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I refer to your article on myself (in Issue 1, 1999). I There are a couple of good spots to enter the uni anci consider the piece to be interesting and, given the piece they bring you quite close to the center of uni. Tne Dear Semper Editors, was targeted towards a popular albeit university audi­ closest is along Upland Road, you enter the Uni around ence, quite well rhetorically written. I have no objec- In regards to the article on page 23 of issue 1 'Where the bus stop somewhere. The second is Keith Street, tion/s to my views being attacked. Nor am I unsettled am I going? How do I get there" which mentioned alter­ between field number 6 and the bowling club. Enter the by views from "the other side of the fence" being pub­ native methods of getting to uni. Uni grounds near the parking complex and the lished and made accessible to those who have or might glasshouses. Don't forget you can mix skating with potentially have an interest in the issue at stake. On the I found this article very informative and it appeared well other forms of public transport such as the ferry or the contrary. However, I feel that the quality of the article researched, however it was incomplete as it failed to train, or even skate home from the bus stop If you like. was unnecessarily weakened by its authors primarily mention at least two alternative methods which can be I do not regard 'skitching' as a safe way to mix skating making defamatory, misleading and inaccurate state­ with public transport. ('Skitching' is the suicidal act of ments about me rather than carefully attacking my used to travel to uni. I will discuss Motorcycling and grabbing hold of a moving vehicle and being towed). views and the arguments which underpin them. Skating.

Motorcycling Regards, Sincerely, Peter Lowther Patricia Petersen Motorcycling is very popular v;Ith students and staff, Department of Botany Australian- and I was very surprised it was not mentioned. UQ Dear Editors. Purchasing a motorcycle while at uni should be consid­ ered seriously by all students. They are cheap to buy, I recently read your article on Patricia Petersen in Issue run and maintain, as well as causing less than half the To the editors, 1, 1999 of Semper (Filosophical Phuck-up, issue 1 1999). pollution of cars and using less than a quarter of the worlds non-renewable resources to build. Their contri­ I would like to thank and congratulate you on your f/.'st While Ms Petersen's intellectual position is certainly bution to cleaner air is well recognised by the state gov­ edition of Semper. It's got guts, It's interesting and it open to attack on a number of grounds - and it is ernments in Australia, as they are usually not checked made me laugh (and It's a vast improvement on last important and healthy to air these criticisms - it is for emissions in roadside tests (unlike cars which will be year's self-gratifying dribble). I look forward to upco.m- somewhat hypocritical of the four authors to claim the forced to line up while emissions are checked). Even a ing editions. intellectual high ground of a detached "critique" of her badly running motorcycle would be hard-pressed to ideas while hurling quite hurtful (presumably) and (cer­ exceed the emissions put Into our atmosphere by many Laura Russo tainly) unnecessary abuse at her. Comments such as cars, mainly because of the much smaller amount of fuel 3rd year Bachelor of Arts. "Petersen has coasted through her endless postgraduate burned in the first place. degree" or "Petersen has resorted to cheap tricks" are unnecessary in genuine philosophical debate - Petersen's I can draw a comparison from my own experience. I deficiencies would be revealed in the analysis and would used to drive a 1994 model Holden Commodore and still speak for themselves. rode my 1976 model Kawasaki. The Commodore used Dear Readers of Semper, twice the fuel (8km/litre vs 18kn/litre), accelerated slow­ It is however precisely this Intellectual rigour that is er (0-100 kph in 10 sec vs 7 sec), had slower response As the Union General Vice President, I compiled and lacking in the article. The authors tangentially mention (how do I measure that?), as well as having to corner at edited the Free Student Diary the Union gives students certain feminist writers and forms of feminism, but about 2/3 the speed. Don't forget there is almost twen­ at the beginning of each year. I have spoken to a num­ make little attempt to contrast Petersen's position with ty years in age between them and the bike is only worth ber of students about the Diary, and was pleasantly sur­ this theory and literature. The authors make little about a grand or two. prised by their interest, tt is great that students recog­ attempt to establish and set out Ms. Petersen's intellec- nise the Diary as a service they expect, want and active­ tiial position accurately before critiquing it. Bertrand I imagine a modern motorcycle would have even greater ly seek out. Russel once commented along the lines that he would fuel efficiency, power and handling. It should also be rather be criticised by his most capable enemy than pretty obvious by now that If you did not want to 'blow When I told people that the theme was "Student least capable friend, for at least his argument would be away cars' you could choose a smaller motorcycle and Artwork", ever/ person was enthusiastic about showcas­ conveyed clearly before being critiqued. I don't doubt save even more on price, fuel and maintenance. Don't ing the talent of UQ students. What disappointed and the capacity of any of the authors, but wonder if Ms overdo it though, very small motorcycles are very cheap, puzzled me were the comments that frequently fol­ Petersen - and scholarly debate - might not have but they do not brake as well and tend to get 'bullied' lowed: "Oh thank god it's nothing to do with of/ier peo­ deserved a more impartial analysis. by cars. You may get pushed into the gutter! ple", "That's heaps better than the last few year's - they've been crap", "I didn't like those ones on muiticul- The article would also have benefited from explicit (sic) Motorcycles have fewer parking problems than cars. turalism, they were really dumb". Since the last two consideration of the ethical issue in pornography, revolv­ There are numerous advantages to this. Mainly, you are themes have been Cultural Diversity and Indigenous ing around the status of women (the extent to which more likely to find somewhere to park your vehicle. Peoples, some of this negativity seems to me to be women are degraded or 'liberated' by pornography), the Whether it is a picnic, the local shopping centre, or a racist. nature of what seperates pornography from art or other trip into the city, you will spend less time circling the representations or fantasies, and the effect it has on block and have a greater choice of somewhere to park. To my mind, the last two Diaries have been both func­ men and relationships. Pornography could be contrasted Another reason for students to consider buying a motor­ tional and attractive. I did not consider them any less with healthy expressions and representations of erotic cycle Is that an annual permit to park a motorcycle at aesthetically pleasing because they were issue-based. sentiment. uni is $31. Too much considering you can fit four So, what is the problem? I am curious to hear other motorcycles into the parking space for one car but at views on this. Is it just that people want something In short, I am disappointed by the tone of the article. I least it is cheaper, non-confronting in a diary? Or do students have a know three of the authors personally and admit to being problem with recognising and being shown other cul­ surprised at seeing the names of these people associated Skating tures on a daily basis? with the piece as it turned out. I applaud their intention to debate philosophical and intellectual issues in a pub­ Skating is currently banned on campus. I understand I know that overt racism exists on campus, but I do not lic forum but ask. respectfully, that next time they strive the Student Union has an ongoing campaign against the consider it the dominant opinion. It's Just that the neg­ a little further towards the ideals of an impersonal ban, and maybe one day we will be allowed to skate on ative feeling was quite prevalent and has made me curi­ debate focused on the philosophical and intellectual campus again. While you can be prevented from skating ous. This letter is purely to start a debate. issues in question. on campus, nobody can stop you skating to uni. Whether you use skates or a skateboard, you can still Carol Humber Sincerely, skate to the boundary and carry your wheels in. I thor­ General VP, UQ Union Lauchlan Mackinnon oughly recommend skating to uni for the following rea­ sons; less impact than jogging, faster than walking, good Dear Eds, one major side of the political spectrum in Australia, forgiveness, but it is another to question the structures The first issue of Semper However the students' that enabled the theological and spiritual imperitave of I congratulate you on edition 1 of Semper '99. However, newspsper should at worst provide a balanced However cultural genocide. This reminds me of the case in the I was disappointed to notice that the "House Hassles" I do not feel that the newspsper that 11 wonder if 1980s of the journalist who was sacked by his Episcopal article (p 36) omits to mention the tenancy advice serv­ Semper would support with such fervour, the Liberals, employers from the Catholic Herald due to his uncover­ ices provided by the Tenants' Union of Queensland (TU). One Nation, The Shooter's Party, or even Fair Go for ing large amounts of child abuse in the clergy. When Farmers ?(all of which are just as legitimate as Labor the issue was eventually uncovered by the secular TU is a community based tenancy organisation providing and the Democrats, and yes, believe it or not, some media, after legal advice the Bishops, belatedly, said services for and representing the interests of residential Semper readers might have even voted for them!) If they were soriy. The journalist was never reinstated and tenents in Qld (of which students make up a large pro­ such broadsides were brought upon more sensitive the Bishops never held accountable for the cover-up. portion). It offers support to tenants by providing legal groups such as environmentalists, or people of ATSl ori­ What happened to justice and compassion? advice, information and resources about residential ten­ gin, then I think there would be more sparks flying, but 1 ancy law and tenants' rights. It also represents tenants' guess we never see things like that? It is surprising to The Rev. Hoyte reminds us that the Christian God is non- views and concerns to government and industry groups, see an Issue of such blatent one-sidedness, when at the sectarian, unfortunately, his servants do not seem to Unlike the RTA, TU only advocates for tenants - ie. it will same time the Union Is maintaining a standpoint that it appreciate this fence-sitting. There has been much gos­ not provide advice to lessors or intervene in matters represents all Since this is my fourth year at uni, I can sip within Church circles about this somewhat perplex­ between tenants (because of potential conflicts of inter­ remember when Semper Perhaps it should return to ing silence of Archbishop Hollingsv;orth since the elec­ est). The RTA, by contrast, provides advice to lessors and being a general campus paper, and not another trumpet tion of the Howard Government. Is it possibly because tenants. for political wannabes to tootle on. (there are already of a strong personal friendship with 'John' or maybe the plenty of those!) I hope V.S.U does get passed , because traditional allegiances of the Anglican Church with the Part of TU's funding is sourced from the interest earned there is no way 1 will voluntarily support the garbage Liberal Party. on tenants' bonds held by the RTA. This source of that Semper is at the moment. income also funds RTA services such as the RTA advice Rev. Hoyte enables us to see many of the problems fac­ line mentioned in your article. (This raises the question Lath Stewart ing Christian theology when he goes on to explain what of whether it is proper for interest earned on tenants' Arts/Education Christians believe, "...Jesus is boss of the world (so money to be used to provide advice to lessors potentially respect his purpose for it), the belief that the world is to defeat tenants' rights). In any case, the RTA advice Dear Lath the creation of God (so who are we to mess it up)...". In officers may spend a maximum of something like 3 min­ Thank you for your feedback. We would like to stress that this patronising and childishly naive form of triumphal- utes on each call. Therefore, it Is not a particularly we published everything we received in time to go into Ism the Reverend rejects multiculturalism and goes to helpful service if you have a complicated matter - in the first edition. In fact, we actively sought out different the heart of the evangelical indicative that enables cul­ such a case you will usually be referred to TU anyway. points of view on various issues, receiving in return sever­ tural genocide, oppression of women and homosexuals. TU does not have to work within such constraints and is al points ofvievj on VSU, which we were happy to print I think the Reverend needs to be reminded that Jesus often better able to provide genuine help for tenants If you are unhappy with the range of articles in Semper, died on a cross a criminal, powerless to prevent the experiencing difficulties. perhaps you would like to submit your own article for authorities' control over his life and death, and the publication. Because we are so open and inclusive, wc mythico-historical event of the Resurrection has more to Contact details for TU are: left your unique sentence structure, spelling and punctu­ say about the oppressed than powerful bishops. ph. 3257 1108 (tenancy advice line) ation the way it was, besides, we were a little concerned or 1800 1777 61 (outside Brisbane only) about your blood pressure and didn't wont to bring on a Unfortunately Rev. Hoyte makes the fundamental mis­ turn by changing anything. Love, eds. take that the errors of Australian history were made due [email protected] to a lack of spirituality; the reality is that Australian his­ http://www.powerup.com.au/~tenunq tory is infused with the spirituality of the powerful of which the Churches have been actively involved. If we 28 Robertson St, New Farm Q 4005. are to believe Rev. Hoyte this spirituality has been radi­ Hey Funky Semper Kids, cally changed, so much so, that the church is a potent Yours sincerely, force for change in society. I think not. Meg. Congratulations on your first edition of Semper. I now consider myself a born-again Semper reader. Great that If the Chaplain were truly honest, considering his politi­ you dealt with on-campus issues for a change -1 cal and social location, he would be better off criticising thought that the Racism on campus articles, and the rather than praising bishops. On reflection however his porn article were particularly bloody good. Dear Editors, meal ticket depends on his obedience to such authorities so this form of justice and compassion seem to be Congratulations on your first edition of Semper for Ta very much beyond him. Perhaps braver men and women more A.M. 1999. It provided myself and my partner with several enthused with a 'Jesus-like spirituality' will step into the hours of thought-provoking conversations and It was arena. Considering the state of Episcopal power In this great to notice the diversity of authors and their articles. country, those who choose to fight for justice and com­ passion within the Churches, will Inevitably lead to the My only problem existed with the article written by Moo way of the Cross. Baulch entitled "Racism". It disappoints me greatly that. A Response to Rev. Hoyte In a university that encourages diversity of thought and Galium Hyslop, President of Humanitas "Why do you see the speck in your Brother's eye, but do opinion and strives for Independent creativity, we have not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say an article advocating censorship purely because the to your brother, "Brother, let me take out the speck in views expressed, odious as they are, differ from hers. your eye", when you, yourself, do not see the log in your Although I agree with her sentiments condemning the own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your rise of racist slogans on this campus, we have a duty to own eye and then you will see clearly to take the speck preserve and protect freedom of speech and expression, out of your brother's eye." Luke 6:39-42 A Response to the above letter. even though we do not like what is being expressed.

The Rev. Geoff Hoyte in his article "Should the Church be It's great to know that someone read my article in the After all, if we begin taking away desks from the library told to mind its own business?" may need to turn his last issue. There is a lot more to be said about my point because we don't like what's written on them, when do musings on compassion and justice on the Church and that "you can't keep faith and politics in separate we start taking away books because we don't like what's Christianity itself. In this ecclesiastical world of male boxes". This letter picks up on some of that. I would written in them. Fight the fascism, don't encourage it. privilege and archaic hierarchical structures that stifles rather discuss the issues than get personal. Keep the dissent within the ranks, excludes women and homosexu­ dialogue going. Yours sincerely, als and has a long history of oppression and oppressive Geoffrey Parkes. practices. One only has to look at the Churches' Involve­ Geoff Hoyte :<§kfi> ment in the 'Stolen Children' generation of Indigenous ^m TS Australia, It Is one thing to say you are sorry and ask for

Dear Carmen, Sam, Ellen, and Lieszel, and others in 'Dixieland' We appreciate all feedback. If you wish to write a letter to us, send It to It both saddened and angered me to pick up the recent­ Semper Fioreat ly released copy of the first edition of Semper Fioreat University of Queensland Union Never before have I seen a newspaper which claims to University of Queensland, 4067. represent such a broad range of the university popula­ If you would prefer to email, our address is [email protected] tion, and in in practice totally publish only the views of

a The C^brary had been deueloped for the generation vuhich had neuer ujound a kuatch, dialled a phone,, plunked the ke>is of a manual t>ipewriter, ujritten on a blackboard, spun an LP or spent a penn>i. "But the>i think nothing of formatting flopping (sic) disks, downloading music off the internet, heating a drink or meal in the microujaue or setting the clock - not to mention the actual recording - on a uideo cassette recorder", fTlrs Schmidt said.

"The>i are a neui brand of teenager, the leading edge of a generation that promises to be the richest, smartest and sauuiest euer. The>i driue beamers not bombs. The> are technophiles, not technophobes. The>i fax, email and phone their friends rather than meet them in the mall. Call them Generation V, P^illenials, Echo Boomers or Generation 2000. B>i an>i name, they are the cool, coddled, confident offspring of the bab> boomers. This library is for them."^^

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If while browsing the University of Queensland v*/eb site you stumble upon a bus fares and students' concern about changes to Austudy and Youth news release from 23 November this year, take the time to reatl the section Allowance, have all been an exercise in youthful lefty idealism which has had about the UQ Cybrary winning the "Services for Australian Students" institu­ no effect on our everyday lives as "the cool, coddled, confident offspring of the tional av/ards category of the Australian Awards for University Teaching. It baby boomers". Mature age students, part time students, students who are makes interesting reading for those of us having trouble understanding what pa-ents, who work, who struggle to make ends meet, who rely on the library exactly has improved in the recently upgraded Social Sciences and Humanities for copies of textbooks which are too costly to buy, or those who just don't like Library, and confirms our suspicions that the University Librarian's understand­ to be called teenagers when they're old enough to incur a HECS debt, vote and ing of the students who use the library comes more from the world of televi­ marn/, may begin to feel not just irsulted, but also excluded from the exciting sion fiction than from reality The Cybrary, according to the news release,, world of Cybrary. If as Schmidt says when "integrates state-of-the-art information technology with traditional services to referring to "Generation Y", "this create a 'virtual library' in a 'wired university'". Okay, so the library web site is libi-ary is for them", little a gateway to a wealth of useful information - it's a shame that in the beauti­ vjonder the rest of us are ful new SSBH library' link, we have to wait in a queue to use the computers to stU waiting in the queue to be able to access that information. use a computer.

As an information space, the web site is fairly self-explanatory and easy to use, and a helpful complement to the talents of the lovely information desk librari­ ans in the hunt for elusive information. If only the physical space of the new library facilities were as well designed. While the vast empty spaces of the entrance and lin< are aesthetically pleasing, the grand spaces only highlight the contrast with the cramped and crowded (but so much more necessary) High Use/Multimedia section. The most disturbing aspect of the news release is the University Librarian Janine Schmidt's description of the students who she imagines will be using the library. While the paragraphs concerned demonstrate a remarkable talent for alliteration, they also demonstrate a remarkable lack of understanding of the reality of student life. First, the rather quaint glorification of everyday technology (what arc "flopping" disks?) in a list which is an insult to old and young alike, presuming that anyone over twenty-something has difficulty using a microwave (that fandangted and complicated new invention), and that anyone younger is a kind of technological wizz kid with a com­ plete ignorance of anything but the latest gadgets.

The following paragraph paints a condescending and inaccurate picture of students as a rather 90210 bunch of affluent school-leavers who "drive beamers not bombs" - obviously the extended campaign for half- /^/ii-.^

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Paul I know John Howard's pushing Krishneel Rmanda Laura to get Voluntarv Student I think VSU stands for Voluntary I was super impressed with all the 1 mean, if they're gonna use the money Unions into uni at the moment. Student Unionism, It's basically black plastic. It was a very, very for stuff like this, its probably a bit like Like, yeah, they're not too keen where students have to choose nice touch. I liked the coffin - very the environmental sort of thing... to have it here, I know that. whether they want to be involved effective, very media-friendly. It there's plastic everywhere. I think Basically, !•' the Union was vol­ in the student union or not - it's will make good pictures and get they're getting their issues mixed up. untary, and we didn't have as up to them whether they want to the Doint across, 1 think. With I'm not against the union, it's just, I many people in it, we'd jus: pay the $128 per semester or not everyone dressed in black and the don't really know what they do for me, get bent over by the unL and basically I think that if it were hyma singers - i thought it was so I think Voluntary Student Unionisn^ up to the students, they wouldn't wicked. VSU is fucked. is a good idea. But, I mean, if they take the initiative to pay the wanted to do all this stuff, and 'f they money and that would mean a lack wanted the media here, I think that the of funding for the jnions and a lot union likes to make a statement, but, of the services we currently have yeah. I don't think it's really necessary. would close down - Main Refec etc. That's probably why a com­ pulsory union is good, as long as students have some say over what goes on.

Gemma & Erica Chris Well, everything that it was standing for, I do agree with. A lot of people didn't Yeah, VSU, Voluntary Student seem to know what it was about. They Union. I haven't heard too much were going past saying, y'know, "what's about it. I know that it exists... going on?", so it did get the message Oh and that they're trying to Shaun across and if extremities like this are push it through the parliament I'm not sure what VSU means. needed... yeah, it's good and it's effective and that there hasn't been much then. I think VSU is pretty crap, because media coverage about it.. I'd I ke Bruce no one is going to pay, 1 mean, if it's vol­ to find out a lot more about it I I'm completely clueless! untary, they're going to go. "Oh, yeah, I'd really want to see, if we did hsve rather spend that money on .... (illegal VSU, what sort of rights would substances? eds.)". The unions won't get we have, like, would we keep the the money and it won't oe as good as it rights that we have now or lose is now because we get heaps of stuff them? And I'm also very worried and people take it for granted at the about, like, losing discounts at moment, but once they realise what's the Schonell or services like the getting taken away, which is pretty coffee shop and stuff. It would much what's represented today, then be disappointing to see all that , ..Joost they're going to stop and think, well go. That's all I have to say about Ivistting international student) yeah, that money is going to a good that. I think it's a good thing that the union cause, and think of all the things we'll be Jean exists because it does a lot of things, but missing out on without compulsory stu­ 1 had no Idea what the gravesites and people who are studying don't even know dent unionism. black plastic were for. but now that I what it is. They'll learn soon enough ,. but know, its a really good idea and it's if you change tiie legislation and they have raised everyone's awareness- every­ to decide for themselves, they'll notice one's talking about it. what they miss, after it comes in, because if you're from another part of the country you probably don't even know what it real­ ly is. They do a lot of things, I guess. I was kind of amazed (at the black plastic) like, "what's going on here?". It sort of got my attention so 1 stopped one of the guys and Sarah asked him about it - I told him that I did­ VSU? I dor't really know anything Leanne n't understand what was going on. You about it. There has been no infor­ It's certainly effective- the props and could have had a little bit of better weath­ mation around the campus. things, so the union should have gained er. 1 think it's good! Don some awareness. I don't know what VSU is about. Joy Mathew My concern is the threat from the Well 1 think I try to stay apolitical. At uni­ Christine & Elizabeth government that if the university versity I've gone through stages of this I don't agree witi VSU because I believe doesn't bring in VSU, the government and that, but I have to say that I do agree that your decision to pay it is made by will cut funding to the university and with compulsory student unionism. I joining the university and I don't think it's we don't knovj Vifhether this is a seri­ mean, it's all pretty blurred, but, isn't ft. ( fair for those who do decide to pay it ous threat because we never do know mean, it's not a singular issue is it. because the majority of people probably with the government whether it's a There's compulsory exaction of a fee. won't because its just an added expense serious threat or whether it's a ploy to That's what's largely being debated, isn't that they don't realise the consequences take public attention away from it, as opposed to whether, yoi, know, no of not paying. something else that they're doing. one has to necessarily join a union... its But if it is a real threat, it really leaves vjhether it's compulsory. There needs to the university administration with be compulsory exaction of a fee otherwise nowhere to go. I thoucht the 'funer­ nothing would get done. People are gen­ al' was very effective. They like to say erally apathetic and generally couldn't be that people will voluntarily pay for bothered joining or supporting any partic­ the upkeep of union servivces, but no- ular guild. 1 guess, you know, all the seo,'- one voluntarily pays anything, espe­ ices that are provided would not exist. cially when they're surviving on Austudy..

Darren Yeah, I thought t was quite impressive - well put together, well planned, I didn't actually get to see most of it, 'cause I had to sort out shit with Centrelink, as yau do, but I thought that the coffin idea was great. It made a lot of students stand around and take notice of what was actually going on. Mark I've been talking to a few students today I think that I actually don't agree with Ueronica & Paul myself. I was surorised at how many didn't VSU but I don't think toaay was such a V";ronicB-1 Knew that most of them (par­ even realise anytning about VSU, so, yeah, gooc idea. Probab'y better off if the ticipating ir the funeral) were drama stu­ it's definitely widened the knowledge base, union didn't put on such a big jazz dents and I haven't really learnt anything which is good. It can only be a good thing aboLt it, I mean we all know about it. (Don't worry, wc fixed that- eds.) but I because if they realise that if the VSU We know what they do. Veah, I don't knew a couple of people that were per- comes in, half of the student union stuff think it was so appropriate. Maybe foriring in the choir thing, 'cause we're in may not be around to utilise. I think it's got we're skeptical or whatever. We're out the music department. As for VSU, I know quite a few people thinking. here just going, "that's a bit out there". absolutely nothing, sorry. Paul-1 just sort of got here ana I just saw all the black and I thought, "What's going on"? Veronica- Yeah, what's with the black, anyway? Paul- It's a funeral!

flisha & Rnna Lorna Do VSU supporte.'s realise that the union pro­ We don't agree with VSU. Because even for vides the framework for the uni-based activi­ those people that might want to pay their ties we enjoy because of the fees we con­ union fees... because people won't pay, tribute. A balanced campus life would be there'll be less benefits for those that do. I unlikely with VSU because how many broke think they've got this big thing about free­ students would pay a voluntary fee? dom of association, bu; I think that you Kassidy & Tuan choose to go to the uni so therefore you Yeah, we need the um. Student Union, should choose to be with the union. That's don't like VSU. about it.

U When Stephen Brady, the Australian Ambassador to Sweden pre­

sented his male partner to Queen Margrethe of Denmark, many

Australians were in uproar. Dragging spouses along to official

functions has always been part of the art of diplomacy, but it

seems that when your partner has the same genitalia as you,

many people would rather they stay home with the tele while you

mutter something about how;

aj you've got a little more wild oat sowing to do; or b) it's terribly 00199! hard to find a good woman/man these days; or

c) \ swing - do yau?

