We were sitting in a park, next to the swings one afternoon last week, desperately sear ching for the ever elusive profound state ment on drugs and the family, when we overhead two 11 year-old children earnes tly discussing things in the world. So we decided to plagiarise and Let the Children Speak: • 1 ETHEL: I don't know why you iiye in family with ^. only two parents hice that, Eddie. If you weren't so dependent ot\ jusi two people L- for love and aifecuon, you wouldn't be so % upset diat they're fighting at die moment. "^ And it's no wonder that they are so un- ., \ happy at dmes when they conform to such a steretypical view of the married ^ couple.
EDDIE: Bullshit! Dad does the washing up once a week.
ETHEL: Eddi! When will you realise the insdtu- ' , ', donalised sexism that exists and makes you blind to die obvious oppression of , ,. ^ women. ^ ^
EDDIE: Fuckin'Helt! Only one girl in the whole ' ' playground and she has to be a feminist. « Not everyone can live in an easy going, i • . , 1 household with dieir dad, like you!' ^ . -,.,. ^
\ - '• - ETHEL:, Well come and live widi us Eddie. . ,
EDDIE: , Oh ,.. Mum and Dad won't let me. '
ETHEL: Do your parents think that you're their ^ property? Won't they let their washing machine out for a week? ,. , i ..
EBDIE: OK, maybe there is less pressure and ten- . , sion in a more open, communal environ ment. Wow, do you want a joint - I'm so depressed.
ETHEL: It's not a good idea to tum to drugs when ever you get depressed, Eddie. I went dirough a really heavy drug period when I was eight, and it didn't change anything. '\ 1 mean, I think drugs are great fun and ' I give you a different view ofReality, but it's , h not good being dependent on them. ' K
EDDIE: Yeah, I know. I guess I should concen trate on changing my family situalion.
(The sounds of scuffle emerge from behind the playground.) . v
EDDIE: Hark! A rally calls. Where's the press? Does ray hair look alright?
(Ethel looks at Eddie, and the two giggle.)
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n The story of my family is the story ofthe habits of ADDICTS nations and the (lux of generations. It begins with my great-Grandmother Mona Montrc-Poppc, one of those most remarkable ofall people - a survivor in the rarified world ofthe 'loser elite', that damned by Tyrone Borgnine 0) troo|) of creative artists bewitched by the 00 0> stupefaction ofthe senses. Itwas she who i\cver fully recovered from the removal o( cocaine Moving to the musical mecca Ballarat in the a[)pr()priat('(l tiie fatnilv motto from Blake "the from the recipe of Coca-Cola. 1950's, the two led the initial push ofthe road ofE.xcess leads to the place of Wisdom". IK When the Depression came, Uncle Eric in a fit of Antipodean Beatnik, with their "twin tailgatin' Horn in 1871, Mona Poppc was a child of poor stewed pique swapped the enure business to an trombones" and their steady access to rural cc Belgian iheaire-gorrs. ,'\i iwciity slie went to Paris, American for a buick, leaving his wife and three psvchoactive produce, such as opium, betel, pcyotc, UJ wlicic slu- was soon adopted and cherished by the littlies penniless. He had intended on lighting in the tropical speedwell and bonsai marijuana. Bv the Q. .Syiiibolisis, ies inadeinoisellcs du (>aii-Can' and ilie Spanish Civil War, but made it only as far as eariy 1960's theywere already into their "Me s renniaiiis of the Conimuiie. Witii the absinthe Mildura Zoo, where he became known as 'die decade" and when those glutinous sevendes rolled IU driiikeis she drank, witli the opium smokers she Ducks and Drakes man'. around, Uncle Kcl and Aunty Carla were already (A sniokctl, and with Mavakovsv she saw clouds in Afier the end ofthe Second World War, the having computers installed in dieir home and • pants. .Mallarme .said her cheekbones were contran^ Uncle Eric emigrated to England. Strictly smoking crack. They now live on Dirk Hartog screaming seagulls. Jung, PLssaro, Beardslevand speaking a dipsomaniac as opposed to an alcoholic, Island and nin an international funding agency for Anna Akhmatova, .she gave her youth to art and he was aflccted in the most peculiar ways by his experimental chemical laboratories. artists. She was even inmiortaliscd by P.G. addicdon. Where other people became Wodehouse in "Vo What Jeeves" as Polly obsireporous, incondnent or sendmental, alcohol Warbunon, anthropologist, heiress and "all-round made my Unde Eric airheaded. He'd whisde peach" through his nose, play die Jew's harp all weekend, She led a dazzling life in the Ans on one and sdll stood for preselecdon for Bowen. His liver connnent, raised a family in a second and pioneered passed on in die late 1950's. and he followed in the Soma research in a third. She became Mona carly 1970's. He left behind a wife Erlene, and Montre-Poppc in 1908 when she married Arturo children Carla, Kelvyn and Wacko Bob the Hippy. Montre, cobbler and futurist. They emigrated to His body was donated to the RSL Eternal Flame Australia soon after, where she could pursue her committee. rvvin hobbies of intellectual disecuon and dissipation. After having two children by Arturo (Eric and Dierdre, my mother) she deserted the young family and fled to America. Her complete story can be found at any local library in her autobiography, "Kicking the Bejesus Out of That Ole Gong". In 1947 she joined Stanford University's research into the use of lysergic acid diethylamide as a truth serum. At the dme of her death her closest friends, William Burroughs, Brian Jones and Angela Davis, burned her body in a midnight ceremony by MY COUSIN WACKO BOB, THE the Susqhanna River. Her groundbreaking work in HIPPY the laboratory-controlled recreadon ofdie primidve Of Uncle Eric's three children, it was the mysuc-hallucinogenic experience won her wide youngest who took most after their father Wacko reknown in the scientific world, yet her children Bob the Hippy. When Caria and Kelvin moved to were never told of their mother. Ballarat, they left baby Bob at home in the north with their mother. Hyper-acdve and addicted to raw suger from a young age, he was soon backlisted by every school in die district. He received employment only through the dmely intervendon of die Vietnam War. Acdvides Vice-President for Australian troops in Saigon, die War taught Bob respect for die US dollar and die techniques of opdmum drug use. On MY COUSINS CARLA AND KELVYN, return to Australia he wa one of die eariiest THE CONEHEADS exponents of Buddha consciousness in conjuncdon I remember vividly our childhood family holidays widi die CIA, thereby making his fortune. by the sea each year, and how on the last Friday Phrenologist, dope-fiend, acid-casualty and disco- night ofthe season our mother would scrub and owner. Wacko Bob die Hippy's personal "summer wash us unul we were as pink as parakeets, all in of love" lasted from 1970 to 1975. readiness for the Big Night of the Year - Benny the In December of diat year, he reportedly left die Ball's Ballarat Big Band at die Club de Gulies, Uldrno Pub after an eight-hour binge of claret and Tugun Beach. tequila slammers, driving a stolen tour-bus owned Ours was always the quieter side of the family, by popular Australian group "Skyhooks". Signalled given to valium and hot toddies, so this annual to pull over by a plice breath-tesdng unit, he drank excursion into the glittering and dangerous world of a litre of disdlled water and induced MY UNCLE ERIC, THE ALCOHOLIC our showbiz cousins Carla and Kelvyn was a hypervendlation. When out ofdie bus he snatched a My Uncle Eric, the alcoholic, was bom in 1910 in tantalising taste of mystery and romance. Left only a hainburger from a passer-by and scoffed it down Barcaldine. As a boy his father told him he was pair of trombones and a packet of seeds by their while evacuaung his bowels, all in an attempt to actually die orphaned son of indnerarit piano-tuners pixilated father Eric (that his mother had given lower the level of alcohol in his blood. After killed in a musical revolution. In die 1920's he him), the young Carla and Kelvyn spent dicir blowing in die bag, he "vomited on die officer, established a chain of chemist shops on the Great childhood industriously learning their instrument screamed and fainted", as retold in court, and Diving Range, distribudng mainly chlorophyl and and reaping the harvest oftheir father in the back registered .049: He served six years in prison on a medicinal alcohol. Like the rest ofhis generadon, he country of M ullumbimby. charge of "aggravated visceral assault on an officer".
oneithatmolherglvesyouedontdoanythlngatallego ask AUce.whenahe'slOfeettalleAndlfyou go chasing rabblteeandyouknowyou'regoing Ifyou fit any of diese categories then it's definitely dme to leave the dubious safety of the nuclear household, and join another family. No we're not suggesting you try adopdon (they So your mum's finally thrown you out of home wouldn't have you on the Brady Bunch anyway). We're telling you it's dme to enter the complex and varied wodd of the because she can't stand your obnoxious domestic SHARE HOUSE FAMILY. idiosyncracies, Some people would say that the share house does not con- OR the screaming of your siblings drives you to sdtute a family situadon. But such people are all right wing drink and you are failing your courses, trash ornazi punks and theiropinion isn't worth a forged proxy OR your lover hasjust punched your father and voteincouncilanv'way. For many, many people a share house is you both need a quick, exit, home, and their friends whom they share with become their, family. In fact independent surveys show conclusively that lots OR your parents live in Ipsvirich. and lots and lots of really intelligent and cool people chose to live together in communal/share homes. Take Jesus forexam ple.
So whether you have Messianic tendencies or not get on the phone to your future share housians, because there is a place somewhere for you. Share house families are not at all like ' So given you are not a homicidal oi boy, and given you have families in Meadow Lea ads. They rarely consist of smoothed found a house full of compatable people, do you think it is all faced yuppies. There is space in communal houses for: polidcal plain sailing from hqre? Not quite. In the tradiuonal nucleai activists, nurses, vegetarians, gays, lesbians, swampies, hippies family (which we know about from T.V. commercials) mum'is and even public servants. In fact there is space in share houses consundy cleaning, washing and ddying-up after her grotiy for everyone, except perhaps homophobic nazi punks (who'd tamily In the share household there is no Super Mum to be much happier ripping each other apart in a scene from a combat entropy. You have to leam to pull your own weight, or Mad Max movie any way). sink into the black hole of your own clutter. (0 WASHING UP ... those words are enough to ^end shivers m down die spines of would be worid dictators, to split the Roman 3 senate, to turn close friends into homicidal maniacs. Washing TJ up is the cornerstone ofa household. It is always number one m on the bitch/nag list of share house family meedngs. But it is Shopping too should be done regularly. Otherwise your only one of a many onerous tasks which must be performed by communal family may revert to primidve eating habits such as cannibalism. Shopping can be fun, but it all depends on your lawn widi a bread knife, or defrosting six months of sludge §- state of mind. Try and keep the shopping list sensible boys and from the freezer or worse sdll washing maggots from the otto CO girls, remember vegies are more nutridous than Fnntloops. 09 bin. If you vwmt to hve in a share house yoiji njiust pull your (0 Our household recendy learnt a lesson when we decided to weight You can't avoid jobs like diese, believe us we've nied. colour co-ordinate our shopping and buying only goods ofdie same colour. We got by OK on the green and yellow weeks but we fell down on the week we went shopping for deep purple. What do you do with 500 packets of grape jelly (yechi). Besides that we ran out of toilet paper by then and had nothing with which to wipe our litde bottoms. Believe us, news print stains on the cheeks are a good incenuve for sensible shopping. And on the theme of wiping bottoms and generally unsa voury things, how long is it since you last visited your real estate agent or landowner.^ Anodier thing which cannot be avoided is the weekly/fonnighdy trek to pay the rent. Rent comes first, even if you have to starve. It even comes before that new Severed Heads album. So pay up, and then you can harass diem like hell if anything goes wrong with your house. - Ifyou have a plague of cockroaches, - ifyour front door falls off or your ceiling falls in, - ifyour toilet blocks up and solitary turds start to .sail across your back yard then it's dme to attack the landowner. Common landowner/real estate tactics in cases like these are to stall until you give up askingor to deny responsibility for the faults. Don't let them fool you, It is important to assure them you are in the right and to apply constant and annoring moral pressure on them. Victor)'will be won by the persistent tenant. You've got to be tough to survive in the share house world. rf.f
But having survived the practicalities, you can now share in die advantages ofa share household. The major advantages are Hi greater freedom and personal liberty, balanced by die shared ' friendship and caring ofyour alternative family. Party time girls and boys. You have a lot more space to be yourself in the share house family. You can wear the clothes, you like, you may eat the If you do belong to a minority, ifyou are: gay, non-anglo- foods you like when you like to eat them (no suchi please), and siLxon, environmentally conscious, or politically alternative or you can have whatever sort of friends you chose (except nazi ifyou simply like to wear black and talk about deadi a lot, then punks or right wing scum). Ifyou want to stay out till the early your share household family may well reflect d»ese views or hours of the morning it's your own responsibility baby. No states. As co-householders we must support each other and body has die right to harass you or to emotionally blackmail allow individuals to develop in theirown particular direction. you. Nobody has the right to tell you how many sexual partners The nuclear fatnily standardises people, and cuts off those you should have or what sexual preference you should adhere excess unwanted bits like creativity and individuality. The to. If they do then you can just move out and find people who share house does not. So don't hide in the closet if you're a are more compatable (but leave a dead rat when you go). macrame clad tratisvestite separatist "the revolution will come tomorrow" socialist, let it all hang out, and find a share house to suit you. Even ifyou are terminally nonnal, your neurotic and boring personality will beticfit from contact with lots of weird and wonderiul people. Sharing a house with different types of people allows us to widen our perceptions and increase our understanding of human kind. It gets rid of that fascist zcno- photic, homophobic nazi punk that lurks inside everyone of us. So g:ive the Nuclear family die big A. Leave the Nazi punks to annihilate the right wing trash. Turn olTdiat cpLsode ofthe Brady Bunch, and join the wide world of the share house iamity. It will change your life, believe us, it changed ours, Sally Harbison to fall • TeU'em a hooka, smoking catterpillar • has given vou the call • poor Alice, when she was lust small • When the men on the chessboard • get llucieai' ZramUied
Wandering reporters, Libby Schmidt, Vivienne Wynter, and Desi held up students and lecturers in the hope of a witty reply to the question of "Do you think the nu clearfamily is as important as we are conditioned to believe?
• "The problem is diat it idealises • "A better system would be a com at one model of how to live and ex CO munal situadon so that if one of • "The biggest problem with die nuclear family is diat it makes peo • "It's fine if it works, but if it doesn't, it can be dangerous." ple so bloody boring. It's so re pressive." • "Yes. It helps people to be hap py widi diemselves the way diey • "What do people mean by "fa are and not seek external stimuli mily?" It doesn't have to be res saying diat diey're okay, because tricted to biological parents." they think they're okay the way they arc." •"It sucks." • "Obviously it's not, but it should be. I attribute a lot ofdie social problems which we now have to diat breakdown. Whedier we like it or not, die nuclear family is die structure on which all our institutions and laws are based." • "I don't think there is any such tiling as a happy nuclear family." • '-In my experience the people who talk about die nuclear family as being .c secure and smoodily runnmg are usually hiding their family skeletons in die closet • "There's a lot of hypocracy in volved which people just don't want to talk about." •;^I diink diere's a big fascist organisation out diere setting us up to diink like •"Nuclear families are claustro phobic ticking bombs." upand tell you whereyougo.andyou've Just had some kind of mushroom.andyourmind Is moving low.fioook Hic itHrk f -likr -".^Vhen Different Families HUNGARIAN PARENTS There is a great deal of sexism inherent in so - therefore you do own them some sort of respect I myself do not plan to get married in that type of the Hungarian culture whcih is displayed for that, if nothing else. I guess my family, because we way. I also can't see myself setding down in the su in the home by means of - e.g. Vm the are Hungarian, there is never the sense of'well, you're burbs and in having a wife and 2.3 children. 18 now, you're no longer our child, so that Ifyou get I come across a lot of people who had that really middle child, I've got a younger brother into trouble we are no longer obliged to help you.' I and an older brother - and I wa expected to material basis of family life being that you have to have know myself, I'm 23 now, and if I did get into a lot of die mod cons and you have to have the white picket cook for them, to clean for them, even trouble they would help me. Sure, there would be the fence out in die suburbs. The idea is actually really though they are perfectly capable of doing price to pay. That is, diey would abuse die hell out of frightening forme. I think I'd like to bring my children it themselves, and the sole reason for that is me. But that's something about Australian families up in a environment which wouldn't be as restrictive as which I don't really understand. That sense of: "you've a suburban nuclear family lifestyle. because I'm a girl. reached a certan age-you have to leave home now." It Hungarian girls have a very strict upbringing - they would not be the case in my family at all, and that's a are not allowed to go out unchaperoned. Ifyou do go really good thing, except for the fact that diere are out there seems ot be an instantaneous tag put on you obviously odier diings involved, like you do have to • which is quite unflattering and mainly very untrue, respect your parents. I guess it's nice to know that there m and also I've noticed in my own family and other are people there for me to fall back on, no matter what S Hungarian families that I know, there tends to be an age lam. Even when I'm 401 know that my parents will overprotection of the girl to an extreme. TJ say 'You are our daughter, no matter how old you are, m It's almost encouraged for the boys to be active. For and ifyou are in trouble, because we are your parents, example my younger brother has a girlfriend. My it's our role to try and protect you' - which is a good family is aware ofthe fact that he is having sex vrith his thing and a bad tiling because I diink that it stops you girlfriend and yet if there is sex even mentioned or it from growing up so much, but I do think diat it's a S. was hinted that I had a boyfriend at all, because I'm a good thing. I can't understand it in Australian families (0 girl I wouldjust automatically be labelled as virtually a at all, because sure diere are some rules and conditions 03 whore in their eyes. in the Hungarian family that you have got to abide by, I ended up leaving home at a young age because I but underneath that there is a general caring about could not stand how strict itwas. your children - your filial attachments. I think that there is an imporant issue in cross- I don't really believe in marriage very much because cultural marriages where you have the children being they (parents) have had very unsuccessful marriages able to identify with both cultures. There is a problem themselves, but still I think I'd expect a lot from my with the dominant culture still using colonial temis - children like my family expects from me, but I diink such as the caste system, which I've come up with a lot, that I would be far more relaxed with my children and like how can you identify as being M iirri when you also hopefully be far more honest, but it's really hard to say have a white background. The way 1 feel about that is - you've got to be there. that 1 do recognise the Irish heritage that I have -! do diat by using my mother's maiden name as well as my father's name, with a hyphen. But the problem with the whole concept of half caste and that type of ter MURRI FATHER, minology is that it denies identity. The term half-caste says that you can't be blacken^ that you can't be white. That is a really important thing which needs to be IRISH MOTHER brought up because both blacks and whites use it and that's because they aren't given access to infonnation My mum coming from a working class in education - .so that you have diat cycle being passed country such as Ireland where there is the on and peipetuated throughout the generations. In my family and in most Hungarian families there whole extended family ethic and those ties I don't have a stereotyped role with my brothers and are really strong ties to the family. There isjust no way sisters because I've been given a role of parenthood that I would say to my parents 'I hate you'. I have meant that I wasn't completely isolated from those type of Aboriginal ideas or va eariv in instructing them. It's not sibling rivalry be noticed mixing with Australian children when I was cause I've given authority and responsibility eariy on - growing up that it used to surprise me how casually lues of family - that was always instilled in lots of peole don't even get that .son ofthing. It's very children actually related to their parents, whereas in me, the need for people, the need to know true ofall extended family societies that you don't just our family it was always far more formal and there was your roots and things like that which is the have two people - mutnmy and daddy - bringing you always an emphasis on 'you have to respect your pa basis of a family - knowing who you are, up. The whole family and community has a respon rents'. Their word is the final word and if you go sibility to those children which is good because you against that you are really doing the wrong thing. I and that comes from the people in the fa mily and the environment in which you don't just have one set of ideals being pushed upon the don't see it in Australian families at all. There seems to children - they get a variety. be a far more casual attitude to the family in Australia live. and in Hungarian families there are really strong ties. I was also unlucky enough to have a stepfather, just in some sense because I am studying at University I before my teenage years, to come into my life. That was am viewed by my mother as being a failure as a wo ver)' hard in that I was basically brought up with my man. Because I am 23 she diinks that I should be mother being a single parent and having to cope with married by now and I should have children - it's not working and bringing up two children. Then she met like she thinks it's really good that I am doing diis diis man and he didn't take too kindly to having the tiling. She believes that it is a bad move that I get an responsibilities ofan instant family. It was alright for education. my sister because she was much older and only had to The first way they affected my views on family is stay around for a couple of years and then she split but because they didn't have very successful marriages, I had to-as a result ofthe conflict and tension thatwas eitherof my parents. My stepfather was married three caused by my living with him -1 had to go to boarding dmes, my mother was married twice, my father was school. The environment that I was in was physically married twice. They didn't have very successful mar really destructive. It was a really negative environ riages so I am obviously very dubious about getting ment. married myself. It came down to jealousy on his (the stepfaterh's) If I was to have afamily I do think that it would be far pan. Sheer jealousy ofthe love I have for my mother less totalitarian. However, I guess that I do believe in and the love she has for me. He can't equate that there that ethic of 'you should have some respect for your are different levels of love, so I boarded for two years. parents'. I don't really know why I feel that way, except I disagree with the institution of marriage as it the fact that they probably went dirough a hell ofa lot stands in that it's very white and it's veiT male orien to get you where you are now - like survive and stuff tated and it's a very Christian ethic as well which 1 like that, when you couldn't do anything yourself and disagree widi altogether. Interviewed by Andrew Conroy logic and proportion* have fallen slowly dead* And the white knight istalking backwards vend the red queen ison her head* Remember, what the ii% OH NO, NOT ANOTHER :5<;K>>.