since then. stand for? been around sometimes and you HIGHETT STREET. RICHMOND. It is an EF355 Gibson stereo. B.B.: Nothing. 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HE VIRTUES of FM radio have aspects and angles that fulfil these proph­ what he actually says that gets attention, such a lifestyle. While commerce was able T been loudly extolled by audio ecies. but whether he’ll be “ in trouble” again. to cash in on the “ hip generation” in all freaks and equipment manufacturers in The news media’s penchant for sen­ An extension of “ personalisation” is the sorts of ways (from jeanery to under-25 sationalism, violence and conflict this country for some years now. Friends media view that whatever wellknown or travel packs, coolly advertised in freak encourages an inclination to play up the returning from overseas wax breathless influential people do is newsworthy; language), the Nimbin alternative is secondary role of events and play down about its technical superiority to AM often this “ news” actually takes the form simply too far removed from commercial the primary role of ideas. We know that radio; they talk of a choice between a of speculation on what someone is think­ possibilities. dozen or more stations, and debate ranges sporadic violence in a largely peaceful ing about or will do next. * * * on the further advantages of UHF as demonstration inevitably attracts more To expect that these tendencies should FM will include commercial stations, against VHF broadcasting (see Jim Boot, attention than the issue at stake: but the disappear is probably naive; yet a real although there’s no place for such TLD 2/5). extraordinary thing is that the “ issue” is alternative is to report events and issues stations at all. We need a system of radio Such enthusiastic support may have often not mentioned at all. in terms of social issues. The present whose prime characteristics are its user- brought FM to us more quickly. It has The recent “ Perkins affair” is most tendency is trivial. A classic example of orientation, plurality and tolerability. also overshadowed the crucial question of instructive here. The media focused on media trivia is the recent saga of Ronald More specifically, the system should be how we should use FM when we get it. the conflict between Perkins and the Biggs; the press devoted roughly twice as independent of government and commer­ The answer is not so much a matter of minister - or Perkins and the department much time and space to the sex life of a cial interests, should provide the most finding ways to fill 14 metropolitan head - rather than discussing the issues convicted thug as it did to the Queens­ accurate information possible to those stations, since to think of FM as simply as raised by his statements. Aboriginal rights land floods. within the system, and be organised in twice as many stations with stereophonic have not been advanced one iota - nor * * * such a way that it remains sensitive to the reception is to ignore its potential have their claims been further articulated SO FAR, attention has largely been needs of its users and in particular to entirely. - despite media coverage of the “ issue” devoted to'the elements and influences of those users whose resources are most Two Melbourne people (David Grif­ every single day for three weeks. news presentation. However, radio also limited in relation to their needs. It fiths and Geoffrey Greenwood) with an The media’s “ stereotype” influence is dishes up a lot of the information-enter- should have room for growth and change, interest in such things have presented more difficult to detect. The “hip” radio tainment mix, which in itself has an and involve widespread participation on their own submission to the government ideological role. Entertainment has the stations aim their programming at the the part of the public in its design, FM inquiry. The submission sees FM as “ average” teenager with a passion for appearance o f being value-free. In news, operation and control. the first of several technological innova­ David Cassidy and Slade. The “ house­ talk-back and current affairs programs, We need to revise our attitudes about tions that could radically reorganise the entertainment values are balanced with wives” stations aim theirs at the “ aver­ what constitutes “ good” and “ bad” communications system It proceeds from age” suburban housewife. They pan­ information values so that the lines radio. “ Good” radio tends to be defined the fairly obvious assumption that little der to the lowest common denominator become blurred between the trivial and as the smoothness, swiftness, articulate­ can be said about FM until the faults of so the largest possible listening audience the serious, the important and the un­ ness and expensiveness of the professional the present radio system are appreciated. can be included. Few