The criticism of Ambassador Brady's conduct centred around ECOGHITIO

offence to the Queen - somewhat ironic considering that the Queen herself clinics at: didn't seem too disturbed. The most interesting aspect however, is that these Australians, who live in one of the most backward countries in regard to gay

I • logan hospital and lesbian law reform, automatically assumed that the Queen of Denmark, one monday 4-6:30pm of the most progressive countries 'n the world, would be offended. Was it just

possible, that perhaps Margie didn't really care? 001999 • pa hospital tuesday 6 - 8pm In Queensland and Australia, every law that relates to people in relationships is USMHillO

Wednesday 2 - 4pm written so as to exclude same sex couples. Regardless of how long, close, loving I mMTnqrtirrrtntfn'rDftfvna'pkfrm'ctMftf' thursday 6 - 8pm and dependent a couple may be. phrases like "two people of the opposite sex" I A>v>nwuil«¥iit*wtinq^fni>trmf«ui^arlmttiiicutlli^ntr. .

or "two people in a marriage-like relationship" prevent lesbians, gays, bisexuals d^v.«,«*s«ii»«rt««ft«jia^wrtani w. I The Hon< fttcrBtattic MLA I a double bed for the last seven years but hey, v^e're both women so what are

you going to do about it?" However getting no recogrition is very uncool for

phone 3240 5881 just about everything else. for more information

If you're in a same sex relationship, when your partner is sick you can't get time

«l off work to care for them. If your oartner has a child you cannot be recognised 001993 as a guardian (so for example, you can't register the child for school); if you

1^1 and your partner break up you can't use the legal system to resolve your dis­ PS E Study in putes and if your partner has to go to court you can be forced to be a witness BECMMrio against their case. If your partner dies without a will, all of the estate goes to ^£ Canada your partner's family, regardless of how much closer you were with the deceased. You will receive nothing from their superannuation benefits unless

your partner directed otherwise and you will receive rothing from his or her

Canada offers: workers' compensation benefits. You will be unable to request an inquest into V a first class education 0G1999 E V jniversally accepted your partner's death, you have no right to see your partner in hospital as you Kr, degrees are not 'family', you cannot request that your partner's organs are donated and V low tuition fees you cannot claim your partner's body for burial. uouMnoh average $4500 p.a. V a high standard ot In short you may as well not exist because the law won't recognise you. E living E V multicultural diversity However, the silver lining to this tale is that before the previous state election, Peter Beattie promised to begin removing the clauses that discriminate against same sex K couples from Queensland legislation. The catch is that now that the ALP have gov­ Kg OPEN DAYS IN BRISBANE 16 April (2-7 pm) ernment, they want to see community support for law reform (we wouldn't want to 001999

17 April (8-11 am) be too ahead of the electorate would we Pete?). 27 May (2-7 pm) E 28 May (8-11 am) To this end. the Queensland Branch of the National Union of Students in collabora­ UGOGHmOH Oakford Quays Hotel tion with UQ Union. Griffith SRC. QUT Student Guild and JCU Union has produced postcards oemanding that the Beattie government recognise the A5 Kemp Place, Brisbane K equal rights of same sex couples and their children in all Queensland laws. At UQ. the postcards are available from the Rona Room, the Women's

Room, the NUSQ office, the Welfare Area (above the lolly Shop), and the Semper office. Off campus you should be able to get some at selected cafes

H'tvtvt to hn^ow more/? around the city and inner suburbs It's vital that as many people as possible get their hands onto a postcard. It's even more vital that you don't stick Canadian Education Centre Canadian High Com-nission them on the fridge door! Slip on your signature, name and address, slop en a stamp and slap it into a post box. Or even just slide it back to the Commonweallti Avenue Canberra. ACT 2600 Welfare Area or the Semper or NUSQ office and we'll do all the rest. Remember - it's up to you to show to the government that our laws should Telephone: (02) 6273-3844 Facsimile: (02) 6270-4083 recognise same sex couples and if Steve's partner doesn't want to stay home on a Friday night with Danish television - then he doesn't have to! Email: CanadaEduC@aol com B3

Matt Drummond, NUSQ Welfare Officer, ph. 3876 7539 Rude sales assistants really piss me off. 1 can tolerate being ignored as the assistant tells her co-worker about her hus­ band's prostate operation v;hilst trying to shove change in my hand. I'm prepared to be lied to in clothing stores - 'These camoflage cord jeans will look great on you."

But I can't tolerate officious, smug staff vjho attempt to belit­ tle customers in front of others. Combine this with refusing to honour their advertised promises, and I was pissed off enough to be bothered v;riting to consumer affairs. But wait. there's more - all this, and it was from our own University Bookshop.

'he first week of semester, and it was peak hour at the book­ shop. As I waited, 1 v/atched another student trying to return a textbook. She explained that she had purchased the text from the subject booklist, only to ftnd at her first lecture tfat it was no longer recommended. The $65 text included a CDROM In a plastic sleeve, which she had opened (i.e. peeled back one piece of cellotape) to read. She had not used the CDROM. The bookshop staff member explained that the two- day-old text was now considered second hand goods and they could not accept it. Another student felt strongly enough to point out that they could see and check the CD had not been used. Despite this, the staff member repeated store policy stating that she v;as tn,'ing to return second hand goods,

I certainly understand the need for such a policy, but surely there's no need to accuse a student of being dishonest in front of their peers. This could have been achieved discreetly or preferably dropping the officious attitude to accept the text­ book.

My ov;n encounter at the bookshop met with the same atti­ tude. I rang the Department of Consumer Affairs, who urged me to write this letter.

11 March 1999 of QuGonsland Bookshop does not honour itis advertised claims. There are unstated condition.^ applied to matching The Office of Fair Trading competitors' prices, and the claim of 'Cheapest prices - I nvos t:, i ga I:, i on s nopn r tm.?n t; Guaranteed!' is .dimply not true. It is quite easy to find cheaper textbooks elsewhere.

The University Bookshop has a monopoly on new textbooks at Dear Sir/Madam, the university and flyers such as the enclosed one have attractive claims for students, which are misleading. Pot- I am writing to advise you of misleading information con­ convenience, students will often decide to pay the extra tained in the University of Queensland Bookshop advertise­ cost the bookshop charges on textbooks. With over 28 000 ment for textbooks. students enrolled at the University of Queensland, this is a good revenue earner for the bookshop. The flyer clearly states 'We will match any Brisbane com­ petitors' price for textbooks'. From the basis of this I believe a university bookshop should provide a good serv­ claim, I rang QU Books at Toov/or.g, who stated they sold ice for its students, aiming to offer the cheapest prices the textbook 'Klectrotherapy Explained' for $51.95, however on textbooks. Many students have limited financial means they had sold out and anticipated new stock arrival in and textbooks are very expensive. Certainly poor and rude throe days. service should not be tolerated.

1 did contact an assistant ir.anagcr at the bookshop, whom The University Bookshop held current stock for $53.90. after I had mentioned 1 had contacted consumer affairs, did When I asked to purchase the bock at the competitor's offer rao the textbook at the competitor's price. Although price, 1 was told that they would only honour their claim I would only save two dollars, the principle is that i of price matching if the competitor hold current stock. 1 should not have to spend so much time simply trying to explained to the staff member that this condition was not meet an advertised claim. 1 think it would bo appropriate printed on the flyer, which 1 thought was unfair since it if the university bookshop was advised not to distribute was due to these claims that 1 wont to their bookshop. misleading infornation in the future. The staff member refuted my claims and was vocally rude and patronising in the presence of other customers. Thank you for your consideration,

My reason for lodging this complaint is that the University Martin Munro (Morag's brother - in case the Otan nf Students was wondering! ]] though there must have been four senior lecturers hovering the slide projector with an old-fashioned overhead about the girl with shaved hair from UTS. But she turned In the tradition of machine. Howeve', a cunning University administrator had out to be cool: Raoul started chatting to her, and she anticipated that possibility and attached a very large bike Commander Hari'ison ditched the lecturers to join our merry band and share chain to it, preventing it from being moved. Plan B was to some jugs. Biscuit, former Semper use the expensive computer-driven electronic projector hanging from the ceiling, but this was thwarted by the dis­ However "Meet the Professor" turned out to be disappoint­ columnist and curjrent bon covery that the expensive computer driving it had disap­ ing in more ways than this, being largely responsible for peared. Bike chains are a major expense you see, and the the indisposition of a friend of mine who had recently vivant (whereabouts cunning administrator had been forced to economise with moved to Melbourne University. I was planning to catch up a length of string - cheaper, but sadly less secure. unknown), Kenny Phillips set with her, but her drinking caught up with her first. Perhaps overwhelmed by the overflowing good fortune of three out last month to document This led to general consternation and pursing of lips; most hours of free drinks, she launched a fierce assault on her present blamed David Kemp. Plan C (using the white­ liver, which, while initially repelling the invading hordes of the mayhem created by board) was abandoned after no-one could find a white­ cthanol molecules, eventually found alt its enzymes satu­ board marker, with Plan D (the blackboard] adopted bringing 500 highly intelli­ rated and gave up the fight. At this point she lapsed into a instead. The presentations therefore commenced; all agreed coma. Which brings me to another general conclusion con­ gent scientists together and that they enjoyed watching Professors from Oxford d'-awing cerning neuroscientists: knowledge may be power, but it rats' brains with chalk. Sadly, several graduate students isn't wisdom, and gaining a First Class Honours in plying them with copious from Canberra broke down and cried after completely fail­ Pharmacology doesn't helo you after your 20th vodka. alcohol and drugs - all in the ing to reproduce the figures from their oral on "Computer- aided /1-dimensional fractal representation of olfactory cor­ Now I have to say, all this drinking bemused me. Being my name of "networking and tical dendritic arbours." first academic conference, I admit to being a little naive, t professional development." At this my associates and 1 made a run for the student bar, thought they existed to aide the exchange of scientific a magnificent affair with Boag's on tap and enough space views. Now of course I realise that they're about getting for an end-of-year bash, i, Kenny Phillips, a former research pissed. A quick glance at our conference diaries showed Neuroscience is very interesting, but neuroscience confer­ student with an unhealthy knowledge of Schedule 8 drugs, there to be a free alcohol event of some type on every sin­ ences are not. should at this time introduce my chief associates: an hon­ gle day of the conference, culminating in the infamous ours student with an inexhaustible supply of Hawaiian conference dinner. It was indeed a strange spectacle: learn­ After spending 5 days almost completely surrounded by shirts named Victoria, and a manic-depressive from the ing all about brain cells in the day, and then destroying them. I've concluded that this is because on the whole Schizophrenia Laboratory named Raoul. It was our plan to them rapidly by night. neuroscientists are not interesting either. That is. unless sample some Cascade before turning up to the first regis­ your idea of interesting is talking to a guy who learnt tered free alcoho' event of the conference: a well-inten­ Monday brought the unveiling of my poster the reason I English fronn reading scientific papers about ATP receptors tioned get-together for students and academics named had been sent there in the first place. Now I should say a in the vas deferens of the Pygmie Marmoset while holding "Meet the Professor". word about posters. Posters are the easiest way to go to a a paper cup of instant coffee and munching a pastry with conference; they are sub the consistency of cardboard. Did I say cardboard? Sorry, I At the bar, some quick "A quick glance at our cojiference diaries stantially less nerve- meant non-biological packing and storage aralogue research on our behalf showed there to be a free alcohol event of wracking than giving a (NBPSA). established several key talk. You just have to factors about Tasmania: some type on every single day of the confer­ make the damn thing (a The conference itself was held In beautiful Hobart, sur­ pots are called pots, you ence ...it was indeed a strange spectacle lot less fun than rolling it rounded by old-growth forest and world-heritage hiking. can't shoot backwards learning all about brain cells in the day, up and hitting other stu­ Not that I did any hiking, n^ind you. I stayed in a pub near in pool, and they really dents with it in the lab) the Unive.'sity of Tasmania, where the conference was held. like David Boon. I came and then destroying themrapidly by night." and put it up in a big hall This meant that, because all the orals were in lecture the­ to Hobart thinking this where people will read it. atres, the seats were graffiti'd by engineering students and Boonie thing was a complacent mainland stereotype ignor­ Then you have to stand next to it for two hours and answer none of the slide projectors worked - as was discovered by ing the intellectual ferment of a vibrant and artistic capital questions. That is, of course, if anyone can find it. There the first scientist to give a talk on the Monday morning of city. But then I was introduced to Tasmanian ads. The first were three hundred posters at this conference, stuck onto the conference. thing to note is that Tasmanian advertisements have by far office partitions arranged in a maze-like construction that the best jingles I've ever heard; some of them deserved to made the Toowong Centrelink look spacious. Actually, it You would think that these guys would know what to do be in the pop charts (a suspicion I was able to confirm was kind of hard to read my poster. A conference organizer with 3 faulty slide projector. They work in universities, after after listening to Tasmanian AM radio). The second point is had stuck it behind a very large pillar. Still, you could sort all. You could think that, but then you'd be wrong. It's that David Boon is in all of them. 1 mean, okay, there's a of read the figures on the very edge. I found I had very few always fun to see the worst foibles of human behaviour couple of 2nd-hand car ads featuring guys with hairy questions. repeated by people with PhD's in neuropsychology It turns chests and gold chains, but the rest of them definitely con­ out that when faced with an equipment crisis like you or t, tain a moustachioed cricketer named Boon. We celebrated our massive contributions to the field by these guys react in exactly the same way: by running up accepting the invitation of the Governor, who had got it the stairs to the slide projector and randomly pressing but­ Thus fortified with local knowledge, we arrived exactly on into his head to invite the entire conference to his place tons in the hope it will work. This was indeed attempted by time for the beginning of three hours of "Meet the for a drink. This was heaps of fun as we were told to dress four eminent scientists in succession, and most of the back Professor" free drinks. It's fair to say "Meet the Professor" up. Kenny Phillips of course never misses such an opportu­ row might have had a go if the fifth professor hadn't was mis-named. A more accurate title might have been nity and was tastefully attired in a cream safari suit with knocked the carousel off, scattering the slides on the floor. "Chat Drunkenly to the Research Student from matching Ounlop Volleys, Luckily the doorman let me in. Woollongong." I did actually spot a professor, but he was Faced thus with possible tragedy, someone tried to replace sitting in the corner drinking slowly from a tall 6 and T, The Governor of Tasmania lives large. He has a mansion by keimy the Derwent on the top of a verdant hill. He has battle­ A further sight cheered us up that night: the arrival anc Included." And what drinks they were, fellow Semper read­ ments and great halls, landscaped gardens for hectares, operation of one of the best Back-of-Truck sound systems ers! It must be pointed out that myself and my colleagues footmen in (Very and very, very tasty hors d'ourvres. And, I've ever seen. Downing a Boag's, I heard the pulsing lilt of had fortified ourselves with several joints, the better to because we were scientists, he had free drinks. Although Acid Trance coming from the park by the wharf. Wandering endure the bus-ride. And there at the dinner were free we were only invited for an hour, we managed to stretch it down to investigate, I found four hundred trippers in rave Boag's Premiums, voted the Best Beer In Australia. From out to 90 minutes. Then we had a contest for G and T's. I gear, going off to a DJ spinning wheels on the back of a there on things get a little blurry. Many fearful things I saw reached 11 in an hour before having to lie down on the truck. It was a really impressive sound-system: generator, that night. Scientists dancing on tables, students asleep grassy sward and stare at the black and white bees. Real speaker stacks, DJ booth, strobe lights, the lot. All you real­ under tables, withdrawing pyromaniacs setting fire to their big cute furry bees they got there. Black and white stripes. ly leeded was a mirror ball, and perhaps some 80 litre party hats. Alt I know for certain is I woke in the morning Not like your normal yellow ones at ail. nitrous canisters. The Trance went on for about an hour, at in time to get the cab to the airport. I hesitate to ask Raoul which time the constabulary arrived. At this point someone or Victoria what other mayhem ensued. After being escorted off the estate, v/e managed to make it announced they were moving the party to the top of Mt down to Salamanca Whan/es. This is where the Sydney-to- Wellington, and everyone who could should follow. Then On the plane back I had cause for deep regrets. The pain of Hobart boats dock and where all the young people drink. they just drove off in the truck, the speakers still pumping months of lab work dwindled in the light of new found Indifferent sailors ourselves, we concentrated on the sec­ 100 dB. knowledge. And yet here I was, abandoning science for stu­ ond part of the Wharves heritage. We also tried to get dent newspapers. How would the fringe benefits ever com­ something to eat, but this proved impossible as the magic The final night meant the Conference Dinner. This remark- pare to this? But then I had a happy thought. There's a stu­ hour of lopr^ had struck. All the restaurants in Hobart ab.e affair was a feat of logistics itself. 400 neuroscientists, dent newspaper conference in September. Must have a close at 10pm. At first we thought It was some daylight and at least one class of engineers who managed to get on word to Matthew Carter. He could get the Union to pay for saving thing and we'd forgotten to reset our watches. But the buses, were driven thirty minutes up the banks of the it. It's important that Semper be represented, no, it really was that early Mournfully, we filled up on beer. Derwent to a large winery, where a giant banquet after all. Now student newspaper If the food in Hobart Is occasional, the beer is t'-uly magnif­ of dead animals was served. There wee also editors, they can really rut] amok icent. Their standard brews are Cascade and Boag's, both as a few carrots for vegetarians. Though to XXXX as Brisbane Bitter is to Crown Lager (if you get my we all had to pay for it, the magic simile). phrase here was "Drinks

by kenny philiips A student gives an account of his experience witli addiction. An emotional, personal follow- up to Kenny Phillips' scientif­ ic spin on drug abuse in "Kenny's Addiction" (last edition). but I didn't have the strength to contemplate how 1 could actually live You could say that my drug taking career all began v^hen I skulled two without any form of dependency r?)n<; of hourhnn ariri pokp find vnrritpd nver myself ?r]ri rpy farnjly's hnlirlav house at age 11. All young kids love to sneak booze and get drunk or have a In just over two years I had gone from a student with a GPA 6 to a prosti­ joint or two, and I was certainly no exception. I had no idea at the time, but I had just met my new best friend- alcohol. tute/dealer/waiter. My journey over the following five years seemed to delve to a rock bottom that I never thought possible. Yet throughout this From that moment on I had an outlet that would enable me to block out all time I was able to Justify to not only myself, but also to the people around the pressures that were going on inside my crazy mind. Superficially, my life me, thai my life was going great. Drugs enable the disillusionment to actu­ at the time seemed no different from any of the other children I knew, the ally be believed. I honestly believed that my life was relatively normal at only visible difference being my absent father - who left when I was aged 6 that time, even though I had begun to overdose at nightclubs, walk onto - and an overcompensating mother, I played cricket on the road and foot­ dancefloors with syringes still hanging out of my arm {from the toilets) and ball in the park and had a masturbate openly at a natural ability to excel in all family friend's house that I undertook. warming on a cocktail of coke and rowies. However, deep within, I had "In just over two years I had gone from these longing desires to feel My life was anything but loved and understood. For no normal, and after being matter where I was, or who I a student v/ith a GPA 6 to a institutionalised for 12 was with, I always 'elt alone months in a drug and and isolated.! constantly prostitute/dealer/waiter. My journey over alcohol rehab centre I searched for avenues that have had many awaken­ would enable me to escape the following five years seemed to ings. from reality and live in this safe fantasy land I had cre­ The nature of addiction is ated in my mind. It was a delve to a rock bottom that I never a disease, it's a misunder­ place of shelter and love. stood illness that assists thought possible." many other young and The reality that I was escap­ abused people in their ing from was the sexual and everyday life. People who, emotional abuse that I was like 1, never confronted enduring from a family friend who looked after me every school night for their inner demons of seven years. My mother had entrusted this man, who had grown up with their past and spoke out about their abuse. Those same people who use my own father, to look after ber son while she was working two jobs in alcohol/drugs as an accessible tool, not only to escape reality, but also to order to maintain the cost of raising children alone. stay active.

Always wanting approval and reassurance from others, I slowly became No-one has the god-damn right to invade the sexual boundaries of vulner­ quieter and frequently used my imagination to pretend that I was either a able children. I have learnt that to continue abusing top sports star or movie star in order to distract myself from how my life yourself, whether it be through sex addictions, realiy was. I learnt that this fantasy land was a safe haven from all that I chemical addicitions or eating disorders -^ desired, and would often visit this fantasy land while I was being tied-up Is to maintian the 'vicitim' sta­ and forced to perform the intimate oral and sexual demands of the abuser. tus quo. J '

Fron a very young age my innocence was shattered and my soul torn apart as I was humiliated again and again with no real hope of ever breaking free. I was living in fear and so 1 learnt to co-operate rather than "be killed and buried in the garden". I can't begin to tell you how much those words actually terrified me as a child. It was as though 1 would be left in the :'» Ends Here ground, all alone to rot amongst the tree roots and soil. Many years later I'^i^jf' ^ ... • •:-> when I overdosed on cocaine in a dirty and cheap motel room in Sydney all those same feelings came flooding back. I instantly felt suffocated and refused to die and rot alone in tha: revolting room. It was at that time my Tlic jmrpo.^c of this article is abuse, which I had buried deep within, slowly began to re-surface. Prior to thrcclold that I just believed that I loved drugs so much that I had made them my obsession. I never contemplated my dependency on them In order to remain in that same desensitised numb-like fantasy state, (1) To illustrate that addlclton Is not to be 'sidelined', It is to be understood. It Is always necessary to look behind the external behaviours as they may Prior to that hotel room incident, I had spent seven years being a full-time provide the answers. drug addict. Being abused, I believe, perpetuated my obsessional desire for violent sexual encounters with anonymous older men. Drugs and alcohol (2) To quash the stereotype myth that to be an addict means shooting-up aided perfectly in overcoming the feelings of guilt and shame that! associ­ heroin and living on the streets. I have done neither. ated with homosexual sex. It was as though I was on this perpetual cycle of reliving my abuse, time and time again. Each time reinforcing that indeed I (3) To give hope and inspiration to other abused or addicted people. We are was worthless and deserved it. Then alcohol/drugs would play the role of no longer those innocent young children who did not have choices. We are numbing those new. yet familiar, feelings. now adults who can no longer be hurt by the past and we have choices to make about our future. At moments, I would obtain glimpses of reality - of the shame that t felt - Postcard from Mardi Gras

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How is It organized? Politically, it is organized locally through a tight cult structure with specific roles and a hierarchy of extreme control. A wealthy and politically influential leader determines the mill- ritu

2e tary style operations and roles within an anti-societal and totaiist dogma. Members' roles include brainwash­ ing, being used for prostitution and pornography, organizing the times and places of prostitution, clean­ ing up, removing the bodies, keeping tabs on escapees. kidnapping, recruitment, finding sites, bodyguards and filming. Some are in the public service and Institution­ al positions that facilitate these- eg. housing depart­ ment for organizing proximity and keeping tabs on where people live, and teachers in supposed positions of trust who then organize child prostitution. They are internationally and nationally networked through use of general information services (such as the Internet) with code names, and the public service eg. Dept. of Foreign Affairs.

Personally, coercion consists of two forms- brainwash­ ing or programming which abuses extreme trauma-like electric shocks, and then dissociation and multiple per­ sonality development. The cult develops a programmed system that abuses cues which trigger specific behav­ iours such as a double ring on a telephone which would cause a person to ring someone else. Many people are unaware of their being abused as they have cult-con­ trolled personalities dissociated from the person. The trauma is very interse and so progranming methods are applied when the person is in a subconscious state leaving the person not conscious of their abuse. For people who are conscious of their abuse there are death threats to themselves and family and friends. People are coerced through many ways - either as chi dren through transgeneratlonal families, kidnapped, promised power (especially with very vulnerable people such as homeless youth) or through being programmed unknowingly while they are drugged eg. a woman mar- ry'ng into a seemingly Innocent family. When people do not return or disclose the abuse, intense programming which Intends to cause the persor to self-harm through a learnt method comes on.

by John David What is the abuse? The abuse exists in many forms- there is the exploitation and viclence with the pornography, prostitution, voyeurism and rapes. Then there is the abuse when performing the roles. People do not get anything out of the murders, the clean­ ing up and the guarding except nausea and anger at the inhumanity done. The cult will meet collectively either locally, regionally, nationally or even interna­ tionally at specific anti-societal times eg. Celtic or inverted dates of the year, for the murders and group sexual assault Halloween, Beltane, Easter, Christmas, equinoxes and full moons at specific times arc common. Small controlled grojps will meet regularly to organize and be objects of tne controller's members rn\e<^ include voyeurism. Then there is the extreme fear of yourself and family being killed and the working through of programming which is like calming people inside brainwastoiFiolyguords you who want to self-mutilate. Societal disbelief is also abusive as it can res- timulatc the fear and the original lies that survivors won't be believed. Ritual recruitment J^^^l^r'&^S'^^^^ abuse explains many unaccountable criminal activities and unfathomable prostitution cleaning up behaviour. Why many capable people who are in loving families go missing or child pornography keeping tabs are found murdered in macabre ways especially around specific times like in late October when people are kidnapped fo' Halloween homicide; why people on escapees who for no apparent reason commit suiciae especially with a technical and learnt method (this is due to programming); serial killing- this is programming that has become skewed and different people are unintenticnally killed in unfeeling ways; and people in psychiatric wards labelled "mad" for disclosing murderous devil worship. It should be seen in a continuum of societal destruc- tive and criminal behaviour. At one end we have organized hoiinicirfe'for war, organized global child prostitution and pornography, ^widespread cmld sexual assault and the sanctioned killing of specific groups.sutWas gay worRing class men (at public places where guys have sex). Ritual abuse (8-*ike4he Ku Klux Klan/ whereby the organized homicide is more gratuitous, and incluoS^cWId sexual) assault and pornography. It is now being validated- the 1996 U.S.'5^nate Enquiry into Mind Control revealed the same types of abuse as used wKfi ritu-

al abuse organizations. I / Recovery 0, Recovery from ritual abuse is similar to all ••ecovery fro; aby/^e wt^ its stjig^ There is the awareness through memories emerging antr--.^_-i,idatit/Ttc%cowisel. ... , .,— - lors, friends, reading about ritual abuse and meetin5p>tWr syrvi/or?; Iben^there is the need to establish and maintain safety from the cult and to work trfrough the programming and memories. This often means movinj^nterstate or to other countries. This achieved, the survivor can work througtf tne conditioning and the abuse with the aid of one's own structured, personal guide. He/she determines when and how we want to work and to survive periods of stress such as callbacks | at Halloween. Having worked through enough memories and progranming toi". obtain a life which is not about reacting to the abuse, we can then enterand have! \ a general life needing to only use the guide when memories/liay occasionally sur-* face. What is specific to ritual abuse is the heavy trauma'^nd lies from the pro­ gramming, ceremonies, prostitution and pornography. Recovery, understandably, can therefore be long, "^here is the specific de-programming (undoing of pro­ gramming) and understanding and associating personalities and the,'system back into oneself. One needs to be very safe and away from a Mafia type operation that tries extremely hard to get the person back. The person is also entering a world that s/he is ven/ isolated from and sometimes feels like being a refugee in her,'his own country. I

Support fnr <;ijr\/ivnr^ and infnrmatinn for <;ijppnrfpr^ A Personal Account of Ritual Abuse my further abused position. Once I can see that I was abused by a destructive organization that is still part of the ideology of Survivorship greed 1 can see that which is "lesser" in its control and abuse. My 1 have been a survivor from ritual abuse ever since I was first family are unknowing of their abuse apart from my idiotic father POLITICAt- the womens and mens movements, specific churches, attempted to be indoctrinated at two by my father. I am now who has helped me sometimes to escape. They and me are/were Incest /sexual assault survivor groups and movements and incest forty. I broke away from the cult recently and was able to flee to trained to have separate cult-contro led personalities that we sun/ivor 12 step programs all believe in the existence of ritual another city. Surviving ritual abuse is very powerful. I have didn't know about. A bit like having people inside of you wno are abuse. Specific law enforcement, politicians, psychologists or escaped an organization that is not generally accepted, that kills taken out when you don't know. So my mum and brother and I psychiatrists, doctors, solicitors, teachers, etc as individuals people in an organized way, that is related to the very wealthy have unknown personalities with specific names and roles that believe also. They arc all agitating on a political level to recog­ and politically influential in Australia and around the world and would cause Muhammad All to have brown rivers flowing down nize ritual abuse and to increase therapist and support groups for which cannot get me. WAHOO! The methods I use are very clever. his shortsi Its really important to see ritual abuse humourously as survivors. I do not let Social Security nor any government department know we are abused so absurdly. There is now information availaole on this through government enquiries as it was the government who PERSONAL- therapists are the major support for survivors spe­ where 1 live, i trust my feelings and spirituality about people whom I disclose to, I seek out and use networks of supportive developed the brainwashing first in Cold War times for espi­ cially in the early stages. Brisbane agencies that support the exis­ people and 1 do lots of media work around the issue in order to onage. This information was then obtained by the cult through tence of ritual abuse and have experience are- for women- get rid of my anger at the cult and to tell the world about it. I've the placing of members within the defence forces and its cover­ Brisbane Rape and Incest Centre- 07 3844 4008. For men, Men been on national telly, ABC and community radio, been published ing up by cult members acting as pol'tlcians. Sounds 007? You Affected by Rape and Sexual Assault- 07 3844 9599 helps men in magazines and books and done newspaper articles. All of them betcha. The programming we suffer Is the same as that of the with sexual assault and is aware of ritual abuse. have been supportive. I am an activist working in a world that is government enquiries and the only way it could be obtained is SUPPORT GROUPS AND CO SURVIVORS - either as survivors and waking up to widespread destructive abuse. through lots of influence within the system. You only have to friends are important in all stages. Literature includes- Daniel look at why ritual abuse related organized paedophile enquiries Ryder, "Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse" and Being normal is a motto. I'm normal in that I'm surviving what are mysteriously stopped from high up in the government to see Margaret Smith, "Ritual Abuse'. Both are available from the everyone else is surviving- the threat of being killed. The rich in that some politicians can be or are protecting cult members. So Womens Bookshop 3844 66S0 (for both men and women) and this society use the army and police as a threat to stop people escaping this stuff is very fucking good. Just to work through christian bookshops. The internet has many web pages- a very from having a creative and fulfilling life. Workers, whether work­ memories of people being gouged in the most imaginative ways, good one is the Ritual Abuse Healing Page at ing or middle class, have to go to work that is mainly horrible or see that your family don't know -my mum is so saintly, to escape http://www.xroad5.com/rahome/rahome.html else they will be threatened by the army in times of strikes. \'m a worse-than-mafia-style organization that exists so secretly To threatened by this and physical and programmed threats from do normal things is very AMAZING. ritual abuse programming. I can therefore see things that other people and the general society don't see and understand it from .UQ Schonel^^ I union I lI twin cinemas owned and operated by your own UQU student union Don't miss...

