For one of our articles we asked a contributor to nuclear holocaust that only the interview Julian Sheezal the President of the Ub cockroaches would survive. eral Club aboutthe environment. Of course Julian .•m •> was unsure of our motives, afler all we don'l exactly They also say that unless the pace of environmen see eye to eye politically and personally. However tal destruction is reversed by the end of the we hoped that Julian might offer sdmething new, Twentieth Century (remember that's only nine some hope however slender that there is some years away) this planet will be unable to sustain chance of a future under the Liberals. We were ^ life wilhin a lifetime. wrong. This is not someone elses lifespan, it is yours and The recent moves by members of the Green movement towards amalgamation with the mine. "^ Demoaats could mean that Australia may end up While the Economists may claim that economic wiUi a genuine Green party. However the com growth is all important, it is also important to promises that the Tasmanian and G"erman experi remember that it is not going to be their problem. ences have shown are necessary in Parliament tend Because it will be you and me who will be around to upset those with strong green commitments. to dean up their mess. . They will be long gone! ^ The problem is that as long as there is an environ- ., ment movement there will be a need for a "legiti There are problems that have to resolved today mate" and "illegitimate" movement because our because if we leave it any longer there will be no current system thrives upon stasis. While "legiti- tomorrow. mate",groups work within the system, the system Astronauts in space observe the fires as th,e rain works against them. This was the case on Fraser forests burn in Brazil, the very lungs of the planet Island where if the conservatipnists had stayed are blackened in much the same lAanner as tobacco within the Inquiry process while there was no miiratorium on logging, the senseless destruction does to a human. In the end the result is the same, would have continued. ^ we will be dead. The problem isithat we humans are addicted to The previously mentioned comments byiSenator "consumerism" in much the same way as a nicotine Walsh about Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation must have been met with addict, we know there's a problem but giving it u p . is to difficult. So we make excuses. , • disbelief.within those groups. _ , How many of us have tried to make some half . Anyone familiar with the way that they operate hearted attempt at leading some sort of ""green" would know that the ACF is very much the "le existence only to fail when unable to resist the gitimate face of Australian environmentalism", convenience of a pre-packaged Big Mac or a dis preferring to work within the system through lobbying, petitions, and its much publicised (but posable anything. questionably effective) practice of running candi And so we become cynics. dates in marginal seals in elections. n is easier to disparage those who have the guts to The comparison to the system of Direct Action as get up there and make a real and genuine effort to undertaken by Greenpeace is totally ludicrous, do something for our planet. similar to comparing a cheer squad with a star It is easier to accept the claims of those who lead player in Rugby. our society than those who appear to stand on its As we head deeper into a recession and the need outskirts. for quick and easy solutions is seen to be more important Uian the needs of the environment, we should be very careful of accepting everything we d are told. Politicians treat the environment with the same At Semper we try to present a student perspective cynical contempt which they treat us with, con on events. For this we are accused of being tinuing to encourage destruction of the life sus marginalists and only presenting a minority point taining capacity of the planet while attemptipg to of view. We are proud of that aiticism, because maintain a green facade so as not to lose votes. whether you like it or not you are all part of a minority, that of students. Senator Walsh appears on television and says that he hopes that BHP sue Greenpeace and put them In this issue we have not attempted to examine every single aspect of the environment, we don't ••Ht.,' •' out of business. The worst part is that he is con gratulated on his courage. Perhaps he has no chil have enough room. dren? Instead we have attempted to show some environ Bob Hawke talks about another Uranium Mine mental problems which directly affect students as being of benefit to this country. He says that there well as some possible solutions. We have also tried are strict controls on the use arid storage of waste. to show some of the more marginalised problems, Sure there may be now but what aboul in 50 years, ones which have been buried in the avalanche of what about in 100 years. This stuff will be toxic informalionandmisinformationweareall exposed long after You and I are.gone. What a present to to through the mainstream media. endow upon generation upon generation in the The rest is up to you! fuhire. We can't expect you to single handedly save the Where, is some sense of responsibility? Does Bob' ozone layer, or reverse the Greenhouse effect, but Hawke's cnriwhen he finishes as Prime Minister we tr>' lo harbour some small hope Ihatyou may try at the next election which is almost a certainty. to do something. •
•I Pag© 7 bihe Envifonmental movement the biesi in markefing
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Pago 9 Alon Smith sneaks into Lord MoyorJimSoorley's office
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Page] 8 Tully River Dam has just come into the polilical greenlight and Semper investigates what is actually going on.
Inconsistencies, irregularities, obscurities and fhe Goss Gov ernment.
Page 21 The Wilderness Society's Doug Yuille gives us his Semper, the bastion that it is, was edited (in order of substance abuse) by Bob Heather, Janie Fitzgerald and Craig lowdown on whals really happening on Fraser Island as we McCosker. The lay-out was layed out by Lindsay Colborne. Has anyone gol a book on this guy we still haven't wait for yet another Fitzgerald Report. worked him out? Semper was and slill is type-set by Tess Schaff er. This issue the editorial team of last year's Planet and the the Ist edition of Utopia fled to Semper for refuge. Thank Page 24 Start building ihe ark. Semper gives a sneak you to Brendan O'Shea and Danny Locke for their lay-out work. preview of the latest disaster film sweeping the world ond Semper would also like to thank the QUT Union for fucking up Utopia and allowing this exodus of talent. Semper coming to Brisbane sometime in the future. officially thanks (we know this means a lot): Danny, Brendan, Moira, Tony Horner (unofficial Arts Editor), Sean, Katrina, Susan, Rodney, and Gavin. Page 26 Shortlisted • Cyber-Punk Future Shock meets the Uni Yo Contributors we love you all! Come and get your cheques. student. An oil too plausible story by Launz Burch. Would you Semper is published l^y the University of Qld Union. The Edilors reserve ihe righl to change conlfibutots copy where necessary. Please nole ihe make Ihe Ust? Is Commerce/Law worth il? views expressed in lellers, articles and graphic material do necesonly reflect the views ol the edilors. This is especially Irue of ihe oHiciol Union Pages which we ate forced lo include. Semper is printed by Gympie Times Fly lid, \ 79 iV-ory Streel, G>'mpie. Semper is the official publication of the University of Oid Union although the President may not v. jnt to admit thai. Enquiries on just about evetylhing except your sexual hangups Page 30 The Acid Test. Semper correspondent Johnolhon D, bu) especially advertising and conlribulions are mosl welcome and should be shot al the Eds on (07) 371 2568. The Semper office is jusl along Irom the Bike Shop under Main Refec. And don'l forgel Semper pays (or contributions! DePoul lakes the lest and is found wanting. Wanting more and wanted by the police. AN Article in next month's SEMPER looks at tlie MYTHS, the DANGERS & the PEOPLE in the sex industry. Page 40 The man who made his mark talking about "Stuff", This is a STUDENT concem because some people are financing their education through prostitution. Alexei Sayle, lets his hair down with Steven Dann. We want your input into this article, particularly those of you already involved in the sex industry. Call Emma 378 8979 or Andrew 369 5064 alternatively you can call SQWISI on 844 4565. ConfidenHality is assured. Pago 47 The Sports Page. Andrew Denton, the thinking person's talk show host, tokes time out from his blest success Cover Scream Auditions to gel serious wilh Katrina Imbruglia. This is your chance to have your face plastered all over Uni and certain Hospitals that Semper finds it's way into. We need some really good screamers for future Semper Covers. All you have lo do is come down to the Semper Oflice any afternoon and our screaming Plus all the regubrs. photographer will record your scream. Wear a funny hat, put straws up your nose, stick cockroaches in your ears! Come and pul your News, views, competitions and cockles • Semper, the student head in a bucket and yell! Be the yelling paper-lDag headed person! You could be on the Cover ol the next issue of Semper and you'll probably feel a lot better too. Scream il all out at Semper! mag thats gol il all.
Environ MEHTALJS^AI'^S^ 3 After a long, hard day of gazing noinan's-lond between the juris- up through the foliage ol my diclions of ihe University and the favourite Iree in the Great Court, police. However, the police could LETTERS I decided lo head lo Main refec be forgiven if they found it hard lo fof some leisurely, stress-relieving, determine where suburbia ends afternoon refreshment. ond the University begins, be cause there is no well-defined Once there, ihe familiar scene of boundary or accesi»point. DearlBds. gluttony and consumption greeted As 0 norrSociolisI, and o non- me wilh open arms. So, having Tfie University's adminislrolors 'Radicar-Feminist, I was nonethe collected food stuffs sufficient in ought lo negotiate with police, less a parlicipant in lost month's qLonlily lo feed my refec chips and in the longer term its arcfiitecis rallies for the prdedion of ihe addidion, I headed for the fridges and planners ought to build in o Women's Rights Area. I also on the right hand wall ol ihe human scale, which also nneons made some conltibulion lo the entrance for a drink. safely. Il isa misguided aesthetic occupation (ond whot fun it wos) whicfi has a concentrated devel oljomes Gifford's office. Now, a fridge is a fridge. opment surrounded by diffuse Right?,. .Wrong I lillle d id I know green spaces, especially when i was iherefore amused lo read thai they are in fact the well- ihey are no safer than carparks, Gifford's "Positive Future for the disguised gateways lo a strange Clair* Wagner Women's Area" rhetoric in the olter-realityl Yes .,. lor, staring lasl issue of Semper. His report of expressionlessf/ back at me from ihe 'hijacking' of the debate the other side of ihe fridge was a glossed over the fact ihal speak foce completely devoid of any ers from ihe Women's Rights A/ea humanemolion, Thisstrangeother and Colledive were defending world is opparently inhabited by iheir positions from allack by ihe cold, pale beings, who shroud LETTERS Union in front of dozens of nor themselves in thick black mgs mal, average and ordinary stu and skins. Oneof these unearthly dents. I received no sense of beings wos slowly and methodi 'hijocking' -1 did receive a sense cally removing cans from the other of a mobilized student force, a side of the fridge! unity, and alx>ve all, a strong To the Editors. indignalion. The sloney face looking soulessly Poor Adrian Skerritt's article, back al me did not acknowledge "Saddam's Gripe", doesn't really My attendance at the rally was the existence of myself, or indeed suggest necessary conditions for pfompted nol by 'lies and wild any outside world at all!! 0 comprehensive Arab-Israeli exaggeration' (Ooer( but by re peace selllemenl. The article ports that Women's Righls were Bull... Have no fear, fellow stu should've been entitled "Skerritt's under liveal. And from what I dents. These slow moving crea Gripe": who are you blaming? could see, yes, ihis was o rolher tures seem completely harmless The moderate Jews? The Zionists? blalani attempt by the Union Exec and docile. The United Notions who passed ol undermining Women's Righls the 1947 resolution? And are on campus. So, if while reluming from a late nighl leclure, you hear on alien you positive ihat the Zionists The Union Executive seemed sound emonaling from an "welcomed the Holocausl"? {In commitled lo mashing the WRA untraceable source, fear not, for fluenced by Vanessa Redgrave, inlo a conglomerate mess of it's only one of these, unassuming perhaps). I'm sorry, but I can't Women's Rights, Parl-Time, Ex fridge people, collecting stocks further see Saddam as being a ternal, Overseas and les/Gay for their long . cold winter... reol groo-/y type of guy. Yes, inleresis, all under the banner of Damien America wanted the oil, bul on Equal Opportunity Ghetto. A concerned economist Saddam also wanted lo annihi The Women's Rights Organiser late Israel and ils inhabilanls. So was ihreotened with going the who's righl and who's wrong? way of those other sludent serv Israel? America? The Arabs? This ices organisers (anywhere, so case is too complex to reduce lo long as il was out) and ihe Union a mere "Saddam's fight, appeared content to do all this LETTERS goddamit! And everyone else is and justify il by labelling the wrong!" WRA 'militant', 'political' (as if the Union isn'l) and 'non-repre Arab-Israeli negotiations must in sentative'. I personally would like clude the demilitarization of un to know how the Union intends lo conventional weapons in the 'increase involvemenl' in ihe Dear Eds, border areas, substantial reduc Wonren's Righls Area if there Did anyone notice the laded, tion in convenlionol forces and isn't an area thereat oil, "No Redbank Dump" slicker on slrolegic weapons, the holding the hand-held loudspeaker used back of conventional forces from As both a sludenl and a woman, in Tuesday the twentieth's (20lh'$) both sides of the border, and I was aghast al ihe Union Exec's prdesl? Or how quickly the un common syslems to fight terrorism insensilivity - wilh Idenli-kil pho ionist University employees were (on both sides) and to supen/ise tos of rapists absolutely wallpa willing lo take time off work to security provisions. pering ihe University, how can protesl, and sacrifice hiilher dis any 'moderation' [read 'extermi cussion? Rape is a serious issue, nation'or'abolition'] of the WRA bul Iel us not moke il an issue for The Arab slates should not en possibly be rationalized? And the sake of having something lo force terms upon Israel eilher by finally, Gifford's sensibilities ore protest and strike about military or h/ polilical means. obviousf/ offended by the inclu And Isroel should not do the sion of lesbianism wilhin the Darren (Arts) same lo the Arab slates. Mr sphere of Women's Righls, But Skerritt, please, no more rabble- tell me please - wilh the defeat of rousing! Try lo find solutions lo the ihe Les/Gay Area, where are issues at hand! these marginalised, harossed women supposed lo go? Marc Lauria Enough said, Perhops nexl time LETTERS PS, Why is Semper fairty anti- (and despile our hopes there will American, and then hove an ad undoubtedly be a nexl time)James for Hungry Jacks, which is a Gilford will slop doing a head moneyhungry franchise? count at the rally long enough lo Dear Eds, listen tow4iot people are saying. In chonging allitudes to security IThe ailicle wos originally tilled I hope the people who voted in on campus, spolial planning 'Israel on Impetialisi OvtpoH' BMT are suitably ashamed. should nol be neglected. when submitted by Adrian Skerritt E. Mamey arxJ was changed after an edilo The place from wh ich the woman rial decision which Adrian bad student was abducted is a text no control over. We do not be book example of what the US lieve thai Semper is anti-Ameri urbonisljanejacob has called a can and only tried in that issue to border vacuum - a vast periph present a variety of views on the eral tract with lillle pedestrion war and contained our be/refe to LETTERS traffic and no close overboking the editorial, which has since neighbours. Some welHocoled been shown to be an accurate development in daily use - a assessment of the Gulf situation. sports clubhouse, a takeaway P.S. we have ads lor Hungry restaurant - would hove olfered Jacks because the BMT executive Dear Eds, protection. wants more cost effectiveness and I wish lo report a very bizzare because we believe that by offer ond disturbing incident that oc So would o police palfol but, ing a 20% discount lo sludenls curred in the main refec, in early presunwbly as a legacy of the HJ. 's is offerings student service! April of ihis year. Joh period, there seems lo be a
4 JS^Mf^£^ mmiL*xi*\\m We don't need ihe dom. The O'Week show and then hod the cally feasible hardwood and same time, it will mean that we growth estimoles used by the gall to publicly point out a few of softwood pbntolions in ogreed will be discouraging the destaic- LETTERS QEC to justify ihe dam have ils shortcomings. What on un- LETTERS areas and in agreed ti me frames. tion of the last great rainforest been shown lo be grossly over- groleful prick! areas such as in Malaysia. inflated ond invalid. There have It also limils Auslralia lo 2 pulp mills: Wesley Vale in Tasmania been some big mistakes made - Ouilepossibly the MANHATTAN So we destroy our native lores ts ond onolher yel lo be buill in but it is not loo late. Write to was the fsesi choice of venue at ResourceSecurity or Eco* insteod ol theirs. Does il really south-eost Australia. Wayne Goss and Bob Hawke the time but that's not ihe point. logical Insecurity make any difference? The answer R« - Speed Bumps in the |he stopped the Franklin Dam, he is yes, because RS includes An overcrowded beerbarn is an Dear Eds, Importantly lor the Environment Fast Lane con stop ihis as well!) and lell overcrowded beerbarn. Too phasing oul of ihe destruction of Last issue, readers were treoled movement, RS brings them inlo ihem that TullyAv\illslream must many people were allowed in on native especially old growlh for Dear Eds, lo an artide by Environment Of the mainstream decision-moking not proceed. We need better the night ond I know ol at least ests in lavour of pbntolions as Jonalhon DePaul, you are quite ficer, Jane Brownbill, which im process. Greens don't have the attitudes towards our electricity one group who left early be soon as they come of useful oge, simplya fjore. How many Hunter plied thot ihe Federal Govern resources lo stage a Franklin Dam usage-we can't afford lo take it couse of the intolerable crush It is quile remorkable, in fact, thai S. Thomspon imitators must this ment's new Resource Securily(RS) s^/le lighl every time some fat cat for granted any more. and ihe fact they couldn't see such 0 long term environmental campus endure. Yoo spend on legisblion embodied open sb(f>er allockslf)8 environment. As more anything. Tliis would seem lo sites of environmental conflict goo! forms a central part of v/hat oftemoonal the Rec Club,drinking Yours faithfully, logging of Australia's precious contradict Mr Walsh's claims of some greens have dismissed as a dozen or so watered down foresi induding thol which is un come to the fore, the general good sight lines. So nexl time he purefy "economic" legislation, a scotches and all of a sudden ihe Geoff Courser, Med IV der World Heritage Listing. public may become complacent gels 'engrossed by a sense of word which before i
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6 JS^^^SK^S^ MEfrrALflmlroa But appearances of disunity do not encourage poten **The last Greenpeace spokesperson I saw ... was tial supporters. At the last Federal election there were many green candidates, each with slightly different plat forms. Labor Senator and former Environment Minister, wearing a double-breasted suit" Tony Homer loobs Graham Richardson, recently said that the only thing that prevented the green movement from becoming a major at the changing face of environmental politics. political force was ther lack of group organisation and cooperation. Ironically, in theend the publicity currently attending the significantly safer than the other products on the market. green movement may also work against it. Already people It should be reasonably obvi According to the firm's market research department, even seem bored with the Greenhouse Effcrt. Tliis is not a good ous to almost everyone that the environmentalists want their laundry products to contain thing, but the current fashionabilit)' of environmentalism in environmentally damaging chemicals, such as artificial col Australia has caused some to wonder how lasting green state of the environment is a glo ours and scents. politics will be - whether it will prove to be a fad, like Ninja bal issue of almost unparalleled A similar problem exists in the political world, as ail Turtles, orcontinue to bean important new social movement. partiesseektoestablish their "environmentalcredontials". Recently, \}\e West GcrmanGrcens, often regarded a s a model universal importance. Anxious to convert environmental concern into votes for environmental political party, suffered setbacks, including This is no longer a tremendously controversial state their respective cand idatcs, political parties have d ovoled electoral losses. This leads one to wonder whether environ ment to make. Environmentalists can no longer be stere a lot of time lo talking about the environment. But thoy mentalism will tum out to ho last year's fashion. otyped as scruffy smelly hippies. The last Greenpeace have also been cautious not to alienate their corporate This would be most unfortunate for us all, because tho spokesperson I saw on TV was wearing a double-breasted support bases. There is disagreement about the degree of environment is undeniably an important issue. The suit. Many individuals and groupsnot traditionally linked political commitment on the part of mainstream political problem of waste disposal and pollution is becoming with conservation have begun to recogniseits importance. parties to environmental policies. So much apparently increasingly imprtant. For fanners, soil degradation is of Recently, an international conference of automobile contradictory information is presented that most people vital concem. The weight of scientific evidence, despite associations stated that the environment was the most are confused and have become disillusioned with the some claims by politicians to thccontrary, would appear to important issue facing the world at the moment. As you whole thing. indicate that it is nota caseof whether global warming will can read elsewhere in this issue. Women's College have This includes the environmental movement, which occur,butrathoracaL«ofhowmuchand how soon. These started their own environmental projects. Prominent has entered into a number of uneasy cooperative ar and other environmental issues are not a matter of opinion fashion designers nowincorporato environmental slogans rangements with governments. In Tasmania, the Labor- or ideology, but realproblem s which must be addressed. in their work. Green politics has even reached Economics Green coalition was no longer considered workable, and in The tragedy will be if compromise, apathy, boredom, lectures! Naturally, their proposed solutions apply vari the Federal arena, the future of the consultative process cynicism, and changes in fashion prevent these problems ous economic theories to environmental problems, BUT between the govemment and environmental groups is from being solved. Theones who willsufforin thatcaseare the mere fact that such discussions areheld in a department experiencing difficulties. us, and our children. sometimes regarded as a bastion of right-vring thought This may be partly because the environmental move It is difficult to know whether to be optimistic or does demonstrate the univereality of environmental con ment is now learning about the political process, and the otherwise. On one hand, as 1 write this, a national confer cem. complexities and difficulties it entails. Politics tends to bo ence is taking place in Canberra, called Students, Science, The fact that the environmental issues have gained so about compromise, a word that is none too popular with Sustainability, and involving a range of people, including much publicity in recent days has lead some to think that the green movement. Consequently, there is a dilemma academics, pohticians, environmental groups, and stu the popularity of green politics is more a result of trends about political involvement. dents from organisations including The Green Allianre, than commitment. "Jumping on the green bandwagon" is Somegreens ecjuate any involvement in parliamenta ry Young Labor and the Young Liberals, and from almost a phrase that is heard, and there may be some element of politics as too great a compromise of their ideals, and every campus in Australia. Balanced against this is the sad truth in it. concentrate on grass roots organisation, while others rec storv' of the attitudes of students at the University of Itisanaccusationthatissometimeslevelledatthecorporate ognise the limitations in the political system, but believe Queensland (see "What Environment?" in this Semper). world. Products arc bbelled and marketed as "environ that it is worth using the system to achieve some of their The future is up to us. We will need all our collective mentally friend!)'", but without any generaUy recognised objectives, rather than retain their ideological purity at the knowledge and wisdom to guide us. Ilease read the standard for such labelling, it can bed ifficult to workout quite expense of success in these objectives. These two attitudes available material, discuss it, decide intelligently, and what this means. For example, a line of laundry products are not necessarily in conflict. Rather they should be above all, act upon it. 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Environ MEHTAlJS^/jl'SS^ 7 WHAT CHOICE FOR QOEENSLAND WOMOI?