members o f this important. Issues are labelled, packaged broadcaster. What is good may in fact be Their primary criticism of the present audience are “ average” , but all have and presented as “ news” or "current amateurish - people talking with people organisation and content of radio is that something in common with the imaginary affairs” . The nature of real events and about everyday life. There is an emerging it encourages conformity and maintains “ average listener” . But what o f those experience is altered to be thus saleable. professionalism among broadcasters the status quo. It does not challenge or people who are excluded from identifying We need to realise that the public reality similar to other professions; the question society’s form. Radio tends to by their very circumstances? In this way, of “ news” and “ current affairs” has very “ expert’s” monopoly depends upon a entertain and distract rather than inform the media subtly reinforces the exclusion little to do with the private reality of the secrecy which enables the growth o f a and stimulate; it diminishes the power of the poor, the old, the incapacitated, “ issues” reported and our own experi­ myth. and habit of critical thinking; it concen­ blacks, migrants and others from what ence. For instance, people interviewed for trates on the trivial and the sensational; it they are led to believe is their own A result of this “ selling imperative” of radio should be given the opportunity to lacks meaningful controversy, diversity society. the media is what has been called the hear the tape after it is recorded and edit and experimentation. Another media influence is the “ scape­ “ culture of the spectator” - a thing or change anything they dont like, are Straight radio acts in the interests of goat” syndrome through which we Marcuse & McLuhan have referred to. It’s ashamed of or wish to modify. Once an economic and political elite. It tends avoid the real issues by finding and a culture promoted and perpetuated by people become involved this way, they to exclude minority groups from effective blaming scapegoats. Blaming unions for television, radio, newspapers, magazines, learn a great deal about the subjective participation in the life of the com­ industrial strife and inflation, blaming fashion, cosmetics, public relations and process that characterises the media? and munity. It avoids meaningful audience communists for student dissent, blaming advertising. It attempts to “ deny and hide the process of demystifying the media has feedback and public dialogue; with the the poor for their poverty and blaming the daily private reality of exploitation, begun. help of advertising it works to delude the the teachers for the education crisis. pain, suffering and inauthentic he or she The value judgments involved in a majority of people into accepting the The other aspect of the media’s ten­ experience” , and the individual is instead news program are of course legion: which image of reality. dency to avoid real issues is its readiness persuaded into accepting a “ public and issues and events are selected for investi­ Griffiths and Greenwood argue that to to “ personalise” the news. It is often a official reality” . gation, who is assigned to cover the story, replace this existing system with mere way of finding an “ angle” — an item Whilst this “ reality” is inextricably how much time is allowed for investiga­ variations ,is to reinforce and impose a highlighting the hardship of a particular tied to that conveyed by “ news” and tion of the story, who is selected to be single pattern when we should instead be person or family is more likely to be used “ current affairs” programs, it essentially developing and offering more oppor­ than an article discussing the problem of amounts to the selling of consumer crap interviewed, the need to avoid sameness tunities, more diversity in organisation, poverty. The corollary to this is an elitist — beer, cigarettes, cars, clothes, tooth­ in content, the need to preserve balance control and content. We should be intro­ approach, where the statements of influ­ paste, celebrities, politicians, where to in each item and to balance between ducing a system of broadcasting that is ential people dominate the news. The live, what to think and how to live. “ soft” and “ hard” news, the length of the decentralised and accessible. utterances o f prince Philip are invariably Consider the media treatment of Nimbin program, the order of presentation, The tendencies that any new system of news because he is prince Philip — regard­ and any other “ back to the earth” experi­ assumptions about the audience, the sur­ broadcasting should guard against can be less of their particular significance. Again, ments or festivals. It has been, to say the rounding stories and so on. illustrated simply. from now on Charles Perkins