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Semper has 20 passes to Meet Joe Black give away to see any one of these films... The first 20 to Analyze This come in to Semper office on March J1 will win! Disturbing Behaviour Lately I have seen, on the streets of Brisbane, more boys wearing dresses and skirts. This is a very good thing, because it is on the streets, not just in a nightclub. It isn't drag for a show either, it's just what these boys are wearing.

And they look fine, damn fine. Why do I like hoys in frocks so much? Two rea­ sons, one to do with gender and the other to do with sexuality

Wrier, western women started wearing bloomers, slacks, trousers, jeans and shorts it was hailed a liberating moment. The Second waver feminists of the seventies embraced overalls and pants for their comfort and dignity. Skirts and frocks were endowed with the qualities of trivial decorative femininity. It was viewed as empowering for women to take up masculine garb whilst entertain­ ing for men to wear women's clothes. Why is this so?

Are women's clothes funnier o- more restrictive to men's clothes? Or is it by association with a gender, and the value and meanings occupied by that gen­ der, that endows clothes with deas? Some female dress has been very restric­ tive, such as corsetry or tight skirts and stiletto heels. Yet the power in big shoes, if the wearer is confident and accustomed to them, mustn't be ignored. In general in the west, women's clothes are produced as more colourful and decorative, while men's are plainer and more furctional.

Let's face It, you are not going to be surprised to see a woman walking around in trousers tomorrow but most of you will take a second look if a bloke in a frock walked into your coffee shop or lecture. Will you be thinking that men have worn o.ne pieces for many millennia or are you so stuck in the modern western industrialised world that you can't remember anything else except Levis. Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Barbie? There is no functional difference in skirts and trousers that make it wise or natural for either to be preferable to a particular gender. In fact lowering sperm counts have been blamed on t03-tight trousers n-aking balls too hot, thus frocks could make blokes more virile.

Heard the one about the dyke walking down the street who gets called a poofta by an oh-so-very-brave bunch of louts in a car? Or have you heard about my mate who ended up flashing her tits at some jerks who were convinced her and her boyfriend were 'fag­ gots' and thus felt a desperate need to beat them up (to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were straight because although they were touching another man with passion the other man was not enjoying it).

The dyke had a James Dean look going down and the straight couple were raver kids in baggy shirts and baggy jeans with short hair. The way they looked disturbed the rude individuals who hassled them. What I wonder ii do thcie violent jerks get disturbed because they simply can't under­ stand and therefore their tenuous grip on reality demands irradiation of any­ thing that does not compute? Or do they get turned on?

Homophobia is, of course, the main danger for gay/strS/whatever men who wear frocks. Transvestism and Transexuality get mixed up by people because they both start with Trans, like that country that vampires come from. Anybody who hassles another person over how they are dressed or who they FROCKS presume they sleep with has just got too much time on their hands and no sense of fair play

If you are so bored and Insecure you get your kicks being rude to anyone who isn't as boring and uptight as you then it's time to consider what it means to be social and anti-social creatures. ON Any society needs variety to thrive and grow, uriformity may provide a false sense of secjrity but ultimately it will make any community become stale and lifeless. Submitting to a dull conformed visual expression means our eyes become so starved of diversity and stimulus we eventually cannot recognize anything except what is familiar.

Colour, pattern, decoration and beauty is a great and wonderful blessing to our eyes and blokes can look just as fine as the ladies do in frocks.

• A handy repy lo anyone that abuses you on the street with such lackluster name calling BLOKES as 'faggot', 'poofta', 'dyke' or 'homo'. As we all know all of these words have been reclaimed by the queer community and are now positive. So jackasses, who use them as I,ft abuse are not only ignorant bigots but totally eighties in their lingo.

By EVELYN HARTOCH A religious perspeetit/es page appears regularly in Semper. People are very welcome to eon- religious |)ers|)ectitfes tribute their ideas on anything to do with any religion. Jubilee

Want to hear about ar^ idea so crazy that it just written-off deot on to taxpayers and might save the world? it will be hard to guarantee that one The churches internationally are col­ or two dodgy governments that sud­ lecting signatures for a petition to be presented denly find themselves out of debt to this year's meeting of the G8 calling upon the will spend the money on schools world's leaders to cancel unrepayable debts to and health rather than buying s few the third world. The aim is to get to 25 million more guns to annoy the neighbours. signatures. Despite that. Is there an alternative? You may not have heard about it 1 reckon that if the G8 all decided to before, partly because the mainstream press go with debt forgiveness then all of doesn't report the church unless there Is scandal those could be solved. involved and partly the third world debt crisis The campaign is supported by only gets in the news when another country nun'crous religious and community threatens to default on their loans and the groups, trade unions, medical asso­ bankers start to worry about getting their money ciations, and by three of the G8 back. So you may not have heard that over the counties, the most powerful eco­ last 20 years the combined debt of sub-Saharan nomic nations. Chaplaincy will be African countries blew out from US$84.1 billion collecting signatures on Campus this to USS222 oillion. morth. We are looking for volun­ Wnen Christians from around the world teers to help. We have petition meet for a chat then a different story gets heard. forms, which can be returned to us The real issue doesn't seem to be that first worid by late April in time to be sent bankers might do their money, the real issue is through to TEAR Australia. Or you the effect servicing those debts has on the peo­ can sign the online petition at ple being made to pay for their government's http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/peti- debts. Some governments sta.-t their budget tion.html planning with the 40% of their income that has I am not sure that my vote in to go to the debt- doesn't leave a lot for educa­ the Australian Ballot Box has made tion and health care. At an Anglican gathering in much difference over the years but 1 England last year Bishop Geresom llukor from think that maybe this petition will Uganda talked about what It Is like to be in a make a difference. Bono reckons country carrying an unrepayaole debt, "we have that there is enough of the per­ starved and sacrificed our children for paying former In Tony Blair, Gerhard this world debt. Many unborn children arc born Shroeder and Bill Clinton that they into slavery because they are born Into debt." mignt just find a way to make the The orthodox answer to the problem is !)UBlLEE(2b00l grand gesture. "But they will only better finarcial discipline by the debtor Nation. CQAilllliQIll fit\d the v/ay if there is an extraordi­ The IMF and Worid Bank Impose Structural nary' public outcry" (Bono in The Age place. Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) as a condition of any assis­ 17/2/99). If you or I got to the point where we were never tance. It has been estimated that every child born in Zambia going to get out of debt, we would just go bankrupt and inherits a debt of $1000. In 1991 a SAP was imposed on This is the time to let your voice be heard. start again, but that mechanism doesn't exist for countries. them and as part of the deal, "essential commodities were The churches are suggesting that there should be a way to no longer sjbsidlzed, free education ended, people had to Geoff Hoyte £t Jason John do it. It is not just that "long after our governments and pay for medical care, and the dramatic rise in fuel costs led {Chaplair\s) banks have solicited and financed dodgy dictators, and they to further price increases." have gone belly up, their successors have to carry the can." Bono's comment on the debt repayment being (Bono again) The Jubilee 2000 campaign says that if a loan (For more information on the campaign, contact Revs Jason exacted from the poorest African nations is "she could do is never going to be repayable and the effort is going to John or Geoff Hoyte in the Chaplaincy Centre (3365 6439). with spending that just on her children" (The Age 17/2/99). starve people then the sensible thing to do is to write it off. [email protected] or [email protected], or There are a couple of problems with the IMF and Any less radical 'solution' is useless. visit the Jubilee 2000 web site at Worid Bank solution: it's not going to work- the poorest I can think of lots of reasons why 'It won't work' http://www.orieworld.org/jubilee20QQ/). ^^, n^; and most indebt counties wit never be able to keep up with aid so can you - Bankers don't like to vjalk away from the debt and as they try the poorest people carry the bur­ money, first world governments may try to pass some of the den of the SAP- not the elite who got the money in the first As we approach the year 2000, it becomes more and more obvious that there are two The underlying problem with vegetarianism is the philosophy behind It, and it is here distinct groups of people emerging in the worid: the vegetarians or vegans (ie vegetari­ that we can find the origins of problems that vegetarians have. Most vegetarians and ans who don't eat any animal food including no dairy products), and the supposedly vegans these days reject eating animal food on the basis of "not wanting to kill ani­ more traditional meat-eaters. There is no doubt that the latter of these two, the mals'! A very admirable aim indeed and one i certainly support in essence - It is meat-eaters, face a life of health problems, including high cholesterol, high blood pres­ unnecessary to kill so many animals. However, if you take this investigation one step sure, cancer, heart disease, stroke and many others. In fact, recent studies show that further, you must ask yourself why? Why are vegetarians so adamant about not eating vegetarians have as much as 50% less chance of getting cancer than the average meat? Are they all great Indian philosophers concerned about the effects of bad karma meat-eater. from eating animals? Is it a simple "knee-jerk" reaction to our excessively yang aggressive violent worid? Or, is It the result of guilt complexes and the fear of being But despite all this, is vegetarianism (ard especially veganism) all that safe? Can we personally responsible for creating more misery and suffering (for animals) on this plan­ get proper nutrition and overall better health from a diet devoid of animal food? The et? I tend to think the latter two reasons to be more valid than the first. following article then has been written in an attempt to answer these questions and to shed some light on this highly controversial subject. After all, people like the Hare Krishnas who say they believe in karma and re-incarna- tlon, at least have a well-developed philosophy which they follow and live by. Many The most common criticism made against vegetarians and vegans, is that they tend to everyday vegetarians, on the other hand, can be quite aggressive and selfish, and hardly look very sickly, pale, and anaemic. After 15 years of experience of treating thousands embody the philosophy of peace and harmony which they occasionally espouse when of different people from a variety of different dietary backgrounds, I can attest to this. convenient. Unfortunately, the majority of vegetarians, whether they know It or not, do look sickly Perhaps this is because of the association of vegetarians with drug addiction (although If we are going to be vegetarians then we need to follow a logical, more well developed not all drug addicts are vegetarians by any means and visa versa). Perhaps it is because philosophy. Rather than appearing hypocritical and neurotic, we need to show some most vegetarians are already sick, for one reason or another, before they even become wisdom and sincerity in our approach to vegetarianism. For example, how many vegetarians. Regardless of these possibilities, we can't deny that vegetarianism has got chocolate eating vegans realize that thousands of animals lose their lives every year to a bad name and not totally unjustifiably. end up as bone ash, a major whitening agent in all sugar and sugar products?

So what is the solution? Do we "compromise" by eating lean meat now and again or Likewise, how many beer-swilling vegetarians know about the amount of animal prod­ mayoe we should eat more fish, (especially on Fridays)? 1 don't think so. ucts in that amber liquid? In truth, It is unlikely that these people wouid give up their favourite foods or drinks even after finding out about these things. Hence, most vegans

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and vegetarians are not only hypocritical and neurotic, but are also slaves to their taste whole gra ns (ie brov/n rice, bariey, millet, oats etc) and cooked vegetables (ie leafy buds and their changing desires, from one day to the next. In this sense, they are no greens, round/ground, and root vegetables) are considered balanced. Couldn't we eat different from meat-eaters who hold a similar philosophy. meat (yang) and salad (yin) and be balanced, you ask? No, then you would simply end up with extremes of yin and yang in your body. What is the answer then? How can we create better health for ourselves and at the same time avoid falling into the tv/o "zoos" (ie vegetarianism and meat-eating) which No matter what you think, you cannot become more balanced, or a better, happier per­ exist on the planet at the moment? Firstly, we must dispel any neurotic ideas - would son unless you eat and live in a balanced way When we take part of external environ­ you begrudge an Eskimo at the North Pole some whale meat? (It Is a matter of appro­ ment (ie food) Into our internal body, this is when we first start to affect our very being. priateness, not over-simplified blanket rules). Secondly, If we are to regain better focus Food particles turn into blood cells and body ceils (via the function of the small Intes­ and develop better judgement we need to gain an understanding of balance when it tine) and contributes to all the functions of tne body Including the brain, even the neu­ comes to our diets and lifestyles. rochemicals that make us feet good or bad. 1 cannot tell you how many yoga practi­ tioners I have met v/ho suffer from bad health physically and mentally, simply because The Chinese thousands of years ago understood the situation and the predicament in they haven't balanced their diets and lifestyles properly All the yoga and chanting in which we find ourselves now. Because Asian peoples came out of the Ice Age eariier the worid will make litrie difference if you don't consider the spiritual energies of food. then Western and Eastern European peoples, they developed more spiritual and philo­ sophical ways of looking at problems at an earlier stage. Western and European ances­ I know I cannot explain all that needs explairing in one article, however I hope to do so tors, on the other hand, continued to eat meat longer (due to the Ice Age) and devel­ In future articles. Until then, please start eating with more balance and less guilt and oped more analytical and divisional forms of thinking. To help with their understanding fewer knee-jerk reacrions. Eat more whole grains, cooked vegetables, tofu, tempeh, sea of life and diet, the Chinese invented the concepts of "yin" and "yang". While there 's vegetables and miso etc. Chew well, get plenty of exercise and rest. Find your true no way I can fully explain the concepts in just one short article, put simply, this Is a sys­ potential and be the best person you can be. This is the only way we can truly help tem of "complimentary opposites". ourselves and others (Including animals).

Before the reader completely switches off due to an overwhelming sense of "this is too confusing", allow me to briefly explain. Under this system, sugar, chocolate, salads, by AncirGw KcPherson, I>:x::Lor oi: Chinese Medicine. dairy products, honey, fruits, alcohol, cigarettes and drugs are classified as extremely yin Andrew runs an acupunture and Chinese medicine clinic in East (ie expansive, weakening and damaging), and meat, eggs, table salt etc are extreme Brisbane. Fcr appointments phone 3391 4259. yang (ie tight, constricting, hardening). What's balanced then, you ask? Essentially, Bring your questions on Chinese medicine and health issues into Semper, and we'll pass them on to Andrew to address in future columns.

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Julie with baby Jack.

Julie

My family moved all over Australia because my father was in the RAAF. My mother struggled to find work and raise three girls. I think that was pretty hard for her to do without support

The fact that it was just my family meant that there wasn't checks and balances on the kinds of child-rearing practices that they adopted. It's not restricted to working class families but a

lot of the beliefs about rearing children (e.g. children should be seen and not heard) are tied to that background. When you're working class you don't know who you are because nobody ever tells you you're great or encourages you. However, nobody tells you who you're not either. You don't live in a world of status, famous people and dress labels so you're oblivious to that. You don't know who you aren't so you don't feel inadequate against other people because you don't know who they are. The other thing about being working class is a sense of humanity and compassion for people who are struggling; you know not everybody was born surrounded by a librar/ or with parents reacing.

It was Gough VVhitlam who let me come to uni for free or 1 never would have come. When I got there I was overwhelmed. I was staggered by the size of it I was also staggered by the pitiful teaching styles. 1 went to a working class school but the teachers there knew how to teach. They had to because they knew they had to get the kids' attention. One of the things

that 1 found really helpful when I came to uni was the common room. They seemed to have disappeared but they snould be brought back. This is an example of economic rationalism

impacting on students, particularly working class students who may have less confidence and need to meet people. My experience with the student union back then was when I went to

Equal Opportunity after 1 was attacked. Equal Opportunity was a foreign experience for me. I went to somebody and they just said come back later, Nobody sal me down and talked to me.

I think the student union is very masculine and that it attracts women who are confident and who have lost their fear of that masculinity.

The great thing about university is that you get (ots of chances to push yourself up. I was a slow starter but now I'm almost finished a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology I did it because I love

it and I've had a few people, like my supervisor, who have really helped me. I'd say to young women do what you really want to do because that will help you survive. If you've made it

into university you've obviously got great ability so just believe in yourself

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Three mature-age women talk about their working class back­ grounds and their impressions of university life. Jedda

Dad was about as working class as you can get. The main job I remember him having was a truck driver. He was a member of the

Transport Workers Union ffWU) and he was a union representative. He mixed with wharfies; that kind of culture. Mum worked for the TAB.

I knew we were poor because all the clothes we ever had were hand-me-downs. 1 neve' knew what it was like to go into a shop and buy something. There was violence in my family. I think it was perpetrated because my dad didn't know how to express himself Once you've had experience in education, you've read things, you've kdrnt things, you realise that violence is not the answer Mum had done wel! at school and she realised that education was important. However, I think the main influence was my dad. He had no education snd he saw little value in it. What was I doing wasting my time at school for, he'd say. In some ways it has been a motivation in an 'I'm going to prove you wrong' kind of way.

I was shocked when I first camf to uni because I expected a hotbed of political act-vism. The first year I was out there they introduced the

$250 fee. I think HECS came in the next year or the year after that. Looking back the oniy people protesting were the radica; left.

Everyone else seemed to be all polo shirts and getting dropped off in mum and dad's BMW. 1 remember wishing that I had some trendy clothes because 1 didn't think 1 fitted in in that material sense. 1 got $50 a week on Austudy Austudy was cerxtral or I never would've come. I did quite well in my first semester but I dropped out of full-time study after the second due to a disastrous love affair. 1 think I used the boy as an excuse to drop out because I could not see how uni was going to benefit me; I was just going to get a job and get mar­ ried. However. I came back full-time last year and did the best I've ever done. I'm now doing a Master of Teaching at QUT

I would say to working class women that they have achieved so much just by getting into uni. They should realise that it doesn't matter if they can't do five subjects, have a relationship and work part-time. That's okay; just do what you can do. My husband, Craig, has been supportive and everybody needs support Don't kid yourself that uni is going to be a paradise of intellectua s who are above human frail­ ties. Enjoy yourself and take advantage of the opportunity

Jan

My father didn't get the education he should've because he had to leave school to support the family He could have been a brilliant journal­ ist, writer, whatever; he was determined we would have that. My dad was determined that school didn't finish at junior which for most girls it did. Dad always knew what his family went th.-ough not having anything so that gave him an appreciation of what other people went through. Jan (below) and He always worked for the St. Vincent De Paul. Mum worked in the St. Vincent De Paul shop every Wednesday for forty-five years on a volun­ Jedda graduat­ tary basis. 1 couldn't have had more love. My parents were always there for us and my 'ather has always been my best friend. There is a feel­ ing (right). ing, whether from the media or society, that the poor can't raise children. I won't have that. Most of my friends grew up in the same atmos­ phere as I did. What I'm trying to say is that there is another side to poverty It doesn't have to be about child abuse or alcoholism. There is a side of love, support and togetherness that can come from poverty.

I always said I would go to uni when the children were finished their education. My family came down to UQ for my youngest and my eldest said that now it was my turn as well. I fought against that and he reminded me that 1 always said it vjou\6 be. 1 was nervous the first day I thought 1 wouldn't know my way around. However, everyone was very welcoming; the young people were just great. The staff a-e very sup­ portive of mature-age students. I really do think that they would be entitled to think what's the point of putting effort into her. 1 did write to the union about the Biology Refectory saying that hot water was 50 cents a cup. Money is not exactly wafting around. I never got a response.

I felt t was a chance, albeit in a minute way, for the union to make contact with a mature-age student. I do think the union have been just great in getting bus fares halved though. University does open your mind. I know I've had a few things in my belief system changed for the better; it does make you nore tolerant

My advice to anyone wanting to come back to uni is come back. Go for it. I look at what I'm doing now and think why didn't I do it ten years ago. We don't live in a society of young people, we live in a society of mixed ages and that more or less reflects what uni should be like too. It must be hard for women to come back when they've got husbands complaining. I've had nothing but support. Whether you're eghteen or eighty that support is wonderful.

Compiled by Darlene Taylor

m Just got on the net? Feeling clueless? Presumably you've got e-mail and web brows­ ing happening so here are a few ideas from Sue Morris to get you online in a big way.

get IRC

(Internet Relay Chat) get ICQ Talk in real time on thousands of IRC channels all over the world. For this you vyill need an IRC client (download mIRC from http://www.mirc.org. It's ICQ ("I seek you"), is a nifty messaging program that lets you communicate shareware but you can use it for free until you decide to register. Once it's with friends and colleagues in real time. You can look up friends on the ICQ installed, choose a server to connect to - there are loads of different fam­ network by entering their ICQ number, name, nickname, or email address. ilies of servers (EFnet, IRCnet, DALnet) so if you choose say EFnet connect Once your contact list Is set up, you'll be notified when your friends are to their closest server which in this case would be EFnet: Australia, Telstra online so that you can chat; send instant messages, files, and URl^; meet then tell it to "list channels" and you will have your choice of thousands up to play games; or whatever. In version 99a you can also perform a web of enticing channel titles from jifgayDogSex to ^philosophy to #LaraCroft searcn from within ICQ or look up dictionaries and other online resources. and #lordJesus to #neon_Love_Chicken. Available free at http://www.mirabllis.com . Just go there and enter your details and a password (tip: make sure you record this somewhere cos you never get a chance to look it up again - this is why some people end up with 10 accounts in the same name...) and you will be given a new DIN (Universal Identification Number) with which you can set up accounts on whatever computers you use regulariy [don't try this in the Library...).

discover downloading

There are heaps of useful programmes and utilities available on the net - some free, some shareware, some time-limited versions of commercial programs. If you're hunt­ ing for something in particular or just want to check out what's available - the fol­ lowing sites have huge searchable databases you can download from directly.

http://www.download.com http://www.shareware.com http://www.winfiles.com http://www.cdrom.com http://www.tucows.com easy language translation

BTW these are all legitimate software sites (after Rabelais' "shoplifting" debacle I'm AltaVista have a webpage translation service at: not going to get started on warez). http://babe!f!sh.altav)sta.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? You can enter/paste in your own text or get it to translate a webpage by keying in the URL.

All of which can be mindbogglingly useful at times - you never know when you might need to translate "my hovercraft is full of eels" into "Mon aeroglisseur est plein des anguilles" or "mcin Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voll von den Aalen" (although in German this cross-translates as "my air cushion vehicle is full from the Aalen"). Hours of fun for the whole family...

This isa program designed to facilitate file transfers (downloading from websites, sending files to friends, uploacing files to your own webpage). For starters try CuteFP - you can get it free from http://www.down- load.com et al. For more advanced users Bulletproof FTP is the way to go (you get a month's free trial and then it'll cost you $US30). ;.-!':• i.•^•wS*^•i»?l

(^.^•••flw; f- ^'i.

virtual chainletters

One Big Don't

DON'T get sucked in by some of the hoaxes and generally useless and not-even-remotely-entertaining crap being passed on via email and ICQ as a virtual version of the dreaded chain letter. There are all sorts of these from virus hoaxes to "go to this webpage, send all your friends and you will be paid a dollar - I've alreaoy been paid $25! Send this to all your friends!"

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease don't pass these on - it not only clogs up the web with garbage but, more importantly, ma'-ks you as being a total loser for falling for it (yojr street cred will never recover - people remember these things...]. Basic rule of thumb - if anything says "pass this on to all your friends" - DON'T! and if you're really concerned - find out more about it (see URLs below).

