During Ihe recent weeks, there has been much debate on campus about the position of Special Branch Detective and Queensland University stu 3 THE RJ.HAWKE MEMORIAL dent, Barry Krosch. INTERVIEW: LENORE TAYLOR speaks Handouts produced by the Democratic Rights Activist's Club argue that Krosch the student and Krosch the political policeman cannot be separated. They say that his with the Prime Minister about what he presence on campus curtails students' rights to speak out without fear of vic didn't say in his lecture. timisation, and the university administration should therefore ask Krosch to leave. It is undeniable that the Special Branch practice of keeping files on "political 4 THATWASTHE ELECTION WEEK THAT subvershres" is abhorrent, as Is the practice of supplying this information to em WAS: GAVIN SAWFORD gives an ployers like the Public Service. This situation is worsened by the absence of free dom of information laws in Queensland, so Ihat individuals cannot know what experimental and personal account of information is recorded about them, or check its accuracy. election week. It is also quite conceivable that Krosch is on a routine surveillance operation and does supply infomnalion to further flesh out the files. 6 An every persons guide to the delights of But the problems of his presence on campus should not be solved simply by making him leave. We should not act on the assumption that we know someone's motives Ice Blocks: By PETER BOLTON to be different from what they themselves profess. We should also not set a precedent of banning certain occupational groups from campus. (What would 7 More ammunition for Rona Joyner's happen if, after Krosch had been asked to leave, we begin to suspect ordinary arsenal. DEIRDRE MAHONEY chronicles police officers of collecting information for the Special Branch? Should police officers then also be asked to leave campus?) a history of sexual injuries. What we are faced with is a choice between student's rights to speak their minds in an educational institution, without fear of retribution, and individuals' rights to 9 WINNING THROUGH INTIMIDATION: study at that institution, regardless of their occupation. It does nol seem that the JOHN JIGGENS explains how the rights of both groups can be completely protected. National Party controls culture in Rather than upholding the rights of one group over the other, it seems the best solution lies in a compromise. Queensland. One compromise would be lo allow Krosch to continue his studies, but to publicise his photograph and details of his enrollment so extensively, that even the most 10 Women's Rights Pages apathetic students can identify himandare aware of the possibleimplicationsof his presence on campus. 13 More scintillating news about the Union This compromise has advantages and disadvantages for both Krosch and (he rest of 14 The ultimate going-out guide, by GAVI N & the student body. By working together, students could minimise Krosch's ability to collect infor LENORE mation on campus should Ihey desire to do so. Apart from a general student aware ness campaign, those students who are in tutorials with Krosch should be informed 16 Vicious & vitriolic. Students (and an indhiduaily and allowed to change groups if they so desire. editor) vent their spleen on the letters But despite these efforts students would still suffer disadvantages, should Krosch desire to pass on information. Students who choose lo stay in tutorials with him will pages. be conscious of his presence and wary of speaking (heir mind. Krosch will still be in the position to overhear general conversation, learn names, see which people 18 TONY KYNASTON gives the logic behind associate with one another, etc... Union fees hike. Krosch is given the advantageof continuing with his studies and the students do not presume to know his motives better than he does himself. 19 JOHN JIGGENS explains the fascist But he is not allowed the anonymity of a 'normal' student. In the opinion of the reality concept. Interview by LENORE university administration, a student awareness campaign against Krosch would still constitute harassment. But (hat is just the price he has lo pay if his chosen oc TAYLOR cupation violates the rights of so many studenfs. We maybe willing to compromise, but we cannot condone his presence or let it continue unnoticed. 20 Poetry Such a compromise solution is definitely preferable to demands that he be banned from Ihe university. Students would minimise Krosch's ability lo undertake sur 21 ON LOVE: A short story by BRUCE veillance work, should that be his intention, but they would not set the precedent of denying certain occupational groups access to a tertiary education. WESTERN We encourage debate and feedback on this editorial, because of the difficulties in 22 REVIEWS: Semper's usual collection of dealing with a situation where the rights of (wo groups cannot be maintained simultaneously, and because the issue is of great practical importance to many reviewers and pseudonyms give their students. opinions LENORE TAYLOR 27 DIRT 28 REVIEW: Big Red Diary 1986 Nicaragua.
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Samper, October B i saa The RJ Hawke Memorial Interview
Although the recent T.J. Ryan Memo beginning of your career as a consensus rial Lecture was a resounding suc politician. cess attendance wise, some mem Oh, I don't think it was the beginning bers of the audience were disappoin of my career as a consensus politician. I ted with the speech delivered by the won the post you are referring to against Prime Minister, saying the electio some tough opposition, but it has always neering-like lauding of government been my way in life that once you got to a achievements was inappropriate for position, then you are there to govern (and I use that word in the generic sense) a Memorial Lecture. At the function everyone including those who did not held after Ihe speeches, many stu vote for you, that's jusl my nature. dents tried to ask Bob Hawke ques I'd like lo read you an excerpt from an tions about the Issues they felt were article that Graham Little wrote about relevant, but he seldom had time for you in an article in "Meanjin", "In Hawke's more than, "Hi, pleased to meet ya" political style, human relations ~ consen and an autograph. Later that week, sus, reconciliation and accord - to some LENORE TAYLOR tried to get ans degree take the place of abstract fideli wers to some of the questions not ties. He claims loyally to Ihe Labor move covered by the address. ment and wishes to retain his good stand- •• ing in it, but he demands al the same time Ihe freedom of act as a leader who will win."
Many members of the audience were sur Oh, I think it's a pretty complicated prised by the nature of your speech. They way of saying a pretty simple thing. thought it might contain something of Which is? more specific relevance fo students. Which is what I said before, that in po If 1 had boon up there to address stu litical life in a democracyyou are a mem dents 1 would have pic:kod a topic that ad ber of a particular party, you come to go dressed students. But it vvas a T.j. Ryan vernment through the medium of that Memorial Lecture. It just happened to be party, but once you are elected your res held at the University but it wasn't iri any ponsibility is not specifically to that party. way exclusively for students. By definition you have got the responsi But it was organised by the University bility of govern! ng the country as a whole ALP Club and advertised mainly around with regard to its internal welfare and with University and students traditionally make regard to its place in the international up most of the audience at the lecture. context and if you are sensible and intel But if lam asked to dolivera lecture on ligent and concerned, you will do the T.J. Ryan, of relevance to T.J. Ryan, then things that are necessary to effect that that is what I am going to do. The logic of good government. that proposition is that if the venue was in So, if you had to write an advertisement a particular suburb and the majority of for the position of the Prime Minister of Australia, what would the job specifica people happened to come from that su later, SenatorWalsh, or anyone else wants research officer, when I had been lo uni tions be? burb, I should talk about the interests of to seek to have the matter discussed then versities in Western Australia, and Oxford (Laughs) The elements are, though not the suburb. in a democratic organisation they are en and then here in Canberra, I virtually ne necessarily in this order, intelligence, a Not exactly.. .Thinkingback to your time titled to do that. What I am saying is that it ver wore a suit and tie, because that sort capacity to work very hard, a capacity to as an undergraduate at the University of is not on the agenda now, and even if it of dress was not necessary and if it is not listen, a capacity to get people to work to Western Australia, what advice would you were put on the agenda, it would not necessary I don't do it. But when I moved gether, a capacity to communicate and give to students today? become party policy from the pleasant environment and am last but not least, a sense of humour. If Well there is a fairly obvious one and Is the proposal to market Australian edu bience of academic life into tho trade vau've got those you're on the way ^ that is to work hard, but universities are cation overseas, really the thin end of the union movement I changed myattire, be ''vVhal are your personal wews on Ihe re- I not places simply to work hard academi wedge in Ihe development of a private cause that was appropriate. When I mo introduction of tertiary fees? . . 1 cally, they provide a unique opportunity education system to run alongside the ved from beingan opposition memberof to develop your interests in a range of It's not on the agenda. ^'''''' . J public one? padiament to becoming Prime Minister. fields, social, sporting and political, and I Do you see any validity in any of Ihe ar No. The concept is one based upon It was appropriate in that you are repre really do say to ail young people at uni guments for Ihe reintroduclion of fees. the fact that we are a relatively privile senting a country, the people of Austra versity that they should take the oppor That's a theoretical question. You could ged, capable society in a region which is lia expect their Prime Minister to appear tunity to develop their range of interests mount, if you were living in a theoretical looking for education capacities and fa- and represent them in a certain way with and to try to get a cross fertilisation of ex world, theoretical arguments for and cilites beyond what they have in their own which theycan be proud, with which they perience from others. But study is proba against a case, but in the political situa countries, and both in terms therefore of can identify. I don't intend to insult the bly more important now, because in my tion within which we are operating it's not some sort of obligation that we may feel, aspirations and desires of the Australian time, I think I started in 1947, when you on the agenda and I don't believe it will but also in economic terms, ourcapacit>' people by conducting myself in any way were coming out of university there were be. to provide goods and services in the tra that the majority of them did not consi more jobs than people to fill them. It's So there's no substance to the rumours ditional sense, like sheep, coal, iron. It der appropriate. the other way round now. that Senator Walsh is seeking to have the makes sense to see what can be done in So you think you've grown with Ihe job of You won the Presidency of the Guild of party adopt a policy of reintroducing fees this area. But I want to say this, that it is not Prime Minister? Undergraduates with the support of both at next year's federal conference. something that is being considered in I'm two and a half years older and I the ALP and Liberal Clubs. Was that the That's quite a different proposition. If, terms of replacing existing public edu regard my.self as a reasonably intelligent cation system, far from it, but wc think it is person, and I think if you don't learn with worth looking if there are some of our experience then you are stupid. I think I tertiary institutions that are so placed, in have learned. terms of their capacities to provide some II said thai Cough Whitlam's soon-to-be- full fee paying places to overseas stu released book criticises you for not adhe dents who would want to take advantage ring to party policy. What do you make of ofthem. such criticisms. Has your perception of the Australian Well it'd belter nol he too critic.il he- people changed since you have become cause I'tn launching it. And don't know Prime Minister? whetheritdoescrilicise me, so I'd befoo- No, not basically, I still have, as far as I lish lo answer criticisms I don'l know am concerned, a love affair, with tho Aus exist. tralian people. I like the Australian cha Well just finally, did you enjoy delivering racter. I like tho Australian people. We Ihe lecture last Tuesday? have some great characteristics, as well as Ver\'much indeed. I'm glad you asked some troubling ones, but overall, I think! Ihal question, because it was a magnifi have learnt to understand the Australian cent audience, allentive, and you could character over a long period of time, I tell that they were intereslcti in wh.il was Ihink the period I have been in office has being said and they did themselves and honed up my appreciation of that charac ihe other members of Ihe audience and ter. the lecturer the courtesy oi very rapt at In Ihe period you have been in office, you tention. 1 thank them and 1 appre( iaie seem to have mellowed to a certain ex it. tent, you use more moderate language, What about Ihe protest outside, it was you wear less flamboyant clothes. To what small but vocal. degree has that change been deliberately Well Ihey couldn't have been too vo made? cal, I hardly heard them. First of all let me look at what you call The anti-Hawke picket outside Mayne Hall (Photos: Kevin Vellnagel) mellowing. Before I went to the ACTU as That was the Election