will be news least, scanty and has not once attempted 'The main concern is the possibilities, Radio shares many of the limitations whenever he says anything: it won’t be to explain the aims and advantages of of community radio. Whether stations are of newspapers and television. The public to perform a role similar to that per­ is a glob o f individuals who receive formed by suburban newspapers in expressions from the mass media. The relation to the big city dailies, or whether media is so organised that it is difficult they will be based in municipalities or for the individual to answer back immedi­ university campuses is not the main issue. ately or with any effect. (Mrs X ringing Radio can and should bring people up a talk-back show has three minutes to together instead of segregating them make her point. Her inability to control Radio should bring together poor people, the conversation or answer the commen­ old people, young people, blacks, women, tator’s points as he does hers deprives her students and schoolchildren to produce argument of any weight.) Most impor­ and edit their own programs. Radio tantly, we are all dependant on the media should aim to stimulate personal concern for a sense of what is happening to and involvement rather than replacing it. ourselves and our surroundings; yet a Radio should encourage dialogue between disparity exists between the image of different parts of the community. society expressed through the mass media Radio is potentially capable of making and the reality people experience in their our institutions more responsive to the everyday lives. needs of the persons they are meant to This latter tendency is well known. serve. An essential prerequisite to this is The “ hidden” messages are the implied that radio itself becomes more responsive assumptions and expectations, such as the to the needs of the people it is meant to assumption that whole issues can be serve. categorised into news items. Events, * * * The submission by Griffiths and Greenwood, issues and people are selected for repor­ contains a useful list of references for anyone ting and interviewing for their conson­ with a fledgling interest in FM and the media ance with pre-existing images. A news generally. Copies of the complete submission editor predetermines the interest value of have been run o ff by the Learning Exchange; an event; the journalists and interviewers thev are certainly worth a look and can be qot ■frofh 430 Waverley road, East Malvern, Victoria. are then compelled to find incidents, The phone number is 211-5413.

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right, I will relent and tell you. VER 20 years or more ago, limits by the nature of the event. Moomba needs not a king, but the serious-minded and re­ Provide “ entertainment” , and you O a Lord of Misrule, with a corps of sponsible persons of Melbourne in have an audience. Give them “ art” devoted followers who wear their whose heads the idea o f a great and you force them to withdraw shirts backwards (or some such) festival was slowly shaping even further. Present sport and and whose intent is to cause con­ turned to the ancient wisdom of they loosen up and become a fusion, dismay, mirth and jollity. the original inhabitants for an crowd. People know how to be­ People won't do it for themselves; escape from their sore perplexity. have in these circumstances, and would you? We’re too scared. Procuring an unusually stable, generally are unaware that a quite Why not a mock parliament with sincere, upright, honest, high- different form of behavior is pos­ minded representative of the mock police to enforce absurd sible. When people interact, we laws? Oh, nothing too radical, of Sable race, they conjured him to call it a “ party” , and you’re not course - it wouldnt need to be. present them from his primitive supposed to do it in the street Within certain defined boundaries tongue a jolly word which would with strangers. (to protect the aged, the infirm, serve as a name for their festival, Festivals that do bring about and the humorless) all men with indeed as a rallying-cry. this kind of interaction have al­ God knows what came over brown eyes could be asked riddles ways been characterised by two and made to pay forfeits if they him. Perhaps it was the thought of factors: a change in, often a re­ fail to answer correctly. The sillier all that poisoned flour, those pois­ versal of, the social order, and a oned wells. Perhaps it was the the better such laws. relaxation of laws and other social And how about booze? Why more recent years of indifference, controls. The ritual breaking of or last week’s patronising hand­ on earth is the festival so notice­ taboos has tremendous cathartic ably dry? Why shouldnt pubs be out. Whatever, he answered with a power. allowed to stay open until mid­ bitter jest: The Alexandra gardens