Although it is fifteen months after the election of the first Stale Labour govemment in 33 years there has been little change to improve many crucial services for women in Queensland. Women's abortion rights are still outlawed, termination of pregnancy being the only medical procedure controlled by the criminal code. Children By Choice, an independent counselling service, is still waiting to be funded and the continuation of funding to Brisbane's only rape crisis centre is under threat. Queensland bbour policy, adopted in 1988, is clear on the question of oboriion. It says "A labour governmeni shall amend ihe law so fhaf all legal distinctions between termination of pregnancy and other medical procedures should be abolished by repealing sections 224, 225 & 226 o( the Queensland criminal code'. Despite this pledge, bsl August Premier Wayne Goss announced that the abortion issue was not on his government's agenda, and that if itever were, labour MLA's would vote according to Iheir consciences, not rtecessarily occording lo ALP policy. What then .s the point in having 0 distinct ALP policy on the issue? Goss tried to justify this by claiming that supporters of repeal did not hove specific proposals. Less than a year earlier Children By Choice Association sent every MIA a 14 page submission proposing the refnovot of abortion laws from the criminal code. Al that time and now Goss refuses fo meet with CBC representatives. In Febiuaty this year Women's Legal Service also presented the govemment with o detailed submission proposing obortion law repeal. Children By Choice also sent the Goss government a document containing the results of the most recent survey of Queensbnders' attitudes to abortion. This survey carried out by AGB McNairinMoy 1990indicatedclearsupporlforabortionbw repeal. 66% of Queenslanders believed the abortion bws should be repealed, 76% of bbour voters are in support, 56% of Catholics. DL JSE(jan± a%s ConiMi Further studies by South Australian Health Commission indicate that law repeal is necessary in this case as bw reform actually results in a more restrictive situation for women. The Bevans are Coming! The situalion in Queenshnd was liberalised by a 1986 court decision but did nol establish abortion rights. Althoughfour abortion clinicsoperate in Queensland, 2 in Brisbane, one each A new and terrifying cultural phenomenon is sweeping through the staid and in Townsville and Rockhampton, abortion remains illegal and women and doctors ore still stuffy halls of academia here at U of Q. This new social force has arrived with vulnerable to prosecufion. all the breath-taking speed and deadly potential of a purple Monaro panel van Injanuary 1991, Anne Warner MIA assured Queenslanders 'hat the state s anfi-abortion laws with fluffydice and jacked-up rear 'fatties' dropping a howl ie in the local pub's would not be enforced. This is simply not good enough. Unwanted pregnancy is a crisis in car-park. Ifs not capitalism or socialism, it's not Kylie or even the Simpsons. a woman's life. Women who seek obortions do so in a climate of uncertainly and secrecy Discard those moribund ideologies of yesteryear. Something fresh and because they fear they are breaking the stale's laws. invigorating has reared its truly ugly head ...BEVANISM!!! Many doctors, also uncertain of iheir legal position, ore reluctant to refer women for abortion. Others, ideabgicalty opposed lo women's obortion righls use the unclear legal situation to Decked out in mandatory flannelette shirts "Lookmate, Bevans only understand a few justify Iheir refusal k> refer and Ug-boots Kev and Bluey (sometimes simple things - havin' a good time, known as JOHN WHITTAKER and hamburgers, piss..." At this point a loud Oulbwing abortion does nol slop il but radically changes the situations under which women MATTHEW COX) revealed the seminal St burst of IRON MAIDEN from the back of obtain an abortion. Anti-abortion laws in Australia creale trauma and uncertainty; in the third Luda Bevans wereactually conceived some Key's V-8 Torana drowned out the rest of world Ihe same law means thot a woman dies every three minutes as a result of illegal botched three years ago when Bevan BBQs briefly hisaddress.Theunassumingand shy Bluey abortions. flourished in theUniversity area. Nowl99l picked up where Kev left off. As the situation with the abortion laws isn'l bad enough soon Queensland women may lose has been declared the Year of the Retum of other valuable and essential services. For 19 years unpaid volunteers of the Children by the Bevans! Even as you read moves are "I think what's implicit in what Kev is Choice organisation hove operated a counselling service offering advice on all options afoot in the dingy backrooms of power to saying is that Bevanism is a way of life, it's avaibble to women faced with unwanted or unplanned pregnancy. Now the group is have the Bevans recognised as a legitimate notapart-timething,it'sagenuine lifestyle. campaigning for government funding of this importani public service. club. There'sadichotomyofinterestshere. We're Every year since 1982 Children by Choice has applied without success to Ihe government talking about subtle things like the for fundi ng. The election of a Labour governmeni gave marry hope ihol this would now occur The group only came out of the closet in speedway and the Ekka. Living in St Luda but so far this has not laeen the case. high culture is rammed dowrn your throat, March of this year but already they've The Children By Choice counselling service operates independently of medical clinics and the so to provide a balance to that we act as a attracted a not insubstantial membership government. It is the only counselling service in Queensbnd which supports women in conduit for those wishingto experiencethe of around 40 Bevans and Bevanettes. whichever decision they make regarding on unpbnned pregnancy. Unpaid counselfars Between gulps of hot beer and cold pizza more obvious things in life. In short ifs an attitude that transcends all-pervasive, provide women wilh accurate information on all options in a non-judgmental and supportive Kev and Blu^ pointed out that for an environment. annual fee of a mere $5 new Bevans are transitory, materialistic fads," he said. initiated into a previously unknowm world Another pregnancy helpa-sisler organisation, Right to Life has been remarkably successful in of delightful Bevan pursuits. AcHvities At thetimeof writingthe Bevans are taking receiving funding from the State government. planned for the 1991 Bevan season include a hard-earned, but brief, rest from their Brisbane's only Rape Crisis Centre'Women's House is also in an uncertain position. - the Pub Crawl Against Want, Dusk to membership drive. Some have still not The service was until recently 24 hour.fthe only centre which offered this vital service) bul has Dawn Drive-In nights, Bev-Out Bowling returned from the Gold Coast,, while the bad to reduce hours. The govemment bos made no public statement on how or if they intend nights, Stateof Origin footie, a 7-11 Crawl, real movers and shakers are busy to repbce this vital service if ibey fail to refund it. Women's Shelter, crisis centres and RSL Bingo, excursions to the Ekka and the organising a Jimmy Barnes Floral counselling groups are constantly competing with each olher for funding and services from fhe An:herfieldSpeedway...andofcoursethe Arrangement Exhibition at Woodridge stole govemment. There needs lo be a comprehensive policy in the firiding to all groups that monthly barbie! (That's just the basic food Shopping Plaza, But they assure a speedy presently exist as well as increasing the number of sen/ices with each group having autonomy groups of course, high in protein and retum to the campus environs. over their sen/ices. carbohydrates. There'll be no quiche or As bng as women don'l hove control or decision making power over their own bodies, don't pate just lots of beer and blood-dripping So if you want your own monogrammed hove access to free non-judgmental counselling for issues such as rape, sexual harassment, steaks mate!) flannie that can be wom with pride at the incest and pregnancy, and don'l have access to free safe abortion without fear of recrimination next Bevan larbie, keep a blood-shot eye then women will never be liberated. In past years the ALP has spouted much rhetoric about In characteristically humble fashion Kev out for their stall (usually outside the improving the situation in Australia for women bul obviously this is only relevant when they are and Bluey shrugged off the suggestion that Bookshop).TheBevans are coming soon... in opposition. they were at the vanguard of a burgeoning, to a drive-in, a milkbar or a pinball parlour The Labour Party in Queensland has been intimidated into inaction by a powerful minority subversive, social movement. near you! Mofffc HocMor which is opposed to the extension of wometi's rights. Phih'ppa Stanford
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TEACHING ji We really want to AWARDS look at the public Nominations are now being accepted for fhe 1991 Excellence transport system fn Teocfiing Awcvds. Each year a nDoximum of THREE awards will be and students need presented at the Graduation Ceremony most relevant to the to be catered for in recipient's teaching discipline. <^hat - that's our Last years winners of the $1500 award were Ms Britt Andresen \ policy for the (Arcfiitecture); Dr Judith Blockshow term/' (Farm Animal Medicine and V'.-'.;'\* Production); and Dr Walter Wood /.: (Anatomy). The Award is provided by the generosity of the Alumni Association. ^(^C\1fT J7\^^^^ "^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ Mayor, said ttiere will be a student JIM '^^^^^-**"^-*-' -* bus concession card introduced under tiis administration. All academic members of staff with In an interview with Semper's Alan Smith he said, "We will certainly be for the bulk of Brisbane's waste problem saying the under her at least three years service to the delivering it sometime and as soon as we can," administration the "waste stream" had increased by 50% while the University are eligible. "We really want lo look at the public transport system and students need population had remained static. to be catered for in that - that's our policy for the tenn," said the man On the development of the Deagon Wetlands Mr Soorley believed thai Nominations must be made by at whose companion's name is Mary. the wetlands should be preserved but that he would see what tlie courts least FIVE people, who may Mr Soorley said that the Council will be replacing the Student half yearly decided on the issue before he did anytliing. include other staff members and or annual bus passes with a monthly pass, but that it was not a priority. Mr Sooriey who is also a member of the elitist, expensive Polo Club Surprisingly Mr Soorley also said that he wanted to see campuses become which is decorated with the skins of dead rare animals said thai he was current and former students who radicalised like in the good old days. have been taught by the nominee a decisive leader and that he didn't know if his fellow Labor mem bers "I think students are fairly conservative and apathetic today whereas were saying nasty things about him behind his back. within the past five years. when I was at University, which was in the early 70's, campuses were ceruinly hotbeds of political discussion and I would like to sec a bit more Over the three year history of the of that," Awards, the Committee, now "I think students should be the people who challenge the institutional incorporated Into the Teaching values and belief systems and a<;k questions and I don't see that happening and Learning Committee, which in the student community," said the former Catholic priest In the same vein, the new Lord Mayor said he wanted to open up the was established to foster the council to people, setting aside half an hour at Council meetings for University's mission goal to pursue people to ask questions or speak to petitions. excellence In all aspects of Council commitee meetings will also be opened up for people to come teaching and learning, has and listen. developed guidelines and criteria "We've indicated we will open a forum somewhere in the Queen Street pertainingtoindivjdualexcellence Mall for people to speak ' not for protest meetings I think it's a in teaching. community place - but I'm happy for some of the quieter parts to be set aside for people to come and talk if they want to," he said. The media came under heavy critisism from a man who mosl would say The Committee will seek evidence has done pretty well out of his media coverage despite himself. of of sustained teaching "There is a tradition in Australia that the personal life of politicians is left performance under each of the alone and because of the Liberal's anger and disillusionment at being seven points outlined In the beaten that has not been followed in this case. All the rubbish that has brochure (including command of been appearing in the papers is false." he said. subject, participation In the He said it was the media who thought that Sally-Anne was unbeatable and guidance and advising of students, the view that the Labor party only ran him because he was expendable enthusiasm and vitality In learning wasjust the media trying to justify its own perceptions. and teaching); evidence of the "We won, we won - and if the party wasn't really supporting mc and we candidate's influence over other won then God help the opposition," he said. staff memlDers in the department Mr Soorley said it was only the media who wanted a quick decision on (he Rochedale Dump issue and that it would be a month before the and the nominees's contributions Council would have any idea as to what it's options were. to changes in a department's Mr Soorley said the Council would move the super dump from teaching standards; and If Rochedale and pul il somewhere else "hopefully outside ihc intense nominations were submitted by development of the city." both students and staff,this factor He was unclear on what his waste minimalisation strategies, which he will count favorably towards the said were going to be implemented quickly, actually were and how nominee as representing broadly effective they would be. based support. When asked weilher waste minimalisation was mainly made up of recycling schemes he said, "Waste minimaUsation and recycling - you know I think they go together." NomSnotionf orms,to be submitted The man who IJked a bet on the gee-gees blamed Sally-Anne's Council by 1 July 1991, and /y^ll Information brochures are ^lif. presently being circulated to ^ the departments, the Student Union and Education Office, OPTOMETRIST theTertiary Education Institute and are also available from Room618, J.D.Storey Building. BAnpSc(0[)tom)(HonRJAppSc(Optom)(HonR) tVtScJPhysiological Optics) Present your student card at SI Lucia Golf Links, cnr Carawa PRIMARY VISION CARE Street and Indooroopilly Road, For further enquiries contact St Lucia, phone 870 3938 or CONTACT LENSES Victoria Park Goll Course, Ms B.Cheesman, Secretary to Herslon Road, Herston, phone the Teoching and Learning 4/200 Moggill Road, Taringa 852 1271 for (his special otfer. Committee, 377 1111 ext Pfione: 870 0565 Brisbane City Hire clubs and buggy lor $6. 52346, the director of the Monday to Friday {excluding public holidays). Tertiary Education Institute, or Consultnlions Gutl< Dillod to IVIodicaro the Student Union or i^'- Education Offices.
EtwltotiMEHWl JS^/^jI'^S^ 9 The Chaos Manifesto presents Tales for the Modern Child JIM THE The whirling & gyrating pafferns traced by the foraging bees did not concern little Tommy King. Today was Tues day and he always looked at the clouds on Tuesdays. On this particular Tuesday, how ever. Tommy was not paying much attention to the clouds. You see, he was dead.
The young boy's corpse lay under a sliady tree in Ihe middb of a posture on his father's dairy. His ihrocl had been lorn out and pushed up his nose. Flies buzzed hungrily around the congealed biacic mass that clogged the open trachea. Seeing as he Vk-as dead, there vyas no problem in the fact that the inside of the hu man v/indpipe is terribly sun sensitive. Tommy's was burning but would be well de composed before it ever had the chance fo even consider developing cancer from its exposure. There were no cattle lo be seen. They had stampeded, breaking down the fence and disappearing in fear and guilf. Although Farmer King didn't icnow it, his cows hod been led astray by a slinking band of sotanic fresions. The innocent milk-giv ers were drawn into bizarre occult rituals beyond their comprehension. On nights when the moon was full, they would dance naked around fires in secluded paddocks. They performed weird sex acts with human hitch hikers drogged in from the nearby highway. They even read tea-leaves. Lost night, however, the cows hod performed their most evil and dia bolical act. In on attempt to summon a supernofurol pizza delivery, (ready after just one blood sacrifice or five dollars off!) the cows hod mode a dreadlul mistake. They had unleashed a foul terror upon the worid, Beelzebub's own dork milker, Dozimodiusl If there had been a movie, the camera would have been nexl fo Tommy's mutilated corpse and probably would MEETS
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have lilted up and panned slowly to continued on her merry way along The cow looked up. Right up, at the gorilla costume. Picking himself up, fhe left, showing the empty fields the the highway. Reports of the devilish sky. Jim sighed. he was taken ofl his leet again by a broken fence; the hill over which the havoc being v/roughl spread quickly, lance wielded by Daisy in a knight's audience would instinctively know emergency teams and news crews "Over here." armour. Daisy changed into o sur lay Tommy's endongered family were soon scrambled. Scrambled, Daisy looked at Jim, her wotery geon's garb and advanced on the fallen home. The background would be filled that is, like the eggs 1 had for yester eyes looking very placid, cow-like gorilla with scalpel at the ready. Jim with ominous siring music, domi day's breakfast. The highway was and stupid, if only it wasn't for the wasn't there anymore. Instead nated by a double bass player who littered with overturned nevvsvans cunning, moiignonf and distinctly un- A.Aickey Mouse stood there choinsow only knows one note. The usher would and S.E.S, rescue vehicles. cow-like luminescence in them. She at ready. Daisy leapt bock in fear but be showing some annoying git who not before Mickey, (it was really Everyone in the whole country sot blinked and chewed her cud. Jim's come in late where to sif, flashing the fifteen inch, nickei-ploted, phallic Jim again!) hod chopped off four of bloody torch about, annoying every glued fo fheir television screens, her feats. Her udder streaming foul well of least those who hod been symbol went off twice in this hand body and hypnotizing those poor little spraying hot death of the two nearest corruption, Daisy retreated into a moths who always fly around in front foolish enough fo lean against their subtle Santo suit and hid in wait. television screens after covering school kids. Two cortwheels and a of the projection windows jusl wait fluriy of ninjo moves took out nine of After 0 few minutes, o bull pirouet ing to send themselves info fiery them with glue, following the progress of ihe bizarre farm animal. One per the other fen kids and a phosphorous ted inlo her field of view. Howling oblivion on the hot lens of the projec grenode up the orse of the lost one demonically, Daisy hit the bull fair in tor in just the some way that semi son, however, was not glued to his television. Nor, in fact was he spattered Jim and Daisy with smoking the head wilh o fire oxe. The bull fell trailer headlights fixate cute little pieces of curried egg sandwich. Jim fo the floor with its brain pan shat fluffy possums and bunny rabbits watching it. He was actually a couple of thousand kilometres away from it, leant down and lit a Havana cigar tered, Daisy heard fhe shot from just so that they con run over them from the kid's hair. behind her at the some fime as her with oil eighteen Goodyears - well, it on 0 touring holiday of the country Daisy's warped eyes narrowed as left horn exploded. wasn't a very good year for the poor side. she chewed her cud. She wos im bloody rabbit was it? - nosiree Bob! "Hoh"! thought Jim. "Fooled by a Jim Finn hardly thoughl il unusual fo pressed and she didn't impress easy. But this isn't a film so we won'! little bil of bull spinning." see a roadside littered wilh bils of Lowering her head and bellowing like bother about any of that. flotsam, jetsam and old Sam the a steroid-ridden freight train, she Daisy dived for cover, flinging a greengrocer. If didn't faze him at oil Over the hill, Dozimodius (Daisy fo charged Jim with her Tungsten-car monnikin behind her ond coming up in when he drove through levelled towns her friends), hod already come lo the bide lipped horns. Jim stepped aside a nun's habit. Snarling ond spilling on his 1965 Horley-Dovidson house and killed ihe Kings. Blood ran with malodoric grace and fhe hell- she fixed her eyes on Jim. lowrider. He was quite used to such down her black, iron-shod horns. The cow crashed straight into a bakery scenes of carnage. You see, when "You're histor/ now buddy boy!" thirteen barbed teots stood out from truck, the heat of her temper toast Jim was not on holidays, he was a she roared in a gutterol bass designed her venom-filled udder Ifke fhe barbed ing five hundred and sixteen loaves professional amok runner himself: lo instill fear. Jim stood there, how feats of a demonic hell-cows venom- ol assorted white and wholemeal Jim the Psychopath. One thing he did ever, and laughed. He spun his pistol filled udder. She was presently bread. Jim paused for a moment to think, however, through his millieu twice around his finger and replaced pounding al a wet patch on the grass lament his lack of vegemite before of psychoses, was how much of a il in the pocket of his 'The Cat in the just outside the house. She wos cliche-edly springing into cliched better job HE could do. Hot' costume. He winked at the cow pounding ol the wet patch wilh a action. conspiralorially and pointed of her tractor. The wet patch used lo be Following fhe trail of wreckage, Jim As Daisy came back for another pass, "chest. Quizzically, Daisy looked down Farmer King. Farmer King was driving eventually caught sight of the cow. Jim employed fhe classic Bugs Bunny ... at the crucifix hanging from her his tractor when Daisy when Daisy He smelt her first - the unmistakable strategy. He looped on Acme giant neck. found him. Watch Daisy pound. Pound, bitter twang of brimstone jusl subtly rubber bond around the critter's horns "Mooooooooaaoaaaarrrh!" she said, pound, pound. She stopped for a nfio- softened by fhe delicate odour of and pulled it back around a hand Anvil. not at all calmly. Smoke belched from meni, holding Ihe tractor above her supernatural cowshil. Daisy wos The Anvil smacked Doisy between the habit. head, (she was a very strong demon- terrorising a bunch of school chil the eyes and the momentum carried "Excuse me,' said the smoke as if cow) and looked around. She sniffed dren. She had fhem backed into a her through the plate glass window of went about its billowing and wafting- and shrugged her bovine shoulder corner and was thrashing them with a nearby china shop. Bounding oul on type activities. Daisy began to shrink then storied pounding Farmer King's her barbed wire tail whilst viciously oil fours, the cow shook her head, wet patch for another hour or Iwo. singing Neil Diamond songs of them. in size, her head rolling and howling looked around and saw an opportu as the cross about her neck burnt into "Argh," thought Jim. "Neil Diamond! nity. She dashed into a deserted cos her devilish psyche, swirling in space, Daisy, as you may have gathered, is What 0 fiend. How much did he pay tume warehouse. Jim, warming to she retreated once again into the a cow with an oftilude. She would be this cow to get airplay?" the chose, followed her in. astral plane, the emp^/ nun's habit - how would YOU like to work for the As soon OS he walked through the falling onto the dusty linoleum floor. devil? All that fire and you can never As Jim watched, Ihe cow grabbed the door, Jim knew things were going to get the smell of brimstone out of your nearest school student and rammed a "I wonder what she was so cross get reolly silly. A belly dancer shim clothes! Now she was in fhe physical teat info fhe small scholar's mouth, about," mused Jim. mied up lo him but the brief veils plane, she decided she was going lo sending enormous streams of steam leaping onto his hog outside, Jim revealed familiarly spotted coot and make people pay. What for, she didn't ing contagion hissing sibilanfly into gunned the big V-2 engine and rode fhe action man managed to evade a quite know, bul that was beside fhe Ihe squirt's system! The child towards the edge of the devastated double cloven hoof kick. Daisy looked point. Everybody is guilty of some spasmed and screamed sickeningiy town. Just short of the tov/n limits, round. She couldn't help it, The devil thing anyway. So it was that she as she was scorched by the saton- he turned bock. People were just fed her well. Charlie Chaplin waddled picked a little bit of grass, lied it up spown's vicious volley of allitera starting to creep from their hiding oul ol ihe shadows only If wasn't in a nice red and white polka-dot tion. places, under beds, in churches, cup- him. He was deod. if was Jim in a handkerchief, hung that on a pole and boards and up their own arseholes. ;g brilliant disguise! He fetched the cow walked off with her bundle over her "Well," thoughl Jim. "let's see who Jim returned to the site where he had 3 the real bod-arse is." He climbed off a rap on the head with his walking shoulder looking very much like first round Daisy hassling the kids v. his hog and assumed a threatening stick and vanished into the darkness. Pinnochio when he ran owoy from Without climbing olf his bike, he ^ stance with his hand resting on the Peering out from behind o packing home. Except he was a puppet and she scooped up one of the kids' schoolbogs. ^ buff of the Don Wesson .455 Super- case, Jim was surprised b/ a horned was a cow. Opening it, he found his reword for Magnum (t.m.) revolver stropped to clown who sprayed him with blood saving ihe world from the rovages of his thigh. from o hellish soda syphon. Before long, Doisy come to a smoll fhe demon cow from ho|l .. Two town. She razed it to the ground and He said: "Oi." Reeling, blinded, Jim crashed over a rounds of curried egg sondwiches. DAISY: THE COW FROM HELL
Environ MEIITAL-S^''*<'3S^ 11 union news PARKING, TRANSPORT AND SECURITY BY JAMES GIFFORD(Union Prcsidcnf) After accusatior^s by the Editors of Semper (who rarely present both sides of an issue) that the Union is doing nothing about parking and transport, I felt I had to explain what we have been domg. -i n u c i^ u • , I have been busy liaising on a weekly basis with the senior transport planner in the Brisbane City Counal, Bob Soltys who is also a member of the Universit/s External Transport Committee. I have brought up with him any issue with regard to the bnsbane City Council and their policy on transport. I have made him and the University aware of the problems of parking at Dutton 1 ark, below Grace College, in St Lucia and the lack of buses to and from Uni especially the Chapel Hill route. I have also made representations on behalf of students to the Senate, the Registrar, the Bursar and the local Aldemian June U Connell. Because of representations by myself and others, there are two extra buses from Chapel Hill, there has been a student put on the University Parking and Transport Committee and the University has made a greater effort to address the transport problems of stu dents. A meeting was arranged in which I took the parking problems of the motorcyclists on campus to the Bursar. This was instrumental in the Bursar's revision of their parking situation and the subsequent rezoning of all motorcycle parks to Green. The carpark opposite Women's College was all Blue zone and now is about two-thirds Green zone. At the Umon we have had people counting the spare places in the Red and Blue zone areas and these results will be made available to the University to further our case for an increase in Green zone spaces. There is a petition which will be presented to the University demanding more Green spaces. This is available from the Student Union. Grab some copies and get your friends to fill them out. : .We have also been lobbying the University on various aspects of security on campus. Because of questions to the Vice-Chancellor, I was able to get a commitment to double the nighttime security personnel. Other iniHatives that have sprung from the pressure put on the University by both staff and students have been a second security bus from the Dutton Park ferry to Park Road railway station and a commitment to install surveillance cameras and the emergency call points on campus. The Executive has set up a committee to discuss and take action about security on campus. It includes representatives fromth e Health Service (to where often rapes are reported), University Security, Women's Equal Opportunity and the University Stahis of Women Committee. It is the purpose of this committee to share information and put pressure on the University to improve the security arrangements. The University has also set up a committee dealing with personal safety and parking. They were to put only one shident on this committee but due to Student Union requests there are now two. This committee was set up by the Vice Chancellor and its findings will be taken very, very seriously. We will be doing our best to ensure that the student views are made clear to the University in no uncertain terms. If you are female and stay at Uni until after dark, don't forget the security bus. There are also personal security alarms available fromth e Union Bookshop. Don't forget the number for security: 3651234 SECURITY BUSES ENVIRONMENT COLLECTIVE Afler the recent well-published attack on a woman on campus grounds, and a little public pressure, the Student Union is now supplying an extra security bus. There are now two campus mini-buses operoting from 6pm to 11 pm Monday to Thursday. The bus marked "On Campus" UPDATE remains on the usual route as bebw: UNION ToEnuncnuilKrigsik. (fldquiitd)
SECURI TY Ciaudillep
BUS toWinEndrviT IbcmnglusSlop i'fttiiAtei,lD,;„ — ROUTE While the "Off Campus" bus will lake you to and from the Toowong bus shelter (opposite Toowong Village) at 25 minutes past and 5 minutes to the hour. It can also take you anywhere in the surrourding St Lucia area, as well as the nearby train stations and car parb. To catch this service, simply gel on the "On Campus" bus at any point and ask the driver to radio the 'Off Campus' bus. You will then be transferred fo the "Off Campos" bus.