OFFICIAL DISCLAIMCRI 2001 :A8PeCIOUS ODYSSEY bering, despite the usual ALP-Leftish ma Not to be out-done, SN U roll out their Before you become too engrossed in Something wonderful is about to hap jority on Council itself. That is to say, the sexual stars. Bevan Lisle later admits to me that"by Tuesday mate we were selling this personal, irresponsible, taste pen. The first voter for the morning - and President and the Secretary have been at ourselves for votes". I ponder upon the less and nepotistic connundrum of the election - glides towards moon-base political odds with the Treasurer. Every one says that they are apolitical and the spectacle of Bevan buying votes on the fabrications, certain persons would one. Strauss fills the air as she enters re fectory orbit. A giant monolith rears above Union must remain this way. strength ofhis ripplingtendons and mus like it made clear that this article in no her, chronicling the achievements of Ho Bullshit. cles finely honed from years of weight-lif way reflects any beliefs and thoughts ward Stringer and Co. Posters and strea If Kate Greenwood (Union Secretary ting. Arnold Schwarzenegger eat your held by them, and that in fact they to mers hang from every available wall and for those of you that don't know) sees a heart out. tally reject this scurrillous, preten post. Smiles are cranked up to conceal chance forpolitical capital, no matter how General Vice-President hopeful Chris tious rubbish which is being sadly primeval simian fangs behind Macleans petty, she will grab it. Likewise Tony Ky Pokarier suns himself indolently outside proposed as "modern" writing. You, pearlies. Everyone waits for contact to be naston (Treasurer) and Brad Bauman (Pre the main refec. Chris is one cool dude dear reader, may cast your judge established. sident). with his bleached hair, ray-bands, baggy ment. Thank you. As the unsuspecting voter reaches out In fact this year while they've all been trousers and Captains shoes. Chris used to touch the monolith a high pitched wail so busy scoring political points off each tocall women "chicks", until David Barba- cuts the air. otherthe Union finances have continued gallo set him straight, but this morning REALITY No. 1 "Have you read our policy position to slide even deeper into the crimson of the old ways are creeping back and Chris Some background information. Union paper on -" debt, has eyes on more than just electoral suc cess. So much for affirmative action. elections are about power and how to "Vote for a Union for students not -" The only way to solve the problem of a obtain it. Some candidates are genuinely "We use helicopters -" divisivesquabblingexecutiveisholdtotho Warm pools of sultry sensuality sim misguided in theiraltruislic motivation to "Collectivise -" ultimate showdown. The left will take on mer in the shadows of the refec, full of become, say. Union Treasurer or Semper the right in the people's forum - the elec bathing sirens beckoningenticingly to vo Editor. They actually believe that they have tion - to see who has the people's man ters. Some pout provocatively at voters, the cure forthe Union's ailments, and at date to rule. Shades of 1975 revisited. while others wrap themselves in a mix tempt to convince voters of this with a re The two teams square off in what promi ture of pearls and coquettish charm. ligious fervour in the conviction of their ses to be the biggest match of the eigh "Men cluster to me like moths around a own righteousness. ties, with total control of the Union as flame" rasps Marlene in the background. Forget it. prize-money. What a pity the judges - the Falling in love again, never wanted to, They may believe this at the time, but students - don't have the faintest idea of whatam I to do, I can'thelp it.The sexual they soon lose allfllusions once they win what the fuck it's all about. heat is too much. Pass the butter Marlon, power and are confronted by the truly before it melts. awe-inspiring monolith of Union bureau LAST TANGO IN FARCE cracy. At best they can pick away at it; Sex sells everything, and it is a com REALITY No. 3 check its expansion for another year; oil modity exploited consciously and uncon There are three main teams running in the best parts of the machine and maybe sciously by both parties. Angus Kennedy, this election, the rest of the candidates remove some of the more blatantly inef Presidential hopeful of the TU FS team, is being an amalgam of not-terdbly-funny ficient parts of it. one of the first to tap this rich seam of joke candidates. Each year the jokes get At worst they can fuck things up so voters. fewer - and weaker - as the job situation badly that they manage to alienate the Each day hordes of bright young things gets tighter. One of the lesser known ef entire Union staff (who after all have to The transformation is more effective circa 1920 stream past him, clothed in fects of unemployment is to slowly erode clear up the mess the following year}; leave than primal scream therapy A confident imitation satin and silk and choked by campus humour. the U nion with an even more than usually student is turned into a doubt-wrecked ropes of imitation pearls. They giggle know- Of the three serious teams one repre horrendous debt and reduce the Union's neurotic, unsure of the past present or ledgebly to each other as Angus swaggers sents the socialist-communist-leftist-ALP standing in the eyes of the university for future and her position in any of them. up to them, drawling like an early Marlon hacked regime, who believe in the divine the next few years. They may even stir Like Keir Dullea, she is about to begin the Brando. The seductive words dnbble out right to rule as espoused by Barbagallo State Government interest in intervening Ultimate Trip. the law-giver, but go to great lengths to and settingthe Union back on the "right" hide this devotion. The second team is a course. bunch of peady champagne swilling to- Generally though paid office bearers REALITY No. 2 ries, who are so afraid of the electoral sit back, collect their weekly wage and This year there has been a hung exe backlash of being seen as such that they sign whatever fait accompli(s) the Union cutive of Union Council for the first time strenuously profess to be independants. staff present them with. in as long as anyone will admit to remem- Me thinks they doth protest too much. The third team is an odd coalition of civil rights people bonded by a desire to see the return of civil liberties in Queensland and a mutual hatred of Bjelke-Petersen. Great sentiments kids, but the Union can do fuck all in either of these areas except run expensive campaigns which will fail Our society produces i because the apathetic shits that make up various egos for us. | the student body are too concerned with In so doing it | being processed through the degree fac tory and packaged into a neat job to give alienates as | a stuff about any of these issues. from our imagination, | of each side slit of his mouth. "Hi girls, The civil rights people, affectionately from the ground | voting today?" You can almost hear Mae referred to as loops, will be lucky to pick of our being. |i West's nasal tones echoing ("Why don't up fifteen percent of the vote, depending you come on up and visit me some on how many friends they have, and how time?"). many friends their fnends have, and how This operation, this II Angus recognises one of the gaggle many friends their friend's friends have... lobotoniy of the soul |i from some past ball, now turned to dust So the competition is essentially bet floating in the wake of his dreams. ween the left and the right. is highly successftil. | "Jacinta, howwww are you thesssse dayssss?" he purrs, evoking images of An ?•"::- ELECTIONS NOWI gus wrestling naked in front of a roaring By the middle of the week the forum So what is this thing |^ fire a la Oily Reed and Alan Bates cour that manifests, P river delta is chaos personified. People tesy of Ken Russel and D.H. Lawrence. are firing wildly at one another. Election sometimes as feax, | The bright young things titter more in em barrassment now at rememberance of sometimes as horror, |: I things past, but this doesn't deter them sometimes as a desire ii from clutchinE the pamphtetts preferred to destroy ourselves?? fj and dutifully sinking into Angus' electo ral arms. Meanwhile back at a parisian dance- c$^
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Sex may be one of fiumanity's oldest pounce on naked young men and wo pastimes, but apparently not everyone men tied to stakes. regards It as having been created for As history progresses, the Book of Lists pleasure. The accuracy of the term provides some amazing facts and i nsights "love-making" is questionable when into the sexual habits of our past. In the 17th Century, Queen Zingua of Angola it becomes obvious that the pleasure earned a reputation second only to the very often borders on real physical Amazons. Zingua, an insatiable nympho pain. This article results from the many maniac, kepi about he; a harem of male and varied sexual mishaps which oc slaves, which she played off one against cur by accident or design. iho other. She became something of a Tficse misadventures arc not just ano Black Widow, as she ordered all her cap ther breed of bawdy humour accompany tives to be crippled as a matter of prin ing a sort of "new promiscuity" of the ciple, because "the lame best perform 20th century. Far (torn it. In fact, the most the act of love". They would have to bat 3izarre things have happened in our past, tle to the death, with the victor going to md it seems that the wealthier and more bed with her. Winning would do him lit .veil-known the people involved were, tle good, however, as she would make :hekinkierthe happenings. Accidents can love with the man all night and have him strike at any time — through normal sex killed in the morning. and especially through more deviant prac tices. Later on, Napoleon and Josephine had The Roman Emperors had a well-deser what can only be described as an active ved reputation for debauchery, unequa- relationship, where the unexpected al led by any others of the time, and accor ways happened. Napoleon was reputed ding to ancient Latin sources, got their to like his sex "fast and furious". On their kicks in the strangest ways. Once, while wedding night, Josephine's dog, convin attending a sacrifice, Tiberius was so arou ced that Napoleon was attacking her, jum sed by the altar boy that he could hardly ped under the sheets and bit him. Jose wait until the end of the ceremony before phine had no less of a sexual appetite. rushing him and his brother away. Out According to the Book of Lists, her love- side the temple he raped them, and was making was so loud and vigorous that she so disgusted with their protests that he woke the whole household, and twice reacted by breaking their legs. fell out of bed. Prostitution and incest were the norm This overactivity applied to the whole one woman who ended her relationship pocket before taking her husband to hos rather than the exception by the time of Bonaparte family. Napoleon's sister Pau with him complained, "1 can't make him pital. When she arrived, however, she Caligula, He committed incest with all line was a nymphomaniac. Unfortunately see that biting's no good". panicked and threw it into one ofthe bins three of his sisters throughout his life, from her point of view, she married a man The most painful story, though, is of an in the casualty ward. Luckily, it was res constantlyrapinghisfavourite and forcing with a small penis. She soon found a lo English Bordello Queen in the 17th and cued by a nurse, and, as one Brisbane the other two into prostitution. With his ver whose penis size not only satisfied 18th Centuries. She advertised that clients television station so tactfully put it, the other mistresses he had a charming tech her, but wounded her. Het gynaecologist could be entertained by being "birched, man "lived to see his manhood sewn back nique of kissing and stroking their necks, strongly advised ending the relationship, half-hung, orcurry-combed", but her spe on"! Doctors on the case said that during while murmuring sweet nothings to the saying that "keeping the uterus in such a cialty was whipping. She stored herwhips the crucial recovery period, when the or tune of, "Off comes this head whenever! constantstate of excitementwould result in water to keep them supple. After a par gan vvas still too delicate to be disturbed, give the word." in an exceedingly dangerous situation." ticularly savage beating, she would revive they had a jug of iced water on hand to Nero, however, was the pick of the Other sexual misadventures apply to the unconscious client with stinging net prevenf'sudden emergencies". With the crop, and took it upon himself to rape a deliberate pain. A young Austrian by the tles. help of a King's Cross prostitute, the work Vestal Virgin. In another story, Nero is name of Sacher-Masoch hid in his aunt's Finally, the Book of Lists points to three ing order of the penis has been confir cast in the role of the king in "The Em cupboard and watched her making love. people who died during sex. The first, med. peror's New Clothes". He loved one He was beaten when discovered, but al Attila the Hun, "died in action".The next, Another source swears by this tale. A young boy so much that he had him cas ways retained the association of pleasure a French President during the 19th Cen couple were disturbed in bed when they trated in the hope of turning him into a and pain.Sado-masochism is named after tury, was sitting on a specially made sex hoard noises downstairs. The naked man girl. When this attempt failed, he went him. chair, "performing a sex act" with his mis went down to investigate. Alerted to a through a marriage ceremony anyway. La One who ascribed lo this bizarre sexual tress, when he had a heart attackand died. noise in the kitchen cupboard he bent vishing attention on his young "bride" in activity was a master at Eton last centiir>', The last is also the most incredible. Pope down and opened it, to reveal a very frigh front of the whole court. Not everyone who delighted in splashing cologne on Leo V111 died of a stroke while com tened cat. Facedwith a large shining mass, enjoyed these activities as much as Nero. his pupil's bodies before beating them, mitting adultery. the cat did the only reasonable thing il One can only feel for the victims when so that they would feel pleasure before But do not make the mistake of think could do in its position, and pounced. Nero used to dress in animal skins and pain.Thiscarriedoverinto his affairs where ing that these things only happen in his Bendingoverin agony, the man bumped tory, and have died out today. Sexual de his head on the sink and knocked him viance is thriving, and misadventure has self unconscious. His wife came down reached mammoth proportions. and promptly called an ambulance. The One particularly sad new medical phe ambulance men managed to lift the vic nomenon is death arising through mastur tim onto the stretcher and were carrying bation. Queensland University Psycho- him out of the house when he woke up, logylecturerinHumanSexuality, MrRob and began to toll them what had hap Johnstone, points to an article in the pened. They laughed so hard that they British t^tedical Science Law lournal. The dropped the stretcher, and the man broke article covers a phenomenon known as his leg. sexual asphyxia, Occuring most often in Closer lo home, Brisbane hospitals have adolescent and young men, death is cau dealt with a few gems. A doctor tells the sed by various sex aids used during mas story of a man who went lo the kitchen in turbation, which lead to suffocation. his pyjamas for a late night snack. He star Men will often stimulate themselves ted the electriccarving knife, loft it on the with either pornographic material or sex table, and went to the fridge for some aids, such as vibrators. At the same time, meat. On his way back, he bumped the to increase theirexcitement, they will use knife which slipped and cut him terribly, othermoreunorthodoxaids. Inhalingaero- shortening his penis for life. sols or gases, and using plastic bags is And a nurse tells the tale of a Brisbane thought to increase sexual/erotic sensa couple whe were engaged in oral sox in tions. Unfortunately, the victim some the kitchen. The wife suddenly started to times unknowlingly goes too far. He will have a fit and began biting and grabbing swallow too much of the aerosol, or the on to her husband. In a panic, and in ter noose put around his neck to heighten rible pain, the husband looked around sensation will slip, and he will hang. Suf for anything that would push her away. The closest thing was a saucepan, and he ^EMtL NAJlTHOuT CLAWS focation is the ultimate source of death. Other events are quite risque, and in began to beat her around the head to volve compromising and embarrassing stop her. 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It was a great day in Queensland. The Duke and Duchess of Kent were on hand to open the new Performing Arts Centre. Our Great Benefactor, Dr Sir Johannes Bjeike Petersen stood by their side. 2163 pigeons (one for each day it took to build (he complex) were released; two hundred colour co-or dinated speedboats raced up the river; balloons went up, cannons went off, four F111 's flew at rooftop level over the city; army helicopters discharged vast quantities of orange smoke into the air; crowds of performers surged across Victoria Bridge towards the new monument.