-' n n u u So the first semester has blazed to a start with enormous student activity suid probably the , ' ,.Viv" biggest media blitz in this University's history. Our'TV sq-eens have been splashed \yith>scenes '\ ^y}'::.;^ ':•;> of student violence, our refe^'s knee deep in leafletvuid the University ground plastered with o> oo : • •; • posters. Large numbers of students are beginning to show interest in their Union, ahd the ^ - i \ person aggravating their concem is Victoria Brazil, the only President to ignore a meeting i>f^ •'hflir]: nearly2,000students. ;^5<-•••'';:>»>• •••A". tc Ul (L By Thursday ofthe first week of semester a petition /executive has closed down a radio station at 4 a.m. in occupation, when Ms Brazil and about fifty rather E of 2,200 students under s.9.6 of the Union Consti \ \ridiout student consultation or prior negotiations. buriy supporters appeared at the doors ofthe Union Ul tution, calling for a referendum to remove die exe Building. One student repons that an announcement (fi cudve was handed to Victoria Brazil. Only 1,800 sig n^ have given the O'Week Handbook to Cameron was made at his college that free beer would be pro natures are required to force a referendum. There Spenceley - a student who was rejected at last year's vided for those interested in "kicking heads of the CO were 400 students in the Union Building when die elections, This handbook (costing S8,000) contained faggots and maggots in die Union Building". These president accepted the petition. The electoral officer. no information on how to find part-time work, how to people then attacked the occupiers, one person bciiiR Bill McKinley, assured the meeting that counting of find accommodation, how to get AUSTUDY, or what kicked in the head, and reclaimed the ofTice for the the signatures would begin on Tuesday. But this was to do ifyou want an academic appeal. But finally, they president, smiling amidst the violence. Itseems typical not to be. have completely ignored a valid and bona fide petition ofthe arrogant right wingattitudeofthis executive thai under the constitution of 2,200 students. 1,000 more they can use brute force to achieve their ends and signatures have been collected since die "receipt" of ignore the wishes of 2,200 students. die petition. After the violence, Brazil vacated the building and So students were shocked and angry. We had tried the police were called, ordering the occupiers to leave. talking to Brazil, we had attempted negotiations widi By 4 p.m. that afternoon, 300 angry students were die executive, and we had followed the constitutional outside, while about thirty Queensland police were requirements. Although this e.xecudve was democra- blockading our Students' Union Building. ucally elected, this is no reason to Unfortunately for the executive, however, the.so suppose that theycan continue with a programme they strong arm tactics did not destroy the resolve of stu never revealed in die elections last year. They dents. On Wednesday, 8 March, perhaps the largest have absolutely no electoral mandate to ignore the meeting of students in the historyof this campus par Union's Constitution, ked the main refectory. The Courier Mail (8/3/89; At a meeung on the 2nd March, 600 angry students estimated that "more dian 1,500 Queensland Univci- tnoved to the Union Buiding to demand the execu sity students" were present. Once more Victoria Brazil tive's resignation, and demand their right under die Regulation 10.2.1 ofthe Union Constitution states constitution that the counting of the peution com that: mence. Victoria Brazil did not appear. Infuriated by "The electorial officer shall organise and conduct the president's actions, and having pursued all pos every election and referendum held under this Re sible other means of forcing die referendum students gulation; and in perfonning the funcuons prescribed voted to occupy the building. by this regulation shall not be subject to direction bv At 9.30 that nighl, students occupying the building any other body or officer." received news that 4ZZZ's transmission cable had Regulation 10.5 ofthe Union Constitution requi been deliberately cut. Half an hour later, Victoria res that the referendum be held Brazil, Cameron Spenceley and Bill McKinley, along "within not less than twenty nor more dian twenty-five widi eight "heavies" entered die Union Building. The days from the acceptance of a petition by the pre students then occupying, barricaded themselves in sident." two rooms while Brazil's supporters began thumping was not present. She claims the Registrar prevented on walls. Another violent attack closer to midnight was Victoria Brazil, however, states that she did not her from appearing, but Douglas Porter denied this also inefTectual - by then neariy 100 students were in "accept" the petition on the 23 Februar)', she merely statement on television. "received" it. Further, the president states diat die occupation. It seems odd that Brazil would only con petition is fraudulent. Almost unbelievably, our speed front students late at night -she does seem to keep This meeting overwhelmingly voted for the resig reading president stated on the afternoon of "recei strange ofiice hours. nation ofthe executive, and overwhelmingly voted for a referendum, after speakers from bodi sides addres ving" the petition that: "A qujck glance at a sample of At 2 p.m. the following day over 200 students were signatures revealed the name ofa close friend of mine sed the assembly. After receiving a petition of 2,200 from the medical faculty". (Courier Mail 24/2/89) students under die constitution requiring a refere- What incredibly good luck that Ms Brazil found die dum, and a vote of neariy 2,000 students demanding name of this "friend" so quickly. She contacted this dieir resignation, 1 believe it is completely outrageous person and "he confirmed he had never signed the diat this executive remains in power. petition and was totally opposed to it. Funher exa I would challenge Brazil and the executive tojustify mination ofthe petition revealed the names of three aucE I why they should remain in office in the face of such student friends of other executive members, who also resounding opposition. It seems the arrogance of the had not signed." (CM, 24/2/89) executive, and their contempt for the democratic pro cess, is Hmidess. A Students' Union is exacdy that: a On this basis Ms Brazil now alleges the petition was collective of students that provides services, gives a faked by the nasty socialists who organised it. It ap uLy •^1 91 • voice for student issues, and fights for students* righi.s. pears that this executive thinks that the other 2,196 We arf die Union, and students should control their students aren't imponant (although only 1,600 voted B Union, not allow it to be destroyed by right wing for them last year) or at best they must be hired actors ''•y.a^ff^^i iitaia ideologues pushing their minority political agenda, sent from Russia to impersonate students. and attempting to enhance dieir personal political I feel it is fair to say that at this point the executive careers. had gone over the top, i.e. off the tree to the far right- Jeff Cheverton hand side. And many students seem to agree. This doormouse said* Feed your head • Valentine's Day la Over (Billy Bragg) THEQUEST P miFREEDOM OF CHOICE (or how to fuck over everyone else without telling them) We've heard vague rumours from journalists. Mumblings in state parliament, and obscure talb from students at public meetings. But what is Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU).^ Is it like a ladies guild - or even more sinister.^ This year's Union executive seems hell bent on destroying our faith in student unions, a^d with Mr Littleproud's startlingly misinformed comments, it's all begin ning to look more and more like some underhand plot. (!) So where is this all coming from? Aldiough we're The odier thing we'd lose is die resources for us to not sure il Adolph Flatstrap really exists (but note die organise together- the basic ideaof unionism. With initials) an intrepid, roving reporter, faxed us this grip out a student union thecampaign against graduate tax ping tale. could never happen, it was students working together It was a quiet still morning as Mr Adolph Flatstrap diat won us free education in the first place (not to marched into his kitchen placed his gun against the mention the Commerce car park!). The Union, ifwe stove (explaining the quiet stillness ofthe morning and become involved in it and ensure that it represents our the lack of whisding birds) and sat down to a delicate interests is the place where we can all work together to brunch of steak, kidney, greasy chips and black coffee get what we want. Without a Union we have no voice, - have to watch the weight. and we lose our rights. Flatstrap wasn't a very happy man - not since Joh Although people like Adolph will pretend they're was no longer Premier and Thatcher seemed to be talking about a freedom to choose whether we want to turning into a bit of a greenie - the future seemed join an organisation or not, what they are really doing dismal. But as a university student there were more is removing our freedom to have a voice, to organise things on his mind. He just couldn't understand diis together, and be able to form organisations and clubs. Union thing - people actually gave out money so that They are ir)'ing to fuck over us because they have groups with similar interests could organise. Hedidn't access to money to push their ideas, whereas we mind the Beverage Appreciation Society so much, don't. even though they did allow scummy working class V^iS4^eWf/ir^ It's difficult to end this tale, and I'm sure those students in. The National Party Club was fine, they people like Adolph Flatstrap who are .sad about the could always get money from some rich businessmen, So if VSU were to occur, we'd lose control over those demis of Bjelke-Petersen and Reagan, and think Abo but what about diis gay club? Adolph knew all homo services but still have to pay around $100 for them. riginal students shouldn't be allowed on this campus, sexuals were communist agents of the devil sent to Widiout a Union we would also lose our Welfare Ser won't be happy widi my conclusions. But diey are a spread horrible things all over the worid. And as for vices - that means no help looking for accommoda minority on this campus. You don't have to be m the these Socialists, good Lord! He really wished he could tion, no help looking for pan time work, and no help ALP or even a socialist to see why VSU is bad. So just shoot them all, just like the birds and anything else that trying to claim for AUSTUDY. Women's Rights and remember in the next few weeks when Adolph's on didn't really please him. the free legal service would also disappear. Although campus to talk to you about >'Oiir freedom of choice, So what to do? This push for free educadon was just the executive this year do not seem interested in ad that they are talking about more power to them and no getting out of hand, Flatstrap had to dtink ofsome way verdsing or making available these parts ofthe Union, control to you. I don't know if they really kick their cats of denying students access to resources that allowed they sdll do exist and provide a valuable student re in the head, but I have seen one or two unconsciously them to organise their own activities. He just didn't source. But that's not all the Union gives us. goose-step down the corridors ... diink it was fair, it wasnt* democratic, it denies choice One other valuable student service is Clubs & So ... well, it vyrasn't what he wanted, and that's all that cieties, which gives money to any group of thirty stu really mattered. dents or more who want to organise together - groups And then like a light from God, like a telegram from like Choc. Soc, the Medieval Society, faculty clubs and Kingaroy, an idea descended upon him as he squa political clubs (and this includes funding to college Jeff Cheverton shed another fly on die wall with the palm ofhis hand: clubs as well). (Semper Editor) Voluntary Student Unionism. Let's make it optional to join the Union, and then when students don't pay, they won't be able to organise, if they want more parking space, a free education, support on academic appearls, or a club discussing the relevance of Sartre to A PUB WITH A DIFFERENCE toothbrushes, theyjust won't be able to do it. Adolph smurked to himself, slurped down his last soggy chip, kiced the cat in the head and trundled off to university, STORY • CHEAP MEALS leaving his plate for someone less significant to clean BRIDGE 7 days (10% student Disc.) up. But is Adolph right? What does VSU (Voluntary Student Unionism) really mean? ^ •GREAT LIVE If student Union fees were made non-compulsory, I ENTERTAINMENT the University administration-who collects die Union Tues-Sun fee - would sdll maintain diings like die Schonell, the health services, refecs, the sporting services, and ex pect US to pay, The refecs might be privatised, which • GOOD VALUE PUB would necessarily lead to higher prices and shorter opening hours. It's not easy running a business that PH. 391 2266 6 Beers on tap has no customers for three months of the year while (ind. Coopers) we're all on holidays. If the refecs were privatised, profit would have to be large, and students - who would then have no control at all - would have to pay UMDERTHE BRIDGE. KANeAROO POINT extra. Some day boy you'll reap what you've sown • You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own • And you will see that what's wrong with me • Is wrong m I Queensland's promised "tough new drug laws" - the Drug Misuse Act - finally became law on the 2nd October 1986. While go vernments in Victoria and South Australia were moving towards decriminalisation of marijuana, the Bjelke-Petersen announced its intention to intensify the Drug War by proposing the harshest drug laws in the history of Australia. ' Drug use in Queensland was to be equated with (,^ueensland.) Many other police denied the Queens murder. land Govemment's claim that the legisladon was ai • Possession of any quandty of marijuana carried a med at the Mr Bigs ofthe drug trade. It was the small M maximum penalty of 15 years. fry who would be caught in the nect, they said. 0) 00 • Possession of very small quandddes of drugs, 500 Police Union Vice President, Det. Sgt. John O'Gor- 0> man, said marijuana was rapidly becoming a socially r" grams of marijuana, 2 grams of morphine, 2 grams of amphetamine, or 2 grams of THC were to carry a accepted drug, and was used by all strands of society. 1 maximum sentence of life. Sgt. O'Gorman was also concemed that the extreme • Possession of 2 grams of cocaine or 2 grams of penaldes would lead to an upsurge in violence against CC heroin or for .004 grams of LSD now carried the sen police. UJ D. tence of mandatory life in jail. "If an offender is faced with the prospect ofa long S • You could get 5 years merely for possessing a 'drug jail sentence, he is going to take desparate measures to UJ utensil'. avoid diis... I am concemed for the safety of police (0 • Even ifyou hadn't used drugs, you could be found men in these situadons". • guilty if others used drugs at your place (Permltdng use A report from Dr Grant Wardlaw ofthe Australian o of Place. Penalty: 15 years). Insdtute of Criminology confirmed that police were catching very few dmg traffickers, and that law en INCREASED POLICE POWERS forcement was not making any significant impact on The Queensland Police Force who had so faidifully the amount of illegal dmg use in Australia. Dr Ward- served the government were given extraordinary new law said that most arrests for drug offences in Australia powers. condnued to be for possession of drugs rather than trafficking. In 1984-85 more than 90% ofdie 14,000 • They could hold you for 48 hours without a war drag related offences in Queensland involved mari rant. juana. Only about 6% ofthe offences involved heroin. • They were given powers to conduct body cavity The Queensland Police Union esdmated marijuana searches; diey could take voiceprints, photographs, was now the third biggest cash crop in the state, and palmprints, toe prints, footprints and handwridng over a half million Queenslanders were users. The samples, using whatever force they deemed neces huge number of marijuana smokers meant Queens sary. land police could not cope with widespread floudng of COME AND • They were given extensive phone-tapping powers the drug laws. The Queensland Police Dmg Sqaud and could attach tracking devices to cars belonging to Chief, Det. Inspector Len Crook, said it would have CLIMB suspected drug traffickers. taken an army to apprehend every marijuana smoker THE LADDER • They no longer had to prove possession. If they at the Dire Straits concert at Brisbane's QEII stadium OF SUCCESS found drugs in your house - they were there so they in March 1986. The risk of two year jail with hard were yours! labour and a $2000 fine did not deter a huge secuon of WITH US the populadon from getdng stoned. fccofxxTi.cs. Account - • If they charged you, even ifyou won in court, you ing, Compufei Science. sdll had to pay court costs. The Queensland Government stuck to their line. Arts, Lowarvd Public AdministrctKDn • Up to five years jail for revealing the name ofan They were going to fight the Drug Menace. They were groduQles . putyouf informant. going to be "hard on dmgs". Despite their amazingly expertise into procfice with the CorruTtoDr • The police could buy and sell drugs diemselves harsh penalties for very small quanddes of drugs, they wealth Depaftnnent ol without falling under theauspices ofthe Drugs Misuse claimed the new dmg laws were really aimed at the Mr Finance In Contjerra Ihe Department's Act. Bigs of the trade. Consequendy the increased police respons-bililylsto powers were necessary. Attorney General Harper said: pfomoteetficiont "Queensland is certain to use every modem tool to tesourco nxinogoment. THE DRUGS MISUSE ACT including the economic detect these peddlers in misery ... phone tapping is and financial First introduced by Police Minister Glasson late in essendal to wipe out the Mr Bigs ofthe trade." evaluation and review 1985, the original draft ofthe Drugs Misuse Act was of Government subject to a chorus of disapproval by groups as diverse The New Police Minister Bill Gunn re-introduced expenditure proposals die Bill in March 1986. He said: "There is no way we Ih0wo(1 With everyone that • You wantto play your tittle games on • Poetry and flowers pretty words and The Opposition Spokesperson, Mr MacenroUi, actu ally argued that mandatory life wasn't tough enough, what was needed was not just more police powers, but more police! Liberal leader, Angus Innes, admitted that the Bill wouldn't get the Mr Bigs. The only provision of the first draft of the Bill that hit at die Mr Bigs-the punish ment for people who financed dmg deals - had been removed. This bill would hit the small fish, "die min nows". This, he said, was a good thing. The only way to defeat the \'ile dmg mide was to terrify the minnows. Through all this the padded green leather chairs of the Government benches were characteristically emp ty. There were 44 National Party members of State Pariiament in 1986. While the Dmgs Misuse Bill was ebated, there was never more than ten ofthem in the chambers; of these half were more interested in rea ding the papers than listening to the debate. Whenever a vote was needed the bells rang and the rest of the Govemment - old men in grey and blue suits - flowed in from wherever they were hiding. This is the sausage machine that churns oud laws like the • Drugs Misuse Acl. Of the sixly sections of the Drug Misuse Bill only three were debated before the num bers were crunched and the govemment gagged de bate, and the Bill was railroaded through Parliament to become law. Thus Queensland was given the harshest drug laws in Australia. Oi m A coupleof weeks ago the National Crime Authority inquir)' into drugs were in town. The Inquirv' Chair S •V man, Mr Peter Clecland, called for discussion on die m legalisation of marijuana. He said more dian half the population treat the current law as a joke. ".Anyone who pushes law and order as a way to solve the illegal dmg problem just doesn 'I understand or they are either an idiot or a liar." (0 09 Mr Clecland said legalisation of dmgs such as heroin or (0 cocaine would solve the organised crime problem but would not ease die human misery they caused. "Cannabis is a different tjueslion. More than 5 7% of people up to the age of 25 have been exposed to cannabis - that means more than 50% of Australians are criminals. The law is a joke when it is ignored by tfiat many people." The law has been a Joke in Qiieensiand for a very long time. A Joke at least for Mr Big and those who mn the drug trade. And as the Fitzgerald Inquiry disco vered Jokes like this run into millions of dollars. Tenni. Were these men criminals, it asked.^? No, it What would happen if diey discovered that they also The formal name of the Joke is the Drugs Misuse concluded. However ifyou have two joints, then you licenced dmgs??) Act. are a criminal!! It then detailed the new penaldes un One document received by die Inquiry as a con- John Jiggens der the Drug Misuse Act. fidendil exhibit because ofits reference to the Bellinos The Poster: Wanrui be a legal Drug Dealer: Join thewa s die so caled Slade.Report. Endded a "Summary of Queensland Police was even more direct. It had a pictureactivities ami associates of an organised group of persons in Terry Lewis dressed like a gangster, holding a sub north Qiieensiand responsible for the growing and marketing of machine gun and saying: "We're here for your pro cannabis in southern stales and the importation of buddah tecdon!" sticks, hashish and heroin into Australia through far north It condnued; The GoverTiment says it is introducingQueensland" the h was produced by Det. Constable James Drugs Misuse Bill to get at the MR BIGS. Are they?? The(Georg main e Slade, a fomier officer ofthe Commonwealth features of the bill are the horrific penalties for very smallPolic e who joined the Queensland Police in the last quantities of dmgs. This is a bill aimed at small users. Why??days Is o f the Whitrod regime. it because those who drafted the law are naive, ignorant Wheredn Slade's intelligent work led him in the di necks? NO! ne Police drafted this Bill. They know exactlyrecdo whaln ofthe Bellinos, he was told to leave the family amounts are involved in using and dealing. Tlie Bill providesalone. Attempts were mae to bribe him. When that police with enormously irureased powers. approach failed Senior Sergeant Alan Barnes warned Slade that transfers in the t^ueensland Police Depart • They will be able to buy and sell drugs (to obtain evidence of ment were decided by Graeme Parker, Harry Burgess, course) no queslions asked. Judge Pratt and die Bellinos meedng at Jack Herbert's • They wilt not be liable to any damage to property duringhouse a. At the Fitzgerald Inquiry all the above denied raid. that allegation. Nonetheless, there have been some • If they find drugs in your house they won 'I have to provever theyy interestin g appointments to head die Far Nor- were in your possession - they're there - they're yours. diern Region of Queensland Police: Tony Murphy in • If they charge you, even ifyou win in court, you still have1980 to; Kevin Dorries in 1986. pay court costs. The Queensland Govemment could never admit This is a Bill drafted for MR BIG. If you're a user, if you'rether e was cormption in Queensland, let alone its be small time, watch out. For thepoice, business is booming.'