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•>v.«. THE NEWNATIONALISM THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS- LANDRIGKTS ^Stt^owKONx^o^cw^-r-x^^r-x^xox-xw Bll>aiSlmil4ri ;CENDENCE '.••v.vX'Xvt' r •:•:•:•>;•:•. TRANSNATIONALS Australia, the foraign corporations' paradise. MARK CREVTON explores. This year's student union elections so far are an aberration. Unlike those of recent years, this round of elections features no readily identif iable line-up of 'left', 'right' and 'centre' tickets. AUSTRALIAN CINEMA Instead, we have two 'centre' tickets, the Students' Welfare Action Team, Oavid Stratton called it The Last New Wave'. SHELLEY DEMPSEY reports. (SWAT) and the Student Interest Team, (SIT). SWAT is a combination of strange bedfellows. It is an amalgamation of some of last year's left ticket, the United Students and last year's Student Interest Team, IN THE NAME OF...THE HOLY PANEL VAN the centre team, OR RAY BARRACLOUGH examines Australians' attitudes to religion. SIT is comprised mainly of 'new blood', though the presidential candidate comes from last year's SIT. It may be apparent that only tickets, rather than Individuals are being mention THE NEW NATIONALISM 11 ed. This is because the structure of union elections nowadays militates against independents, who rarely, if ever, win despite the fact that they may be the best ANNE JONES askes Humprhey McQuoen lor his views on Australian Nstionaltsm person for the job. For this reason, and also because it may be difficult to distinguish between the centre teams, it would be wise for students to look carefully at individuals within BLACK RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA 15 the tickets, as well as checking the tickets' respective platforms etc. Look for The Queensland government is denyirtg Aborigines their rights. people with ideas and/or experience. OR NOEL PRESTON reports.
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policies of Queensland BEAT-UP must point out that the quote committee regrets the apparent LAND RIGHTS and possible Federal Your article, 'An Assault attributed to me was incorr lack of interest among Journ Governments, funding on Student Apathy' (Semp ect. What I said was that stu alism students, we certainly do Recently a group of con for these Land Councils er No 7, August 11) brought dents ought to take advantage not brand as 'fools' those who cerned students and staff at must come from people to light not only the prob of the opportunity to become choose not to contribute. To do the University of Queens ture. (See Courier Mail, Sat sympathetic to this cause. lems associated with the involved in 'Beat-Up', not that so would be to infer, quite land decided to form an urday 8/8/81, p.12) We bel The second objective of the production of the Journal they were fools to ignore that wrongly, that involvement in Aboriginal Land Rights Sup ieve that such claims are not group recognises the fact that ism students' magazine opportunity. the magazine is a necessary port Group. The aim of this justified and directly contra many people in the University 'Beat-Up', but also one of prerequisite to post-graduate group is twofoltJ. Firstly, to dict the opinion of most Queen community are unaware of the the pitfalls of journalism Whether one contributes to a, success in journalism. raise money to enable Abor sland Aboriginies. To enable issues surrounding the Land in a wider sense — the dis magazine or not is a personal J.W. WRIGHT iginal people to present their Aborigines to answer these Rights debate. Thus, dissem tortion of truth. choice. It is easier to read Editor, 'Beat-Up'. opinions of the Queensland allegations it is necessary to ination of information on this While I agree with the gen articles than to write them. For Government's policy on Aborig provide money for advertising issue is seen as a necessary eral thrust of your article, I this reason, while the magazine inal rights to land, and second the opinion of the majority concomitant of the group. ly, to provide a fomm for the of the Queensland Aborigines on these and related issues. discussion of Land Rights issues The group meets each Friday ',•-•-'-*-' among the members of the 2. We feel that in order that at 1 pm in Room 117, Michie University community. Queensland Aborigines might Building. All interested persons The first objective of the eventually achieve the social are invited to attend. group is seen as primary for the justice vvhich they hove been -PAT WILLIAMSON LAKESIDE HUNGI 2nd October at the Rugby basement of the Relaxation denied for the last 200 years, following reasons- -ROD WILSON The Land Rights Support Clubhouse, West Road, on Block in the Student Union research through the Land Cou 1. The Queensland Government Steering Committee, Abor Group will be holding a campus. Building. ncils independent of the Queen has claimed to possess expertise iginal Land Rights Supp Hungi on Friday September Costs are on a sliding scale sland Government must be In the area ol Aboriginal att ort Group 11th between 7.30 and beginning at $1.80 per four undertaken. Because such re LAND RIGHTS RALLY itudes to land ownership and 11,30 by the lake at the hour session. search would contradict the use as well as Aboriginal Cul University of Queensland. Details and registration A legal rally and march Prices are $3 single and forms available from Play in support of Aboriginal house, next to the Schonell Land Rights will be held r.y«v $12 for family groups. Theatre. on Saturday September 12 Price includes food, drink and entertainment. from 10.30 am. Funds will be donated to BLOOD BANK The rally vvill take place In King George Square and the Land Rights Support The Red Cross Blood Bank the march will be from the Group. will be on campus between Square to Musgrave Park. September 9th to 11th Organised by the Black in the Axon Room, Union SCHOOL VACATION Community. CARE PROGRAMME Complex to accept dona gjftsihDp tions of blood. The .University of Queens Hours: 9.30-3.30 GAY SOLIDARITY ^-^ UNION ARCADE *^ land Union will be sponsor Gay Solidarity is a society QLD UNIVERSITY ing a school vacation care of male and female homo programme over the Sept HEALTH CARE CARDS sexuals who are students or ember school holidays. Visaro former students of the Uni The programme is open to Students with low Incomes ^t^r shop 14, larmgacen ire arcade, versity of Queensland. *POSTERS children of University staff who may need specialist ^^ 200rm>90mroad, tarmga.art (969 For information on activ and students, as well as referral and who are not ities, watch campus notice •CARDS children from the surround covered by private health Vie are currently displaying boards or listen to Gay ing areas. Insurance will require a Peruvian wallban^ngs — band- News on 4ZZZ at 6pm It will operate from 8.30 am Healtin Care card. crafted wtdlbangtngs from the •GIFTS every Thursday. bomeland of the Mayans. to 5.30 pm from Monday Information is available at 21st September to Friday the Health Service, in the Until Friday lltb Reds under the Pews! Smearing the World Council of Churches Because of the World Council of Churches' concern for Queensland aborigines, it has been branded 'communist' by the Premier. JOHN JIGGENS investigates.
If you live in country Queensland, chances are that your local rag will run a column called 'Pers onally Speaking', by Joh Bjelke Petersen. The purpose of this column seems to be to assure the good people of country Queensland that, yes, there are reds under every bed working assiduously to destroy our Way of Life. Its main weapon is the communist smear.
Throughout his long political career, Joh has never been afraid to give the communist can a good kick. For example, in 1971 he said; "Labor policy is socialism and the ALP is on the thresh-hold of communism". In November 1973 he told the Sydney Morning Herald; "Goodness me! When one sees trade union officials hugging and kissing North Vietnamese leaders it's awful." He even argued against the extension of Sunday drink ing in Queensland; "We often say that the communists are trying to destroy our Way of Life. The amendment of the Leader of the Opposition would have a tendency to destroy the sanctity of Sunday and to break down Uie invisible barriers we have through Christianity. In tliis respect the amendment seeks to destroy our Way of Life".