The media predictably wet their panLs; the new building was declared to be a 'slupendou.s achievement'; Brisbane, it was said, now had aculturai centre to rival anywhere i n the world. That night the sky line o( Brisbane was illuminated. Fireworks exploded like star-bursts, like novas, above tho city centre; comet-tails of pink and green flooded the sky; showers of lumi- nescant sparks rained down. This was the usual stage-managed National Party pro paganda; this was Kullure with a capital "K": bread and circuses, Queensland style, Yes, il was a grand night in Policeland! Because on that very same night, the Anar res Cabaret opened in West End. 1 stood on a vacant lot outside watching the fire works display commenting how, if Bjelke- Petersen was our version of Adolph Hit aren't to bo funded because Ihey are poli sorship is insidious. Theatre companies once did to the press: making it one more ler, and if Russ Hinze was our even gros tically suspect; Errol thinks he's probably are afraid lo do intensely political plays, arm of tho Covernmonl. ser version of Goering, and if Allan Cal- on 'The List'. because if they do things the National Information is slill rigidly controlled. laghan was our Goebels, then surely in Such is the level of paranoia that one Party disapprove of, they'll have iheirfunds The Division of Cultural Activities has a Kobin Gibson we had found our Albert person even warned me to be careful cut for next yeaf," directive that details of funding grants for Spcer. How fitting it was that our autho about who 1 praised; the Division of Cul cultural at tivitit's aren't to he released to ritarian attempt al Culture should be cele tural Activities would assume that the peo ALLAN CALLAGHAN ANDTHE tho press.Sinco these figures can be easily brated in such a militaristic display. Let's ple I praised were the ones who had set MECHANISM OF FUNDING obtained with a sim|>le search of Treasury he honest about this: when I write about me up, and so their funding allocations The Division of Cultural Activities which documents one wonders why Ihey bo Culture in Brisbane 1 can become very cy would be cut next year. I refuse to be inti funds arts in Queensland is a section of ther. Still, -Allan Callaghan didn'i get whcr*' nical. midated. My attitude is this: the more the Department of National Parks, Sport he is by over-estimating the clilligenre of Yeah, well I want to get beyond that: 1 people there are on 'The List', the more and the Arts. The Minister is Peter Mc- the Queensland Press, want to talk about how we can build a people there are who will be prepared to Kechnie and the LJnder Secretary of the Most of Ihe money goes to the flagship positive, life-affirming culture in Bris fight it. Recently quite a large number of Department is Allan Callaghan. tompanies.The Queensland Cultural Cen bane, But as usual, I'm afraid it's going lo Art practitioners in Queensland signed a ,Allan Callaghan is one of the most in tre Trust gets 56.2 million; the Perform be a case of the bad news first. petition that was published in the press fluential people in Queensland. For many ing Arts Complex gets $4,4 million; the deploring what they claimed was Com years ho was Bjeike Petersen's Press Se Art Gallery gets $3.1 million; the Lyric THE BIG FEAR IN THE ARTS monwealth Government interference in cretary, the Premier's right hand man. Cal IN QUEENSLAND Opera gets SI million; the Queensland the Australia Council. Yet in Queensland, laghan tutored Bjeike Petersen in the Theatre Orchestra gets 5830,000; the One of the first things that struck me where the scale of Government interven technical aspects of the TV interview — Royal Queensland Theatre Company gets about researching this article was the cli tion in the Arts is vastly greater, they re he'd stand behind Bjeike Petersen and 5700,000; the Queensland Arts Council mate of fear thai extends over the Arts in main strangely silent. One could be cyni direct him; he wrote Bjeike (Peterson's gels S.SgS.OOO; the Queensland Sym Queensland. Quito a few times 1 vvas told: cal and conclude that they only did this speechesforhim and organized his state phony Orchestra gets 5348,000; Warana "Don't quote me on that!" Bruce Dick because they are not frightened of being ments to the press. On one famous day gets5297,000. BycontrasI la Boite, which son, former director of tho Community victimized bythe Commonwealth Govern the Courier Mail's page one, page throe does some of the most innovative thea Arts Centre, who now no longer works in ment; indeed they might even hope the and page live leads all quoted Bjeike Pe tre in Brisbane, gels 550,000 and the Bris tho Arts field in Brisbane was one of the Australia Council remember their names tersen; yet further back in the paper was a bane Community Arts Centre gets 532,000. few who didn'i mind being quoted. He when the next grants are decided. But to one linestory saying the Queensland Pre Community Arts, which generally aim to explained the fear Ihus: criticize the Queensland Government is mier had rested and spent the day at the get people to participate in art aclivitie.s, "If you're in political disagreement to assure yourself of victimization. farm. Callaghan had arranged it all. Joh are under-funded. Nearly all the money with the Slate Government you don't get Bjeike Petersen was Callaghan's inven goes lo elite forms of culture. There is no money. The State Government makes use Errol O'Neil argues that tho artist has tion: no wonder he began to be referred program involving art and the trade unions of its fundingtocontrol the content of the two roles: to affirm what is good in a cul to as Allan Bjeike Petersen. like the various Art and Working life pro Arts just as it controls everything else. It's ture and life, lo be celebratory; second, to Callaghan claims that he got his theory jects in other states. Similarly little money hard to imagine how petty and bloody- be critical of what is bad in society. The of politics from Machiavelli, and certainly goes lo Women's Art or to Blacks. minded the State Government is - the artist must do both. In Queensalnd there he was influential in developing tho style way it uses it funding power iigair^st those is a fear of people who say critical things. of winning through intimidation that is So that is the problem. In a later article companies which have a social and politi What gets funded is art that is mindlessly the hallmark of the National Party in I want to go more fullyinlo howwecango cal perspective different from Iheir's. celebratory. Events that can bo used as a Queensland. Part ofthe Callaghan legend about changing this situation. Partly the They'll argue that Art should be'politically propaganda coup by the governnicni is the way hecowed the Queensland press solution lies in recognizing that strength neutral' but the whole basis of their fund (like the Performing Arts Complex open into its subservient attitude to the Govern lies in unity. The cultural community in ing is political." ing) and events like Warana. In response ment. As chief controller of state political Queensland is divided by artistic rivalrv' And its not just people who have a fun to this Government pressure, a strange information he enjoyed the exercise of and squabbles about where the money damentally different political viewpoint form of artistic self-censorship is develo power; organizing the fast chop at re should go. There has to be a realization who are punished in this way; any act of ping- porters who crossed the Premier; decid that in unity is strength. An artistic climate criticism brings retaliation. Bruce Dickson says: "After 28 years ol ing which reporters were to receive fa that is dominated by fear isn't going to National Party Government and 18 years voured treatment; denying stories and in produce anything worthwhile. One aspect of the Fear is The List'. terviews to those members of the news of|oh, most independantly spirited peo Something like a coalition for Artistic Several people mentioned 'The List' to media who weren't co-operating, know ple feel done over. They are finding it Freedom has to be formed. That coalition me, but of course it's difficult to confirm ing they'd have to explain this failure to harder to hold out against the inroads; will need a positive platform. As well as its existence. 'The List' is supposedly a do their editors. It doesn't have to be pigs in they're succumbing to an unconscious opposing the regimentation of artistic life cument in the Division of Cultural Affairs the street: the techniques of totalitarian form of censorship, because they know by the State Government, it should try with the names of those members of the control can be quite subtle. Arts Community who have offended the how bloody-minded and petty the State and build towards some Brisbane equiva Goveinment and consequently aren't to Government can be." As a reward for his years of faithful ser lent of the Fringe Festivals in other slates. be funded. Errol O'Neil, writerand mem Queensland, Errol O'Neil points out, vice to 'the chief, Allan Callaghan was And it should aim to unite the various made Under Secretary of the Depart ber of the Australia Council, believes it's has a long history of complacency and groups who are struggling against the cur ment of National Parks, Sport and the highly probable that the Division of Cul compromise that has produced a particu rent situation. Arts. Now he is doing to the Arts what he tural Affairs keeps a file on people who larly cynical view of politics; "Self Cen JOHN JIGGENS Women's Rights Lack of Change and Feed Rooms on mpus - An Update
It came to the attention of the Wo Since your earlier letter we have received men's Rights Committee that there advltc from ihe Directorof the tlealth Ser\'ice were no adequate feeding and chan and from the Buildings and Grounds Division. Df Irw/n is not in a position to quantify Ihe ging facilities on campus for nurs neud for this provision since the Health Ser ing mothers. A letter was written to vice would nol expect to be aware of all the the Deptuy Vice-Chancellor (Fabric nursing mothers on campus. She docs feel that and Finance), Mr Ritchie in April. He there would be room for a comfortable chair and changing tabic in the upstairs female toi replied by promising an investigation let in ihc Relaxation Block. II you think that this Into the matter. Nothing was heard would be a helpful interim measure, I would again until a Committee member re- be prepared to approach the Student Union approached Mr Ritchie's office. His on your behalf to have these items provided. reply (or the reply on his behalf) fol lows. When the Health Service is rehoused in the Dear Ms. Howell, new Student Services building, currently un I refer to your letter of 27 August 1985 lo der construction and due for completion early in 1986 thjt Service should be in a better posi the Deputy Vice-chancellor (Fabric & Fi tion to m.ike its sick bay facilities available lo nance) about the provision of student nursing mothers. Unfortunately, rest rooms are mother facilities. Ml Ritchie has asked me not able to be provided in each department, that many departments would be in a position and I shall forward copies of this correspon to reply directly on his behalf. nor indeed in each building, and it is unlikely to release a room for this purpose. dence to whoever undertakes that review. Senate recently considered the Status of tn the meantime you might consider the Women Report and in relation to Child Ciire suggestion about facilities in Ihe Relaxation needs decided lo initiate immediately an ef Block and know Ihat the Health Service will lie fective quantitative evaluation of current in a position to make a roonr available when il NATIONAL CONSULTATION AND needs. It would be appropriate for the ques relocates early in 1')8f). tion of the provision of facilities for nursing B.M. KEANE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR WOMEN mothers to be incorporated in that evaluation Assistant Bursar (Property) OFFICE OFTHE STATUS OF WOMEN Department of the Myths and Facts about Prime Minister and Cabinet The Office of the Status of Women is calling for Sexual Ha rassment applications for grants under the National Consultation Myth: "Sexual Harassment only affects a as a way of 'getting back' at a man with and Assistance Program for Women. few women". whom they are angry." Two types of funding are available under the Program: Fact: Several Surveys have documented Fact: Women who openly charge harass • OPERATIONAL GRANTS towards the administrative the widespread nature of sexual harass ment are often not believed, maybe ridi ment. In one U.S. study 88% of the res culed, may lose their job orbe mistreated costs of national women's organisations; and pondents said they had experienced one in some other way. Women have little or • PROJECT GRANTS for "one-off" projects of benefit to or more forms of sexual advances. nothing to gain from false accusations. women. Myth: "Sexual Harassment is nol harass Myth; "If a woman really wants to dis ment al all, Il is purely a personal matter Application forms and further information about the courage unwanted sexual attention she grants are available from: can do so. If she is sexually harassed, she between men and women, it's a fact of must have asked for it". life." Office of tlie Status of Women Fact: Many men believe a woman's 'No' Fact: Sexual Harassment is not an isola Dept ofthe Prime Minister and is really'Yes', and therefore do not accept ted act against an isolated woman. All her refusal. As a result, she may well ex forms of sexual coercion, be they sexist Cabinet perience guilt feelings because it is be innuendo, academic rapes or othercrimes Barton ACT 2600 lieved that she encouraged advances to against women are acts against alt wo (Telephone 72 5771) be made. men. Sexual harassment is not a personal Closing date for applications Is 31 October l 985 matlerforan individual woman but a pro Myth; "Most accusations of sexual harass blem which all women must face and ment are false. Women use these charges fight collectively. Women's Liberation Critique X ICN(W ^^^^ There is a clear parallel between Sexual Harassment of women at work and the general problem of rape and violence against women in the wider society. As Al ^wk|fliE m WHO with rape, sexual harassment is an issue of power, not simply of sexuality. The effect AbvAw conpijf\EMh nt on the victim is the same. The odds against complaining are great for the same rea "iv\if Weei^ H£ ^7c6- sons — the woman will not be believed 6N youR. nor taken seriously and the question of her'asking for it' is there. A comparison of the incidence of sexual harassment as 'riifj AJARLPIVE Yil) against the small number of formal com plaints presents the same picture as for lilM 'Ho/ rape. Finally, the results of complaints would appear often to penalise the vic ^\%mof tim still further. B'^Yf^l%.." m WOIVIEN'S FILM FESTIVAL at Brisk>ane riRsU-fi'""^ Community Arts Centre (1 09 f;rlward Street. City) AND i\\inl\f 8(h Oct: 7pm - "Shot to Pieces" Rozelle f^^JCroiKi Cyss, "Serious Undertakings"Helen Grace 9th Oct: 7pm - "Clothes Line" Roberta Cantow, "Girls Own Story" Jane Campion ON ANO "'- 8.15pm — Barbara Blackmuirspeaks from Graduate Dip, Afts. h/ow (o'l'Rf- 17th Oct: 7pm — jo Horsborough: Forum on Women's Employment and Funding. YOU'LL • CHILDCARE PROVJDED Funded hy Women's Film Fund
ID Semper, Octobers 1 888 Women's Rights
The Equal Pay Campaign: Into the Eighties