!love d PoUce force. It could not admit that (Queensland INCREASED POLICE POWERS LEAD TO CORRUP- with its tough drug laws - was really the centre ofdie TION, LEAD TO A POLICE STATE drug trade in Australia. Hadn't Terry Lewis assured Of course, none of this was covered in the main them that they really were doing something about die stream media. The convenient ficdon always was that vile dmg trade?? Dmgs, like everything else, were an corruption never existed in Queensland dll it was evil Southern plot. Attorney General Harper actually discovered by Tony Fitzgerald in 1988. said there were no Mr Bigs in Queensland; theyjust came here for holidays! The Fitzgerlad Inquiry is regarded by some as hav ing lifted the lid on Cormption in Queensland. But apan from dpping a few buckets on Stefan, ^^/^ THE DRUG MISUSE BILL GOES f^ti^^lff^l/tfltlKlft.lt\ooked3iHhecnme THROUGH of two decades back, SP booking and prosdtudon, yet None ofthe widespread opposition was represented failed to look at the major source of black money and in Pariiament when die Parliament 'debated' die final corrupdon in Queensland - die Dmg Trade. (The draft of die Dmgs Misuse BiU. The debate was lack public were disillusioned enough with the discovery lustre. Both the Liberal and Labor Parties were chiefly diat the police licenced prosdtudon and SP booking. concemed to be harder on dmgs than Bjelke-Petersen. threats • You've gone to the dogs again and I'm not placing bets • On the coming home tonight anything but blind • If you take me for granted then you 1 I rr Society finds it difficult to acknowledge that the hallowed insti- tutibn of family can harbor brutality and abject misery and fear. of women in recent American surveys had been at 0) April, 1989 is National Domestic Violence Aware CO tacked by dieir partner in the past year. o> ness Month. An education program and campaign has J- been prepared by the Federal Govemment, with State Myth: Only poor people beat their wives. 1 and Territory Govemment collaboration, which aims to change community attitudes to domestic violence, Fact: Numerous studies both overseas and interstate I encourage debate and dispel myths. Why is it ne in Australia have documented die fact that battered cc wives are found in all social classes and across all edinic UJ cessary:* It you don't know, you may have some mis 0. conceptions yourself. Read on. groups. E You've all heard of'the domestic'. It's a term that is Myth: The batterer is not a loving partner. UJ eaily employed to describe squabbles within families (0 or couples - your father shouts at your mother, your Fact: Family counsellors and researchers have be • sister gives you a push, your girlfriend mutters an come aware of a cycle of violence in battering rela expletive and hurls her stiletto at your stereo. Unfor tionships. During the 'buy-back' and 'honeymoon' tunately, the tenn also lends a more palatable tone to phases the batterer is a loving and seductive partner. the extremes of those situations - domestic violence. Not surprisingly, abused women find this cycle hard to What's the difference? break, as they swing wildly between hope and despair, gradually losing confidence in their own ability to Put simply, domesdc violence involves a situation where one partner, usually the woman, is afraid of, and control or help this Jeckyl! and Hyde. is being physically and/or psychologically abused, by the other. Some of these behaviours constitute a cri Myth: Battered women can always leave if they want minal action, and others, aldiough they seriously af to. fect the victim, do not. If, during a shouting-shoving Fact: They are usually constrained from leaving home confrontation, your husband or boyfriend gives back by a number of factors, including fear of reprisals, "as good as you get", treating each odier as equals, their own social isolation, dieir financial dependence youracuonswill not oe seen in uieconicxioiuomestic on their violent spouse, the social stigma, their own violence. This situation, on the other hand, certainly poor self-esteem. will: "/ thought he would kill us. He threw my son into the back of In September, 1987, the Queensland Government the van arui dragged tne into the front seat, he punched and appointed a Task Force to investigate domestic vio punclied me until I almost passed out. He bit my face like a lence in this state and to recommend ways it could be addressed. ravenous animal. Ican still remember the sickfeelir^ ofthe knowledge that the hallowed institution of family can The subsequent report this task force, endded 'Be froth from his mouth on my face arui the pain ofhis teeth harbor brutality and fear and as a society we tradi yond These Walls', makes chilling - but compulsive - tearing into my skin. He said he would hunt usdownandkill tionally shy away from interfering in family life. us if I tried to leave again. It was no idle threat." reading, detailing the extent and severity of the pro However, the results ofa 1987 survey of community blem we have, with samples of statements made by Victims who took part in a recent Domestic Violence auitudcs to domestic violence showed that a starding Phone-In conducted by the Queensland Domesdc women during the successful Phone-ins and from 19 percent of Australian adults considered it accep written submissions it received. Similar investigations Violence Task Force described injuries ranging from table for a man to use physical force against his femaJe broken bones and loss of consciousness, injuries to have been carried out by other state governments, with partner under some circumstances - to shove, kick, or similar appalling results. sexual organs, to nervous breakdown. More than a hit his vrife of dc facto if she did not obey him, wasted To draw these efforts together, the Federal Govern third of these women were being abused on a daily to money, was a sloppy housekeeper or refused him weekly basis; nearly one fifth were threatened widi a ment, widi State and Territory government collabo knife or gun. Six percent reported a knife or gun had sex. ration, has initiated the Domestic Violence Education The victims themselves have contributed indirecdy actually been used. Program, and established April, 1989, as National to the community's perception of domesdc violence. Despite this, most victims - even diose who had Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Prime The vicious 'cycle of violence' which abusive relation Minister, Mr Hawke, will launch the awareness cam suffered horrific physical assaults, said it was the emo ships are based on (the tension builds, there is a stand- tional abuse which was most damaging. paign and a bombardment of television and news over phase, the violence explodes, the male enters a paper advertisements, posters, leaflets, stickers, and Even those who eventually escape from a violent remorse phase, followed by a pursuit and honeymoon community activities will follow. relationship - and many do not - live with a constant phase) and the myriad reasons which prevent women fear, and die mental scars ofa 'reign of terror' which from escaping the relationship have been widely mis Organisers hope the noise will be loud enough to are very slow to heal. Nearly a third of callers to die understood. Such women have been perceived as break the tragic silence. Phone-Ins were also sexually abused, reporting rape, crazy, inadequate personalities, nagging, provocative If not, thousands of women will continue to suffer anal rape, forced homosexual acts, all accompanied by and masochistic. without being seen. And diousands oftheir children severe beatings, threats with a rifle, injuries to sexual will suffer with them, many growing to maturity re This isjust one of the myths which have created a organs and no reprieve during pregnancy. But this is garding abuse as 'normal'. Some will never live to conspiracy ofsilence around domestic violence, keep Australia I hear you say. Women and men respect each know. ing it from the political agenda, the community odier. We wouldn't allow diis to happen. agenda, and from our own front doors. Spouse murder- the extreme end ofthe domestic In fact, many factors have conspired to keep the violence continuum - comprised 22 percent of Others include: ugliness and reality of domestic violence in Australia - Queensland homocides in the years 1982/83 - 1986/ and in other countries - behind closed doors, the Myth: Onlya small percentageofwomen are domestic 87. Research reveals diat women are more likely to be problem being shmgged ofl" as minor, affecting few violence victims. killed by a parmer than by anyone else. women in isolated pockets who suffered the occasional Fact: Up to one third of marriages suffer at least one black eye or twisted arm. Society finds it hard to ac violentincidentduringtheirlifetime. Upto lOpercent Kris Houghton , ^'5'? '>'^F .Hr Vanessa who's ten should be home from school couples, NSI is fairly widespread in westem societies, lover's child they were matters of great significance. soon. Her mother is concerned that she does not stay but more often dian not the medical profession closes Although they are not separated, Jenny said she stiU out too long because she's had an ear infection. Jane its doors to lesbian couples seeking to sue the tech maintained close contact with her ex-lover Carol and llie two-year-old is slighdy curious aboui the stranger nique. The gap between doctor and mother that lead her 4-year-old daughter Caidin, with a tape recorder and is making sure that she's not Karen and Belinda to conceal the mediod of Jane's Jenny didn't believe thathomo.sexual parents made too far from the arms of someone she knows. conception, also meant that Belinda had to pose as a homosexual children and firmly believed that lesbian Not such an unusual family really. sister or close friend to be near Karen during the mothers had an abundance of love and support to Two women and two children living in a flat sharing birdi. offer their children, maybe even more than a hetero a close lamily-oricntcd lifestyle cooking, sleeping, ea Yet Lesbian women are turning to NSI as physically sexual family unit. But she did see the social pressures ting and playing togedier like countless families all and politically viable means of conception with or being exerted on these children from outside the over tfie country. Vet there is something different widiout die support ofthe medical profession. Karen home as being enomious. about this family. A difference that is not revealed in and Belinda noted the number of lesbian couples they "I wouldn't tell anyone not to do it, all I can stress is the outward ordinariness of thegroup. Vanessa's mo knew who were coming to diem for advice and even that they really think about it - not only of tiieir own ther Belinda and Jane's mother Karen are lovers. asking for infomiation oh possible donors. satisfaction, but of the child's future. Belinda and Karen beingableto love each otherawrf Apparendy the obstacles tjncountered by lesbian "It's not an easy road to talce", she said, their children (and the family being so "normal" into women in dieir stmggle to have children are not so the bargain) is supposed to be something ofa social Although Jenny said she had frequent contact with daunting that they are able to decrease these women's Caidin she still found the separation painful. Her fee impossibility. This family remains outside all of pa desire for children. A definite sense of militancy was lings for the child were a phenomenon diat she could triarchal societies rules and definitions on and of fa expressed by Brackon, another lesbian modier. not easily put into words. Perhaps they cotdd best be mily living, yet it exists. It flourishes - day to day described as a parent's love for her child. problems notwithstanding. The theory in this instance "OK so dicy can make things hard for us they can even take away our kids, but diey're not going to stop doesn't seem to have altered the facts. Vanessa, Jane and perhaps even Josie may yet be too women's fighting force." young to verbalise their emotions fully, but Anna who Belinda and Karen are lovers whose experiences of Brackon lives with her lover Chris and her daughter is 18-years-old is old enough to examine the question motherhood are positive and whose cottimitnicnt to Josie who is 13. Josie hke Vanessa is die child of a ofwhat it is to be the child ofa lesbian mother and their own and to each others children ts solid. previous heterosexual relationship. Brackon has three express herself in definite terms, (0 m f] S "0 m a. (0 00 (0 "Patriarchy could riotsurvive without mo^therhood and hetero sexuality in their institutional fonns, therefore they have been treated as axious, as nature itself " Adrienne Rich. The family group is matriarchal in die tmest sense, odier children, all living in the U.K., her country of Anna's mother Marie and her husband separated Vanessa'sfatherhasverylitdetodpwith thegroupand origin. Brackon and Chris spoke of different issues to when Anna was 15-years-old. Marie went to live with is not shown as her father on her birth certificate, those raised by Bdinda and Karen, in particular the her lover Lucy. Anna said she had lived with both her Behndadeliberatelyregisteredherdaughteras"father degree of sacrifice that lesbians make in dicir rela- mother and father after their separation. Li\'jng with unknown" to ensure that she would obtain custody of tionships for die sake of dieir children, her mother and Lucy was, she said, somediing she her daughter. Chris and Brackon's lifestyle is also quiet and family found easier than living with her parents when diey were together. Jane is also registered as "fadier-unknown" for die orientated. same reasons, although the temi is a little more literal "Our lifestyle is in many ways almost a straight "I preferred my mother with a female lover than in this case. Jane was conceived dirough non-sexual family lifestyle. We go for rides on the weekend, we go with dad because they argued all the time and ob ('artificial') insemination, carried out by Karen and to the beach or to the movies, we don't go to bars or viously weren't verv' happy together," she said. Belinda themselves with sperm donated by two close have that kind of lifestyle", Chris said. For Anna's younger brother and sister the separa friends. Neither of the men know which of them was tion oftheir parents had been quite traumatic. But for the biological father, Karen said. But the general hostility displayed towards lesbians in our society requires that both women be aware of Anna, coming to terms with her modiers lesbianism "They stipulated that they didn't want to have any the ways in which this animosity could affect Josie. was an enlightening and positive experience. thing to do with parenting the children, they were just "About the same time that she was falling in love helping us out", Belinda said. "But at the same time we have to look for ways to express ourselves. We make compromises for Josie, with this other woman and realising that sfie was gay, I Belinda and Karen had no dealings widi doctors on but she has to make compromises for us," Chris was going through a fairly similar process," she said. die matterofconception.Theyr^d dioroughly on die said. For two or three years she said she felt diat she ^vas a procedures for non-sexual insemination (NSI) and lesbian though she now describes herself as bisexual. said diey found it surprisingly simple, ptovided cer- Thii»'s 'neanmeans tofor example madiat Chri..nns is prepared to She said it was hard to say how much ofthis had to do tain basic rules were foUowed. However despite dicir T^'*"" '"^ f '"u "^ ^' should the need anse, but vnth her mothers metamorphosis, but tfiat she did see thoroughnessdieysaiddieywerebothnenrousdurmg J?"f "?"^' ^\° ^ P'^i'^t '° "^^""^ " *"!^ her modiers relationship in a very posiuve way, Karen's pregnancy. Chris time to themselves. The arrangement appeared to work quite smoothly, at least as smoothly as any Anna's experiences have placed her and all die wo **lt was Hke playing around with nature", Karen ',, h I lit'Mini i I 1 Eir III liti'^ifi i-iliftiiild' i'i|< I • CEMENT BOX Dear Editors, As a supporter and participant of the University Drama Society and the Armardean Players, I am outraged at the recent developments concerning h Corner. the Cement Box Theatre, When last years manager ofthe Cement Box re signed, Victoria Brazil appointed Christena Blackwell for thejob. The in. 'jfauwBnt Wtotj^er ore ^''sa/J job of managing the Cement Box was not made available for applicants to uffp s'ppihj legitimately apply and compete for. Itien? was a long ylsnce. Since Christena has had thejob the J.I Cement Box has been in a state of negligence, i.e. the toilets are filthy, the beer (if served at all) is warm and the hot dogs are going mouldy. Keys Wew...woU'.' have not been made available to the "I Said/it**' \\Z\K you tas) opto?" Execs of UDS and Armardeans, al dsl " for fikh sate, c/oas % ^- though on the evening of the 6tli of March I observed Julian Sheezel (mem fVi- ber of Ms Brazils exec) and a female companion letting themselves into RiSravark asthma wwfioec; the theatre (hey, how come they get 0) Li^W tttf • EASTER GREETINGS AM I ALIVE Dear Edilors, With Maud Shanks Tfi« Housemartins say: "Don'l try gate crashing a King's College Party. Bum The College Down!" Take Jesus - Take Marx - Take Hope. ing my camel no-flltera in the house. needed. Max Bygraves thudded In Yours in Solidarity. Then thera was the shimmying Fu to my neurones, reverberated In THE HOUSEMARTINS Who it this Maud Shanks? What nicello who was sleeping with Raoul alde my skull and finally. In one re la th« doing In Hail and what la har and who tipped off my parents as to sounding chorus of "You Are My problem?Th»ae and otharquesttons my whereabouts, thus condemning Sunshine" my brain was transfor • WASTE OF MONEY havab»en aakad by at laattone Sam me to spending Easter weekend at med fo pulp. I died. Coolangatta with myfamlly. Finally per reading fresher since my last And then I descended Into Hell, Dear Editors, column hit campus.. So here's the there was the series of incidents which Is where I have been ever story so far: over the plastic toys from the wee- since. Hell looksjustiike inner Bris I have heard from reliable sources tie packets which culminated In My ilfe started and ended In Ken- bane, except back in the good old that the Student's Union is spending a large sum of money on re-vamping ting, taking AIDS tests and borrow wasa "tragicvlctlm of thedrug sub- kept movement and communication the Main Refectory. I don't know the ing a vacuum cleaner. to a minimum. No loggers, no free saved me If I'd been able to gat The ultimate "cause of death" dom fighters, no advertising execu exact amount involved - the Finances enough ofthem to numboutthe hor was my parents record collection tives out for a day with the kids. section had mysteriously closed the ror. Soap operas run continuously down other day when I went to ask - but I here, and the night spots are Just I was born into a hideous famiiy "I dranic a bottle of Johnny Wal- believe it is in the vicinity of $1.5 who tortured me endlessly with kar and rummaged through the like the old Hades and Club Vortex. their interest In gameshows and John Denver, Hooked On Classics Who would have expected Hell to million. be 80 cooi. household appliances. At home I and Pam Ayers until i found what i I do not believe that this will im slon therapy to convei>tlotiiel perso- prove the quality of the food served there. I do not believe that it will make the food cheaper. So what's the point.' Surely the money would be better cation wKh other human beings. At seventeen i pierced three holes in " pathise, but try a little coma before spent on improving student car-park each ear, one In my nose, dyed I lay there. In agony, for almost JSrcld°eK""^" '•"*'• ^"" ""' facilities? Any student who drives to every Item of clothing i owned black 40seconds and finally decided that •"'*^'°' ™""' uni knows what a pain in the neck it is and left home- although this would severely da to arrive on time, but then have to I lived in a auccession or house mage me. neurologicaily, Itwas not drive around for 20 minutes looking holds so alternative that i almost going to kill me. I dragged myself felt t had escaped the outside world over to the teak finish record sto for a park, thus becoming late for lec rage cabinet and grasped for a re tures. One-and-a-half million mighm't plays of human emotion. cord marked "SINGALONGMAX". This one was bound to do the trick. go far in a car-park, but it would cer But i was not to IM allowed to es Death music of a completely diffe tainly be of more benefit to the stu cape. First there was Jeremy's mo rent kind. dents there than in refec facelifts. ther, who accused me of causing I found a button marked "loud" Think about it, Victoria her son'easthma to flare by smoK- and pressed It. This wasthe boost I LIBBY SCHMIDT STUDENT phone ise Dont comeround reminding meagain how brittle l)one iseGod didn't make you an angel the Devil made you a maneTtiat brutality and • 0-WEAK & O'EEK • HEAVY TACTICS understand the relevance, but I can Dear Editors, say that I always wear foot-wear while Dear Editors, on campus, and as for strange clothes: It was with growing anger and dis I never tiiought thai I would see tlie day I ask whether strange clothing is any belief that I read through the official when the police would be brought in to protectthin g without a Country Road label as O-Week Handbook, orwhat would be the President ofthe Student Union from her implied by the O'Week Handbook? more appropriately entided "The St siudents. If that's the case then who is she And as for the O'Week Handbook, I Luda Finishing School Guide for Bris supposed to represent? How dare Victoria'sad d at this point that I was utterly appalled by it. I. have worked hard to bane's Sloane-Rangers". Never has supporters proclaim Ihat as a victory when in obtain entrance to this university my intelligence been so insulted or reality it was a lasting defeat for all siudents. have I been confix)nted with such smug, both financially and mentally and I Her refusal to grant the legitimacy ofthe claimsa m not about to waste my hard-ear arrogant, right-wing crap. against her as well as the use of strongarm, ned money on designer labels. Also I Let's start with the glossy front co confrontationalist tactics only serve to strengdo not drink at the Regatta Hotel ver. Who is this stylish femmefatale, then divisions within the student body. Tite usewher e I can sit on the balcony and gazing seductively off into the distance, of mgby style tactics by her supporters from look down upon the "plebs". Do you no doubt contemplating whether to some colleges only sewed to promote the 'meat-therefore consider me a "pleb"? An wear the silk or Gucci toga to Thurs head' stereotype which college students liave"ordinary " student? day nights Toga Party debauch.' Could been tr.ing to dispelJ'or years, m uell as re Looking forward to your early re it be the infamous Victoria Brazil of sulting in violence and injury. It's time for tirement. whom we've heard so much in her Victoria to realiw thai slie was elected by the JULIE M. FRESTA valiant attempts to save the student student body and therefore she is ultimately Student Number 151619-876 populace from the unsavoury influ respomibk lo them. Univcrmty issues should be(P.S . Count this signature as one valid ence of various socialist groups and settled on campus without recourse lo outsidecoun t from the petition you are refu those scmffy 4ZZZ nasties.' But I di bodies such as the courts or the police. Thesesin g to acknowledge.) gress. tactics are just attempts to avoid thefact Ihat As one pages through the hand she has no supportfor actions such as the closing down of ZZZ arui attacks on Semper. Re e CENSORSHIP book some fairly essential informa Ui member I wasn 't asked on December the I -Uh, tion is revealed, e.g. "What To Wear Dear Editors, m were you? and How To Wear It". At first 1 thought You 're quite right about the media and cen S I'd stumbled onto a script from "Life ROBERT HEAI HER soring. I am still wailing, since lasl December, TJ m styles of the Rich and Famous", but In closing I should point out that as to receive a reply to my letter requesting that the no, the authors have generously given a first year student I have no affiliation • EL PRESIDENTE magazine "Socialist Action" be allowed to be us the benefit of their impeccable with any group on this campus, political sold again in the Union Shop. Not only does this dress sense. Now while they (i.e. or otherwise, and that the above is an Dear Editors, Student Union (in typical fascist style), ban the 33 Mummy and Daddy) may be able to independent statement in relation to While I'm writing this, our dear Ma sale of literature which does not agree with its afford to stock their wardrobe with the situation confronting all students dame President (like her henchmen) politics, but it refuses lo apologise, lo explain dashing Country Road attire we plebs in 1989. James Jarvis states, and I is still frantically trying to hold onto why, or even to acknowledge the receipt of my (O out in the cold, hard real world have to quote: "Let's face it, most students power and avoid facing a vote of the letter. make do with whatever rags we can come to the degree factory to get their o student body. No doubt she's mnning One would thirdi that at a university, in ID scratch together. Might I suggest degree and get out". James I feel sorry scared because her popularity is so 1989, one would be able to have access to Paddy's Market as a more realistic al for you and those who would share low. Out ofthe 3,800 students invol alternative views. People should ask them ternative to the glittering boutiques such a cynical, shortsighted view. I ved in the controversy, only 1,600 selves 'What are the conservative forces afraid that seem to infest Brisbane's down give most students more credit than (42%) voted for her last September, of? What does progressive literature hold that town shopping environs. this and I am sure the events of 1989 whereas 2,200 (or 58%) have signed the they don'l ward us to know?' will bear me out. From here on the articles rapidly petition to .sack her. Congratulations on the best "Semper" I degenerate in both humour and in MARK HODDER But what's your worry, Victoria.' Af have seen for a long time. formation value. "A Day at the Races" ter all -you're a member of the Na EDLA WARD is interesting in that it feamres a • 0000!.'