carnival night? Why couldnt public trans­ perhaps induces catharsis with its port operate until two or three “ Call it the Moomba festival.” infernal machines. Or perhaps the am? Certain areas in suburbs such “ And what does that mean, my habitues of this fell pastime have as Fitzroy, Prahran, or Richmond man?” they inquired. become addicted to the adrenalin could be closed off to private “ It means, ‘let’s get together rush they get when all their senses traffic and thrown open to revelry and have fun’.” insist that they are in imminent of all kinds until the early hours The word Moomba may or danger of death. Certainly the of the morning. may not be an insult in one of the carnival and this year’s desolate And for a rallying-cry, why not dialects of the Victorian tribes, but and eerie city square provide fine Moomba! with its original and its meaning in English is coarse, to settings for a new and horribly beautiful meaning? Damn all the say the least. Moo signifies bot­ superficial Inferno. In the Alexan­ conventions that make us such tom, behind, arse or posterior; ba dra gardens: the whirling arms separate and acute individuals! means on or in. Thus the word overhead bearing coffins from Screw all divisions - hippy, skin­ Moomba may be freely rendered which fall unearthly shrieks, the head, artist, businessman - and as Up your bum! horrors promised in a leering rasp let everybody get drunk or stoned The concept of Moomba is a from the Ghost Railway (now together. grand one. Here all obtainable called Trip to the Lost Planet or It won’t happen. We’re still too aspects of contemporary life are some such), the whole illuminated scared. What if everybody got too brought together. A huge pile of with lividelectricity;and the Shuff­ drunk and started smashing, burn­ kindling; but who brings the fire? ling crowds in the city square, ing, raping and looting? What of How can such an all-ertcompassing amongst the ghastly make-believe all the extra drunken drivers on design fail so noticeably to have trees, awash in recorded music the roads? Think of the expense, any hold over the imagination? from the past. think of the dangers. Think of The crowds are genial, interested, “ The objective of the festival” , anything, any damned excuse will but vague. All those people are claims the official program “ is to do. We’ve gone too far on the little more than a huge peripatetic provide popular entertainment in road to paranoia to turn back audience. You go to “ have a a carnival atmosphere for the citi­ now. But how painful it is to walk look” at Moomba. You go to zens o f Melbourne. Secondly, the among the festival crowds, never observe; there is very little oppor­ festival seeks to develop, foster daring to establish any contact tunity to do anything else. Enter­ and encourage popular interest in with any of the people and they, tainment is thoughtfully laid on - the arts.” They’re not doing too too, self-effacing in the fear that usually on stages. The audience- bad a job o f that, I suppose. But any approach would be misinter­ performer dichotomy is maintain­ what do you get at Moomba that preted. I could never take the first ed to the point of roping off the you can’t get anywhere else? The step. Could you? For God’s sake stages so you can’t get too close. royal show has more of a carnival let’s try to find some way to make The role o f people attending an atmosphere. But how do you cre­ it happen next year. j— j event is set within fairly clear ate a carnival atmosphere? All SEE AMERICA FOR $100. Join camping bus tour travelling halfway across the Australian continent to North West Cape military base. Visits to other U.S. military bases on the way also planned. May 1 1th to 26th. FOR DETAILS WRITE: Sydney - Box J 73, Brickfield Hill. Melbourne - Box 215, Elsternwick. Adelaide — Box 4, Norwood. Authorised Campaign Against Foreign Military Bases.

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Correspondence tin Smith was in a minority o f one at a adviser to many. I met her once. I the antipodes. to the address below would be appreci­ CHERRY RIPE (TLD, 2/8) has gone recent GLF meeting when he violently believe the original thought, respon­ Vague references are made to that ated. sour! After reading his trappy article objected to even having a discussion sible for the creation o f the “ Age o f amorphous body known as the coun­ By the way, TLD, devote more time on Slade, I find he lacks an ear for meeting on the relation of Gay Libera­ Aquarius” festival in Nimbin, genera­ terculture. God! The new knights o f to offbeat type trips, if possible please, music. Evidently, Mr Ripe did not like tion to womens liberation — because ted from the mind o f this cosmic lady. that com m odity left untended by the ’specially the native Australian food forking out $4.70 for his ticket, or he WL we said had nothing