Looking back in retrospect, tautologically speaking, we can recognise these attempts for what they are; powerful but crude versions of the technique that Joh has now so powerfully mastered. Take a recent statement from 'Personally Speaking' on Amnesty International; "Mr Keraly's summation is that the organisation lies almost constantly by omission or selection of fact and is simply an arm of communist propa ganda".
Mr Keraly, we are informed, is a French journalist who has 'investigated Amnesty'. This is a standard debating trick; the appeal to authority, no matter how dubious. "They ran for cover when confronted with the true Bible teachings and the documented evidence of the doubtful political ambitions of the WCC." But the piece de resistance, tlie article that raises the communist smear to an Art form, was Job's attack on the -J. Bjelke-Pet«rsen Worid Council of Churches. Tlie World Council of Churches is a fellowship of some 300 churches representing 400 million christians. Member churches in Australia include the Anglican Church, the Uniting Church, Church of Christ, Society of Friends, Premier's version of events; "According to reports from So I rang up Mr P McDonald, the Government News and the Greek, Serbian, Coptic, Syrian, Romanian and the Cairns police, the incident did not result from the WCC Officer, to find out the sources of these wild allegations. Antiochian Orthodox Churches. visit and there was insufficient evidence to press charges. He gave me the names of two books; 'The Answer to Mos Since 1966, largely througlj the efforts of people like To suggest that this was 'violence' and provoked 'terror' cow's Bible' by Richard Wurmbrandt, and 'The World Dr Martin Luther King, they've had a policy of opposition is the product of a malicious imagination. Council of Churches and the Third Worid' by Ernest to racism. They've opposed the apartheid regimes of South "Miss Elizabeth Adler from East Germany was neither I^fever. Where could 1 get these books? The Conservative Africa, Rhodesia and Nambibia, and recently they've been leader of the team nor did she visit Queensland." Bookshop in Eagle Street. interested in the plight of Abori^nes in Australia. Bjelke Petersen's piece ended with a condemnation of Largely, they're liberals - not the sort of people norm people who ". . .cannot feel the anguish of Christian ally considered 'communist terrorists'. Job's column on missionaries butchered in Africa by the WCC's well finan The Consenrative Bookshop is on the third floor of the them begins; ced proteges". Wool Exchange Building in Eagle Street. It is real League of Rights territory. On the door of the bookshop is a leaf "The recent violence at the Aboriginal community at let that sets out the objectives and history of the League of Yarabah is an event which will concern every Queenslander "The Worid Council of Churches' commitment to non Rights. Above this is a booklist. The Heritage Book Service, . interested in an orderly advancement of our Aboriginal and violent change is clear and unequivocal", says Jean Skuse. published and printed by the Australian League of Rights. Island peoples witliin tlie mainstream of Qld society. "Investigations by the international media have revealed beyond doubt that the commonly heard accusations "The so-called Worid Council of Churches visiUng them, regarding the WCC and violence are sourced and fed by The titles of the books convey an air of paranoia and actually led by an East Genman, has introduced a frighten funds from the apartheid government of South Africa." conspiracy: 'The Proof of a Conspiracy', 'The Grand Des ing new element of violence - a practical result of the ign', 'Secret Communist Agents who have Changed the Course of History', 'The Hoax of the Twentieth Century', WCC's 'liberation theology'. But the most amazing charge in the whole column was 'Dictatorship by Taxation*, 'Brainwashing: Behind the that the WCC's "so-called Program to Combat Racism" ". . .Their words about revolution were still ringing in Scene' and, of course, 'None Dare Call il Conspiracy'. the air at Yarabah when some ugly incidents took place was formulated in Moscow and carried into the WCC by Dr Butz's The Hoax of the Twentieth Century' is and State government employees were assaulted. the notorious KGB. described as "... a thoroughly documented exposure of the largest hoax of the Twentieth Century ... not one "We can only try to imagine the terror of the wives The documentation is quite substantial, Joh claims. person who, including those who have uncritically accepted and children of Yarabah employees when this violence The puncliline is that an important president of the WCC the Holocaust story, has come forward to try to contest its erupted." was a KGB colonel. Nowhere in the column does Joh massive documentation". inform you what the "substantial documentation" is. Douglas Reed's 'Tlie Controverey of Zion' is described Frightening?? Well, Jean Skuse, secretary of the Aust You're expected to take the word of Big Brother Joh, and as " . . .Reed shows from the Talmudists who crucillcd ralian Council of Churches points out a few errors in the probably thousands did. Christ down'to the present day there has been a destmctive
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force operating against Ciwlisation". Lefever's position on Israel also caused problems. To critics 'communist inspired' then tried to deny it from the As to the books themselves - Wermbrandt's The Answer support the point that he supported nuclear assistance to witness chair. to Moscow's Bible' has got nothmg to substantiate the Israel as well as the Arabs, Lefever began reading lengthy In The Worid Council of Churches and the Third Worid' claims made by Bjelke Petersen. I shall concern myself excerpts from his book "Nuclear Arms in the Third Worid'. Lefever admits that some fonns of violence are alright. It only with Lefever's book. "Modem nuclear assistance to Israel compatible with was OK for the US to mvade North Korea and to use At first glance, Ernest Lefever seems to have impressive the non-proliferation treaty is a small price to pay for violence after Peari Harbour. credentials. He holds a Yale doctorate in Ethics and since helping to insure a greater nuclear responsibility in a nucl Apparently it isn't right for blacks in South Africa to 1976 he's headed his own conservative think tank in Wash ear state", Lefever read, according to the Washington Post. use violence. Rather than condemning 'communist terr ington, the Ethics and Public Policy Centre. "Now wait a minute," Senator Tsongas interrupted, orism', the WCC has attacked apartheid. This is evidence asking if they were reading from the same book, Lefever that the WCC is under marxist control. Lefever reached the pinnacle of his career this year when had inserted the words 'to Israel' into his reading of the EhJring the Senate hearings, Lefever couldn't bring text. he was Ronald Reagan's nominee for the position of himself to name even a single non-communist re^e that Lefever explained that he'd added the words to the text Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. violated Human Rights. However, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee so that his real meaning would be clear to those who voted thirteen to four against Lefever, and the majority didn't have a copy of the text. Senator Tsongas objected The Lefever-Haig-Reagan version of Human Rights is included five of the nine Republicans on the committee. that the context nowhere implied that reference 'to Israel'. ultimately the same as the Kremlin's; All the torturers He was tl\c first Reagan nominee rejected by a Senate The context seemed to refer to the Arab states. are theirs, not ours. committee and the first man voted down by the Foreign In discussions with key senators, Lefever called his The corollary of this is also ohvioMt; Anyone who says Relations Committee since 1925. otherwise is one of them It is instructive to look at what sank Ernest Lefever. The only things that matter in this worid are anti-comm unism and-profits. That's the key if you want to under Two of his brothers opposed his nomination. They stand how a group of liberal christians who are opposed charged that Lefever believes blacks to be genetically less to racism can be smeared as 'a bunch of communist terr intelligent than whites. orists'. There was particularly bitter controversy about Lefever's defence of sales of powdered infant formula in under Incidents at Yarabah, South African stories about developed nations, a trade that critics say produces an , butchered nuns; these are merely corroberative details. appalling rate of malnutrition and infant death. Wlio in country Queensland is going to check with the WCC for their version of the incident at Yarabah? Wlio, Lefever's think tank had produced a pro-industry study apart from League of Rights members, is going to know of this controversy. Lefever was questioned sharply by the who Ernest Lefever is? Who is even going to think twice Senate committee about 525,000 given to his Washington about the extraordinary claims that the Worid Council of think-tank by Nestle, a major producer of infant fomiula. Churches finances the butchering of missionaries and its In eariier hearings, Lefever had denied any connection Program to Combat Racism was smuggled out of Moscow between the grant and the finding of the study. Later he by the KGB? admitted that he asked for a Nestle contribution and told The mud is thrown and it sticks. Nestle that the centre intended to conduct the study a month before he first discussed the proposed study with its But tell me this; Who do you think is most discredited? intended author, Herman Nickel. The Worid Council of Churches or Joh Bjelke Petersen, He also admitted that a lawyer connected with Nestle Premier of Queensland??? had helped arrange a mailing list for the study and that Nestle had given the centre an additional $10,000 to have Ernest W. Lefever. Discredited in the US; quoted as an authority tlie study re-printed. on the WCC by J, Bjelke Petersen.