! tional Party (as we found out once last handy wallet-sized snap ofwhat great year's elections were safely over). So, if patron of honesty and ethics Russ Dear Editors, you do have to face a referendum or a Hinze (hero worship perhaps.'). How Ijust wanted to say that your new "Semper" re-election, then you only need 39% of ever "Where To Be Seen", "Sunday at is FANTASTIC. Congratulations on the style, the votes to stay in power! Ballymore" and "Politics" all scream outlay and content. In particular I liked the TOM ROUND of power, wealth and privilege (sounds article on the inside of the front cover page re: like the basis for a good mini-series. the role ofthe media asan agent of social conlrol You know the sort of thing, "Neigh • IT WASNT ME! aiui the way it can be manipxtlated so as to bours on Campus"). Such thinly dis ensure the status quo for the benefit of the few guised pieces of juvenile, right-wing Dear Editors, (and the ignorance ofthe many). drivel would be quite laughable un I hereby completely disassociated myself der any other circumstances but shit, I also wanted to thank you for encouraging from the article in January's Semper tilled this is University not a country club. 1 all students to submit articles/poetry/draw "Faculty Attack" by Nik Douglas. My name came here to leam, to debate, to be ings etc It is the first time I have felt that this is was used against my luishes as I stated to the come more aware and involved etc, a magazine written BY students and FOR author that ifthe article was not significantly and to be presented with this shallow, students. It is tmly something to be very proud altered from its biased, unbalanced, defa spiteful, little rich-kid diatribe within of THANK YOU. matory stmcture I did not want any part of ten minutes of my arrival was like a SANDRA BOUGHTON lit. slap in the face. The alternative Hand Yours sincerely, book is by comparison an absolute VIVIENNE WYNTER gem. It is both hilarious and enter • BLISS taining in its irreverence and clever presentation while still managing to Dear Editors, • RESENTMENT be pertinent and informative addres Ulischka's star predictions for the sing many issues relevant to students super signs ofthe Zodiac (Aries 8c Vir Dear Ms Brazil, in any year. go) were sadly inaccurate for the month of Febmary. Not only did this I am not a member of the Inter national Socialists, the Communist "Ram" and "Virgin" enjoy one month Party of Australia or the Resistance It would appear that the battle lines of non-stop technicolour orgasms, are already well and truly dravm on group, as you claim all your oppo but there was one stage where they sitionists to be. I am a University of Campus this year and the first shots attained the elusive simultaneous or Queensland student. I have paid my have been fired in the pages of both gasmic platform for 13}^ days. student services fees. I also work to Handbooks. At best this on-going con I KID YOU NOT!! support myself while studying and I flict between the "right" and "left" pay taxes. Therefore I resent your at Send your views and blues to: factions may stir students out of their Sorry Ulischka, but sex has never titude toward me. been better for us. SEMPER, University of Queens complacency and motivate them to Cameron Spenceley described the ELMOR & EZME land Student Union, Union Road, actually take a stand on an issue, protestors as people who are scruffy, g^"Lucia o! 4067. something sadly lacking for some P.S. Aquarians & Cancerians be war bare-footed and who wear strange ^' years now on Australian campuses. ned the March Discharge! clothes (Sunday Sun, 5/3/89). I don'l wm economy are related now i understand eWhen will you realise that as above so below there Is no lovee For the girl with hour glass figure eTIme runs ^ to working (or sIveialUrlillelill JnlaynU ^f^^V model of patriarch^fe arid two children. The Expectations of masculinity and femininity vary lowgiMug ii« s'-vt-iai.jf^.a ,. i • - „ .^^, 'fam lv'/as his veneratedmoes not include dinerences and doing a cjuick stini a| Idii^min'sju|li| rdaUQn| ^^^ l^s It IS vencraic ; from culture to culture, even within patriarchy. In our person, yiiu biow,h#ind oit|ii| in|a|-||o.!i| ofgender, class or marital statu!rore^^ndletrac^^^ culture, femininity is generally assocated widi passi extended fatnily. Politicians, clergymen and financial bina'tion of hard physical slog,'Windlesl ehrfiirance vity, masculinity widi activity Barrett contends that die institutions lay claim to 'family values' as somediing ideology of die family- domesticity and maternity for and die sinking feeling diat die cause you're promo they hold sacrosanct - or at least must give lipservice ting is no t quite what it seems. Don't believe die hype - women, breadwinning and responsibility for men, is to. Political parties fill dieir policy speeches widi car having a family is not die panacea for every woman's articulated in the processes of gender socialisation that rots aimed at the average family. The church and ills. And it's a nice thought, but modier-love doesn't take place in families themselves in contemporary conseryati^'e groups claim to protect the interests of flow naturally and unstintingly^from every maternal industrialised society (Barrett, 1980, p. 207). | diefamil|against threatening social trends and 'moral breast. This meagre^ paternal |)reast was rtipfp he- laxity'; wfiile banks pitch dieir public relations cam- In addition to being a site in which the division of quendy filled widi aliSivalencdifrustration add panic , . labour exits, die household is a site within \yhich exists f m didieariy yearstAsk^i4)dief:|If she'| horVest|/pa%n|at|l# pnmary economic untt. a conflict of interests. Even when wome n work odis^i I (^d iuii coheM)|he'll t|l ypildtatiyou a|id%aui| | ^ f#ni|y falues are popular, feminism i s not. Fc- the home they are responsible also for labo|r at %»nS Isi|lin4were Jftli luite re|oIdn| i small (fiildren;! fitJism i| pfrceived to have been usdtil m ctiabling and reproduction and nurturing functions. |rhe|iiEs- i^diit forWs tiiJokd five liinli^sllocked in the|la-i fohi^ttpwc^koutsidediehome-anddiatisall.Now tion of whose intersts are ser\'ed by women'S;labdiumn %doTJ each dayWaslier 'spare''lirtiej diat miled^withi dfcibuisefferftinism is die misplaced preoccupation of the household is controversial - whether one accepts a die guilt over whedier your tetanus shots were up to some marginal, humouriess and probably ugly vic- Marxist argument that by reproducing labour at low date was a malicious glee when the cat finally~ .. -fough- . t tims who insist on hating men. Conservative groups, cost women's labour serves capital, or a feminist ar back and bit you. Because SHE identified so closely in particular, the infamous Women Who WantTo Be gument that by servicing the male it serves men's with the cat. Women claim the hallowed institution ofthe family is interests, there can be no doubt that the family con under direct attack by feminists. Women Who Want stitutes a major site of oppression of women. Forwomen'the family'is a war zone. Sometimes die warfare is openly declared, but more often die pro To Be Women lay the blame for the high divorce rate On entering marriage in my mid-twenties, I was tagonists resort to guerilla tactics. Sneaky sorties into squarely at the feet of feminists, who have promoted largely unaware of such processes, but the experience emotional blackmail widi the occasional manipulative such moral disorders as family planning, abortion on 0) of being a working wife and mother does wonders for skirmish, all in dienameofioyie. And of course, there demand, state responsibility in the provision of child oo raising one's consciousness and in the early years of 0> is love, but my point is that it biften gets overiaid with care, recognition of rape in marriage and the preva my children's lives, I harboured high hopes of being the conflicts family life produces. To diose wayward lence of domestic violence, the sexual revolution 1 able to change, in some small way, the gender so females who haveiir^clulg:ed in/^H of consciousness (Whatever that was) and so on. Howe\'e:r, feminism has cialisation processes widiin my own family. raising along the |^-:i|the family'in its traditional simply recognised;d'^^^''^'ly ^^ ^"^ ideological con OC For the first few years I felt we were getting some form looks suspici^ti$lyiik| a microcism ^fppitalist struct ritthei'than a fixed reality-and as an ideological UJ where - with the help ofa very supportive husband, I society, founded ohlhSse tried and true:>principl^^ constmct open to question. ,,«;# encouraged my daughter to play vrith Lego instead of domination, subordlnatioh and alienatiohl SSltyiTtfie One of theways in which leininism^is found the s dolls and my son, a truly gentle spirit, did not engagein: poUtical rhetoric m%es yi^utwitchy - it standard western nuclear ilmflypfcking is the way in Ul bullying his sister or tearing the wings of fliei! Self- years tBcomeitQ.ternis witlift too - but lookat the facts, which the sizeable amount of pbour required to main- (0 congratulation was, however, short lived. We had nai e StMety dictates iKlt'l relatively intelligent, articulate tain and nurtur%it faljs sqiilrely on the shoulders of vely assumed that the constmction of gender identity and locialiisedshuman being be plucked from the out- vramen. While rncn's work as die breadwinner outside took place only within the family- we had discounted side wori^fisolated in the siytburbs and abandoned to the home is fixed.iiid valued and accorded [financial the influence of school and peer group pressure. fight it out siifi|^||i|de^oh the homefroiilwith die recognition - worhen's is not. The great eighties an- Now 13, my son is much more adventuring than ray anklebiters, the SmEinl machine and mid^ TV. swertDthissiiu^onis"Oh,butwomencan'wtStknow daughter, engaging in as many competiuvc sports as Thesefcp|iditions,||iexperts tell us, make for feufic - diey're ecjij^". This ignores the fact diatwdwlten are possible, including that most 'maicuUnc' of sports, fiilfiUed'%ums ^tjj^appy, well-acljusted childlln. /still requu^ to perform all Bie'dOmesticsfliMl care- rugby football. He is confident, independent and Pass nil'die valitpfyou must be kidding! giving duties as well as work outside the home. Witli highly active and has ambitious;career goals, never for Elbow deepiip die yellow murk of nappy ^ter^I 'liberation' men were supposed to take on dieir fair a moment considering the possibilityofnotbein^able often paused and refl||;ed on diese and odi^ipro- share of domlfestic labqur but stud^i|^il|)ip|t:many to attain these goals. / ? . , '"' ^' founclguestions about tii: nieaning of life. My ^atest men are'laothe, toenibrac^ s hour"*'''^*^'"^*^^""te£." Mean"— - My daughter, on the odiicr hand, lacks confidence in su^iStyn thbse ^rs wl|tl|fe humour, compiision while workingi-^ws' and 'mothers' ground her abilities and seems/doubdul that 'gir^s can^o and njiidus indi^iatiori'bfodier women caught i^ntheir,iaa^ries and .offices woridering why'they feel anything' despite ijiuth reassurance frpm'both pa* , .die same bindfa defiant litdc?knot of scrappers who b^rirtt^ut rathi^ fen self-actoalised. The sheer do- rents. When pressed, she chooses muchl%s ambitious^ \^nted'mo|e'out ol their relationships. They too as- mestic workload inwlved in iiip^yrin| ^le family untt 1.—1„ *i;^i:^ i,„, k,„,t,„- :„u^ ;llLi>;t.<^>„ ... .k„ i , ,.Tii_.i...J^j ^1«^ loving them And is stillJabtyalued'6r"rl^ognised,aJldisl6mcdllngwo- dated to go beyond^hc ^^ ^""^^ ^sumed to 6k. because jhey care. < b'ej^iprojjects - the si3^1%gV^[ Not^alf feminist dieoryargu|sfoi;the destmction or ' f^B^fj^iputs ^erg8[^4t|en^se ofthe family- simply ntoreflexibilityjyithin it. I^yf'^ll#|^^|i%#||^|j^ tiill nuclear family govepisAvork, marria|i|Gexua- •"' ', reproduction and fina^ci^StatliJi^^eii^what of : nghts of those whoLjdlbose J)1ive outsidsl it? Why ejob applu UOTpif they are perQ^ived to go^ faiitijLy^ ^omen at idre^^ copsi le working^ ithasd| out very fast e We used to want the same tilings but tliat's ali In the past e And lately It seems that It all gets tougher e Your ideal of Justice just n T T\ O vflew o ')• ¥(mm^m•? io/ It seems today that everytime you tum on On theodier hand, working husbands see the home the television or open a magazine you are as a place to relax, its existence justifies die long hours confronted by programs, ads and stories he spends at work all week. The home is also the only pushing the nuclear family, billing it as ' area of life that workers have any kind of direct control some homogeneous, financially secure, over, it thus becomes a retreat from the humiliation morally righteous and eternal institution. and dmdgery of work. The fact is, for most people these images bear litde However, people's life at work has a great effect on dieir home life and relationships. The boredom and resemblance to dieir own family life. The family, far lack of satisfaction at work, plus low wages and long from being secure, loving and stable is a cauldron of hours are obviously stressful. Workers become irri emotional turmoil, it is often violent, restricting, a table, depressed. Often the family is blamed for this prison. because, 'if I didn't have a family I wouldn't need to For working class people the financial burden of work so hard'. All this pressure is often the main cause maintaining die family is ever increasing, especially at of violence in the home, marriage breakdown, child the moment when the cost of buying a home is phe abuse and a host of other problems, mental and phy nomenal, increasing the emotional burden on the sical. With the latest rise in interest rates we can expect family. to sec an increase in these incidents as young families Ifthe nuclear family causes so much misery in our try- to cope with horrendous mortgage repayments. society, why do people accept it, defend it and desire From these examples it's clear that men as well as it? The answer lies in the fact that the family is ab women suffer in the family, but many feminists see solutely necessary to the maintainence of capitalism. men as the cause of women's problems. This 'Patri That's why the media, the government, big business, archy Theory^' sees the violence in the family, men's churches and school all promote the nuclear family as lackof sympathy forwomen in the home, men's reluc being a natural entity that always has and always will tance to take on household chores and so on as die exist. fault of men. Certainly socialists don't condone this When you think about it, cars, houses, furniture, behaviour and will be in the forefront arguing against wages, welfare benefits, even packaged food are de it. But socialists see men as the .igents or tools of signed to suit the neat family unit. Why does the ruling women's oppression not as the cause. class find die family so beneficial? Firsdy, the unpaid It is the bosses increasing the pressures of work, the labour of women in the home is necessary to raise the lackofmoneyand security, the poor housing or lack of next generation of workers and keep this generation housing, the sexist ideas pushed by the media, the clothed, fed and healthy for work. Healthy workers are church and the govemment, die whole capitalist sys more efficient and thus increase profit. tem, not men themselves that cause these problems. Secondly, families play a large part in socialising So, howdo we fight againsi women's oppression in children into accepting sex roles, audioritarian atti the family? Some would argue diat all women should tudes and individualism which can later be used to join forces, no matter what class, to fight their op (• discipline them in the workplace. pression. But is Margaret Thatcher who tiirows people I-- Although men and women are both victims of the out of government housing and attacks welfare fun institution of thefamily, iiis women whose oppression ding, going to challenge the role ofthe family or fight for women's liberation? Is our own IflHMHHBt is rooted in it. Even women who work can't separate 'm^ their position at work from their position in the home. Women are still expected to take care ofthe household faa^MHBlHB^MipMHBHVthe grossly and the children, this usually means taking on part- O'Week Handbook, going to fight sexism? No! Ruling time work with poor wages and without sick leave, class women, women bosses have nothing to gain by redundancy pay or maternity leave. threatening the family and women's position in it. The skills most women have (typing, cooking, do Working women have the power to improve things mestic skills, secretarial skills) are not scarce and thus for themselves. By going on strike they can demand 4 not paid as skilled work - the average wage for women free childcare, higher wages, increased maternity is still around 56% below that ofdie average male wage. leave, shorter hours and the like from their bosses. As long as the nuclear family exists, men and women's Men can and have gone out on strike in suppon of labour wiU be divided and women will be at a dis women workers. advantage. The gains women make in this way improve their Women's roles in the family are backed up by a lives and challenge their position as wives and mothers barrage of ideological factors. Young giris are encou onlv. Striking themselves or actively supporting fa raged to see wife and mother as their most important thers, husbands or boyfriends who are on strike de role, women who fail to achieve diis are supposed to > stroys the image of women as being weak, passive and feel unfulfilled. The work women do in the home is sacrificing. dismissed as a personal service done out of love for While the bosses may concede to vyorker's demands their husbands and families. here and there, capitalism is not going to accept sig M- The state constandy reinforces the position of die nificant challenges to the whole idea of die family, it is nuclear family as the norm. The National Party Family too fundamental to die system. For women's libera Services Minister Yvone Chapman condemns single tion to be achieved the system which oppresses them mothers as welfare bludgers and attacks gays because must be destroyed. these groups threaten the family stmcture. The na A struggle for socialism is a struggle for women's ^-d tional Labor government ensures our AUSTUDY is liberation, one cannot be achieved without the other. means tested on our parents income forcing many Women and men must unite against the system that students to live at home or families to pay for students keeps them both down. to live elsewhere. Today there are no socialist countries, in nations In our society die family has a contradictory po such as Russia who call themselves socialist, women sition, it is both protective and oppressive, a haven yet are still oppressed. Russian women are still expected a prison. The family is a wall diat prevents people from to work and shoulder the burden ofcaringforafamily. seeing and dealing the die harsh, competitive society 'Mother ofthe Year Awards' are given to women who outside, ret me norrors oi uic uuisiuc wuuu cApmiu have die most children, beauty contests are held. Con the extreme tensions inside the family as die product traception is difficult to get for the average Russian of capitalism and one ofits main supports. woman, 90 percent of first pregnancies end in abor For working class people die contradictions in die tion. Women in tiiese 'socialist' countries and in the family are magnified. Working class housewives usu west have to fight for a revolution like that of Russia in ally find marriage means a lack of money, loss of 1917 to liberate themselves. Under socialism the ma freedom, isolation in the home. Working class couples terial basis for women's oppression no longer exists. have a very limited sodal life for diey can't afford to go Child-rearing, housework and food preparation be out, diey can't afford childcare. Working husbands come societies responsibility not the responsibility of often have a different circle of friends and different women working within the framework of the family. interests to his wife. So for the working class housewife Tanya Wolfe the home becomes a prison. becomesrougherandroughereThanltyouforthethlngs you boughtmethankyouforthecardelhank you for the things you taught me when you hit WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN If you really want to take a walk on the wild side, try abstaining from drugs in all forms fora week or so. Try thinking ofan existing SAVE THE BABIES J means of social interaction which is not based around or does not in some way include the consumption ofa mood-altering drug. There is no bclter"medicinc made for babies thu% You begin to see how un-altemativeand how non-radical the drug Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, Ils pleasant taste experience is. ,and prompt and effectojl cures make it a i.wout'.'.a Tvilh mothers of small children. It quickly cures Dmgging pervades all levels of society. The ques •their cou!