Both bus drivers are concerned about the current increase in incidents of harassment recently. Jai, the driver of ihe 'On Campus' bus, says she has been stopping near women walking alone at night, and encouraging them to get on the bus. She stresses thot women can and should Ibg Mission Statement down the buses if they see them approaching. JAI JOB-SHARES her position with another driver, The University of Queensland Environ If you wont fo get involved or find Christine. The driver of the 'Off Campus" bus is David, and all three drivers are helpful and ment Collecfive is an apolitical group out more about ^e Environment approachable. PloQM use this bus service if you are a woman anywhere on or near campus after 6pm. If you are off campus and want to be taken to the University, ring Security on 365 dedicated fo increasing aworeness of Collective - come and see us. 1234 and they will send one of the buses over to pick you up. and participation in environmental issues. There's Iwo places that you can alwoys find members of the There is also a new shuttle-bus operating on the other side of tht Dutton Park Ferry. The bus runs from 5p.m. lo 8.30p.m. every week night and leaves from the leriy, goes to the top of Dufton So for tfiis semester tfie Environment Collective. 1. Our weekly meet Park, then to Park Road Station and bock to the Annerley Rood bus stops and Dutton Pork Station Collective has been finding its feet. The ing is of 1.00 p.m. every Mon if required. The bus is operating for a trial period of three months only, so il you would like to Collective has been deciding its goals, day in the Environment Office show support for it, please write to Or Pretty, c/- Civil Engineering a\ the University. ond how t)est fo achieve them. We are (opposite Clubs & Societies) 2. If you would also like the time of operation extended (to say 10 o'clock for example) Dr Pretty now ready to start heading towards On Wednesdays you can find the would also welcome letters on this nnatter. them. Environment Stall. At the stall you If you have any information on any recent incidents of harossmeni, on or around campus, please con buy T-shirts and badges, get inform the Women's Rights Organiser. This inforrrKition is completely confidential and will be Our major event lost term was Ihe Envi used to determine areas of security thot need to be examined. THIS IS FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL lots of informotion and hove a WOMEN ON CAMPUS. There does appear to be an increase in reports of harassment - areas ronmental Hypothetical - 'How Green chat. to watch out for ate the stiip oi rair.lotesi near the Dutton Pork ferry, and Dutton Patk itself. wos my Volley'. This wos a huge suc At the moment, there is a temporary full-lime Women's Righls Organiser (me) and very shortly cess, which enlightened many people. Don't just think Green - ACT there should be professional full-time worker in this position. So please feel Iree to use the area, We hove also been involved in Resource GREEN reporl harassment etc Security ond Recycling campaign.
12 JS^/^Sf^3£^ MEIfTALtinlran iinioniewi THE BLAH BLAH BLAH ACTIVITIES BLURB Self Defence Typical activities blurb speel is "this year is shaping up to be the best year blah, blah, blahll" But its true...this year is shaping up to be the best Classes year entertainment wise in many years blah, blah, blah. Staying true to our policy of varje^ with our free lunchtime performances They ore open to all women on compus, or)6 will go for four (in the Forum area, or the Bistro, on Wednesdays at 1pm if you don't weeks every Monday ofternoon from 3 - 4,30pm oT'Activities', know) We have some great acts coming up. By the time you read this you starting on the 29fh of April. The teacher is Kimbra, who also takes will have already missed Violinda, the avante guarde violinist from Syd closses ol SPRA, and she is well qualified in this area. She hopes ney but can look forward to Grant McLennan, ex Go-Betweens, on f^^ay fo teoch women how fo react in a voriety of situotions, as well os the 1st. It is interesting to note that he is an ex-student from this campus. some basic kicking and punching methods. Each lesson will cost He wit be performing withPhil Kakulas from The Triffids. The following Wednesday, IWay Sth, Bugghouse will play, they are being touted as the $3 (although fhis is negoHoble - I would rather women do the new Do-Re-Mi and are are also from Sydney. Coming up we also have course than be put off by the expense!). It would be oppreciated if the The Catharine Wheel and Dave Mason from the Reels. you could enrol up at the Women's Rights Office (in the Union Our next nighttime function is the Bachelors From Prague with the Building), os there is o maximum number of 20 places in the Appolousas in the Holt Bistro on Friday night April 26. Tickets are $10 for course. Women are encouraged to attend ail four classes, but are UQ students and we open at 8pm. welcomed even if they con only make one or two. The response to the return of the Doug Anthony Allstars on May 17 has For 1 1 /2 hours seff—defence classes been Incredible. The tickets will be $15 and the numbers allowed into the are being run by the Women's Rights Bistro will be limited so get your tickets early from the Union Shop when they go on sale on Monday April 29! Area, in view of the recent attacks on Finally, there are still spares left in Union Workshops -: Advanced Black women students. and White Photography, Basic Car Maintanence and Aboriginal Culture. Cheers. Althea Mackenzie By Gavin Waller. ACTIVITIES ORGANISER Temporary Women's Rights Organiser
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Environ MENTAL J5^/^*^5S^ 13 CEMENT BOX THEATRE £( GALLERY Calendar Theatre: Gambit Theatre Sports Finals -lOpmSat 4th May Waiting for Fredot - 8 pm Wed-Sat 8-11 May In this game of chess nothing is as it seems. Pieces start to think for themselves - move for themselves. Gambit - 8pm Tues-Sat 14-18 May, 21-25 May After months of workshopping and rehearsal this new Australian play is check and mate for a sell-out season. Waiting for Fredot 8th - llth May A pawn has all the power to be a King, his chance arises, he "Every word is a gem, its just the order that they're put in must make the GAMBIT.
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"See it!" David Stratton Using large canvasses, some of which join together to create a three and half metre work. Trish Barnetf s exhibition is "I didn't see it." Stevie Wonder colour at its most evocative.
"This extravaganza of side splitting brilliance can only be Sections of vision, coloured and tactile forms. How do we described as the greatest theatre experience this century, perceive our world out of the city? This exhibition confronts with the exception of the Catholic Womens production of the emotional and psychological impact of LANDSCAPE. Doris does Dubbo. Personally I found the directing This is not a collection of scenery in frames. jr^.^superb."The Director -^ COFFEE oHUF Don't be deceived
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14 jS^/^Sf^3S^ MEITTALimlrM The Union's Neglected Children There are twelve "areas" in the University need for one is obvious.The V.P. is JENNI PROVE of Queensland Union. An area usually consists ELINDER MOORE looks at some of the of a comniittee, or office sometimes they have a less prominant Union Areas and what POSTGRADUATE AREA: HAS AN ORGANISER full-time paid organiserwhoissupposed to look they do for the students who need them. after day to day problems and administration. For anybody uninformed about Uni jargon, everyone knows about that before they come over here. as I was when 1 started Uni, a "post-grad" is some-one A committee is "convened" (headed) by its The problem was the $2,000 per year for prc-school who has finished a degree and is doing higher study (e.g. elected representa tivefromtheStudentCouncil, education and the 56,500 pcryear for high school education Honours, Masters, Ph.D) on top of it. The area works to who is called a Vice-President of the Union,. Of that the Department of Education sprang on overseas ensure value for money for students in courses which course, this structure varies from area to area, students with children, once they were here. The O.S. charge up-front fees. Another issue for post-grads is the tendency of faculties tochange their tutors from part-time but that's the general idea(l). Area made successful appeals to the Education Dept. which much help from tho Post-Graduate organiser to casual status to cut costs. Most tutors are post-grad bccausethcO.S. representative wasaalsofull-timestudent. students and they have much less power than full-time THE ABORIGINAL ANDT0RRE5 STRAIT ISLANDS This highlighted the need for a specific O.S. organiser. lecturers. Tlie Post-Grad Vice-President is Murray Green. AREA: HAS NO ORGANISER. The officeof the Organiser, Jack Ford, is at the top of the Thisyear's Overseas Reprcsentatjveis Lumeumba stairs in the Union Building. Last year the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Wambago-Wapakabulo and may be contacted through Islander Association was amalgamated with this area. The Union Reception, at the fop of the stairs and around to the WOMEN'S RIGHTS AREA very last clause of the Area's constitution states that it shall right, inside the Union Building. be "aimed at raising awareness and at combatting all You might have noticed on campus and in tho forms of racism on this campus". Combatting racism THE PART-TIME STUDENTS' AREA : HAS NO last issue of Semper that this Area has had to struggle to requires the aforementioned increased general campus ORGANISER have the position of organiser even advertised for after awareness of the issue, but this cannot be achieved without last year's organiser, Lynne Rogers, resigned. Ail being adequate funding. Forexample, last year the N.A.I.D.O.C. Part-timer's may be people who find money well the Area should now be able to get on with a week Kupa-muny (a traditionally prepared meal) and troubles force them to reduce their study load, or peopte campaign for the university administation to take the a Variety Night could not l>e properly publicised given who find careers require them to study part-time, or lots problem of sexual harrassment and assault seriously and the minimal funding allocated. N.A.I.D.O.C. stands for of people in variuos situations. The Part-time Area should improve security around here. The Area will also run the National Atwriginal and Islander Day of Observance be able to put part-timers in touch with one another, and workshops on everything from self-defense to computer Committee. This year the Area hopes to hold all its many with Union and University Services, and to advocate for word-processing and car maintenance. Women who work proposed N.A.I.D.O.C week events on campus and to part-timersin theUnionand theUniversity.The Part-time on these projects meet in the Women's Room on Sundays reform its constitution. Vice-President is Nick Fenet, contactable through Union at 1 pm. the organiser should help or advise students with any problems of sexual discrimination, harassment or Reception. The Area's representative (not VP) on Coundl is assauh. The Vice-President is Maleana Feranda. She can Adam Brannigan and the Student Association President be contacted through Women's Rights Office (ask upstairs is Darren Goodali. Both extend a welcome to anyone EXTERNAL STUDENTS' AREA: HAS NO Reception for directions). interested in the Area and may be contacted at the ORGANISER EITHER Commmon Room on the sixth floor of the Gordon LESGAY AREA Greenwood Building. External Students are pcoplewhostudyhjll- time but don't come to campus during normal hours. However, in order to cut costs the University is phasing The Gays and Lesbians On Campus (a club) OVERSEAS STUDENTS' AREA HAS NO had an official club room on campus last year. This was ORGANISER AS WELL. out External Studies subjects. So, last year the Union was left with an External-Students' Organiser with less and used for storing information for Safe Sex Education less students to work for. An Externals Part-Time and Campaign for wluch the society had university funding. Like the Murri and islander students, the Overseas Organiser was advertised for, selected by a The room was also a place for Gays and Lesbians to meet overseas students' representative on Council does not committee, and was due to start work on Monday the 14th in a non-judgemental atmosphere. This room was have Vice-President status. The Area deals with theobviou s of January, 1991. However, she (and all of the external, abolished by the 1991 Union Executive. specialneedsof students moving toa totally new country part-time and overseas students' and their friends) Remember this has only been an overview of SOME where they are not citizens. The biggest overseas student returned from holidays to find that her job had been areas of the Union and their activities. Other issue last year were fees. Not the S8,000 an Overseas abolished by the new Student Union Executive. This is specialised Union Areas include Turbot St Dental Student has to pay to study at an Australian university - why the last three areas have no organiser, although the School and Hospital Areas at Herston.
The Ridesharing Programme is finding difficulty in matching car pools ALONE?... SCARED?... THE for the following times and locations. If WOMENE you can assist these fellow students and WALK EASY staff please contact the Ridesharing The Personal Emergency Alarm RIGHfllS ASEA Agency on Ph: 365 1594. at 0 special discount price STRATHPINE: Tues-arrive 8:30o.m. leave 6:00p.m. WAU( EASY Is the most PALM BEACH: Mon - arrive 7:30 o.m. leave 5:00 respscted personal emergency p.m., prefer non-smokers. alarm on tiie maricet. LOGANHOLME: Wed - arrive 10:00 O.m. leave This hand, pocket size alram 8:00 p.m., prefer non-smokers. has received the most \ FWETEA/COFfEE PULLENVALE: Mon - arrive 6:50 a.m. leave 6:00 favourable reviews from the CHAT p.m., prefer non-smokers. Tues-arrive9:00a.m. leave Police and the media, because COM fY CHAIR 6:00 p.m., prefer non-smokers. of Its ynlque features: RELAXING SPACE CLAYFIELD; Tfiur - arrive 9:00 a.m. leave 9:30 p.m. WOMEN'SRIGHTS GREENBANK: Tliur - arrive 8:00 a.m. leave 6:00 •V«Y loud of leost 115dB CAMPAIGNS p.m., prefer non-smokers. • Con be used in short bursts or loced on for continued use WORKSHOPS FERNYGROVE: Wed -arrive 3:00 p.m. leave 7:00
• WH operote ot ony ongle even upside down EOUAL OPPORTUNITY p.m.Tfiur - arrive 10:00 a.m. leove 7:00 p.m. • Very robust construction will keeping wodting if dropped to the ground BROOKFIELD: Mon - arrive 5:30 p.m. leave 9:00 TEMINIST • Ozone friendly - wil not leok dongerous goses THEORY/UTERAniRE p.m.
WOMEN S SOUOARITY GOLD COAST: Tues - arrive 8:45 p.m. leave 8:00
WOMENS ISSUES p.m., prefer non-smokers. Tfiu -arrive 8:45 a.m. leave THE UNION BOOKSHOP 6:00 p.m., prefer non-smokers. HEALTH IPSWlCH:Mon-arrive flexible leave 8:00 p.m, prefer has limited supplies of WALK EASY CREAIIVnY femole non-smokers. Tues - orrive flexible leave 6:00 SYMPATHETIC p.m, prefer femole non-smokers. WOMEN'S RKSHTS m ORGANISERS THE GAP: Mon - arrive 8:00 a.m. leave 8:30 p.m.,
AND WOMEN'S prefer non-smokers. RIGHTS VICE PRESIDENT This column is a Semper sponsored AVAILABLE HERE Community Service
Envifon MENTAL JS^MF^BK 15 •4^^ to a packed house & after the show they caught up with a couple of Semper's "Swedish f^l^ddesses"- Susan Forde & Katrina Imbruglia, JA/f. ELLIOT: Helb, I'm Elliot Goblet, and going to folbw the single up? I mean, what is retevant? It's 'irrel- ANTHC5NY: Eliot has dreams of it. Brisbane about your 'thing' with it's great lo he inside this interview. 01 Wendy Harmer... I You can quote me on ihot. ELLOT: It's not realty a high prioriV ''°"*" ^ ^^T '' "^f'' ^°^^"9 °" ELLIOT:'WhSftjp^ple say that, I get CD u at the moment. I'm very Lxisy in the '^'"P^'^'^' ^* 7^ T "^^u 'o carried owoy and do my whole ANTHONY: Oh, bullshit. n SEMPER: Have you performed to corporate scene. I like to break up ^\^^P' f^P^ ''^^^^l''^' ^^let? ,mp&, i ihree or four people ask SEMPER: So is it true - are you ? gether Lsefore? my serious business with some funny ^^ "^IJ. "^"' ''"^"' ^'^'^ ^^^
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For North Queensland is being considered system, that's why. And whot a system it is! OS the sih» of a $580 million hydroelectric scheme/ due to come on-line caround the By now you've probably heard something about Ihe turn of the century* Have the right cjues- TullyAAillstreqm Scheme controversy. But it's oddson lions been osked obout fhei reosons for fhot you don't know the whole story. Seven new locating such o scheme in the environmen dams, making two huge new reservoirs up there in the tally-sensitive Tuliy-Millstreom region? middle of World Heritage country. Seven waterways diverted; and a bloody great tunnel dug through the : ronges tp divert the fkw of the Tully river through a Suspicion and cynicism from Darren Trees on Honest Wayne and the Very Big Dam newwondertech hydroelectric toy, at on esfimoled cost of $580 million dollars over ten yeors. That's a To mosl peopfe. Tolly IS only a narne - o place too QEG estimate of course - ond no doubt you ore all smoli lo bolher finding on a mop. AAost owqre just how reliable such estimates inevitably ore. Queensbnders ore probobly oware thof fl is a smoll VMio con soy what the feol costs, bolh economic and town somewhere between Coirns and Townsville. To environmental, will be? the handful thol live fhere, Tully is home; a sleepy little conefarming town vs4iere the biggest excitement The QEC have commlssioied ony number of environ occurs in comparing onnuol rainfall iotoU wilh Innisfail mental, economic and ecologicol studies, all freely to decide which is the v/ettesf place in Australia. To ovoiloble for pemsol at any forge fibrory, which the whitewafer rafting componies ihal run fhe Tully purport lo show how totally eco-sound the whole River, though, Tully is o handy source c^ supplies, o project is, and just how wonderful it will be for useful slopover before ond ofter the fiver runs. And to Queenslond, ond howdesperotely we need another the esiimaled 500,000 people who e\«iy yeor come power supply. Who con argue with such o weolth of to roff the Tully River, Tully is the start erf one oF the material? Oozem of official-sounding inch-thick, basics most exciting rides of their lives. ^ • ;;. of exoctly whot is happening.