Here are some examples of the l

examples of some dodgy chainletters

EXAMPLE 1: chain letter or something if this reaches 13,000 peoplc.duplicate entries don't count, though...So, please Virus warning heip Et pass on... thank you, and here you go!!! If you receive an email titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this WALT DISNEY JR. letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very GREETING malicious virus and not many people know about it. This Hello Disney fans, information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft; please share it with everyone that might access And thank you for signing up for Bill Gates' Beta Email the Internet, Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in our Tracking. My name Is Walt Disney Jr. Here at Disney we are address book so that this may be stopped. working with Microsoft which has just compiled an e-mail tracing program that tracks everyone to whom this message The "Win a Holiday " hoax began as the GOOD TIMES virus Is forwarded to. It does this through an unique IP (internet hoax in 1994 and has been around under various names since Protocol) address log book database. ...••' (Join the Crew is another), despite the fact that viruses can not be transmitted in email - they need to oe contained in an We are experimenting with this "and need your help. Forv/ard attachment. this to everyone you know'and if it reaches '3,000 people, 1,300 of the people oa-the list will receive $5,000, and the If you get email like this don't forward it - but check out sites rest will receive a free trip for two to Disney Worid for one such as McAfee's (antivirus software manufacturer) hoaxes week during the sirrnmer of 1999 at our expense. Enjoy page at http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/hoax.asp Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be noti­ or others such as: fied by emai/with further instructions once this email has http;//www.umich.edu/~virus-busters/ reached 13,000 people.

EXAMPLE 2: Some other hoaxes are of the "oass this on to 50 Yourfrien'ds, of your closest friends and God will bring back Bambi's moth­ Walt Disney Jr., Disney, Bill Gates, a The Microsoft er" variety: Development Team,

Apparently this Is true and worth a shot!!! Folks, I called Gee - that's gonna cost them $6.5 Million for starters then Disney my damn self. It's no lie. GET IT DONE! You all owe interncCtional airfares and accommodation for a week for me. Disney message and $5,000.00. If you read below you 11,700|people - you do the maths! 1 would've thought there will see the note from Walt Disney Jr. and Management at were cheaper ways for Bill and Walt to get their advertising Disney Worid, or software testing done. But obviously enough people were sucked tn for this to survive, if you get these kind of emails - Basically if this message reaches 13,000 people, everyone will don't blicidly pass it on, but instead, reply to the sender - and receive $5,000.00 or a free, all expenses paid trip to Disney as far back up the email chain as you have energy - inform­ World in anytime during the summer of 1999. See the note ing the originators that this is a hoax and give them the URL below - its worth it!!!! Everyone is to resend to 15 individu­ for McAfeeis page or one of tne following: als. http://www.e{atafellows.com/news/hoax/ http://www.ciVx.org/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html Please 'ead and forward to as many friends as http://www.syrrrantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html possiblc.we've checked up on this and this is no joke of a U^ Spice up your own brew by adding your own choice of hops. For those unen­ lightened in the intricacies of the amber fluid, hops Is the tangy herb added to beer at different stages through the brewing process which gives the beer its 'bite' and much of its aroma and flavour. Hops was originally added to beer as a preservative then the bitterness and subtle aromas which hops Impart on the beer became an indispensable part of our favourite drink. Most of the distin­ guished brews around the world such as Guiness, Helneken and Cascade include a special hops variety that is somerimes unique to that particular brewery. Hopping Nugget. Saaz, Fuggles, Cluster, Green Bullet, Super Alpha and CL 80, these may sound like race horses, nicknames or cleaning products but are, In fact, names of rriad different varieties. our second homebrew column - by Jim Marshall

The green flowers which look sort of like neat hanging buds are grown on a vine, in colder areas and are usually dried and sometimes compressed Into a pellitized form. In the large scale producrion of commercial beers the dried hops is added to the wort (pronounced wurt) in a large kettle which extracts the essential oils and acids.

All common home brew kits or tins of concentrate supply you with a malt extract which is already hopped. If you're brewing your own and feel limited by what you can do with what the manufacturer can supply you In a tin, don't fret- you can simply add 'finishing' hops to your tin of Coopers or whatever brand you ii

For those witn a green thumb who are even more keen to add a very per­ sonal touch to their brew you might want to try growing your own hops, i read about one successful attempt on doing this on the net at http://www.fresh0ps.com/g3rdening.html.

Anyway once you have the hops what's the best way to get it into your brew? For a simple method of using a finishing hops with your concentrate try the 'Tea' method. Take around 20g of hops flowers (or the amount rec­ ommended by your supplier or the recipe you might be using) place them in the end of an old stocking or a piece of muslin cloth and tie up the end. Bring about 500ml of water to the boil and chuck In the bag then turn off the stove anc let the hops steep for about 10 minutes. Once you have mixed up the concentrate sugar and water In your fcrmentcr. toss in both the hops bag and the 'Tea' it was sitting In. Remember to account for this extra hot water by adding less hot water when dissolving the other ingredi­ ents or you will have to wait for your brew to cool before pitching the yeast.

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This is a dead simple recipe that makes the roughest red goon drinkable.

At the beginning of Autumn, the last of summer's tomatoes are making their appearance ... this recipe is designed to make the From YHfi most of their fragrance and flavour before you have to wait another six months! From March onwards the tomatoes most

v^Idely available are becoming increasingly insipid and pointless ... ones that have been gassed and chilled within an inch of their lives. If you can get hold of some home-grown local vine- Hookworms (Ankylostoma Duodenale) This Edition: Just to confuse you, the early symp­ are mean little suckers. THINGS TO AVOID WHEN toms are flu-like with headache, fever, ripened ones from the local ma-ket, the difference Is indescrib­ TRAVELLING and gastrointestinal upsets. You might able. However, the balsamic vinegar (one bottle will last years) Small intestinal parasites about 0.6 to also act confused or exhibit other 1.25 cm long, hookworms attach to the 'strange' behaviour (hopefully people Vifill bring out the best in the most flavourless fruit. wall of the small intestine and suck will notice a difference). The illness can This also packs a serious cold-prevention punch to prepare for blood. cause inflammation of the brain, which in turn may cause permanent disability the onset of the colder weather... loaded with vitamin C, garlic The process of migration of larvae or death. and antioxidants and delicious to boot! Tuna's also chock-full of throucth the skin causes itching, swelling and scabs. When they take up Take note, the term is a misnomer - omega-3 fatty acids - nature's prozac - that also help your residence In the intestine, hookworms Japanese Encephalitis is not restricted memory. can cause weakness, diarrhoea and to Japan. The Far East including China, severe anaemia. Korea and Southeastern Russia, the Indian subcontinent and South East Asia are all potential hazard areas. large tin or 2 cups cooked v;hi:e beans (soy, butter, haricot or First prize for the world's most infec­ tious disease goes to Malarial lima) The point of telling you all this is not to Transmitted by the vampires of the large tin water-packed tuna tjrn you into a recluse who'll lock insect worid, female Anopheles mosqui- themselves away in a sterilised room, tos. Feeding from dusk to dawn these 6 vine-ripened tomatoes never to be seen again. The simple miniature monsters lurk in the tropics tablespoon balsamic vinegar message is be aware and take precau- and sub tropics. t'ons. 1/2 bunch flat parsley The initial symptoms are flu-like chills, 1/2 bunch coriander A trip to a travellers' health clinic such headaches and muscle aches. You as the Travellers Medical and 3 cloves garlic or to taste might also have vomiting, diarreah, Vaccination Centre (TMVC) Is the first anaemia, and for a really good look, step. After a consultation to discuss jaundice (ok as long as yellow suits when and where you're going, they v/ill Mix the drained beans and tuna loosely together, trying not to you). Malaria can lead to shock, liver vaccinate you against any diseases you and kidney failure, coma and death. break up the chunks of tuna too much. Dice the tomatoes and might come into contact with when travelling. mix with the balsamic vinegar, roughly chopped herbs and fine­ ly-chopped garlic. Toss through the bean and tuna mixture. If you have a severe dribbling problem, Dr Deborah Mills from the TMVC says. extremely painful throat spasms when Travel diseases are a problem but work Allow flavours to mingle at room temperature for half an hour, drinking, which leads to terror at the burn-out is just as bad for humans, so then serve with crusty bread to mop up the juices. mere sight of water, episodes of based on doctor's orders - regular holi­ excitability or dementia, convulsions days are essential!" and paralysis, you probably have rabies. For further information please contact: Ask yourself, were you bitten, scratched Renee Hardy If you're concerned about garlic tuna breath afterwards, just or licked by a potentially rabid animal Marketing Assistant chew on a little extra parsley to freshen up. recently? Could you have been bitten Ph: (07) 3236 4999 by a bat and not noticed (it happens!)? This salad can be enjoyed just as well without the tuna for a Moral of the story - don't play with vegan dish. _, ,^ strange animals.

Frith Kennedy y/1 struggle, and for the environment. This brings to our attention the purpose of the legal system, The issue of legal support is one to be touched on only and many associated ques­ briefly In this article. It is worth noting that as part of the tions. One of them is by Rebecca Duffy blockade camp, various legal workshops were available for that - at what point Between March and October last year, more than 2000 those wanting to know the implications of arrest. It was can a Magistrates protesters travelled from al! over Australia to blockade at clear that legal representation was not easily available and Court deny the Jabiluka Uranium Mine Site, within Kakadu National that if you decided to follow through with your action (it is responsibility Park. Around 500 protesters were arrested. often more effective to plead not guilty and continue the for legis­ protest In the courts) then it was likely that responsibility lation? Whilst we await the Australian Government's submission to rested on your own shoulders. A legal support group To the World Heritage Bureau on why they think Kakadu endeavoured to advise protesters of their options, although should not be placed on the World Heritage Endangered most of these people were not lawyers The J.A.I.L5. List, arrestees face charges such as Trespass, Damage (Jabiluka Arrestees Information and Legal Support) net­ me Mines, Disturbing the Public Peace and Victimisation of work is now operating and doing a wonderful job pro­ this is Employment, for expressing their opposition to the mine. viding as much information as possible to those a particu­ arrested at the blockade. Legal support has been larly perti­ It is ironic that we are made to feel guilty of crime by the an issue of concern for many blockaders, nent question, legal institution In Australia, when at the same time the however the biggest obstacle in returning as it seems that Jabiluka Action Group nationally is awarded the Non-vio­ to court Is the expense. Magistrates can take lent Conflict Management Award by Freedom from it upon themselves to Violence Australia, a group that formed after the Port Fortunately, the Caxton Legal define certain terms, and Arthur massacre. When so many Innocent people died in Centre in New Farm is made determine the intent of legis­ Tasmania several years ago, the Federal Government up of wonderful community lation. brought in new gun legislation in an attempt to prevent minded people, and they the recurrence of such an event. Yet this same government offered their services It was a recurring question during the allows Australia to be inexplicably Involved in a process for Jabiluka week from 18 January to 22 January in that leads directly and indirectly to the sickness and death Arrestees In the Darwin Magistrates Court as to whether or of thousands of people. The Howard Government has form of not a potential danger necessitates association decided to treat uranium in the same way it treats any group with emergency, or immanent danger. The key hole other mineral, regardless of the fact that its radioactivity is advi­ (so to speak) in our defence, according to both prose­ highly dangerous once disturbed from the natural environ­ cution and the Magistrates, was that a time nexus exists ment, and the fact that uranium Is the raw material for a between the exact time of our action, and the potential lethal Industrial process, and contributes to the prolifera­ danger to humans. tion of nuclear weapons. sory ses­ In my view, the generally accepted definition of necessary If this Isn't enough, the Government is taking steps sions, pro­ would not necessarily import any degree of immediacy to strip the Indigenous people of Australia of viding infor­ Unless specified In the Trespass Act that there must be their rights in claiming Traditional Ownership mation and immediacy, we would have thought there would be some and control of their land. This is an inte­ helping with com­ degree of consideration that future dangers could be fore­ gral issue in Kakadu, where the MIrra munication to Police seen. To say that it Is necessary to plant vegetables now so people have a highly evolved rela­ Prosecutions in Darwin. that we can eat them in a month's time, to me is fair tionship with their land, and con­ One Brisbane lawyer, John enough. We can foresee that we need to plan ahead In tinue many of their traditional Thompson, travelled to Darwin order to keep ourselves alive in the future. We also need to practices today. It is highly especially to help defend Jabiluka take into account the context in which the word necessary unusual for an area to protesters. As there was only one of Is contained, Our argument in court that it did not matter be World Heritage him, and around sixty of us, we prepared when we attempted to stop the mine, as long as we made recognised for for the probablility that we would need to this attempt, did not stand up.. We made an analogy that both its natural represent ourselves. the nuclear industry is like a machine, if we take out one and cultural part of that machine, ie stop the raw material from being heritage With little legal knowledge, we found the task of extracted, then that machine can no longer function. The values. formulating a workable defence a little daunting, and prosecution argued that we had a choice, whether or not Not around five of us spent time together in the weeks leading to participate in the action, thus negating the meaning of up to our trials to come up with ideas of how to relate our necessary. personal opposition to the mine, to the law. We knew full well that we didn't quite understand how the legal system This is just one example of the arguments we used. Of worked, and realised after a couple of days of observation course there are many aspects of the cases that were used _ the mining in the courtrooms in Darwin that it would take a really in combination, and some of these are summarised below: " and milling concerted effort to provide enough evidence and resources of uranium to convince the Magistrate of the facts we take for grant­ nuclear weapons have caused intense human suffering since result in severe ed. the first bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki environmental dam­ during the 2nd World War, leading to radiation burns, can­ age, but the Mirrar peo­ The common charge we needed to defend was Trespass, cers, birth defects - also accidents at nuclear power plants ple suffer from a sense of and there were two main ways of working on this; (i) et Chernobyl, Three Mile Island. (Denise) struggle and defeat, stress, dis­ prove that the lease was not valid, or (2) prove that it was unity and a sense of invaded com­ necessary to Trespass. Questioning the validity of the lease gesture of solidarity with the Mirrar people - rightful own­ munity [Kakadu Region Social Impact has proved difficult. Senior Traditional Owner, Yvonne ers. Disregard of the assumption ofauttiority of Western Study (1997)]. Margarula, was convicted of Trespass on her own land last law over indigenous law - the falsehood of terra nullius. year, although she has appealed this decision. Fighting Indigenous low Is life giving and ever changing while If Australian law presides over all aspects of society (and mining company Energy Resources of Australia, and a gov­ Western law is dead and centered around economic gain. Johnny even wants to include recognition of God in the ernment that has approved construction despite opposition (Terry) preamble of the Constitution), think of the psycho-spiritual from two thirds of the Australian population, demands high effects on Indigenous people as a result of destruction in levels of energy, resources, and persistence, not to mention deliberate act of Civil Disobedience to highlight the dose the name of profit for a mining company, of their sacred legal and financial assistance. relationship between uranium and nuclear weapons. sites, which are the centre of their belief systems. Uranium should be kept in the group due to the dire threat So the majority of defendants used the second option. they pose to humanity. Australian uranium contributes to Would you like three-eyed-fish for dinner Mr Howard? Trespass is a regulatory offence, that is, not part of the nuclear proliferation, safeguards are circumvented by criminal code and basically revenue for the Northern flagswapping which disguises country of origin. It is not I guess one of the questions I've asked myself since being Territory Government. There are usually no defences avail­ with our consent that Australian government continues arrested on the Jabiluka lease 14 July 1998, is what does able for regulatory offences if you are not contesting the mining uranium. Today there are 30,000 nuclear weapons civil disobedience mean for us, and what did we achieve? facts. For Trespass however, the defendant is not guilty if ready to 50. Jabiluka represents the sign to proceed with We've talked in depth about why we were arrested, and they can prove that it was necessary to remain in or on the other proposed uranium mines around Australia. ERA's how this relates to legal issues. In retrospect. I'm still place concerned or to return to that place for the defen­ management of radioactive tailings is questionable with wondering whether our experience of action arrest, impris­ dant's own protection or the protection of some other per­ leaks into the surrounding environment. Cancer deaths in onment and trial was a victory, a defeat, or simply tokenis­ son, or because of some emergency involving the defen­ 1975 omongst those involved in the Maralinga tests were tic. Possibly all of these things. 1 think it's necessary to dant's property or the property of some other person [NT four times that of the general population.... ^Jo look at the bigger picture, and what civil disobedience has Trespass Act]. Vallentine) achieved in the past, for example the Franklin River victory. Ultimately though, the choice Is Individual and depends on There is also, of course, the Nuremburg Defence. The use of depleted uranium rounds in the Gulf War leading to where one feels one's energy is best spent - how best to defendant claims that it was necessary to break the laws of genetic mutations, high levels of cancer etc. blasting in the benefit the campaign. the state in order to comply with international laws. In area close to the ore body would release radioactive and 1996 the International Court of Justice found that both the bioavailable radon gas. there is no safe level of radiation, The Jabiluka 13 consisted of protesters from Brisbane, threat and use of nuclear weapons would be contrary to and therefore we cannot deny that the mine will cause harm Maleny, North Qld, Sydney and Northern NSW. We were International Humanitarian Law. Therefore, international to humans. Immediate threat to the Mirrar - contamination part of a number of arrestees wanting to return to Darwin law creates for citizens obligations which are binding upon of their lands, social effects, destruction of sacred sites. to plead Not Guilty to our charges of Trespass and (for them to an extent that they must be carried out even if to Questionable approval processes - ie. simultaneous environ­ some) Damage Mines. There were several other charges do so violates a positive law or directive of state, [n Trial mental assessment and construction. ERA's ability to man­ that were subsequently dropped, as they had no legal sub­ of War Criminals 462-489 (1950)]. Although wt all like age tailings waste questionable - legally bound for 10,000 stance, and were probably the products of police creativity. this idea, we found there was little chance of convincing years, who looks after it for the next 240,000 years it is still the Magistrate that possibly everyone involved in any radioactive? Choice not to be complicit in an act that holds We chose to travel to Darwin to face court, because we aspect of the nuclear industry was complicit in internation­ no value for the sanctity of human life. (Rebecca Duffy) believed we were not guilty. Wc wanted not only to link al crime. There are enormous implications of this, and up the reasons for apparent crime with a legal defence, but "that is not an issue for this court to decide", is a state­ being part of this earth, we are compelled by our being to to make a point that western law Is not a law that we can ment we heard many times from Magistrates during four protect it, and to protect our fellow inhabitants (Andy always have respect for, if it can be part of an approval days of observation and participation in court. Robertson) process that has little respect for the reality of the Mirrar's Our biggest problem was not having enough evidence. The One bright "She said to reasons for taking part in the action put forth as evidence by sunny after­ call upon the the defendant in the witness stand was hearsay, with defen­ noon Fomsey THE bellowing dants not qualifying as expert witnesses. In some cases, an and toad, not expert witness was brought in to give evidence of the danger follow the of radiation, however for some reason it was difficult to Wogglebott establish the expert status of witnesses. Dr Phillip Neitchke were sitting in ADVENTURE yellow brick flew to Darwin from Adelaide to appear as a witness for Fomsey's sun- road you Jabiluka Protesters. He has degrees in medicine and physics, room drinking OF FONSEY snarfblun- and has worked closely with the Ranger uranium mine, and hemlock tea ketll" in radiology, however was not considered an expert by one Fomsey, Magistrate. and reading. Fomsey slurped AND already exas­ In their final rulings, the Magistrates agreed with the prose­ the last of his perated at cution in most cases, though positive statements were made tea and looked WOGGLEBOTT their adven­ about the character and high moral values of the protesters. up from his ture peered So on the whole, we found It difficult to be in adversarial sit­ copy of at the uations with people whose professions are manipulation of # BY SijRCHA rearview language, and manipulation of intent of legislation. So frus­ Monster trating when we are following what we feel. Translating this Musings to see mirror to Into something workable in court Is near impossible ... and Wogglebott's belly jiggling with laughter. admire the bloated pustule on his nose. what did we achieve? Well, apart from personal satisfaction "What's so funny?" Fomsey asked. Fomsey was extremely proud of the abcess on in standing up in court and telling as many people as possi­ ble that you think the government is wrong, they had to lis­ Wogglebott was laughing so hard he started his face. It was considered to bring fortune ten to us. Over, and over and over again. Unfortunately, not to cough and splutter. and an Insatiable libido, as Fomsey had enough time was allocated for hearings that week in early "Ahem (snort) Do you remember what hap­ recently discovered whilst paying a visit to the January. Cases were adjourned till later in the year, and pened to our friend Bandersnatch?" voracious Banshee Queen. many people did not have the opportunity to speak out in "Yes. He was Imprisoned for frightening too Fomsey smiled dreamily at the memory until court. many little blonde girls. What's happened?" he noticed that in the "Well," chuckled Wogglebott, "It says here In rearview mirror, a flying A final point - the difference between criminal offences and regulatory offences. The law is for the common good Is a the newspaper that he's escaped and is con­ object was following statement that does not apply for regulatory offences. In sidered "extremely dangerous and ready to them. fact, the law is not for the common good is a statement spit toxic globules at anyone who threat Wogglebott was issued by a Magistrate that we wish we had recorded on DAT. ens him." searching desperately It would make a great sample. "What!" exclaimed Fomsey, "our for the Emerald City, Filmy Bandersnatch?! He a landmark that he can barely hock up a knew well for its good loogey fashion con­ withough scious horses # and its famous cur­ ried sausages. iWo'^U). WPRITAG^ COMMITTPP HP**ORT He began to by Sybil MacLure Following a joint application from Gundjemi and environment groups, a delegation from the World Heritage Commitce came out to examine the impacts of Jabiluka uranium mine on world heritage status Kakadu National Park. During their visit, the WHC met with all groups involved in the issue - environment, Gundjemi, the mining company, and state and federal governments. They had access to all relevant docu­ mentation and the Gundjemi corporation and camp block­ cough­ aders prepared a submission. ing up one of his The WHC delegation then produced their report. A major lungs! He's recomendatlon was that due to severe potential dangers harmless!" threatening the environmental and cultural values of the "I'll tell you area, that the mine should not proceed, and that Kakadu what's so funny," drool at the thought of sausage should be listed as an endangered world heritage area. What said Wogglebott, "is fat smothering his lips. then followed was a political fight at the next World Heritage that he's probably out there terrorising story­ "Woggle, wipe your mouth, we got company Bureau meeting at Kyoto, shortly after. book time as we speak, giving little children with a pointed head." the fright of their life when they expect to Wogglebott glanced back and uttered a high The Australian federal government sent 10 senior bureaucrats hear Mother Goose gush!" pitched squeal from Environment Australia (the environment department) Fomsey pondered this momentarily. "I wonder "It's Witchie West Edna! What does she want who were very active at the conference. Thus, although the if he'll catch up with Rapunzel again..." with us??!!" Kyoto conference accepted the delegates report on Jabiluka, "I dunno Fomsey, hell hath no fury like a "Perhaps you have a broken tail light" they also succumbed to political pressure and agreed to a 6 woman scorned." "Ah Haha Haha! I'll get you my pretties, and month 'review period' before making the final decision on the "Oh dear." Fomsey mused. your little blob too!! Ah Hahal" world heritage status of Kakadu National Park. "What?" "I don't think so Fomsey, she doesn't look very 'They'll try to track him down and put him helpful to me. What shall we do??" This means that the Australian government has until April back In that sodden prison with the Kraken." 1999 to prepare two reports to address the threats identified "You're right!" remarked Wogglebott, "we In the delegate's report. These are 1) Ground water flows, must save him! The Kraken is an utter bas­ and 2) Actions that will be taken to minimise impacts. These tard!" Do Fomsey and Wogglebott need a new tail reports will then be subjected to independent peer review. "To the Blobmobile Woggle!" light or does Witchie West Edna have more Twenty countries at Kyoto requested an immediate cessessa- "Aw, hang on Fomsey, I can't find the keys." diabolical plans in store for them? Will tlon of mine construction. Woggle ever eat the curried sausage? When will caprI pants go out of fashion? Despite the damning response from Kyoto, and the fact that "I thought you said you knew where we were opinion polls show that 69% of Australians oppose the going" Be sure to catch Fomsey and Wogglebott in Jabiluka mine, the Howard government is as stubborn as ever "I did! I just took a wrong turn at the their next exciting adventure, coming soon for in its defense of the nuclear industry. I'll leave with these Whispering Willow" your reading pleasure! last words from the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (dated 3rd March 1999), and let you make up your own mind. "(The Government] does not see any basis on which it could or should suspend construction activity at the mine site. Jabiluka is not part of Kakadu National Park, and the World Heritage values of Kakadu are well protected and secure." ?vi]y Lii^i^ie Ao^my ©f

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Chaya Pierce "BIG JIMS" announce the flashing green neon lights that arch over the glass doorway I shrug my shoul­ ders to the street, and hoping that no one saw me do that, I enter the diner. A tinkling of bells follows my footsteps. Inside, It Is not raining, and glad of the sudden dry heat, I flop into the booth. The leather beneath me hisses at my bottom. It is only escaping air, 1 assure myself. There must be a small tear in the seat some­ where. I find a small, egg-shaped hole slightly to the left of my bag, and edge away. I do not like small holes. I fear I will fall through them. Not that it matters much. I wave my arms in the air to signal the waiter. He waltzes over, his feet bouncing a difficult three-step around tables and scattered chairs. He asks me how I am. I was fine this morning, but then I had to visit my specialist. She says I'm not normal. I may not live for long. How are you? The waiter is fine, and will live for a few years yet, so he'll just take my order. He does not mention his girlfriend, or the problems the two of them have, but 1 know. 1 knov;. But if he didn't want to know how I was, why did he ask?? I ask for a white coffee with two sugars. Yes, that sounds good. While I am waiting, I prepare my pills. A little soldier platoon marches across the tabletop, careful to avoid a sticky coke spill. I do this by rank, so that the enormous pink Admiral is leading two blue Generals, a green Sergeant, a dirty yellow Lieutenant pill, and th-ee brown Privates. I know everyone Is staring at me as I peer down upon my army, but I can't help it. I adore my pills. They are the only loyal friends I have. These are my dull-me army, fighting pain and numbing my mind. I for­ get who I am when I use these darlings - or maybe I remember. I don't think with these, and I don't worry about feeling,! just am and that's all I want. I just want to be. Just for a few hours. Death follows me, but maybe if 1 forget he is there, he'll forget that I am here, and go search for someone else. My coffee arrives, with no soeech from the waiter. He is no longer Interested in the peculiar happenings of the peculiar person sitting at booth 17. I ask him: do you think I am normal? There is no reply, just a lonely silence. No, he is thinking, you are defi.nitely not normal. Then he is thinking of his girlfriend again, and how long it will be until his shift is over. I take a sip of my drink, burning my tongue, allowing the searinc pain to travel down my throat. I quickly pop each of the pills into my mouth, one at a time, and leave them to travel through my bloodstream. I Imagine themselves attaching themselves to my withering red blood cells, strangling what little haemo­ globin I have left.