>hs and colds, or croup. They do net tion should not be whether an illegal drug should be hesitate to give ChambcHain's Coir^h Remedy 1^ legal, or which dmg is worse for the health. These their lilile ones, knowing that it contains no poiso:i debates are sponsored by those with a vested interest in any form, Jnd can be given lo a baby with as in the continued consumption ofa product. The pro duct in this case is a dmg. It is more valuable to ques much ccjitidence as to an a.Iult. tion why dmgs arc deliberately ffw problems. The ultimate in instant gratification. It's not surprising to note that doctors and drug-dealers (legal and illegal) arc among the highest paid people in tiiis BC community. As we progress (?) through die school Ul system, desperately clinging to the vestiges of our cre 0. ativity in the process of being beaten into 'useful' con S suming citizens, we find society either suits us or it Ul doesn't. Those who are happy in their assigned niches m or who slaver to climb the corporate death ladder, who e in other words identify with the mainstream, use their 1904: Opium for Baby {Bulletin, Sydney) 00 share of different dmgs in a typical extension of the consumer mentality diey depend upon to survive. the highest jarm of civil obedieru:e. If the time, energy and money spent on the dmg experience and recovering from it was spent instead by these people on agitating There also exist people who don't agree with the for social, environmental or political change then the status quo and refuse to ignore its sinister machina implications would be tmly revolutionary. QU.I.V.A.A. rSUSER tions and endemic corruption. These people have Those who don't drink are among the most alie- FRIENDLY always existed and have always constituted a real threat "^'^^ P<^°P'e in society. Their interests are rarely re to the powers-Uiai-be, In this country, at least, it's no presented in the mainstream or alternative scenes. The Queensland Intravenous AIDS longer the done thing to simply gun down the op They have difficulty meeting those of similar interest Association or Qu.l.V.A.A. for short position. Instead something more insidious and, because the non-drug consumer is rarely catered for. formed BrOUnd the need tO aCCeSS above all, profitable is utilised to ensure these people However the straight-edge struggle continues and the and educate intravenous drug users don't get too worrisome. Dmgs are again the perfect movement gains momentum. Alternative artists such in early 1988. IV users ai^e now seen solution, with the added benefit that use of illegal as Henry Rollins, an American spoken word and in drugs can also lead to police harrassment and periods credibly energetic musical performer, are beginning as the second epidemic ofthe spread of incarceration to which diesc alternative beings to emerge, producing creative social commentary and of the HIV (AIDS) Virus to the broa might not usually have access providing positive role models. As far as they are con der community. The main aim of Massive advertising campaigns are launched, usu- S?lw7 "^^ ^r ^ ^1"^ ^^''l '^^^'^ '" 1!^''"^ Q"'''^^A-A- Is therefore tO arreSt the ally_.-,._.. showin: g some yuppi.„„;„r„j:.„j,..ie individuals. lookini..„t:„„ig horr, i: . skies, but if more of US don i wake upup: soon, diere Will sprea^nrtxaMd onf« thtke^ viru»:*.. 399 Honour Ave. Ph. 379 3333OHACICVILUC lOM: Morphlnt for ihc Malron {Bulletin, Sydney) Jennifer McDougall With thanks to Jlllo from QU.I.V.A.A. IT h^r'^Th'tlo'v between two people mi'>t be b**ed on •>nHer-t>ndinfl« Until that'* true-' ••'llfir M' Y I • I In Australia, like most Westem countries much hysteria sur; rounds the use ofthe drug heroin. For many people, it is an evil threat tp the moral fabric of our society and therefore it must be eradicated. Governments have declared a 'Svar" on drugs. They present stern Warnings to teenagers with glossy advertising cam CO paigns. Badly made up models tell us that"heroin screws you up" m or'^^lease ddn't take it oryou'll looklike me". Th^e police appeal to S •0 us to 'dob in a dealer' and keep an eye on our children. The media m bombards us with stories of wayward dirty adolescents living in 30 gutters while snatching handbags, beating up o^d people and I prostituting themselves to score the money for their ,next fix. 8. Australia looks on in horror. " i (0 0} to But despite the hysteria and the "war" the use of easy to accidentally overdose. Ifthe dnig was legalised heroin appears if anything to have escalated. Autho it would be available in pure, measured quantities that rities recognise this and implore the public to join would not be as harmful. together to fight the problem while at the same time eroding civil liberties by increasing police powers. THE CRIME FACTOR With the advent of AIDS, heroin use has taken on even The high price of heroin has invariably led to an uglier connotations. increase in criminal activity by die users. Many are The fightagains t heroin has mainly been directed at forced into prostitution and robbery to obtain die of being 'the leading dmg supplier and pusher to the the drug itself- it is seen as inherendy bad. It is not money necessary to support a habit. They are easy prey Aborigines'. Similariy in t;^ueensland stories of police surprising then that one option that is rarely discussed for the states prison system. The people behind the planting dmgs in the houses of political subversives is legalisation. The dangers associated with heroin are importation of heroin however are rarely punished. abound. mosdy caused by its illegal status. Businessmen and corrupt state officials continue to PRISON - NO DETERRENT make millions of dollars each year while the govem Theexistenceofharsh penalties (life in Queensland) ment spends millions trying to catch them. If heroin for heroin use and dealing have obviously not de was legal, this link with crime could be eventually creased die activity. Prison is no deterrent. In any case broken down, as die drug would be freely available, it is usually only the small-time dealers who are ac tually caught by police and diey are easily replaced. THE DRUG POLICE POWERS Drugs of any type are also freely available in prison. If Heroin was discovered in 1874. It is produced by The widespread use of illegal drugs, pardcularly heroin was legalised, the money spent by governments the chemical alteration of morphine which is derived heroin ha been used as a justification by governments to catch and imprison users could be directed towards from opium. to increase poHce powers. In 1979 the Federal Go more important areas. For example a sensible dmg education campaign could be undertaken to alert peo Heroin was available in Australia from the tum of vemment passed a bill enabling federal crime agencies ple to the side effects ofall dmgs and enable them to the century. Itwas used as a pain killer throughout die such as ASIO the power to legally record telephone make their ovm choice based on the evidence pre medical community. In 195S the Opium Board of die conversations and open mail of any member of the sented. United Nations suggested thatAustralia had oneof die public. The reason given for die legislation was that it largest percentage of heroin users, in the world. This wa necessary to catch those involved in dmg dealing was based on a small increase in addicts during the and terrorist activities. However obviously it could be HEROIN AND AIDS seven years previous, to the study. The govemment used against anyone. The dangers of heroin use were intravenous drug users have been targeted as a high- reacted by prompdy banning all impom. This was used as an exsue for eroding civil liberties, This bill was risk Al DS group. This has increased die phobia about greeted with much outcry from medical assocations later replaced by die Telecommunications Act which heroin use in Australia and overseas. The risk comes and hospitals. The Royal Womens Hospital petitioned widened the infonnation accessing powers to include from reusing needles and sharing them. This is made die government to revoke this legislation as substitute telexes, faxes, etc. In Queensland Tlie Dmgs Misuses Bill necessary by the inavailability of clean syringes and pain killers did not work as well as heroin. needles. While some states have set up needle ex Heroin itself is not a dangerous dmg, David Hirst in change programmes to help combat this, many users his book Heroin in Australia points out that there are are loatlie to take advantage of them, fearing police really only two known harmful side effects ofthe drug. harassment. They are: it slows involuntary muscle movements which retards the movement of food and restricts re widened the police forces power to search premises IN CONCLUSION .... spiration and it slows food dirough die alimentary and detain suspects. It is of course unlikely that heroin will be legalised in canal and its tightening ofthe sphincter. These mani However along with wider legal powers, die ille Australia at this point in time. However society must fest themselves only after long term use. The other gality of heroin and other drugs, has enabled many be made aware ofthe dangers posed by the illegality of major problem is its addictive quality. police to use it as an excuse for harassment and vic the drug. While heroin itself can be harmful, if it was So why is it that heroin has been seen as killing our timisation. Hirst tells of a well known example in legalised along.with a sensible infomiation campaign, youdi.^ The illegality of heroin has made it cosdy - Victoria when die first Aboriginal and Islander Legal many of die present harm associated with it would dealers who are often users themselves will cut die Service was set up in Fitzroy, The police were upset disappear. heroin widi anything from sugar to Ajax to make it go that diey could no longer harass and charge Abori further. It is diese impurities which cause many ofdie gines with street offences Vbithout the availability of health problems associated with heroin. As the per legal ad\ice. Members ofthe Crimituil Invest^ation Bu Katrinajensen centage of the drug itself are unknown it is relatively reau created a scandal by accussingone of the solicitors When I mentioned to my grandmother that I was doing this story she said "Heroin! Why I used to buy it at the chemist to take for travel sickness". ^^ surprise, surprise. ii'*' ti < u0) < m 5L •a •a t o ... Y" c u. ain c JS c Q. /^p V) '(5 _ 2 C «2 u - / —> K ^ a; <. UJ UJ = o ^. O i^ H I ... i- UJ — M a 0.2 15 t/> < UJ I Q So «"« fl Z •« Vi I < a; ^ fl UJ g(^ X o tt CD n << I:? 2tN O a; >. fl H a >. TJ •o Jo c •p gto n a; 3 Q ao. •o c 3 to c O fl fl >. X 0 t/i fl O Sat i an d 3 *C > fl hts . e 2 oi" T3 CQ (U fl (/I TJ >« Padd i op u 00 u C fl .0 ff-O 3 3 «. 'E i c c a o ra Ul' 2 Z tf) tf) u cur d ERI E ida y 3 da y a 3^2 0 UJ 'C i/i tf> (JL "•V 0 I- 4-1 u. T- ^ 0 z 0) 0 -J- UJ Z in fl 0. UJ X ^ Z h- BRA S a£ UJ UJ ai C u2 UJ H U K 0 GO'S; U CQ o »- H O o uj^Jli a> ^ Q UJ,- c O 00 OJ 0 k. HI Q-fo6 Z < s . RYTA V (ti FIC E STREE T CO ghts . oami fl ARYH O '^ UJ >• ^ z u. c tt >. lu fl -p ^ (A > 0 Z c 2 tf) tiS 2 ttfO N HI >- UJ fl N HXi tf) o^ < C ^ o (9 tt H 3 ^ 3 BOU N nights . PORT O afterno o CAXT O tfj I (U u . n < 1/", ra 5 d ^-^ o U a; 00 SI o t/l !« [- tt y LU H 0-D X 2 >• tt z£ UJ > 2 < ra . ca •* 2 O o O UJ ra f^ tt c — >2 >< o c- < CO Ui U z H. ,< H 0) ministrative efficiency (i.e,, cutting comers on servi 00 In July last year the federal ALP government re O) leased its policy paper on education - the White Paper ces), and research applicability (i,e,, benefitting in - oudining the most far-reaching and fundamental dustrial technology or not). changes to the education sector in decades. The over Apart from the savings flowing from economies of all goals ofthe restructuring package are what the ALP scale through amalgamations, diis is the chief process DC sees as "national priorities" for education, which con by which course cutbacks and redirections will take Ul centrate explicidy on the needs of business and in place. The newsuper-uni's will find diat theyjust don't Q. dustry. have enough money left over for "inappropriate" cour s The leaders of industry and finance want education ses such as poliucal sciences, languages, women's stu IU to be tailored as a whole to both their immediate and dies and the ans after they've prioritised their funds in long-tenn needs. In order to improve its performance, eiuis favour of die "national interest". N business needs to improve its technology and its work Campuses are also being encouraged to solicit pri rs vate funding from industry to make up the shortfall. force. It needs, more than ever now, an increasingly sed, are much smaller than that, and so are being Naturally, the only subjects to attract funding will be large and well-adapted pool of skilled labour from forced to amalgamate with other small institutions, or those that direcdy serve the interests of business and which to draw die very best and most profitable wor become pan of existing large institutions, such as the industry or those that v\^ll produce profitable gradu kers. major universities. Not only is the goal ofthe ALP to satisfy those needs, ates. Thus the corporate sector will have considerable, bul market forces of competition and productivity are direct control over course design and funding, being employed to mold the education sector itself to The victims in this process will be die small, spe Widiin bodi arts and science faculties there will also industry's needs: cialised campuses, pardcularly those with disciplines be- greater pressure to contract private funding for that don't direcdy correlate with die "national prio • The restructuring of education will begin with mer research to make up for lost funding- a serious threat rities" set for education by die ALP. If an institution gers of existing institutions, to academic integrity, as depanments desperately "per refuses to join die Unified National System, it's ba form" to ensure future funding. • The more "inappropriate" disciplines like teaching sically left out in the cold, and will get funding only for As far as government research funding is concer and nursing will be trimmed away in favour of the teaching, and only on a conuraci basis. technologies and sciences. ned, the White Paper carefully redefines the distinc State governments, both Labor and Liberal, have tion between "teaching" and "research" to effectively • Tertiary fees will be introduced for all students, generally complied with the national plan and begun disqualify most humanities from receiving research • From die beginning of 1989, full-cost fees will apply the process of restructuring on the state level. In NSW, funds. Nor does the ALP intend to help students much to all overseas students. for example, die Office of Higher Education has pro with financial support. In 1974,79 percent of students • Privatisation of research programs and entire in duced a policy paper proposing to fuse more than received some form of govemment assistance, by 1984 stitutions is already underway. twenty institudons into seven networks, each made up diis had been cut to 47 percent, and the ALP proposed The intentions ofthe Labor govemment are clearly of a few campuses based around the larger univer to increase this to only 50 percent over the next de displayed in the bodies they are using to implement sities. cade! diis restructuring; the Department of Education has The basis for integration of campuses into one net Due to the low level of this assistance the average become the Deparunent of Employment, Education work or another is more geographical than academic, annual debt that students already incur- disregarding and Training, a body of employers, unions and go and many small institutions can expect to be railroa the graduate tax - is $ 1,800. vemment fonned to oversee general education prio ded into amalgamations, then swamped within a new When all the proposals are examined it becomes rities. institution. One area to particularly suffer is External clear that concepts such as equity and access are quite In order to be able to resu-ucture and control the Studies, where courses will only be offered by six "Dis foreign to the White Paper (regardless of how many whole of the country's tertiary education sector, it tance Education Centres". times they're mentioned!). The real motivation for the needs to be integrated. This is die "Unified National Once in the system, each network or institution graduate tax and the other changes is to cut govern System". competes widi die others for a limited pool of funding. ment expenditure and restructure education in the To be in this system, an institution must have atleast The competition is based on certain "Performance interests of business. Indicators": graduate turnover (i.e., output rate), die 2,000 EFTSU's (Effective Full-Time Student Units), The question then arises: who is to pay.' The go types of course being offered and their content {i,e,, if and preferably more than 8,000, Many of Australia's vemment claims that it cannot afford it but has posted they're suited to the needs of industry of not), ad tertiary institutions, particulariy those more speciali- a $5.5 billion budget surplus for 1988/89. In the last budget social spending was cut further, while com panies and the very rich received generous tax cuts, If die majorityof hugely profitable companies were pre vented from paying as litde as two percent tax, there would certainly be more funding available. But there is more dian just economics involved: the changes envisaged vrill go a long way to subduing the tertiary sector, which has been most vocal in its op position to the rightward direction of the ALP federal government. The ALP's White Paper is nothing more than an attempt tojustify, in the language of equity and access, die first steps in reshaping tertiary education for consumption by private industry and business. By Russell Norman I'M ALL FOR TERTIARY ^V FEES & VOLUNTARY . -'— *' I AND WOMEN? EQUITY FORWOMEN: PRIORITY 3465 The Federal government's policy document on "White Paper" on Higher Education can be stripped bare of any pretence at "Equity" by analysing the effects ofits strategies on a single dis Despite the federal govemment's attempts to assert advantaged group ... Let's pick the one whose disadvantages are that die abolition oftertiary fees in 1973 did nodiing to supposedto have been all but eliminated. Let's pick the one the increase the participation of women, the official sta federal govemment has supposedly "prioritised" for their equity tistic show an increase in women students from around measures... Women. 2096 ofdie student population in 1973 to over 50%, in 1983. Even die relatively "small" charge of $250 cau Ifthe "restructing" of higher education and the tionwhatsoever, but contribute gready to their society sed a significant reduction in female enrolments, es introduction of"user pays" in higher education can be through dieir acquisition of knowledge and training, pecially die relatively "small" charge of $250 caused a proven to die documentary as against women, dien all Women will, dierefore, take proportionately longer significant reduction in female enrolments, especially die govemrnent's "equity" rhetoric is revealed as so to pay off dieir loan, and will pay more interest (since in part-time and external studies. much hot air. If die policies discriminate against wo- the loan is indexed to die Consumer Price Index radier These observations relate only to women. Similar, men then diose of us who sull believe in real equity than to wage-salary increases) Women are also more and even more outrageous results will be observed for have no option but to oppose diem, and die govern- Ukely to have breaks in their working lives, in order to groups such as Aboriginal, migrant andworking class ment which formulated, and is beginning to impli- have chtldren. Dunng the ume diey are not earning, people. Higher Educauon is compledng its transfor ment them. their debt to die govemment will continue to collect mation into a mere cog in the wheel of Australian free The White Paper and the Wran report on Higher interest enterprise. Drastic action needs to be taken by all • education funding fomi a package v^hidi has as its The "user pays" aspect ofthe government's policies sections of the community .. students, womens' tn goal, economic nationalisation of Australian Higher <,„ j^jg^jer education is the other side ofdie economic groups, unions and social movements, if die process is m educauon. This is to be achieved dfa "Umfied Na- rationalisation coin. The introduction ofdie lertiaiT to be stopped, or even slowed. The insidiousness ofdie 3 tional System" through whichterriaryinitituuonswill fees, dirough dxe S250 HEAC and the $1800 "gra- transfonnation can be deceptive, but we can't allow TJ m be centrally controlled by a sv.steni of economic in- jy^^^ ^^^^ produces yet more dtsaiminatory effects ourselves to be uiken in die empiy rhetoric ofdie ALP, centives as "carrots^'for cdrtipliance with govemment forwomen nor the seemingly "inevitable" logic of economic ra- policie,.s and eco^rni, A c .pena- . l tiesJ o r "big sucksf ".. ft)rno'nt ^.«v»,.v.,..>.«.x.r«aw.,.i^,v..«j*.t«,.^u...,.o...... ^ ^^ ^jj j„^^y ^ ^^^ ^^^^ j^ becomes ttiore in. tionalistargumcnt.s. Education should be free, acces- I- compUance, and 1) the introducuon of substamtal jj,^^ ^^ ^^^^ f^^ f^^ of overseas students, and «We and independent. That is no, a slogan, it is a 5. teruaryfeesmdieguise.mtual y ofagraduatetax The ^^.^charged byprivate tertiary institutionssuch as "-''^"'"e . aim IS noi to provide an equiuble educauon system. It Bond —University .^ . , -'Sincr e the introduction of die oypr- . Karen Fletcher o is to create a cost effective educaUon system whtch resseas student Vi$a Chargem 1985 and the $250 HEAC if you are interested in helping with the free edu- ponds to economic; priorities, as dt*fined by the governin J987, there has been a frightemngly logical pro- cation campaign contact the Free Education Club ment of the day inxonjunction vath assorted econo' grcision towards students bearing the full cost of ditiiir through Clubs and Societies or Women's Rights on mists and represeniltilir^s of corporate Austraha. tertiary education 3711611 This is obvious frojrri'l^^eadtDg ofthe general out lines of thegoveniimc^(^*^policiej., butitbecomes even more obvious;* and* frfgihtientng) when the concrete effects of particular measures ixe analysed. MYTi INFORMATION Funding for Humanities jnd Social Sciences facul ties vrill be, and is-being, seyeI^ely cut back Womens from 88,000 today to 125,000 by 2000. The planned Studies will sui5!?)r, asjwjll ^^^^^ disciplines MYTHS OFTHE GRADUATF TAX enrolmcnrincrease would be between 2 and 2.5 per which have the highest cbiiccntrau'on of female uni- cent each year, .s versity students. Research into the pomon ot women IncrediblV, Dawkins' proposal answers the question in Australian society'will not be an economic pno- CLAIM NO U The abolition oftertiary fees in 1974 of how to increase the number of students by saying rity. -•••••'••'••• did not increase access to tertiary education for "make til em pay". Howe does this make continuing in Small institutionswill bcforced to "amalgamate" to those from lower-income or less privileged back- education more desirable.^ It hits especially hard at form larger and more manageable units for the central grounds those on lower incomes, who already go into debt just audiorities to conirQl, Courses will be ^'iiationaliHed'', Dawkins usesaioiofrhetwnci^ouiequitytodeiend in order to survive while studying. The 40 percent and the courses vyhich will suffer most wtU be those die educauon tax proposal, claimmg that die abolition discount pi'bposed for those rich enough to pay in with a high percentage of female students , patv.- ol tertiary fees has not impioved equity in higher advance places the rest in an even worse position. cularly performing and visu^^ arts, etc. education but j-ather allowed fhe children ofthe weal" Likewise pan-tiiiie and'external studies will be de~ thy to have a free nde But die government has also said it expects the economy to grow by about 2.5 percent a year. By prioritised, since theif ptovision is disproportionately Yet enrolment statistics shoVir thai the percentage of expensive and their short-term economic yield-ncg- students whose fediers had $. "blue collar'\background maintaining govemmeni expenditure on higher edu cation at die present percentage of Gross Domestic ligable. Women studejiiU..axc by far die ma)ont>' of r^se by 0 perceut between 1974 and 1S«.4* Produa (0 99 peircm) die proposed expansion of higher part-time and externdjmdents,,Most^ extcrtial pro- -j.