Thirteen years after the Equal Pay de five times as likely as men lo be living in cision in the 1972 National Wage Case, poverty. Low wages for women's work set eqtial pay is once again high on the one of the basic parameUns of women's agenda for the women's movement. poverty. HISTORY Indeed, equal pay has been a central tqu.itf)jywjswon in 1969 and again in concern of the women's movement in Australia throughout mosl of this century. V)72 and yet aiiain in 1974. What is f/ie Yet equal pay is no mow oi a reality now nalorv of a victory which has io he won than il ever has been. In 1919 women again and jf'aini' earned .')4 percent of the male wage rate. The sexual division of labour has been I n 198') won\en's average weekly earnings enshrined in the wage fixing systeni in were only6f).7 percent of thecomparable Australia through the concept of Ihe fa male rate. mily wage. In 1907 Justice Henry Higgins, The concept of comparable worth re President of Ihe Commonwealth Arbitra presents an important new approach to tion Commission, was called upon to de the issue of equal pay. Recently the Aus cide what constituted a'fair and reasona tralian Council of Trade Unions (A.C.T.U.) ble wage'. He determined that this should be devised according to the social needs mum rates. Higgins determined that the THE A.C.T.U. CONGRESS announced its intention of taking a com AND EQUAL PAY parable worth test case to the Arbitration of the worker rather than by reference to basic wage applied only to men and that Among the demands presented to tho Commission sometime this year. Feminists tho value of that work lo the employer. women should be paid al a lower rate. A.C.T.U. Congress by lobby groups were have, quite rightly, welcomed this initia Higgins set down 42 shillings per week, His version of equal pay for equal work those of women supporting the Nurse's tive. We should however, be aware ofthe the amount required by an unskilled allowed that where women performed equal pay case. The Nurse's Union are possiblilily Ihat rejection or limited appli male worker to support a wife and three the same work as men they were to receive demanding economic justice for women cation of the concept of comparable worth children, as a fair and reasonable wage. an equal margin for skill, but their base in the form of equal pay for work of com could seriously stall progress toward real This became known as the basic social wage should still be the lower female parable worth. equal pay for manyyears. Large scale mobi- minimum or family wage. rale. lizalion of women around the issue of Having already established the basic Whilst Higgins asserted that women Equal pay decisions do nol achieve equal pay, similarto that which took place social minimum, he wont on to deter did nol need a social minimum wage. Jus equality for women for a number of rea in the early seventies, will be important if mine the rate forthe job or what he con tice Powers, in 1916, moved away from sons: most women work in a narrow range this is possibly to be avoided. We will sidered to be the comparable worth of the concept of differential needs and de of low paid jobs, and the jobs that wo need lo be prepared to state loudly and variousclassesofwork. This became known fined woinen's work as intrinsically of less men hold are usually those at Ihe lowest clearly that wc are nol prepared to wait as the margin for skill and constituted the value. Ho determined that the basic value grades in most occupations. Women are any longer for equal pay and economic basis for wage relativities that still persist, of women's work was only 58 percent of less likely to gel overtime and over award justice. Higgins distinguised between a series of that of men, a figure Higgins reduced in payments. Many women's working lives THE IMPORTANCE OF dichotomies to establish skilled and un 1919 10 54 percent. are interrupted by breaks for child rearing EQUAL PAY skilled work. They were heavy/light, dan During World War II, the Women's and this puts them at a disadvantage The importance of the current strug gerous/less dangerous, dirty/clean, and Lmpioymont Board was established to when continuity and seniority is all im gle for equal pay is twofold. Firstly, it chal interesting/repetitious. In subsequent de set rales for women engaged in work pre portant. Lack of adequate child care lenges tho sexual division of labour cisions women were not denied the basic viously defined as'male'. The Board esta moans that many women arc forced to which lies al the heart of women's social, social minimum but their work was also blished rates between 60 percent and work on a part-lime or casual basis. political, and economic subordination. compared unfavourably in terms of rela 100 percent of the male rate. But this was The women at the Congress demanded Secondly, in a purely economic context, tive value. There has lo date been no case forthe duration only. However, asa result a successful outcome to the A.C,T,U. com equal pay is a fundamental element of lo establish tho comparable worth of wo of Ihe war and changes in the Australian parable worth case, with flow ons to other the redistribution of income which is re men's work. economy which followed it, both society women workers; A,C,T,U, resources to quired to achieve economic justice for In 1912 the Rural Worker's Union, in a in general and women workers in particu promote community awareness of the women. movedesignod to protect the jobs of male lar, learned the importance of women's equal pay campaign; and commitment Women comprise 50 percent of the unionists from lower paid women and labour. The Arbitration Court could no by all affiliates lo eliminate barriers to Australian population yet earn en masse children, sought equal pay for equal work longer justify' allowing women only 54 equal pay and lo provide access to nil only 20 percent of income. Women are and the determination of female mini- percent of the male wage and in 1950 occupations in their respective indus increased tho female basic minimum to tries. 75 percent. It was not until 1974 that women gained an equal minimum wage?. The Women's Health Blue Stocking Week Action Group u u a Report The Womens Health Action Group aim of W.H,A.G. is to organise an annual Womens Health Conference. All interes has been re-organised to look specifi From the 9th to the 13 th of September, cally at health issues pertaining to ted woiTien are urged to attend Ihe next meeting on November 1st or see Wo Women's Rights held a Blue Stocking women. Our first meeting was held men's Rights, Week in conjuction with the Q.I.T. on the 1st of October. This meeting Women's Collective and Griffith Uni discussed topics such as: versity's Women's Group. The week 1. Occupational Health. actually began on Friday the 6th of 2. Women and Addiction. September, with a Women's Dance 3. Sexuality, Contraception and Abortion. at Caxton St. Hall. About 250 women 4. Menial Health. It has also been suggested that the came along to this Blue Stocking Group run film nights, discussion groups Stomp to listen to bands such as and invite guest speakers. The ultimate J.A.A.G. and On Edge, as well as the Women's Choir and taped music. An excellent time was had by all and Blue Stocking Week was off to a roaring start!!!!! The week consist(>d of film showings (on all three cam|)uses); forums on Wo men in friucation; women's IheaUc and a women's band who performed at Q.I.T, during the week. On the whole the acti vities were vor>' well attended and well received and the week is considered by all to have been a success, Ihe comment has been made Ihal the reason more women do not become in volved in Blue Slocking activitii^s is because ills loo hoi lowearhlue stockings this lale in Ihe year. The Women's Rights Commit tee would just like lo re-affirm that Ulue Stocking Week is nol about wearing blue stockings or olhenvise, but aims lo bring altenlion lo and c|U('slion the many pro blems and pressures Ihal women in ler- tiaiv education faic. 1 1 CAR MECHANICS! WE FIX EVERYTHING AT AMPOL TARINGA EAST
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SiinpL', Suiii'tcCi'nir.ik llt.u.^L', i" Crivk Shvft. Brisbane. I'hutK- I'l'l %'2':i SUSM Simp -i OmvoKir liuusc .'7 Mi>fti SltvcL Toowond. Phiino.'iTli.siCii STUDDTT TRA^a AJSTRAM TItK NATIOSAI. STIDENT TRWEL 0HC,W1.S.ATIC)N 12 Semper, October B 1 B8B The following Constitution Changes will be presented at the 10th Ordinary il Meeting of tne 74th Council of University of Queensland Union fora First Reading. THAT A NEW CONSTITUTION S.6 BE INSERTED AS FOLLOWS: Union News 5.6 {a) There shall be a Union Contingency Fund which shall be devoted exclusively to k Ihe provision of new services ornewexpenditu re provided that monies allocated from tho Union Contingency Fund to such will not continue past the life of the The dust has settled and Union Elec currentlyenrolled in institutions to pay at Council in v»'hich they are first incurred. tions are over for another year. If all tho old rate; (b) The Union Contingency Fund shall consist of 1.5% of all subscriptions and grants the campaigning has stimulated your b) to letoverseas students paythe$2,500 in lieu of subscriptions received by Ihe Union in any one year, whichever is in instalments rather than in a lump sum; greater. interest in the Student Union then (c) Monies in the Union Contingency Fund not expended for the purposes of the c) to oppose the huge increases in fees. you might be interested in running fund at Ihe end of tho financial year shall accrue to the Union's general rosea-es If any overseas student is having diffi provided that Council may withdraw monies from the Union Contingency Fund for a position on one or more of the culty in paying tho fees, please contact for other purposes by special resolution. Unions Committees at the Special LSC/30 the Union Office. Election Meeting on October 31. THATANEWCONSTITUTiON8.7DEINSERTED AS FOLLOWS; THE EXTERNAL 5.7 (a) There shall be a Union Depreciation Account which shall be devoted exclusively The Union's Committees incl.ude: Ac COMMERCE DEGREE to the provision of replacement of depreciated assets. tivities, Clubs and Societies, College Area, The University Senate has cancelled (b) Tho Union Depreciation Account shall contain an amount of monies equal to the Education, External Students, Health and amount of depreciation of Ihe Union's assets in the current financial year. the External Commerce Degree for 1986 The Union Depreciation Account shall be divided as such: Safety, Hospitals Area, Legal Aid, Legisla (c) and 1987. This decision will be reviewed (i) At least 60% of the monies in the fund shall be available exclusively for the tive, Media, National Student Affairs, in future years. However, it is unlikely to replacement of structural items; Orientation Week, Overseas Students, be re-introduced because finances are (ii) Not more than 40% to be available exclusively for the replacement of Union equipment and fittings. Part-time Students, Postgraduate Stu tight in this triennium, and will remain (d) dents, Social Action, Students With Im Monies in Ihe Union Depreciation Account nol expended for the purposes of the tight in future trienniums. And so we say fund shall accumulate from year lo year provided that Council may withdraw pairments, Theatre, Transport, Turbot farewell to the best External Commerce monies from the Union Depreciation Account for other purposes by special Street Area (Dental School), Welfare and Degree in Australia and one ofthe best in resolution. Women's Rights. the world, If you wish to record your dis lSC/31 THATANEWCONSTITUTIONS.S BE INSERTED AS FOLLOWS: For more information on the commit satisfaction with thisdecision, a letter can 5.8 (a) There shall be a Budget Adjustment Account which shall be devoted exclusively tees and their work, ask at the Union Of be sent to the Vice Chancellor, Professor to fund unexpected short-falls and deficits in the Union budget which may occur fice or check the Union Notkeboard for Brian Wilson. during the financial year. (b) The Budget Adjustment Account shall consist of 3..S% of all subscriptions and details. THE ENVIRONMENTOFFICE grants in lieu of subscriptions received bythe Union in any one year, whichever is BED CROSS APPEAL greater. The Environment Officer, James The official story is told elsewhere but (c) Monies in the Budget Adjustment Account not expended for Ihe purposes ofthe O'Donoghue, would like to inform stu may I record special thanks to the 800 fund at tho end of the financial year shall accrue to the Union's general re- dents of the wide range conservation ma ser\'es. peoplewillingtodonateblood, toUQMS gazines available for any student who LSC/32 for the plasma ports, to Dracula and es wishes to use them. Publications include THATTHEOLD CONSTITUTION 5.6 BE RENUMBERED 8.9. pecially to Peter Gillogley and Peter Ley- LSC/33 "Habitat", "Man Not Apart", and news bourne forpromoting the blood bankap- THAT THE OLD CONSTITUTION S.7 BE RENUMBERED 8.1 O letters of the Queensland Conser\'ation AND THE FOLLOWING BE ADDED AFTER' 'THE SUB-SECTION peal. Council, Australian Conservation Foun SA6": OVERSEAS STUDENTS "7,8 & 9" dation, People for Nuclear Disarma Overseas Students in NewSouth Wales lSC/34 ment and Wildlife Preservation Society. are facing deportation because they can THATTHEOLD CONSTITUTIONS NUMBERED 8.8 TO 8.1 1 IN Contact the Environment Office, First CLUSIVE, BE RENUMBERED ACCORDINOLY. not afford the hike in fees introduced by Moor, Student Union Building. LSC/35 the Federal Government this year. Sub THAT THE OLD CONSTITUTION 1 0.8 BE DELETED AND THE The jacarandas have yet to turn purple. missions are being made to the Govern FOLLOWING INSERTED: Best of luck with your study. 10.5 A Services and Finance Committee shall be set up in accordance with the Re ment: KATE OREENWOOD gulations to: a) to make the increases applicable only Union Secretary (a) supervise and conduct the trading operations a(\d premises of the Union; to new enrolments and to allow students V'^ (b) supervise industrial relations and affairs, and employment mailers of the Union; (c) advise Council on matters pertaining to finance in accordance with the Re gulations; (d) The Committee shall consist of: 1 (i) The Treasurer as Convenor (ii) Such ex-officio members as provided by tho Regulations (lii) One (1) member appointed by and from Union Council (lv) Two 12) members elected by and from Ihe members of Ihc Union (v) The Catering Ser\'ice5 Manager and the Finance Controller PRICE CRASH!! M) One (1) person appointed ny the Senate of the University of Queensland who shall t^ot have a vote (vii) One (1 i slaff memijer elected by the L.'nivorsit>' of Queensland staff except IBIVI COMPATIBLE those who are ox-officio as provided for in the Regulations. LSC/36 THAT ANY REFERENCE IN THE CONSTITUTION AND REGU- LATIONSTOTHEMANAGEMENTCOMMITTEEBEALTEREDTO READ "THE SERVICES AND FINANCE COMMITTEE". LSC/37 REGULATION CHANGES The following Regulation Changes will be presented at the 10th Ordinary Meeting for a Reading: THAT ANY REFERENCE IN THE CONSTITUTION AND REGULA TIONS TO THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE BE ALTERED TO READ "THE SERVICES AND FINANCE COMMITTEE". LSC/37 THATTHEOLD REGULATION 5.1 1 BEDELETED ANOTHEFOL- LOWING BE INSERTED: 5.11 Services and finance Commiltee LSC/38 THAT THE OLD REGULATION S.I 1 .3 BE DELETED AND THE FOLLOWING INSERTED: 5.11.3 Thai quorum sh.ill be six (6! and proxies cannot be given. LSC/39 THAT REGULATION 5. 1 1 .4 BE DELETED. THAT THE OLD REGULATION 8.1 1 .4 AND THE FOLLOWING CLAUSEBEINSERTEDAS5.1 1 .4Cb) ANDTHESUBSEQUENT CLAUSES RENUMBERED ACCORDINGLY: 5.11.4 (b) super\'ise industrial relations and affairs, and emplovment matters of the Union LSC/40 THAT REGULATION S. 1 1 .6 BE RENUMBERED 8.1 1 .8. lSC/41 THAT REGULATION 8. 1 1 .7. BE DELETED AND THE FOLLOW ING BE INSERTED RENUMBERED 5.1 1 .6: 5.11,6 Decisions of the Committee on matters vvithlnlheir terms of reference other than those requiring financial expenditure, shall be immediately operable unless four M) members or tho President give notice of a motion to Council, seeking to overturn the decision. LSC/42 THAT REGULATION 8.11.7 BE INSERTED AS FOLLOWS: 5.11.7
Council mayoverturn adccision of theSeivicesand Finance Committee bya two thirds vote of the members present at Council. LSC/43 THAT THE OLD REGULATION 8.11.1 BE DELETED AND THE FOLLOWING BE INSERTED: CLEVELAND PC/XT 5.11.1 There shall be a Services and Finance Committee consisting of: (a) The Treasurer as Convenor (b) The President includes 256K RAM and 2 x 360K Drives n (c) The Secretar>' (d) One (1) member appointed by and from Union Council (Does not include Monitor) i (e) Two (2) members elected by and from the members of the Union (0 The Catering Services Manager and the Finance Controller Available in many options up to 20 Megabyte Hard Disk (g) One (1) person appointed by Ihe Senate of the University of Queensland who shall nol have a vole (h) One (11 staff member elected by the UnivcrsilyofQucensland slaff exceptihose who are ex-officio. See Ken at Ampol Service Station, cnr Gailey Road LSC/44 and Sir Fred Schonell Drive, Taringa East. The 10th Ordinary Meeting will be held on Thursday 24th of October, 1985. phone 371 8160
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LETTERS