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By the last pill, my throat is giving up, sore and dry. I smother It with a glass of water rushed over hur­ riedly when I wave my arms in the air. Yes. everyone is definitely aware of me. I want to ask the waiter some questions. I ask: what is life? What is death? What is pain? What is dulled? What... Thank God for the dull-me pills. My army takes over, stops the questions, the voices in my head. 1 am numb.

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Mary Ryan's ^ Bookstores. s" is running a short story com­ petition. A winner will be chosen for each edition. They 4 will be published in Semper and will receive a $50 Mary Ryan's book voucher There are only so many highways you can drive through in the Australian night before you run out of places to run; YAY!!!!! before the routes turn into corners turn into streets turn into dead ends that haunt the suburban landscape, sprinkled wildly in the haze of some psychotic street designer's 15-second g ory. There are only so many times you can sit on the back verandah, blindly bent, staring out into the gloom and wondering where the fuck your life has gone before you real­ ize it's gone nowhere and you're about to follow It. And there are only so many times you can pick up the phone to call So get creative and start writ­ someone at three In the morning before you suddenly come face to face with the fact that there's no-one to call, that ing those short stories!!! whoever once might have been there Is long gone and you're all alone, just you and the remnants of the goon bag and the memories that you once used to cherish.

See, once upon a time, a long time ago, a time when everything and nothing and everyone and no-one mattered, once upon that t me 1 think 1 can remember feeling whole. Feeling OK as we drove down the coast to Byron just for the sake of getting stoned somewhere different than Brisvegas. That time seems so close, so near, almost as close as Emily and I This edition's book voucher once were. 1 think back then I felt like I v;as in love, that we were in love and that somehow everything was going to work out fine. It's true that when you think yoj're in love, your life can just crumble down around you but it doesn't was won by Chaya Pierce. You really matter because someone's there holding you, ready to pick up the dustpan and sweep up the shattered pieces, can read her story, "My Little throwing them Into the garbage bin where they truly belong. Army of Dull-Me Pills" oppo­ When Em and I got to Byron, we dropped our stuff at the backpacker's and headed on down to the beach. We stripped site . This edition, due to off our clothes and stumbled aov,/n the sand and into the water. The waves that day were perfect for swimming, enough to throw you around a bit, but nothing too heavy that could dump you on your ass If you know what I'm on about. Em length, we have also been able was splashing around, giggling as the waves crashed into her. the v./ater level coming up just enough to cover her bare tits, and she splashed around just like a little kid. Jesus, I know this sounds corny, aut it reminded me of those tacky to print "Traffic Lights of the home movies that my oldies used to show in the living room every night, the ones that flickered against the white wall, showing me and my brother as babies, while awful surf music jangled out of my father's hi-fi. And you know, when I Heart" by Geoff Parkes, who crept up behind her and squeezed her, scaring the shit out of her, I laughed too and as she chased me up out of the was the runner-up. water and onto the beach and grabbed me by the ankles and we tumbled together on the sand that stuck on our pubes and got up our ass cracks, I think we both knew what was the meaning of perfect.

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We drove back on Sunday arvo. Nevermind had just come out, we had the tape playing on the car .stereo, and for those few hours as we drove, glancing at each other in amazement as we listened to songs that we knew were gonna change our lives and we smiled because we knew that change had to be good and that others out there had to feel how we felt about the woric, how it was fucked and the yuppies were fucked and the hippies were fucked and well, fuck there just had to be some other way of doing things, yeah for those few hours it was like we were the one person, stoned and happy and angry and confused and singing and The A-Team has been set up by the ACTIVITIES Area of the Union to laughing and everything all rolled comfortably like a joint into one neat give you a say in what is going on and well to get us some more and awesome package. volunteer help. Perhaps you just want to know what is going on around campus or be a part of all the Fun stuff the Union does, perhaps you even have a burning desire to BBQ for hundreds of But shit, you smoke the joint and then it's gone and you're left stoned students on a fortnightly basis, and paranoid and all too aware of the fact the dreams are just bent hal­ lucinations, that hopes, like eggs, break and splatter over the ground of All we need to know is your name, phone number, address and e-mail address if you have one. time and that two people howevc well they think they know each other and love and share each other, are never really one. We thought we Contact us by phone: 3377 2202 were, I mean fuck we were even talking about moving out of the house by email: [email protected] we lived in with our mates and getting a place together, the ultimate in person: at any activities event betrayal of our slacker lives, but we didn't. or in the Activities Office, .UQ past the Commonwealth Bank, downstairs from Main Refec I knew the day was gonna come when Em wanted something more than union me. I'll be the first to admit that I'm a depressing prick when 1 want to be and those hclcs that 1 dive headfirst into are so hard to climb out of. My doc once said to me that 1 was like something stuck at the bottom of a well and maybe the rope's long enough to reach me but i get too caught up tn/ing to figure out whether 1 like the dar< or not. Rifts in our relationship started to show, th'eads hanging off a collar began to unravel the entire shirt and one night when we were both orunK, we started to talk about it. We both knew that it wasn't working, t'lat she was changing and could see that there were other places for '^.e.-- to go and 1 agreed with her that there probably wasn't a tatilc setting waitir;g for mc when she got there.

And it hurt like nell, it hurt worse than the last time I tried to jab a knife into my hand to sec whether 1 cojld still feel pain on the outside, .inc ! knew it hurt her to have to talk about it. Her little brown eyes were clouding over, she put her hand up to brush the drops away, and I got up, picked up the keys and drove away, off back down those streets where i thought I could spend my life ard turning left Instead of right at the lights, I kept dnving till 1 couldn t take it anymore, 1 pulled up along­ side the road and got out, lit a smoke and finally let it hit mc, let it wash over me like the waves over Em's breasts, that it was over and nothing could or would ever take us back to where we once felt like there was a future.

It's '96 now, I'm back in Brisie after five years of doing nothing, of driv­ ing from horizon to horizon, stopping once in a while tc collect the dole or work in some pub in one of those shitty country towns where every­ one's called Bob or Ted, including the women, and thinking and thinking and thinking while I drove. We all know now that the revolution of our dreams never happened, that alternative became corporate cock rock and someone we thought would save our lives couldn't even bare to save his own. When I got back here, I called up a few ole friends to see what was happening and nothing much had happened, nothing ever does in Queensland. Except Emily left, went off to some foreign place to sing with a band. I've got the radio on now, listening while 1 write this, but 1 haven't heard her voice yet and I don't know If I want to. Cos some­ times you've just gotta forget. And I guess that's where the goon comes in handy. ACROSS I and 2 down The federal govern­ ment plans lo tie Ihi.s to univer.sity funding (9, 7, 8) 6 A service provided for students and staff wiio are parents (5, 4)

lODen.sely inhabited (8) .1 II Related to the tnanagemeni of monetary resources (9) 13 Conflict (6) 15 Dismissing (7) 17 Quantity of paper (4) 18 FU.SS (3) 19 Tiny amount (4) 20 Woilhless dog (3) 21 So-called Minister for Education (4) 24 Make a mistake (3) 25 The Union's mtwt popular retail outlet (5, 4) 27 Your fees go lov/ards funding thes;; facilities (8) 29 The great time waster (1,1) 30 Helps you llnd your way around (3) 31 Cheap, filling vegetable (6) 32 What student unions provide (14) 34 Anagram of 35 down (3) 38 Founder of remedial school, for­ mer professor of education and VC has landiTiarks named after him (8) 39 Headlined at the 0 Week Big Gig (4) 40 Played by Australian sporting leg­ end and UQ alumni Tim Horan (5)

DOWN 2 see I across 3 Part of a circle (3) 4 Where studens can buy and sell second hand textbooks and get dis­ counted -Stationery (5. 4,4) 5 The government is trying to under­ mine these (8, 6) DELTA 6 Another service provided by the CA^fl'R EN,TEALS' union (6,4) 7 Study; lair (3) 8 Not sweet (6) 9 Give up (4) 12 Within the law (5) 14 Offal (5) 16 Part of the union which represents dozens of student groups with divcnse interests (5, 3, 4) 22 Drudgery (7) 23 The one who makes your life hell (9) 26 More powerful (8) 27 Orator (7) 28 Wednesday is what day at UQ? (6) 31 One of the Teletubbies (2) 33 Not working (4) 35 Companion animal (3) 36 The Vice Chancellor (3) 37 Letters used to signify computer science subjects (1,1)

Soapbo.x: The Union provides a lot of services, some of which yon niay \w\. personally use but every one of which is needed by somebody. VSU threat­ ens the union's ability tt) provide these services. AND we wgnTbe beaten on any of our major competitor's prices Solution * conditions apply Acitjr. 0; :rtSllGi;::i>'-';>'".^SHi: :[)i)i; fi' -J" M-'iJ.'""";!'^- (" ''.it';"" .t ll :j3(ijo,;<, 02 : J ait, ,11.] 10; zz ••'•'••"'i'> :;iv.u os: Al 6C :tjui;.u;!'> u '^'•"M'> 'VOI jj Isjas pjt; sai'D g, :.i;t:il r. tcta: :opi; BI -i""' il :')ui>,3L'i s. :o;ut.'4 CALL DELTA: 13 13 90 9 :smfiij s.iuopnis s liloiis ijOOQ i• :3tv c :uis;uoiun ; NIV>OQ 9 liuJpnis A,ciun|DAissgM3V Albright's response could at best be described the Bush administration deliberately helped as evasive. What makes Saddam different, Iraq with militar/ equipment and training (Bill according to the Secretary, is that he has a while remaining silent on Saddam's human proven record of repeatedly using chemical anc rights atrocities. Fuel air explosives, nuclear biological weapons against his own people. plant equipment, bacterial research technology 1 ^^^^K^Hp^^^l f all were sold to Iraq, sometimes directly to the I^HH^H ^H ' . ll . This is part of the relentless and persistent line Iraqi Defence Department. .1. ll • ' run by the Clinton Administration and its I, ^"^ •< clients (including Australia). The pro-bombing And the US was not alone in its support of t forces have worked hard to swamp the main­ Saddam. John Trman, former reporter for Time 4^ nvafm9 stream media with their message: Saddam and executive director of the Winston Hussein must be stopped because he has Foundation for World Peace, reportec that the shown a propensity to use chemical and bio­ Soviet Union and much of western Europe, as logical weapons against his own people. well as the US, were assisting Iraq with mili­ tary intelligence and loans. Berstein reports Of course, there is overwhelming evidence that that eighty-six Cerman corporations had Saddan used chemical and biological weapons engaged in transactions with Iraq. British and . jy against his own people. On the public record French companies also cashed in with govern­ are UN reports from the 19805 outlining Iraq's ment approval. wS^Bi use of chemical weapons on Iranians and Kurds. And the US and UK today rightly con­ The relationship between western forces and

^ •' ' '•'••;. .- demn Saddam for such atrocities. Saddam was so tight that Iraq could get away

' 1 with killing American troops. In May 1987, But what was the US/UK response at the time while the US navy was in the Gulf assisting of those atrocities? Saddam in his use of chemical and b ological .'fP weapons against Iran, the Iraqi militcry •1 ' The answer to this question reveals a some­ attacked the USS Stark, killing thirty-seven of what less righteous position. its crew members. The US response amounted to a "slap on the wrist", according to Professor 1 - • Rewarding Mass Murder Chomsky. rnjjBBr^- .. ' • \ . . . .. •

^ ' • • - 1 . Putting aside the double standards of US/UK Backfiips and Short Memories foreign policy in treating Saddam with con­ tempt while overlooking other vicious dictators Far from denying their support for the Iraqi and regimes, let us focus on the US/UK atti­ dictator. US officials were anxious to express tude toward Iraq in relation to Saddam's use of their attitude toward Iraq as part of a great chemical and biological weapons against his and honourable plan. After questioning the own people, as outlined by Secretary Albright. State Department in December 1989 as to why strategic and financial aid was being furnished The response to the 1988 massacre of Kurds at to Iraq, Professor Chomsky was informed that Halabja provides a good case study of the such aid was putting the US "in a better posi­ US/UK attitude. In March of that year, tion to deal with Iraq on human rights issues". t 7 V *• * u , ,. • • f ••: ,- 1 Saddam, encouraged by the results of using chemical and biological weapons in the war It's an interesting exercise to compare the

» 1 ' 1 •'..'. 1 11 against Iran, engaged in the mass slaughter of December 1989 position to that twelve month'^ 1 1 1, ' I 1 • Kurds at Halabja using ner\'e gas. later when sanctions and threats of bombing < • ' ^'^ were more fashicnable methods of dealing '^X--^ Xv • . It •'•'••- ^- * %f>- V " ,*. ' . k. -^ :^- ' ( .%!• ^ »' -rrfi" " i While Iraq was already receiving aid from the with Iraq's human rights abuses. 1 •»'" « ' '»^ \ \ • ^^^ X '•••. > .' * -V. US and western Europe, its actions at Halabja .r' t »>, resulted in increased financial and strategic The public record shows that before he invaded ry^\ L -: ^ ^;' ••"•••.' J^' ' ^^>. '>:- >-; 1 support from the West. According to American Kuwait in August 1990, Saddam Hussein was a I ... *. - intellectual dissident Noam Chomsky, Saddam's trusted friend and trading partner of the I « gassing of Kurd's resulted in "no passionate US/UK, a fact ignored by most mainstream '; M ' calls for a military strike" against Iraq as is the media when covering the current events and a A case today. "[Oln the contrary, the US and UK fact seemingly forgotten by Secretary Albright -1.1 j>#ii ^ ../f"'' %Vi'^.- •-*'• • • J •- > ! >: *^:N;r^' ' " . murderer". i ' ' » .' _ Saddam was extremely useful in providing O' "•-" ' * . \u^ \ ^^ -^ Although Iraq was a country rich enough to be profits for US/UK businesses during the 19805 * an exporter of food, Professor Chomsky reports and, through his US-backed war with Iran, was of agricultural and food aid to Iraq following effective in unde-mining regional solidarity and _ r-if ''V <> f. ' ^*-',«4''v^ ' •• ••••' •• the atrocities at Halabja so as to repair soil co-operation. M-&'«^N ; '-fJI' damage and make up for production losses due ' -/S* ^rrt^ /•' ^,. S-'-:c • to the deaths of local farmers. At some point. US/UK policy on Iraq did a

- ^^ :v-.V . ^i i-^G VA^C^ backflip. Atrocities that the US/UK now con­ '*• .-> Support for Iraq following the massacre at «*•«' demn and use as justification for bombing and Halabja is not an isolated incident There is .i- sanctions on Iraq, are the same atrocities •^3. ;;. • . vast evidence on the public record of US and which went ignored while US/UK support was western Europe support for Saddam through­ extended. out the 1980's. Logic tells us that this dramatic change in pol­ Loans were granted to Iraq by the US icy has little to do with Saddam's horrific acts. Department of Agriculture which, according to Those acts were going on the entire time. The former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, change in policy represents realisation that were illegally used to purchase 'dual-use' Saddam was no longer controllable, no longer equipment such as jeeps and helicopters. an asset to furthering the interests of the West. Dennis Bernstein, a journalist who wrote On 18 February 1998, a young substitute Palestinians. Indonesian forces massacre East ., extensively on the role of western corporations Yet we are now told by straight and solemn teacher from Columbus, Ohio, faced off with Timorese. Yet, in those cases, the issue of use ] :in supplying arms and equipment to Iraq, faces, including tnose of Howard and Beazley, , one of the most powerful people in the world. of American force is never raised. Why the . reported that in 1987, Vice President Bush not that we must continue to bomb and starve the double standard?* ' only encouraged Iraq to produce chemical bio- people of Iraq because Saddam has repeatedly Dressed neatly in a white sh rt and tie, Jon • logical weapons, but was willing to commit US used weapons of mass destruction against his Strange was given the freak opportunity of The double standard of American foreign policy, '; financial and strategic resources to assist own. putting a question to US Secretary of State, wholeheartedly supported by the Australian : Saddam in doing so. According to Berstein, Madeleine Albright live on national television. Government and Opposition, is glaringly obvi­ f the US Department of Commerce granted low- Yes, Saddam's use of weapons of mass destruc­ ous to anyone who knows a little about inter­ • interest loans to Iraq which were used to pur- tion must be fiercely condemned and stopped. Flanked by Clinton Administration heavy­ national affairs. And Jon Strange articulated it ,' chase "strategically sensitive" exports. Further, But let's think about the fact that Saddam's weights, Secretary Albright cast an arrogant perfectly. Mass murder and execution by US ; he reported that the US sent technicians to gun was loaded by the west and that the west and formidable image. allies marches on in the face of stony silence, : Iraq to advise and train in the development of silently stood by while he repeatedly pulled the while cmemies of the US are conden[\ned, j nuclear weaponry. All of this was done with trigger with horrific results. It makes one The question was clear and striking. "Why starved and bombed for committing similar : the international community fully aware of the wonder how many brutal dictatorships and , ,bomb Iraq when other countries have commit- atrocities (and when I say US, I'm including the ' • horrific actions of Saddam against the Kurds regimes are today being backed and bankrolled [:;ted similar violations?" asked Mr Strange. Australian Government and OppositioT who i iand Iranians. by our leaders. Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria? (•"Turkey slaughters its Kurdish population, Saudi have shown themselves to be the most loyal of Who will be the next friend turned foe? Who |-

there's a disease it'll drain you cold take the warmth and beauty if you don't fight it with integrity

and i have lived and i have died and i have been risen in the name of christ and i have been blind but i prayed to see and i have been given to know what it means

and a mountain can be moved with a word from a righteous heart said i'll'say it one time you've gotta give up to love ^

because surrender is the start of a life that is beautiful l?ut you gotta have your head pointed in the right direction said God is the source, the absence of which leaves us longing

and i have been given •the way back home and i have seen and heard and then denied but i have laid down my pride, and made my claim to truth .

one wgy or the other for just one moment we'll all se&, but what side of the line are you going to be found on i wanna lay you down in fields pf peace search your soul, and find a child much fierce in a mind ttiats crying ^__.,„.--"^ to be free , ^^.."^''''''^

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A stranger hatched inside of me today A stone egg in the back of my mind. Nursed over the years by fears. Incubated by anger. And today, it hatched.

Personality retracting to the sounds of erratic overtures of random thought.

Fee! it grow, don't let it show. Be yourself, the person you were yesterday. But was that you, who had the fun, is it possible to remember?

Too late! Time to get to know the stranger...

Andrew Shek Fuck. That's how I feeL

m It's time. No, not for another drawn out and overwrought electoral slogan either. It's time for us to get off our collective asses and start doing shit. Or else we're all fucked and big time at that.

Where to begin? How about the fact that today marks three "glorious" years jnder the Howard regime; three W^^i Uf "glorious" years of fraud, deceit, denial, rorts and all round figure fucking, and that's only to do with politi clan's "earnings", just for starters. Three fantastic years of systematic, targeted abuse of minority groups from i>;*-i iiiS'! a to z, queers, irdigenous, homeless, unemployed, poor, pensioners, artists, writers, academic institutions, stu­ dents, immigrants ad. infinitum. Three thrilling years that have seen the deployment of armed guards and dogs on our waterfront, an absolute refusal to recognise the stolen children, let alone apologise to them, and c a succinct allowing of, if not direct encouragement of, the rise of the far right under Ms Pauline "Mothertfucker) of the Nation and whining voice too" Hanson. Believe mc folks, I'm popping the champagne as we speak.

But what's got me boiling the most :s the fact that after three years of a semi-totalitarian, borderline-fascist government, where the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" has widened even more dramatically than under the (alleged) "Labor" government of the previous thirteen years, is the pure sense of impotence that I get when 1 look around and see thai life apparently is going on quite strcnely around me and that few. when considered against the vast majority, of my fellow students don't seem to give a flying fatwah in a falafel shop.

And I wonder what we can do...

Because sure, we can get out there every National Day of Action, carrying ojr placards high, but as anyone who went to the final rally last year would know, even to the 200 or so of us "avid activists", our rhetoric sounded stale, our slogans as much naif-hearted as half-assed. and compared to the boring bollocky speech­ es of the Young Labor and Resistance kids, the Young Liberals protesting at the protest (how's that for post­ modernist irony?) were the highlight of the day. And how's that for just plain ol' fucked?

But, when I look around, it's fairly easy to see v

Meanwhik, we have a screwed up Senate, with the Democrats unable to even justify their commitments lo students and the worse-off as they court the notion of allowing the passage of the G.S.T. Sure, they can talk of e;>empting food and possibly books, but here's some news for the Dem's and their Doc-clad deni-goddess. there's a hell of a lot more that we have to fork out on every single day for the rest of our existence than just soymilk, tofu and a collection of Robert Frosts poetic works. Here's a hint, get your shit together and decide where you're going to draw the line, or take a long fucking walk off the sho't plank of electoral disillusion­ ment.

So yeah, it makes sense that while 1 watch Mardi Gras and listen to the crap sprouted about the economic benefits of the sink dollar. I'm sittir^g in the one bedroom flat I share with my partner and thinking "What fucking dollar?" Hell, some of us arc too busy worrying about where our next meal is going to come from, let alone if it's from a queer-friendly supermarket. And that's where Howard's got us fayou r collective balls and clits. if you'll excuse the expression. It's because some of us are working two, even three, jobs in order to keep us off the queue at Vinnie's, or that some of us. who are lucky enough to even get benefits, are too busy waiting in line or on the phone for" a friendly Centrelirik officer who'll be with us shortly" to even have the time to pick up our rocks and sticks and home-made bombs and march down to Canberra, whereupon we declare open season upon Hanson's, Howard's. Fischer's, Newman's, Kemp's, Beazley's, and Lee's caviar- stuffed sphincter muscles. Divide and conquer - let's face it folks, we have been royally, doubly and spec­ tacularly screwed because while we were looking out to see if wc could afford a bus ticket, our Koori neigh­ bours were getting their Abstudy ripped away. And while us queers were out in our "safe" ghetto one night, we forgot to look around and see that the sex-worker down the road was getting the shit bashed out of her, because in Qld. we still have laws that say if you even tel another person that you are going to have sex with someone and get paid for it, you can be arrested for organised prostitution.

So yeah, none cf us is innocent, we're all guilty, whether by choice or by necessity, of ignoring the "other" issues. Now that's established, the question is: Where do we go from here? Because 1 don't know how long I can sit and watch the news at 7 and contain those thoughts of violence every time 1 see John Howard come on to mention those buzzwords like 'Mutual Obligation" or "Zero Tolerance." Right now, my tolerance is zero, and sometimes the only thing that stops me elaborating some serious plans for political assassination is the fact that I neve ever ever want to see a John Winston Howard Memorial anything. Even a fuc

Right now, the only thing I can think of is for once, all the people who don't live in three bedroom houses in middle-class, white-picket, Truman-esque suburbs with their two-point-twc kids, their "decent family val­ ues", all the ones who don't want to see John Howard writing the preamble for our constitution, all the peo­ ple who have been slowly or quickly thrust into the margins as a result of the last twenty years of thatcherite- style, US led government, all us queers, Koories. Murries, feminists, pro-choiccrs, welfare recipients, immi­ grants, people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, put simply, almost ever/ single one of us who are not Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blow form the VB ad, and that's a hell of a lot of us, to get togethe.' and think something up damn fast. Because we have to reclaim our lives, our streets, our country as ours, before Australia goes through what England and the US went through in the eighties, and we too are left with a "once-great" nation stripped of its resources, where beggars sit on every street corner, where crimes of violence against women and children and queers and blacks and Asians go unnoticed, and uncondemned. The time to act is now. It is time, because I honestly can't see how. if we keep going like this, in three years, we won't be all fucked.

Geoffrey Parkes. A f h ole Page of G IV g A

Jimeoin has a new movie out. It's caiied "The Craic" and it's a come­ dy about a bunch of illegal immi­ grants in Australia. We have 30 Suze DeMarchl's new single, 'Karma' is hanging out in double passes to give away, plus a our office. If you can tell us the name of her former whole stack of posters (and a real­ band, you can have it. ly spunky cricket hat) thanks to Roadshow and Birch, Carroll and Coyle. The first 30 people to come in to Semper and tell us a GOOD joke will win!

Tim Rogers has released a solo album. If you want to have our copy of it, be the first one to come down to Semper and tell us the name of the album.

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Do you want to score our giveaway copy of 'Mermaid fmm CHEN 8MS$.^.sifiHTfisoyND Avenue', the new Billy Bragg and Wilco album? Be the first one to call in to Semper and tell us the name of ^*:CrCM> the punk band Billy was in during the '70s and you can take it away in your hot little hands.

LAND 41^ or THC GOLDEN CLOUDS

Semper has 3 copies of 'Land of the Golden Clouds' by Archie Wellcr to give away. The first 2 people to bring a drawing of someone looking spiffy in the year 5000 will win.

New Vision has given us 20 passes to 'Divorcing Jack (see ad. on this page). First in, best dressed. a| Meet Joe Black

I never thought I'd see the day- a three hour ode to Brad Pitt that is physically painful to watch because he is so bad. Meet Joe Black is moralistic tripe detailing that life is a beautiful gift, that we cannot afford to scrounge a sin­ gle second and wh'ch we have an obligation not to waste. Sigh.

The entire film is a staid cliche with lines you'd expect from a hallmark greet­ ing card, "if you haven't tried- then you haven't lived". Sigh.

The premise is pretty simplistic (therefore not alienating any sector of society and allowing for the greatest box office returnl. Death personified (Brad), gives Anthony Hopkins an opportunity to make amends for his life, which quickly regresses in a King Learian domestic melo­ drama- with the father/daughter relationships engrossing the scene for ninety minutes. The rest is filled with a Hollywood love story where everyone stands around at the end drinking congac by the fireplace.