^^ abolition^^bf fees also remov^^TO important education would be funded automatically. grams will be discontinujd^c^ Earner to di^^participation of women «|iigher edu- The name of diegame will be to produce the kind of cition ThdrWticipation fate rose fTom.S7vpcrcent m Hov^evr*r, .the government will not commit itself to graduate who will be economically "uselul as qmckJy j 973 (Q 50 pertcnt last y^r. , \" A maintain this level of funding for higher education. as possible. Mature age, migrant and Aboriginal wo- ^ - -'- ' Hawke hasmideit peifccdy clear that, in the frame These changes occurred m sptte tfoihcr^ counte work of CQi^tinuirig ^uts,ill total government expen men vrill be considered parucularly high risk, smce racting, trends; '^'' -/f- s," " their attrition rates are high, and their assimilaoon into diture, no bLidget item wilj bequarantiricd. Ifcapitalist • The introducuon ofdie "administrative chaise" at die world of high rinjkd& anil advanced technology is •atjsterity dii^taites furdier funding cuts education will die end of 1986 Because ofthis 6000 Ics^ .studcins low. They take j[^png|rto%i5»4"af c, and diey spend less, supralongwi% healdi,. housing, childcare, etc,, • enrolledm 1987alone,IntwayeAStherchasbc^na 17 ' if any, tiftje^^ijj* d^^ cofporaxe workforce. Tjbc ideal ' The percfencage of GpP expended on liiglicr edvt^ percent decrease in the number pf part-uhie aihd ex* 'cation has alreayd,filler) imder Hawke from 1.13 per-* student isa yoiing mal<^*applicant for computing, en tcrnal students ' j. gineering ortnaniagementfatulties, who has ahigh TE ceiit to 0.99 percent. The resort to private funding • The decline m financial support to stiidents through* score and% delire to mike heaps of money in die cut dirough the tax surcharge and the privatisation of AUSTUDY (fonneriy TEAS). The maximum AUSTUDY The so-called "graduate tax" has been proven to be higher educauon signals furdier cuts in funding. payment has fallen to less dian 60 percent ofthe po no more than an ordinary fee, with a government loans verty line. The numberof students receiving assisumce CLAIM NO 3: Tertiary education is a privilege en scheme attached. The form upon which students were has fallen by 43 percent. joyed by a wealthy minority at the expense of all required to indicate their preference for payment of taxpayers. die fee listed "up front" payment as die first option and • The two economic recessions and conunuing high dien required those who seleaed the "deferred re unemployment since 1974. Because ofthis there is less The claim that the majority of Australians don't payment" option to request a loan from die govem scope for earning money through part-time and casual benefit from the tertiary education systeni willfully ment and undertake to repay that loan through the work. ignores the benefits it provides to the whole of society. taxation department. It is enough to reflect on what society would be like CLAIM NO 2: The government does have the funds without trained doctors, engineers, teachers, archi Because ofdie areas in which women students are for the necessary increase in higher education pla tects, social workers, etc to reveal how barren this concenuated: service occupations such as nursing and ces. If students contribute to cover part ofthe cost of argument is. teaching.and social science, Arts and Humanities their educadon then the places can be provided, areas, women graduates comeoutof higher education And that is widiout even having regard to the gene increasing access for those fitim lower-income back on a lower income than men, on average, and stay on a ral intellectual and cultural fonnation of human be grounds. proportionately lower income diroughout their wor ings. It is a mark ofthe Dawkins* desperation that he is king lives. Many women receive litde or no economic The government's Green Paper on higher educa- prepared to pander to anti-intellectualism to stir up advantage from their participation in higher educa- tion purposes an increase in the number of graduates support for his graduate tax. CLAIM NO 4: Graduates enjoy much higher in comes than everyone else. Their highereducation is a privilege that it is right and proper they pay for. The facts are as follows. In the late 1960's the ave rage salary of degree holders between 25 and 34 was 79 percent above the average for all full-time workers. By the early 1980's this difference had fallen to 24 percent and today it stands at only 20 percent. .Moreover, the average starting salary of graduates stands at just 90 percent of average community ear nings, having fallen three percent in real terms in the past twelve months. And this follows a number of years - up to eight in some disciplines - on the miserable income ofa stu NATIONAL dent. Studies have shown that an academic reaching the rank of professor (which few do) only catches up in total income with a bus driver at the age of 55. Only a tiny minority of Australians - and not those on $25,000 to $35,000 a year- are privileged. These are the super rich whose millions come from ovming things: companies, property, shares, money. Only these people could be said to profit from tertiary edu cation, through employing graduates. DAY OF ACTION The average graduate nurse or teacher does not have the capacity to pay out a further 2 percent of dicir o0> income for the education tax. 11 will mean a real cut in 0) living standards while the Packers and Bonds go on their merry way. The education tax will transfer income from tht I poor to the wealthy. It isjust another example ofthe OC Hawke government's cuts in social spending, the pur Ul pose of which is to raise profit rates further by cutting 0. company taxes. s FOR UJ CLAIM NO 5: Industry contributes to the higher (0 • education system through company taxes. Under Hawke the proportion of taxes that com panies pay has fallen but their profit share has risen. Profits as a percentage of GDP have now returned to the levels of the late 1960's. But company taxes as a percenrage of govemment revenue have fallen from 17 percent in the early 70's and around 13 percent in die last year of Fraser to under 10 percent today. FREE The contribution of industry to govemment reve nue, and thus to higher education, is falling. The re fusal of the business lobby groups to accept an in dustry education and training levy and its support for the education tax speaks volumes. Yet big business is the beneficiary from tertiary education, through em ployment former students itself and dirough die ser vices provided to it by the govemment and other pu blic bodies that employ them. EDUCATION CLAIM NO 6: Implementation of the Wran Com mittee recommendations by the govemment will mean increased access to tertiary education for those from poorer backgrounds because the report recommends the abolition of the "administration charge" and an increase in the availability of AU STUDY. The Wran Committee pretends to want to abolish the administration charge and increase AUSTUDY's availability. But die govemment will not implement these suggestions unless forced to. Abolition of the administration charge would cost the government $ 100 million. A changeover from it to MARCH 22nd the education tax would mean an initial loss of re venue, contrary to the govemment's own policy. Wran also proposes that AUSTUDY be made avai lable to 50 percent of students in ten years time-a very distant target. But even this mns against the direction of govemment policy: it is considering an assets test on AUSTU D Y that would reduce the number of students now receiving it by a third. And an assets test is sup ported by Wran. CLAIM NO 7: The opposition to the education tax is a knee-jerk reaction in defence of piivilege. Those All students of all campuses wi who demonstrate against it are extremists who do not represent the thinking of the average student. be meeting at The current campaign by students and others for free education didn't begin last week when the edu cation tax was announced. Its first major demonsura- tions were in September 1986. The campaign is not Roma St. Forum, 1 PM simply against die administration (iharge, overseas student charges or education tax, but arises from die long-time student demand for free, accessible edu cation. Meeting diis demand is die only way to bring equity into the higher education system. Speakers and Rally The medical course is the longest (six years) and heaviest (600-odd credit points) at uniN^ersity. With such a large workload it is per haps inevitable that complaints about the structure and content of the course should be so common. The commonest is that first year is by and large irrelevant. Stu dents study three zoology subjects, one or two physips subjects, and only one (AN115-Anatomy) that.is clearly associated with medicine. And many people find social medidne/sodology dull. The facts are that ZL109 (zoology tlieor)') is neces sary for acomplete understanding of embryology', and m the practical component does give a student rtidi- 3 mentary dissection skills. Physics, however, has no •0 clear relevance at all - and is seen as such. Attendance m 3) at physics tutorials declines rapidly as die semester proceeds; student after student calls for its axing. As the course continues, more relevant subjects - i- anatomy, physiology, psychiatry - are introduced. ato Here the complaint is that too much 'pure science' is to taught, without clinical correlations. In the clinical years, this often results in a very cold and impersonal approach to a patient's problems - he or she is seen only as 'the liver in bed 9', not as a total human being probably scared to hell of what's hap pening to her/him. End result-onedoctorwho may bcagreat surgeon, but really lousy at making crisis decisions, and more importandy, may have no empathy for die people he/ In each Semper this year we'll be asking students, staff and people she will be treating. form the profession for their opinions on the various departments Three possible changes to the course to solve this and faculties in the University. Names often won't be published have been put forward - for the people fear reprisals for their own opinions. However if (1) To include for more clinical visits, trips to GP's and you wish us to do a column on your dpeartment or faculty give hospitals in the preclinical 'dieory' years. The best way Semper a call on 371 2568. It will be completely confidendal. to leam something, after all, is to do it, or, failing that, watch someone else do it (and visits are usually en afterwards, to examine our feelings and to try to un female medical student is "renowned for imperso joyed by Meds). derstand them, to help others overcome any problems nating a starfish" (last year's Trephine) is not clear. (2) To throw out a couple of first year subjects and they had. A lot ofus did just that, but many did not- When it isn't skirting boundaries, meds' humour is make diem elective subjects, as in Dentistry. Students and largely they were ones who pulled out or were often quite funny, though always with a touch of the would get to know how to approach study, and setde unable to pass the year successfully. bizarte ("Who was Otto Hirshfield (The Anatomy into regular patterns, while broadening their know Moreover, what happens in later years, when one Building is named after him]?" "He was the first man ledge outside the confines of medicine (geology per has to actually assist in real, life-threatening situations? to ride a cadaver from Perth to Melboume non-stop". haps, or Machivellian politics. Whatever.). Although a In fifth year we help deliver babies; what if that first "I'm so cool, I don't catch veneral diseases, I collect sensible and attractive proposals, there's only one birth is stillbom of deformed? How is one helped to diein.") problem - most medical students, for no apparent come to temis widi that? Socially they are renowned for being able to (I) reason, absolutely hate the idea of having to actually There's no simple answer to that, beyond making an drink heavier than anyone (even Engineers - at times), choose subjects. environment in which one can openly and freely dis (2) destroy fln> ''i f ;., be carried out in political or criminal cases, whether they result from judicial proceedings or whedier they take the form of extrajudicial killings, unexplained !•»-.• disappearances or politicalmurders. "^ _ NO SPECIAL DETERRENT The execution of political dissenters is normally Delbert Tibbs, a black man was sentenced to death and The rationales of governments which use the death carried out in courts which are in fact simply the pup executed for murder in the U.S.A. He claimed to be penalty are invalid and morally suspect. The most pets of the govermcnts and the death penalty can be four hundred miles from the crime and was convicted cited is the need to maintain law and order, to protect awarded for any activity which is inconsistent with on marginal evidence. The documentation on his in .Society bul in no case has the deterrent value of the government policy. No need to worry about re-elec nocence has been growing ever since and it is now death penalty been demonstrated. Comparisons of tion on popularity. All international human rights expected that he will be rejudged not guilty, pos crime rates in different countries that have retained or declarations, conventions and covenants stipulate that thumously. Legal history has many similar cases but abolished the death penalty do not indicate that the everyone has the 'right to life, liberty, and security of still the death penalty exists. Politically it is die irre threat of execution has been effective in preventing person'. .No Government has a right to contravene versibility of the death penalty which appeals to go capital crimes. The facts show that murder and violent these basic principles. vernments who do not want to worry about re-election crime are rarely rational and arc commitcd during on the basis of their policies and popularity. times of severe emotional stress when the notion of 9mm* to»t » *fw» Mww Mill* I iiiii»lAi>>i« •*** being caught and punished is not considered. The u^ *»omm .state's consent to murder as a punishment and the UNEQ,UAL, UNJUST AND IRREVERSIBLE 01 oo associated media attention can only add to die motive Death does not distinguish between the rich and A SPECIAL CASE % mm umi Jj. 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Life's looking pretty hot, isn't it... Have you got a camera, orDBNCOR UB, Sorry, Leo! As you can see, the world didn't That mysterious figure tntheco^ Steim Well, I've got news! Your lover is actually because this month you tviUfiddyourself in end last month. Don't take myddviceto trenchcoatis not your long lost v^rv/,w,^> havingafling withyourbank manager, and some very novel positions.::: heart so much because now you've told your the remote regions ofAfrtca... Ihubtperyl together they are plotting for your down much that their intenttons have anything to fall. Don't panic! Of course, if theydo bad boss to ^hovttit and admitted to your lover THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA how many otgasms you really fak^f Un do with what is considered '^good-clean Is your best-friend more attractive than a things in this lifetime they will pay for it in fun". Probably right upyourmey really I their next reincarnation. (Your lover will fortunately, you're still alive t^si^er the peliem? f; consequences. As a result qf yoiifprmer So, introduce yourself and remember - a come back as a toilet-bowl refresher sachet.) stranger is:dfriend you haven't met yet. Kama's great like that! risque behavrious you will find youmlf VOUR MOST FAVOURED POSITION with many hours of spare time, which will -J • 'Superior. . , '•' :^ LUST LIFE LUST LIFE he filled with careful relection concerning • . the validity qf horoscopes. Have you been listening? (0 Watch "9'A Weeks" with a friend, and just ^ m- PISCES: 20 Feb -- 20 March, see what happens. LUST LIFE THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA ^"' S Whatjs cqntracepfion and where did it come •0 THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA Your friends and lovers have been driven m , away byyourrude,abrupt,dudact'ousman- • ff^y--i:.::\.--:--::^'S^ NEARPyjURE Is the after-life an over-rated commodity? ner. Hpmifer, there are: still nifdve people Jti seems ihat through intensive electric- .wha hat/en't betn wa rned about you yet... I YOUR FAVOURED POSITION YOUR FAVOURED POSITION shock treatment you've managed to return have no idea where they are. You on top. i. to "normal" life, relatively unscathed. You under the bed, your partner in the <0 Other than the initial problems you'll face cupboard. THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA^""^ SAGITTARIUS: 23 Nov-21 Dec 00 re-adjusting to life in the big world, such as Is the reason why you've coped so well (0 chronic bouts of self-doubt, paranoia, per GEMINI: 22May-21 June throughout life because you daln't have a NEAR FUTURE '^^ sonal despair and extreme sensitivity, sense of humour? This month sees you Sagittarians wonder (which as we all know are part ofthe typical NEAK:|UTURE ing what you really are! How can lecturer's piseean anyway) this month will be fine. You mlljieidafasctnaiingperson who will YOUR FAVOURED POSITION and tutor's be so rude as to expect you to keep-fm intefested for quite some timec ysnegdtive! actually turn up to fheir lectures, lef alone lUST-LIFE (OhfGmini, your so self-indulgent aren't prestinie you'll do the assessment. Sagitta The psychiatric nurse, who gave you most of you, ... and that goes for you tod.} After VIRGO: 24 Aug-23 Sept rius, now is the time to start that University your electric-shock treatment is REALLY you've over-come your:self-love period, you to rival Bandies establishment The rules a very nice person If only you put aside heconie involved in an obscure Surrealist NEAR FUTURE Club in Brisbane, and begin writing a no will be, no lecture's, no tutorials, no as these petty little feelings of resentment. Virgo, lets face it! You don't believe in star- vel. Everything is going fine until, one day sessment, no clothes, yet at the same time,; They were only doing their job! signs do you. No, you don't go for this silly you realise that life is a pile of used toilet lots and lots of illegal substances. (For the crap about your personality being in any paper, and proceed to sit in a corner with a record, I'll be your first student) THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA way affected by the day of the year you were sack over your head. Who is Roland Barthes and why does he born on. Because I respect that brave deLUSTLIFE keep saying all those terrible things about cision Virgo, I wont instdtyour intelligence LUST LIFE Marine animals arid you Sagisttarians seem writers.^ by telling you about any of these silly pre to bave a certain something -just to breath. You 'd be surprised how flattering that sack dictions I have up my sleeve - like that YOUR FAVOURED POSITION is... Capricorn whose really interested in you; or THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA It's really hard to tell you move around so the numbers for the next gold lotto draw. much... THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA Is all this hype about sexually transmitted Why am I alive ... and what does it all LUST LIFE diseases really necessary? really mean? You will meet some one in the next five YOUR FAVOURED POSITION ARIES: 21 March - 20 April months, and yes, you'll like them a lot. YOUR FAVOURED POSITION Hanging from a chandelier. / don't know how you managed it - but it THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA CAPRICORN: 22 Dec - 20 Jan NEARFUTURE looks like a squifly "Z". Is there such a thing as anal retentive be You are now disease free and your parent's haviour in guinea pigs? havf returned. Sure, they've changed a bit, CANCER: 22 June-23 julv NEAR FUTURE :^ v in small ways, like: they both look like YOUR FAVOURED POSITION Deary me, Capricorn,'you haven't taken Fidel Castro, smoke Cuban cigars andean't NEAR FUTURE You really don't have the foggiest ideal my advice at all S&i iniieadfthis month speak, but hell, it's these little eccentricities You really took my advice a little too se what I'm talking about, do you? finds you organisingyour spare time around of your parents that make fam ily life the riously last month, didn't you Cancer? current-affairs programmes and your grand ball of fun it really is. Now look where you are! That's right - in LIBRA: 24 Sept-23 Oct mother's bowling club meetings. There is Interestingly enough, you will become prison for drug-trafficking and indecent activity in that body ofyour's. I'm sure of more politically active, in ways you never exposure. I guess now would be a good timePNEA R FUTURE it!!! Try to make me your idol, because let's dreamed of! to re-assess your moral values on such things Well, it seems as though you did have a didlface it, I'm a pretty groovey-chick! as, drugs, pornography and sexualiiy...you and uneventful month, didn 'tyou? Believe IfUST-LIFE r never know Cancer, fail is a weird place. me, Libra, Iknbwtirhatitslike, madefunof LUST UFE ''' at school, scorned bjf your peers and laughed I predict ypu will meet two tall dark stran Make yourself available. (IfI were you, I'd LUST LIFE at by your elders ...it's really tough when take anything!) gers, and'they will monopolise TV time. you don't have a personality, isn't it Libra? Not much on this front really, ,.. well, Oh, well, don't be disheartened. I don't actually nothing! Take this opportunity to THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA have anyfriends either-(not after this star Who are these people masquerading as mydo some sight-seeing, maybe visit some column, anyway, ed.) Has it all been down hill since you were parents Mid what do they want? friends, I guess just get out and enjoy your greeted into the world by the slap on the self- bottom, starched towels, and the smell of LUSTLIFE , . YOUR FAVOURED POSITION antiseptic? THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA lean see the sleazy French love scene now... 52 yduf^t music, smoked filled room, satin What is life without sodomy? YOUR FAVOURED POSITION sheets, heavy breathing... and a mirror. You in Australia, your partner inMrus- sels. 9 TAURUS: 21 April- 21 May YOUR FAVOURED POSITION THIS MONTH'S DILEMMA ' Position ... you do it anywhere, any how, Where can you buy personality and do they anytime! NEAR FUTURE accept master-cards? (P.S. Try America) BYJULIE SARKOZI >** WHOOPI GOLDBERG THE THREEPENNY OPERA When we first heard that we would have to pay out MISTERO BUFFO Fighting our way to the box office through gesti $37 for the priviledge of hanging out with Whoopi \v"^,^ Goldberg, my companion and I were somewhat shoc culating champagne glasses, gagging on French per ked. Why so much.' The woman did a one person fume and being blinded by designer frocks and se performance, dressed in jeans and sneakers with no quinned tops we wondered to ourselves whether the props to speak of. My companion and I emerged from opening night audience at La Boite was aware that The the show in an altered state. Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht was supposed to As Ms Goldberg has said in all her interviews in be a "ruthless satire on bourgeois society". Australia, {along with "Yes, it is my hair: I bought it, Of course darlings, as soon as champagne glasses and Ves, I am going blind, and No, I won't tell you why were whacked into our hands our silly fears were al I shave my eyebrows), she is not a stand-up come-, layed as we tuned into the pre-theatre chit-chat: "Oh dienne. The bulk ofthe show was comprised of stories Brecht is simply superb, I just simply adore his litde that she told an enraptured audience and the charac alienation techniques, another galss darling?" ters she played in them. Every so often, Whoopi lapsed In the wake of such enlightening (?) discussion we in to the standard Robin Williams/Richard Pryor "live- were totally overcome and could only reply by singing on-stage routines which discuss "how stoned I got in sofdy to ourselves that very pertinent verse by Red- Amsterdam, or how fuckin dense airline stewardesses gum; I love to read the Bulletin and watch the ABC I love to air my well-informed opinions constandy All my friends are professionals from polite society So come and sing the middle class liberal I've got a home in Kenmore/Ascot rag with me. 01 Unfortunately our cynicism was further fuelled by 09 the performance. Although the production, with such o a large cast, was extremely slick and the set was visually pleasing, it wa disappointing to find that the satire •? inherent to the script and lyrics, was not actively fore I grounded. If the director, David Bell expected the use OC ofconiemporary costuming such as acid-house t-shirts, Ul baggy jeans, neck scarves and sunglasses to translate k:N: a the political content of Brecht's script to a contem S porary context/comment then this failed and was, UJ frankly, quite laughable, macheaths gang of thugs tn would have been at home dancing at the "Beat" than 00 prowling the streets of the valley. Hey, call us old fashioned but we thought that Brecht's politics were more than lifestyle and streetwise fashion. Of course, we were suitably impressed with the sensitive handlings of that political hot potato - the drug problem. The whores, dressed like virginal fai ries, were writhing not from starvation and malnu are". I thought this was a bit wierd considering how trition but in anticipation oftheir nextesctacy tablet. groovy the rest ofthe content was. Maybe her manager The use ofthe video camera in this scene - a reference said to her, "don't give the audience too much heavy to contemporaryfeminist theory, (gag), about die mas stuff, if they get resdess trot out the favourites." culine gaze (choke)-was very reminiscent of Madonna I don'tknowwhy she didn'tjuststickwith the stories (but dien even she is joing the ranks of enfant terribles, which were wonderful. along with Salman Rushdie since her latest video, "Like a Prayer", has been banned by Channel 10). Whoopi told ofa litde black giri who wants to have long blond hair and be a white woman when she grows Despite this most of the leading characters were very up because "I nevah see folks with hair lak mine on tv. accomplished performers and singers. Christen You have to have blond hair so people take you O'Leary, as Polly Peachum gave an impressive per places." She told of a disabled girl's first boyfriend, formance as did Levris Jones and Helen O'Leary. v\'idi whom she was eager to discover the joys of sex with, but also a little ashamed because "people like me ain't meant to feel sexy". The Vally giri was one of Whoopi's most accomplished and hilarious charac ters, but when she perfomied an abortion on herself with a coat hanger the sm ilies were wiped offour faces. Apart from the really "sound" pieces, she also did some pretty funny Bette Davis and Robyn Tyson imper sonations and gave us her impression of Brisbane; "1 leel like a raisin in a bowl ol milk." It was obvious during the show that this woman had done her homework. She talked about the bullshit stereotyping caused by movies like Crocodile Dundee and the Man From Snowy River, She asked us where our indigenes were, 'couse I con't find them! There was a delicously tense moment where she was talking about how she hated being the only black face when she went to Germany, saying "y'know how it is"... and if diis was supposed to be "a shark ofa musical widi she stopped and tumed and looked at us. Dead si teedi like razors" then it didn't even live up to its own lence, "Oh I'm not le'tting on that you don't have black, blurb as there was very litde commitment to die social people here", she drawled, "Why since I've been here I criticism. Yet another instance of the bourgeois ap must have seen at least six " well you had to be propriation of subversive politics for pure entertain there. ment. The audience loved her, (1 still do) she received a On die other hand, Mistero Buffo, performed by standing ovation, after which she came out and talked Lenny Kovner at Metro Arts did not forfiet political briefly about AIDS and homelessness and what we and social comment at the expense of good entertain could do about them, and she talked a bit about the ment. In fact, Dario Fo's script, extensively re-written important of loving oneself. by Kovner in order to make it more pertinent to Bris The show was inspiring, ideologically sound (which bane audiences, highlighted the ways diat politics and is so rare these days don't you think.'} clever and mos theatre have been inextricably linked bound histori dy funny. She's coming back in a year to do her Fon cally. taine show... so take my advice and go along for a very The Mistero Buffo was a style of comic play invented uplifting evening. by die people ofthe Middle Ages as an antedotc to the VIVIENNE WYNTER dogma ofdie official church. Thus diis form of dieau^ declared itself as a political statement and Kovner mobilises this tradition of exploitin the potential of dieaore to act as a catalyst for political change. Un fortunately 90% of mainstream dieatre diinks diat be •NT^S ing political is the audience going home thinking "wasn't that thouj^ht provoking" or getting a migrane Kovner, as a sole performer without the aid of sets, J.R.: Besides the single, have you been doinganything props or costumes made the decision to keep the else - like, you played on Mark Callaghan's record - house lights on throughout the performance as a and can wc except you to tour as well? means of working against the usually passive nature of S.K.: Well, with Cal's record, itwa.sjustfunfornietogo ^^^ watching theatre. At no stage did he pemiit die au into a studio and be involved in what I felt was a great dience to become complacent, titilated or pretentious record and not have any real responsibilities, Andrew about die performance. Instead of being contented Duffield (ex-Models) and I have almost finished an with merely "rasing issues" Kovner's style was arres album which will come out sometime diis year. Also, ting and confrontational - he veritably threw the facts I've been working with Wendy Matthews, who was in our faces. However, this aggression was tempered widi the Rock Melons and who did diat "Kate Ce- by die wicked humor which constandy "took the piss" berano & Wendy Matthews" album. I've written some out of high-profile autocrats. songs for her and I hope to get involved in the pro It was absolutely delightful and inspiring to watch duction of her new record, plus I've put together a new him perform the pans of eight difierent characters in live group which I hope to take on die road by the end one piece. Getting back to the basics of improvisa- of March; so it's conceivable that I'U be playing in tional street theatre is sadly lacking -in many other Brisbane by; let's see, March, April, recent productions. J.R,: One last question - this Semper editon has as its This season finishes on Saturday 1 Sth March. Don't theme "Dmgs and the Family", Do you think eidier is miss id One seldom sees such skill, vitality and com a problem in the music industry? mitment on stage. S.K.: I don't know, it depends on the person really. I Susi Blackwell don't really mix with a lot of industry types who are Shane Rowlands toting cocaine or whatever, I'm much more ofa "just let me have a cold beer at the end of die day" type SEAN KELLY {from the Models) has a new person. I tend to be pretty scared of the powers of single out. In a combined 4ZZZ/Semper drugs because, you know... I mean, I've seen so many interview, he tells our layout artist about it, people get seriously fucked up as a consequence of and now we tell you about it - as much as getting involved wilh them. • space permits ... 0) And diat's where we leave it. Ifyou would have liked m J.R.: Your single is titled 'Thank You, Goodnight'. to have known more, you should have listened to S That was also tlie tide ofdie last Models tour, is ther e 4ZZZ, but there's no telling some people ... is there? •0 any connection? J-W.R. m S.K.: Well, Models broke up about two years ago and 30 we decided to do one last tour about six months after I that, to coincide with Mushroom releasing a record called 'Thank You, Goodnight'-one of those'best-oP (0 records. To cut along story shon, Mushroom changed 00 their mind and didn't put die record out, but we de to cided to call our tour'Thank You, Goodnight'anyway, and then later I wrote this song with the same name which is vaguely biographical. J.R,: What were the reasons for die Models break up? S.K.: Well, my personal criteria for success have always been based on the musical element rather than sales, and I try to son of instil an almost timeless quality into the music. I felt the music was suffering as a conse quence of trying to fit a record company or corporate sort of demand for music ,, it was about songs really, we had a lot of songs after "Media" and I guess we could have capitalised on a base we established in MAGAZINE REVIEW: THE EDGE, Ameria with a Top 40 single and a few tours and stuff, EDITION 1, MARCH 1989. but, I mean, I just don't want to know about putting Eariy in March came the auspicious date decided by out music that's not full of soul and honesty and all that Century Magazines, a division of the Fairfax media sort of stuff, so itwas really an artistic reason. I kinda empire, to be the launch date for a new magazine got sick of vmting songs and then seeing them used to aimed straight at the all Australian male, age 18 to 25 sound like a rockband radier than in a way that would and hopefully white. Tided "THE EDGE" (ofwhat I have best showcased the ideas. have no idea), it stepped into the lime light in an odd J,R.: Do you think you'll have to deal v«di this cor semi-broad sheet format, complete with grimacing porate demand pressure in your solo career? Jimmy Barnes on the cover. S.K.: No, not really, I guess I'm luckyin that bvcauseof From the word go it was obvious the editorial di my experience with the Models. I can come up widi rection was uncompromising, after all this was the some pretty weird ideas and instead of people saying, "one magazine that won't waste time on wimps or like, "Sean, forget it, you're dreaming". 1 get a "Gee, bullshit". you might know what you're talking about." In the pages ofthis auspicious journal one can leam J.R.: Do you think diai this situation where record the good points of getting tattooed (with the bad points companies dictate to young bands what goes and what given token service), exactly how pissed Jimmy, mea doesn't on a purely commercial basis is getting worse? ning Barnes, was at a Cold Chisel concert in Wool- S,K.: Well, I don't see how it can get any worse than it longong, just how good it is to take Ecstasy and how is. I've discussed this with people, and I mean, apart Sex sells music. from young white alternative bands there's a weal tli of The Record and Movie reviews are die high point in Aboriginal music in this country that's being ignored. a generally low quality collection of polemic articles I mean, there's just so much new talent that isn't and and low grade smutty humour. hasn't been nurtured for so long, that I'm inclined to The article "She wants your sex" has been wriuen far think it's time for a change, even if it takes five years or better, and been far more instmctive, in the esta so. I think I'm one ofthe people who can start off this • ••-,.- u*;•••.- > blished male sex and opinion magazines. , • ' .'/ ;;' \,: ,. • change and to a certain degree you guys with your . • . . \' ,• I •'.•;. . I • ^ • ^•• *," -"^ • Some of the articles sparked interest. Read in iso radio station as well, people who can write without lation some of diem are ver)' good, but they are held pandering to corporate ideals, those people can really .' • •'•,'•• r- -*'« • . " • •'.*,,•••" '^ ; back by die general low tone of die magazine. bring about change. There are no full time writers on die staff of The J.R.: Your single is on Roo Art, who seem to have set up Edge, so virtually all the stories are freelance submis a label widi die intent of helping to get this change off ;-• -'%','*• -iJ *H^ • '•*>' -•• • • sions. This in itself is quite laudable, heaven blows the ground. Do you diink they'll be successful? there are ver)' few oudets for independent, freelance S.K.: Yes, I do. Actually, they've been having great material in Australia. It is just such a pity that die success with diese young blood compilations, distri potential to bring thought provoking, intelligent wri 0;?isi >• • One ofthe most exciting developments in Brisbane NEW ORDER - TECHNIQUE Theatre is the arrival of the Brisbane Theatre Com The latest offering from Manchester's technocrats pany, and their best to date. And it's about time a new album The Brisbane Theatre Company is a recendy for surfaced -the last being Brotherhood in 1986 - because med association of professional actors, writers and apart from a handful of singles and the singles com other theatre workers. What distinguishes the BTC pilation, "Substance", we've not heard much that's from other local theatre companies is its commitment new from the band. New Order has always had the to local writers: it aims to produce plays written ex ability to stay at the top ofthe independents while still clusively by Brisbane writers. attaining commercial viability and so it will be with Thanks to funding by both the Australia Council Technique - a collection of pure pop, dance tracks and and the Arts Division, the company will produce two serious melodies. full lengdi plays in 1989 [Popular Front by Errol O'Neill The album opens with the new age dance hyjie and A Spedal Place by Lorna Boll) as well as perform a single, "Fine Time", complete with bassist Peter series of five one-week workshops of new plays by Houk's sleazy vocals. This is not a taste of what's to Brisbane writers. come. The next two songs, "All The Way" and "Love •^-J^ Less" (the pick ofthe album), have, gasp, real dmms and lots of guitar and bass. The next single, "Round and Round", is bound for commercial success while the side closer, "Guilty Pany", brings out the serious side of the band courtesy of some angry lyrics by singer, Bernard Sumner. "Run" is a slab of perfect New Order pop while "Mr Disco", with its killer bass sequencer line, is one of die saddest songs lyrically. "Vanishing Point" is an up tempo dance track with a great ending and the album finishes with the serious "Dream Attack". ^^v Technique heralds die retum of New Order as Bri tain's premier band and aldiough New Order has never been a technically correct outfit, apart from Hooky's bass and Steve Morris' drums, they still have an uncanny ability to write great songs and have con The first production of die BTC is Ertol O'Neill's tinued to do so here. Popular Front. Popular Front is the final play in O'Neill's Taras Misko projected trilogy dealing with the history ofthe Queens land Labour movement. (The first play in the trilogy concems the shearer's strike in 1891 and is currendy THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST (Warner being written; the second in the series Faces in the Sireet Bros.) about the 1912 Brisbane General Strike, was perfor med at La Boite in 1983.) "The Accidental Tourist" details the story of Macon Leary (William Hurt) who builds an emotional cocoon Popidar Front covers the period from 1930 to 1950 in around himselfafter the deadi ofhis son. Macon writes Queensland and has as one ofits main characters the uavel guides for people who hate travelling, just so community barrister, Fred Patterson, the only Com they can feel snug and safe i n a foreign place. His whole munist ever to be elected to Pariiament in Australia, The second half of the play focuses on the infamous bashing of Patterson by members ofdie Queensland Police Force during a march on St Patrick's Day duing die rail strike of 1948. Historical characters mix with composite characters to represent the best and worst of Queensland during those turbulent decades. As a writer, Errol O'Neill is concemed with gender equality in the theatre. He interviewed many women who were active in the period to create authentic fe male characters. The play does not focus exclusively on Fred Patterson. It follows the career ofthe writer, Jean Devanny, and, Margherita, a fictional woman of Italian parentage. From 1977 to 1982, Errol O'Neill worked with the life, in fact, revolves around avoidance ol the unknown Popular Theatre Troupe as a writer, performer and or unfamiliar. However, his wife, Sarah (Kadileen Tur director. This influence can still be seen in a play like ner) leaves him, and a broken leg forces him to move Popular Front which employs a good deal of humour back to his grandparents' house to live with his sister and political satire in its exploration of fairly serious and two brothers. He takes his unruly corgi to a dog ideas. trainer- thepersistent, likeable, butat times irritating The play starts its Brisbane season at the Princess Muriel Pritchett (Geena Davis). Macon slowly beco Theatre, WooUoongabba on the 17th of March (this is •\''rl {••:•'-.'"•--i mes attached to her - but then his wife suggests a course, is St Patrick's Day - the anniversary of Pat reconciliation and he has to make a choice. The out terson's bashing) and runs to the first of April. It stars come is unpredictable and satisfying. Sue Dwyer, Gavan Fenelon, Bemic Lewis, Russel Kie However, "The Accidental Tourist" is a bit more fel, Kathryn Portil, Vikki Stark and Roger Rosser, than a mere lovers uiangle. The changes in Macon as There will be a display in the foyer of historic photos of his relationship with Muriel deepens are wonderful to the 1948 rail strike, which includes photos ofthe St see. He evolves from a predictable, boring man to one Patrick Day march. who can feel affection, and appreciate children again. In July, the BTC has funding to workshop new plays ikf!-:. (Muriel has an eight-year-old son from a previous '\i^•h:^ by Brisbane writers. Aspiring playwrights who would marriage.) like to seeaprofessionallyworkshopped production of The movie has a comfortable ease and familiarity their plays, should submit their scripts to the Brisbane about it - which may be explained by die fact that Theatre Company, P.O. Box 233, Paddington Q. William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and writer-director 4064. There is one catch, and that is the company's Lawrence Kasdan have all worked together before - in charter to do 'socially progressive' theatre. "Body Heat", Geena Davis is no novice either. She has What socially progressive theatre actually means has appeared in such films as "Betdejuice", "The Fly" and long been a topic of debate at the Brisbane Theatre "Fletch". But by far die character I liked most was Bud Company. Current guidelines are; Scripts should be - Macon's Welsh corgi. entertaining, but more than entertaining. They should "The Accidental Tourist", based on die 1985 novel be thought-provoking; they should exhibit a social by Anne Tyler, may be slow-moving for some. No consciousness appropriate to the Eighties; theyshould special effects or sensational sound track here. No avoid expressing racist or sexist ideas. Scripts should minated for four Academy Awards, die film is un be didactic (but not dogmatic); strongly express a derstated and subde - but at the same time, has a point of view; be very funny; by very serious. powerful effect. John Jiggens DENISE CULLEN 'c'-^.i-^'*' BILLY BRAGG - CONFLICT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER I went to the Bill Bragg concernt for inspiration. tit", it was meant ironically. It is difficult to pick up on After the stmggle with die executive of UQ^'s Student irony (especially at a gig) but in Britain under That Union where people who demonstrated dieir desire cherism the use of irony has beomce rampant. He for the sacking of their elected 'representatives' only to does think that die left peopel in Britain often don't discover their apparent poweriessness with the peti express a sense of humour. tion, with direct action, widi media publicity, or legally - to actually change anything, I was in need of my "God didn't make you an Angel the Devil made you a man/ cynicism as to "there's power in the union" being That bmlalily and economy are related now I understand/ proven wrong. When will you realise tliat as above .10 below there is no love". Valentine's Day Is Over "Tliis song is aboul socialism, soccer and Shirley". Bragg believes that he is the only male singer to have It surprised me how mascidine the gig was Bragg, WTitten a song from a female point of view. It looks at the lad himself, appeared to be addressing mainly the mistreatment of a woman in a relationship with a men. Forexample, when he gave the slang names from man in a language that men can access. Bragg argues around the worid for masturbating they all obviously that he does want to talk to women and men but he is a involved a penis, When I heard the line "makes you "working class lad" and with that masculine perspec want to go and suck in a tit" I heard die men in die tive. At this school he was acutely aware of racism but it audience cheer, I also noticed how when he did his wasn't until much later that he became aware of sex Safe Sex Campaign he didn't mention gays or lesbians ism. While he believes that men cannot be feminist it was purely directed at heterosexuals. In Queensland and he thinks the notion ofthe 'NewSensitive Men' is a where sex between men is illegal I felt diat it would 'load of bullocks', he does believe that he can educate have been educative to the homophobic people in the people about women's oppression. When he mentio audience if'the man himself spoke about gays. ned Victoria Brazil in relation to her tory-life attitudes I really enjoyed the gig but I felt a need to discuss he was careful to also mention the men who were ij^M* with Bragg the above things. So after die gig I joined associated with her so that itwasn't diat "nasty bitch" die group which was talking to him. After telling me Victoria Brazil. that Semper's first issue was great I asked ifwe could "He's screaming and shouting and acting crazy/But at home discuss what I thought were incidents of sexism and he sits alone and cries like a baby." heterosexism in his sti^e show. What happened after Utile Time Bomb wards was aquick lesson in how one should praise first . and criticize later: BB was, in my opinion, incredibly He is interested in making men aware oftheir ma aggressive and defensive, I was told that I was an 'ultra chismo. In his Safe Sex promo he was able to en leftie' who didn't understand 'human nature', that courage men to be responsible for contraception by women vmte only for women which his song, Valen carrying condoms while at die same time asking "Have tine's Day Is Over, which is from a female perspective is you ever tried to look macho in one of these fucking something men could understand. By this stage BB things?" wasshoutingandthmstinghisfingeratme, Aslwasn't "In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune/But this is reality so able to say anything I left. If the, what I considered give me some room." sexist and heterosexist, incident in his gig surprised Waiting For The Great Leap Fonvards me, his reaction to my wanting to discuss these things Billy Bragg mentioned that itwas good that we could stunned me. I leave angry. talk and this his knowledge of sexism be expanded. Popular culture is such a fantastic but difficult me Bree McKilligan dium to use to get a progressive message across. Dif ficult because you have to be careful not to alienate the audience sometimes. In the process you can com promise your message. I diought about what I had heard about what has happened in Britain widi the Labour Party: that in a grab for popular appeal they had distanced themselves from people who might alienate the pensioners - revolutionary lefties, gays and lesbians and the rest of the list of undesirable people, it irtitated me that he seemd to be addressing mainly men and heterosexuals. He is in a priviledged position - his media stature gives him an unavoidable educative role as a socialist and a singer. If you are going to educate then why not state that the revolution is for everyone. "Ifyou want to talk about it well you know where the phone is". Billy Bragg also left the gig angr)'. Angry at how he had failed to make his points adequately. On Monday he phones me at Semper even though he is now in Sydney. He wants to discuss diings at some stage. On Tuesday we talk. Or rather Billy Bragg talks: the com bination of being a media star and a male I guess. I wasn't able to record the conversation so I will only be giving my impression of the conversation. "Must I paint you a picture." Firsdy I ask why didn'i he also address homosexuals when he talked about Safe Sex. He replied that he doesn't want to single out gay guys in relation to Safe Sex, Homosexuals are the besl educated as to what Safe Sex practices are anyvvya. He is interested in discussing sexuality in his lyrics and diinks the topic of male homosexuality shouldn't just be the domain of 7/jf Communards. In Bragg's latest album Worker's Playtime his song Tender Comrades por trays intimate closincss between men. "Brothers in amis in each others aniisAVas the only time I was not afraidAVhat will you do when the war is over, tender comradeAVhen we cast off these Khaki Clothes/And go our separate wavsAVhat will you say of the band we had/Tender Comrade." 