the ugly extremism of the left of which I have ginal political thought. Your insightful ol abortions (and a great deal of distress) Worthless DrIvel spoken has ensured that 'Rambo' gains the analysis has helped us to see the error could be avoided by more and better sex respect and admiration of Ihe right. of our ways. education, and more access to contracep tion. But Right to Life leaves such battles to Dear Editors, Your magazine, I submit, is guilty of mind As you say, the 'far-right' is simply a the "pro-abortion" feminists. (In fact, some I feel compelled to write this letter after lessly presenting the empty, cliched anti- reaction to the 'far-left' so if the 'lar-lell' much careful contemplation of your ar- American platitudes that lor so long have peopfe in Ihe anti-abortion, anti-feminist, disappeared then the 'far-right' would "pro-family" camp have been known lo as ticle(s) regarding the film 'Rambo' in a formed an integral part of the contemptible propaganda of Ihe intellectually brain-dead likewise vanish, The Thatchers, Rea- sert that access lo contraception promotes recent issue. I find your views shallow, farleft.Yourdesireseemslobe to maintain a gans and Bjelke-Petersens ol this world abortion, a truly fabulous piece of illogic.) specious and simplistic, and I feel that pasture of supercilious objectivity while would disappear to let Ihe world return In the name of protecting the fetus, Right your predictably facile politicizing of painting modern America as a kind ot baby to normal political thought. It's so sim to Lifers would rather try to force women to said film deserves round condennna- eating Moloch to be alternately vilified and ple! Unfortunately, we had previously continue unwanted pregnancies, and punish tion. satirised. All your magazine provides is a believed that without critical thought them for trying not lo, than have a hand in Your analysis ol 'Rambo' is, I feel, symp near archetype of Ihe vulgar anti-American the middle-ground of politics would go preventing them in the first place. This re sophistry and negativism whicti has led, in flects their preoccupations - with ideas ra tomatic of (tie general far-lelt approacti to further to Ihe right. politics and so-called 'popular culture' in the West, lo the current intellectual and po ther than real life, and with judgement and recent years. Il is gross and absurd left-wing litical exodus to the right. You may do well to We apologise that we have become punishment rather than a compassionate political views of Ihe type Ihal your article(s) seriously consider the proposition that it is concerned about issues (such as the approach to human difficulties. exemplifies Ihat are really to blame for the persistent left-wing idiocy and extremism effects of Ihe media) without realising way this film so horribly panders to the very which puts and keeps the Thatchers, Rea- that we had actually become involved Real human life, and real human deci worst right-wing American (and Australian?) gans and Bjelke-Petersens of this world in in 'far-left' politics. !n our article we sug sions, do not primarily involve abstract prin instincts. II issterile, thoughtless, inane con- power. gested that thebest way to combat pro ciples, such as an empty declaration ihat a demnaiion lil Juvenile Twaddle one. The Hotel however assured me that they would keep the bar open till 1 a.m.This Dear Editors, though did nol occur. This cannot be seen 1 read with dismay the juvenile twaddle as inefficiency on the part of the comtr^ittee by Kerry Rea and Catherine Cuthbert as what happened was the responsibility of on feminist studies in the last issue of the Hotel which had a good reputation of "Semper". One had Ihesneaking suspi holding Balls. The committee had done every cion that the writers v/ere merely paying thing it could in that regard. lip-service to an ideological viev/point 2. It was put forv/ard that all the amount and had precious little substance to of drunk by the patrons was al] thai could be fer. Why they should feel compelled, in afforded.This though v/as due to the method Ihe firsl place, to point the fingerof scorn ofchargingbylheHolel.We had contracted in all seriousness at a few brusque re that we would be charged according to pu blic bar prices. This did not occur. We also marks made by a male correspondent agreed only for one hour of champagne fol in the "Courier-Mail" on the subject of lowed by beer and wine, this though did not tertiary feminist studies is beyond me. occur with the champagne being sen/ed till Which brings rne to the second reason al least 10.30 p.m. and therefore being the lor writing this letter, because il was while bulk ol the bill (in terms of single iloms). On reading the aforementioned article by Cuth the night ilsell, no itemized account was gi bert and Rea that I learned, indirectly and ven except for a bulk bill and hence could with horror, there were people in some quar not be argued against. This would have ters whoare seriously pushing fora compul meant that alcohol should have been avai sory component of "women's studies" in Arts lable till the specified lime if correct figures courses. To my knowledge there has never were put forvyard by the Melbourne Hotel. been a compulsory component of any des Despite this the conUact was to keep thebar cription for an Arts degree since the days and room open, now till 1 a.m. even if alco when the notion was discarded that Latin hol had run out, so the people can enjoy was a necessary part of an educated per their drinks by buying it themselves as well son's repertoire of intellectual skills. While as dance to tho music.This was noladhered admitting that the subject of "Women's Stu toby the Hotel. dies" can be treated in a fairly rational way, 3. The band itself v^as very good and were boards asking for participation by members the number of union recognition disputes too often it simplydegenerates toihe level of only forced to take a break due lo the in a sleazy mud-slinging exchange between which are suppose to be represented. What which have been won, and the rise in wages efficiency of the staff of the hotel earlier ihat does result is a meeting of the executive and hardcore feminists and others who have a andbargainingpowerofseclionsof the black afternoon causing a fuse lo blow up. The hardly anyone else. The lack ot representa more moderate view of the subject. The slant band was later forced lo slop al 11.45 p.m. working class, have awoken a sense of po- tion from third years, which T.O'Brien is one. v/er and political consciousness that can in sexist discussion is too often one-sided because Ihe manager had threatened lo pull is quite t)are. There was ample opportunity and people tend to lose sight oi the fact that the electricity out. onlyadvance the struggle for liberation and lor members to voice their opinion bul due Ireedom in South Africa, sexism can cut both ways. It is ludicrous lo Damages that occured at the Ball were lo lack of interest or apathy, whichever tho Capitalism and apartheid are insolubly think that sex role assignment is a one-way Ihc responsibility of the Hotel's as they said case might be, we never saw any third years linked. To end oppression in South Africa traffic. Feminist Studies may have a place in Ihey v/ould provide the people needed to at the meetings.Third year toptosentation is the black working class have to take over tertiary institutions, but to suggest Ihat it be oversee four hundred people to make sure so bad that the executive is not even repre the mines, factories, offices through a wor made a compulsory subject for Arts Students thai no such trouble would occur. This how sented by one third year member. They are kers revolution, and start to re-organize so in general is nothing short of increaible! ever failed as there where only Kvelve peo all fourth year students, some part-time and ciety and run it on a co-operative socialist ple v/orking that night, the majority of these others commerce law students. It must be DANIEL SZYLO were behind tho bar. basis. Arts Student staled that Ihe Executive and various other TONY STOWERS The committee would like to slate that Mr membersdid all Ihat could be expected from International Soclallets T. O'Brien's use of "concensus" tended to them in organizing the Ball. What happe be misleading. Most people actually did have ned was beyond the^r control. They had re a good time till 11.45 p.m. They were disap lied on an organization that had a good re Commerce Ball pointed from then on and so Ihey should putation of holding Balls bul had nol lived up to such expectations on this occasion. South Africa (2) Dear Editors, have been. Most people thought it would have been one of the best Balls if it had run This is a reply to the letter by T, O'Brien We have put forward the above details in Dear Editors, the length expected. This though was not a more detailed manner to Ihe fvlelbourne concerning the Commerce Ball in your under the control of the committee. There We understand that food products ori last issue. A few facts about the Ball Hotel and Ihey have subsequently come lo ginating from South Africa (e.g. fish) are was no way for the commiltee to anticipate an agreement by reducing the amount of though must be cleared. the early closure of the function. being utilised in the Catering Services 1, We made a contract with the Melbourne the bill.The savings here v,'ill be channelled Concerning T. O'Brien's snide remarks of of the University Union. Hotel thai the Ball would run till at least towards a"BeerandBickies"comina up shor "other interests" and not representing Com tly. Under the present circumstances v/ith 2 a.m. on Ihe 15lh of August,The committee merce students as a whole; it must be poin 1 find il hard lo accept Mr O'Brien's as Apartheid lirmly entrenched in Soulh Africa rang up Ihe Hotel three times to confirm that ted out that I have never seen T. O'Brien at and Namibia, we deplore any support of this a late license would be obtained. This, hov/- sertion Ihal wedo not represent the interests any meeting of the Commerce Society which of the members of Ihe society lully. Where nature. ever as we found out on the 13lh of August we have held weekly since the beginning of are you now f\^r O'Brien? We hope that the Union will take active was not done and that it was too late lo get Ihe year. Notice has been put up on notice JULIAN NATHAN measures to discontinue such support lor a President racist and repressive regime. A National Week ol Action against Apar theid bythe Australian Anti-Apartheid Move ment is scheduled during the week starting 21 St October. South Africa CD Perhaps that week may bean opportunity I So... what j for the Union members to demonstrate their ' are you Dear Editors, solidarity with the struggle against Apar studying? Barclay's recent article on South Africa, theid in South Africa and Namibia. misses the mark completely! For further information on this topic, con He calls for reforms as Ihe solution lo Ihe tact Alex Conroy 3 71 0600 (W) or Penny Lang social and political problems of the country 369 6321 (H), Yet, reforms are not possible. The success ALEXCONROY of South Africa's economy is based on the Secretary availabirttyofcheap,disciplinedlabourthal apartheid creates. Antl-Apartheld Brisbane Any sort ol reasonable reforms accep table to the black working class would have to include dismantling apartheid and its "pass law" system that thoroughly controls Free Fall the mobility of labour. Such moves would As a normally acrophobic and cowar cripple Soulh African capitalism. dly person, who has just completed the This is a dilemma that the South African SPRA parachuting weekend at Ram ruling class cannot solve. That is why they blers Drop Zone, 1 was so impressed resort to more and more violence and repres with Ihe expert training given by inter sion to attempt to keep the situation in check. South African blacks have always fought nally lamous skydivers in both the men this oppression through boycotts, street de tal and physical aspects of the sport monstrations, and riots. But now they are in (including Simulator work). a position to go beyond these forms of strug Unlortunately, you never hear the mil gle and strike the capitalist system at its very lions ol parachuting stories where people heart — through industrial action. climb out of Ihe plane and experience the South Africa is a heavily industrialized incredible, thrill of Iree-fall, and Ihen the ca economy that rests on Ihe labour of a large nopy opens and you enjoy the periecl silence, working class of blacks. breath taking scenery and exhileration of Today there are over 550,000 black wor the decent. I was so surprised with the con kers organized in independent trade unions. trol andsafetyyouhave.Withaninstructorin Over the past three years strikes have oc the air and one on the ground guiding you cured at the rate of one a day. The pheno in. everyone landed within 50 metres ol Ihe menal nature of the growth of black trade largel. unions can be seen in the fact that in 1973 Excellent sport, excellent people, made there were only 40,000 black unionists. The for the weekend ol a lifetime number of strikes thai have been victorious, JUDY LOUGHNAN 17 NOTICE OF PROPOSAL FOR AN INCREASE IN THE replacoments which need to be made. and to the increased costs placed by dis STUDENTSERVICESCHARGE For example, the refectory roof will soon tributors on the hiring of movies. need replacing, costing in the vicinity of OFTHE UNIVERSITY OF SITUATION AT OTHER 5200,000.00. This kind of expenditure UNIVERSITIES cannot be delayed fortoo long or the roof QUEENSLAND Tabic IV shows the total service charge will become a danger to refectory users. paid by students at Universities around In 1985, the Union replaced thechairs Australia. It represents the combination in the Schonell Cinema. The old chairs ofall amounts paid forSports Associations SUBMISSION TO THE THEAMOUNT were the original ones installed when the and Student Unions at each Campus, not MEMBERS Under this system, the increase to the theatre was built and were three years just the Union component. The? Union operates largely on tht; student services charge will be $8 to last past their replacement date this year. The fixod iiuome of the Student Services for 1986, cost of this was SI 00,000.00 As can bo seen University of Queens Charge which presently stands at $104, Underlhis amount of increase the pro land students rank ninth out of nineteen aftor being raisc?d from $90 in 1984. jected budgetwillbe as shown inlable II. in the amount of fees they pay. This ave This should be compared against Ihe pro STUDENT a ADMINISTRATION rage placement should stiff bo maintai Sinrc thf last rise, infl.ilion has eaten DEPARTMENTS into the figure to reduce its real term worth jected amounts ofTable III for1986with- ned with a fee rise as it is expected that The mosl foreseeable increase in non- bnrk to a little over S90 (S91,88). Thus, if out a fee rise. other University bodies will increase their trading area services will be the imple tho Union is not to cut back on any of its charges for next year as well. As can be seen, without an increase to mentation of an Education Resource Unit, services lo students, an increase in income keep pace with inflation, the Union would The Unit will see a better utilisation of the The column marked 'Entrance Fee'in to m J J 1.^ i.vuj,h UJ.771 < .798,722) (1.750,000) SMORTI-ALI 104.841 153.771 Come and Get Fit! ndcd from I-u Uni Squash Courts Depreciation Provisions TABLE IV AISTRAIIAN UNIVERSITIES f£E COMPARISON Open 7 Days a Week Univt'itilv Toul full/T Enttaiice 1985 1984 1983 1882 1981 1980 1979 1978 Enrol Enrol. Fees IW4 19H4 Visitors Welcome I tlinf la\ 5,]HH J.24J -- 115 lUU 95 tun ION tUN lUN lUO JjnusC'rx)^ I'Misi-fMly 2.IU7 l,JW -- 141 135 125 no 90 90 90 (id MuiUoil, lr\i\N,\ JJ5I 1J44 -- 100 73 75 75 45 45 42 42 Ph 371 4564 Miinjsli I'ni Vif IJ.WW 9.754 ,, 225 210 I9H n» IfiO I4H I3)i \2K I'm i>r(JiUT[i\|jrKl IK,I 18 Samper, Ootobar 8 i 9BB Revelations of a Tribal Historian John Jiggens tackles the Fascist Reality Concept John (the Jolly Joker) Jiggens Incar Anyone who has following your career nated In this time/space In the early would be immediately confused by the FHties. After an eventful career at this fad thai Pari One is followed by Part University (during which he was almost Three, and by the fact that they seem to expelled several times) he graduated be two completely discrete, or different with a BA. P.G. (Bachelor of Arts Pass books. Can you explain yourself lo your fans? Conceded). His first assault on this fascist reality concept occurred when, Well, I was never really good at malhs. with a group of others, he started the The fact is that I finished Part Three before I finished Part Two and looking bacl( on it Cane Toad Times. In 1980 he became a I suppose that there are faidy obvious rea Sunshine State refugee when he left sons why. You see BookTwo is a history of for Northern New South Wales. During tho tribes of Northern New South Wales this period he began to write a series from tho Aquarius Festival to the present; of books, the Rehearsals For The Apo it's a faidy mammoth work and I want to calypse Trilogy. Book One — Rehear do fairlyambitious things with it— I want sals For The Apocalypse — recounts to work out a philosophy for Ihe Twenty- the events of the seminal Aquarius first Century for example. So it's a bit d iffi- cult. Festival In Nimbin as seen through the eyes of an engaging naif called Brian The throe books are fairly discrete be Nazarath. Rehearsals For The Apoca cause I'm not writing a novel; I'm writing a lypse has been called "an Australian tribal history of the New Settler movement version of Fear and Loathing in Las in the Rainl!)ow Region of Northern New Vegas", probably because it records South Wales. So the form I'm following is tho archetypal tribal history of ourculture the historic truth that most partici — the Bible, Very loosely, Part One — Re pants in the Aquarius Festival were hearsals For The Apocalypse which rela ripped olf their skulls most ofthe time. tes the events ofthe Aquarius Festival, the (John Jiggens really detests Fear and event that .started the New Settler move den it plunges into real werrdness. (This logical and rational process before you Loathing in Las Vegas.) He recently pu ment — corresponds to Genesis. Part 7 wo could be where the revelations start.) Why tan construct that story serially — there's — The Power and the Passion/The Tem blished the third part of the Rehear are there such distinct sections of the a constant juggling back anci forth be per of the Times — is a history of the sals Trilogy—The Walls of the Prison. book? tween intuition anci rational thought. So Uibcs. Part Three — The Walls of the One day he promises to actually finish One of the themes of Part Three is the there's a balance between left hemi Prison — roughly corresponds to Reve Part Two. LENORE TAYLOR interviews limits ot journalism and the limits of rea sphere and right hemisphere operations. lations. Not one reviewer has picked this him about his new book, his writings lism. One ofthe things I'm Ir/ing lo do is up yet. Sometiines I think my sense of Alot of oppositions in our present cul to transcend realism and move towards a and his life. humour is too subtle. ture - the opposition of thought and new style — magic al realism. Realign as a feeling, of reason and imagination, the Part Three begins in your familiar style, style began in opposition lo romanticism. conscious and Ihe unconscious, are cau S,*SaV«:j»S:? sort of bent but chatty. Then all of a sud- Romanticism was concerned with strange sed because we have two ways of seeing and powerful feelings, exotic locations the world and we overvalue one — the and