to do with IfUhis is true, Nimbin, then, today decline o f the religious. Self-righteous­ scene (y’know, jams, berries, grubs, fell asleep and didnt appreciate it. As homosexuals! and tom orrow will be her swan song. A ness. Back-to-times-that-never-existed etc), which are available to the native shown by the great record sales, few 2) If the GLF did not formally few months ago she entered another ostriches. Refusing to see times change. food freak. Other ideas: rundown on people would agree with Mr Ripe’s endorse that particular prison reform stage o f metamorphosis and died. Nimbinites learning their dead skills Australian cheeses (Bodalla, Bega, tripe. Hopefully he will be converted demonstration, it has endorsed sim­ M. J. STITT, and housewives frantically attending Tilba, etc); the charismatic movement; by the time o f their next tour (which, ilar protests in the past, and would Bondi, NSW their toastmistress clubs and flower- the occult; all o f which could well do hopefully, will be soon). Like an olive, have undoubtedly done so again if time arranging courses are on a par. Both are with an article being written about Mr Ripe, get stuffed! had allowed. Tony Green was perhaps trying too hard. them. SLADE FOREVER, technically incorrect in announcing Peanut butter Relax chillun! Seek for a while, I. FAULKS, Sydney, NSW GLF as a sponsor of the demonstra­ dont try. Look at the fog and when Jaspers Brush, NSW tion, but Martin Smith is totally incor­ you feel confident enough, see if there One doubts that Ms Ripe, or any­ rect in saying, GLF is a “ single issue” with melon & is a path through it. The path may lead one, could sleep through a Slade organisation and would not help organ­ you to do things you shouldnt but do Surfs up concert! ise such a protest. ginger jam them and you might see you are not what you think you are. It is a start. 3) GLF has helped organise and has IN RESPONSE to Stoney Mathews THANK you for your generous review An illustrative digression. Two sponsored similar protests by groups from HaHaVille (TLD, 2/8), I too o f Crystal voyager by one Gough E. Full Marx people I spent time with, got to know fighting oppression which are not would like such a reaction. To give you Foot. Gough E. I hope you can get a little (do we ever know anybody?). AS A MEMBER of the Communist specifically around gay oppression. In a starter, here is some o f our Murchy into the surf more often in the future, One was 28 years old; former Rhodes­ party and o f Gay Liberation, may I take recent weeks the GLF has officially Delights. as the city blues is getting to ya. ian SAS soldier, also a former mer­ issue with former Liberal party state affiliated to the Sydney May Day Top o f the list is Smedley’s, good George Greenough is an incredible sur­ cenary against black liberation fronts councillor Martin Smith and well committee, as a general statement o f old “ Smeds” , tinned strawberries fer but even “ the fish” can’t get upside in Africa. Known as Z. known prison reformer (?) Peter French support of the aims of May Day which (imported from England). Really nice down in the tube with a 12 lb camera The other an outwardly gentle (TLD, 2/9). include the struggle against all oppres­ with ice cream, topped with cream. strapped on his back. social worker o f the type that abounds Peter French is just wrong when he sion. (Anyone knowing where some more in London’s East End. Hereafter known DAVID ELFICK, says the CPA has not protested those 4) Martin Smith’s red-baiting is an might be had, scarce with Britain’s as B. Palm Beach, NSW held illegally or for expressing political attempt to say that only gay com­ economic problems?) Try Smed’s with B felt his allegiance with the poor, dissent in “ marxist countries” . The munists and SYAers oppose his posi­ our local loganberries — yum, yum, oppressed and expounded the values o f CPA has been vocal in its opposition to tion. In fact, Martin Smith is in a really good. gentleness, peace etc while chain­ denials o f socialist democracy in the minority of one (or perhaps two) in Another goody is tuna patties, taste About God smoking Gauloise plain. B disapproved Soviet Union and elsewhere, and has the GLF. is something else. Can be complicated LET ME lay some theology on ya. Big of Z ’cos of his background. But at earned bitter attacks from the Soviet 5) Martin tops it all by recommend­ to make so make prior preparations — Gorty and Nets(?) illustrated comment least Z had killed and could honestly bureaucracy for its stand. What has ing the sexist rag Stallion to readers. well worth the effort. Dig to hear some (Letters, TLD, 2/8) proposed that God live his present lifestyle knowing for French done that has been anywhere Stallion, like Playboy, Gay or other more ideas. is a creation o f man’s imagination. The him peace was now a reality. He near as effective? rip-off