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Shirts/skirts/trousers - $ 1.00, yond the buzz words to see what go mative Acdon and Equal Opportunity Dresses - $1.50, Hankies 10 UNION RESOURCE CENTRE S: WOMEN'S RIGHTS LIBRARY is oi)cn; Tuesday- 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Wednesday - 9 a.m. - 2.30 p.m. Thursday- 9 a.m. - 2.30 p.m. Librarian, Terrie Bell, 371 1611, ex. 227. The Librarv' slocks magazines, news paper dippings, journals, and books. JOB VACANT-Tree Plantadon Mana ger, Tanzania, 3 year duradon, 4 mio trees, church-funded to start in May. Contact Axel, Intemadonal House. VOLUNTARY POSITION - in Bangla desh, medical, teaching or agricultural field, somedme after April, 3 months, fare to be paid by self (some subsidy), food and board provided on job. Con tact Axel, International House, by 1st April. THE ACTIVITIES CENTRE is a fully- equipped facility catering to students, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL is ac EARN $20, EARN S20, EARN $20 - community groups, individual and pro Absolutely no pressure to sell your soul tive on campus, for further information fessional artists. Stafied by an arts or on membership and parucipation in the or any other bits. .Much safter than the ganiser, a professional screcnprinter live kidney blackmarket. Participate in anu-death penalty campaign and odier and a typeseuer. Activities offers exper- issues contact Adrienne Tommy, Am the Commonwealdi AIDS Research use in, and access to the areas of gra Grant - a multi-centre study concerned nesty Intemadonal U.Q. Group Secre phics, .screenprinting, etching, typeset tary, 200 0091. widi AIDS and IV drug use. .A.11 you have ting, phoiograpy and arts workshops, to do is answer about 45 minutes wortli The Activides darkroom has a range of questions about AIDS related topics. WOMEN'S STUDIES-Wednesday 22nd of ten enlargers both colour and black The interview is totally confidendal - and white in 5x4 in., 2% and 35 mm March: Women's Studies - what is it, there are no names or addresses requi formats, with separate print and nega why is it necessary? I p.m. Ryan Room. red. The results of this study will help tive process rooms. Chemicals are stoc towards development and iniplementa- ked. The screenprindng area is equip don of difierent educauonal programs ped with photo-screenprinting capabi in relations to issues such as needle- lity, a vacuum unit for posters, a carosel sharing, cleaning of injection equipment, for t-shirts and a (staff-access) bromide LESBIANISM - Wednesday Sth April; disposal of needles and syringes and camera. The graphic layout area is fur Lesbianism. 1pm Ryan Room (Women safe sex. nished for professioal use. Acuviues al Have your say and find out more Only) so has meeung and workshop spaces about AIDS by contacdng Jillo during and a band-practice room. working hours on 236 2400 or 252 2470. For further infonnauon contact the DO \V.\ WOMEN AND VIOLENCE-Wednes Acuviues Oi^ganiser on 371 1611, ext day 12th April. How violence towards 263. women is encouraged in this culture. START YOUR OWN REVOLUTION: What is rape and domesdc violence? Print t-shirts at Acdvities. Phone 37 J where to get help? Ipm Ryan Room. 1611. WOMEN AND THE LAW (WOMEN'S THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS AREA ofthe LEGAL SERVICE) -Wednesday 19th Sludent Union evolved from a need for April: Covers everyday legal hassles a women's perspective on all issues of such as tenancy and traffic accidents as concem to studenls. In 1974 the Union well as specific issues such as rape and Council ofthe dme addressed the need the law. 1pm Ryan Room. of women students to have an establi- Ovt'i-sfus.voii pli'k 11 riovvcr.vou'ti "liill" to Imvc jri-owinf^ In your ti:aixlen.S()..v()ii tnlto a ciUtintr. Ariel" nil. out* liituK'tMU looking: ricmiM', plant. Hccfi or oven soil Hjiniplo couldn't liia-t aii.vone. Or coiilct li?Thoy can ctuilaln diseases and pests which c*«nild allnck und kill off animals and cultivated crops—the very livelihocKl of many .Viistrallans. Kriiii I'My. I'^ire .Xnt.Ciaiil .Vfrican Snail. Guava Rust and Siuiriower Mildew u> name just a few. .Ml cajjahle of wivakliitf Uieir own parlleular type of havoc on Ausirallu.So. don'l t)e the one to plant the sei-ds of ilestriietion. If you brin^ any plant maUer Into Australia, declaix> It. We aix» one of the Few counlrle.s free of the world's most devasUUtnfx pestw and diseases. With yoiu' help, we can keep It tlint wa,\; -'«» AUSTRALIA,,/'- AUSTRALIAN.QUARANTINE AND INSPECTION SERVICE pearance and lifestyle (these are supposed to indicate sexual availability). Many men, for ex Women's Right's Is fighting for its SEXUAL ample, consider it OK to make sexual advances survival yet again. This is an area to drunk women, since, being out of it, she does which should not have to continu n't care anyway. As long as women have to con ally justify its existence. Women's HARASSMENT sider the sexual statement of the clothing they Rights should be taken for granted - wear and the lifestyle they lead true, equality just as the Education and Welfare Despite the widespread belief that cannot exist since such assumptions inhibit a woman's right to self expression. offices are. feminism is a dead issue and there Some of the reasons why it is vital that Wo is so-called equality between the Although the media and popular culture of ten depict women as being obsessed with their men's Rights continue to operate as it exists sexes, most women experience some appearance and the attentions of men, most includes childcare, (there is a two year waiting form of sexual harassment as a side women dress to please themselves, not men. lislat every childca re cenlreoncampus),sexual effect of living in the eighties. The Sexual harassment does not go away If It is ig harassment of female students, the security nored it simply gets worse. Women are con needs of women on campus and sexist course fact that society refuses to recog content and culture on campus (check out the nise many everyday incidents as be ditioned to be 'nice' rather than assertive. Ivlany women give threatening the benefit of the sexistgraffiti outside the Women's Toilets under ing harassing to women simply in doubt. They refuse to acknowledge the sexual the refec). creases its prevalence. Sexual Ha cues they are being given before it is too late, The Better Allernative dominated Union rassment is defined by the Univer then they are accused of leading men on. It is Council intends to change Women's Rights into sity Sexual Harassment Committee difficult to discourage sexual harassment sin an Equal Opportunity Area.This may sound like and the Human Rights and Equal Op gle-handedly as one of its inherent characte an Innocent name change but it is not. Lesley ristics is that it is persistent, unwanted and in WhitehousetheWomen's Rights Vice President portunity Commission as "verbal or timidating. argued in her police statement last year that: physical sexual conduct that is un "Women's Rights, as it is now, doesn't cater for welcome, unwarranted and persis ACADEMIC RAPE the career-orientated women of today who seek VI tent". equality of opportunity in employment and ca A partcularly insidious form of sexual harass reer-options." CO It is NOT mutual attraction between people ment can occur between lecturer and/tutor and I would argue that Lesley Whitehouse has m (such friendships, sexual or otherwise, are a student.This is often a double bind for the victim S private concern). Sexual harassment is usually since as a woman she has been conditioned to very little knowledge of the Women's Rights •u gender-specihc that is, although it does hap look up to men and as a student to respect her Area as it is now. If she were more involved in the m pen to men, its victims are predominantly wo teachers.The harasser threatens the victim with area she would realise that Women's Rights x men. Sexual Harassment includes wolf-whist work failure, the loss of academic credibility does emphasise equal opportunity. It serves to ling that many women see as synonymous with and thus jeopardises her livelihood. Education remove obstacles from women's education and passing a building site, as v;ell as overtly threa isabsotutelycruciat to a woman's survival,stan lo act as a support network so that they can achieve 'equality of opportunity in employment mi tening sexual situations: theacquaintance who dard of living, independance and self esteem. (0 and career-options". 03 hassles you for sexual favours, the car which Sexual harassment can affect a student's aca (0 slows down deliberately behind you, the guy on demic record through poorstudy performance, One of the major justifications given by the the train who stares at your breasts. Consider unfair academic results, absenteeism due to Righl in seeking to change the area is that an the fact that there are no laws to guarantee a stress and v/ithdrawal from courses orthe Uni equal opportunity area would have the scope to woman safe passage on the streets - yet the versity. deal wifh racism issues and issues of discri soliciting of prostitutes is strictly controlled in mination against overseas students. However, case they encroach the sensibilities of men. Lesley Whitehouse, Victoria Brazil and the rest Sexual Harassment also includes leering and of their right-wing cronies on the committee do not have a clue about racism issues. In Wo touching; invitations of sexual outings or fa OUT BUT 1 vours; displays of offensive pictures; offensive WAITEC? Uf men's Rights commiltee meetings they try to stifle debate on examples of sexism and racism written messages and phone calls; derogatory SH&'P HAP comments. AFElU (such as those published by Victoria in the of fical O-Week Handbook) by quoting the con Since the 1984 Sex Discrimination Act Sex BUT -3Mg VCNEW stitution or v/affling on about bureaucratic gar ual Harassment has been unlawful. This is ba gXACTLV bage which has nothing to do with the issue at sed on the premise that sexual harassment re UJMA,T •&IIE U,iA^ hand. Victoria Brazil ison record as stating du stricts equality of opportunity in the workplace ring the first 1989 Women's Rights Committee and education centres by making the victim feel meeting that "if you took hara enough for ra offended and humiliated, intimidated or frigh cism and sexism you'll find it anywhere''. Vic tened, or that by refusing the advance she will toria has perfected the classic National Party somehow be economically, academically and/ style of avoiding talking about the real issue by or socially disadvantaged. It is clearly an issue trying to intimidate everyone wilh bureaucratic of unequal power relations -not sexuality. trivia - section 5.5 of Constitution says, etc. THE MYTHS There Qie already many informal structures on campus to deal with racism issues such as Although the targets of sexual harassment the Aboriginal and Islander Committee on Coun are predominately women, many women still cil, the Aboriginal and Islanders'Study Unit and have difficulty even acknowledging sexual ha they have not been consulted as to whether they rassment is happening to them, let alone taking even want to be represented by this patronising action against their offenders. This is because equal opportunity area. Clearly, the Right is not many of the old-age myths about sexual harass concerned with racism or women's issues at all, ment live on. Some of these are: they simply wish to deploticise the Women's - Women 'ask for' sexual harassment in the Rights area by turning it into a neutered and ill- same way that they 'ask for' rape. The clothes a directed Equal Opportunity Area. If the Univer woman wears, the places she goes, the activi sity and Federal Government recognise the im ties she partakes in and the company she portance of having a separate women's area keeps all make a statement about her sexual why not a separate women's area within the availability or willingness. WHERETO GET HELP? union to cater for the vast needs of 'ordinary, -Women exaggerate or even lie about the ca In 1981 the Vice-Chancellor set up the Uni decent women students'? ses of sexual harassment. Any woman who versity Sexual Harassment Committee. Anystu- Lesley Whitehouse and Victoria Brazil are openlycomplainsaboutsexual harassment is a dent who feels she/he is being harassed may also very keen to get men on the Women's humourless feminist or at least not a 'good approach any member of the committee and Rights Committee. Their rationale for this move sport'. make a complaint in confidence. Great lengths is that men are very interested in women's is -Sexual harassment Is harmless, are made to ensure confidentiality. The com sues and changing things for women and as - Sexual harassment only affects a minority of mittee wili then advise you as to what course of men constitute the power base in this society women. action to take and if the problem is still unre (and according to Victoria in this union)we need - If a woman ignores sexual harassment it will solved you can ask the committee to consider to work with them in order to be effective. In go away, the possibility of taking disciplinary action other words she is saying women have no cre against the offender. For more information and dibility at all. This is no surprise because Vic -Women use charged of sexual harassment as the names of people on the sexual harassment toria and Lesley and the rest of the right-wing a way of getting back at men, committee check the pamphlet available in the supporters on the committee have so far de Union Building. For definite support and con monstrated an appalling ignorance on women's THE REALITY fidentiality contact Women's Rights on the first issues and the nature of women's ongoing op floor of the Union Building, or ring 371 1611. pression in the 1980's. All woman are vuneralbe to sexual harass ment. Excuses are made for sexual harassment Lyn Rodgers Alex Caddie based on assumptions about a woman's ap Women's Rights Organiser Women's Rights Collective ai/i4 cojiiilMJtihlij jfjij^t/ h*i^500y ? ^eusHA. (b^tjouaeth ckoose. (joafu 12 Prizes to be won. Details wherever you buy Hewlett-Packard Calculators. HEWLETT m PACKARD Don't let University make a nerd out of you. Take off your horn rimmed glasses, put down your pencil case, break out of the library and join in University's truly ultimate challenge - Interfaculty Sport. Just when you thought you'd left sporting ri valry behind at high school to enter the intellec tual and cultural world of University, some smooth- talker bearing the title "Interfaculty Representa tive" signs you up for the Faculty Vollyball team. You tear off your shirt and tie, wriggle out of your stockings and throw aside your folder and pen. Soon you're looking very sweaty and unacade- mic in your shorts and kneepads - but you're having a great time. Interfaculty sports might sound serious and competitive-but they're also a lot of fun. •vl fvlost of the University's Faculties and various • Departments get involved in the competition, Hi many with no hope of winning the Interfaculty m "Steele" Cup (for overall results), but with a 3 chance of taking out one of the individual sports TJ Winning an Intertaculty sport provides players m 3} an excellent opportunity to boast to friends/ene mies trom anoiher Faculty aboul the obvious su 2-3 weeks. The year's events kick ofl with Volley Si periority of their particular Faculty. And, if at first ball, followed by Men's and Women's Hockey, you don't succeed, don't despair, there's fifteen Aussie Rules, Athletics,Touch and fv^artial Arts in (0 different sports being conducted in 1989, and 09 First Semester. Second Semester sports include (O you're Faculty is sure to go well in al least one of Basketball, Netball, Softball, Rugby Union, Cross them. Country, Swimming, SoccerandTug-Of-War. For For the individual, Interfaculty Sport offers the more details, pick up the brochure at the Sports opportunity of fulfilling your wildest dream - that Associalion, or contact Liz Hepple at the U.Q. of becoming your Faculty's hero. You could be S.P.R.A. Administration Office (Phone: 371 7777 the one who scores the crucial goal or wins that - Uni. ExL 3663). vital race that secures victory for your tream. LIZ HEPPLE Think of the prestige! Picture yourself walking into the lecture theatre - a hush comes over the chattering groups. You hear someone whisper, "That's the one who won the game for us last Wednesday". You pretend nol to notice their ad miring glances as you walk by. UNISPORTS But you don't have to be a Warwick Capper or Debbie Flintoff to compete for your Faculty (al though if you are, you won't be turned away). The most important thing is that you want to do your UNION ROAq OPPOSITESQUASH COURTS best and be part of the team - all striving for that elusive goal that all Faculties have in common - to beatthe Human Movement's Department.(Not Kli£K INTO THE that we've got anything against Human Move ment students - it's just that they've won the In terfaculty Cup six out of the last eight years-and OOTBALL SEASON THIS could be the year their monopoly ends.) But, as some great prophet once said - it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the ^NIKE 'FIRESTAR'(moulded) game that counts. (No - he WASNT a Human Movement's student AND he probably lost.) How ^a?rtcr$84.40 ever, most participants will agree that they enjoy the lively competition, the feeling of team spirit U/^«,,,S7AW^.. PUMA 'INVADER' and the compulsory match 'post-mortem' over a few drinks at the Rec. Club afterwards. n...... -^-a.P., (moulded and screw-in) PUMA'LEGEND'(screw-in) ^ ii #% 0^^ Even if you're not particularly sporty, you can join in the fun of the competition by coming along and cheering foryourfaculty.Someof thewittiest i6^$59.05 $4^342.20 and most original remarks have been heard from the sidelines of an Interfaculty Competition. And NIKE 'TYPHOON' (screw-in) if the sport gets boring, watching the other spec tators can be entertaining in itself. Like the Vet. Science students who bring 'man's-best-friend' ,$s?:35-$75.95 along to watch. The real sport begins when the dogs lose interest in the football and start their own games on the sidelines. PATRICK 'CALAIS' (mouldedl Then there's the Engineers -while some feel they might not make the cleverest sideline com ii4.ftet3r$92.85 — ments, they are certainly the loudest. 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Yes. he could become a l "A TRIUMPH OF ARTISTRY ADlSTINaiON" NOMINATED FOR A scandalous,often censored literary sensation loi V«o centuries *GLEN and an international theatrical hit for the lasl two years. II is an CLOSE BfSJRLM incisive study ol sex as an arena for manipulative po'rver games AQRESS* and boasts a basic intelligence and the inherent fascinalion of JOHN arisioctalrc decadence.ChoderlosdeLaclos'1782 novel expertly • chronicled the cunning, cold-blooded sexual calculations ol the MALKOVICH French prerevolulionary upper class who hatch schemes of MICHELLE m deceit, revenge and debauchery CURRENTLY SCREENING L t A/l SONS PFEIFFER ® S A CLASSIC FRENCH COMEDY IS REMADE! "0 Two years ago Geraid Oepaidieii's French comedy LES FUGI jGERAHO DEPARDIEU ••E^^l ICSJlTlEC TIVES was a hit wilh all audiences. Now it has followed in the HrniriliiiliilNnDi.., kB9 F W^M I V« 9 m footsteps ol Three fvlen S A Baby, and been remade in the United Slates wilh Nick Nolle. The slory of a bumbling bank robber, who PIERRE RiCHABD ESHIEnaiTTfil ip^ r involves a professional thief, just released from jail, sees Ihe duo pursue Iheir hilarious antics, all lo keep a charming wail outof an NICKNOLTE-MARTINSHORT ^ orphanage. The Schonell will give you the opportunity to choose i which version you prefer, as bolh lilms are lo be screened, the mk French wilh Enolish subtitles of course CURRENTLY SCREENING j IIHREEIUGITIVES o (0 NOMINATED FOR 6 GOLDEN GL08E AWARDS NOMINATED FOR and a sure bel in Ihe Academy Awards lor 1989. Director fylike BEST FILM/BEST DIREaOR Nichols has lashioned an enlerlaining lilm thai makes optimum MdanieGfiffilh AaRESS/SUP. ACTRESS useoJitscasl.YeLiI is Melanie Griflilh who makes the film her own h^'M as Ihe secretary who comes to the lore when her boss (Weaverl is injured justas she is putting together a big business merger. Ford HamsonFofrf displays a Hare for comedy that has onlv been hinted at in his ^ ^ \ V Indiana Jones characterisations Girl" should make Griflilh a maior star and Gnffilh. supported by Weaver and Ford, make jnguiri "Working Girl"a major success. OPENS EASTER SATURDAY iig(HifiiGy\ta' "ONE OFTHE 10 BEST FILMS OF 1988" -TIME iNominated for BEST FILM/DIRECTORMCTOR Director Alan Parker's film ranks as one ol the most polent and insighllul views of racial turmoil yel produced. Approach is lic- ____|*i*LANPmfhr lional, bul Chris Gerolmo's script captures much of the truth in ils telling ol Ihe impact of a 1964 FBI probe into the murders of three civil rights workers. 11 is one of the finest pictures ol the year and ifACKMAN MISSISSIPPI perhaps the most elleclive cinemalic attempts. Ihus lar, to place mm the complex issues of the 1960's civil riohts siruaales into some DAFOE kind ol perspective. 2 hrs. BURNING OPENS EASTER SATURDAY "BRILLIANTLY FUNNY... WICKEDLY WIHY FARCE" 19B4.WHENAMERIMWAS/irWABW!THITSaF. ® The third trim from Spanish director. Pedro Almodovar. ( Selected to mm "Matador", "The Law ol Desire") has been the prolific director's mosl popular film 'Women" is struclured like a screwball comedy, open the 1988 *;2 with (Is lasl pacing, interlocking characters, and Iranlic comings NEWYORK ^^^,(' \{'Y^V and goings. The director's slyle, though, is very modern: camera FILM work in his lilm is strikingly inventive without being disruptive,and his use of colour is bold. Apart from the awlul way the men in ihe FESTIVAL! film behave. Almodovar's principal target seems to be Spain's \ niiii ii\ telephone syslerii. OPENS FRI. 7 APR. ALMODOVAR DAVID WILLIAMSON'S HIT PUY IS ANOWAMOVIE and an excellenl cast makes Jhe mosl of his biting satire on a A tale of two cities, four people, movie maker who in Ihe course of some :ragi-comic experiences, money, lust, greed and ambition discovers some truths about himsell He nasn i gol v/hal it takes to be a producer; without integrity his writing becomes dull. He is DAVID WILLIAMSOSS hopelessly inept as a seducer, and, perhaps Ihe worst blow of atl, (H he is not as good a human being as he thought he was. EMERALD CITY® OPENS FRI. 31 MAR. JOHN HARGREAVES • ROBIN NEVIN CHRIS HAYWOOD • RUTH CRACKNEll ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST TALKED ABOUT FILM! Partially inspired by an aciual Massachusclls case a few years I THE CASE THAT ago. it concerns agang rape in a popular Pacific Northwest tavern JODIE CHALLENGED THE during which a number ot spectators cheer and even goad onihe SYSTEM, SHOCKED attackers. But the basis for the lilmisnotany real incidentso much FOSTER A NATION as an analysis of the social and legal issues of guill, provacation ft*^ and uninvolvement. The lilm opens just alter the rape, and follows I THE Ifie victim (Jodie Foster) Ihrough Ihe medical and legal humilia-| KEELV tions which lollow reported rapes. wi^ .^1 MCGlLLlS ACCUSED "METICULOUS, INTELLIGENT AND SENSUOUS" FROM THE CREATORS OF ' EM. Forster wrote his classic gay novel "Maurice" in the 20's. bul RUPERT , wouldn't allow it lo be published unlil alter his death in 1970. The 'A ROOM WITH A VIEW I novel's characters have been honestly recreated in ihis shmging GRAVES Mercnant-lvory production. The iron girdle ol Edwardian sexual JAMES repression is used for pleasure and pain as Forster's eyes roam Ihe baliletield of sex. class and desire. 'Tou don'l have to share his ^r WILBY I perceptions lo enjoy "Maurice", the detail is so fine there is en- lerlainmenl (rom start lo finish. A musl for serious lilm goers. 2hrs .>J pENHOLM OPENS FRI. 14 APR. 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