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Australia is the foreign corporations' paradise. The owners of production haven't changed - they've just gone international. MARK CREYTON takes a look at transnationals in Australia.
Australia is second only to Canada include Amatil (Twisties, Smith Crisps, in degree of foreign ownership. Forty Kirks), Nestle, Kraft, Kelloggs, Unilever to fifty percent of the Australian (Streets), Cadbury-Schweppes, and Rickitt and Colamn (Big Sister, Orlando, Coolatiah). corporate economy is now under the control of transnational corporations The three largest fast food industries (INC). are all good of American fine food. McDon alds is wholly owned by its US counter Some major TNCs, exist of which about part. Pizza Hut is a part of the Pepsi Co. half are American. The rest are based in empire and Kentucky Fried is owned by western Europe and Japan. They primarily Heublein International. In 1978, the old invest in manufacturing, agriculture, bank style fast food operators (fish and chip ing, finance, mining, processing and dis shops, hamburger joints) earned 55.6 per tribution. The TNC often owns a product cent of the money earned in fast food. In from raw material through to distribution 1990, this is expected to be less than 10 per of the finished article. cent, according to a recent study.
The strength of the TNC is flexibility. Foreign companies operating in Australia- It can transfer large amounts of capital attempt to keep a good public image (the between places within minutes. If a country Utali Foundation), or at least keep a low becomes politically undesirable (as in Chile); profde. Joint ventures involve a foreign firm if the labour force demands higher wages and a local finn and the TNC appears to be and/or better conditions (Mexico); or if in a helping role rather than an exploit the government demands some Isenefits ative one. Through a joint venture a TNC has (Jamaica), the TNC withdraws its capital access to markets, raw materials and existing and invests it in another "more suitable" facilities, while gaining protection against country. This leads to the concept of the nationalization. 'runaway factory', as the corporation moves A transnational can run a company in to cheaper and cheaper places, usually Australia and still leave Australians with staying in a country with military dictator more than 50 per cent of the shares. In ship and a large workforce of young women fact, it only need hold about twenty per (12-22). cent equity and install a couple of directors on the board to control the Australian fimi. To obtain the TNCs' business, govern This is facilitated througli a complex system ments are forced into promising a cheap of licenses and patents, by which the TNC is docile labour force, little, if any, taxation able to take out its profits in fees for new and all facilities provided. Some Third technology, new equipment, specialist per World countries actually build factories sonnel and basic materials, all needed by the for the corporations and drop all import "^rr Australian subsidiary. The Australian com and export duties, in the hope that the pany appears to make little real profit which TNC will bring prosperity to their country. reduces the tax payments. The majority of The TNC invests little and takes plenty. the profits then go to tax havens or into new The country is left economically and ecolog investments in the Third Worid. ically bankrupt. TNCs in the mining industry are a good These conglomerates have played an ?J9S?S%:::::A;:W:^^ illustration of the workings of trans important role in technological displace- TNCs to keep up the pace of industry, nationals. Queensland almost acts as an •raent, inflation, currency fluctuations and itive market. The TNC is the inarket. TNCs agent for overseas corporations, with low capital outflow which has led to rising don't compete through price but rather mming and exploration. However the more foreign capital involved, the less Australia mineral royalty payments, other concess prices, currency devaluations, dollar crises, through advertising (this is assuming that ions and the building of all necessary ser there is even more than one TNC in a benefits from such operations. unemployment and falling real wages. vices. particular industry or product line). A Several of Australia's industries are The TNC has the money to research and TNC will start a price cutting war with dominated by these corporations to a far The mineral industry is one of the most develop technolo^cal processes and equip smaller companies to gain a monopoly. A greater extent than the average 40 to 50 capital intensive, using vast amounts of ex ment which displace jobs. The corporation particular sector of a TNC will take substan per cent, with motor vehicles at 100 per pensive sophisticated equipment for 'labour'. takes no risks and sets prices to cover tial losses and let other areas subsidize it. cent, oil refining 91 per cent, and basic TNCs usually sell these minerals to them expansion, research, development, explor This can go on for ten or more years. One chemicals 78 per cent. Australia has its selves or to another TNC at very low prices. ation and advertising. transnational never takes on another. own TNCs too. CS.R. is involved in sugar, It is impossible, therefore, to estimate the true worth of the minerals. If they sell at This, along with the monopolies and chemicals, concrete building materials and Australia is the foreign corporation's iron ore with markets in New Zealand, a low price profits are reduced and TNCs oligopolies that the TNCs have over the paradise. It has a great reserve of natural pay less tax. market, leads to inflation. By speculating, Fiji, the Pacific Islands and Malaysia. But resources but is without the initiative or Australia's corporations can't match the constantly shifting capital and never re capital to adequately exploit these resources. 300 giants such as Exxon, Royal-Dutch Mining is incredibly concentrated. In investing in the local economy, the TNC We have few major indigenous manufac Shell, General Motors and S.K.F. 1975-76, 368 tax paying companies were in causes strange fluctuations in the world turing industries and our liistory is one of the industry and 38 of these received 95% economy. Traditional economics, the work foreign exploitation. The food Australians eat is increasingly of the total industry income. Since mining of Keynes and Friedman, is based on the tied up in TNC interests. The meat, poultry is so capital intensive, even if there is a great concept of a competitive market, but TNCs are now firmly entrenched in the and grain industries are run mainly by large deal of expansion, relatively few jobs will TNCs have brought in the era of the post areas of profitable exploitation and any new corporations, half ofwliich are transnational. be created. This goes against most media market economy. area is opened up by foreign interests be In the food processing industry, foreign and governtnent statements. Mineral pro Post market economy simply means that cause they have the large amounts of capital companies outnumber the Australian firms. cessing is the only area which creates a rea there is no, or at least very little, compet- needed. Consequently, Australia now needs Foreign conglomerates in the food industry sonable number of jobs and is the least — ConSnued on page 10 —
Semper, September 8,1981 AUSTRALIAN