characters and so on. Il was Ihe pro left hemisphere — and we undervalue duct of a pre-lndustrial Age. Realism and the other - the right hemisphere. .And I journalism, the dominant styles that arose think that's one ofthe things that is chan after romanticism were the products of an ging in our culture. I think by the next Industrial Age and they reflected the va century we are going to have a more ba Money for Students lues of that Industrial Age — they were lanced view of ourselves and a lot of committed to objectivity over subjecti these present opjiositions are going to he Commonwealth Bank - Student Loans vity, Ihey were committed to "the facts" seen as complements. over the Imagination, they viewed hu In a book you have illustrations whic h man beings as machines. There was no you ()rocess holistically and text which place for the emotions or imaginations. you process serially. To some degree in PURPOSE: f^\ One of the things I've been trying to do is "The Walls of the Prison" I've tried lo find a language for the Imagination and combine and complement those two pro- • Overseas Electives '-iw^/ Emotion. I think people looking back in I'esses. Pari of the reason I've used a few • College Fees '""•''"' the Twenty-first Centur\' aren't going to Tarot cards as illustrations is because they regard my new style as strange; it will be are faidy deep intuitive symbols. • Purchase Books/Course Equipment realism that will be regarded as weird, Why do you spend your time writing Are the techniques you used, like mon books. Is it simply because you enjoy it or • Transport to University tage and drawings and word pictures, part is there something specific you want to of your attempt to transcend realism. If • Living Expenses achieve — fame? Fortune? An enlighten they are not, are any aspect s of form part ment of your readers? A Special Branch of this attempt? • Any reasonable purpose relating file? to course To answer that I'll have to go into quite Of course everything I write is written a long rave about Sperry's research into especially for Special Branch. One ofthe split-brain functioning. Briefly the human nice things about living in Queensland is brain consists of two parts — a loft hemi that you know, even when friends desert BENEFITS OF YOUR sphere an a right hemisphere — there are you, even when your lovers leave you. reasons for believing that both hemi you can be sure Special Branch will be STUDENT LOANS: spheres process the world in different ways. there to watch over you. I hope all the The theory goes ihat the left hemisphere secret police on Ihiscampuswill race out • Deferred Repayments is concerned with logical, rational and and buy a copy of my new book. I should • Attractive interest rates verbal funclionings. In the culture of our be able to sell a lot that way. present Industrial Age such attributes are A lot of your writing seems lo centre around highly valued, in fact over-valued. The Nimbin and life in northern New South right brain is concerned more with ima Wales. J know you lived there for a while, ginative, emotional and intuitive thought but why is ii that your experiences there AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS WHO patterns. The left brain processes the world get written about so much more than ex serially— that's the way you read text — in periences in any other time of your life? HAVE COMPLETED 2 YEARS OF a serial fashion. The right brain processes the world holisticallyand instantaneously. I really love northern .\'ew Soulh Wales. THEIR COURSE The right hemisphere is the one you use It's an incredibly beautiful place, there to take in a drawing — you don't read a are lots of nice people there, and lots of ENQUIRE NOW - PHONE 371 2144 drawing in the same way you read a text crazy things happen; I suppose il inspires — it's much more holistic and instanta me. To my generation northern NewSouth and ask for. neous. So there arc two different ways Wales is a very special place. Through the Joe Boglary you have of processing the world. historical accident of the Aquarius Festi val, it was where wo dec ided lo build a Margaret Francis-Cairns Coleridge and Wordsworth argued that new society and a Now .Age. i think (>vory Dee Hungerford writing a poem wasn't a rational process generation needs its LUopia, and (or my and they developed a theory of the ima generation of .Australians northern New gination to explain how poetry was com South Wales is that. You need to dream; posed. The Inspiration to write a story or a every culture tiei'cls iK dreaming. poem comes really quickly. You gel the COMMONWEALTH idea in a flash and you know whal it's So what's Utopia for the current genera going to be. It's intuitive and holistic. But tion of Australians? BANK. it can take up lo three months to realize Vou h.iveloc reateit, Witlunitaclieani Making money come to term.s with people. thai story that's occured to you in ten se voure just going to he c)\•el^\helmecl hy conds. You have lo go through a whole this fasc ist realil\ i one epl 19 The long shot Towards the dead of winter — influenza takes the odd old person, this ycarthegrandmothemcxt-door is probably going Out, like a light mad being unable to place her regular bets Wishing to leave a trail bundled up in bed, of cigarette buits covering the roads after the doctor has called Pressure/Relief around, after they fail and given her a large injection drop from moving car she is bcsceched Everybody is under pressure to collect as soon as likely with neighbourly advice about 15 pounds per square inch or not, possible (?) ai ground level not to go out gambling weighing heavily on each thought with her life Its all rather futile ideas arc scjucezcd the long shot may result ANDREW McLEAN oui ofshape with her seeing Halleys comet people motion at exercise clas.scs for a second time, in relief. DAVID WRIQHT Anybody for coflFee DAVID WRIGHT in a city cafe during tlie night turning the crusher all sons of things are die subjects of sex — somebody says to somebody else .... my body is in the press what a blow it will be and is slowly being flattened. at the end of copulation I'm becoming a cartoon character and well Late-night trading on my way to entertaining the masses. I look up over the edge ofthe bin and then there is the stark revelation how .... only giHs with their name Friday nights in ihe Mall I can make out the shapes of die sixteen beginning with g the chatting up begins, or dwarves who are turning the crusher, qualify for big freddie continues from the week before: there is no sleight of hand involved, it's all the private school boys chat up an exercise in the politics ofthe short, the state school girls, the siatc when they let me out, they dress me in dieir anybody interested widiin earshot .school boys ciiat up the shop girls, and brightly coloured dwarve clothes, funny picks up these mugs the private school girls hang about, pointed hats and boots, and show me which quickly swallowing do\vn their contents wailing for a yoimg stockbroker or levers to pull and how to spin the big wheel. to the last drop solicitor to come out of .McDonalds, and 1 realise that it's an ongoing process wiih mayonnaise on his old scliool tie. with great bitterness I realise it's an ongoing to join in on their conversation I can be found at the edge of il all, process, and boy do I cheer when through the door clriiiking coffee and talking to myself. they lead the next one in. a gale force wind comes KEVIN GILBERT and takes diem all away. ROSS CLARK DAVID WRIQHT please don't answer the p'hone it's not really a problem just a phobia one of those things diat can't be helped because when it docs ringi think it must be Dcadi on the other end and He's calling to make a reservadon. KEVIN GILBERT found poem/poem in which i find myself let us praise , , . ' long hatr that you can comb ., ~ ^ with your fingers flick from your eyes . i • . , ^ ^ shake in a dance/ it is the last freedom let us always dress in jeans fcgrow our hair . ., • r ° 111 It tfitss u s on the street tonite .,„ , ,, III turn the collar of mv schools hiri up BUT will not tuck my longhair in no matter the cold the winds that c ha nee , , , , " the storms that blow i will let it all hang out „ & wear my only unifomi make mv only/ pledger ft / (jji p rfreedo • m ofr my .head • ROSS CLARK 20 Samper, Ootobara 1 9BB Onlo^G. Short story by Bruce Western Norman was having an affair with die woman in were inseparable. Norman was so happy he'd stopped seeing all his friends. Norman was vciy white. Every morning she would slip quiedy into almost forgotten about Eve. Nomian went out much in love. his room and whisper, "Will you let me wash you with Eve about three years ago. That was before Norman?" "Still life goes on, in relief," he said to himself It Eve had gone away. He was very much in love. was an old art school joke that he had Norman would stretch out, pushing the sheets off Anyway, Marilyn was different. Norman would remembered. the end ofhis bed and grim witli sausfaction.shc often say that to himself "She's different, But fate was not such a bastard afier all. Shordy was his, for every hour of every day. That made Nomian would say. And then he would feel more afterwards Norman met the woman in white. She Norman very happy. reassured. Unlike Eve she loved the amusement changed his life. She arrived in the inidst of anger park. Through the summer ihey shared every He met her mondis ago. Just after he had broken and confusion and brought serenity and calm. ride at least twice and visited all the different up with Marilyn. The woman in white filled a She always knew just whal to do and jusi whal lo stalls. Especially the Hall of Mirrors. That was void. In the quiet hours spent talking he would say. laugh and cry. Somedmes he felt as if his heart their favourite. Where they first met. Even shon Norman loved the woman in white with a passion would burst. Norman was very much in love. and fal, or absurdly distorted, Marilyn was always beaudful. that he had never given any other woman. Not Norman had loved Marilyn too. She was tall and Eve. Not Marilyn. Soon they loo became blonde and very beautiful. They had been going When winter came, the aniu.sement park closed. inseparable. He was dependant, and she gave all out together for two years before Marilyn had her So instead they took long walks together by the of herself without reservation. He started seeing accident. It made him verv sad. river, talking about the amusement parks of their her every day. Nomian was vcr)- much in love. imaginadons and making plans for the future. He met her with bizarre wide shoulders and liny So full was their relationship, he became content waist in the Hall of Mirrors. He used to hang out Norman talked about getting married sometime in the next summer. In a small chapel just by the with merely the anticipation of her company. at the amusement park some evenings on his And of course, her company itself was euphoric. own. Nearly always on his own. He thought a lot amusement park. He planned elaborately. Honeymoon. Large family. Wedded Bliss. In their shared hours Nonnan would uilk ofthe about people coming out of llie Hall of Mirrors amusement parks ofhis imagination and make looking like their images. Tall and skinny, or MariKai never objected to these things, She was a plans for their future. wiggiy and distorted. If it had ever happened, litde quiet maybe when Nomian started talking The woman in white would embrace his future Norman wouldn't have been too surprised. about their future. Of course, she wanted to share in Norman's plans. She just didn't say so. After and augment it herself Marilyn was now so far in About two and half years ago, Marilyn's squat all, tliey were so alike, she must have wanted the die past. Together for always, Nonnan could be reflection found itself next to his own. She smiled things Nonnan wanted. Sccredy, Norman got happy again. a litde at him via the mirror. agitated when she was quiet. Sometimes he As he dozed in the eariy morning, she would slip "Hi," he said to her fat litde image. thought girls only like sharing hot dogs and the away from his bedside after long intimate "Hi." she said. Hall of Mirrors. That's why she yearned for the evenings. She would always come again in his Later, that evening, they shared a drink and spring. mornings. candy floss, talking about amusement parks. One day, something went dreadfully wrong. It Marilyn would smile with the corners of her The park re-opened after winter. Norman, seemed fate had become a bastard once again. mouth only hesistandy. She nearly always went between haunted houses and laughing clowns The woman in white never came. Instead, out on her own too. It's not diat she didn't have talked more and more about his plans. Marilyn without warning, a man intmded on Nonnan's anyone to go with. Rather it was because she had seemed to be getting quieter and quieter. One morning. The man was brawny with a five o'clock too many people to go with. Somedmes it was day, only for a second, while they were coming shadow. He was dressed in white. just fun to be on your own. out ofthe Hall of Mirrors again, laughing and "Where is she?", demanded Norman. He fell Al the end ofthe night Nonnan drove Marilyn stumbling, Marilpi was squat and diick, just like suddenly hot and empty, jolted, this abrupt home. When she kissed him lighdy on the cheek, her reflection. Nomian wasn't surprised. He realisation rushed into his head. Norman started just fractionally. He stayed up all talked about their future. The man mumbled something about rotating the that night. Driving around. Too tragically, their future remained only in psycho-ward nurses and hurriedly pumped the He called on her at hotrie later that week. Soon Nomian's plans. MarilyTi had an accident. That bcnezedrine into his arm. they were going out. And soon after that they really cut him up badly. He left his job. He Nonnan had been ver>' much in love. ai MAD MAX BEYOND loped by Brofison, De Niro, Newman THUNDERDOMBt DIreotori 0«org« Millar. With Mel and others. The common link, the thread Gibson, Tina Turner, Angry that connects these stars in some of their Anderson, Bruoe Spenoe greatest roles, is their lack of a clear mo "Beyond Thunderdome", the third ral definition, their lack of balance. Thus movie of the Mad Max series, com they maintain a degree of menace and pletes the transition of these films threat thateven the hulking Stallone can from the stark, black-humoured psy not match, no matter how many people cho-drama ofthe original "Mad Max", he wastes. to the family matinee fare of this film And so it seemed that in Mel Gibson's - from the sublime to the ridiculous original Max we had another off-beat dan- as it were. german to join the ranks of the above. We were never really sure whether the To those expecting a further explora "Mad" in Max meant just plain angry, or tion ofthe intellectual themes that aboun mad as in psychotic. That was the my ded in the first two films - the amorality, stery of the hero, and that was his mag the complete alienation of a man from netic attraction. the world around him - "Beyond Thun Now however the lid has been lifted on derdome" will come across as a basically Max's character. He is revealed to be a spineless film that fails to live up to its benevolent father figure to a lost tribe of potential promise. Where Director, cherubic bush babies (a la Snugglepot and ^ George Miller could have sought to test Cuddlepie), and all in all he comes across the limits of the idea he created, he has as a fairly nice guy; certainly a changed instead retreated to the safer ground of man from the one who hit the revenge commercial accessibility by bloating the trail in the first film. • ' j.:i?K^''" • • film with colour, furry animals, little chil dren and overly-cute dialogue. Whilst this shift away from violence The lowest common denominator ap and amorality will certainly please the proach may be applicable to Star Wars or clergy and the various sociologist cum Indianna Jones movies, which never clai crim inolog ists who get in a flap whenever •••:^^^#^,\; .