sexist rags, might occasionally THE ELVES OF GLOSSOP theist may argue sarcastically that this realised he had a long way to go but he As for the CPA being a “ national run a reasonable article to keep up its Toyland makes man’s imagination greater than realised he had time. B was one o f the joke” , the Master Builders' Associa­ “ image” . But posing it as “ Australia’s the power that created it. most fucked-up, narrow-minded twerps tion, Metal Trades employers, ASIO only national gay magazine for and by It will be pointed out to him that it A letter I have ever had the displeasure of and the real powers in this country the gay community” (gay male com ­ is only an assumption that things have knowing. Light as all-fuck, hanging on dont share his view. The CPA may be munity that is) has nothing to do with to be created. A clever philosopher to his possessions like they were a life small and get few votes in elections gay liberation. But maybe journo Mar­ from paradise may develop a theory showing how raft. Z was generous and considerate. (though not in union ballots), but our tin has found a new home and/or job A REPLY to Will Tetley (TLD 2 /7 ): matter has always existed. Who shall judge? impact is there and growing. am sitting in a $10 a week fleahouse Even so, there is obviously some DENIS FRENEY, R. BLAKELY As for Martin Smith, his red baiting catching up on my reading when thud! order in the universe. Energy is not Sydney, NSW Gerald ton, WA and ill informed letter, in which he bang! crash! (no, the plumbing hasnt matter — reason is not the same takes upon himself the mantle o f fucked up again). A sensitive soul cries Call any process as dreaming — an atom is never spokesman of Gay Libaration, shows he Eulogy out from the street — fark! as the a vacuum etc. should go back into the Liberal party. crows would say if they could pro­ I suggest that order implies control A few corrections: DO YOU know Ms Oppenheimer? nounce “ F” . What a load o f horseshit! vegetable and control implies intelligence and 1) Gay Liberation has never been a Gentle lady, representative of Reminds me of what Henry Miller I AM writing to find out from any power as great as or greater than that single issue organisation. It has sup­ Amnesty in Australia, astrologer, realised in Nexus. Feeling sorry for beautiful person/people about the which is controlled (in this case

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everything). Christians and others believe that this power is Ultimate Love and call it God. A power that is DANY HUMPHRIES not love would leave no room for There’s no jail like Home beauty, human love, joy and other gifts. ITTING in suburbia it’s Beryl and Toni — two former where she was sent to Bidura, she “ We didnt even begin to get into They believe that love requires more Shard to feel passionate wards of the state who have been “ graduated” to Parramatta and the problems of what happens than one, the lover and the loved. If about anything much except the through the whole system of girls then Hay, the toughest home in when the girls get out.” This was there is a return of love, even if on a traffic noise and the astronomical homes in NSW for most of their NSW. All told, she tried to escape partly due to lack of funds (Home lesser scale, the relationship is far more cost of cat food. One sure way to lives. 36 times and for her pains went cost the Film and Television satisfying for both. So God created life get stirred up, though, is to reflect Beryl, who committed no school $2000), but also because it forms (us) capable of love. Love, right through the system. When­ on the slow-fading traces in my crime other than being an orphan, was impossible to ask women to however, is by its nature, voluntary, so ever she completed her time she God gave us free will and, instead o f head left by seeing Home, the new ran away from the convent she would be out for two weeks and expose themselves, to put their intimidating us by its power and glory, Sydney womens film. Two days had been in since she was 18 picked up again for “ EMD” - experiences on the line when they hid from us by giving us egos which are later, my cunt contracts in sympa­ months old and was declared “ exposure to moral danger” . EMD mostly want to forget it ever concerned mainly with worldly thy, and I can still feel the tension “ uncontrollable” . She was sent to is a charge that embodies all the happened. Beryl says she is not existence. To be aware of God is to and nausea induced by the obliga­ the Glebe shelter - a remand traditional notions of women as worried about intimidation but transcend the screen caused by the ego. tory virginity test shown in the centre for the childrens court. the weaker sex, in need of protec­ after Toni appeared on TDT last There is no scientific proof for all film. Part of the evidence in such cases