n the land where some wonder whether in 1979 made 55 films, but of these only three scripts and A 1980 article in Filmnews deplored the American Iproud boasts of a cosmopolitan culture a handful of leading actors were Canadian. stranglehold on Australian distribution/exhibition net obscure the dearth of national character; Actors' Equity has spearheaded the Australian cause works, blaming the monopolies for Australian producers' where the natives pretend that foreign ownership with its policy of barring overseas talent in Australian massive losses over the years. It reported that, in 1976, 38 percent of films returned no money to producers and is not paternalistic latter-day imperialism; one government-funded productions, exceptional circumstances apart. Uri Windt, assistant general secretary of Equity that this percentage had risen by 1978 to 100 percent. industry stubbornly, reassuringly holds out for deemed 'exceptional circumstances' as those where a suit In 1973, the Fox Film Corporation owned 65 percent 'Austraiianisation'. able Australian actor is unavailable, or if an actor desired of Hoyts shares, while the Rank Organisation owned a The born-again Australian film industry could be the is of truly international standing. He stressed the flex large proportion of the Great Union chain. In Melbourne, patriot's dream. Could be, if It were not beset by nation ibility of the policy. 90 percent of outlets were dominated by these chains. alistic dilemmas. Equity's policy may at least circumvent such disgraceful Filmnews suggested that the American chains discrimin Since its rebirth in 1971, when government coffers casting as that encountered in a 1967 film. Journey Out ated against Australian movies, by showing them in off- opened to filmmakers, (and the Australia Film Develop of Darkness, where the director and leading actor were peak periods, by publicising them in competition with each ment Corporation was established) the industry has spawn American unknowns, and two Aborigines were played by other and showing them for only a short time. Further, it ed two popular film genres. The Ocker comedies, like singer Kamahi and Ed 'Skippy' Devereaux, complete with claimed that the organisations had failed miserably to Alvin Purple, dominated the first half of the seventies, blackened face I invest in the Australian industry. period art films like Picnic at Hanging Rock, the second. But Journey Out of Darkness pates into insignificance A token move was made towards rectifying the situ The respective successes and failures of these films illus compared to another home-grown film The Earthling. The ation in 1973 by the Tariff Board. It followed the lead of trate, unusually well, current film industry debates. UK and US legislation, by The debate centres on film commercialism. Although recommending that Australia Australian films have won spotty acclaim in the past force distributors to hand decade, few have been commercial hits. Only a handful "There is something about the shooting style (of 'Newsfront')ove r a certain percentage of have done well here and overseas, and rarely do the two which was very Australian; something about the 'honourableoutlets . The advice was never markets overiap. Stone, Mad Max, Don's Party and Alvin enacted. Purple all did well domestically, whereas overseas audiences vulgarity'of the time was beautiptlly encompassed in the preferred My Brilliant Career, Newsfront and Picnic at visual style." - Bob Ellis, writer of Newsfront All this adds up to little, Hanging Rock. The debate usually begins here. if any, incentive for Austra Some in the industry see commercial success, prefer ....K*.*.KK*.K* lian producers, who depend ably overseas, as the direction Australian films should on the domestic market for take. This view, which accepts that actors of international film was made with imported American producers and 75 percent of their income. acclaim 'put bums on seats', was endorsed by management actors, a British director, and no identifying Australian As if these difficulties were not insurmountable enough, consultants. Peat Marwick Mitchell were commissioned features! As David Stratton put it, "The Earthling . . . the industry must also contend with generally hostile in 1979 to advise a strategy to make the Australian Film could just as well have been made in Arizona. People who local film critics. David Stratton asks, 'Why is it that, time Commission financially viable. Two major recommend claim that this may be a new direction for the Australian ations emerged. One advised that the criterion for govern film industry are right — the direction is towards self- ment funding of the AFC be a film's potential to succeed destruction". in the marketplace. The other urged that AFC films recoup Imported labour, however, is not the least of the film at least 60 percent of their nett income from overseas industry's worries. For Australia also has imported dis sources in 1980. tribution/exhibition networks, which some say have an The other camp, led by Actor's Equity, militates against insidious effect on the success of Australian films. what it calls 'bland internationalism'. This group advocates an industry of Australian producers, actors and directors, rather than a transplanted American industry, which Canada now has. David Stratton, author of the definitive work on Aus tralian cinema, 'The Last New Wave', reported that Canada CINEMA
by SHELLEY DEMPSEY
and time again, overseas reviewers are willing to make hat of government attitudes? The coalition govern has bought with it connotations of classic Australian allowances for the brave effort, for the flawed film, and W ment in 1980, weeks before the federal election, nationalism, ideas and images more applicable to the turn Australian reviewers never are? announced a new taxation scheme whereby 150 of the century than the era of nuclear reactors.' He points out that it is often these same reviewers who percent write-off on investment was promised, in the year This assessment rings true. One need only review the pay lip sen/ice to supporting the local film industry. of the expenditure. While there was some griping in the most outstanding of Australian films — the new Gallipoli, Tim Burstall, writer/director of Alvin Purple and other industry about the last clause, 'in the year of the expen A Town Like Alice, Picnic at Hanging Rock and My bawdy romps, has been one casualty of the harsh Australian diture', because it was felt that time limits and unpre Brilliant Career - to realise the historical 'bent' of the critic. Burstall initially had aspirations to 'serious' film dictable filmmaking are incompatible, most were confident Australian film worid. There are explanations for the phen work. He produced 2,000 Weeks, in 1968 which ironic about the boost it would give Australian films. There was, omenon. These include the industry's reliance on Australian ally tells the story of a character who makes a decision to and still is, concern too over the possibility of chariatans literature and the suggestion by Hutton that, 'in an attempt stay on in culturally bleak Australia rather than depart simply investing for the tax concession instead of for the to define 'Australian', filmmakers came up with 'safe nar for England. industry. rative formulas' which portrayed the Australian self-image The film's reception was disastrous. In Melbourne, Meanwhile, the ALP in 1980 took a dim view of the of classic nationalism — white, mono-ethnic, rural, working Age critic Colin Bennet 'doomed it with a few well-chosen 'international' policy, prescribed by Peat Marwick Mitchell. class and masculine.' words'. In Sydney, the critics laughed raucously, sending To aim all productions at the international market One filmmaker alluded to government pressure as a the leading lady running in tears and crucifying Burstall. puts at risk the Australian character of our films. Attempts determinant of films made. Certain pressure is embodied Says Stratton, ' ... the treatment meted out to that film to ensure that all films have an international character, that in the legislation which calls for Australian content, David >:'X':-:v>:':v:':':vX-x-:-:.x-x-: characters speak in trans-Pacific Stratton, however, records only one case of direct govern accents and that issues covered ment intervention in a film. Entitled, The Unknown Polit ical Prisoner, a controversial film about unions, production "The only way we can give a picture an international appeal are specifically Australian will put at risk the unique character was stopped in 1978 by the then minister for Home Affairs, is to make it Australian." - Charles Chauvel, early of Australian films. Bob Ellicott, who complained the film was 'not commercial Australian filmmaker 'The Australian film industry enough'. cannot be looked at solely in But back to period films. Anne Hutton described them c^ij^msj^::;;;:::::;:;^^^^^^^ economic terms; its social and as containing ' . . . a large element of nostalgia — that is, cultural benefits must also be con as if unable to define what Australia is, it can be solved by soured him forever, alienated him for all time from the sidered. The facility for social criticism, cultural develop restating the myths of what it has been'. film buffs, the festival people, the trendies, the under ment, the definition of a national identity and the project 'This variety of nationalism, just as that found in the ground'. ion of an Australian image overseas are all important sentimentality of many films of the Australian silent Hence Burstall's recent comment, 'I'd rather be frivol benefits of a local industry.' screen, provides a celluloid momento of loss.' ous than boring.' 