If you're the president of the Brad Pitt fan club- then the three hours will fly by. One unintentionally slapstick moment is the death scene when Bradley is suddenly and violently crushed by two large trucks, the audience roared with laughter, very amusing.

However, Brad real.y shouldn't be permitted to speak on film, wet mops are able to articulate more clearly than he can. Directors have a social obligation to force him (at gun point if necessary) to simply smile and nod. For although he is a walking CK underwear commerical, whenever he opens his mouth you really wish the cimena came equipped with a mute button.

Generally, the actors are members of the Bold and the Beautiful overacting school- lots of meaningful glances from beautiful, caring doctors all desper­ ately concentrating to be upmarketly arthouse. They were screaming out for limitations to be placed upon their 'ab'lity' by director Martin Brest.

Dante Ferretti's lustful art direction is visual masturbation- a stunningly sump­ tuous cast masquerading as 'actors', escapist sets and fabulous sex scenes. You know the type- man and woman passionately embracing- without smudging her lippy or a hair out of place. And Claire really should be a smidge worried- in some scenes Brad is wearing more eye make-up than she is.

If you want to escape into a three hour perfume commerical then this is seri­ ously a Chanel No 5. However, if you want a scent more spicy and more full, then sniff elsewhere.

Andrew Turner Payback

Mel Gibson is Porter, some kind of criminal, who has returned, after being left for dead by a cowardly accomplice (Henry Gregg) who took off with the loot from a heist. He sets off on a dastardly mission to get his money back; get back with the love of his life and basically shoot as many people as possible. He is a bad guy, tough and not at all worried about who he shoots, just as long as he gets his money back. He still manages though not to be THE bad guy in this movie full of crims, as he has to get the money back from "^he Outfit", a fictional crime syndicate.

The movie seems full of holes but I was left unsure whether these were inten­ tional or not. A lot is left unexplained: such as his motive for going to such lengths to get back a paltry sum of money - only 70 grand, and he won't take any more; and you have no clue about his past, including the whole situation with his wife.

Some things are clear - he has a fetish for messed up blondes. Mel's micro­ phone voiceovers a'e unintentionally amusing and his dec aration of love, pathetic to say the least.

Box office decrees it's Mel's film, I guess, but the best part of the film is it's plethora of side characters: Asian guys with big guns \Vi vans, immaculately dressed corrupt police officers; a dolphin-loving syndicate chief (James Coburn) who is more concerned about his alligator luggage than anything else and the best of all, a sado-masochistic dominatrix (Lucy Liu) who provides the best scenes and line from the movie.

It's like a quirky version of other Mel films and has some funny bits and good one-liners, though the violence is a bit nasty. Overall, I'd recommend it, it's not too bad, though don't see it if you have a nose ring.

Grace Star Trek: Insurrection

I have some questions for Rick Burman and the makers of STAR TREK: is that the best you can do? do you really know what the fans want? They have had enough of the Enterprise flying around the galaxy, doing almost the same thing, waiting to see what is up with Troi and Ryker. What they want to see is a good fight between the Federation and one of their many enemies. Didn't the producers notice how much sales of DS9 went up when there was conflict between the Dominion and the Alpha quadrant? Now, that is a story that would have made this Star Trek fan sit up and cheer. Don't get me wrong, Star Trek is formula TV it works and has worked for a very long time, but every now and then the formula needs to be turned on its head. Isn't that why they made 0S9: so that they could play with Trek's dark side? The experiment worked, t think they should use less of the "were all happy in the federation" approach and more of the 'how to deal with an alien species that wants to blow your god damn head of Jon-luc". Now I'd like to see that.

Stuart Butterworth Dead Man on Cannpus Waco

Never before in my life have I been left foetal by a movie, unable This is the story of two freshc roommates who start out with completely to process, let alone deal with the supreme horror witnessed on incompatible goals and end up best friends. Josh, a shy medical student, must the big screen. But if ever a movie should be compulsory viev/ing share 3 room with a pot-smoking party animal named Cooper Josh (Tom for adults and children alike, then this is it. Everett Scott) becomes enamored of the party life once Cooper (Mark-Paul William Gazecki's "Waco" deals with what really happened before, Goselaar) introduces it as a way to get close to women. What the unfortunate during and after the Brance Davidian siege at Waco. Texas in 1993. boys don't realise until after they've completed their midterm examinations is At the time, the siege and the ensuing fire was portrayed by the that they're in grave damqer of flunking out. Cooper's father who ov^ns a government and the media as a Joncs-esque mass suicide, initiated lucrative toilet-cleaning business, threatens to put him on the most disgusting by a madman prophet called Dav'd Koresh. What co,Ties to light in jobs if he flunks out of another expensive school Josh finds out from his advi­ this film, through a series of carefully presented interviews, excerpts from the sor that he will lose his full scholarship if he doesn't get the second Kighest Federal investigation after the siege, and footage from the disaster itself marks in all his subjects. The situation seems hopeless until they happen upon including FBI infra-red air surveillance, is far wore sinister. a bizarre rule, which gives top marks to anyone whose roommate kills himself What "Waco" reveals is a scries of immense fuck-ups by various groups, Josh and Cooper race to fmd .i suicidal basket rase to move in with them inducing Democrats, Janet Remo and chief advisers to Clinton himself in a before the end of semester. Watergate-like attempt to deny that 70 men, women and children were mur­ dered in a country that supposedly upholds tne notions of the right to privacy Just a quick vocabulary and culture check for those of you not so familiar with and freedom of religion. the Yank's educational system: a college is a small uni that does not offer "Waco" is nothing short of a masterpiece; by avoiding the hystrionics used by Ph.O.s. What is thought of as a college in Australia is termed a dorm'tory or the mainstream media ard instead methodically (sometimes ove'whelmingly) dorm in the States. It is common to share a room with one, two or three peo­ shov/ing us piece by piece, stage by stage, wnat happened during 3 months in ple, especially as a first-year. The mismatch of personalities set forth in this 1993, Gazeki pounds his .iiessage of betrayal through without succumbing to movie happen more often than not in American dormitories but this forces emotional manipulation. It is us, the audience, who are left to be moved, students to learn to compromise or communicate. And one more thing: the shocked and shaken. Ultimately, "Waco" is a testimony to the essential rights 'suicide ru e' is a myth that almost all American students hear their first year and freedoms of us all. Please, go and see it, of uni. Geoff Parkes. "Dead Man on Campus" brings up serious issues like depression, suicide and some questionable motives for attending uni. If you feel strongly about any of these issues, DO NOT see this movie. However, if you enjoyed the mock suicide attempts of "Better off Dead" and the open sexuality of "There's Something About Mary", this movie will make you laugh (and not much more). All of you theatre fans will enjoy Corey ='age (Boy From Oz] alternating between singing show tunes and a Nine-lnch-Nailesque song about the dark side of ejacula­ tion. The movie's actual soundtrack is nice as well, featuring "Hell" by the Extrenne / Everest Squirrel Njt Zippers and a remake of David Bowie's "Golden Years." Altogether a good night out for a laugh, especially if you picked up one of those five-dol­ lar movie cards, IMAX

"IMA^< is here!" scream the adverts. "Wow" cries the public. The nromise of Ian Van Wert larger than life action on screens so huge it boggles the mind of the average movie goer. Well that was my opinion anyway and 1 must say that on the whole the ad were right. The seats were comfortable and the screen was huge. The picture was a bit rough, but that v;as probably good as it added to the feel Cruel Intentions of the whole thing. One of the best things about EVEREST was the depiction of the climbing team. It captured the spirit of relying on each other that transcends gender and Wj^" w> Have you ever been to a megaplcx gold star movie screening? Not my nationality. Unfortunately this spirit of inclusiveness and non-discrimination - ^J idea of a seductive date but the cinema is clearly decked-out with (het- did not extend to the Shcrpas, the people who live around the base of Everest. 'J/^/f erosexual) seduction in mind. With no thought for those gearing-up for Sherpas are generally employed to carry the gear of people seek ng to make l^^^v a menage-a-trois. the cushy, red love-seats are arranged in intimate their dreams come true by climbing Everest. This was once again the case In p^^ couplings with only a wine cooler to separate you from a companion. In the film EVEREST. They carried most of the gear to the top. yet got a mere 2 • ^ - these luscious surroundings, 1 sipped pirk champagne and viewed Cruel minute mention in the fi'm. and token Intentions. Whether it was the surroundings, the cast of beautiful aeople, the credits at the end. I didn't enjoy EXTREME as much as EVEREST 1 found it champagne or the slick direction, I have to give Cruel Intentions a five panties quite shallow in many parts. EXTREME was so busy portraying people as solo rating! heroes pitted against nature, excelling in extreme sports such as climbing, ski­ ing and windsurfing, that it missed the reasons many people are into these Cruel Intentions IS a re-make of Dangerous Liasons.The nasty, cherry-popping sports. It didn't give the extremists the chance to talk about what they do and machinations of Katherine (Sarah Michelle Gel'arof TV's Buffy the Vampire why. Slayer) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillipe of Studio 54) are carried-out in the social whirl of contemporary Manhattan's high ton. Frilly frocks and fountain cravats Despite these limitations, however, I give the IMAX top rating. It are replaced with little black dresses and funky pinstripes while sword-fights wouldn't matter what was showing. The breathtaking feeling of being in the and duels are replaced by a streetside punch-up that reeks of urban-American amazing places shown on the screens in definitely an experience not to miss. racist myths. Stuart Butterworth. Driven by wicked old favourites like revenge, betrayal and sexual conquest, the incestuous duo (actualy, they're stepsiblings but the suggestion is clear) scheme to seduce two virg ns, Cecile (Selma Blair) and Annette (Reese Witherspoon). Cecile is simply naive but Annette is a terrifying American Pie moral crusader- which is sometimes more frightening than Katherine's dark- side. This could also be because the darkside Gellar brings to Katherine is Rusii Hour sometimes lame and unconvincing. Nevermind, Gellar makes up fc that v/ith an awesome screen snog with Cecile. Phillipe's Sebastian is deliciously cruel This is Jackie Chan's 3rd foray into the Hollywood grinder. The first and sexy at the beginning of the film. So much so. that I never felt the urge tc time they wanted him to be a Chinese dirty harry - it was a miserable failure, feel sorry for him during his path to reform and found myself hoping that just especially v/hen they completely ignored his natural comic talent. The second once, love wouldn't conquer all. If the irony of a crucifix pendant full of time v/as really a Clayton's go (it v/as made in Canada) when Jackie made the cocaine amuses you. so will this movie. film and released it through a US distributor Now we have RUSH HOUR, the film that none of his fans thought he would ever be able to make in the US. A Sam Ailwood film where his talent was used. However, for some strange reason he was placed in the straight role to Chris Tucker's punchy, fast one liners. Maybe the producers thought that Jackie's accent was too difficult to understand (that's why they dropped Neighbours in the US wasn't it!) on its own. The story is the standard kidnap script with a foreign cop and a renegade put together and told to stay out of the way while the real pro's do their stuff Of course that doesn't happen and they win the day. The budget was high and the effects and Wiio Am I? stunts shov/ed that. All in all it was a Jackie Chan film and you can't go WHO AM I is Jackie Chan's latest release. I saw this at the Gaythorne wrong with that, Cinema, the coolest cinema in Brisbane! The Gaythorne is the epitome of the old-fashioned cinema experience, complete witn friendly staff, and an experi­ Stuart Butterworth ence in itself. RUSH HOUR is a standard Hong Kong movie, just one of the hundreds that the HK film industry pumps out every year. It was made quickly and had a grungey, unpolished feel to it. This is the type of films that JC fans love hiir for. A film that takes it self so seriously that it is satirical. If you are expecting something as slick as RUSH HOUR, don't bother going. But if you like Manga, then you'll really get off on this one. Jackie loses his memony and chases the baddies around the world trying to find out who he is and uncover a global conspiracy. Great fight scenes and the acting really must be seen to be believed. My best suggestion would be to wait 'til it goes to video and watch it one day when you are feeling a bit silly.

Stuart Butterworth T^ Celebrities, Culture and Mardi Gras!: from frock up to lock Cyberspace: up the light on the hill in a postmodern world ed. Rictiard Wtierret (Penguin) Mckenzie Wark (Pluto Press)

'il-f''1"f'"i^i-«" 1 ^"^ ^"^'^ v^Ulzh combines two of my favourite cul- :\\--;Jlf llU r'-j, 1 ^y^gj -^^^^^ "Keating and Kylie" on its cover has me Richard Wherrett has brought together so many QMOilili' '<•' i instantly impressed, and that is before I had even stories, from so many years (it's been going for i..''ir • _-r opened the book. Mckenzie Wark has witten a book twenty years now) to provide an enjoyable kalei- wh ch he describes as "bringing together the culture dascopc of Mardi Gras storks. of politics and the politics of culture" and it is an interesting work which looks at popular culture and There are 'my first time' stories, 'my best time' sto­ Labor in government and the interplay between the ries. There are lots of comparisons from all those two. It combines all the trashy/cool media and cul­ people lucky enough to have been to heaps of tural signs from our generation with Labor politics parades and parties. There are quite a few histori­ with sections entitled "class struggle in Sylvania cal stories about the formation and growth of the Waters", "Oils ain't oiis" and "I should be so lucky" Mardi Gras board, and festivals. 'The First Party", all shedding light on the relevance of TV, music and by Barry CecchinI, "Dawn at the Awning", by Dawn media in the formation of public opinion. O'DonnelL

Wark also focuses on the interdependence of celebrity and political success, It mostly covers the parade and party with not much else from the various wondering whether Cheryl Kernot is "a celebrity because of her prominent role festivals covered. But you can still find out how a political march turned in politics" or, in light of her Women's Weekly cover, she is prominent in poli­ Into the biggest outdoor night time festival in the world. Find out how tics because she is a celebrity. I'll leave it up to you to decide. Dykes on Bikes started, how Lesbians slowly got involved and increased their visibility. If you can handle men writing about and drawing conclusions on feminism, Wark raises a valid point in looking at Catherine Lumby's (Good News Week) There are heaps of drug and sex stories, and an absolute over-abundance TV and magazine persona. Criticising the style of feminism that rejects all of drag queen stories. popular ciilture as part of perpetuating patriarchy, he points to Lumby's embracing of popular culture as a sensible thing because, in his opinion, "If As is usual with these kinds of things there is a heavy male dominance and you want to talk about what women ought to be, one has to know something a bisexual invisibility problem (but who'd be game to come out as bisexual about what women actually watch and read ard buy. A political feminism at the "Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras?" I hear you cry). that thinks In terms of solidarity and opposition doesn't actually have a han­ dle on these cultural forms through which women forge Identities and act as It's still an enjoyable book full of stories told by people who were there autonomous objects". and enjoying themselves.

But that is more on the media/cultural studies side. If your Interest Is more in Carmen the political side, and you want to read about Labor policy, figureheads, mis­ takes, and history then I suggest skipping to the second half of the book where you will find sections such as "on my left, Lintisay Tanner" and "on my right, Mark Latham" which is where the discussion about the interplay between politics and culture really starts. Open Australia Though written from a perspective which is older than most of you, (I remem­ Lindsey Tanner bered while reading the book that there are now people at uni who were born in the 80's - to whom Hawke being elected in 1984 would mean nothing) it is (Pluto Press) still worth the read - particularly If you are studying media/cultural studies and/or have an interest in politics. It's not really one for those sympathetic to Open Australia Is essentially Lindsey Tanner's contribution to the policy the Liberal Party view - Wark is himself a member of the Labor Party and per­ renewal debate that is taking place inside the Labor haps because of this finds it easier to see cool culture reflected in the ALP party since its monumental defeat at the 1996 feaeral than other parties. election. Sadly this work represents what is known as the politics of the "Third Way" most widely associated Cynthia Kennedy with Tony Blair and New Labour in Britain. Basically Tanner argues that we must accept the reality of globali­ sation - the ability of multinationals to screw workers - and that we have to drop any hopes of governments' What A Piece of Work being able to Implement meaningful reforms, because if they tried investment would sln"ply flow out of the Dorothy Porter country to more profitable markets. (Picador) Tanner's solution sounds very much like the Liberal's mutual obligation This novel, expressed in a long series of narrative scheme. The new role of the welfare state he argues is to help the individual poems, is one hetl of a mother-fucker, in all senses. 'participate' In the job market. Coming from the Left wing of the AL,° Tanner Porter slowly sucks the reader in with her gorgeous is careful not to call the unemployed "dole bludgers" - as do right wingers - use of words eulogising the pleasures of cigarettes, but none-the-Ies.s, he is walking a very thin line which I guess epitomises the madmen's visions and harbour breezes. The tale, bankruptcy of the politics of the Third Way. ostensibly detailing a psychiatrist's attempts to improve an asylum's atmosphere, dissolves into The way forward for Tanner in this "Information age" (wow the INTERNET!) is something far, far more darker, a long, hard ride to develop the number of skilled, well informed workers in Australia so we can into the nightmare of one's soul. When the poetry be more globally competitive. To achieve this we must spend on education. finishes, you're left shell-shocked, mind fucked by I'd like to see that. the possibilities that hide underneath our decaying facades. Read it, but be prepared. Just some final comments, The first chapter is infused with a hefty dose of Nationalism, which I found rather irritating. The chapter on Beyond the Geoff Parkes Sixties is outright weird. The crisis In society apparently is driven by a decline in moral standards caused by the individualism of the 1960s - loneliness and alienation stems from people's indulgent use of individuality? Mphh...

The sad fact about this book is that Peter Costello would probably have liked it. Besides some compassionate remarks about the hardships of life for ordi­ nary Australians under capitalism, Tanner offers no real alternative to the market.

50 Momo Rahni Wtiat Rhymes With Cars Neon Ballroom and Girls? silverchair (Sony) Tim Rogers and the Twinset (BMG) Talk about HYPE! What Rhymes With Cars And Girls? is a solo offering from You Apart from everything else, Juice magazine placed Ai'eon am I's Tim Rogers. He describes himself as, '.„a little bit of coun­ Ballroom, silverchair's latest, in its list of the greatest 100 albums of the decade before try, [andl....a little bit of rock'n'roll'. Soup, tuming 30 and skirts, are named as influen­ tial factors when Rogers recorded this album. it had even been released! All the fanfare made me curious and skeptical because I didn't think much of the dirge that is the album's first single "Anthem for the Year 2000" vuhich is currently in hyperdrive on JJJ playlists. The first track is 'Bushell And A Peck' and it is literally eating and drinking music. Containing no lyrics, the casual near country sound almost feels like you're drinking cof­ Neon Ballrcom is more complex and varied than "Freak Shov;". The band meanders fee somewhere far away In contrast 'Twenty-eight (track 7) and 'Happy Anniversary' between songs with gentle lifts and neat harmonies ("Emotion Sickness", "Miss You (track 6) are both very sombre, sentimental ard reminiscent tunes. However if you Love") and some quite heavy tracks ("Spawn Again") on a journey full of twists and become overly attentive you may bring on depression. turns. (Am I being too cynical when I forsee metalheads switching off at the quiet bits and other fans skipping over the heavy tracks?]... Anyway... While some of the material 'Under the Flight Path' (track 8) begins as a message from those living under the west­ is hard-hitting, there are a few too many off-the-wall and/or self indulgent moments ern flight path but really is a song about the fascination of aeroplares. It portrays the which kept me from being able to take the fab stuff seriously and lose myself in it. wonder of who's leaving the country and who's coming home. While we are on about indulging oneself I'd like to draw an analogy between the accompany ng liner notes/lyrics booklet and the actual album. There are some cliched Track 9 'Up-A-Ways' a duet, is definitely the mcst lively song on the album. This track images like a heart tied up in black string, a few dodgy/silly ones - a chick flashing her is concerned about moving, transition and new oeginnings. Track 10 follows with: 'Hi, undies, an orchestra bordered by (scantily-clad) disco dancers ... and a couple of gems we're the support band' which explains the rigours of being the preliminary' act. - Daniel Johns in a glass bottle and Ben Gillies applying lipstick in a cracked mirror. Unfortunately, the dodgy/silly/cliched parts make it hard for me to take the booklet, as "1 got from Campbelltown to Yass, on a borrowed tank of gas", are the opening words to a whole, seriously - just as some of the album material detracts from the Neon the fina track, The Songs They Played as 1 Drove Away! These songs are the break up Ballroom ride. songs played on the radio wnen you don't want to hear them.

Ellen Tim Rogers' What Rhymes With Cars And Girls? is a very thinking and listening album. If you want music to perk you up and dance to, this is not the CD for you. However if you New Rock are looking for something non-superficial, soft rock/country with meaningful lyrics, this is your album. Buttaio Daugtrter

All Khan Japanese bands are weird. Either they are mainstream pop syn- Maybe You've Been thesised rubbish (or even virtua' stars), or they are Buffalo Daughter, apparently so cool the Beastie Boys had to have them on their Grand Royal labe. And v;hy? Because they are cool. Rock and Roll has ^, ^^ Brainwashed Too been around as a genre for a long time, the revolut'iDn is upon us and the revolution is Buffalo Daughters Post-Rock. ^ ''-'^ T^' New Radicals (BMG/Universai) Gregg Alexander's project, the New Radicals, is a gorgeous Buffalo Doi/g/jfer include rock nusic at its basic level with samplers, techno sounds, slice of 90's pop, powered by elements lifted straight from the best part of the Style and peculiar English lyrics. Soc^s, Dn/gs and Rock Si Roll is a rock ballad that has gone Councils 'obra", along with thiimping bass ar\d drum lines. Whilst his swipes at seriously wrong. Jellyfish 6/ues introduces the worst elements of 'Popcorn' mcog music Courtney, Beck and Msr. Manson are doing his publicity no harm, this album more than to blues but v/orks and New Rock v^ou\fi make any dance music fan wonder why they justifies his faith expressed in recent interviews. From the cynical to the lovelorn, the hate rock music so much. This band will never make it to Oasis (un)popularily but for funk to the phallus, the New Radicals' album is something to be brainwashed by. the converted it does offer an alternative to rock music or dance music.

Geoff Parkes Beaucoup Fish Gone, just lil

Now there v«5 reason to go home. The night continued at home with a different type Frisell has worked across a spectrum of contemporary styles, from of dance music. A mixture of uplifting music along with more mellow sounds saw avant-garde jazz to country, and his eclectic approach is perfectly 'bedroom techno' albums reach the Top 40. 10 years of dance music has spawned complemented by the rhythm section he gathers around himself for this album: Jim 1000s of dance acts that have developed dance music to what it is today, but 'bed­ Keltner on drums has worked with the likes of Dylan a^^d Clapton, while Viktor Krauss is room techno' is still the major type of dance album. Enter Underworld, the James probably best known for playing bass with Lyie Lovett. As Frisell himself notes in his Joyce of dance music- always a series of somewhat incoherent ramblings that dis­ superbly eccentric liner notes, "Like Jim, Viktor has found his own way of playing. They guise the beats and feel of the songs beneath them. Like Joyce it is their lesser works both have a lot going on under the surface. Things aren't what they seem. Paradox. that hold the interest. Songs like Dirty Epic and Cowgirl never reached the success of What I 'ove about music is things that cant be explained. Mystery," Born Slippy but are musically superior. Their third album Beaucoup Fish is no excep­ tion. This is truly a 'bedroom techno' album, but mere importantly one of the best in This is without doubt a sort of cross-over album, with relevance to people coming from years. FatboySlim, The Prodigyand their ilk produce great albums but there isn't the just about any contemporary musical tradition. And yet the music here is as far away diversity that Underworld have. from the post-modernist grab-bag of Beck as it is possible to get. There is a unity of style under Frisell that stamps it as uniquely his - not just the amazing sounds he gets Beaucoup Fish starts with the club friendly Cups and maintains the intensity with Push from his guitar, but the whole approach, best summarized by the hallucinogenic paint­ Upstairs, King of Snake and Kittens. However. Winjer arvi Shudder {[he prologue to ings by Jim Woodring that adorn the cover and liner notes. This shoUd be compulsory King of Snake) add the definition that other bands are unable to introduce. The bluesy listening for people who think Radiohead is good music, and the rest of you should go and cut up Shudder contradicts fCing ofSnoke enough to hold the listeners interest out and get it as well. before they are bombarded with a song not unlike Donna Summer's I Feel Love. It is these moments that make Beaucoup Fish different to your average dance album and Kenny Phillips definitely worth a listen. Sunday 8pm Faithless I Currently ripping up the dancefloors on their tour of Australia, J Faithless have issued an Australian tour edition, complete with la CD-Rom video disk of their most popular songs. Sunday 8pm is a gorgeous mix of big beats, smooth and luscious grooves, gorgeous vocals and a special appearance by Boy George. Perfect for pumping up loud before you go out; equally sublime enough for the Sunday morning comedown.

Geoff Parkes Kenny Phillips' Great Albums of the SOs they must have seemed a revelation. There was an obvious sophistication to the band's pop music that made it instantly attractive to the expanding American college radio scene: Stipe's poetic lyrics, for example, or the cello that appears in "Talk About the iMurmur Passion". This was not the earthy rock-and-roll revivalism of a mld-80s Springsteen, but REM instead a return to folk-rock and garage-pop. As has been remarked of them, there were no overt innovations in their music, and yet this album is altogether enchanting and rev­ I Before they became rich and boring drive-time staples, its easy to elatory. forget that REM began and made successful the leading strand of SOs and 90s alternative rock. Some of the songs on this record date to 1981, when the musical landscape was These are brilliant songs. There is no song on this album I dont like. Is there a prettier dominated by the twin monuments of post-punk and synth rock. They marked a rediscov­ song from the 80s than "Laughing"? Peter Buck (for my mind, the real 'nnovator of the ery of folk influences not heard in contemporary rock music for perhaps a decade. group) here perfects the ringing, melancholic guitar tones that make REM so recogniza­ ble. Murmur had incalculable influence on the entire underground rock scene; the album Murmur, the debut album from Bill Bery, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, must have started thousands of bands in garages. There are great bands around now - showed that something different was possible. The accoustic mstrumentation, sweet male The Apples in Stereo, for example - still worfclng through the project outlined in it. harmonies and wistful lyrics still sound fresh and charming today; on release in 1983 Though they went on to shift units, REM never made a better album than this one. The founding of a genre.