Whitewater rofting is estimated to be this fourth largest Days of sorting through corefvllydelailed crap uncov- tourist drowcord in ihe For North df Queensbnd, ofter ered the following conclusions: the Barrier Reel the Daintree forest Jours; ond the Alherton/Kurondo toblelond. Wdyne Goss has stoled : QEC figures show thot Queensbnd will need a new his commitled opposition to the imposition of o :.^1^' power supply by the tum of the century. Federal tax on tourist operotors who utilise the Barrier Reef, on the grounds that the Queen^nd Tourism QEC studies indicote that o hydroelectric plont is Industiy needs all the help it con get in the current perfect forthe kind of supply (peeking) needed. economic situalion - and of course, he's right. So why do you suppose it Is that the Queensbnd Electric QEC investigations indicote thot the TuKyMillstreom 1*^ r y f f ^ *^ J WATER ity Commission is frying to raise the Whitev/oter location is the best one for such o facility. Rofting fees from roughly $3.00 per heod to obout They're buiiding a nice, spanking $10.00 per head? it is worth noting that o Federally commissioned ^udy 4MX<<»:«A-rKv of Queensbnd's power requirements in the neor future In For Noth Queensland, commerciol rofting takes differed significantly from the Q^C figures iniiof the place on four fivers,: tfie fully, the Barron, the Federal figures were p good deal lov^er^ Naturally^ Mulgroveond the fsforth Johnstone, Two of these ore the QEC; has; q gcKid; reason for }he discrepon^iy, and controlled lo some extent by hydroelectric systems- the/ mainldin tfwt e^ the Federal ftguref show.ilie • the Barron and the Tully. On the Barron river, ' need for anotiier power plant, /ii^:tfie QECiStdtes Whitewater rofting tokes ploce oily in the mornings, that its figures kike into account redudions.tn;denTand when the hydroelectric statioi is releosing water brojgfit obout bf imprpved electricity management olreody in the course of its generation duties-which techniques-lofig-lifelow demand fluorescent bulbs,: . leaves only the TuJIy river where the QEC can actually high-efficiency appliances, off-peak heaters ond so affect the rafting process significantly. forth. So nrjuch for Demand AADnagement as o • . strategy. These figuresconnot be disputed; nobody Lost year was very wet; Ihe QEC released noextro but the QEC is geared to uncover this kind of informo water \or rafting of oil because the usual spill vvas tion, offer all. But sometimes, their own statements sufficient. Nonetheless* the QEC got about $76,000 lead the reader to wonder.. from each of the two companies thot operate on the HCW ilVClf OeleCtnC SVStem at an Tully river. 'VVe hove to pay up,* sold the manager of For instonce, one of the studies soys ihot owing to the Roging Thunder. *lf we don't, fhe QEC will simply increpsing trend tovvards otr-conditioning and environ find other peqale who will pay their price.' Not bod ment controlled buildings, the summer electricity . for the QEC, whenyou consider that for the bst ten demand is expected to increase steodily, Another : yeors, they hove released woter for rofting on on studykiys,; (lovirever^ I since the number of build averoge of only twomonths in the year. The AAan- ings requirirignew:birconditiontng systems is decreos- oger of Raging Thunder states thot companies must ing,:demdrKJ iforpoyi^ln; tliat;S is expected to poy up, or the QEC will simply find someone dse stobilise; ^V:-:?- who will. And the T\jllTully River is the jewel in the crowneStimatetcrc.. l CO$t Of 580 milliOn of QueensloriUriAd roftinr^ftirn-g -;na 13k1 "^mU stretcc»,o».hk o «f funspc^le ..ncr„.:Ud j The best'double^hule':of QII comes when you look till wilderness. If the rafting componies yielded the Tully at their reoi5onsfc«^;looaiin^ in the'middle River fo operators more willing to pay QEC prices, of the ehvlrpnmentdlly^tisitiye Tully River system. The they would soon be out of business. QEC stales thai:(dt)^purp6ienliol sites were investi gated, Ond only:ihfe^:were considered feasible for The QEC notes thot the rofting companies are 'utilis develc^entlih^TyJfyA^illstreorri, the Budekinifdlls, ing State resources in o profit-making venture' and ond the Herbert River. 'In temis of cost, Tutly#ciin- ;. should therefore be expected fo pay for those re stream was clearly superior, providing the biggest : sources'. Pay for the woter that flows in our rivers? AAr generoting capacity for around the lowest capital Tourismfroteclor Goss doesn't think this kind of logic opplies to the Barrier Reef, so why does he ignore this doH'ars over ten years. kind of blotant profiteering by the QEC? Couki it be Whot does '...oround the lowest copito! cost/ because the money in question goes straight info \ * i* sV ,, mean? Especially when only three sites ore under State Coffers, nol Federal? consfderafionr Why ore ihey trying to convince us that it's better to stick on expensive scheme into the Worid But bock to the main question: why does he QEC Heritage listed Tully river system, when it could be want fo raise its prices to the point v^^here the rofting located, say at the more accessible and fess sensitive companies are going to have to fxryi':$200,000 - Burdekin Follsrolreody the site of a spanking new $300,000 per year just to operate? Why? Becouse dam system? Doubtless ot 'around the lowest copifol they're building a nice, sponking new hydroelectric cost,' OS well! Let's pretend thof the initial site studies took place in 1982-85, and were shelved by the QEC at the - time, possibly because of the troubles they were having with the State Government and their own workers, or possibly because the money wasn't there - or whotever. Now, time posses. World Heritage'listing is decbred for o large chunk of prime North Old real estate. Logging is stopped, on action sup ported by the Old labor opposition as well os the Federal Labor government. In the north, o smoll town by the nome of Ravenshoe starts to die, it's single most importont industry shot down. People out of work, d'lsgiuniled voters, ongry scenes on TV etc etc The iiest 'doubie-shuffle' of all conies Enter the study done bock in '82-'85. Development of the Tully Millstreom system would establish more than fifr/ permanent \dbs in the oreo, ond of course, the coiystruction work itself would be 0 huge bonus for whatever town happened to be nearest. Not to mention the huge flow of tourists eager to use the lovely new waterwoys and reservoirs for fishing ond booting and swim ming and so forth. And whot fortunate town hoppens to be closest to the proposed new scheme? It's Ravenshoe. What o lucky coincidence I when you look at their reasons for Does thot sound like o good reoson why a dam system might be put into on environmentally sensitive oreo for 'around the lowest capital cost'? No? Then consider this' for purely ecologtcol reasons ~ because wood left lo decay under the rising waters will produce that terrible greenhouse gas methane - ihe QEC hos, out of the goodness of their heoft orranged that there sholl be no wood left in the proposed reservoir areas. No trees. They wilt be logged off in advance Wonder who ihe task of locatinbggin^ thge areathes wil scheml go to? e in the middle Let's pretend thot o man named Lister, who might be poftant in on QANGO we'll call the QEC wanted fo build o liltle monument to himself and his people - o bold, visionary new scheme of hydroelectric technok>gy involving bts c^ exciting doms and tunnels, o scheme that would be remembered olongside the Snowy River scheme and the High Aswan Dom -could put together o pockoge of information much like the one you've just seen. Do you think he could sell it to the new, cfeon, sound, green government of Queensbnd? of the environmentally It s a complicoied ofroir. It s more thon possible that we may reolly need o new power system - the QEC figures sure do look convincing. And o hydroelec tric scheme probably is preferoble to even the cleanest of cool-fired plants. The questbn is this: do we really hove to hove the overombitious, undeniobly expensive Tully- Ai'binstreom system to provide us with that power? Which site really did show the lowest capital cost of development? How much more of o generating capacity did the TullyMillstream system really offer above its cheoper rival - or rh/ols? Is it really necessary that fhe fbdgling rafting industry be made to poy for what most of us take for gronted - the woter in our rivers? Assertions thot the rafters need the QEC ore ludicrous, sensitive Tully River system. These questions canrrot be properly answered here; the only hope of finding out whol is reolly going lo lies on the opplicatbi) of direct and brutal pressure k> the Goss governmeni Whot is ot stoke is not so much an issue of the environment, or of proper protection of a young industiy, or indeed even of the jobs and the families of if^ Ravenshoe bggets. The reo! issue here is ihot of honest Government. The Goss administration got in on Q campaign of honesty and occountability; this TullyMillstreom offoir positively reeks of backroom dealings, 'jobs for the boys' ond bacbcrotchlng. Walking around campus, use.. .one is nol registered in Queensbnd for usage - Tordon 50D, used for weeds, and bng periods. But more importantly, itshouldn't the University of Queens use, two have been withdrawn from registra Reglone, used for control of the bkeweeds. be our function to do so. Our job will he to tion, 7 ore carcigogens, one was known as Another four are not currently used but were educate the student laody and convince fhem land seems to be quite an Agent White in Vietnam, and others are used recentlyand could be brought backinto of the need to eradicate these pesticides. As environmentally-friendly prohibited chemicals in hazard area number usage at any time - Hoebwn, Passtox, admitted by Mr Pratt, it is the University's one Carbaryl, and Rogor. responsib'lity fo come up with alfemofives, place. It may not be a it's ours to force fhem lo do so. natural environment like He also reported chemicals that had been In any case, all thirteen have some degree of disposed of according to the University Ad toxicily. All can be absorlaed in large enough What is to be done? Griff itii Uni, but (aside from ministration - copper sulphide for example - amounts to have an effect on student's health. So how do we bring this about? How do we were still on University grounds. They should all he banned. the dust bowls laughingly force ihe University fo remove pesticides from referred to as 'car parks') The University Administrotion responded by We ore assured all 29 originals were safe, campus? saying all chemicals used on campus were it seems quite safe and remember. We have a good chance of success. The use safe, and any hazardous ones certainly hospitable. Aifernalives of pesffcides is not so ('nfimalefy linked wrih weren't being used anymore. Several years how the University functions as to make it You can sit down in the Great Courtand laze of complaining and lobb>ying by fhe Environ So what do we do instead of using pesti something the Administration would persist there all day - admiring some of the Isuild- ment Collective and several academics re- cides, Ihen? wilh in the face of growing opposition and ings, perhaps, or reading your leclure notes, disnjption, or even small but spirited and or jusl sharing lunch with a friend. You get up determined conflict. and walk off, after wiping o little dirt and grass off you - all the while nol realizing But nor is if something that can be done b/ you've jusl been lying on a chemical bolh. quiet, backdoors lobbying and submissions. We've reached about the end of that road on According lo Brian Fenn, Director of Buiki- this issue - for, from now on, renvDval of ings and Grounds and the person in charge pesticides will go agoinst the concept of of implementing pesticide policy, pesticides Mr Pratt claims "the University could only be 'economic viability' - whatever alternative are used on the sporting fiekis, the lake, suiting in the number used dropping gradu considered as one of fhe mosf responsible methods are thought of will almost certainty carpark kerbs and footpaths, and "areas ally. users of pesticides in the Brisbane area* in a be more financially expensive than the present used fcjy staff and students between lectures", The list of usable chemicals is now down fo memo to the ViceChancellor from January scheme. the Great Court for example. 13. We are assured now that these thirteen 1989. This is bise. are 'absolutely safe". This is false. A victory in this campaign, then, will he a The Uni versity's poi icy on pesticide use (as sel Pbces like Griffith Universityond Ipswich City blow against the idea that preservation of the out by Barry Pratt, Director of Occupational Lost year fhe Environment Collective insti Council only use one or two to control pesls. environment depends upon financial con Health and Safety) supposedly ensures gated a n assay of the thirteen pesticides able And the Botanical Gardens, with grounds cerns - we con save ihe forests when there's lo be used. The testing was done by Envifotest, similar to those of the University, with large • pesticides ore only used when and where a boom, Ixif now we're in a recession so we a Brislxjne company that specialises in haz numbers of exotic plants and excellent towns they are essential have fo chop them down (and mine uranium ardous chemicals and environmental risk - the major justification given by Buildings & from the ground underneath them. And...). • effective alternafive methods are sought lo assessment. The chemicals used on campus Grounds for continued pesticide use - uses the use of pesticides were measured in terms of albwable drink next to none. The alternative methods they Bul that victor/ will depend upon our ability ing water concentrations. The assessment use are comprised of a combination of to mobilise students in brge enough numbers • only pesticides which are considered safe reported "any chemical with a(\ acceptable manual labour and different stybs of control to the public, the user and the environment to defend their interests. drinking water concentration of 10Omg/litre methods, coupled with use of low toxic are to be used So if you're interested in helping, come to the or less would be moderote-to-highly loxic to pesticides such as Round Up. Environment Collecfive stall on Wednesdays • control measures are implemented to en humans". There are many organically-produced sub and sign fhe petition; keep your eyes and sure safe us. This, remember, is just a single test. There stances thai have equal or greater effects in ears open foractivily, or come to fhe Environ However, there is quite a gap between whal moy well be other harmful effects not meas combatting weeds and pests. These loo ment Collective meeiings (in the Environment is policy and what actually happens. ured b/ this test. The results are still reason shouki be considered. But the Environment Office, opposite Clubs & Societies) every ably worrying. Collective cannot and should not propose a Monday lunchtime. The issue first arose in 1987 when students whole new program to replace fhe curreni brought dead ducb from ihe Uni Lake fo the No less than six of the thirteen hod accept pesticide one. This is for two reasons. Semper offices, shortly after the bke wos able concentrations of less than 1 OOmg/l Rodney Catling sprayed with the herbicide Regbne. Ray thof is, theyare toxic to humans. Four of these Firstly, we don't have the fime, the energy, the Environment Collective Cbrk, a gardener empbyed here, lold the had acceptable concentrations of 30mg/l resources or the informotion to do so. In paper that "of the 29 sprays (used or listed for or lower - one, Hoebwn, had an accept many areas, this is because BuikJings and able level of three milligrams per litre. use on campus) 27 ore illegal...If a spray has Grounds eilher refuses to give us informa For more information ihe potential lo kill it becomes illegal to Two of these six are currently in common lion, or delays doing so for aggravalingly Contact Jane Brownbill in the Environmental Oftice Phone 371 '^Whal Enviroiiitieiit?'' 1611 or write to: '*v Australian Conservation So, what are your views an the piliful slau; of tiie ^nviroraiienl?'*. ^nyttowmajt, J4ft» iinilty givers a Icag&y «nswcr, Utfle onlptal- Foundation "Give a shil?" aypwfeapsbatjplefliy of IcngtiuHe launchwl in with the simplcbat ti'iH3Btat«n}««tof^''*H^Bit[Virtnm6tttkn*cessAry*' Was thtssome 3087 Edward Street 'Okay-wcMyouwcrcoffacdEijobwjthBHPcftrnuigSl(X),00aycar. deepsti.lerawtf.T^WoitttWototJjmF'^wdTNoJiwasinimcdi- Brisbane Q 400 butyour tokiflg a would *ncar. xummg the environment for future ^tely foHow^% «^«V|So]fowlng 20 JSS^4F3£^ MENTAL •Dvlren "Every battle won is won to be fought again. Every battle lost is lost forever/' By the fime you read this, you wi.. know just how nicely this cJescribes the longest running conservation battle in the world - the fight to save Fraser Island. Right now I'm reflecting on the paradoxes of thatbottleof over 25 years. Sincewhites first Th e Inquir y Forestry-The Essentia invaded fhe island 160 years ago, two conflicting emotions hove ruled their UnlortunateV, ihe AlP's leader Wayne Goss Problem behaviour - love and greed. Love for fhe belonged to ihe faction dominated by the In th,e eorly days, o wealthy timber miller mafesfy of its tall green forest, the pore sand Australian Workers' Union which covers the named hiine, whose grandson sfill owns the and sparkling lakes, and greed for the timber v«'orkers. Finding himself Premier he main sawmill using Fraser island timber, was wealth to be gained from their destruction. was faced with fhe problem of salisjying the elecled to Stale Government and set up the consorvafionisis and the AWU" . On"^ e leg Queensland Forestry Commission The White Peril each side of a barb v/ire fence, as Joh used lo manage forestry operations for 'the benefit to say. A brainslorm produced fhe idc-o ofon of timber supply future generations.' This set inquiry headed by ^A^ Popular, corruption fhe tone for the Forestry Service of today, Early this cenhJry, civilisation came to Fraser commissioner Tony Fitzgerald. ensuring ihot the primary goal was always Island in the form of Christian missionaries the provision of wood, with other values who imprisoned and torhjred the native The terms of reference included all aspects ol always seconder/. people in the name of a benevolent god, ^he conservation, management and use of Ironically, we now realise thatonly byensuring and good Christian men who poisoned tnem the Great Sand-/Region, as well as a whole with death porridge, shot and roped them, separote issue on fhe resolution of public the ecological values of the forest are paramount can we assure fhe supply of wood finally driving them into the sea to drown, issue disputes. or any of the olher services provided by ': Thai done, the killing fren2y was turned onto forests - clean water, air, flood mitigation, ^' the ancient forest. Alarm bells rang as the Intentional or not, the effect of these wide soil stability and health, tranquility of the : Austrollan Academy for the terms of reference was to take the public human spirit... AdvarKOtnentofSciencenamedFraser attention off the central and critical issue of Ishndosoneofthefhree areasoffhecountty logging. (Old grovv^h or unlogged forests Queensland's Conservator of mosl in need of protection. But by the early once logged take centuries to return lo the Forests, Tom Ryan, was recently asked by partofthiscenlur/, fhe best was all bul gone, condition where they con support theiroriginol Justice Stewart of fhe Resource fauna, during which many species may Assessment Commission how he knew Sandmining become extinct. Very little of Fraser Island's when a forest had been overcuf. Ryan said forests remain as old growth and logging is he supposed that if you couldn't get enough scheduled for every 30 fo 50 years), wood for the mill, then perhops you hod Finally, forest management began to temper token too much. Anyway, he said,you can't Ihe devastation slightf/ but other threats lo The JointConservation Groups osked really overcuia forest, it's like taking wool Fraser Island emerged. The mineral potential Mr Fitzgerald and Mr Goss for either a fi^m a sheep. If you take too much, YOU just of fhe sandy dunes was recognised by the moratorium, funding fo help speed up iheir ftave lo wait longer hr it to grow back. secorid half of this century. Miners moved in submission, or sequential reporting of issues Logging is more analogous lo shearing flesh and dunng llie sixties a battle ensued. One (over a hundred were raised) since logging's from a living animal. You can lake a certain man, John Sinclair, fought the miners so effects are tangibly the most irreversible. amount bul finding out exactly how much is doggedly that he lost his wife, home and job Each said it was Ihe other's responsibilih/. A a risky business. However, senior foresters underthe persecution of the Bjelke-Peterson logging size restriclion was called for which ore all ver/ secure in their exclusive National Party government. He and his Forestr/ officers advised Fitzgerald was knowledge, afterall they are forest scientists support group, fhe Fraser Island impossible, making a mocker/of claims to How could they be v/rong? Defenders Organisation (FIDO), won 'sustainaisle logging.' This advice was Dr Aila Kelo and husband Dr Keith Scott ol a victory when Liberal Prime Minister Fraser uncritically accepts by Fitzgerald prompting the Rainforest Conservation Society overrode the Stole Governmeni and used his me lo withdrav/ from ihe Inquir/ process. worked non-stop 18 hours o day over the last export control powers to stopthe sandmining. year lo show just how wrong foresters con I then threw Wilderness Society support be. What they turned up was frightening The NSW coast has suffered vast economic behind the Brisbane Rainforest Action Their submission lo the Fitzgerald Inquiiy and ecological damage from sandmining, Group's direct action on the islond. illustrates Forestry's false assumptions: simple including introduclion of the bitou bush and Immediately, Forestr/ agreed to a modified mothemalicol errors in the basic yield bss of natural vegetation leading fo town- logging agreement. Fitzgerald and Goss calculation method; inadequate data plot threatening erosion. A post mining study of later accused me of violating this agreement bosis; lack of ecolog ica I stud ies in conjunction dune revegetation attempts on Fraser Island although I was never party to it. wilh logging; even the hint of deliberote also show abject failure opart from the deception by dofa manipulation. It introduction of a weed. Direct Action demonstrates that the sustainable yield, the amount the forest is theoretically capable of producing indefinitely, may have been Logging The campaign involved over 300 people overestimated by double. How many and continued for 17 weeb, halting logging centuries rest forthe forest does this justify? In About 0 third of Froser Island is now National several times. Acrimony grew and Premier their submission, Forestry Services based Park but only a very small fraction of the Goss ordered arrests. The Wilderness some of its critical arguments on secret ancient tall foresi lies in the park. Attempts to Society, undergoing a financial crises documents. Mr Fitzgerald was reluctant to have the Island declared World Heritage nationally and locally could no longer demond these ollhough he had the power lo (Australia's very first nomination) were continue. Withoul funds, the protests wound do so. He was scathing in his attacks on the frusfroted by Premier Bjelke-Pefersen's down, however, o token presence has brave and hardy protesters who fried to stop opposition. continued on the island ever since. the logging by their peaceful protests. He railed ol those who dared to criticise the Friends of the Earth hove become process of the Inquiry as if il were a personal Folbwing their sandmining victory, FIDO involved and a new group has formed, slight. nowopposed logging and insensitive tourism. Friends of Fraser Island, sponsored by In the runup lo the 1989 Stale election it Ross and Karen Daniels and Barry Brown. Prediction sJ became clear the National Party might lose. ^ FIDO member, Mike West, has consistently As Tony Fitzgerald delivers his verdict from FIDO osked AlP organisers if ihey would ;;p^'rt';i" ,he' protesterr""Hrwas'r^enlij the pulpit, I believe he will act like Solomon impbment their formal policy to declare ttie involved in a brawl with loggers and has dividi ng the baby betwee nthelwocloimaint wfiole of Fraser Island 0 f^tional Park. Since unstintingly conveyed visitors to ihe island to mothers_ . In his reluctance to order an the majority of people in the electorate which show them the things Forestry Seivices would immediate end to the logging he will order ' includes Fraser Iskjnd oppose logging, and rather ihey didn't see. Q Jong term phase o"ut, consigning a fhe electorate is extremely marginal, an anti- magnificent forest to permanentmediocrity logging candidate could hove determined Loggers hove attacked protesters al times With less than a hundred giant trees left in the outcome. However, according to FIDO, •.:.4 and recently a woman sifting on a blockade fhe State forest, our best hope is that he will ' ALP Campaign Director, Wayne Swan lold tripod was sexually molested and received realisewewerBrightbut,inordertospitBu$, them to 'f # w •4. '•• A ^ < ••••,. ^i* •^ ».^ or THE FUTGREiGREEN gone There are some who believe that today's environmental concerns are alarmist and ill founded. There are those who have very different beliefs, such as Edward Goldsmith who, speaking before a Living Earth conference in New Zealand, suggested that, "If our policies remain unchanged there is no question about it, there is no way humanity can survive another 40 years." Who Is Right? Tliat is a decision you'll m WHATCANIDO? have to malfc for yourself but tlie Environmental Collective can help you. Actions What is the Environmental >?