tion, kept indoors out of harm’s year during their expose of the this, the proof is purely personal, and The storyline of Home is always revolves around the girl’s girls homes and the child welfare is obtained in a way which cannot be way, and the idea of the fallen simple. You dont have to try too sexuality — hence the virginity department, the rumor went communicated satisfactorily from one woman, unable to control her round that a basher from Silver- ego to another. hard to show the rotten injustice test at 13 years old! The implica­ sexual urges like a responsible and the ultimate in legalised tions to be drawn from the pro­ adult (read “ man” ) when tempta­ water womens prison would get MATT, brutality laid on women by cedures and the law is that girls tion falls across her path. her. Townsville, QId society to remind us all of our are not supposed to fuck, pre­ Home is part of the womens place. Girls in the homes are sumably till they marry - the old At the magical age of 18 the movement campaign on the girls PS: Excessive preoccupation with shown scrubbing floors — that’s double standard in its most state decides you are old enough homes and was finished just in theological matters is a health hazard supposed to be educational - in elaborated and obscene expres­ to look after yourself and doesnt and interferes with plain old living and time to open a week of womens military-like assemblies, and being sion. want to know about you. Toni loving, which is what w e’re here for. films at the Sydney Filmmakers searched before going to bed. Does any man ever have to was let out recently but has now Co-op on march 5. The filmmakers, Leonie Cren- prove he is a virgin as part of discovered her real age is 21. She Get into it nan, Robyn Murphy, Barbara court evidence? was kept in for three years longer than legally proper according to *H om e and other Sydney I COMMEND your lucid article on the Levy, Margot Knox and Sue Beryl was “ lucky” — she was Leonie Crennan, who has been hope-fiend whackery o f Garry Davis Varga, have been intelligent and sent to another convent. Womens Film Group gems are working as a solicitor in her spare (World Service Authority) “ Tearing credible in the subtlety they bring Toni began her career in the now doing the rounds. They will Down World Barriers” . What a wonder­ to bear on the subject. The points girls homes by wagging school time between films. be screened in Adelaide at the ful idea if every conscientious Day­ are generally made via a rather when she was seven. After some The film is short at only 20 Festival on march 17. lights reader would take a giant step understated discussion between time in the Glebe shelter from minutes. Barbara Levy explains: outside their humdrum smoke-screened1 □ pseudonym, their drill-grey boring, boringv boring involvement with pre- Carl Jung, pre-Dylan Thomas, pre- Bradfields Send it up to everything post dinosaur freudian pan- iconodasm (fuck, fu-ck... tcku ... ufrc Murdoch . . . ckuf! I mean NR and TLD and Comet 1974 B Rolling stone are boring-boring-heavy, PACE freaks, star gazers and MAY I, through your pages, make an weighty-morphie-leaden — the appeal to your readers. Murdoch uni­ cosmic cowboys should be is lifeless and shallow pre-Carl Jung, S versity will open its doors to students committing the depth-psychology needs interested to know a South Aus­ in march 1975. It has a commitment to o f the human; psyche (I suggest that the tralian amateur has discovered a being different and among the more “ revolution" b e not stagnated but pro^ fresh comet. traditional disciplines it has programs gressed: let us refine this commendably After Kohoutek’s big flop which will be looking at the alternative gained ground we have claimed: you earlier this year fellow astron­ way. have loosened the tie, now kiss the omers and the daily press seem a While the library is building up neck. Be literary. Dont bore your bit hesitant about getting excited collections as fast as it can we would readers.) over the latest solar spinoff. But appreciate the assistance o f believers, Well I had to say it — but I’ve protagonists, aficionados, proselytisers Bill Bradfield, a member o f the digressed: I wanted to suggest most and others who can put us in touch SA Astronomical Society sent de­ virulently that each reader do the with suppliers and publishers o f under­ following series o f steps right now. tails o f his discovery to the Ameri­ ground, liberation, alternative, reform 1. Pass up that next toke on the pipe. can Astro Physical Institute which and revolutionary literature whether it Your faculties need to be “alert” for confirmed his findings and tagged be ephemeral, pop, serious or other­ the next 30 minutes. it “ Bradfield’s Comet 1974B ” . wise. We would particularly appreciate 2. Take a pen and writing paper and Bradfield has been charting the