-•- med to be anything but good wholesome blood appears on the screen, it must be family entertainment, but "Beyond Thun said that viewing "Beyond Thunderdome" derdome" must be judged within the con left me with the non-plussed feeling of re text of its predecessors, which were of a uniting with an old mate, only to find he's ing of Mel Gibson and Tina Turner, but climactic car chase, and the possibility of quite different genre. been transformed into a shining, straight, even this fails to produce the expected yet another sequel. The Mad Max concept owes a great born-again Christian. Beyond all this, sexual frisson of, say, Ursula Andress and In view of the declining quality of the deal more to the anti-hero movies ofthe though, "Thunderdome" does offer pas Sean Connery in "Dr No". product though, there really seems to be 60's and 70's, brought to the screen most sable entertainment and spectacular sce- From here on the film tends to lurch little point in even bothering with ano im po rtantly by Clint Eastwood in his spag nary. Indeed, the first half of the film is along with no apparent direction, con ther. hetti western trilogy, and further deve quite enthralling, with the electric pair- cluding with a predictable, strangely anti- DES McCAWLEY Fr5 *;.,-^. INDIAN TIGER kles, chutneys and Raita (each around 85 RESTAURANT CB.Y.O): cents). Phone: 391 6941 On our most recent night of dining we Located on the corner of Ipswich by-passed the nine regular choices of cur ries, opting for the chalkboard offerings Road and Juliette Street, Annerley, of Chickpea Curry and Brinjal, Eggplant the Indian Tiger offers authentic and Alloo (potato) Curry. Both were found curries using authentic herbs and to be enjoyable more so since each was spices (in fact) cooked by authen cheaper than the norm of $6.60 to $8.80 tic Indians, some what astray from for small and $8.80 to $11,00 for large their native Punjab. Bull, his fa curries. A large s erving of rice comes with mily and Roy have over a number of the main course (at no extra charge), years, earned a dedicated clientele of regulars, perhaps the best testa Perhaps the more hungry could also fit in a dessert (around $1.65) or at least, a ment of their culinary skills. Lhassi (yoghurt and rosewater drink) The menu is easy to interpret offering For a worthy feed at not too high a a choice for entree of Pappidums (11.5 5), price (inflation, taxes etc being kind) and Samosas($1.65)orPakorhas($2.75)along perhaps even a windsor-knot tying de with Vegetable, Gost or Plain Dhal ($2.10, monstration by Roy, you could do much $2.00, $1.65 respectively). The entrees, worse than try the Indian Tiger. of course may be included in the range of PAULROSS accompaniments available for the main course, such as Rotis ($1.05), Parathas ($2.10), Puris ($2.75) plus a range of pic- HARRINQTONS OARDEN CAFE brand new crocodile shirt and deck Harrington's Licensed Garden Cafe shoes. Food prices range from around $2 for mediums in most of the works. Those is one of the few eating, (and drin king), places in Brisbane which ca burgers, fish and chips, etc, up to about drawings which fail in their impact are $6 for chefs dishes or steaks. those with the greatest reliance on pen. ters for a wide variety of tastes within Where the use of ink is minimised or the price range of a student. One of Harrington's greatest assets however is its special bar offer on Friday absent, the unique qualities of coloured Situated under the new CML building nights. pencils can be clearly seen. next to Post Office Square, Harringtons Beer or house wine can be purchased is a fresh, open eatery finished in pink fl'R'T The pencils provide a distinct and tex at two for the i^rice of one from 5 pm, so marble, maroon and glass furniture, and tured look to the drawings, which, for in one can drink one's self silly all evening heaps of trees. WORKS ON PAPER! GAVAN stance, poster colours tend to lack. The and then go out to a club without spen PKNKLON only inadequacy of pencils is Fenelon's At first it appears to be some sort of ding as much money as usual (due to licen Works on Paper demonstrates the inability to achieve the more intricate trendy cafeteria, however the food, pre sing laws, somefoodmust also be purcha possibilities of coloured pencil and aspects of shading, especially in terms of pared by Daniel, their French chef, is of sed). perspective. excellent quality. pen as mediums. Gavan Fenelon's On Friday nights, Kate Jackson, a well Works on Paper is well worth seelne. As well as up-market chefs dishes, take collection is characterised by absur known Brisbane singer/guitarist performs The collection can be seen (for too short dist/surrealist themes, coupling ima away style food is available, with Harring at Harringtons. a time) at That Contemporary Art Space ton's pride, the "Build-a-Burger" top gination with precision of detail. The until October 12. The Gallery is situated ping the list. Harringtons is open from Breakfast artist also displays a refreshing sense until afternoon tea, Mondays to Thurs at 20 Charlotte Street. It's down the alley The "Build-a-Burger" allows you to days, and until midnight on Fridays. of humour, particularly in the more beside the Pancake Manor. And the ex stuffas much salad between twopiecesof elaborate drawings. hibition is free. bread as you possibly can from the salad It is an excellent alternative. Fenelon succeeded with his choosen SCOTT FARROW bar, and then lets you make a fool of JEFF WATERS yourself by emptying it all over your Semper, October B t BB8 Fo r ten years he searches fruitlessly for "invisible" via elaborate camouflage. his son, until predictably they are re-uni But for all the cinematic eulogising ofthe ted. In the true tradition of "Greystoke: "noble savage" living in a "pure, wild and Legend of Tarzan Lord ofthe Apes", to untamed land" the Indians still resort to which this film bears more than just a good old modern firearms to settle their passing resemblence, the son is now a scores. child of the jungle, having been reared by The contrasts between modern and pri the Indians. After recuperating from in mitive lifestyles are defined clearly enough, juries sustained in his searching, the fa and while Boorman raises the question of ther realises that the jungle is his son's whether we should ever have left the jun true home and returns to the city and gle, he never adequately answers it. A civilisation. much more credible answer can be found However, all does not go in favour of in "Deliverance", one of Boorman's ear the noble savages, and after a brutal neigh lier and much better films. Burt Rey bouring tribe discovers firearms (thanks nolds, playing a back-to-nature macho inadvertantly to the father) they massacre survivallstwhoisiniuredinanightmari!}h most of the son's tribe and sell their wo canoeing trip, awakes in hospital praising men to brothel owners, The father's aid is modern science which has saved his bro enlisted, and his son's tribe makes up for ken leg. In "The Emerald Forest" Boor man would appear to want humans to live THE EMERALD FOREST: Boorman's last film, "Excalibur", was the massacre with an even bigger one of in the hassle-free bliss of primitive so- Director: John Boorman. With an exciting and challenging re-examina the "enemy", before returning to live Powere Booth, Charlie ceity, yet maintain all the advantages of tion of the Arthurian myth which unlea happily ever after in the jungle. Boorman This time the subde balance of story, modern science. John Boorman is no stranger to exa shed a cycle of cheap sword and sorcery flick imitators. "The Emerald Forest" is theme, ideas, and dialogue so characte Despite all this, the film is breath-ta- mining the nature of myth, and "The unlikely to inspire a similar reaction. ristic of earlier (and superior) Boorman kingly photographed, and Boorman's ca Emerald Forest" is his latest attempt efforts is missing. The story is contrived meras capture the power and beauty of to define the relationship between The film opens in a central American and overly co-incidental, and ultimately what little remains of the unspoilt Ama man and myth. Unfortunately it gets rain-forest which is slowly being trans contradictory. Boorman placesgreat em zonian jungle. In the hands of a lesser di off to a bad start with an unconvin formed into the site fora massive hydro phasis on the myths which guide the In rector "The Emerald Forest" would quic electric dam. Some Indians peer curiou dians' lives: after tripping out on sacred kly slip into a forgettable melodrama, cing story-line which plagues the film sly at the dam's progress before return for its entire one hour, fifty-seven weed they are directed to a sacred place but Boorman is too good a director to ing to their jungle home with the son of allow this to happen. minutes running time. to collect sacred stones for a sacred paint one ofthe Dam engineers. which enables them to make themselves PETER DAVIES CAL: Director: Pat O'Connor. Cal to break his political mould, cast at With Helen Mlrren, John Lynch, birth by his religious upbringing, only Donal McCann results in an acceleration ofhis destiny, in The "troubles" of Northern Ireland Cal's case suffering and death. And there have been tackled in various cine can be no escape when Cal is constantly matic forms over the past three years reminded ofhis mould each time he sees with varying degrees ofsuccess. The a slogan on the wall, each night his problem in dealing with this subject house is fire-bombed, each time he is at tacked by neighbouring youths, and when is how to effectively convey the hor ever he is searched at the numerous road ror and tragedy of life in Belfast with blocks that dot Belfast. out falling into political polemic. As Marcell-i's farm manager says to Cal, "Cal" succeeds perfectly in this task, "I've got nothing against Catholics. It's and is a movingly beautiful film in its the religion I hate." This is the ultimate portrayal of the senselessness of the statement about the futility of a war that sectarian violence and hatred ram has been fought for so long that the ori pant in Northern Ireland today. ginal cauiie has long been forgotten. Only Cal is a nineteen year old Catholic li the hatred is remembered. In one scene ving in a predominantly Protestant su Gil is taken to meet an I.R. A. hero, now a burb of Belfast. Like most ofhis friends, senile alcoholic, who typifies the eternal Cal is unemployed, and drifts into part- bitterness of the protagonists on both time work for the I.R.A., more by dint of sides which is ultimately responsible for tradition and his religion than any con prolonging the suffering of Northern Ire land. scious political decision on his part. He becomes fixated with Marcella, the Ca Director, Pat O'Connor has done a tholic widow of a protestant police of magnificent job of conveying the agony ficer whose murder Cal was involved in. and desolation of a Belfast and its inha Cal finds temporary work at Marcella's bitants caught up in a war that none of farm, and they eventually become lovers. them really understand. The very walls rightly so, Helen Mirren is emerging as a cheerfully optimistic attitude to life in But he cannot escape his past, and Cal's filmed by O'Connors' cameras seem to one of the finest contemporary English general. reek of the bitterness and division that I.R. A. compatriots return to demand evi actresses on stage and screen, and her "Cal" is stunning, and quite simply the exists in Belfast. dence ofhis political allegience, leading performance in "Cal" fully justifies this best film that I've seen this year. Sadly to a nightmare climax from which Cal But the real accolades must go to He claim. It is faultless. John Lynch, in his tragic and beautifully human, you must cannot escape. len Mirren and John Lynch. Helen Mir- first film, is equally impressive in the title see it. ren won a Golden Award at Cannes last "Cal" has all the characteristics of a role. As Cal he plumbs the depths of des PETER DAVIES classical Greek tragedy. Any attempt by year for her performance as Marcella, and pair of modern youth, while maintaining SS^l»^i^Ss^^iS:3^Sl^S£^^;^eiSP^5sai^fflS^Si^Piii^;i3i:^'^^^^ THE FAMILY OAME: Director: what confusing. The film is a satirical the film by a nameless bourgois fa car, while Shigeyuki's fights are held in Yoehlmlteu Morlta. With comedy dealing with the new Japa mily. Mother, Father and two sons the spacious outdoor fields. The artifici Vusaku Matsuda, Ichirota ality of their world is pointed out through MIyagawa. nese middle class. Director Yoshi- live in a small apartment in a newly the huge concrete apartment blocks, the "The Family Game" is receiving rave mitsu Morita takes a swipe, or rather emergent suburb. One son, Shigeyuki, a few swipes, at the traits and mores is having problems at school, and so a cultural ambiguit}' ofthe furniture , and reviews overseas. Although interes synthetic playgrounds of the children. ting I found it a touch slow and some of this new social group, represented in tutor is hired to straighten him out. And he does so, in an authoritarian Yoshimoto travels between his world and theirs on a ferry. way. The tutor, Yoshimoto, shows no respect for the lives ofthe sterile Freedom for the family are the mo ments of soli tude in the bathroom, some middle class parents, culminating in thing which Yoshimoto can't understand. a riotous ending where all his resent This leads to the final hilarious Three ment and loathing is transferred to Stooges-like scene where Yoshimoto la them directly. shes out (literally) at members ofthe fa The storyline is interesting but the film mily for what they represent and over does not show this clearly, resulting in turns the sytiibol ofthe new culture, the boring lapses. The film also relies a great Scandinavian dining table. deal on a familiarity with the new wester As mentioned the film tends to slow nised Japanese bougeoisie. down and has problems getting its mes "The Family Game" is laden with sym sage across. But if one is patient and reads bolism. The apartment is crowded, claus the synopsis beforehand, you may find it trophobic and a virtual dead-zone for the stimulating. family. Decisions are made outside in the FRANK NEGRIC 23 was. Steinbeck's characters in "The Gra pes of Wrath" and "In Dubious Battle" react with certain courses of action to the situations they are faced with. Steckles' character is symbolic, as are the other characters of the hoboes and communists, rather than a dynamic visio nary as with Steinbeck. The fact that Steckles is a musician, rather than an ob vious member ofthe working class, may explain his inaction. Obviously there was never a revolution in the U.S.A., but for reasons different to those that Anderson suggests. Nevertheless this is still a great book, Some of his most interesting poems immensely readable and enjoyable, as are those that could be described as "de well as providing an educational insight finitions" of different aspects of life; these into the nature of America during the de can be found in the last section of the pression. book entitled "xenia". Overall the book FRANK NEQRIC would be appreciated by those who enjoy poetry, especially those who are interes ted in how people describe the indescri bable. LISAOQDEN HUNGRY MEN: Edward Anderson (Penguin} "Hungry Men" was written in 1935 THEDEARESTANDTHE BEST: during the Great Depression in Ame Leslie Thomas. (Penguin) rica, where it received considerable Leslie Thomas' latest novel acts as a success. It was reprinted in pulp form sort of 'pre-quel' to his last work in the fifties, but has been out of "The Magic Array", which dealt with print for twenty-five years. the friendly invasion of England MAPPING during the war by several million "Hungry Men" could be mistaken for „ THE American soldiers on their way to a political diatribe, but what emerges is a PADDOCKS captivating novel offering a frank ac fight in Europe. "The Dearest and count ofthe depression years as well as an the Best" examines the social fa CHESTER EAGLE •fi ^cll^l.•/rlWl•f'r^'JllnJIl.l".• (hi interesting insight to the American cul bric of Britain several years earlier, ture ofthe period. in the Summer of 1940. Anderson recounts the experiences of The book opens during the "phoney a "bum" traveUing around America, and war", following the declaration of war on MAPPING THE PADDOCKS: this is where the book's strength lies. It ^ Germany. The initial panic ofthe civilian has a hard gritty realism, particularly in population has been replaced by a dange Chester Eagle (Penguin) its portrayal of the Hobo slums. Ander ,^AAJ^^ rous apathy, as the much feared air-raids Does anyone out there actually read son's writing is tight and sharp, and uses fail to materialise. While aUied soldiers book reviews? Do they actually have the language ofthe working man, as well freeze to death in Norway as a result of any influence on prospective pur as slang, to great effect. the criminal negligence of incompetant chasers? If the answer is yes to both The central character is Axel Steckles, WAITING FOR CANCER generals, life in England remains unchan then, in reviewing "Mapping the Pad an out of work musician who moves Manf redE Jurgensen ged, and the war is viewed as more of a docks" I am not trying to simply tell through an America very different to the "waiting for cancer" is a collection nuisance than a menace. you whether it is good or bad, or to one presented to us on television, His so of powerfully imaginative poetry The complacency gradually fades as go out and fork over six dirty dollars, ciety is one of starvation, unemployment, that attempts to manifest a diverse the very real weaknesses of the British but merely to read it. political rallies and freight trains. These and French forces are revealed in the life in the twentieth century.lt co Most Australian rural biographies, episodes build a picture of America as course ofthe six week invasion of France. vers a range of themes, from domes Anderson saw it; a society changing The British populace finally seem to re whether auto, real or fictional, seem to through the experience of the depres tic objects that are treated with a alise the gravity ofthe situation when it cover the romantic outback: the boun sion. striking subjectivity, to aspects of appears to be too late to change what dary riders, the weeks spent mustering, the racism, nationalism, death and the many feel will be another inevitable Ger million hectare properties, the droughts, Ed wa rd Anderson wrote "Hungry Men" passion of love. man victory. the real "bushies" and so on. This is one to show why he thought his generation His poetry has a somewhat surrealistic of the very few which looks at the majo would "not turn communist orsocialist", Thomas' book chronicles these events quality, especially in the first section en and the changing reactions ofthe popula rity of rural Australia: the smaller sized and decides that a personal