'Period films could be said to reveal a cathartic ele With incentive like this, this little wonder that Aus The report, on Labor's commitment to the film in ment in Australian popular culture, or that the affirm tralia has a dearth of competent director/writers. A cer dustry, raises some challenging points, especially con ation of traditional nationalist values is the external sign tain amount of Peter Weir's success {Gallipoli, Picnic at cerning films and national character. While some would of a society in transition.' Hanging Rock, The Cars that Ate Paris] is possibly due to argue that Australia does have a national identity, it never his lack of competition. theless appears that the ALP believes otherwise, in giving the industry the task of 'the definition of a national char And now Gallipoli. A film in the historical trend, yet it acter'. has been viewed as the pinnacle of the movement. Director Peter Weir, unable to obtain funding from the South Aus To date, has the industry strived to this end? A Cinema tralian Film Corporation in the 'seventies, ironically is now Papers article. Nationalism in Australian Cinema, by Anne being congratulated on The Australian Movie. Such are the Hutton, makes some interesting observations. She writes, see-saw fortunes of the Australian cinema, of which Peter ' ... the industry's legislated cause - significant Australian Weir is the golden boy. Now can we give the period films content — has struggled towards definition. This criteria a rest?
"What's the name of that new film of yours, the one that sounds like an Italian sausage?" - New York critic asks of Gallipoli director, Peter Weir. 5SS$-:':':-:v?:^s:5$S-diSi£:5SS
Semper, September 8,1981 In the name of the Football, the Secular transcendence in Australia In the Land of the Long Weekend, the established religions take second place to the more temporal concerns of materialistic Australians. DR RAY BARRACLOUGH, Anglican Chaplain to Queensland University, looks at some of the more popular Australian forms of escapism.
ing within a hallowed church building is transcendence that is sensed by Australians ment to the extraordinary draws the individ rivalled and even outmatched by various en almost every day of the week — the fleeting ual into the ecstatic dimension of Ufe. Some counters with transcendence in the surroun and addictive sensation of defying the odds, sports, such as surfing, provide the isolated It is Sunday evening, the church and chap ding urban and rural landscape. of being drawn in all ones immediate senses transcendence that we have noted eariier. el bells are ringing and the Salvation Army to conquer fate in individual yet rewarding It elicits from the devotee a sense of awe at band is playing. This small town is full of terms. There are daily regulated opportun- the natural environment as well as providing Sport, which plays an important part in religious buildings, Church of England, iries to rise above the ordinary income and the chance of riding, of reining m, one feat-' the lives of many Australians, can provide the banality of life by pickmg a winner. ure of this stubborn continent. Church of Rome, two Wesleyan Chapels, such an encounter. In 1975 the North Melb Baptist Church, Bible Christian Church, Tlie ways to such an experience are reach ourne club won the VFL premiership for ed by paths with their own gates. Whether Scotch Presbyterian, the Welsh Method the first time in its history. At the cele ist Church, but the Stay-at-Homes' out it be the casket, the lottery, the pools, the brations older club members expressed The massed spectator sports which draw number all the other denominations. dogs, the horses or the trots - the sweet their ecstatic delight at the victory. Team ecstacy of winning has been sought by Aust such great crowds to the cricket grounds in So Welsh swagman Joseph Jenkins descri coach Ron Barassi recalls members aged in ralians for well near two centuries, Mark Melbourne and Sydney give vent to other bed the society he surveyed in the Victorian their sixties and seventies coming up to him Twain on visiting Australia was struck by complex yearnings for transcendence, shared township of Maldon in 1889. and saying; If I die now, it doesn't matter. the mania for the Melbourne Cup. with one's fellow club supporters. There In contemporary Australia, if statistics arc For those men that victory had so filled the is the taste of power tliat victory presents, hopes that transcended their day to day lives Joseph Jenkins recounts that even church to be believed, the Stay-at-Homes are still services were followed by games of cards •the exciting ritualistic choreography of high the major denomination. While Christians in that the rest of life would be an anti-climax. marks or sweeping, passing movements. The football parousia had come! for stakes. In a society with a despairing their churches and chapels gather to worship shortage of women, a landscape ravaged by True, there is a difference of mood amongst the transcendent God of the universe, the unpredictable flood or drought, gambling the different codes of sport, but each has Stay-at-Homes are drawn to other exper and booze were ready remedies to draw one its sanctuary, its sacred centre, whether it iences that transcend their ordinary lives. to a dimension beyond the immediate, be the turf wicket, the football field, bowl This majority do not necessarily live lives Many materialistic experiences of Aust seemingly cultureless, surroundings. ing link, snooker table or shimmering pool. devoid of religious dimensions, however. ralians have become transcendent: war and Commentators spoke recently of a wicket Though a Christian particularity may have the archetypal 'digger', gambling, mateship, Gambling provides scope for acceptable ruined by vandals as turf ruined by a sacri- been absent, there was no lack of other the land, sex, sport, cars. Tliese are not outbursts of ecstacy. For example, every ligious act. The awe passes over to the charis experiences that gave the colonials and their necessarily Australian of course but they Saturday in the home in which I was nurt matic participants. One of the players modem successors a taste of transcendence. have provided dimensions of transcendence, ured the rafters would ring with a triumph runnuig onto the Melbourne Cricket Ground uplifting or uniting Australians beyond their ant liturgical shout. It was the cry of for a VFL grand final recalls how it took Ian Turner, writing in 'The Australian triumph over fate. It came from my father's Dream', interprets Australian materialism as individual and ordinary existence. Consider him five minutes to re-orientate himself to war: lips and burst upon us before it could be the reality of the game after being trans an overwhelming concern with the physical, shushed by mother's half-uttured moral the here and now. Many Australians yearn Before World War I no public day was acc fixed by the emotion of the spectacle. As outrage. It was one line: 'You bloody well there is the silent wonder of that for the recurring taste of transcendence not eptable to be honoured by all Australians beauty!' as a nation. Australia Day was lamely noted. select few who gather to watch the football in spiritual or metaphysical dunensions but Never in all my church experience have I in the material environment. The taste of Ardent imperial loyalists (not surprisingly demi-gods dress. They are as much entranced led by patriotic clergy) sought to have May ever encountered as significant a short utter as the most pious ecclesiatical acolyte. The material transcendence, in both isolated and ance. 'Praise the Lord* comes to mind but social experiences, together with the seeming 24th (Queen Victoria's birthday) honoured game, the spectacle, linked with the club nationally as Empire Day. Alas, it wasn't to does not have the home-grown flavour. loyalties provide a ready means of self- irrelevance of contemporary Christianity to Christians lately have read and spoken about everyday Ufe, causes more Christians to drift be. On May 24, 1911, the two flags Qown identification. Like many transcendent exp from St Mary's cathedral in Sydney were the theology of hope. The gamblers who eriences it can be cathartic in effect and is away from faith than does the savour of inhabit Australia are concerned with the competing ideologies and creeds. those of Australia and Ireland. Australian accepted withui tlie wider ambit of ordin Catholics honoured the day as the feast temporary but recurring habit of hope. ary life as a socially approved means of day of St Mary. releasing aggression. Transcendence does not necessarily refer The mania for gambling in Australia is, to encounters with the God of the Judeo- Yet unity came. The jarring experience of in the long and deep run, idolatry. But it Christian heritage, nor to an absorption with heroic death on Anzac Cove transcended deserves to be reflected on by Christians •••.