There are few cities like the city of my birth - Belgrade. It has many beautiful old buildings, two big rivers - Sava and Danube - lots of parks. But in the recent past the character of the city has changed for the worse. The negative energy charge Is now so huge that many people fal, quickly into depression. There is a reason for that. The effects of war in the region have been keenly felt, especially by young people, over the past eight years. It Is sheer luck that direct conflict has not hit Belgrade yet, although with recent political aevelopments and NATO war planes massing In Europe, it does not mean that it won't. Meanwhile the economy has collapsed, most people are un- or under- employed and hundreds of thousands of young people have emigrated in search of better opportunities and a more normal life.

Despite all this and the other stuff you read In the newspapers and see on TV, there is another side to life - the underground youth and music scene. The main scene that Incorporates student protest­ ers, dissidents and anyone with half a brain Is known as "Urban guerilla". This thrives despite of (or deliberately in spite of) the nationalist politics and conflicts, the difficult economic situa­ tion and passing fashion trends. "Urban guerillas" are centred around the Academia night­ club, situated in the basement of Belgrade University faculty of fine arts. Academia has a big basement with eight rooms and three DJs, the kind of music depends on the evening and there are themes every evening. You can find eveiythlng there - punk, heavy metal,, hard core, rap techno, olues... The world goes on regardless. Young couples that kiss in the dark, drunkards and drugged lunatics, Intermlnaale dancers, future losers and winners...

In some ways It Is like many of the clubs hce in Brisbane, just that the place is huge and the undertones more complex, darker. I notice that pmballs are not played so much here. Is it a trend that has passed? Do you guys just have more money (certainly) or are we ahead of our time? In Belgrade, pinball is an obsession. Betting can be furious and sometimes fights break out around who gets to play next.

At least Academia is cheap. For ten Australian dollars a punter can get an 2 entry ticket and drink five litres of beer - you can only dream of doing that here in Brisbane. There are a few other happening places like Academia in this city of two million people. KST is a club run by the technical students, there are also 5t James, Omen, Industry and Coyote. Concerts held at these

of.-Jf'-'i:Ji"^ i places are usually by local groups. That Is a pity. Many foreign groups don't 41wis h to come because of the political situation, but occasionally someone does come, mainly rap musicians from America.

Besides the urban guerillas, that in their own way challenge the status quo, there Is another youth group that wants everything to stay the same. We call them 5"diesels" . Paradoxically their main hangout is across the road frcm Academia and it is called Meteor. There you can listen to mainly (surprise) disco music. It is no co (o incidence that "diesels" tend to be from better off families, who increasingly belong to the mafia and black market sectors. I guess the equivalent would be young yuppies In Brisbane, however 1 won't dwell on them, as I do not think they represent the real, true heart of Belgrade.

So come to Belgrade. No matter that UN sanctions are in place, we live In a police state and ML^f the foreign office advises you not to go the.T. The music sce.ne is alive and well and we speak your language. Come to Belgrade, or at least buy me a beer next time you see me,

Baiso Radulovic is a .Vlontenegrian student/bass player/some time composer and part-time journalist currently visiting Brisbane. His main claim to fame s getting arrested during the five month long student-led protest against the Milosevic regime during the winter of 1997. His mother has never recovered from this and keeps knitting him warm socks -just in case. So far he has not needed them in Brisbnane. the Doug Anthony Allstars Club and very shy Paul McDermott, who was performing in the people and a sexy old bugger to boot. He loves his TV and footy Gigantic Flyer, a group parody of 1930 films. The two became and can belt ojt a Neil Diamond song at the drop of a hat". And FROM THE SWEET GUITARIST TO THE COMPUIEK NERD frlencs and when Robert pulled out of the Dougs because of when asked to comment on his view of the state of Australian 'and TV Presenter" exam commitments, Richard asked Paul to appear in the roll of politics I was sure I was in a government lecture but it was a lot the happy victim for a night or two. The money was good so Paul more interesting and the lecturer seemed to have a lot more sex Richard Fidler is probably best known by today's youth for writing took the gig. From that point on Paul kind of took over, choreo- appeal. Richard thinks "the Westminster system v/ill have to and presenting ABC's highly successful show Race Arojnd the grapl-ing, writing the songs, playing the lead singer and all the change, probably quite radically, to keep voters feeling they have World (RATW, 1996 h 1997) and to the older generations as the rest and he moved to the position of the aggressive one. Richard a stake in the scheme of things" V/hat will it change into ? "I guitarist from tne Doug Anthony All Stars (D.AAS, may they rest tells, 'fhere wasn't enough room for two agg'essive characters, so really don't know. Probably we'll see further incremental slippage in peace) but there is a lot more to Richard Fidler as I found dur­ I became the happy victim". And for eight years he stayed in the towards the US System: a (ooscnirg of party discipline in the role excelling at ever/ opportunity. House and Senate, One thing's for sure: baby boomers will con­ tinue their stranglehold or the policy agenda for the next twenty The new Dougs were a success from the star!, winning The years. In the sixties and seventies :hcy fought for free tertiary .Adelaide Frir-ge Fest'val in 1986 after being together fo.' three education for themselves. Now they've lost interest in that. short months. Many Good News Weekend fans may remember They're more concerned now with cheap old age care'i Richard the T'J clip of the prize ceremony from the Fringe Festival ori the tru'y is a man concerned v.'ith the problems of today's society lasl Good News Weekend aired 9/98 with Paul's paisley sperm and has true ins'ghts into politics today and despite all those shirt. In 1987, after saving money, the Dougs pafonwd at the years of acting stupid he has a mind to rival Australia's best and Fringe festiva! in Edinburgh where they took home the coveted should consider running for a parliamentany seat. Fringe Prize. After this success in England that was not at that time being matched ifi Australia, the Dougs moved to England Richard, since the break up in 19S4, i:as been very ttusy, and this vjhere they became a massive success. In 1989 they once again year is no exception despite returned to Australia and Ted Robinson (producer of The Big Gig) Race Around the World not saw the boys busking on a street corner and asked Richard and continuing this year Richard has ing an interview last year. Join with me as we Race Around the other two to perform regularly on The Big Gig. Bewteen thei-- been in Melbourne filming a Richard. appearances on The Big Gig and their blunt 'n your face style the pilot for a new ABC serious Oougs soon became famous or rather infamous in Australia, whi e based on Mouthing Off. Even Richard was born in Australia, most likely Adelaide in the middle maintaining if not increasing their success in England. with Rich working so hard, he years of the 1960's. He grew up in the .suburbs of Adelaide or stills finds the time to watch TV, Sydney or Canberra or Melbourne (depending on whether you While the Dougs provided excellent opporturities for Richard's like The Simpsons, X-Files, believe the RATW version, the DAAS version or the Mouthing career and for his artistic talents it also provided many opportu­ Latelinc, Teletubbies, Father Off version). He later moved to Canberra where he studied nities for his love life. Meeting his wife in 1991 on the set of Ted, This Life ,. "anything cultish Australian polit cs at the Australian National University where he DAAS Kapital (Richard and the other two's show 1991/1992 ABC and obvious I suppose". He works achieved a Masters In Political science. Despite this achievement TV) and marrying the lucky lady in 1993. DAAS tours provided at his Mac "because Mac is like he did not spend his uni days and nights studying, the ins and Richard with many experiences, such as the tour in Tasmania, working in a beatufil organised outs of Australian politics, he spent his uni days "watcning crap­ where Mr McDermott rol ed over in the bed and said, "Come on room where as a IBM is like py bands, playir.g in even crappier aands and bullshitting at the Rich -t's just the same", After that night Rich had reassured him­ working in a concrete condo­ uni bar." self "despite trying it once it really wasn't fo' him". I still wonder minium with cacked ceiling and if the silence I got to "Did you try it again to make sure Richard?" fluorescent lights." and can His ascent to the top of the bottom of the comedy heap started was a denial or confirmation of this fact. sometimes be 'ound surfing the net while listening to his 8 track when he meet Timothy Dawson Langbenc Ferguson (Don't Forget cartridges. Anc of course he find Your Toothbrush, Dr Frank 'n' Futef in The New Rocky Horror While in England in the '990's Richard had become friends with the time to go grocery shopping •^ Show) who "was busking as a hippy in an orange shee; in the a manger in an interactive computer company, and was doing the which is only hindered by his streets of Canberra" odd bit of work while in England. It seemed the natural progres­ career in a weird v/ay. "Not t. sion that when the Dougs split, in 1994, that he would move to many people actually watch the England and work as a graphic artist for the ABC, so if someone spots me and' company. The English immigration department yells out. None of the other however didn't y;ant him to live in England, ne^lUDMie^iuQ^iev^lubMie^luoMie^kiD^^ shoppers recognise me, which is hence Australia v/as lucky enough to keep him doubly embarrassing". If you ever and "it was good move for me that I didn't go, yell out to Richard, in a crowded Anarchist Club the company went bust in 1995". supermarket just make sure walk Anarchism is not a solely nihilistic or violent ideology. The over and look in his trolley and Between 1994 and 1996 Richard became a com­ Mahatma Ghandi called himself an anarchist and the christian make sure he has a six packet of plete computer geek (I mean it in the nicest pos­ pacifist Leo Tolstoy was an anarchist. Anarchists believe that 'Pop Tarts'. He will assure you he sible way), During this time ne worked on inter­ authority corrupts human relationships and as such advocate the doesn't eat them he just likes active CD-Roms including "Real Wild Child" abolition of state as a prerequlstlte for a just society We oppose the packaging. which he won an award for, plus v^orking on ser- racism, sexism and homophobia. We have socialist objectives but val other CD-Roms adapted from Magnum emphasise that the state has no role to play (ie aim to establish a comics. During this break Richard never thought Watch out for Richard over the Libertarian Communism). On top of this Anarchism also encom­ of returning to TV or performing until The next months to appear on our passes social relations and how humans should behave with one Comedy Channel, Foxtel's home of comedy television screens. And of course another. Some ideas to be addressed are: offered Richard a show he could write, present 1 left the best question for - establish an anarchist library or book club. and was completely unedited. Mouthing Off v/as Richard for second last, but a panel show in which the big topics of the day unfortunately .ne can not envis­ - dialogue with other Brisbane groups. where debated such as S.N.A.G.s. (Are they sens- age getting himself Paul and - raise awareness and support for the Zapatista rebellion in live new age guys or suckle nerds angling for Tim back together in public, Mexico. girls?), What do we do with nanna? and of unless, "I'm poor and living in - proposals for mutual aid societies. course Economic Rationalism. Richard sat in the the back of my car". But Richard Anyone interested can drop an E-mail at [email protected] middle of two warring factions, of two guests have you lied during this inter­ Jason per side, and tried to keep control, but he learnt view ? "Repeatedly. But then, never to mix alcohol from the bar in the studio that could be a lie too." v\3u iqnp M3u iqnp M3U ,;qn|3 «3U ^qnp M3U ,;qnp wau ^qnp M3U ^qnp Mau s and opinionated people together if control is sought. He did this show during 1996, 1997 and By Claire Pomery into '998. This show lead Richard back to the Australian public In 1983, Queanbeyan Leagues Club, Canberra saw the beginning President D'A*A"S Club with the ABC picking him up to host and write Race Around the of The Doug Anthony All Stars. Richard was the mean aggres­ contact us World during 1997 and 1998. sive one, Tim was the gorgeous vacuous one and Robert Piper [email protected] was the happy victim. The Dougs only went forward from this or at daasclub.cjb.net or performance with their first TV appearance in 1984 on the Late When the interview turned to the topic of Australian politics daas.cjb.net Show on Capital Seven TV in Canberra, the Dougs also performed Richard seemed to be very comfortable. When asked who he in many venues in and around Canberra. The most important was would put forward to be Australian president, he had no hesita­ at Cafe Boom Boom, where Richard Fidler met up with a young tion in suggesting Tony Squires. Why ? "Tony is true man of the Semper checks out a couple of new clubs (or nearly new) on campus.

If you would like your club profiled in Semper, come on down and see us (downstairs in the Union building, past the bike shop and Commonwealth bank) or ring us (3377 2237) or e-inail us ([email protected]) or post (Semper Fioreat, University of Queensland Union, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4067). And if you still can'i Pf get to us, you shouldn't be running a club. ^^' Eiioposed Bridge Easing Tiraffic Around Uni to West End

A high-tech tidal flow system to replace the roundabout at the entrance to the University of Queensland is one of the options being Would you like to be able to ride, walk, or catch a proposed to improve traffic conditions along Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Galley Road. light rail directly from campus to West End, South Bank, QUT, the city and the valley? Brisbane City Council has identified three problem intersections and suggests various ways of incorporating state-of-the-art technolo­ gies into tne project to relieve the congestion along the two roads during peak times. If the answer is yes, and we believe it is for the Transport and Major Projects Chairperson Cr Maureen Hayes has commissioned the study to determine the impacts and benefits of majority of our 28,000 students and 4,500 staff, implementing the public transport initiative along Sir Fred Schonell Drive. then the student union reeds you to sign cur peti­ tion ASAP! "One of the problems wilh congestion through this area of St Lucia is its impact on the reliability of bus services. Reliability of buses means mo.'e people will consider public transport as an option." Cr Hayes said. In case you haven't heard, there Is a proposal to "Bus priority measures along this corridor would fit in with the Coronation Drive Bus Lane project and the upgrade of the Benson/High build a light rail network throughout the Bnsbane Street intersection to provide an uninterrupted bus jopurney between the city and the University of Queensland," Cr Hayes said. city area, but according to the current plans, the rail will stop at the far erid of Boundaty Street in "We believe these options will improve conditions for all road users," she said. West End, making it Inconvenient and expensive for The study has identified three intersections as the main cause of the problems - Sir Fred Schonell Drive / Coleridge Street roundabout, students to access it from UQ, as wc will need still Sir Fred Schonell Drive / Galley Road intersection and Gailey Road / Herbert Street intersection. to catch the City Cat across the river, then walk or ride all the way down Boundary St! The preferred option for each of the intersections are: The proposal will not be modified to include a Sir Fred Schonell Drive / bridge to St Lucia unless we can demonstrate Coleridge Street intersection enough student demand for it and apply pressure •* \' .*/ •? y. Replacing the roundabout with traffic to key decision makers. signals and installing an ITS (Intelligent Transport System) solution is the pre­ If the light rail network is going to go ahead, it is ferred option. Because of the high ridiculous to exclude the university community of flow of traffic towards the University nearly 40,000 people from the network. The bridge in the morning, a 'tidal flow' lane will enable travel by foot, rail and bicycle: the three would be allocated at the intersection most environmentally friendly forms of transport '''Ijs^; (similar lo that proposed for Coronation Drive). In the morning around. peak period, when an extra lane is required at the intersection going So not only will a bridge make life easier for stu­ towards the University, the centre lane dents, and cheaper, It wil benefit the environment. would be 'rea located' to become a For this rea.son Smogbusters, the Queensland S', • > ' right turn lane from Sir Fred Schonell Conservation Council's alternative transport area is m- • Drive into Coleridge Street (see dia­ pi • .-^ . In favour of the bridge to West End. - --.. "1 ' .. - •• gram). ' - - - , oil',,'" The only opponents we are aware of are some West After the morning peak, the lane would End residents, some of whom fear that their river­ become a normal lane carrying traffic • • • - "•---.. \ '. ' \ away from the University and remain front houses will lose value, and others who fear so for the rest of the day. that the bridge will be used to allow cars to cross. .'; 'w.-'P^T"?' ••••'• ...-•'. This is a red herring. A I'ght rail company Is hardly Plan for peak morning periods going to build a bridge which allows cars to cross, as this would rob them of Income.

You can fmd out more about the light rail network by visiting the government web site at http://www.blr.qld.gov.au/. then sign our petition at the main Union office, or at the Union Info stall in main refec, or email us at envIro.union@mail- box.uq.edu.au stating that you want the bridge Sir Fred Schonell Drive / .L V and tnctuding your name Et address. Gailey Road intersection - f * I This intersection is extremely busy dur­ ing the evening peak periods as stu­ Jason John dents and staff leave the university, Co-environment officer resulting in delays for bus services and other road users. "'"—-"ii'rl

A purpose-built 'queue-jump' bus lane would allow Council bus services to p.Riyi---t|t,k...?. Council's RAPID bus priority system would also be installed at this intersec­ TenAfift* tion ti further assist buses to move quickly and efficiently through the area. r

^WCKKTII^'r ]•- Plan for non-peak periods

Gailey Road / Herbert Street Intersection Again, another 'queue-jump' bus lane would allow bus services to either bypass any traffic queuing at the lights (inbound towards the City), or to exit more easily from the existing bus stop.

The project is partof Brisbane's Integrated Transport Strategy, a five year package of innova­ tive and integrated fansport initiatives that aim to increase public transport use, curb growing traffic congestion and protect the environment.

All options being considered by Council are on display from March 8 until 1 April (so hurry r.lCKM) rJ»CAIM9[«nS if you want to see them!!!) at Toowong Village Shopping Centre (outside Coles) and at the University of Queens'and (foyer, SSaH Library). An IntLoductlon to Bus Etiquette by Holly Arden

The Brlst)ane City Council was not thinking straight when it decided to halve bus fa'^es. As wc all flog off our cars for a cheap ride on tne 407, there are many of us who will be entering uncharted territory, albeit with an extra dollar ten in our pockets, 'v'^i/hat concerns mc Is this new wave of bus virgins, those who think It Is as simple as hail, pay and ride. By encouraging students to use buses, Council has done these people a disservice. It has overlooked the complex sociological phenomenon that is Uni. bus culture. Into which hundreds of uninitiated students must now try and blend.

If one Is to maintain a scrap of sophistication on campus, a mastery of bus decorum Is essential. It Is the differ­ ence between holding on to a thread of respect from fellow passcgers, or dropping your fagaac on tne floo' a ong with your loose change. The goal Is to r.ake as little contact with fellow passengers as possible: pnysical. eye - or othcw^se. After a day of sitting elbow to rib with fe:iow students in lectures, or fampling on otners in the rcfcclorisi the accorojs passenger wil! spend the journey r, pursuit of nersonai space, Wiiat follows should thc-efore be taken as a pi-elimrary guide on now to avoid other Rssscngcrs, and or how they will try to avoid yo'j.

inch of leg over the aisie/w'T.dov.' First and Foremost seat border, to know it will ward off any potentini The Go den Rule : never sit next to anyone cimoany. the mo'il innocent-looking of a pasynger', 'unless you have to. ,^isle seals are rui realy tnere to be ''sat in. Their fu.nctior, is If' ^uari] against invas':)!", of personal Sneaky Buggci: "/ill gaze Dreamily out the v.indovv, to create ^space, and most passenjcrs will use therr, to prevent such ar-. the illusion that oody pdr's are apt to drift across the seat of their ^intrusion [see Bagcc.s, Aislopbiles, Sneaky Bucgcrs). .As a basic ruie, own accord. 'there should ber>rie passenger in each of the winaow sests, before a 'neighbouring aisie seal is sought, A good idea is to board tie bus first, so Remember, seat-se.irching is likt any sptirt, where assessing the 'that you are never in the position of having to search for an a sle seat and ''compromising your persona! space. But if yuu arc ,,, situation before start of play is the key. Scope the field, like a footballer; eval­ uate the competition, plan the strategy, but be flexible. No two buses are ever the same. Moves will be similar, but combinationi will vary. Seat-searching can often prove the most difficult part of i journey to the aspiring bus' The Seat Search sophisticate, but it is important to reroember not to look as It is important here to note the distinction though you are trying too hard. Bus etiquette should seem rbetweer. "free" and "vacant" seats. Just because an like second nature, where avoidance of other people is r aisle seal is vacant, does not mean you can sit in it. instinctive. ^Certain types of oassengers will make this abun- /dantly clear. The following arc three of the most /common types: The Lone Seat Phenomenon The Bagger This is also a commcii situation, arising when all efforts ta maintain even an iota of personal These arc lUe passengers who t-ake oistance bclweeri passengers liave fai.ea. The aus is up toth seats, by siting their bags next to full to bursting ; 5lrangcrs, stana'ng rose to arrr'p't tnem on the aisle side. If the bag is large in the aisles, have reached new 'evels of intimacv encugh, the seat-searcher can see il in time, However all is not lost, Ti'cre i. one hope : the sin­ anil move on. The danger arises when the bag gle, unclairred scat, right in the centre of the uus, is .00 small to be si'.ei'i until a novice searcher The fact thatan aisle seat is vacant EvcryDoay will see it, aut rouody will acknowledge it. has unwittingly flurg themselves into the seat, does not mean you can sit in it. By ignoring the seat yoj can at li;ast hang on to a ot ly to have to crawl out again to scornful pretence of psychologica; distance from what is going looks from more experienced onlookers. The on arouna you. even if a fel.ovv passenger has their n'oral: S.W.O.T. before you squat. elbow in your stomach. Never, under any circumstances, take the seat, or suffer the consequences of having broken a complex, unwritten law, as well as the .;vil stares of twen­ The Aislophile ty standing passengers for the rest of the journey. A more assertive form of Bagger, Aislophi es ^will use themselves in place of the bag, to ward off company. Jhe Aislophile will sit on the aisle side, leaving the window seal Avoidance as a Mode: .free, confident in the knowledge that no one is going to ask them to move over The above information is intended as a basic guide lO the rules of ,10 the window seat, or, worse slill, squeeze past them. The less assertive type proper bus conduct. However, the principles may be applied to wider socie­ place their bag on the inside window seat, just in case someone does ty, or at least to Uni. life in general. The ''act is, the mo:e we avoid each Jry it. other, the better. This way, we may go quietly about completing our studies without fear of criticism, conflict or chak-nge, VVhile the Student Union strives to create a sense of unity amongst the The Sneaky Bugger student body, the bussing community is already light These are the real psychologists, the top years ahead. They arc bound by a powerful, uiispo-^ minds in bus behaviour. Buggers are so acutely ken law of avoidance It is. after all, the eas-^ sensitive to the passenger-interaction iest route to peace. phobia, that they need only sneak b finger o^ =>" Si •I union

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the Academic Beard, Bruce Lines, Postgrad Organiser Postgraduate VP's Report Extraordinaire, has left the Union after three and a half Hello! years of dedicated service. Bruce will be sorely missed. A huge thankyou lo Lisa Rake, who has been holding the Area It has been a huge few months for the Postgraduate Area. together since January, and many congratulations to Charise Kennedy, who will be taking over as the permanent Voluntary Student Unionism Postgrad Organiser on March 15. While the concept of VSU may seem worthy, the practice decidedly isn't. Hospitals Postgraduate Organiser After much lobbying from postgrad students at Herstonl What does VSU mean for postgraduate and other hospital campuses, a part-time Postgrad! fl Organiser (Barbra Gonda) was appointed to oversee aca-£ jStudentS? in WA, where full VSU was implemented In demic and administrative support services in these areasS '1996. student unions have had to focus on the commercial last year. Unfortunately, Barb is nov/ leaving us due tof jaspects of their existence in order to remain financially other commitments. So thankyou Barb, and we wish you all Iviable. This means that services such as representation, the best for the future. jacvocacy, academic support, welfare support, child care, (subsidised accommodation, cheap legal services, interest- UQ Student On CAPA Executive B jfree loans, health services and social services have had to ibe minimised. No voice in university decision-making. No Rhonda Kelly, a Masters student at UQ, has been elected asrf |childcare. No financial help. No advocacy for academic the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations'! Jappeals. No one working specifically to maintain student's Indigenous Peoples' Officer. To contact Rhonda, email 'rights, to ensure that your time as a postgrad is the best [email protected]. Congratulations! I that it can be. No welcome drinks each semester! While J ycur $28/64/129 may seem like a lot of money at the Semester One Postgraduate Week 'beginning of each semester (assuming you don't have to Postgrad Week wil, be held on May 10-14. Expect seminars,! I pay $4000 worth of fees - on top of that $129 is easy to workshops, social functions and fun times for alL For fu'' find), without it your study at UQ would be a lot more dif- details, stay tuned to the Email Bulletin... Jficult. So, get involved and use your Union - maintain the i; stjdent experience as a high priority within the University. The Email Bulletin n r Want to know what your Postgrad Area is doing for you?'! •:• On to some happier thoughts. Subscribe to the Email Bulletin. Address an email to major-'s ii [email protected]. Leave the subject line blank, and inji the body of the message write .i! ^Hip Hip Hooray! It's 1993! Once you have sent the message your subscription will be I-; i-The Postgraduate Welcome, held on February 24 in the confirmed, and fortnightly bulletins will be forwarded fron-; r Axon Room, was an enormous success. Big thanks to Assoc the Postgrad Area. >\ i Prof Alan Lawson, Deputy Dean of the Graduate School and rdtan of Postgraduate Studies, who has inspired us with his 1: words for the start of the academic year Big thanks must Contact usl ; also go to the Union Catering staff, who were able to han- If you need any help with anything arsing from your post-i •;dle the three-fold increase in attendance! I hope everyone grad studies, please do not hesitate to contact myself on'! ; wno attended will be able to maintain the energy evident 3377 2200 ext 340, or phone the Postgraduate Organiser"; ; at the function, and hopefully be able to translate that on 3377 2234, email [email protected]. •.' energy to their studies! Cheers! Postgraduate Organiser After landing a plum job as the Administrative Officer for Natalie Gourgaud. .'