philosophy titled "object-lesson", where he has ex farms, not the properties. combining populism, anti-communism tion to them through the Lovatt family, pressed his subconscious to present vivid who are portrayed as "typically" English. "Mapping the Paddocks" is written in and Southern born-again religion was the images of daily life. This may be too ab the very difficultfirstpersonpresent tense reason. Thomas' characters run the risk of be stracted for some to appreciate, however coming somewhat stereotypical, but he of a young boy growing up on a farm in Steckles takes a few swipes at the com it reveals a passion and honesty that has manages to raise them above the mun New South Wales and is a collection of munists around him, but it's not the type become a prominent element in modern dane and rounds them off well, making connected nearly chronological images. of ultra-patriotic reactionary that was to poetry and works of art. The following them believable and very credible. This, It is said that the people around an fotlowduringtheMcCarthy era. He refers sections have a slighdy more objective coupled with a fine attention to period author must have thick skins when that to them as "dopes", and suggests that the quality about them and deal with more atmosphere creates an engrossing ac author writes his/her first book because average American would not take part in universal ideas, including a "letter to Geof count ofthe times. You can almost feel they use these people as their subject a revolution because he hasn't enough frey Blainey", dedications and descrip the warmth of the English Summer, and matter. This is Chester Eagle's (giveaway "guts", which seems a bit bland (why not tions that reveal a competent and unique share the Lovatt son's frustration at the pseudonym) sixth published work and as lack of organisation, or a ruling class hie style. paralysing apathy that grips the country. an autobiography those around him must rarchy?). Steckles sums up his philosophy Jurgensen, who is a bi-lingual poet of Thomas is used to examining the naivete be used to having their nuances aired pu by saying "like I've told you before, this is German/Danish descent, (also the head of youth in war (a la "Virgin Soldiers") blicly, because he's still telling almost all a dog-eat-dog world, and if I don't get of the German Department at the Uni and draws upon this experience when about them. mine, then I'm not going to whine". versity of Queensland), has written five dealing with a civilian population faced This is the story of the rural middle- But even he can still lash out at a "rich other collections of poetry, the most re with this dilemma for the first time. class, and revolves around the recurring bastard", and feelangerat theinjustice of cent being south ofrica transit (1979), and "The Dearest and the Best" may occa features ofthe town, the farm, Bradman, wealth inequality, and this is the book's the skin trade (1983). His poetry reflects sionally delve into soap for the more dis the V.8, World War Two and the Bomb. only real fault. The characters don't seem his cultural background. Some, such as cerning reader, but it is not intended as a It's very well and originally written - not to have enough depth, and despite the "stones", express experiences of a child "heavy" or "profound" book. Rather it yarns, and not the usual autobiography. hardship and oppression that surrounds hood during World War II, while others relies on a series of convincing vignettes "Mapping the Paddocks" is an excel Steckles he never takes action, and as one are honest remarks on national identity, to convey an atmosphere instead of any lent account of a rural Australia many of suspects, the reaons for his inaction are emigration, life in general, and descrip particular message, and in this it succeeds us are familiar with by experience rather not explained. tions ofthe Australian environment. These very well. A very readable and enjoyable than through literature. Read this book. Anderson never really demonstrates poems capture a strange feeling of one book, as all good popular fiction should You may hate it, but at least you'll be why a revolution was not possible, where who views Australia from both outside be. hating something different. as writers such as Steinbeck suggest it and within. PETER DAVIES ROBERT McKiNNON ID Thomas Keneally's latest novel A Famity Madness Book Signing this Wednesday^ Oct 9th at 10.30 in the University Bookshop 84 Semper, Ootobsr 8 I BBB R-E-C 0"R-I>-S then, like misty-eyed Grizzly Adams fans they write songs with this yearning in mind. These bands (Rank and File, Los Lobos,True West, Long Ryders,elc)are a bunch of Buffalo Springfield fans who have heard the Clash and have decided to hitch the two toge ther. To get back to "Old Ways", This one-lime member of Buffalo Springfield has chosen this album to also return to his roots, but in another way. This is a mix ture of (ate forties early fifties and contemporary Coun try and Western. Now some might say Ihat the two aren't that much different, but modem country could well do without the slushy melodies and the over-production which plagues it. Young's combination of the two works bri I- lianlly "Are There Anymore Real Cowboys", "Old Ways", "My Boy" and "Where is Ihe Highway To night?" are the best pickings of a great crop (lo give this reviev/ a country flavour). The music is perfect for driving,drinking, plucking out on yourgeetarundera tree, or even just listening to, and the lyrics are the usual Woody Guthrie - sorry, Neil Young, fare - some sad, some happy, most just quirky, especially "Mis fits". I've never had much time for a lot of Young's ear SPOILED GIRL: Carly Simon PHANTASMAGORIA: The lier music, except for "Comes A Time" and the others (Epic) Damned. CWEA) that "everybody likes". It's nol Willie Nelson or Way- Ion Jennings, who play on nearly every song, that Yawn in the USA! Poor old Carly. She hasn't BramStoker/DaveVanian-whal's the difference? sways me to this L.P.; it's simply very good. If you're exactly contributed much to the pop music in Dave is a great satirist of "Vampires" and the punch-drunk on cowpunk and think that you've lost dustry overthepastfewyears.althoughshedid Damned have never suffered from taking them your urban pretentions, or think country music is re provide the chorus for Will Power's (whos he?) selves too seriously. But on the record they do corded by shoving a microphone up a horse's arse, whimsical "Kissing With Confidence" last year. take something seriously-the music, and it sure then give this a listen. If you're a Neil Young or coun This album boasts some of the finest American as hell is great. Faustus sold his soul for suc try fan then buy it, producers (including Don Was and Phil Ramone) cess and if these characters have too, then it ROBERT McKiNNON hence the production has no real faults (except per was fortunes. But this isn't the devil's music, it's haps an over-reliance on Linn Drums and synthe- angelic, and the album cover is one of the best sizerprog ramming). But lyricallyitisasdopeyasany- thing you'll find anywhere else, of the decade. Phantasmagoria is a cross between the Strang- Carly sings about love, love and more love. The ler's "Feline" and a Wagnerian pipe-organ trip.This is anguish of unrequitted love, the joy of Utopian love, pop, and it's the best pop I've heard this year To say the pain of separated love, the horror of infidelity. It's the Damned have changed is one hell of an under mim^^^miimmm all here. Even some terrific vocals can't overshadow statement. I played one ol their early 1976 singles, the obvious silliness and narrowness of her lyrical fo and although they are just as good, you wouldn't cal points. know they were the same group (albeit minus Gap- Feminists hate Madonna for her "boy-toy" image; tain "HappyTalk" Sensible). Lead singer, Dave Vanian, perhaps they should vent their anger on Carly Simori has the most charismatic voice to bless my stereo for and her "bore-toy" image. a long time, and his lyrics are equally good. PETER BOLTON ThisrealiyisatunefulLP.anditjustmightbethe comeback that the band wants, especially in Ame rica (of all places!). It glows from the pure melody of "Grimly Fiendish" and "Is It A Dream" to the murki- ness ol "Street Of Dreams". Surprisingly U.K. televi sion has virtually banned the "Grimly Fiendish" video GUITAR ALLEY: Santers (RCA) because it is too sinister, but as always the Damned Diary of a record reviewer. are taking the piss out of something and this time it's 9,45 Don't judge a record by its cover. These boys all those 'gothics', like Southern Death Cult and Spe look rather angry, but they could very well be angry cimen. young men advocating world revolution through their This is a mighty fine record and well worth giving music. the time of day- if I hadn't been given it to review I 9.55 Loud screeching guitars with many riffs, gene might even have bought it myself. To finish with a rally quite tedious. The first song, "Can't Shake You", quote from drummer, Rat Scabies: "I think A.I.D.S. is hardly something from "Das Kaptial Vol, 1". Very could be used to advantage- it could get rid of peo heavy melal-ish, but it could gel better. It couldn't gel ple like Marilyn". • much worse. ROBERT McKiNNON TOUGH ALL OVER: John 10.05 Completely wrong. The next song is still in the Cafferty and the Beaver same cliche-ridden heavy metal mould, Brown Band (CBS) 10.06 Do you realise that record reviewing is very Everytime an act makes il big and becomes in self-indulgent? Generally you are giving your own fluential it creates a whole new industry, devo prejudiced opinions to other. ted to sound-alikes or imitators. Take for exam 10.07 A lot of people look down on heavy metal. Some ple the wave of imitators that followed in the of it can be tasteful (a little bit), it's just that some wake of Elvis Presley or the Beatles. people consider themselves as an elite. (Aren't they Look al this album cover: an urban city scene, daring ... and narrow minded.) working man's clothes. Listen to the music: songs about 10.12 Flip side. It's getting worse.There's one interes unemployment,factories,working girls,Cadillacs and ting song called "Too Young To Die", v,?hich mentions tough times in the U.S,of A. Soundsfamiliar? Yes, this politics and takes a swipe at authority. lot has come out in the wake of Bruce Springsteen. 10.20 fVlany record reviewers are verbose. Thoy use From the first song to the last "Tough All Over" is too much imagery and have delusions of grandeur. about trying to sound like Springsteen. Cafferty's voice, Simply they are pretentious, egotistical, self-indul to give him credit, is incredibly similar although his gent know-it-alls, who in reality know very little. vocal range is nowhere near as good as Spring 10.21 I must be full of crap for writing this. steen's. On top of this the album has those keyboards 10.35 Back lo the record. Still cliched. from "Born In The U.S.A.", more or less the same riffs, 10.38 This album has not been stimulating (just like and a sax player a la Clarence Clemons. the reviev;. Ed). Actually it has been loud, tedious and Superficially the songs bear a lyrical resemblence boring (iust like the review. Ed). to Springsteen's music on "Small Town Girl", but on FRANK NEGRIC closerexaminationtheyarelightyears away in theme. Both may sing about the working man, but Spring steen's music contains an honesty that imitators can't appreciate.Springsteen sings about the ambiguities STAND BY ME: Maurice White of the American dream, its effects on people and the OLD WAYS: Nell Young (CBS) (CBS) hard life of the working class, while all Cafferty can This is that old, well known, well covered (inclu "Get back lo the country" says one of the songs, come up with are similar words in different contexts. and that's just what Neil Young has done with ding a good version of John Lennon) song. Sim In "C-l-T-Y" he sings: "Golan American dream that's ply, White has managed lo kill it. Electric syn this, his latest album. It comes at an interesting true ,.." suggesting a completely different attitude. time in American music: a lot of new bands are Although the material iscliched,"Where theaclion thesizer drum-beats and dull vocals provide te looking back to the country roots of their music, is" and "Strangers in paradise"showsome feeling for dium and boredom not on a small scale but but with their feet firmly planted in the eigh Ihe subject, Cafferty et al are not overly talented. The rather at an incredibly nauseating level. Look ties, music is simplistic and hence uninspiralional, but ing at its chart competition this song will be They gaze romantically at log cabin/Rocky moun when did that ever stop a record from selling well,,. come a hit. tains pictures on calendars on their urban walls and FRANK NEORIC EDDIE BUCHINSKI Z8 m of m wm SERVICES ACTIVITIES SCHONELL RESTAURANT BANDS in the Forum Area every Wednesday, lunchtlme. BREATHE FRESH AIR! Activities Asbestos Removal is complete. NO COURSE OVER $5 FOR STUDENTS - Menu Drop in. DARK ROOM: $2 for 2 hours, $1.50 for chemicals. includes PIZZAS - LASAGNE - QUICHE ($4.50) POTTERY: $5 per session, located under Activities. Potter in CHICKEN KIEV- RUMP STEAK ($5.00) residence to advise on techniques. HAPPY HOUR between 5 and 6 pm. 25% off drinks for intending diners. 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All other nights: $5 & $7. 4 5 6 8 9 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 20 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 I 2 3 6 3pm ShODtina Party ISun only) 3pm Shootinfl Party (Sun only) 3pm Metropolis (Sun only) S,15 PAMILV CAMT 5.15 Ballad of NAYARAMA 5.15 SHOOTING PARTY 5.15 CAL (Sat and Sun only) fPLEROSE 7.3fl^dflTll<6fAhTV 7.30 SHOOTING PARTY 7.30 BACK to the FUTURE 7.30 EMERALD FOREST 7.30 QUERELLE 9.30 Dnperittly Seeking Susan 9.30 BLOOD SIMI'LE 9.30 MAO MAX 3 9.30 MAO MAX 3 9.30 A WOMAN IN FLAMES THEATRE CLOSED FROM 7TH NOVEMBER TO t 9TH DECEMBER DURING EXAMS >• Sampar, Ootobar B i SBB Another Semper scoop revelation! It is widely nimoured/believed, we may be right, we think, and several close and reliable sources have told us (so if we're CAPTION wrong it's their fault not ours) that the identity of the callous individual who ran CONTEST down Earle BaQey from the safety of a bicycle was...... none other that Lord Mayor Silly- Anne Atkinson's son Damien. Talk about a magnetic attraction. So much for like poles repelling (geddit!?!!). And speaking of Brisbane's leading lady, dark rumours abound about the Olym pic Gomes Bid gravy-train. The Brisbane City Council's own version of the Bi We were flooded with entries after the last edition's Caption Contest. Seems like a lot of centenary authority pork-barret appears people aren t terribly fond of our loyal and hardworking police force, but you can only make so many jokes about bodily functions and orifices in which to hide batons before they stop to be supplying a tot of the right son of bcine funny. Here are three of the funnier and more tasteful captions which manaaed to keep people with very attractive overseas off those rather obvious topics.... Junkets, and this is before Brisbane iias "Police teaming to conceal batons In unusual places" (R. Ebt>ans) even been given tfje official go-ahead for "All those members on parade who can read and write — take one pace forward" (R. Amos) the games. "Survey shows one in ten are gay" (Scott FarrowJ Apparently David Williamson, the head We've all heard of the man of steel, but Superman is taking things a bit too far here. The of Queensland University's own Sports best caption or explanation for the ChUd of Krypton's acdvitles receives the usual Schonell and Recreation Association, has recently tickets. been offered a jolly jaunt to Barcelona (you know... where /Manuel comes from) on official 1992 games bid business. Doubtless Williomson's brilliant record of sporting administration was responsible for the new offer, and the recent casual employment of tv.'o of the Atkinson siblings by SPRA has absolutely nothing student president Jillann Farmer yesterday. to do with any of this. Andy awaits flash PRINCK Andrew jave hopf lo And finally, the standard of deiiate rea thnuunds at woutd-be prlnceuej ched a new fiigh in State Parliament re >eiitcrdar when he mdmiltcd he wu sUII looUiiK ror MI RlKhl. cently. After withdrawing aliegations that He laid Ihe womui he would evenhull/ mjury »oald probabl; the Premier was suspected of being a Nazi urtit In hli life "tike a llfhtnlni spy during the war (has he Iseen only fol bolt". But, for the moment, he had no lowing orders all these years?) ex-Labor "m^mfir idea what shape or form she would take, the 25-jear.old bache leader, Ed Casey, was accused by the Wel lor prince said dmint a BBC radio Interview. fare services Minister, Geoff Muntz, of be Prtnce Andrew hinted that he ing a failure in business, a failure to his was likel; (o fel married by the time hr was 30 - because that was family and a thief. Not to be out done, afoodate. Prince Andrew Casey replied by calling Muntz "the Pre CAPTION mier's little mate" and a "sensitive sissy". A curious juxtaposition (above) achieved by Daily Sun's layout department in last It's good to see that "Her Majesty's par Friday's edition. Wonder what our Presi liament" has not been letting down Brian NAME dent-elect's chances are. Cahill's high estimation of it. RIMBAUD: No Man, no Law, no War can stop him. SW*'^^Q;aX' — Z7 Available from University B0 ^• -7.-. v^i^^.•r^^.'-^t.'jir r W.1