|^il|^^<^j^^ . To curb the p:€enhottse effect: Lollectlve?TlieUnivcrsityofQucens]and sm Env ironmcn tal Collective is an apolitical group hygienically composed as a valuable (and Awareness: renewable) resource lo make humus for soil dedicated to increa-sing students' awareness Q. What is the difference between the 1, i^uce your total ikt of encrg>- rcvitalisalion and tree propagation. of and participation in cnvironmenlal issues. greenhouse effect and depletion of the ozone (this wtll save you ajoney «5 weiu) •World populalionisincreasingsteadily while layer? Througli a seriesof articles here in Semper we food production in many areas is at crisis (a) Take showers imtwd of baiii;> hope to help you understand the issues and point. A. The greenhouse effect is the warming of provide you witti the means to take action. So o ur pi and due to the fact that as carbon dioxide (b) Cat pool, use p«Mic tm^tu let's gel started! •Oceans and inland waterways are so polluted and olher 'greenhouse gases' build-up in our bike Of walk, thai much of the aquatic life is unable to be atmosphere they trap the infrared energy (c) O^tt n window wJtcft it's hot, rut The Past: sustained. radiated by our planet. This is expected to •Deserts are spreading rapidly and encroaching cause temperatures to rise 1.5-4.5 degrees Oft a jumper wheit it's cold instead of Our generation is nol the first to experience on agricultural areas. Celsius over the next 40 years which would turning on a fan or heater* self-made environmental problems. Several cause sea levels lo rise, drowning those grcal ancient civilizations, including •Shorl-lerm economic gains arc considered mangroves in Auslralia that still exist. Also, (d) Conjutne Im of those tWtigs noi Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus and the Roman more important than the future of our home tropical cyclones may become more intense absolutely necessaiy^ Empire collapsed as the result of a complex planet. and extend as far south as s Brisbane. Changes (e) Buy products witii miniraal or no interaction between largescalc irrigation, over •Global military spending is now over Si in moisture patterns would affect agricultural population, deforestation and salinization of trillion per year (S2 million per minute). productivity, some posilivcly. others packaging. llie land which allowed Ihcm lo succumb to negatively. Higher rainfall in certain areas •24 people (18 of tliem children) die every invaders. would increase erosion and soil salination. minute from hunger and poverty-related To stop ozone depktion: diseases. The Present: The buming of fossil fuels (increasing carbon •Mosl of the world's people are overfed, yet 1. Don't buy aerosols, «ao puiaps dioxide), hydrocarbons. CFCs Over half of the Earth's forests have akcady many suffer from malnulrilion due lo (chloroflurocarbons). nitrous oxide and instead. Aerosols tisually contain been logged and are being destroyed at an devitalised foods. CFCs or hy drocaitons. The cans tiiey alamiing rale of over 11 millionheciarcs every methane are some of the gases contributing lo year. THE FUTURE the grcenliousc effect. come m require a lot of energy to produce and are not as easily •Tropical rainforests arc being destroyed for Green or Gone Ozone is a very scare gas in the atmosphere beef production for the fast food industry. without which it is extremely doubtful life recyclable as plastic containers, it's up to you. could exist on Earth al all. Tlie ozone layer in •World-wide an esiimaled 100 billion tonnes the stratosphere is nature's most effective a* CFCs are^ometiaes usedforfeam of topsoil have been lost to erosion. What? I'm jusl one person, liow can I sunscreen against the sun's ultraviolet (UV) cups^, fastfood eontaJnefs, packaging •Atmospheric build-up of toxic chemical possible be of any help? rays. Even with a completely intact ozone material in the productitKioflnsulatir^ pollutants is rapidly depleting our protective layer the small amounts of UV ray that get You're not alone. There are about 500 foam and drj^clcanit^.] ^ - ozone layer and causing a greenhouse effect tluoughcan cause cancer.eye damage, sunburn environmental groups in Australia with aboul which in tum are causing drastic changes to and can slow the growth of plants. (a) use.coffee mugs instead of foam^ 1.5 million members. So just as your one little weather patterns. vote makes a difference in elections, so too CFCs, Halon 1301. nitrous oxide, carbon cups ^ \ • , •. •Useful dio-dcgradablc materials (food scraps shall you indiv idual action help saveourplancl. monoxide, carbon dioxide and methane are (b)supportyourioca! take-away shop for example) are wasted daily instead of being the trace gases affecting ozone concentrations. And you can start righlnow . before the major fast food cliains dominate every street comet! (e) use newspaper or Wagazin««j Ibr College packaging ,:^^\^ • .. ^^ "^^ ' (d) buy clothes that do«*t need dry- Conservafion cleaning (it's expensive anyway) and spot-clean those clothes yoti alieady - ffovr Can : have that rcquiiediry-cJeaning. We Help? GOOD NEWS! Manufacturers Finepak and Lilypak Many of us hear the word conservation and visualize longGlass: "Cfengro's Glass & Bottle', 23 Hutchenson Street, haired hippies chaining themselves to the nearest tree or Breakfast Creek Phone 260 1778 are producing food containers which bulldozer. This is quite understandable in some respects as do not contain CFCs. Patronise those these activities get the most media attention. Well, I'm here to Cardboard and Paper: 'John Softer" Phone 282 3620. fast food outlets that use packaging tell YOU that anybody can be a conservationist. Being o with the 'ozone penguin' logo. college student, I am writing this article specifically to inform Newspaper: 'C. Newman', Phone (075) 469 763. the staff and students of other colleges the measures we are The useof CFCs as aerosol propeUants was banned in the US in 1978, undertoking at Women's College. Cooking Oil: 'Gray's Used Cooking Oils', 105 Tingira Street, Pinkenbo 4008. Phone (075| 469 763. Denmark in 1987 and Auslralia in I am one of two recycling officers al college, and so for this 1989; although in Australia their sale year we hove provided boxes in each corridorand kitchenetteAluminiu m Cans: Our Bursar collects Ihe cons and takes was allowed to continue throughout for paper recycling. Each wing also has boxes for glass and them fo a local school. 1990. Watch for lingering aerosols oluminium recycling. Our only other responsibilities have that still contain CFCs. been to outline to everyone whot can and can't be recycled I would like lo hear from any interested parties who wont to set Aerosols claiming to be "ozone and to contact the recycling companies. up similar recycling programs in their colleges a have any questions or suggestions. I con be contacted on 371 5619. friendly" because they use hydro Weoreclsoaiming to work nnore cbsely with the administration carbons still damage the environment, and kitchen staff who at this stage ore olreody very just not as much as CFCs. environmentally owareand have initiated a recycling programCatherin e lutovgh with the following canpanies: nie Women's College Tod Smith 22 JS^Aifie^ MEHTALtmlroR Environmental The *^. Hypothetical \^^ ft""' •i«fi'' "I/'s time to take you on a journey, a trip, to a North Australian state by the name .V'.' DLjy[a^Laai: ofArboria..." >•• hus began the environmental Disaster liypolhetical entitled 'How Green Was My Valley', held by the It has been called "White Death" and "the AIDS cfthe Earth". Environment Office in the Schonell Almost four million hectares are affected by salinity of the .soil. Theatre on the Thursday of 0- It is an environmental disaster. Rich farming lands have been TWeek Plus One; and with it the launching devastated by tree felling, over-cropping and inappropriate irrigation of the Environment Collectives' schemes. Western AusUnlia is the worst affec(cd. The Department of '/•• activities for 1991. The intent behind the AgricuKurc estimates that 350 square kilometres of farmland have been hosting of such an event was to raise the poisoned by salt. Lost production in dial state alone costs $350 million level of awareness on campus, not only annually. In the Murray Basin the loss is $215 million. hAV of environmental i-ssues but also of It's not as though die problem has not been recognised before. In (he first environmental policies. It was decided decade diis century, the firstsign s of rising salt occurred. In Ihe 1940's, •X] that inuinsic to this would be a forum governments were quite clear about die growing scale of the damage. which would encompass the political Propaganda films made in the 1940's pointed out that Australia's fertile land was considerations behind (he ways the being turned into a desert. Il also located the causes with under environment and our perceptions of it sized farms which led lo pushing the soil too hard, and .^\ interact with olher issues, such as those excessive clearing of uecs. But governments around Ausualia '^ of employment, Uadc and indigenous have allowed the situalion to worsen until il has become a K peoples. scandal of gigandc propordons. "V* Originally the intent was to stage a forum The fundamental causes of die problem are economic. As most people of public speakers representing various realize, many farmers are up lo their necks in debt. There arc ca.ses of . ' \ conservation groups and speaking on the fanners owing $700,000 on property only worth half that amount. High interest'; various issues which most directly rates - up to 23 per cent - have forced them to keep cropping over-worked Jlr^- concem them. However, it was decided land in an effort to saUsfy the demands of the banks for repayment to broaden the range of perspectives by and producdon of crops. As a Victorian farmer commented, "We've bringing in speakers from indusUy and been pressured into trying to produce a product at the cheapest possible ,M\Vi political groups to augment those of rate we can... we've raped our land Uying to do that". The farmers see ""^'• w conservation groups,and then explore this environmentally harmful actions like constant cropping as dieir last chance for spectrum of perspectives by presenting the panel of speakers with particular topics survival. Already plenty haven't survived. of controversy. For this reason, the organisers decided to stage a "Hypotheticals" The problem is nol (as some of the environmental movement make out) that style debate in preference to more conventional forms of debate, as we sought fanners lack understanding of die need to save the environment. Many farmers «^- ..111, political contrast rather than conflict Iwtween speakers in terms of priorides, are very conscious of their responsibility to pass on the land to perceived problems and solutions. future generaUons in as good, if not belter condition, than when^ •f.\ Present as speakers were Members of Parliament, namely David Dunworth (Lib) diey took it over. And it's not as if it can be shown that by and Dr Leslie Cladce (ALP); activists from high-profile conservation groups, driving them off the land, the problem is being tackled namely Doug Yuille (Wilderness Society) and Mark Horstman (AusUalian seriously. It isn't. Conservation Foundation); representing Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders was "The government's aim is to manage our natural John New (Indigenous Council of Deputies), and representing the concerns of resources in a way that allows conservation and primary indusUy and business were Mark Everson (Queensland Farmer's sustainable development". So says a govemment paper Federation) and David Hughes (Mt. Isa Mines Holdings Pty. Ltd.). The moderator "Policies for Growth in Primary Industries and Resources" for the debate was Nigel Greenwood. (from May 1988), Sounds good. Pity they've refused to make the necessary funds available to cany out the kind m • The actual hypothetical scenario which unfolded before die audience in the Schonell of regeneration that's needed. In 1989 they allocated S40 ' No. 2 cinema that Thursday afternoon was as follows: million for soil conservation and salt control for three There exists in the deep North of AusU^ia a hypothetical state by the name of years - for a problem estimated to require at least S1 Arboria, a state rich in natural resources, especially located in a province of Arboria billion. And the usefulness of even this miserable amount which rejoices in the name of'The Dainbush". The local economy of the Dainbush is undermined when govemment economic policies is heavily reliant on the timber industries, in particular a company by the name of massively worsen (he problem; for example, consciously .AMi'. "Pulp, Chip and Splinter Pty. Ltd." which provides the principal source of income promoting high in(erest rates, which force the farmers inlo morC' t' and employment in the region. and more over-cropping. Action which lias ben taken - seuing The scenario opened with Pulp, Chip and Splinter having fallen upon hard times up networks of volunteers to go and plant trees on affected land - \\ and being taken over by a multinalional corporation by (he name of "International is simplistic. Planting Uecs alone will not reclaim much of the Plunder Inc.",it then moved with increasing speed from selective rainforestloggin g damaged land now. lo the proposed consUnction of a space base at Cape Canterbury by International Fanners who have tried to regenerate Iheir land affected by salt have ^y^ Rescue, the discovery of rich lodes of copper and uranium ore, and the associated found the process can be long and complicated. It is going lo take a discovery of Aboriginal sacred sites. massive inflow of technology, research and experimentation. Talk of Hand on hand wilh the environment issues came political issues, including die simple organic fanning or just planting trees may be superficially proposal from die Aboriginal Land Councils for the re-creadon of an Upper House appealing, bul it is just nol useful. There is a scheme in the north of for die Arboria Parliament with a guarantee of a fixed quota of Aboriginal seats, as Victoria which employs a complicated system of drainage and ponds. ^ an allemadve (o land righls; the economic problems associated wiUi reUenched Plants which grow in heavily salted water are grown and some workers, due lo companies being rendered unprofitable because of environmental maicetable by-products are produced. But of course projects like diis require capital and technological back-up far beyond the ^ iBStricdons; and finally, the prospect of foreign invasion, as Indonesian troops land fif"ii on Arborian shores... reach of the individual, already impoverished farmers. The govemment has to be forced lo fund them; If they have lo rely on Much credit for die success of the event being profitable, chances are the regeneration of the land will once must go to the Environment Colledive and again be sacrificed to the inleresl of the b^s and other profiteers. the Schonell Theatre, as well as to the actual organisers of die debate (Jane Brownbill In an economic system that slaughiersrililllions of sheep because and Nigel Greenwood). diey're no longer profitable - despile iherijlieing no lack of hungry or unclothed people - and can joyfully throw workers on die dole and In conclusion, it is perhaps best to quote wreck diousands of lives so profils can remain "acceptable" during from the conclusion of tlie debate itself: the recession, diis latter course seems likely. The main thing we can li>v;'i>--iVi-.V\iV.V- ".. .and so anolher sun sets upon the do (0 help reverse this siluadon is to fight this logic - lo support fv,\ft,i. i-,v.-.V> ^^i^ rainforests and shores ofArboria, and with every struggle that challenges i(, and every fight that resists it comes Ihe realization that in moves to make us pay for a recession we had no part in making. ^m environmental issues there are few answers, Rodney Catling ^ and many more questions." for the Environment Collective Bysshe Not smort enough, flkamitsu, I thought, Temporary location anyway. Soon as i made watching her slice through eddying, ConNutrient List after matric, I disappeared. uihirUng. drug-dance-dozed Throhbers on No warning, no prep time. Didn't euen know shomrioor of Club D'Eth. Not smart enough. for sure where I was going; was how I She uias looking for me uilth eHira senses, wanted things. Left home, hit streets and courtesy of Company parents with money, stayed there. Dangerous, yes - especially sources said. R sniffer - pheromone trace. without credit (too easy to track) but I had HiLo frequency hearing, maybe, IR, certainly significant cash, and decent cache of Buzz light amp in her eyefiK; pity all that made up during off-hours in school labs. lUos eHpensiue equipment going to waste, good with Chemistry; hi-grade Buzz always flkamitsu hadn't practiced enough; didn't commands good price. Neorly got burned know her own limits. Too new to her distributing, though, before I learned rules. enhancement - still felt inuincihJe. More foot Fast learner; I lived. her; oKtra senses not much good in crowded, stinking, noisy, strobelit Club O'Eth. flkamitsu got tired of shaking idiot Throbber. Put him down in a heap, made for door, red matched her cruise dancefloor a while nu-leather bodysuit like a beacon in heauing longer, enjoyed her frustration. sea of black.Looked good on her, too, dammit. Shame to haue to kill someone who moued and looked like her, but no help for it. I took shortcut doorwards. Streetilfe was no easy thing. Hard to suruiue outside universal credit system. I lost weight, gained scars and muscle. Learned about uolue of Self-Defence courses, too - practically nil. Took to carrying a sawnoff Got Hicks neHt. He hired muscle, streetboy shotgun where I could, less obvious security. Muscles, speed, martial arts, precautions where I couldn't. Must have Rkamitsu antique-style silenced MRC 10. Must haue made life rough for other Listers on my cose cost years to hire - guess he knew how he - they tried hard enough, but Nils Bryce they stood on List, wasn't concerned about were looking for was not there anymore, ujias tuielfth. S h e Improuing his chances eHcept in suruiuai. Just a streetboy name of Switch. Listers Still visited his girlmeat, though, didn't he? killed Bryce's - my - parents with Luas also last, final Cost him. Cost him big. Got him with a eKplosiues. Difficult Job, smuggling and headshot from 40Qm, courtesy of lasersight setting oHplosiues in a SafelDay. Must hove kill I needed to be certain; on my Namaka Hi-power. No chance of a been desperate, too - unsanctioned killings cost Lister who did them years of contract of g,etting tuhat I luanted. She'd rebuild either, not after hydraulic bullet mlHmastered his corteK. time later. If they make it. taken precautions, but hauing come this far, WQS absolutely no u;ay I'd let a Caught up with flkamitsu at D'Eth's door, litUe cybernetic enfiancement stop me. Just one more dazed-out Throbber in a crowd of black-on-black. She guessed nothing until my 25cm sliver of pressure- gloss went for her left kidney through her bodysuit. c Ci C' Had a problem with his streetboy, though. He ^^ backtracked my target laser scattering off anti-Greenhouse dust in 02, came for me. Not in his contract, I'm sure, didn't seem to matter, I split smartish. ^^ Dumb idea. Dust, on surface. Worked, though. Once C02 levels went space-high, was not much else to be done. No Dust, ond temperature would have followed C02. Goodbye icecaps, heHo Big Wet. Big Dry, too - desertification, eco-speakers call It. Smartboys In Military remembered Nuclear U/lnter Not thot I was completely clean myself, but scenario (late Cee-20, remember?), finally who is, this day end age? Cheaper and more found use forfl-Bombs and H-6ombs. Nowdays, Or would haue, if not for hi-tensile wire convenient to install internal breathing Dust circles planet, keeps out worst of heat. woven ormourwise through fobrlc. UJosn't filters, for instance, than to carry and wear Pity It won't stop UU, but you can't haue nu~leother at oil; more like Keular ond equipment necessary to clean shit out of 02. everything, right? Better a smaM Ice-age thon spoce-alioy wire. Ewpensive as Hell, but a Safer, too - can't be stolen. Not so easily, planet-wide Greenhouse Effect gone to smart move - bitch spotted me then, certain. anyway. Melanin* implants too; who relies pressure-cooker stage like Uenus. Besides, on their own tanning factor now that 0- Dust should settle a few more decodes along, zone's permanently kaput? Nobody's clean ond maybe we'll have 0-zone and CD2 anymore, no matter whet Greenies say. problems flHed in time. Hope so. Plants are toking current situation awfully hord. She was smart, though. Smarter than Roberts; he didn't even know he'd made List flkamitsu compounded incompetence. Got for ConNutrients. Died moking hump with frustrated, impatient, lifted o Throbber hireboy In o roilcor - Uke to think he died wholesale out of doncecrowd for happy. Surprised HeH (and other things) out interrogation. No good; Throbbers ore of hireboy when his customer croaked useless when they're on doncefloor. Besides, midthrust. (Croaked. Good word; wish I'd whot could he tell her? Throbbers aU weor been oround to see croakers. Frogs, i mean. black-on-block, with slickblack heir. Me too. Situations Hke this,! don't need. I Hke to set Too cold now, even in Tropics, let alone so- tonight. No coincidence, either. Knew where things up smooth, fn SIK months ofter colled SubTropical Brisbane. EKcept in Clean I wos going to leod flkomltsu from first Metric, smooth chHIed eleven for me cleon- Domes, and nobody - but nobody - gets moment I let Ugly Johnny give my hideaway no penalties for unsanctioned killing, no Inside Domes who doesn't belong). location to her. loose ends. 26 JSi0^ifiS^ MEirriULamlran I needed twelve. Remainder of List were "Like it, Bryce?" she snorled while I Told you I wasn't oKactly clean. Not a great playing cagey, hard-to-get. Smart, or rich, slobbered blood, wiped split lips. Throbbers replacement, that hand, but under it's glove, or possibly both. Lucky to find flkamitsu, cleared space for us, but paid no other heed, nobody could tell at first glance anyway. luckier stiil she was feeling cocky after bobbing. Jerking mindless to rhythm. Lost the original to Slatterby's katana post-Matric enhancement her parents Doorboys caught up, sow only run-of- stroke. Just before the sawnoff took him bought. Heard she wos asking after me; progrom fight. No need to interfere. Just away. Lost It again to flkamitsu's wristbreak made sure Ugly Johnny knew where I could wotch and take bets. She kicked me again. technique, but didn't matter. Just kept on be found. He sold to her, she came for me, I crushing, like one of those oldtime claw got her. QED. Rt least, was how my plan Some glitches needed debugging, of course. things - crabs, or cancers, whatever. went. Best laid plans of mice and men, Rules about sanctioned and unsanctioned Squeezed until flkamitsu's tissues turned to right? If any mice still around. Plenty of hits came In when too many bystanders got paste, long after she was dead. Squeezed rots, though. woKed by overeager Chemistry or until I reached down with meat hand, hit the Engineering hopefuls. Rules about manimum release catch. flkomitsu spun; no weopons yet, but her best numbers on List, about time limits, about subject at school was ju-jutsu, or so her file hiring others to do job for you, all grew up Stood down. Doorboy pointed his shockstick said. Uery bad from my viewpoint; my over years, by and large everybody happy. at me. "Stay put, meat" Uery big hoy, very talents are ail less physical. Wishing I could Made good foKcopy too - kept plebs angry. Guess he lost his bet. I put remaining have got my sawnoff past door sensors, I Interested newswise. Euen some lists hand carefully into the 02, no sudden moves. dived into dancecrowd hoping to lose her. sponsored by Networks, these days, good "Sanctioned hit," I said, though smashed Sweating bodies, greasy hair and clothing, contracts with low pay-off time in return Jaw didn't help much. Took three tries Throbber music pounding, waHing from sub- for video rights and such. Not for me, before he understood. Eyes widened. audibility to ultrasonic, smoke, laserlight - though. Keep low profile, play it smooth. "Whose?" Dante could haue written a whole new Smoothboy Switch - that's me. "ConNutrients. Tertiary List. I Just made chapter. Finals." "No shit? How many? And flkamitsu right behind me, riding my Was me, anyway, flkamitsu closed in. I looked down. "She makes twelve," wake, leaving trail of stunned and broken Doorboys chuckled, passed cash between "Twelve! Good figures, boy. Got some selves. She looked me over, "Vou're pitiful, Throbbers thrashing mindlessly, proof?" rhythmically, still in time with dancebeat. Bryce. Pathetic. How did a bug like you get this far?" Smiling, kicked me in the kneecap. "ID in my hipstash. Includes Matric scores, Spotted another disturbance from the comer Listing, and basic ConNutrient contract." of my eye; doormuscle incoming, weapons He checked my cards; oil clear. "Twelve! Hey out. Uery bad indeed - doorboys not noted boy - you ever need some spare cash, for their restraint at best of times, unlikely always Jobs for smartboys at Club D'Eth." to ask questions before doing GBH. Smiling now, oil forgiven. Never seen a Necessary to deal with flkamitsu, and do it doorboy smile before. very soon. Not my idea of perfect evening "Vah, sure," I agreed. Twelve, I thought. out. Twelve dead before i even start Law. Must have been easier once. I even read once tertiary education wos free, as in no charges or levies at all. Not so simple now; underfunding killed most public Unis decades I went down again, pain like a red blinding back, and remaining ones incorporated and cloud. "How did you manage to kill Slatterby, went private Just for survival sake. Uni-Q Bryce?" She leaned over me, hard her hand Inc. was one of first to sell blocs of soft on my thigh, slid down to kneecap and undergrad places to other corporations for twisted. More pain; I screamed, she smiled. training future employees. "Slatterby and I were classmates, Bryce. He was my first lover. Good one too, good R good system. Interview list of prospective . .v.*. body. Not thin, dirty like you. Vou I wouldn't • ••••••• trainees, see which will make best company fuck with someone else's meat, deadboy." people, pay for their educotion and She pulled back, looking. Stupid. Should have company owns them for nent decade. Or finished what she started. longer. Then some smortboy realised if fewer Listed people reached interviews, "Talk too much, stupid slut." I grabbed her V.V.%V.V, • •••-•• • • • • t •' those who did were likely to get places. • • • • Good idea, really. If you can kill enough neck with both hands, made like the Big • v.v.v others on List, you're guaranteed a place, Squeeze, and anyway, if you can kill them, you're She smiled again - first lessons Ju-jutsu and smarter than them to start. self-defence all about breaking strangleholds. She enecuted perfect *M^. :«• Lost my footing in patch of something slimy. breakout, came back for killing stroke, (Probably vomit, maybe worse). Went down bard, lost my knife, flkamitsu close behind. Rolled, came half up in time to catch perfect mae-geri under my chin. Lifted me off floor, broke my Jaw certain. Bitch.She circled, enjoying situation. Stupid, overconfident; Rkamitsu was company-bred alright, knew neHt to nothing about Brisbane streetscene, nightlife - anything. Stupid her. Stupid me, obout to be killed by stupid her. • • • • • • • • • • but stopped, puzzled. Touched her neck. • ••••• • • • ^ • •.•.