•.".•.•>.•.•.• the Great Spirit of the aboriginal south land. both sectarian and class differences. Anzac because it expresses a search for excitement Nor does it necessarily refer lo mystic cont Day elicited support from the holding of in a banal society. If Christians are called So far it may seem that only Australian emplation or ecstatic denominational exper requiem masses in St Mary's to the distrib to be the salt of the earth, then in a banal men are m view. Yet we know that women ience. Rither, it encompasses ways by which ution of pamphlets entitled Lest We Forget society they will need to dare to risk. At the gamble and go to the races (tliough in fewer people seek to deal with the meaning of by the Young Communist League. moment, whether they will or not is an even numbers than men), and that women enhst- their existence. The experience of war cemented some bet. ed for the war effort (though in fewer To speak of the experience of transcend thing else, especially for male Australians. Saddest of all in this reflection on Christ numbers than men). White women arrived ence in Australian life is to refer to events, With regard to World War II in particular, ianity and gambling is the fact that some later than their male counterparts on the experiences, myths, dreams or tussles with while allied help was acknowledged, Aust churches stifle the possibilities for enrich Australian scene. The Victorian era also existence which enable Australians to live ralian servicemen were regarded en masse ing the ordinary existence of lonely people. provided less public scope for their exper ordinary lives with more than a primeval as saviours of this land. Other than the more Instead of providing a meeting place for ience of transcendence. We sometimes will to live as their resource. Dimensions accessible Sydney Opera House, the most friends, for crafts, for the possibilities of overtook the absence of women in the cult entered into in the midst of ordinary life visited national shiine in Australia is the local initiatives, for grass-roots exploration ural patterns established in the formative styles which draw their devotees beyond the Canberra War Museum. For youth, at least of a deeper identity, some fill their halls days of white settlemertt. It was not until ordinary to a dimension of power, presence, until the early sbcties, Anzac Day observ with the call of buigo numbers. Within these 1915 that w.omen surpassed men in numb ances vied with sports day as the most emo ecstasy or national-identity, giving existent halls is spun the cocoon of isolated trans ers. The absence overseas of men at war tional experience of their ordered school ial motivation to move through ordinary cendence. When people go to church two' doubtless hastened that statistic. hfe. routine in order to taste that dimension times a Sunday we fcai fanaticism. For a One is perhaps conscious of this low pro again and again, are transcendent. However, number of Australians four days a week at file of women in a more frontier-like state in the land of the long weekend, the encoun bingo is normality. such as Queensland. When my great-grand ter with the transcendent supposedly occur- Even before Anzac Day there was one Peter Berger, in his book 'A Rumour of mother arrived in AustraUa at the age of event that drew the colonists together and Angels', refers to the dimensions of ecstacy 16, she boarded a coach at Sydney and led to extraordinary behaviour; the Melb This article is reprinted from the journal 'Inter in human life. Besides racetracks (or, for the travelled in that vehicle for over a week change'. ourne Cup. It has become the annual sac more affluent, stock exchanges) there are before arriving at the minmg town of Copp- rament of that individual and isolated other arenas where excitement and commit erfield in the central highlands of Queens-
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land. There she and the other six young Other experiences we can note in passing. and cruel war. Also, as Diane Collins notes of the reasons why conservative religious women with her were met by over two Because of Australia's vast distances, the in her book 'The Movie Octopus', the imme people support the Queensland premier. hundred miners who had come to select land is crossed with many roads. The car has nse and endless movie pubUcity provided They live out the Constantinian shift of faith their brides. become a necessity for many Australians. the public with constant distraction from by supporting him as the godly one who The role of wife and mother was expected For Australian men particiJariy, cars tend every humdrum. In the period July 1920 to holds in order the forces of chaos in Queens to fulfil the needs of women. Significantly to become vehicles of transcendence. Aust- June 1921 admissions-to Australian cinemas land. Robert Menzies projected a similar the major female cliaracter m one of Henry raUans are not unique in possessing and totalled over 68 miUion. In the same period paternalistic image. Lawson's most popular stories was anonym treating cars that by their shape, decor, fewer than 16 million attended racing or It leads to the idolatrous claim to infall ous, being designated shnply in relation to sound or acceleration express deep and theatrical performances. Donald Home, ibility. Tlie "law and order" or the "gift her husband's occupation. I refer to 'The unfulfilled desires in their owner's hearts. looking back on his youthful experiences, ed" leaders are under pressure to deny Drover's Wife', Phillip Adams overstates when he writes describes the big picture theatres of Sydney their humanity. (Their egos are also not that as that city's true cathedrals. inactive.) People cannot handle a ruler who apologises or repents. He or she is seen to Becoming a mother was a time, repeated the car is the one place in which he feels really at home, in some sort of control. They have been replaced in our age by be weak, bo people find transcendence often at great risk, of painful yet creative the sacred cathedrals of consumerism - through this questionable political fantasy. transcendence. Botli Catholicism and Prot The Australian does Everything in his car. He shops in it, copulates in it, eats in it, the big shopping complexes. Within these estantism pressed upon mothers the task of impersonal but glittering concrete markets being the moral guardians in their homes. sees films in it, is frequently bom in it and more frequently dies in it and would, the sacred rites of the spirit of our age are Those women of the middle and upper class if he could, be interred in it. experienced. The market for fantasy has been tapped es freed from domestic chores by servants even more methodically by television stat sou^t fulfilment either ui a quest for Yet certainly in the quest for a male identity beyond ordinary reality the car ions. Soap operas, chocolate voiced comp sophisticated social Ufe or other leisure eres, and packaged drama cater for a range activities. The more evangelical sought forms part of tlie identi-kit. Within Australia as elsewhere in the worid of needs in the suburban landscape. They meaning and a sense of godly social destiny some find transcendence through absorpt accentuate what they fill - loneliness. through philanthropy. ion into a political cause or through attract They provide isolated escapism or trans That raises another form of transcen ion to a political leader. The election of cendence. As with the racetrack, so with dence, of, if you like, idolatry. The quest Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister in 1972 the suburban lounge — no social movement In the twentieth century moral crusades for assurance of virility by AustraUan men, had touches of messianic exuberance about shall start from its comfort while a tele still transcend the ordmary Uves of a number whether on foorball fields, in bouts of beery it. Jesus had proclauned that the time of vision is switched on. What does this have to of AustraUan women. The majority