being put on the mailing lists for free write to (a) World Service Authority, comet’s orbit and estimates it will material. We have no inhibitions about Eerste Leliedwarsstrat 1, Amsterdam, reach its perihelion (the point at the format of publications. Leaflets, Holland, requesting an earth citizen duplicated news sheets, posters, rec­ which it is nearest the Sun) on passport ords or tapes are valued as much as and (b) Planet Citizen Registry, C/o march 19 when Bradfield says it regular hardbound books. If anyone World Association of World Federal­ should be, repeat should be, wishes to dispose of accumulations of ists, 73 Metcalfe, Suite 708, Ottawa, visible to the naked eye at ten this category o f material, especially Ontario, Canada, requesting (i) Plane­ degrees above the western horizon backruns of newsletters, periodicals, tary citizenship, (ii) Passport. about one and a half hours after etc, we would gladly be the recipient. 3. Get a petition together and ask that sunset. Science fiction is also of great interest your house, street, town, city, state or to us. country be “mundialised” ie. made Our need is multiple: for current international territory in the name o f awareness, student interest and study, world peace — in the name of interna­ and future longterm research. tional cooperation at a popular, folk More advice for trapped W. G. BUICK, level. Rally your friends together for I WAS heartily amused and deeply wretched lot — and you are a fuckwit. moved? I have no doubt you would University librarian, an “ International Law” march, demon­ disgusted to read Trapped o f As such, you have reaped your very soon find another body to lie under Murdoch University, WA strating for recognition o f international Wodonga’s, teary eyed little article just harvest. corpse-still, to bewail piteously as your citizenship. (TLD, 2 /7 ); may I be the first to offer jailer. Act now: we can save ourselves! It How terrible is the beast to whom this lady some o f the advice she so My advice is this: stop being such a is the answer — if you want it, get into you are a slave! He is jealous o f you, in desperately needs: cock yourself. No one can imprison it! Y ou are to blame for what you are, his own boorish way. Perhaps he loves you by threats — only you can do that. the “society” you decry. You must you (though bores are unimaginative, No one can “ prevent things from hap­ change yourself. Dear Trapped: and cannot express this). But I doubt pening”. Your predicament is your Anybody who'd like to join me in As your husband crawls upon your you think on that . . . The way “He” own fault. an international law rally as described corpse every night to masturbate, and keeps you pinned down with his please write straight away to: Bruce as you lie there, unmoving in the “ threats” ; the way “ He” hustles every­ If you want to leave, leave. Do you Quilty, 22 Nicholson street, Balmain moonlight, the very apex of the crea­ one away; the way “ He” w on’ t let seriously imagine he would cast your tion you have striven so long to imi­ 2041, or pay a call I dont mind. anything happen; the way “He” im­ children destitute into the street? If I dont want to be part of this tate, I do imagine he feels as little prisons “ me” . You scarcely have time you want to say, stay. If you want antique nationalist paranoia (arms desire for you as you for him. to cast a thought away from yourself. more action, get it yourself, and stop races, borders, petty politics, baulking Does that surprise you? I doubt it waiting for someone to get it for you. on internationally urgent issues, the does. You seem to be a woman of Over the years, I wonder how much He doesnt use you as a corpse — impending horror of war, oppression subtle perception — undoubtedly you you have striven to create your very you use yourself as one. If you are by a government not of your choice). gave it half a thought some years ago, evident passivity: or was it always bored with his pre fuck gambit, put Not any longer, stop now! Stop! as an interim, before you resumed your there? If you have not the guts to do your hand over your passive little cunt continual self-pitying dirge of misery. anything now, what would you do if and have the guts to say “ N o !” ; if you BRUCE QUILTY, Yes, dear lady, wretched self-pity. For. “He" (the immovable block to your want to relate to him, do so, and dont Balmain, NSW this is all fuckwits think of — their imaginary Nirvana) was suddenly re- let him be so childishly hysterical.

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! Printed by Richard Neville at 1 74 Peel Street, North Melbourne for Incorporated Newsagencies Pty Ltd, the publisher and distributor, 11 3 Rosslyn Street Melbourne "The consequences of our actions take us by the scruff of the neck, altogether indifferent to the fact that we have ‘improved’ in the meantime.”