•• • • • • • • •••••• • f • •••••••• • •••••••' • • ••••••• • ••••••••; • •••••••• • «••••«• (L, .A •• ••••••• \VV V ••••••••••••••• • » • ••••••• • •••••«• «/^^ • ••••••» VN* H' •••••••• • ••••••••« • •••••••• . ) Where my artificial hand was still crushing at her airways. Glad I didn't try fora reaily popular course. Still in its black glove. Emlmmmi JS^Aif^e^ 27 The Environment THEAMAZON A Conservative View The destruction of the Amoioii roinf oresti is one of the the greatest environitienfoi ovtroges in the Semper's Susan Forde talks to Julian Slieezal, Liberal Club world today. President, Chairperson of Union Council, ex-Union Treasurer and T^BliugdrainfprestistinJWQrid'srespratory Indianjs have been using itforcenfunes, Tlie some say the boy behind BMT, about the environment and findsou t syitem, recycling carbon dioxide into diffenence !s of course tliaf Indians ose tt tn that conservation and conservative may be very close together in the bregtiiableair.Thenomberofrareorunique Conjunction with otheragriculturalmethodj^ dictionary, but are light years apart in reality. plant ond aninxji spedes in tlieAnwzon Is ones which octuolly increase tiie diversity of Tlic origins of AustraJia'-i cnVironiiKinLal cnsis aca)rcl>ng 10 ihe Naliona! and Lil>crnt Partics:- uncountable, Millions of indigenous people, species in the forest. The large landowners living in hannony v/ith the forest, call if their hove no negard for this, "TMiuTJvul of Uje Ab()ngin.i| people bnngin|{«c4ndil5«r dogs, and tiic .subsequent home. Oomage Is notonly Inflicted on the environ arrival of the Europeans Ijriflguig their ajxiculturnl practices and liicir fiard-tmovcd animals the cfooring of the forest, (oyJng waste to ment. The Amazon has oKvays been Inhab shattered fotevcr ihedelicat* balaticeof iheeftvitomncfltand its uiuqueacaturcs and plants," such 0 priceless h-easure, is an act of envi- ited, first by indigenous tritxal people, then One vwndets IJOW tfie ^^riglncs lived solely off the Hatrnft! environment for 60 000 years. ronnrtenfal vandalism. To use another term, by small farmers, rubber tappers and other doestiHoftc'2ThattliecaaliuoncotJklpar^l«lAboriginalTEplcniaiinHj^laTidrti^lenanccofthc ecoterron'sm. workers. The lives and cultures of these environment- wiih Jl» 28 JS^/UFSS^ MEJfTALiiwIron VISIT Tri^ BEAWifUL BoTftMlOl G^^PEMS ANP FROUC ABOUT THE ^W RWM- Re6\^TANT ^liUSHiME/* V N * CDNDttioMlvu 6E AMAZED BVTKIE fuNGl- flLLEPlKPV^^E^ Thlf^T EATS IT5 WA^ OUT •''t^ WiTMESqihlE FRofATHE INSlDe/ .?0^ f^&HTtrJG off DIKE \ of TriE AT pESTiClDE FREE m • ( STUDY ^ THE LOCAL aiRPL'Fe ocei\Ki 1 "^^*^ "OURAl^ IS OEANER THA^J ^ ry€wr ANVWt^EJR£EiS£{" 5H0KT FLOAT.^ SoSftfelfiEWAK] I '^1:^ Wl^OWENtoUT- /\WAV/ ". .'I <'v^ WlTrioliT ^;^ INSTMLED CHAWVBEeoFHo^RoRs' CftTci4lt4G 1UEf6Ul5eASV, WHEMTKEfCOMEUP fo 6f?eATt4£.' OUR FAIR CITV J •»•• V (P V .0) III' ''':'; I I: I I i :' "SS??* Envlnin MENTAL «5^^^!l^^ 29 '"The Environmental Issue'? What sort of cheap- was where the action was planned. "Four bands, beers arse malarkey is this? Have you inbred goats blown all for a SI .50; costs $3.00 to get in." There were two of your gaskets?" Friday mornings are rarely worth seeing them at the door, one a blonde surfie and a small woman eyc-to-eye before 11.00, particularly when a grisly and with eyes like headlights and a wild laugh. I paid my flhgacidenormou s unwritten feature is waiting out on the moors, S3.00 and got stamped - with a potato stamp. The slavering and panting, howling to be committed lo woman smiled, then frowned. She stared, smiled again, paper. Editor Heather was doing all the slavering and then just aboul fell over laughing. • \^^91 - by Johnatlion 0. DePaul panting at the moment, but the story's tum would come. The surile smiled. "Don't mind her, she's having a "The environment is an important issue DcPauI, it's..." party all on her own." Semper Feature writer J. DePaul "A term wank interior decorators use to describe "Yes." I agreed, and smiled. "Some people have all couldn't make it to our office to deliver matching toilet bowl colours and dunny paper." the luck." "... relevant and we'd like a good coverage of it. A He grinned then and laughed. "You look Hke you his story as per usual. According to real article this time, one that the kids can get into." need a hoh'day." $25.1 bought some beer tickets foo, DePaul ^extreme and unusual ^The kids can get into a rust-eaten Valiant for all I and got to talking about the gallery and their backyard. care and drive off the Kangaroo Point cliffs. What the "The backyard was all grass and two old sheds until circumstances do not permit my fuck am I supposed to actually write about?' about ah, yesterday." "What happened?" appearance'. Part of these circumstances "There are dozens of topical and buming issues that..." "Like what?" Oh, we pulled the shed down and burnt ihe might have been the presence of Sgt "/ don't know! I'm not the fucking feature grass and all the junk." Maurice Tucker from Taringa CIB who writer! You get paid for these rambles of "That must have been interesting." yours, the CES is regularly told that "The Fu-e Department thought so." tcanted to talk to the good Johnathon you're gainfully employed here as our "So what's actually down there?" chief archivist and you seem to sleep a There were two people down there over certain matters detailed below. As a lot on our mattresses. So stop whinging who found the idea of environment very community service Semper is printing the and get motivated aboul the *all-embracing' and lold me to how aside environment. And the nexl bill from the my prc-conceived notions of what the feature DePaul sent in. Anyone Red Garter or the Morrison Liquor Bam environment should be. "Just let the recognising the events described should will be discreetly shoved up your arse! environment come inio you because it's Got that?' everywhere.' contact Semper. Anyone seeing DePaul I was spared the inanity of yelling at "Hot-dog! I was gunning for a nice bit of should under no circumstances supply an intellect the size of a lungfish by environment to mount on the wall!" My two Editor Fitzgerald running through the ' •' friends missed that, which was probably just as him i€ith food or drugs of any kind; his front door shouting "Bob! The Grandfather well I decided. Whal had 1 blurted that out credit card is bogiis^ and his credit rating Clock's here!" for? Don't start "The what's where?' ' some ugly hippy is sicker than he is. "She means .^ scene, just when the the Speed from-\^ - story looks like coming Sydney It's ^""^ ..-logothtr. ^^ finally *-. , -"n^tty soon arrived. Ask "" -, • 'Til have both hands - the guy if he mel , :"— round this.green monster any good buses on the and I caadrag _ way up." 'downtoad^k "What are you slill ^ comer and beat its brains out doing here DePaul?" with a rock. Pump it's "Leaving." warrens full of mustard Down the steps to the carpark; Kruger waiting, all gas and drag its slimy hide back to Semper. Leave it on the scotch gone, gun-ning the engine in time to the Cold Heather's desk wilh a big bag of compost... Good God Chisel tape and scaring the quiet souls in Admin and whal is going on? Did I say any of that? I looked around Finance no end."OK Krugen aim for the road. We're but no one was staring in horror or picking up sticks. The out to find the dirt on the Environment," aowd was growing, some more hippy types, a few "The Environment... Isn't that possums and shit?" schoolkids, some uni-preppie types. Got to stay calm. "Quite likely. Try to drive over a few will you?" Which wasn't easy. The conaete path was a buckled and crazy mess, which made getting diunk interesting. Mosl of We ended up back home after we'd both exhausted the yard was one vast bowl like depression, where I think all our knowledge of impending environmental stories by the grass had been. One bit of environment I'd missed out on. agreeing the Franklin hadn't been damned. Which is But (here was heaps left. Slacks of trees, a steep hill covered nice... bul nol much else. I tried coming up with a in lots of grass. A stage had been erected at the bottom of the retrospective "Whatever-Happencd-To-The-Franklin" bowl, with a huge baths to one side filledwit h beer. Better but it suffered an ugly fate and crawled away bleeding than your average art-gallery, and according to my new and doomed. Like me pretty soon I thought. But Fate found friends, all very environmental. Over everything was was there, wailing in the wings behind the misshapen suspended a huge screen, with a projector flashing onto it. visaee of Knieer. moDoinc UD his soill coffee wilh a Beer was being drunk, ioints were beinc oassed. I was purple scrap of paper with the words 'Opening' noticing the stars seemed much more interesting than usual... emblazoned on it in flourishing Hippy Script. "What's "Everywhere is part of our environment." said Sam, that piece of paper?" one of the hippies, "And we are part of our "Huh? Oh, it's some invite to some Gallery opening." environment. So you must say, 'lam thy environment, "Ah. There nol environmentalists are they?" my own eco-system.' "How would I know?" This was getting better and better. Al ihisVate Td -. "Do they live near bushland?' have the story in the bag by 9 O'Clock witfimt'eveii "There's some weed in the drain out the back I • getting up, leaving the more interesting paxXM thef night think," to the more interesting pastimes of that tir^ of (Jie lygBT^ "Brilliant! Bushland and artwankers' Things gel jumbled a bit about Vov The ultimate environmental talking lb people ab^ ings I fo? story! I bet that gallery is about things to chock full of racy greenies, just bursting full of tales of valour and all the rare furry marsupials they saved from chainsaws.' "Ya" reckon?" "Bloody oath I reckon. 1 know an act of Divine Mercy when I see one." * ' I arrived about 7. The beer had jiist airiv«i. -; and the bands, were, apparently, still on their way. The house was some sort of gallery, but the bkkyard 30 jS^^i^'^ MEHTALiwIwn and some more beer. who lived there, and they were somewhat distressed. SPITTED AND ROASTED Richard, the other Escaped away to the driveway, found a very straight BY MANIACS! SATAN hippy, turned up at looking guy standing tiiere who I felt an urgent need to WORSHIPPERS EAT COP! one stage, wild eyed talk to about tiie environment and clubbing large slimy POLICEMAN LOST IN - but still happy. tilings to death witii witii rocks, big two-handed rocks; BACKYARD PARTY! BODY NOf "That toilet's wild any sort of rocks. I was really getting into it. describing FOUND!" Some guy wilh long hair -. man!"Aport-a-loo tiie slimy tilings and the need for Vengeance when I and pointy shoes kept walking up and A^ had been provided for noticed a beefy looking blokc with a bluejacket and a down tiie footpath, staring wildly and \ the patrons, sans light crew cut. For a moment my tongue turned to burnt steak hissing "What is tiic matter? Wlial is tiie \ and san paper too it and tileFea r had me; tiien I stomped it down. A cop? problem?" as fresh blasts of noise cnipled \ seemed. "What's the God, you paranoid fool. Delusions and hallucinations,! in tiic clear nighl air and two more squad matter?" J mumbled, turned back to my companion, bul he'd moved away, cars screeched around tiie comer... trying to keep a which wasn't surprising, and he was wearing a cop serious tone to my unifomi, which was very surprising. God, titercwer e (Tliese final voice. two of tiieman d a squad car. They were both cops. It notes "It's so dark, and was only tiien I noticed tiie noise, and realised tiie bands have when you piss there's were still playing full tilt and tiic noise was pretty been this real loud intense. Fortunately someone in a leather jacket turned written on knocking noise!" up and slurred his way over, letting mc escape the back of "Whal?" Q> unmutilated. I fled down tiie patii. hearing him giggling an empty beer "There's this real loud banging noise, I thought it "Hey, come on down and freak oul witii us" before tiie carton, .smeared was one of you bastards banging on the outside, then I roar of the bands obliterated il all. witii what appears thought the fucking thing was rolling down the hill!" The Fear should have sent me down to the deepest to be human blood. Richard was still happy though, because when toilets go part of tiie garden but all that talk about slimy, slimy Tlie preceding berserk underneath you, it's just one of the things had unnerved me. So I stayed up about halfway. I section, writien on Environment's way off embracing you ,.. kept on walking, noting tiiat tiic whole gallery beer labels attached to I st^ed laughbg then, a high peal of manic energy. descending into ruin, lots of people spastic drunk, stubbies, were .... Mmmm, I thoughl. Nice stuff this... mellow, happy falling over and slumped against U'ccs and each otiicr. unfonunalcty thrown inlo a recycling bin before we could stoned, funky; laughing, things looking INTENSE and lying dead or burbling insanely or tiirowingup . transcribe the notes. We continue.) yeah; and about then the bottom fell out of my brain and For some tiniel couldn't understand what was wrong the rollercoasler ride started. A rip-roaring,gigglin g open- with tiiesc people. Were they really tiiatstrange ? The ... a nice wiiid-tiown to the evening. After all tiie eyed slack-jawed wind in your eyes, 16 million colours whole garden was a scene from hell, tiic bowl covered fireworks and warping, to just sil on a fence and look at per second, a million seconds per minute, one second free in dirt, empty beer cans and screaming .spectators, the tiic passing parade of freaks and misfits, casualties and with every other, every second second gift wrapped in 16 tiny crooked patii crowded witii patrons, the screen over cops. Lots of cops, actually, marching in and out of tiie million colours, every colour going 'Varooom!' at a tiie stage flickering witii gruesome .scenes and lurid galler>-. or impounding gear or people, or ordering million miles a second a minute; Shazam ... colours, rows of gaping moutiis, yelling, drinking, people to move on or be arrested, or just leaning back (The next two pages of notes make little sense and singing .... I only realised later everyone was raging on squad cars and wondering why tiiey joined an have been partly chewed away. We made out the word drunk; and yes they did appear very unusual... organisation with daggy unifonns and such awful hours. 'blood' and 'vengeance for the sins of our fatliers' but It was a frustrating time. Wlicncver I went for a beer, Tiiere was a couple of people up on tlie fence already; I little else. There is a crude diagram which wc think I'd remember I needed to buy a beer ticket, and when I couldn't remcmlicr if I'd met tiiem before. It didn't seem refers to manufacturing of LSD. The notes continue.) Went to buy a ticket I'd remember I'd sjient all my money important anyway. Wc should all have probably been ...staggering to the shop for some roUies or food. on tiietrips , so I'd wander off to sec Sam or Richard and paranoid, all of as were feeling happy on a variety of There was a fine stretch of road going up to the shop, couldn't find tiiem, so I'd get bored and feel like a beer illegal means, bul it seemed like such a big jump from peaking in a hill. The oncoming cars cast a fineaur a like again. This happened about five times.Fmalt y I collapsed counting seconds in tiic boltom of tiiegttfde n to Uic Qld a halo over the hilltop and grumbled a distant rumble in a comer, and tried to strike up a conversation witii tiie police force tiiatno-on e felt like worrying too much. My like a herd of oncoming cattle, before cresting the hill, booze-corpses near me. And every time I ventured up tiic stor\' was a twisted wreck somewhere; tiic hound had come headlights bursting into dazzling explosions of light, garden patii, tiiere were more cops. in for tiic moors only to Ix eaten alive by ravenous slimy that roars and jumps and then falls away like the surf. I stayed in tiie garden, listening lo lots of yelling, monsters, huge watery tilings tiiat tiirottied tiicbrut e before We staggered up the hill, and then down to tlie store, Q abii.sc screamed over tiie PA system, drunken laughter. il could even scream. reeling from spasms of laughter at futile attempts to At last I went out and the whole fucking su-eet was The police were having enough trouble witii tiie Get It Together. Walking past innocent citizens, '^ ^ alight witii paddy-wagons, patrol cars and legal drug-takers; the quicl trio sitting on tiicfenc e and giggling and tripping; fortunately we looked like two lots of jock-types standing around witii amis folded, giggling aimlessly was the least of tiiere problems. awful drunks; I think we did anyway...bad scenes ,p .^ frowning or looking bored. A few wandered down to Like tiic doctors and lawyers you see at parties, in the Night Owl... suspicious attendant who made ^' tiie Night Owl to buy food, some of them were (deleted sneaking joints down the back of gardens and .smiling the mistake of asking for ^ e (7 on legal advice) witii a 16-year old. others wistfully. Burnt out hippies at the Riverside markets, correct change... I think ^'^ peered down Uie garden patii to tiie hell-brotii career lovechildren witii mortgages and beads, with 0 Richard had left and 1 was mumbling 0 brewing in tiie dcptiis of tiic backyard. There w;is batik shirts; smiling and nnunbling "Imagine tiiere's no somediing about finding The Owner of the ^ 0 much screaming from down there and a steady heaven" every time you buy a ceramic headband or a Hill so I could rent myself out as a speed-bump. sti-eam of people wandering out, drunk, mungabean beer coaster or a wheat sculpture of a Bad, bad vibes... I ran from ^ © 'twisted, bent, stoned, freaking, pissed, manic... dolphin. A whole generation saying tilingslik e "all you the shop and into the night, The police had taken some of need is love" and believing lots of .sex and good drugs <8 gnawing a chicken leg... people in the street, itiie noise gear, hoping that might quiet tiie could change the world. The least of their problems. staring and raising eyebrows... big bushy V demon.': down, but tiiey'd Hell, maybe sex and good drugs could change tiie caterpillars jumping up like ^ , 0foimd some more loud-objects, so tiie worid, but it's hardly going to get a chance in frightenedrabbils,... Bull ^ ^ • ^ police had Queensland - and certainly not in the Queensland Police couldn't be bothered; I was far too busy going ^ C^ taken tiiem Force. But hey when you're Vishnu for tiic night WOW and watching the too. It had been quiet for a Queensland becomes a small lump of dirt under your universe jump through hoops -27 ® ^ while, alittie fingernail and BOOM! there goes Brisbane. ... some bands were playing when 1 ^' ^>. while. The fun seemed to have wound down, so I finally gol back.,lost Richard...die %y Now eased off tiie fence, said 'Chow' and went to my car. A bands are playing but I ^ 'A tiie garden had erupted in couple of cops were hanging around, and one stared al can't seem to hear anything ^ ^ noise again. Not even me as I pulled out my car keys. ... I can see the drummer playing really fast ^'music noise, but a roar. A "You haven't been drinking have you sir?" but it still seems really slow... group "Oh no officer. I've hardly touched a drop all nighl." (Section of paper ^ g) of "Good lo hear sir. I only wish a few more people tom oul here and ^^ very here could say tiiesam e tiling." drunk males had used to roll a 'cigarette' "Very true officer. You certainly don't need alcohol Johnathon ^\ ^") discovered to have a good time," said over ^^ tiie volume the phone. Unsure. tiiat can be generated by jumping on a More stains and ^/^ ro cmde sound stage. So tiiey numerous v'f %) were. It was louder than tiic references to 'The Garden People'.) been and was horrifying. I noticed none of I walked out of the house with a thirst that v looked like moving down tiiere. I could cast a shadow. Beer was needed. Some ballast t (^\ imagine them dreaming my dirigible head down onto planet earth. I iliin ^. tiie headlines: mentioned buming the house down to someone "POLICE OFFICER Environ MEMTAL^S^-'^^i'^E^ 31 The Brisbane Biennial Festival presents Alexander Nevsky, a 1938 epic film, directed by Sergei Eisenstein, about a ISlh century Russian hero overcoming German Invaders. It features a cast of ihousands upon thousands in spectacubf battle scenes, and will be accompanied by o live performance of Sergei Prokofiev's score by a massed choir and orchestra. Quile literally "Bigger ifran Ben Hur". Set in Neo-Tokyo in 2019,Aklra is on epic adventure in the mould of Blade Runner and Cyberpunk stories. Based upon the graphic novel by Kotshiro Qomo, |also the director), Akira is the most expensive animated film ever made, costing over 1 Billion yen Having caused a sensation in Japan, Akira is now coming to Brisbane's Classic Cinema in May MKifo IS ine mosr expensive animaiea iiim ever niuue, cosring over i Diiiiuri yen i luvmy i^uuicu u acujunv.^ jujjuii, /-VMIU IS HUW S,U ry ,M UMJUUMO I -wnj^jn. v^nicmu i and Semper has 10 double passes to give away. Come down on Wednesday May 1 at 1pm and lell us how many limes BMT has been mentioned in this 32 JS0Mf^£^ MEHTALinvlton & Activities in conjunction with STA ^ I Inll present K* AttfieSSCHONELLMoi]day1C 2 ClHEMfi ID Dawn But First Warm-up with A Dacfie OF; New-Print of Ken Russel's ":^ H Topy (fiUADROPHENIA^ rom raguie Sunday Night 9.30pm Starring THE WHO and featuring + the Appaloosas Then... their music! DOLBY STEREO The Who's I '^'^/h^ ;^^^ ^y FRIDAY. April 26 Midnight Allen Parker's The Wall $10 UQ Students Tickets Available at Monday Morning Union Bookshop (at 2.15am UQ) and Kent $12 Others Records(in the City) U2's Rattle & Hum Monday Morning 4am Presented by UQU Activities ADMISSION All 4 Films $14 3 Films $10 2 Films $8 1 Films $5 (subject to ticket availability) TBONSiUmCTBH and WIN! TUB a double pass to i,"i^ see Oliver A A ADC Stone's new ^ VM W movie (ope"^ 30th May) (Giveaways by Activities during each Rock Festival interval} AHiDlv/inlOpassestotliBMiiliilgtitto Oawn Rod! festival !i^iii-^*'«^!Ciiiiie down lo (lie-^55.«^oIfiC8S Way tfie 30tlijpii], anil lell us liow many cocii- poaclies liiBPe are In iliis Issue of-^^^*^ I VICIOUS TN! at the Princess Theatre BIENKir/?i*lS^tlVAL"AfHb FRINGE downstairs Vicious probably represents the only chance for most people to experience tlie Sex Pistols on stage. The play dramatises the story of bass player Sid Vicious and tiis girlfriend Nancy ^)t& BtttttSOttarirt^QuartSt QPAC Spungen, as tliey leave the band and England 9ptA ShSi#»iMusk; Gtditp K^m, for a room in New York's infamous Chelsea Frt24"'" ""• 'v-:';? ^ ^'' ^ Hotel. fortbeYotingt^nssattdFiUftilr CaptSln Burke Park tmcte tbe Stor> Bricfg?' '^^pBi JLeCJatNolr llvoir . 3pfrt TikitWQusntt. Que«i*IatttJ 6.iOsm DanielStibeUsxa it^eptsea*9 ^ , Vicious was an entirely local production, writ Conwrvatorium of Music iCatbedtat' ten by David Brown, last seen in ThePhantoad gpm Aft Evcniurtg M Old VktJnS PotfiMOBig 7,3ftpm laFinlaGBirdlnteta tjfM of lite Opera, who also played the title role. Art* Coiupicx 7,30pin Peach tltelba QPAC Bernadette Pryde as Nancy Spungen and Tony 8pm \lo73;i A Mahler QJ'AC Sum 19 Maw as Rockets, Iheir neighbour and drug Sfsoi J^s^sxi. City Hail arts guide 2pjti: Mozart Concerto SdKjlarshJp QPAC dealer, also gave convincing performances. 3pin TakflcsQ'ianet <2CM $a<2Jl • Semper's monthly guide to events 5.i(i?ta.&.Spm SotikWitasiS Chandler ^pm m. liain ?1l1is Sig'^fivjsfit* at ^le^j^flgfe in the world of art, theatre and Effective use was made of Sex Pistols songs, Olympic ?ooI - ' . Ctub under the Story find^ including "Pretty Vacant" and "Anarchy in the ^pm Le Chal Noir HvalJUjeftfre Sestoufimt ipm ^e:ich Melba QPAC culture. $pm le Ctjar Nolr Tlvob UK". David Brown with bass guitar (not Moa70 apm 1'chaikDVfilcy lUo Miytie Hall plugged in) sang along with the recordings, CLASSICAL MLSIC 1 (iSpm Atistralfan Strtng Quaft« 34 ;^^^/^ilQ^ MEPfrALtmlron MOVIE OWNED & OPERATED BY OLD UNI STUDENT'S UNION TWIN CINEMAS •r COFFEE LOUNGE LUXUBY LOUNGE CHAIRS OPENS 1/2 HOUR BEFORE 1ST SESSION TIU 10PM iu HOME OF QCWimf/IHTEWIfmOWfil FIIUS GUIDE COFFEE • PEPSI • lUtCES - mSfiGNA - QUICHE > PTISmiES 371 1879 • NO SCREEN ADVERTISING AIR CONDITIONED • FREE CAR PARK TAUT, TOUGH & FUNNY (N.Y. Times) Scorsese and British director Steptien frears ILoundrelte/Dangerous fl SUSPENSFGL EROTIC THRILLER Liaisons) lakes to llie dark, treacherous workj of crime writer Jim "BEST FILM OF 1990 - Lfl. TIMES" Thompson as if ihey were bofn lo it. With o shatpand witty script, music by Elmer Bernstein, this film about a launch of smalltime con artists (griflers!) is a good, old-foshioned thriller and the Oscar nomlnalions are well deserved. Huston, Cusock and Bening are Ixjcked up by a ThetaWIFTEPS cast of superbly eccentric minor characters.' fl film by Stephen Frears (1HR.59) 4 WSEK SEASON 11 APRIL - 8 MAY flWdELICfl HCISTOH • )OHM CUSfICK ROCK THROUGH THE 60'S 70'S SO'S For ouf firs! Midnight lo Dawn festival vou ore invited to acluall" star! at Q.jOpm Sundoy with ihe immortal TOAAMY [THE WHO) liien slay on fot the Midnight to Down. The 60s ore fepiesenfed by QUADROPHENIA (Sling's first film( wilh ihe story ol the MODS and music by THE WHOthen PINK FlOYO's surreal THE WAll and finally U2-.RATflE AND HUM All ate in DOIBY STEI^EO and we hove installed NEW SURROUND SPEAKERS so your senses will never be ihe some again (4 Films for $14, 3 (or $10, 2 for $8 or one for $5 [Subject to Irct.el ovorlabililvl SUN - MON 5-6 MAY THE FRENCH MASTER DIRECTOR EXCEIS AGAIN Luc Besson returns to the seedy, reon-hued underground ombience of A TOUGH TENSE STYLISH THRILLER Subway in this intriguing thfiller which mixes equal meosures of Jomes Bond, Belty Blue with a splash of The Warriors. Il is on oudacious dazzl'ngly proficient work full of dolicJously compeiling incident and archetypal Besson black humour. Punkette Nikito, (Kciilloud - Best Actress winner - French Oscars) sentenced !o life imprisonment is gronled o reprieve in return for tjecoming a governmeni assassin. An exceptiona! film, one that reveals French cinema at its most stylish FRENCH (SUBTITLED) A WEEK SEASON 9 MAY - 5 Jl niklisk 1^ FmmUJCBESSONlheDkBckxafSUBVtiSn A MARVELLOUSLY UTERATE & WITTY COMEDY WALT STtLLMAN lias wrilien. produced and directed tliis 'BEST FIRST f^lLWf New York Film Critics) about Ihe Manliattan Debutante Sel. It is a rinaliy... a lilm about tne highly acclaimed, refrestiingly sophisticated took at the territory previousty covered by Woody Atlen. A comedy olmanners itexamines in detail the lives clownwaraly niooile. ol the vanishingpresence otthe Debutante in Manhattan society. The charm oi the Wm lies in the wontJerlul perlormances ot a group o) previously .Willi Stillman's 1 <» . unknown actors, the best being Carolyn Farina and Christopner E^man. ft has so many inleresting things to say aboul the manners and mores oi upper etFopolitan crust, it isin one way old iashioned. but atthe same time ultramodern. (1 38) 4WEEKSE^ONFROM2^PRj^28MA^^^^ BEST COMEDY SINCE ROXANNE L.A. Sloty is not onlya celebration of life in L.A. os only Steve 'vAartin THE SCREEN'S FUNNIEST MAN could lell it, but also a brilliani comic portrayal of tfie ailments of modern relationships and one man's discovery of true love. In this first STEVE MfiRTIN screenplay since his Cyrano takeoff IRoxonne] Martin displays ihe same penchant for mixing his patented wild and crozy zoniness with delirious, weak-inthe-knees romanticism. He is in typically nuify form LtJ^t STORY (^ as an L.A. TV meteoroloqist. Victoria Tennant is captivating. (lhr.35) 2 WEEK SEASON 16-29 MAY THE YEAR'S FUNNIEST COMEDY A UTERATE INTOXICATING SPY THRILLBR vA/ith the adveni of Gbsnost, Joh n Le Carre's 1989 espionage novel "THE YEAR'S MOST SOPHISTICATED, rannily focused on ihose wilh a vested interest in keeping the Cold War alive. More cerebral ihan ihe usual spy thriller, ihe film has a literate SUSPENSEFUL ENTERTAINMENT..'.' vCtipl packed with wit. It is a top espionage drama of a tough Btitish Wm,^* oublisner who is forced to assist British Intelligence as they troce the source and meaning of o military document. Director is Australian Fred Schepisi and he travelled to Russia for actual locolicns Co-Stars Klaus ! RUSilH lOISE^ 1 VAarto Brondauer. Music by Gerry Goldsmith .f2hr.03j 2-8 MAY SEli\ MMRY MICHELLE PFEIFFER A BREATHTAKING 5USPENSEFUL THRILLER 1991 flCflDEMY flWdRD Kalhy Boles desen/edly won the BesI Actress Oscar for her chilling portroyalof a psychotic fon of James Caan, a wrilerof romonlic novels. Screenwriter William Goldman has moved Stephen King's gruesome •A L\.