however consumption, or in macho styles, is affirm God's Kingdom was near. Labor slogans say in regard to Christian ministry in Aust are drawn througli the pages of Australia's ed with the experience or boasted tale of proclaimed 'It's Tune' for a new era to raUa? proUferating women's magazines to reach a begin. Certainly the adulation Gough Whit orgasm. For many it has become the closest In the face of many Australians' delist greatness beyond themselves in fashion, lam received at some of his election rallies they come to religious awe. If sociologist in beer and betting the Protestants brought beauty transformation, romantic short stor presented for some present an encounter Paul Wilson is correct, it is sadly to be inclu temperance wowserism. In the face of ies or gossip of the doings of royalty. Leis witli a tratiscending experience. ded amongst the experiences of isolated growing passion for egalitarianism, those of ure, especially sport, is the local escape transcendence because of the inability of from what is seen as ordinary suburban the Catholic wing emphasised the holiness of Australian adults, especially men, to share Nor is the promise of transcendence the church hierarchy and insisted that priests existence. Those most skilled rise to head intimacy. line heists - for other women that comes lacking from conservative political figures. be called not mate but Father. The church largely through being members of parUa- Professor John Yoder has noted how a win have to lose its atmosphere of dull ment or by bemg the wives of poUticians. change of faith occurred amongst Christians safety - an ethos congenial to those of mid The poor amongst the women of Australia Fantasy also provides transcendence. It when Constantine espoused their faith. Be dle class orientation who dare to venture little. struggle to endure existence with little takes us into a dimension beyond our fore that event and its ramifications, Christ Caring needs to be invigorated by the inter fantasy and no headlines for their trans humdrum existence. Film-going provided ians had to believe by faitli that God was in weaving of diversity, creativity and daring. cendence. tiie weekly entrance into fantasy after control of history. With Constantine they Worid War I. It took tlie place of any deep simply needed to believe that history was •-•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•• reappraisal in Australia to that momentous being shaped by the godly ruler. This is one
Semper, September 8,1981 'Brisbane Scene': Gladtobegay
Sing if you 're glad to be gay, ercial venues around town, Brisbane Scene issue advertised for a writer on feminist Sing if you 're happy that way... intends to cater to private as well as public issues, and this is part of an overall poUtical mtlSKA.M'. Tom Robinson may have sung from gays. direction that Wheatley would like to see a public stage, but Brisbane's gay pop "If you have a look at our first issue, the paper take. ulation did very little singing until there's an article on VD, which is going to the publication of Brisbane's first be a lot more relevant to private gays than "Some of the articles in that first issue pubUc ones. You see, your closet homosex were designed to provoke response, such as gay newspaper, Brisbane Scene. ual tends to be somebody who has the same the highly critical article on the Camp Club. 7Br!|lfl/ Valltr y , Nigbt The first issue hit the streets on August idea of sex as a Victorial lady - it's a lot of If we can get the gay community to question Spots 3rd, and the paper will be published month whispers and innuendos and picking it up as some of the things that they previously ly vwth a proposed circulation of 1500. The you go. accepted in a passive fashion, then we can 16 page first issue carried sections such as only improve matters. ^•Hx-/I J 1 t Gay News, Where the Action Is, VD and the "Talking to people away from that com gay scene, movies, theatre, fiction. mercial scene, there are a lot of people who "One thing I'd like to see develop out of are unaware that such a thing as, say, a gay Brisbane is an alternative to the very heavy David Wheatley, the editor and publisher bar really exists. If the paper has a positive commercial scene. There's a lot of people /] of Brisbane Scene, said that the publicaUon role it is to convince these people that publii; in competition for the gay dollar, and I'd of a gay paper showed a degree of accept homosexuality does not begin and end at i* like to see the gay community flexing their ance of homosexuality that did not exist the nearest public toilet", says Wheatley. economic muscle", says Wheatley. in Australia even a few years ago. "In Brisbane Scene, there are quite a One group who have been ignored com The second issue came out on August •M lot of people - both gay and straiglit - who BRISBANE PREMIERb - From page 5 - developed of the Australian mining indust executives and a vast pool of second rate Other than the development of technology Freedom is manipulated through advertising. ries. It is cheaper to get it done elsewhere. jobs. to displace jobs, a great deal of the money The owners of production haven't changed, Australia is rapidly approaching the crisis The interests of transnationals are linked is spent on creating new products. As less they've just gone international. which Latin America suffered in the late with' many government decisions which at and less money becomes available for uni sixties and seventies. Australia is becoming first seem unconnected. The large defence versity and other public research, more is The most pressing concern is to under increasingly heavily dependent on foreign budget is mostly aUocated to TNCs, which paid for and directed by TNCs. Knowledge stand the TNC, because knowledge is power, investment. TNCs take much and return as the New Guinea government discovered' little. Resources which make Australia in its interactions with Kennecott Copper a potential 'great worid power', will not "Imperialism exports not only capital, technology, goods and people, Corporation. As a review of the book last indefinitely and we have few indige 'Fitting to Win; Business Political Power", nous manufacturing or agricultural concerns but also the ideology designed to help maintain it put it: "The strategy must identify the to take their place. With the withdrawal of a in perpetuity." -E.L- Wheelwright. supporters of the anti-corporate position large number of corporations, the Aus and tlieir motivation. A winning corpor tralian economy will coUapse as did many of ate single issue constituency can more often the countries in Latin America. At this are heavily involved in the 'production of is now owned through Ucenses and patents. be motivated by an emotional fear - such as stage the TNCs offer loans at high rates of destruction'. New electronic and chemical The rest of the research is put into adver threat of a job loss - than by an inteUectual interest. devices have peacetune appUcations as well. tising, which creates wants, and make a use acceptance of the company's positive, The discussion about deregulating the banks less product necessary. Products already on argument." If Australia follows the same pattern as is not to give greater competition in the the market are given a superficial, cosmatic Latin America, the government needs to finance area but to open the way for a TNC change and then advertised as new and It is becoming more and more certain promise much for TNCs to return. The first takeover of Australia's financial institutions. improved. that TNCs cannot be controlled. The only signs of coUapse can be seen in the rising way apparently open is nationalization of number of unemployed, especially migrants, There are far more serious unplications of To paraphrase Devo: "Freedom of choice TNC industries, which necessitates the women and young people. The corporation the TNC dominance of the worid economy. is what we got. Freedom from choice is acceptance of a socialist alternative. has created a new international division of Much TNC capital is spent on research and what we want." 