Environment report At time of press we will have just had cyclathon week, Hi everyone! raising money to get people to Students and 0-week was hectic and productive. Heaps of people Sustainability in NSW on July 12-16. S&S is an amazing visited us at the o-week stall, and about 15 came on the chance to meet with environmentally aware students tours to the permacu lure garden. We still go there regu­ from all around Australia. Contact us, or Vanessa Glenn larly: Monday and Thursday 4-6pm, down outside at NUSQ for details, and don't forget to get your sponsor­ International House en Glasshouse Rd, sc come down and ship money to Vanessa if you haven't already. find us. Recycling was a great success due mostly to the hard work of Scott Gordon- thanks Scott! Finally, Green Week is on the way, April 19-23. and we plan to release a Green Week Handbook covering every­ Regular meetings kicked off with good numbers, and con­ thing from broad environment issues, to handy hints for tinue Mondays 1-2 ir the Kingham room, near the bike everyday eco-living. We need contributors, and planners • shop. We plan to have a host of speakers and workshops, for the Green Week Program. Call us now! and have been brainstorming the sorts of things we want "to cover, but it's not too late to get in with your ideas. Remember, "Unless someone like you cares a whole, awful lot, nothing's going to get better- it's not!" (The Lorax, Dr . ;We've formed sub-collectives on permaculture. Seuss) 'i ^uranium/Jabiluka. an organic food buying group, trans- jport, recycling, land clearance ft regeneration, A few Seeya, people are keen to form an eco-choir. We urgently need Jason John ft Meryan Tozer some volunteer coordinators for the organic food buying 3377 2255 group! [email protected] Come along Mondays, or ring us on 3377 2255 to fmd l!! out more about the sub collectives. ii 'Avssvif.- :'";..^

Fight VSU, Fight education cuts, just fiqht the Liberals. State Day of Action Wednesday, March 31

Your education vice-presi­ dent. Sarah McBratney with 12pm King George Square the NUSQ Women's Officer, Naomi Rowe at the International Women's Day Rally (5 March, King George Square).

(or maybe ose yOj- .,'^ion)

infor.matiori contact the Education Area of tne UQ Union on 3377 2200 or the National Union of Students on 3876 7539.

th:"g5 yoii s"ould get 'o' free. The Uni's new; Education VP's Report no.icy states that if sometring is essential fori vcij' co.,rsc, it sr'ou'j be available for free ini i ^ V lilel'o again anc vveicoire tc .vn.ii -'ve y-.-er the liDran,; o" the net, or at the deoartnentalj \(io'.i"j as yLH" tcucat'or. VP si^ce we last 'ret. o'fice 3s well as being for sale. Things like sub-[ L ett ojt'i'ics arc reading ,;st5 are co'-'Siaered so: O'WEEK essential they should de free for each student.f I did a ;o; rJ i'j'' v.':r yc'C's, D'ACC-' event., Pease he n 'JS tc he uyoj by 'cport-'-g suspect-; ircudif-n 3t3inc; ;)r. O'ca-ni; w'-'cl; wai a Lsiast! cc iircachei o" the un-'s r)o:icy. IVou mav ha^'e s;:e;" tnv "^ea!3 ^tu'-.t ti-at >/a't IColhr.s anc i pjt togetht"- o-^ t'/iarket D3y,..'t CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NET-! iinvQivea o wa'i o"^ large co o.i"'d ooxes vi'r.'xr VJORK IreDrcsented oarts c; the unio.n. vmr-r. were 't car ?,<:• ve'% df''CJ,t '•c vai.' StJ3e:;t; ;then riestrovcci bv the bdu:;2ii0i. T. ,:5ti;r, Rsr!)'esf;'"t.:t:vc; to k-iov, exactu whaff nap- ;David >>rr,p a''J t'i; HIS; VSU stici.. Ttianx to iK'.yr:. al; av<" •'•;: ..'iK'cs'i, anc i knoiv tnat •Don-'ri? '^i- tn'ng Ke'r[;...'.'o.i :cc>: Arc t:^ •'"t a;: siwce'-t; a;v;av> K'^OV. .vnat ft Un.ons David Kemp attempting to destroy the student •whoevf sty: t-'f i;;c; r^e'^;;; !';:;icr irnt; :: CD^'K; '>'; C^a;i t^;::; Netvvot! ,j a\:vci'(;a to union through VSU (narkcl day, 0' Week.). •aacki a;tte' 'a:- tate torr:'!^!''!C3;io/. uetv,'ecr ;ne itjoe'-t iioci a"c: the Sti.cic'^t U'"'Dn '' vo.^Vf i-REPRESENTATION STUFF... ,; .-...... ,.,; ... ,-.. . .- -;: ..,...• j-J,>'i tn..,.. •• U*^ '.';,...^ ^...in .J J, .: \.:t3^'. .'...J, *.i'.^ ..'.'*.' O-...' Acaoemi: iioarc; ,, ''vz A:;;i;'rr-c iij;-:: o- :^' \o\:., :;^'-Cj'2tii'afc;r-' ;t W'- b^^;: •VV.J'0:"9 ••'.;;;"• e!Tv, '• vni. !'a';e:'':, tr-t:re.. i['\'. t''^^:^ ;!art!eiv .j-'Cvi'i-fu , t;.:t ./ t'v ^tv:^^;; t•:^ ;>cia'.: Cj" f;;; ii'::c)'' u'" 23~~ 2200 •' voi, iva';t to .';; - votf;; jna'::^':i),!S:, t. ,.,:;; i:'' t'^^ x:-i'^": ..•'tve'. A. TC fv 'tit (;• VOL., wat:" ;;;;; 'o; a •Unor n cj' *!?i"t .n::. ••:• '.'S^ >•:'•;'•• v.;v. CiiVi, ^^;!: •• voir ::a;;... :ite'' to iv!:a: thev JexceiU'if 1 ;^i>'" ca^.^ei' r :"•: ••• • '•'-: • :;. ;:^'•'•;" '/uv ;:; -a,^ a':c ixov: :<':•'. -oj can '.:>:. tu i^iat Jthi- ;k):-'0 i; lio; or'iirsv fv u-'r;i,)-^t n- ;i' DJ'M;'- • •,-in. '-avr arv. !ii.:Cx I 't'"e '••."'>,:!. i\'^.c P'on'ot ;'•"- r;;'--" ^TL'C^ "" ;v;r ;fac..:ti;:i bc:;iJ-'." onv on v ::.;;; ci-; ivc'-::ii c- VSU STUFF: .'ve t)een (IO:IK; a ot c' worK '1 (out of c.nnt; .inc ti:c cth- ^K; •!;• woi^ifn a: wit'- tne rneiiia on VSi.....wNtinc letters re tiie ; a':, wnc:: tne jni's i)olx\ :- ''':•" V.CKC- i'^o.. C: eu t')', spean'ng on ii'O;;. iv''vi''«', anu -^nz. make up ?.' >;!•;• 2;-^, o* ai ccmrr'nee... "v^v v,'n:cn nas tieen a nev\ ana iriterestinc: cKiieri- ] moton vvas [;'..'fL'atft; iiut net •>'- •vuc. •.'-.ex ana .neDiruj with the "Siack Tuesaay' ' fune.'a; fc t"e Student Union. I've aiso tieen • lAPPC... T',. :wo i;iL;(n:5t th working wiin the Cross Carinus Ant'-VSU co - * iup on Atadcini: Program-; Comir.ittee lective, whicn nas ocer a cnalleiige, ; jwere both opuo.^eci jy us Because of the'' imph- General VP icatiors for fees tor stuaents Tne f'st was that STATE DAY OF ACTION i [some 'acuitic; aidr-,'t ur-aerstanu how it wouiC I Wel', the Class Rep Network is now underway, with cost students more ir HECS to add arolhet year To come out of all these meetings is tne deci-- over 190 reps, there should be one coiriing to a class • [onto dua' di'gree programs, I've managed to sion to ho'd a State Day of Action, to ccincicfei near you! If there's not one in any of your subjects, ' nave a dec'sion on this delayed until they .ook with National Hducation Week, which is Varchj why not volunteer yourself?! Your Ciass Rep is there : rinto 't more. 29 - April '. Look out for a prograrr soon of! as a point of contact between you and yo.ir Union. what's on. The State Day of Action is toiaunchi They arc there to let yau know what's going on in The other t.'iing which we mannqea to delay a a joint campaign for fully lundcd universities yo.jr department and faculty, as well as updates on decison or, was the lacn from the EPSA facul­ and to stop VSU. Tne central message wi!! be upcoming events, Tal^ to them if you have any sug­ ty for a science oridging ciograrr so new stu­ that the governrient nas an atrocioi/s record on gestions / queries,/ proolems, or you can come and dents COLIIO jograde to a BSc without enrolling education issues, anc nov.i they want to do us see any of your e.'ected office bearers at tne Union '. 'in .Arts, Anc they get to pay up front fees for over one more time with VSU. The ral y and Building.... the privieqc. X'eedless to say this was rather march for the SDA will be on March 31, at Plus, keep an eye out 'or "Distractions", a rcgu.'ar list ; problematic, especial.y since the university 12pm in King George Square. Please come of events. If your club has something fun planned, let, I made a commitment in 1997 to not introduce and show your support for the futire of me know so I can include it.... up front fees for undergraduates, Watch this higher education, and to defend your student And finally, remember to use the Union Info Centre! ; I space for what eventuates. union. For more info, or to get more active in There's always free stuff to be given away as well as '• the campaign, call the union on 3377 2200 or • info of all types. If there's no one there to help you ij ILLEGAL FEES : The Education Area is cn^ail me at '.with your query, try upstairs at Union Admin.... running a campaign against illegal fees for [email protected]_q^u.iu. 'jThanx for reading, U. course matcial, and we will lobby your Heads of Department and the University for you if you 9 Carol Humber Ef come and te 1 us when you're being charged for I Ill ill I iiiiiiirii III III > I 111 iiiwi III III! III iiiiii University sometimes feels like a restriction of academic freedom. battle of distractions. Some of us Ever wondered why it is that we're paying more money, in battle to ignore the distraction, the form of HECS, for less- less contact time, fewer Every student shou'd take the time to think about why j: sorre of us are endlessly trying to tutors, fewer teaching weeks, fewer applications to study? students, ? find more distractions. collectively and individually, deserve a greater say in how I. The missing part of the equation is $600 million. This is universities are run. For most though, the time comes the amount that has been cut by the Howard Government when we can't ignore the reality: from universities since coming to office in 1996. Typically, students are told that coming to university ., .. 1 ,, . ,-„ , 6 we are at university to get an edu- means becoming more responsible. But accompanying this 1 National Union of Students [ .^tion. This is a battle that stu- What this amounts to in other terms is 6% of operating added responsibility is a distinct lack of input into how the i:T5;_^.iij:-;L=:rBaii •JiStir,. J :i.-^ijL-i2:.a dents need to work together to grants, when what the universities need is more money to system is run. By the time most people make it to universi­ jwm. continue to expand ano improve. It translates to about ty, they have seen enough of life to be able to suggest, 3000 fewer jobs in universities Australia wide. Not only every now and again, how things might be better done. |This week has been designated Education Week by the does this mean larger classes (or no classes) it means aca­ I National Union of Students. At campuses all over the demes being forced overseas- depleting the quality of While the University may not have set up structures to Ijcountry, including UQ. events have been organised to focus academic staff in Australia. allow students greater input, the Union through the Class UjOuf attention on education: why we need it, who deserves Rep Network aims to allow students to fight the attacks jilt, what more needs to be done. Just getting to square one It has meant a rise in the number of ancillary fees- many that are undermining the quality of their education- be It t]is becoming harder and harder. of them illegal- which we all seem to face again and poor lecturing, overfilled lectures, or inadequate lecture again: photocopying, internet quota, excursions. Libraries notes. ;;The entire process just engulfs you- from getting crushed are forced to cut subsriptions. University administrations iiin the throng to sign up for tutorials to remembering to fill increasingly look to other sources of revenue, such as On a much broader scale, the National Union of Students !:0ur your HECS census form (here's a helpful reminder- parking, to subsidise operating costs. and the campaigns which we run are also concerned with 'jMarch 31 is the last day for unit cancellations.) the same thing- protecting the quality of your life at uni­ i' It has also hastened the transfer of control from staff and versity. • More and more we are being asked to contribute to the stucents to corporate interests, as administrations become 'system- whether it be our time spent waiting in lines or beholden to those with the most money to spare. This loss t\/lore often than not, this means calling on the :,making up for lost contact hours, or our money. And what of control has meant less of a say in the way that univer­ Government to provide things they don't want to: no ;;do we get back in return? sities should run to best benefit students and staff on a upfront fees, no HECS, proper income support, access to

:UQU Family Room •A PLACE FOR STUDENTS, STAFF AND VISITORS WITH CHILDREN ON CAMPUS. [,

; Located on the carpark level of the Union complex, accessible by pram/wheelchair via the path from Staff House Road or down ,•; the stairs from the bike shop and Commonwealth Bank level down past the refectory, the Family Room is not a childcare facility jj •but is a child-friendly place where students, staff and visitors can 'eed, change and play with their children in comfort and safety, :' : attend to study needs or just relax. Fully equipped with everything you need, including kitchen and baby change facilities, the '"] 1'Family Room is open from 7am to 10pm, IVlonday to Friday :• fl u '.^Brought to you by the Student Parents Group, part of your Union (i For more information about the Family Room or the Student Parents Group call 337/ 2200 f;

do sincerely apologise that a tot of you had no Other Shit that Made Me Want to Hide Under Myi;' Activities Report program for the week until most of it was over Desk ^ INSANITY, DIARIES, RAIN. 4AM and and assure you those satinests who were in 4am starts - need I explain >; charge of packing it will ne-;er have your precious .^FLIGHT DEUWS FROM SYDNEY! The Weather and that F*"ing Cyclone - or how ij O'Week programs again, EVER! we became junkies of the Bureau of Meteorology ". .•The REAL Stop/ of O'Week '99 Web Site - THANKYOU for finally coming through '\ So, the Odyssey is Over - And well for something On Monday the Odyssey truly began and so did Diaries - one is light 6000 almost killed me :' different and to be a little more accountable to the v/eek with no end. The First Year Film News that Planes from Sydney on Friday Night ij you, I thought I wojId tell you the tale of what Festival was a roaring success and the band at were running one and half hours late - and well p really happened. midday though a little quiet was still a nice chill TISM had a six o'clock flight. ^ out space for those who were braving the sum­ Poster Runs and wallpaper Glue - let mc never \\ • First there was the organisation which started in mer heat. And yes, yes I'm sorry that the red cor­ see it again -i October last year and frankly was borirg enough dial was a little too strong! ,Busy, busy market day (Wednesday) of : ;at the time and not worth relaying to you, as I'm And Now to the Bit that All who Know me want \. 'Orientation Week. sure you don't really want to hear about all the And then there was Tuesday and ahh I really have to read - The Grovelling Thankyous [•, ",; letters 1 wrote, phone calls I made, volunteer no idea what happened that day. I seem to ^; schemes t drew up or people I came close to remember leaving at 10pm at night after unload­ To N'iqel - Thankyou will never cover il so I won't even try, i :: think you art a dag and have a very strange obsession with |* j killing. ing several thousand diaries, O'Bags, tables and curry, ': chairs into the Great Court. Tuesday seemed to To Skot - You are of course a poo hum head but shit I love you f- .'•Then smack BANG out of no where in mid somehow blend into Wednesday as I arrived back all the same! ;'' .{January appeared our first event - a BBQ and at Uni at 4:30am bursting with incipient happi­ To Catherine - do you stil! like BBQin?? >,; To Spec Bang - thanks for the cigers snil thanks for the ', 'JBand at Herston Medical School. A marvellous ness to greet my sleeping crew down in Activities attempted injections of sanity y. ijSuccess I must say - and a large thanks to with bellowing choruses of G'Day, G'Day and How To Ben • when there is work to be rinneo r brer to be had we i\ •J Cameron Rosie and Hip Hip Moray to the Student is it going? can always rely on you! JS j Union for finally starting to bridge the gap To Mat Carter - Thanks for lowering your rr.oral standards >'* The cay however was a miracle and in the words enough to be able to join us for beer or two and thanks fof b' jjbetween Herston and St Lucia students, welt of my grade six report from winter holidays "a your endless help- thanks for 4:30am! f' lactually for the first time ever putting an event nice time was had by all". To Margie Star - where would I be without you? Thanks for !: Ion at Herston! joining the insanity! '( I To Kirby -1 believe you have a fruitful career in Gate Keeping ?• Thursday seemed to arrive all too soon in a kind ahead of you- heaven or hell that is y»ur choice, i'l tiJAnd then there was O'Camp - and I think all we of queasy manner, with a fair amount of remorse To Sam Ihc Book Shop Man- Can I say more than you are the r; '^need to say about tnat is that I never want to see over the few too many consumed in celebration Best. i' To Andrew- ihanks for the laughter, never throwing anything at •:' ] Fruity Lexia again and that kids that was the of the end of Market Day. In utterly revolting me, and the cynical remarks always starting with "In my day,,,' i.'i /•'first and last time you will se the Union executive heat we managed to prepare the lake site for the Ascot school Girl? ^^ liVnvolved in any sort of sporting activity again. party it was about to hold. To Nico'a - how can you thank somcbady who dug a trench fo' \, you in 30 degree heat and also never threw anything at me. '^ To Carol - Great stuff - Swifty tells me beer is best cold! ^ •j.3Between O'Camp and "the week" the various And then there was TISM naked on stage at the To the Boys- Nick, Toby, Swifty, Patrick and Duncan - thanks for ij 'johysiological neuroses that in weeks past had Big Gig, an unreal end to a week I never want to your muscles and your company for a few soothing beers. '}. see again. {If groundhog day is real please don't To Ben £• Thanks for getting lo know llill End and St lucia bet-;) 91.1 ft^Plifjust been a dark threatening cloud moving our !er than you ever wanted lo, fi make mine any day in O'Week) '•^'^ •'"'^ '^"'•^'^j^.yway came into full force and insanity became a To the CftS Girls - sorry about the BBQ, please forgive me, the '? " )i necessity down in the bowels of the Union that whole thing icvcf would have happened without you! .;we like to call Activities. In this week of utter Even by this late stage in the week I'm afraid to To the finance Staff - thanks ft>T never saying No! ; say that we, the O'Week Crew had not learnt the To my commitce- thanks for nodding and agreeing and for the '{, ; madness we somehow managed to produce 700 sweat time and love you donated, !•' • posters, 5 banners and 350 T-Shirts thanks to the error of our ways and were once again feeling a To Exec- thanks for dealing with adrenaline pumped suiely little;; tireless efforts of screenprinting. little sorry for ourselves and craving bacon, eggs shit that I was or sorry am! (, and coke as we crawled around the Big Gig site To Semper - Love your work and please, please print all of this- I il took 50 long to write! !' Also during this week of pure stupidity and fear cleaning up every piece of crap there was. It is To fiflath-U - Ihanks for the use of yoir ears! |5 we discovered that our mailout had not yet been at this point that I would like to warn any stu­ To Katie - thjnks for the Nepotism from the darkside. t' delivered and ahh was not likely to reach you dent who ate corn on the Cob that night -1 To All fi/.y Extra Helpers and friends - ditto of almosi everything l\ until mid next week. This news may account for know who you are I had the slobbered cobs DNA above without you I' m sure I would have lost it in early January! |i any blood curdling screams you may have heard tested and I will have my revenge! To the InstliLtion that we like lo call Ihc UQ Onion-1 Love from Activities and Publications that week. We YOU! fa HftlUniM.frmlf'™ .r»..»«tm«i—m ••lllUfMJMM tmxiasaxBSMaassesimmmneasaesxiBmsaKtMSczmaaBtmBxaax naeitcnBSCxS xraassn *g--i-"C.:vi'ia.u:s;!^n'g"j-'gy:'::?r'- khildcare. greater participation of v;omen within the Q 6 i sector; J^

ilThis is without a doubt one of tie major reasons why •;VSU is beitig introduced; this Government is determined ''to silence students. i' •:But now is rot the time to be silent. More than ever. •:what is neeced is fully publicly funded education, stu­ dent and staff control of universities and no VSU.

: The Queensland Branch of NUS has called a Slate Day !'of Action on Wednesday, March 31 to call for these three core demands. By participating in the rally and the : march you will be showing your support for a tertiary •system that is vibrant and open to all.

Now is the time to stop the privltisation of education.

; Oamian Oliver NUS Queensland Education Officer

State Day of Action •Rally @ King George Square ' 12;00 Need to talk? We'll listen. Lifeline 131114 Clubs and Societies

I'Since David Kemp announced that the introduction of : VSU would be a priority of the Howard Government, ;• there has been a lot of rhetoric about choice vs, the You're invited to the RSPCA i'need for universal membership of Student Unions. 'What , hasn't been discussed during the debate about who uses • what services and how much they cost lo run is the H/l!ion Paws Walk <& Pets Picnic. iarea of this union which is amongst it's highest funded I'and highest Jsed, Clubs and Societies. A fun packed fundraising walk-a'thon for people and

i-'The purpose of Clubs and Societies is to provide admin- flieir pets, to help us help animals in need. jjlstrative and Financial support for the clubs and soci- [•eties on campus, and to provide an environment where Sunday May 16 ••'Students can find and join other students with similar T-political, ethnic, cultural, political or recreational inter- l^^ests or beliefs. Clubs and Societies, like the rest of the at Fairfield and Stratlipine '^student union, encourage and support debate and diver- iisity amongst students and clubs. Food - Fun - Prizes - Displays • Entertainment -

iJCIubs and Societies is the area of the union where stu- Information - Pet Products - Hydfobaths • More Fun P;dents see sone of the money they pay in the form of For details, phone Phillip at the RSPCA on 3848 44S5 Htheir students services charge. Last year, $160 000 was ;',distributed amongst over 130 clubs and societies of dif- ijferent political, ethnic, cultural and recreational back- I; grounds. it !j130 clubs may not sound like many on a campus of over ii20 000 students. But among the rhetoric about choice fiwhat has been ignored is that over 23 000 students jibelong to a club or society funded by the student union. ||i think that fairly clearly shows that students are indi- i;eating their alliance with their feet, and the response i^ poverwhelmingly pro student union. ii KSo what would happen under VSU? If the WA model |.'goes ahead, and Universities funding is tied to VSU, then ijl think il is not too melodramatic to suggest that the pcultural heartland of the university and indeed, the stu- •Ident union would be destroyed. Clubs give students a ^chance to find friends (not an easy thing on a campus (hhe size of a small cityl and most of the 130 clubs on ijcampus rely solely on the student union for funding. So lit is quite obvious that if student union's funding was scut, then our ability to fund clubs and societies wotid ]be severely hindered, in a best case scenario. In the pworst case scenario, clubs and societies as a funding tjbody would cease to exist, as would many of the clubs tion campus. I iJSo what can be done? At the moment I am organismg a t' ti letter writing campaign, trying to get every club on

i campus to write to the government, condemning VSU, Ijand the governments attacks on student life and stu- {•dent culture. If you would like any further information, ii ij contact Bee Lang on 3377 2211, ; Domestic Violeflce EceventJofLWeek

Activities organised by the (JQG Women's dree in the ieed up to DV weeli

* Monday 29 March UQ Women's Room l-3pni Ouilt Design Workshop

* 'Riesday 30th March UQ Women's Room 1pm onwards Quilt making Workshop.

* "^nicsday 30th March Whitlam Room 5.30-pm Co-Counselling Introduction This introduction evening will provide a space for participants to experience co-counselling through sharing stories in a confidential and sale space.

>!• Women's Writing Workshop in April Welcome to the black plastic edition. By the time you read this, the VSU bill to be confirmed in lead up for the will have returned to the lower house for its second reding. In case you've Women's Edition of Semper. missed the boat, VSU (voluntary student unionism) could be the death of stu­ dent unions. So get active and get along to the State Day of Action - Wednesday March 31, King George Square. Domestic Violence Prevention Weel< on campus As the university has recently increased its percentage fee for administering the Student Services Charge (which is divided between the UQ Union and Monday lOlh May - UQ Sport) the union is now receiving less money. This, among other things, has resulted in massive budget cuts to all areas of the union, including * Workshop on Domestic Violence in Queer Semper. We now have to decide whether we will have smaller, less colourful Relationships (time and venue to be con­ Sempers or whether we will have 6, rather than 7, editions. firmed contact Women's Area) We are very happy to have received so many letters. Keep that feedback * Performance Night and Women's flooding in. Some of this edition's articles are responses to issues discussed Exhibition 7pm Cement Box Theatre last edition. We are keen to continue this kind of dialogue, so let the discus­ sion and debate roll!! Ttiesday 11th May- Some of the articles in this edition are harrowing personal stories. We guess * Special Women's Collective Tree Planting they go to show how people can have many things going on in their lives that Ceremony 1pm meet in Women's Area others don't even think about. for venue to be confirmed. Happy reading, Wednesday 12th May Remembrance Day- Lieszel, Sam, Carmen, Ellen.

* Young Women's Breakfast 7.30am-9.30am at the Brisbane Convention Centre with keynote speakers Ministers'Anna Bligh and Judy Spence, Performers and Presentations, children and families wel­ We thank come. Tickets available from the Anousha Victoire Rhyll Vallis Jenny from C&S Women's Area Matt Drummond Darlene Taylor Kenny Phillips Martin Troedel Sue Morris Jannette Hull *• UQ Market Day 1pm outside the Main Madeleine Marx-Bentley Jim Marshall Alana Tibbitts Refectory Presentations of native plants Helen Stubbs Frith Kennedy Toni and Hanna with speakers about Domestic Violence John David Renee Hardy Evelyn Hartogh Syoii MacLure Huge thanks to Geoff Thursday 13th May Geoff Hoyte Rebecca Duffy Parkes, the unofficial fifth Jason John Sorcha editor. Louise Logan =' Workshop on Domestic Violence Chaya Pierce Rosi Quinlan Rachael Hooper Infornialion and Resources (time and Special Ihanks to Andrew Andrew McPherson Graham Jenkin for the vox pops idea and venue lo be confirmed, contact the Seth Ian Van Wert for helping with Ihe Women's Area for more information) Katie Curchin Andrew Shek cover. Anthony Romilio fet^raz Friday Nth May Andrew Turner Nicola - if we are Jedi Grace knights, you are Yoda. * Candlelight vigil for those whose lives have All Khan been affected by Domestic Violence, Cynthia Kennedy The late Dr Suess M. Momo Rahni Sunset down by the lakes on St Lucia ^y^j^A.^>^r campus. Balso Radulovic Stuart and Thelma Claire Pomery Holly Arden All our wonderful sup­ ^i'^'Ov) Andrew McPherson porters. Dita, Moo and Kate do you think you can do il are you scared- you like them small and tight ' you donl like Ihem lo knouii you tqo^ejJi|^3* :ils safer iiihen Iheyrelsnug^ f^ uou donl (ear iiJlialujoiill fihttVj'"'' :if nothing fits but ^ou;-Mi0m nothings there lo bite^iMttS ^

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