\D.\L\RK examinarion of the dark side of iandom into an excellent script thai combines humour ond chills in just the right proportions. Il is a classic . ^ .»r . . ii^.> » . PSYCHOLOGICUl psychological thriller in ihe style of Fatal Allroclion. 'Thrillers don't get l^iuXMUiVo&ivi THRimR: much better than this' • TIAAE. .MISERY. (1hr.47} SCREENS 2- 8 MAY KATIiY BATES JAMES CAAPI WINNER OF 10 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS s S"ic»riM* V From ttie director of d S'»n.i^;- V PhilippeNoirel is calmly magnihcent in his 100th screen performance. H.Fv5i(V<»nri I SCSI rOHEION FILuf ROUND MIDNIGHT Beilrand Tovernier's stately film maneges lo ovoid oil ihe cliches of the ( a/JdSUNDAYINTHE COUNTRY ^otsi»ctcni»j/ war-film genre. The wide screen camera work of Bruno de Keyozer beautiful^ evokes the landscapes ol rural Fronce in 1920. The film goes for beyond its obvious anii-war inlenlion. Il becomes a rich, poignoni celebration of life, romance and human community. Noirel iLlffondNOTillNGbutI is q AAajor ossiqned lo identify the war dead FRENCH (SUBmED) (2Hli. 13} SAT-5UN-M0N 4-5^ MAY A FILM BY BERTRAND TAVERNIER (g) THE CULT ROCK OPERA OF THE 70S RETURNS KEN RUSSELLSFiLMOF 'Tommy' was a milestone in British cinema directed by Ken Russell it was the culmination ofall ihat was developing in ihe 60s and wasthe first and most successful attempt lo do a complete slory in one wotk ^four senses wiii It is neither lolally rock music or an opera but on ambitious and completely rewording experience. Russell had visualised Pete never be the same. Townsena s story vvilh music by THE. WF^O and exceptional costumes and imaginative photography. Audiences who have only seen it in a • .liH;fUli:)-n«l| —j„-,,.^T\/u,r« "''"be amazed otthe experience the giant screen Roger Daltry . , (1hr,52) SCREENS 25 APRIL - 6 MAY\ Ann Nargoret • Tina turner • Jack Nicholson W PROGRAMME CORREa AT TIME OF PRINTING • ONE WEEK AHEAD IN TIME OFF • COURIER MAIL • 3711879 Tt((i-WDU(!PRIl-1H Emrtron MENTAL-S^/^Sl'JS^ 35 East Coast Blues Festival Byron Bay Arts Factory - Easter Weekend The East Coast Blues Festivol held over the Easter Long Weekend continues to be one of the musical highlights of the year. A bl of other people think the same way • the Satufdoy night of the three day festival al Byron Bay was sold out. The James Harmon Band was in the middle of their sel when we wandered in on Sunday night. Everyone seemed to be having a good time rocking along with the solid R&B harp player but we headed to the bar to gel drinb and food. Fully primed, we made il to the front to catch the end of Blues guitar great Bobby Rodcliff just as joined forces with New Orleansguilorist Earl King, who paraded his skills and his blues across the stage. The black bluesman is apparently a real nice guy but when on occasion he methodically walked across the stoge like a participant in a slow motion bayonet charge he looked downright mean. There was bts ot energy from this guy • the sweat wos pouring off him - sex as music, music as sex - he wos wild. The guitar behind ihe head trick I've seen before but will never ceased to be amazed by it. John Mayall ondThe Bluesbreakers were the headline act. The bond featured a fantastic guitarist named Coco Montoya who almost manoged lo upstage the man himself, truly a massive feat! Mayall's musical dexterity has to be odmired. He played keylxwrds, guitar, harp and song but it was his guitarist who was the reol crowd pleaser. The Bluesbreakers encore made the $25 entry worth every cent. A real dancoble [am that got everyone singing along. James Harmon joined The Bluesbreakers on stoge for that one and it pumped. It seemed everyone left hoppy and Australian act The Bocbliders whose photo featured in ihe April edition of Semper seemed lo doing good business selling recoids and T-shiTls lo the departing crowd. O 4({X^ WATERLOO HOTEL«i» S S^OVl DISCOTECH NIGHT CLUB r^ Cnr Ann St & Commercial Dd, Newstead Ph: 8S21101 Look to the Waterloo Hotel PRODIGAL LEAP Sat April 2 ^v One Of Australia's best Reggae bands KALABASH Friday April 1 FHday May17 PHL EMMANUEL & KEVIN BORITCH At the Decotech ZZZ Presents r/tj^ T/^^f zr^>0«^^ Sat Nights Test Tube Shooters $2 or $10 for a 6 Pack Beer only $1.40 a pot till late Every Friday is Black Friday Funk Night 3^v:<*-U= :c'^ :-:-M ^M YEAH.M Hi* MptMM war* IMKIC In town. They JKive a special place in Bdsbane know when this dislurijing trend started but I've seen it at several gigs and If never cea5«;:|o mytfK)logy,.the gioup of Archfteclure students from UQ who mad© up part di the explosion of dismay me, perhaps I'm weird but a gig Is the lost place I vrant to sitdovwi particubrfy Irt ftpfit bonds that rocked Brisbane In the hte Seventies and eariy Eighties. A period which saw bands of a bond! (^f > m such as Tiie Saints and the Go-Betweens emerge before heading on to bigger and better things The main support act was Sydney band Bughouse who put in a creditable selection of original, down South. songs from Iheir EP and singles as well as others.. For th© Riptides however ih© migration turned sour with a record deal being followed by the Finally it was time for the bond and as soon as they vralked out onto fhe small stage and started band's brealajp. Lead singer AAork Calkaghan went on b form the first notes of 'Riptide' the crowd went crazy. Gar^ Gajong and the others Went their seperate ways.They .' , , - Apparently from nowhere a horde of people erupted continued to have periodic revivals which would see them into the frenzy which no other band can match, dancing rocking a new generation of devotees with their mix of simple and screaming in adoration as the bond raced through pop songs and row energy. oil of the cbssics as well as a few new songs which These gigs used to see punb, skins, surfies, yuppies, and other shouki be on the new album, hopefully out soon, yobixK all getting down and dancing to a twnd which we could, • The new lineup has left behind the use of ke/boards believe was a port of our town's history. which characterised some of fhe cbssic songs, how It was with great trepidation that I ventured info the foreign enclave of QUT's Campus Club to ever noone noticed or cared, they were to busy dancing. The band showed that they hod what see this band. Having heard thai the bond v/as now little more tiwn o backing band for singer it tabs to get Ihe audience jumping as well as to pump out the energy which a Riptides gig needs Callaghan folbwing the swift demise of his sob career was twt one of the questions on my mind. in order to keep going. The other was why QUT? Well I remembered pretending to be a bouncer and attempting fo The encore saw the bond asking forall fhe 'girlies* to come up on stage fora rendition of "Shake- hokl back the swelling crowds af the AAain Refec in 88 and the legendary concert at Easts which It', 0 move which disgusted some of tha women I was vwth because of its gratuitous sexist fomed part of their Riptides Resurhc&J album. overtones. A disgust which wasn't helped by the chorus of "show us your fits' from the arseholes What part would QUT play in this mythobgy, after all the Compus Club is only an overflow in the audience (apparently usual befiaviour at the Campus Club) however Callaghan deRised venue, the Buzzcocb played toth e dregs that missed out on the Uni show there lost year and that hy showing them his! so have the Riptides in the post. Overall it was a great show with o tenific bond and from the age of mosl of the audience it would My 0 m'vol at tne venue saw these misgivings seem fo lieor fmit, the pbce vras almost empty with appear that the Riptides ore able to work their magic upon a whole new generation of Brisbane some QUT band pkiying and worst of all people sitting on fhe floor in front of the bandl I don't youth so keep SHAKIN'. ROBERT HEATHER Festival Hall - RIVIEWS Healey¥ 23 march Saturday niglit, March 23rd presented one hell of a dilemma to afficionados of fine blues music. Playing at tlic Waterloo was tiie legendary John Mayall of Bluesbreakers fame, while at the same time young Canadian blues axemaster Jeff Healey rocked Festival Hall. Wc chose the latler CONCERTS at aboul $32.00, and hoped we'd done the right thing. My only criticism is that none of the nnoin acts were real pumping dance bands like the festival bst year which featured the boogie blues of Canned Heal. Jeff Healey is a relatively recent phenomenon on the blues scene. Just 25 years old, he has been I believe they tried to get lost years mindbbwer • The Pobdins - but ihey couldn't because the playing wilh his own label since 1988. Despite his youth, Healey has a remarkably individual style Gulf War wos on atthe time they were booking actsand the band didn't want to riskth e airways, and a solid mastery of his instrument. He has drawn high praise from blues notables such as B.B. after oil we were told "they ore family men". King and Stevie Ray Vaughan and sh- fuckit. Go read an album cover. He's gol two out "Hell to Never lo mind the blues were brilliant and everyone had o fine time. Pay", and his first album, "Sec the Light" which is a pretty funny title for an album from a blind The Arts Factory hos lo be one of Ihe best venues you'll ever find, small enough to get clo.se to bluesman. the bands and donee bul big enough lo escape the noise for a quiet beer at ihe some time. Yup - he's blind, but defying blues tradition, he remains white. And his playing is shit-hol; very enthusiastically backed by his bassman Joe Rockman and his drummer - who gave up a career in * Us Negresses Vertes • Dread Zepplin • Public NIWE • Blue Aeroplanes • Mojo Nixon • Webb Wilder urban planning to help form the Jeff Healey Band - Henley quickly drove out all recolleciton of ' Snuff • Ratcat • Jane's Addiction • Flowered Up • 9 Inch Nails • Lemonheads • Clam • Buffalo Tom the support band when he took the stage. (Not that Ihey weren't good - my notes say that Anna • Green Pajamas • Saints •• Ups & Downs • J & M Chain • Norlhside • Church • Stems • Doors Chrislensen and her band were a pretty competent R&B bunch with a definite Countr>' influence. I just can't remember much about whal lliey played.) Anyway, they led him out lo his chaironslagc, and young sunny and confident, he set alx)ut making some real music. His unorthodox style - the guitar lies flat on his lap, ;md he plays wilh all five fingers of ihe left hand stretched over the lop of the neck like a piano player, rather than curling the thumb round the back for support-didn't in liie least detract from his skill. He made the guitar howl like no-one since Hendrix, and he provided lead vocals very pleasantly wilh a voice like a younger Clapton. The band played wilh a lol of enthusiasm and energy as well as consummate skill. Healey made the guitar live. They gave us "Hell to Pay" and "Love You Too Much" and a host of other pieces, interspersed witii cheerful wit from Healey himself. Nice guy - he took tlie time to sound friendly aboul Brisbane without being loo patronising, and seemed genuinely happy lo be playing here, occasionally answering cries from llie crowd good-naturedly. "I love you Jeff!" cried a female voice from the back. "Prove il!" lie shot back wilh a smile. They gave us the evergreen "Roadhouse Blues" in a fashion which would surely have won ilic approval of Jim Morrison and the Doors, incorporating a truly wonderful bass guilar break. The set finished with "Sec the Light" which was good, but the obligatory encore included Healey's version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which was a whole lot better. There were some p^oblems. I can't understand why they bothered with a iaser-lightshow, for instance - it certainly wasn't laser-hghtshow music. And why the clouds of stinking stage smoke pumped across the platfonn? Was it to make Healey - a veteran of the Toronto bar and tavern scene - feel more at home in the non-smoking Festival Hall? And it was a pity that no space had been made for dancing on the main floor.Th e hard Festival Hall chairs were a total pain in the ass. and the music would have been perfect for dancing. Most of the 1500 or so listeners were bopping in their seats anyway. f..ixing could have been a little belter as well, I fell. Healey's voice was sort of lost in the wall of sound. That could just have been a result of silting fiverow s from front centre, though. Overall? It was a hot concert, with ninety-odd minutes of great R&B music played by some very talented musicians. Healey is a bil young yel; he liasn'l really had the lime to be properly seasoned for the Blues, and his work is slill full of youthful energy and optimism. Time will lell, liiough - in this age of Rap-Crap, Household Bullshit, Hairdresser Metal and Plastic Kylie Mimes, it was OPEN FRIDAY & SATURDAY NIGHTS 9PM-3AM great to go to a concert full of energy, commitment and real, tangible musical talent. We had a MAJESTIC HOTEL, cnr GEORGE & TURBOT STS, CITY COVER CHARGE (CONC.) fucking great evening, and I look forward to following Ihe career of Jeff Healey as he matitfcs as a Bluesman. May 6 • Grant Mc lennan (Ex-GoBetweens) & Ul And John Mayall? Think I'll try lo catch iiim down al Byron Bay nexl weekend ... tn E Phil Mulas (Triffids) 01 • O. IU Launz Burch May 11 • Bughouse (ONLY Brisbane Show) 5' w 2 ? o (Should have gotw to the Waterloo Hotel to see Jolin Maytill, we have been informed tl),U Icff »• c- COMING SOON - Barbarellas, Blue Ruin, Killjoys m c I ^ l-lealcy came onstage at tlial g/); and played several songs witli the Bluesbreakers . .edst * Student Con .»l^>liiUK' i ^ s|U|es . sa|X|d . g piABQ . M oejpoz • snjno oopooH • siuais • ou^ po^ . OLX • ^^Pjldm . ssi)! SJOOQ . qni3 unt). S|3po|Ai. noMuaddais . uosuiqcy Aa>|otus • i|ss|3 . ajpuo|g . sja|sis • linO • Environ MENTAL «S)^/^jf^^S^ 37 dod ABB| . si|)|uis > J3))!I0 ^JBO • UMOig saiuep • aino • JapjQ M3N • W3U • OOSJQ . sgg |nos The Clouds Hoodoo Guru's RIDE LOOT •KINKY' Nowhere : 'ifV^.**^_ Lastyea r a beautiful Utile EP At Semper ttiis tias been one of In recent times, ttie British music appeared from this Sydney based the most eagerly awaited releases of press has tended to adopt a couple band. With the wonderful song the year so far, ever since ttie fantas of acts as tiie 'next big ttiing". This "Cloud Factory* on it ttTot featured tk: single "Miss Freelove '69' came Hme lost year, ttiey were an unknown the Jangly guitars and girlie vocals it out ttie Hoodoo Guru's have once Oxford band witti ttieir debut single has nnanaged to stay a flxhjre on the again become a force to be reck on ttie record label which launched alternative charts for 16 weeks. The oned with. the Jesus and Mary Chain. Since EP was followed up by extensive This album shows that 'Freelove' ttien tiiey have been hailed In touring with a bard with a s Imllar wasn't Just a once off. It Is filled with various magazine polls as tiie best philosophy 'The FaliltTg Joys' and the quirky and original music Vi/hlch new band of 1990. Closer to home, were seen up here at Metropolis and has helped to rrrake ttie Hoodoo's four or five of ttieir songs made It into at the Livid Festival with the Clouds one of Australia's most loved bands ttie 4ZZZ Hot 100. But are ttiey wortii often joining In and singing with the and one which has successfully it? Joys and demonstrating that there made ttie crossover from altemattve was heaps more talent wtiere "Ctoud to mainstream acceptance wittiout At a ttmewhe n most British bands Factory' came from. Now with the losing ttieir sense of fun. seem preoccupied witti ttie news that It^e Clouds and the Falling Ttie album Is filled witti classic pop overtiyped Manchester tad (The Joys are coming back on May 10 to musb as only ttiey can do it. Slightty Soupdragons being a good example please our ears comes this new EP more 60's Influenced ttian ttieir of ttiese bands who desperately •Loot'. previous releases, Wnky combines want to be ttie Stone Roses), Ride some incredibly funky guitar work have Instead been listening to On tWs ttie Clouds trave progressed a witii some tt'uly catchy songs. 'Miss Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine and bit. offering a new sound that txas a Freelove '69* and *A Place In The The House of Love. harder edge to It but Vi/ith still the Sun" are definite favourites, but all same charm as on the ottier EP. If tracks have flie groovy Gurus' stamp The Nghpolnts of ttie album are tiie you listen to JJJ you vi/ill have heard on ttiem. This Is one of ttie best single 'Dreams Bum Down', whfcrh the single 'Souleater' as ihey play it Australian releases In a long time - has a siovi/bumlng Velvet Under to death and with good reason. With buy It. ground sound, and ttie final track, four songs on It that are something 'Vapour Trail'. which almost has a oul of ttie ordinary it is well wotlh dance beat. Ttie CD version Includes $5.99. so see you at Metropolis on tti© ttiree extta tt-acks,Including 'Taste', 10th. pertiaps tiielr most accessible song. replaced v\^tti a blander more "Nov\rfiere' is almost a great record. George sedate verston which no doubt could That Is still good enough to leave do well In ttie sterility of the charts but most of tiielr contemporaries far won't get any appreciation here. Thorogood and behind ttiem. However ttiose who went to his last the Destroyers concert take heart because accord There are sti^ong rumours of a possible BOOGIE PEOPLE ing to ttie publicity sheet ttie man I^kje Austtallan tour. Keep your eyes who once played 50 states on 50 and ears open. If ttiey're half as consecutive nights still has as his first good live as ttiey are recorded, love to play live. Hopefully ttils is only ttiey'll be wonderful. a temporary stage because I don't see many audiences going Into a frenzy for ttiis as tiiey do for his classics. -X. Z. SINGLE j! (:70Or^0Thorogood Isone of ttie best exponents of ttie hard blues and has been playing ttiem since ttie early Seventies when his band opened for some of ttie great est blues pkjyers ever. However ttie man who is 'Bad to ttie WEHUMMINGBIRDS-irXvow . = , . . ;: Bone' seeins to have lost It a lot on At ttet ifeten, this was o disdppointtTiferv 6uf^^e|vcjgbli:vpeJhci^ &\^ - ttils album which is basically a move can't e^q^^'onolfter "ASrilony* or *^jysh'.wejy Ifet^ ftijf^Hummingb^ds Into more reputable ground witti a releasea single.- After Q f6w Mem,i*lf A Vow" isecomee quit© a catchy far more commerctal and acceslble .^ sound, This Is George Thorogood os It ii\. woukJ be played on karaoke, gone !•>.• are ttie distinctive ttvoaty vocals and '^ -^ meaty guitar sounds, gone to be JWK- LOCfiL BfiND If any of you can remember back to June last year when Melboume band Bachelors From Prague played a lunch-time gig at UQ, you'U recall the cute little kids fiiom daycare who grooved away in Irbnt of Custard, ThQ Bistro GQ, flpril 10 1991 the stage for the whole concert. If you missed Cuslard's lunchtime gig al ihe UQ Bistro ihen all I can soy is, weren't you stupid? Custard must be one of the most refreshing and original bonds in Brisbane today. Andrew Phillip, the Bachelors' cafes on Brunswick Street, and so Their unpretentious and easy going style is hard to resist. Even Time Off's" reviewer, saxophonist remembered i t well did Flaco and the Doug Anthony Richard Kwong, seems to have decided that Custard might be his flavour after all. Who when I spoke to him last week: "We Allstars." cares what his flavour is, the ] OO's of students who packed in to hear Custard on Wednes don'^t usually play to tliat sort of day seemed to find them very tas^/ indeed. audience, but I guess universities "Ifs good that they show a whole lot often can resemble the kindergarten of bands, to give them the exposure Starting iheir set v/ith a cover of Bob Dylan's "If Not For You", they treoled students to on circuit." of live television. There's been a hour of quirb/ pop thot flew by all too quickl>/ if you ask me.Their v,'himsical and imagina couple of really bad ones on - the tive celebrations of everyday thought and experience in Iheir original songs like "I'm Fumin' Andrew and the other seven Bach Ellon jack one was particularly bad, Out', "Deaf" (Where's ^Ay Umbrella) & "C is for Cookie" inspire and delight me. "Alison" I thought." (Pixies), "Burning Up" (Modonna) and "Death Row" (Hotel Breslin) were some of the songs elors From Prague are preparing that were covered but injected with the chatcicleristic Cuslafd flavour. The crowd rocked themselves for another jazz assault along wilh the title track off iheir EP, "Rockfish Anna" as some guys dov/n the front threw on Queensland next month. The tour : One band that Andrew did enjoy 0!\ paper plones with messages on to the bond. I'd love to know whol Ihey said, from the look will be to launch their now album, ihe Big C3ig were the Spinsters From on the guitarist's face it must have been pretty funny. ':Grea«",„ , Stockholm - the Bachelors with Wendy Harmer singing out front. These gu^/s hove got their acl together, a great product ond good marketing. Custard T- Andrew claims it's the cold in "Henry has been travelling a lot shirts. Custard badges and they were giving away Custard stickers lo whoever was brobravv e Melbourne that fosters their creativ recently, so when he goes away we enough lo come and get one after the gig ol Uni. If you liked Custard and wont another ity! "The climate means the cafes are get other singers in - Wendy's helping, you can get iheir 4-lrack EP from Rocking Horse and Kent Records or catch them incubators for talent • peopte who always lots of fun". on April 26th at the BUMS magazine 1 si yeor birthday party at the Orient Hotel or K^ay 16 at Club Zed. DQIC can't afford healing all go out to the warmest place meet." Andrew's musical tastes vary widely - he says he even listens to computer; Pool [omp So perhaps ifs Brisbane's sub printers. But quite understandably, ; tropical weather thafs holding us he can't tolerate "middle of the road,; back? 'Them's been a lot of good monumental rock, ballady Johnny Win CaShI bands from Brisbane, but the prob Famham sort of stuff". lem is tliey all have to wear shorts. It makes a difference - if you wear a 'Tlike obscurity - the feeling that suit, you get to play suit music." you can keep something good for yourself and let nobody else know I Andrew even claims thoy survived about it." . our climate last year by not wearing anything under their suits (now So does the prospect of the Bachelors thafs an interesting thing to look out losing their obscurity and becoming for in their next concert!) (gasp!) popular worry him? "Ifs a tricky game to play, because on one It was the Melbourne cafe society hand, you have to move along. whicK originally brought the band Whetlier you become more left or HOST together. Henry Maas, the distinctive more right, you've gol to get access (IS taller than) lead vocalist who Andrew intro to the media, and the media makes TONY duced last year as "the fat guy with you automatically mainstream," the big nose", is part-owner in the BAkBER "rather famous" Black Cat Cafe in But Andrew doesn't really consider Melbourne's Brunswick Street, and becoming mainstream a threat: "I • ZANY NEW QUIZ SHOW WIN i REQUIRING WIT, GUTS the band is managed by the ovmer of don' i think we'll ever really wrf te PRIZES Mario's Cafe. the sort of mega-hits tliat the indus i& OTHER HUMAN BITSI#! you try vyants. Tliey want songs of hope really d a n ' t Andrew says the cafes were the ideal and glory these days/' LIVE place to discuss forming the band: 701 & PpoiPeSSire MuSio iphoroi "Basically, people hate having to Hope and glory are not really ALYCE wash up dishes and make cups of ', Bachelors From Prague themes. They Entry $4 Students/ $3 Others PIATT tea for everybody, so ifs great if you - prefer soiigs of individuality and can get someone else to do if. iroiiy - all with a "l«-bop, salsa, funk and jazz" beat; CHOSEN ON THE From playing in the Black Cat, it was a short step for the Bachelors to the You have to see them live lo compre Dig; Gigi'"We knew a lot of the hend tlvit mix - catch them on • DOWNSniRS • MYEK CENTRE • ELIZABETH ST • people from the Big Gig because Campus at the Holt Room Bistro on they Started in the same scene as us. April 26. They'll be the guys in the Wendy Harmer worked the comedy suits. Krt(^rin<» Iiubfuglia Starts Thurs 16th May Environ MEHTAlJS^/^^J'^S^ 39 Ihe ideo of doing children's senob. I didn't SEMPER SPEAKS TO ihink thai *Clty Tail*" was that successful which is a shame because it was written by 0 friend of mlrw. But I'm not the skinhead in the tight suit. It's called on ACT because it is an ACT. Essential!/ it's not me. It's certainly how I feel, and in cerlain ways how I act but it's a compble theatrical contrivance so there is no contradiction. I'm slill in the open about my political beliefs. If is quite exfrao-rdinary, I know we complain and moan At 14 he had a beard, was wearing cttban-heeled boots and had lon^; hair. So what about Britain but it still amazes me that I can went wrong? Stephen Dunn talks to the Bald Marxist Guru of British Comedy. go on television and rant about being o Marxist and fo still be regarded as light Somper: Can you expbin o bil oboul yourself, Alexei; Well, it's a kind ol symbolic. It's not literal!/ entertainment. It's terrific really. I'm very Alexei? fnje. 1 got my hair cut in the seventies. grateful to the BBC for letting me go on. Everybody woke up one morning weoring The BBC are still tremendous sponsors of Alexei: Well...I'm from Liverpool... I went to Arts terrible clothes, looking like hairy Rod talent, especially their comedy department, School and I gol into performing just by Stewarts, and thought I don't want lo look to see beyond my political stuff and see that accident reolly, amateur theatricals and stuff like thai. Il wos surprising what people I'm a very good stand up comedian in the and then I became a comediat^ just, well, used to coll shorl hair, actually, peopb professional sense, I mean, I have all the for something to do really and then I got a would soy when I first started perfomning atlributes of a great stand up comic..So the job with this ploce called the Comedy that I had short hair when it wasn't that acting stuff, it's just like a job really. Club. Then I became famous...that's the short. II got shorter until it became a sort ol way it goes really. I suppose I've always really severe crop, when I started in Sempen Returning to the British scene...Now that being a foirfy comical sort of person television. I just had this barber who just Margaret Thatcher has stepped down as shaved it all off 'cause he couldn't be Prime Minister, is there moss unemployment Sempen One of the things I've read about you said bothered doing anything else with it. in British Alternative Comedy Market? your mosl notable achievement at school wos having a beard when you were Sempen Is this the first time you've come out to Alexei: I certainly hope so. But I don't think she fourteen. Austrolia,? makes that much difference really, there's other targets apart from Thatcher. Afexei: That's right, a beard and long hair, Cuban Alexei: It's the first solo tour, I've actually been out heeled boots. I was a bit of a tripte neck(?] to Australia before, the Comic Strip did a Sempen Does John Major hove what if tokes fo be a tour and we were at the Adelaide festival in figure like Maggie Thatcher is lo ridicule? Sempen What happened to the hair? 1981. If is the first solo tour. Alexei: Well I don't do that stuff really it not my Alexei: Well some of it fell oul. I got it cut you Sempen What should people expect from the tour, style... I think I'll be alright. know, when it ceased to be fashionoble. the material be similar to the style of 'Shiff? Sempen On the political line, do you hove any Semper: Does this mean that the introduction lo the Alexei: God knows, well il's basically just me political ambitions of your own? first series of "Shjff" is true? dancing about on stage in a series of tight suits and shouting. I'll be doing some of the Alexei: No, not really. I'd like to hoving been active in politics when I vvas younger, I'm sort of '•',,, Tbe Aieui Sayle Tour hits Brisbaae on May 9 at Brisbane Concert Hall. Ticbets are priced at $3150 available at Performiog Arts Centre and Brasbs/Tlcbetworld Outlets. We've got a Double Pass to give to the first person who ^i^O^m-^ comes down tb Semper on tbe !9th April at ipm and tells us whose landlord Alexei Sayle was! 40 jSSMf^£^ MEHTALinvlron •^?^ 54 *^ . < ^fBltti^^^/Xy<^^ TheCalllFTEBS Stephen Frears is the man often considered responsible forthe resurgence of British filmaking ^5Vk during the Thatcher years. His films portraying life *. ^'; .'^, in contemporary Britain have included "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Prick Up Your Ears" and "Sammy And Rosie Get Laid". His success accross the Atlantic < '<: was ensured by the opulance of "Dangerous Liasons" and this film marks his first American film. The characters are "grifters" small time con-artists stnjggling to mrym on the unders/de of the American Dream where success is represented by As a slice of life film True Love is up there with the survival and a few bucks hidden away for another best. time and everyone is a potential mark especially m^ita As a debut film, made on a tight budget with a large your friends. unexperienced cast it is even more impressive. Directed, written and produced by Nancy Savoca John Cusack is excellent as Roy Dillon the hustler True Love deals with the leadup to the marriage of who is determined to make it on his own. However a young couple inthe Italian-American community the show is definitely stolen by Angelica Huston as of the Bronx, New York. his mother Lilly the hardened grHterwho refuses to The couple are happy until the actual marriage believe that he has what it lakes to su rvive in a world draws nigh and then every little thing, every little which has dealt her so much shit. unavoidable difference in their personalities, turns The film is based on the book written by Jim the relationship into a protracted nightmare. Thompson a man who experienced much of what he wrote about and was neveracknowledged during Everything in the film rings true and its an interesting, his life. It manages to recreate the feel of the Forties Style is a word which is much used and misused in film reviews detailed and obsen/ant look into the community and through the use of music by composer Elmer but in this case it is deserved. There is something about the the people within it. Bernstein and the frequent shots of Los Angeles work of French Director Luc Besson that is definitely very The film won the Grand Prize at the 1989 US Film stylish, his previous rilms5j/Mva)iandr/jci?/gi?/Hebotli exuded architecture. However this is not done in a Festival beating Sex, Lies and Videotape which style and gloss. pretentious way and the film remains firmly set in came second. His new film Wikita continues with tliis vein being a kind of the present. post-punk James Bond film filled with cartoon-like violence The lead characters are played by unknowns and charming characters such as "Victor the Cleaner ", who Annabella Sciorra and Ron Eldard as the scarily disposes of his targets with bottles of acid in the bathtub. Into real about-to-be-weds, Donna and Mikey. this shadowy world of semi-legal violence where the good Anyone thinking about marriage or even entering a guys are the ones with the highest bodycount plunges the figure relationship will certainly be provoked into thinking of Nikita (Anne Parillaud, Besson's wife). al)out the frustrations of being tied to somebody by She is a scmi-psychopathicpunk girl who appears to have what True Love. it lakes to be a government assassin following a shootout with The ambiguos ending leaves plenty of room for the police. Having officially died in prison she is given a choice of learning the skills of this trade or returning to the grave that questions atxiut the fate of Donna and Mikey and she supposedly occupies. Despite some initial "problems" she they are questions that can only be answered eventually becomes a deep cover agent who efficiently gets rid through a bit of soul searching. of the government's enemies. Plot is never one of Luc Besson's strong points normally, however this film has only a few of the convolutions that MISERY characterised5r<6way .The only incongruity for mc was never In the past cinematic adaptations of Stephen King's books have answered and that was why would the government want to take not been entirely successful. Film makers seem incapable of on a junkie as a secret agent anyway? capturing that unique King essence - the quirky sense of Also the depictionof punks in French filmsalway s seems to me humour, the creeping, sinister ambience, and a totally natural to be somewhat lacking, after all no self respecting punk that grasp of small town America. The only real exceptions are I know would be seen dead with a Meatloaf poster in their Salem's Lot and The Shining. room! Perhaps that is the way they arc in France? I'm happy to say MISERY does Ihc King novel complete We have 5 FRKK pas.se.s to slve away to these However Luc Besson is an expert at the portrayal of action and justice. Starting slowly the filmbuild s with increasing tension movie.s at the Schoneli Cinema: this film doesn't lack in that respect, wilh unusual camera to a hideous climax. Much of the shock value is derived from angles used to heighten the impact (at one stage the viewer is the old adage.that what you don't see is often more disturbing The Grifters (now showing)^ hurled through a wall along with a fired bullet). Once again Luc than what you do see.If you've read the book there aren't too Besson has made a film that is likely to become a cull classic, many surprises but the 'microsurgery with a sledgehammer' Nikita (starts May 9), see it before it gets massacred on video (5(rfeivay was the victim scene will leave even the most hardened audience ashen-faced Misery (starts May 2). of almost criminal dubbing on that medium). and shaken. ROBERT HEATHER Kathy Bates received an Academy Award for her performance Comedown to Semperand lell u.s which play\vri}»hf as the psycholic nurse Annie Wilkes and she deserves it. James i.s the subject ofoneofthefilm.s mentioned on this ANIMATION CELEBRATION Caan evokes great sympaltiy and sometimes humour as Paul pai^e. Sheldon, the cheap-romance novelist, heldcaptive and enduring Cartoon fonolics eveiywhere lake heed ot^d feioicel both rSysical and mental No more do you have fo keep replaying video torture. lapes of old 'Scooby Doo' episodes (the one where There are plenty of I FREE pass valid until May 3rd he met The Three Stooges was my favourite). The suspenseful, nail-biting Classic Cinemo is here to rescue you from the scenes in what can be TlDEREiniNOF DJ Angus Kenned)' Hanna Borbera doldrums wilh 'Animation described as a combination yOsJOsJOsJOOs of The Collector and Fatal Celebration: The AAovie'. Attraction. There are no Those "in the know" who hove been watching The burning issues of sexual Simpsons for years - long before the plastic politics or whatever to discuss pestilence of 'Bartmonia' hit these shores - on fhe afterwards in the foyer, it's Tracey Ullmon Show on the ABC. Featured in the just good, gripping and Animation Celebration are five pre-sitcom Simpsons bloody scaiyyam.Those who shorts, and quile frankly the Simpsons seem funnier in loathe the Mills and Boon a shorter formal (minus the ads). genre of books wilt love the Olher notable pieces ore "25 Ways lo Give Up film's total send-up of this sort of pap. Smoking' end the computer animated shorts "Knick- So grab your popcorn and Knock' and 'Tin Toy'. Fa only $7 Student, you gel jaffas and settle down to a TRA>SCO\TI\EMVL on hour and a half of great enlerloinmenl which good scream, and the odd Rc~i l::tti • Opp.7:ir;>:; Ct:::t mokes for a welcome ailernative fo crap like laugh wilh MISERY ... ifs 'Kindergarten Cop". H also provides on animation CHEAPEST DRINKS anything but miserable. IN THE WORLD appetizer before 'Akira' reaches us. See it. It's good MARK HODDER FRIDAY MGHTS S4 for you. ANDREW NORTON Environ MEHTALJ5^/*{<'3S^ 41 CastellVs Castelli's Is a great pasta place on the corner of Clarence and Lambert Roads at Indooroopilly. The service is probably the best you'll ever come across and the pasta sauces are some of the nnore delicious things on ttie planet. You can have the sauce with your choice of pasta made up or you can buy the sauces by themselves and take them away to impress din ner guests and potential boyfriends/girlfriends with your cooking. Castelli's also make their own pasta which you ^ -i Is one of the latest American can buy to take home allDWay fast food franchises to land on and cook if you our shores. want the fraud People must be sick of fast burgers because Subway mode complete. produces fast sandwich rolls with a menu of various The Iasagne,piz2a and combinations to choose from. cakes are also worth writing The sandwiches are fresh, stomach filling and very about. 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BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL • CREDIT CARDS NOT ACCEPTED 165 Moglll Rdp TARINGA* Ph. 870 3900 In the Taringa Circle - Secured Undercover Parking for 180 cars 42 JSS^if^^ MEMTAUwInn :^^ ^^^ mm review (Mm BOOK « . -^ "'--t £ *• U-/f' Ari6S - There will be an accent on communication for all you dynamic Arians for the first half of May until the ] 0th, you will fciefeelin g strangely sexual so watch you don't gel HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL STUDENTwif^ouf consumed by your desires. Afler the new moon on the 14th home is where you'll want fo be for whatever reason. quitting tha human racel ByJiU Dixon This short book conlajnsa weailh of helpful advice for al! students (and not just first years). Ifyou arc having trouble keeping up with your workload, or you just hate study, youprobabIyshouldinvcstS9inlhis book. Ms Dixon, whose background is in educational psychology and student counselling takes you through study techniques, exam preparation, essay writing, coping with stress, and time TSUrUS - The Sun in Taurus until the 22nd puts you in the spotlight and your ruling love management skills (perhaps the most planet Venus conjuncis wilh Mars after the lOfh bringing lots ol energy so get dov/n ond valuable lesson). Her message is that boogie. You may want lo take a check on your social life around the 26-27 and do students don't need to spend all of their JUL DIXON U some Pluto pondering. waking hours studying, Wilh a bit of planning and organisation, you can achieve you might nol think this book is essential reading. GGmini - Venus brings on accent on pleasurable and passionate pursuits until fhe belter results in the same amount of lime But for the rest of us (who invariably promise 10th. Your ruling planet Mercury in liery Aries means you are going to be oul acting on AND still h ave time logo drinking, partying, ourselves that THIS semester will be the one when impulse. Watch for your infamous dualism, and keep that twin self on your leash before il watching TV, reading Semper, and we study properly, and jusl as invariably break that gets you in trouble. whatever else you do. promise within the first three weeks of term), it's probably worlli trying out, CsnCGr - This is a fantastic funky month for oil you moon children. With energetic Of coune, ifyou arc a straight 7s student, Tony Horner Mars in your sigr\ and Venus also spririkling some love your way oiler the 10th, you crabs have the ability to do anything. Watch for your lunacy around the full moon on the 28lh. Loo -May is a lime when the autumn Irees let go and shake a little. You regal lold should follov/ suit and let your luscious manes down. Get out and lake a jom in the jungle review because lucky Jupiter is in your sign and there is an added accent on creativify and BOOK expansion, Virgo - So who said that all you Virgos ore reolly Virgins? No-one, the ovalors of old gave you that name for other reasons, so quit trying fo live out your innocent fantasies. The Secret Diary of Laura Painter Afterthe 17lhyou will beinfluen- tiol in work and ploy when you By Jennifer Lynch reveol your true crazy character of perfection. Wilh all the feverish hype surrounding ihe Libra - Unfor- tunolel/, Moy will phenomenon of Twin Peaks il would be be wrought wi contusion for easy tadismis s the release of Laura Pal mer's Librans. You will hove diaiy OS nothing more than a timely mar trouble Lxil- oncing your keting pby. emotions OS your planet Ve- nus moves Buf that would Irivialise this compelling, f r 0 m Gemini to entertaining book, and "The Secret Diary Concer., Extra energy/ of Laura Palmer" deserves much more than after the 0th will that. bring a desire to talk il oil out, bul remember II you're one of ihose people who can't your inner ear and don'l really get inb Twin Peab then the appeal indulge in forbidden of Laura's diar/, like evetylhing else asso fruits. ciated wilh David Lynch, will probably be 0 myslery to you. Scorpio The Scorpion's But lo those of us who are left wideeyed essence of Twin Peaks - the telling ol the slory underground vision along with your ond breathless every Tuesday night at is OS important as the result. magnetic intensity com- bine this month to create a 10:30. this i? heaven - o 180 page psychedelic fervour you _ haven't fell lor o while. While treasure trove of delicious secrets, You do, however, find out some pretty amaz you will be pursued bv unexpected odmir- ers, you will wont lo bie alone as the ing things abouljosie Packard, Audrey Home, Sun opposes your Pluto. Take a trip to gel out of il as the downer could be a spiritual Jennikr Lynch, the twenty one year old Bobby Briggs and [ust about every other pnderance about life, death and astral travel lo Pan-Horos, daughter of the creator, director and pro character from the series - Laura included, ducer of Twin Peob, David Lynch, does a SagittSriUS - Your horse will be beckoning you and your bow and arrow this month more than competent job of analysing the to leave the routine life of study and social boredom. It is best not to start anything new teenage psyche. Jennifer Lynch, 0 director herself, fortunately has Ihe talent lo prove she didn't get to write this this month especially when the moon culminoles in your sign on the 28th. Just kick back book jusf because of who her dod is. and stick this stagnant phase out. If you kepf a diaiy when you were Nvelve years old, you will find ihe musings of Laura She does, however, echo her father's preoccu Palmer hounlingly familiar, but at the same Capricorn - Your ailing planet of spinning rings is in Aquarius and this brings a pation with secrets and the superficiality of time very, very disturbing. conllici of interests wilh Neptune conjunct Uranus. One part ol your goat nature will be appearances. concerned v/ilh achieving and recognition, while fhere is an access on idealism and The diar/ takes you from Laura's pre-pu- independence. Use ihe number 14 to advantage but watch for misrepresenlotion, You may even find yourself seriously reconsid bescent preoccupations with horses, clothes ering the disparities between your own public and boys, lo the much darker pastimes of ACJUariUS - You oir/ Aquarians will be concerned with humonily and the world's d image and private self after reading this book. lire her later adolescence. situation in a positive lighl this month. This phase is on o continuum, so moke an ecological effort and recall that you hove the power fo transform. Indulge in o moon As Laura Dern mused in another of Dovid Whib if doesn't exactly tell you who her meditation to rejuvenate on 6lh • 8lh, Lynch's masterpieces, Wild at Heart, "this murderer was, Laura's diaiy leaves you whole world is wild at heart and weird on top", wilh enough tantalising clues lo make you PiSC6S - Dreamy Pisces will find themselves achieving their desires ihis month. Those squirm. Now thot's a motto for the nineties, hippies, hipsters or hooligans amongst you will unite for the sake of peace and love bringing o sense of contagious love to those you influence. So Pisces, keep swimming, In this way, it more than captures the Katrina Imbruglia steal ihe sounds and create a tune. iwAmmmi^S0^if3E^ 43 Ilia Dan€eBar Friday night Transcontinental Hotel Bockin the Jofe so's the Dancebor was a transieni' institution that existed in several ill-fated hotels " B O O K down the less glamorous end of •IF . ^^F ^^ • m revieiv town. Ringnxister, Host and D.J., LIVING IN AMERICA: THE SOUL SAGA OF JAMES BROWN Angus Kennedy, fired up an atmosphere which was very much by Cynthia Rose that or huge parly rushed together When James Brown - aka. Soul is Ms Rose's first book (even more of his childhood, then a quick outline atthe lost minute In a rrxate's lounge Brother Number One, aka. the warning! warning?) and she brings ol the nature of gospel music before room. The ill-defined dance floor Hardest Working Man In Showbiz, lo il a breezy and infonnally glossy plunging into alinguistic analysis of eventually encompassed the entire aka. Mr Dynamite Himself, aka. the writing style which seems at odds the heritagcof Brown's slylcofvocal room, over the fumihjre and out GodfatherofSoul-menacedaroom wilh the semi-seraiotic approach she delivery, and all this is just in the into the sh-eet. full of insurance salesman with a lakes to Brown's work, first chapter. The new DanceiMir promises the small arsenal before leading four It all makes for a frustrating, messy same ohnosphere in yet another cop cars on a high speed chase across Ms Rose is obviously enthralled by and confusing read, bul the basic plush, overooked, and under two states, he effectively brought to both Brown's work and the man problem is that Rose keeps thro wing utilised hole down In the belchy a head a lifetime of paradox himself,and this has tended lo blind up premises that are bolh end of the city opposite the Roma and.contradiclion. her to both the considerable dry spots unsubstantiated and annoyingly Street Transit Cenh^. in Browns arguably brilliani career, misleading. Such an enigmatic force has long and the equally large dark spots in Off beat D.J. Angus recently A pity really because Ms Rose has been crying out for a decent Brown's character. returned from a period of pavlovian obv iously done a reasonable amount biography - Brown's ghosted experimentation in Greenland and of research, al least in the range and autobiography of a few years ago Bul then the subtitle of the work, a stint as manager of a wine bar- was a predictably shallow "The Soul Saga Of James Brown", diversity of interviewees, both cum laboratory in Tunisia has, to reinforcement of the myth of Mr suggests a more analytical approach contemporaries of Brown and those say the least, an eclectic taste in Enlcrtainment mixed wilh his lo the Brown enigma, and Rose has influenced by him, bul too ofte n this music. He has gathered around perplexing conservatism - but eschewed a chronological basis for is eilher wasted on a glib summation him a record collection that ranges unfortunately Cynthia Rose's work her book, instead flitting from by Ms Rose, or the reader is left with from some of the tnore putrid simply fails lo deliver. chapter to chapter and Ihcmc to a feeling that what the interviewee examples of the '70's through to theme. One momentshe'sdefcnding (or Ms Rose) omitted from the the most up-to-date English Indy interview would be of more worth dance music, with a definite taste A journalist for anumberof English her hero against the charges of his and interest than what has been forthe absurd and tongue In cheek. monthly music and enlcrtainmenl eccentriccharacter, then she's giving a several paragraph thumb-sketch printed. magazines (warning! warning!) this According to Angus the DancoBar will develop nwre eccenh-iclties such as specialty MiieS; THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MILES DAVIS with Quincy Troupe drinks. Bizarre exhibits and scientific experiments as it Reading Miles Davis' a little sad that he mefamorphoslses. The is not a autobiography you very quickly appears to have place to take yourself seriously. realise thai bands like Niggen with failed to make any Ico Ryaw Attitude have absolutely no connection monopoly whatsoever on really MILES between racial and file Funk Yard sexual equality. naughty words. THE A U 1 0 B I 0 G RA P H Y The Lands Office Hotel Wednesday & Fridoy In fact it's probably jusl as well that Nevertheless the Nights very frankness of Miles was bom when he was born The land Office Hotel on the corner of George & Mary Streets in the cily, such views and his and ihen proceeded lo play trumpet, is probably best known as the high risetha t looks as though ifs corner is willingness to because one gels the sneaking one huge ghss rocket ship. If the rumblings coming from the fxisement are explore the darker suspicion from ihisbook Ihatayoung anything lo go by, it's reody for launching. The source of these rumblings side of his own Miles of today would probably be is a new nightclub called The Funk Yard and no doubl about il, this character, coming up wilh such choice lilies as phce has already token oil in a big way. 'The Motherfuckin' Blues'. particularly in relation to his various drug habits, Organiser, Graham Don is no newcomer to the Brisbane Independent Not ihat Miles Davis ever just played makes this a quite scene, having been DJ of The Out Post, The Love Inn, Gatsby's the trumpet; he killed people wilh il. and Tho Crystal Club, Ahh the memories ... On Funk Yard's exceptional In his hands it was a deadly weapon, opening night at the beginning of March Graham found the crowd still autobiography. which not only laid audiences in the hungry for 70's nostalgia. At Funk Yard you'll find il mixed in with a lot Jazz enthusiasts aisles, bul quite liicrally blew away of contemporor/ musicfrom bonds like Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, will revel in the all opposition and all pretenders to Red HotChilli Peppers, Rat Cat, The Clouds, Kyfie, Madonna minutac of detail, the crown. With the singular MIUS OA V i S WITH and Prince. exception of Miles' beloved mentor auIN c r T R 0 U P [ from the heady Char li e' B ird' Parker, who lived too days immediately Fc/nkYbrd's licensed Irom 8p.m. - 3a.m. on Wednesday nights, wilh fast and died too young, no other account of Davis' life thai explores post-war when Davis trekked to New $ 1 drinks from 8p.m. - 10p.m. On Friday nighl it's licensed from 9 p.m. performer has pushed the corners of a lifetime's struggle against racist York to pay homage al the feel of - 5 a.m. wilh a happy hour from 9 - 10p.m. with local bond Us & The ihe envelope lo the extent ihat Davis indifference without once 'Bird", through the fifties and sixties Beat pbying. Funk Yard will have a band night approximately every did. constantly challenging bolh descending inlo self-pity. with an increasingly impressive and second Saturday. There will be only one bond playing per night and they'll himself and his numerous line-ups talented line up of jazz giants, hit the stage at midnight. Before the bond ploys if will be a dance club wilh as well as audiences, while at the Miles' laid-back conversational through the reclusive coke-fuelled 0 D.j. as usual, ploying music appropriate to the band featuring thai nighl. same time epitomising the cool writing style, reminiscent more of a seventies lo his personal and delachmcnl that all performers and transcript straight from tape, notonly professional rehabilitation in the devotees of jazz aspired lo, but which gives the book a deeper emotional eighties. Graham wants to establish this as a showcase for quality Brisbands and few actually obtained. Miles notonly honesty but also immerses the reader avoid the situation where you have to sit through 2 bands who bore you attained those hipheighlsearlyonin in the subject through Miles' own For those withoul even a passing senseless to see one band you love. The Mad Parade ore pbnned for his considerable career, he esoteric phrasing and style. The end interest in jazz. Miles: the May 11, Custard on June 1 st and The 5 Hanks in there somewhere proceeded lo dictate them for the result is as compulsive and emotive autobiography is still recommended foo. Cover charge is $3/2 on Wednesday and $5/4 on Friday night. following two decades, as his very best musical work. as both a fascinating read and a Discounts are offered to studenb, 4ZZZ subs, unemployed, tantalising insight inlo the mind of Greenpeace&WildemessSocietymembersetc. etc. Basically, if you're a curreni member of any worthwhile cause you'll get through fhe Il's hardly surprising ihcn thai his Inevitably there are aspects of his one of this century's premier door for the discounted price, and what a lot of people are getting through autobiography reflects the very character that made me squirm, musicians. the door! Friday nights have been averoging a crowd of 550 and qualities thai made him great: a blunt, particularly from my own white Wednesdays about 400. uncompromising attitude, ascnscof middle class point of view. Davis' being totally in control of any given view of women could be branded The club is subdivided inlo two main areas, eoch wilh theirown bar, tables situation and a self-confidence more than a liltle unsound ("The and chairs; separated by a slight change in level and a glass wail, this verging on arrogance. type ofwomanthati like for myself has lo have a certain kindof carriage, gives patrons a chance to talk away from Ihe noise of the dance floor while slill feeling cbse lo the action. The donee lk»r.gets pretty crowded at limes In short, a genius and typically this and be lean and confident in her body ... ihey have lo have that sex buf I'm happy to say that the bdies toilet doesn't. Femob readers will is no staid, name-dropping show thing, that electricity that tells me biz hagiography bul an honest GAVIN SAWFORD understand fhe importance of ihlis. 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And sport isn'taslimitingasubjectasitmay seem-Ukeany a large area of human endea vour,thCTe are people Q in it who are fascinating in their own right as < achievers, thinkers and doers." en > This guy's answeis may be well-considered, but on they are also very long. Andrew is optimistic that O the die-hard sports fans who spends Sunday glued to Wide tVorWo/Sporfs will eventually pick up on Live and Sweaty. "1 hope that in time, hard core sports fans will tum on to il, wilhout necessarily alienating people who've enjoyed what we've done before." According fo live and Swealy's Debbie Splliane, those people are the "inner