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I think that this has happened kinds of people — sometimes organised as particulariy in the last two or tliree months. consumers, sometimes as unionists - do to Perhaps for the first time ever, Australians defend particular things. have begun to understand that foreign The Aborigines are obviously the best ownership of the economy, particularly and most consistant example of tliis. And the mining sector, has some immediate not surprising, their patriotism is so much impact on them through rises in interest part of their whole culture and their relig rates. ious activities. For them the distinction Previously tiie notion of foreign owner between to love one's own country and to ship in the Australian economy was looked love one's people is an unreal one. They upon as a general thing. Perhaps you didn't simply cannot make that kind of distinction. Uke somebody else owning your country, So it isn't surprising that they've been but it didn't really make any difference to waging battles agauist the foreign companies. your economic welfare. I don't think that But there are other groups of people has ever been true, it's always been of great who in defending some particular right, economic importance, but it's never actually run up against these corporations. I think connected back to something that you have that we're beginning to learn tlirough the to pay for out of your pocket. interest rates issue that there is some real Well, in the last two or three montlis, coimection between that mysterious thing, perhaps a bit longer, housing interest rates international economy, and fanmediate wel have gone up for one reason and one reason fare, week by week. And that people will only, because there's so much foreign have to find ways of defending themselves. money pouring into the country. It's an amazing thing that interest rates have gone I'd Uke to talk a Uttle now about AustraUan up because there is so much money. The culture. Disagree with me if you want but normal argument of supply and demand in two areas that I am interested in, Austra would be that interest rates would go up lian film and rock music, I think there is when there was a shortage of money. In less evidence of the cultural cringe. In some fact, interest rates have gone up when there Robert Helpmann is re-assurirrg us that to be Australian is great, ways Australians are becoming proud of their culture, do you thuik that is true? is an excess of money. They've been pushed mate, as the rousing chorus of 'Aussie Bonds' swells around your living I'd agree with that. I think you'd stiU up by the Treasury to reduce the demand room. Is that an ache in your heart, or in your stomach? for money. find the cultural cringe alive and well among They are pushing up the interest rates and Australian Nationalism is becoming conspicuous, especially in st intellectuals and academics, but ordinary that means people have to pay more for advertising and political campaigns. AustraUans have no problem about being their houses and for their rent. AustraUan. I don't think it worries them at Is it part of a new feeling towards Australian independence or the all. We're in a situation where not only are jingoistic nationalism of the past? ANNE JONES asked writer Australians not allowed to own their own It's even better than being proud. I capital, they're not even allowed to own and historian, Humphrey McQueen. think there's a sense of ease. Pride some their own home, in order to pay for some times leads you to think thay they may be one else taking over the country. That's hiding a cultural cringe, that you've got to how bad tWngs have got and out of that be proud of everything just because it is there is a greater feeling for Australian in Australian. One of the things about being dependence. feel this already, let's see if we can turn it at ease with yourself is that you can say, practice. The practice of that idea was to 'WeU that's bloody terrible! We did it and encourage the slaughter of Australians on to our advantage, let's see if we can soften Do you think that the AustraUan govern it, take the real core out of it by pretending it's bad!' The capacity to face up to that is behalf of the British Empire. Now that's part of rejecting the cultural cringe. ment and also advertisers are more or less not what 1 would describe as very much that pro-Americanism is in some way pro- bringing their own downfall because they pro-Australian or patriotic in any sense. Australian, In some areas of film it's certainly true. have been encouraging a sort of patriotism But they are simultaneously providing 'Breaker Morant' was particularly inter in advertising and political campaigns? Advertising campaigns have been going some of the. propaganda and ideas that will esting because what it always seemed to They've been using koala labels on their on for a Ultle while. General Motors Holden go on feeding it. That's not their intention, be saying was, you can't run anybody else's products. I wouldn't call that either patriot have always tried to promote themselves of course, but that's what happens as a result. country. The whole thrust of the film was ism or nationalism, because in most cases as Australia's own car although they were not so much about Breaker Morant and it's designed to perpetuate the foreign totally owned by General Motors Corpor U Australians are beginning to wake up to whether he killed somebody, but that once domination of AustraUa. For something to ation in America. That campaign was about American and foreign imperialism; what do you start to try to run somebody else's be truly part of Australia, it has to not con being as Australian as kangaroos and meat you see as the result of that awakenuig? country whether it's the Boers running tribute to that foreign domination. pies and football and Holden cars. To some extent that depends on how the black's country or the Brits runnmg If you take nationaUsm as an idea floating They were recognising in the early it's politically organised. Certainly the be South Africa, or the Brits running Australia around, you can say pro-American feelings, seventies, this growing sense of AustraUan haviour of the Labor Party in the last elect - il just doesn't work. It's interesting that pro-British feelings in the first World War desire to run our own country and they ions was not particulariy encouraging. They it got to be so popular. sent off 300,000 young AustraUans, so were cashing in on that eariy. Not so much had a slogan, 'Raise the Standard' and they In all sorts of areas of high and low cul 60,000 of them could get shot. You could cashmg in as tryuig to degut it, to circum ran up the flag with the Union Jack on it. ture we are overcoming the cringe. In rock describe that as part of Australian National vent it before it got under way. They've now declared themselves to be music it happened in a funny kind of way, ism but only if you cut the idea off from the They were trying to say people really republican, so this tune they might run up initiaUy with the bcUef that AustraUan - Coniinued on following page - Semper, September 8,1M1 11 — From previous page - All you need to say tralia tried to estabUsh a real uidependence singers could be as good as the Americans Cultural NationaUsm is an essential is that you're as good or part of political, economic and defense bad as anybody else. from the United States at present. They unitating the Americans. And Johnny would certainly try a whole set of what are O'Keefe was very important, it couldn't independence. When you have the confid ence to do your own thing and be by your Has chauvinism been part of what has been poUtely called destabiUsmg activities and have happened without him and that gen they may well be enougli to get what they eration. That next generation went over to selves and do good and interesting things, called AustraUan nationalism? America and became big stars over there. then you can pluck up the courage to de It's certainly been part of what's called want. Tliat convinced Australians that you didn't mand your own car industry. Australian nafionalism. But it is mostly part Whether they would be prepared to lose have to go there. It could aU happen here. So the cultural part of it is absolutely of imperial domination of this country, both their military bases and their so-caUed in essential. I don't think we'U be able to vestments, I doubt if they'd be prepared control our own economy until there is a to say, 'Oh well, you win some you lose As long as they buy our albums. But trying some.' We'd probably have a real fight to tie this aU back in to part of the whole real sense of ease about our cultural ident ities and our cultural production. on our hands at one level or another. How growlh of nationalism, do you see this as far it would get would depend on the world part of it? Tliat's probably the same with the Aborigines, One of the things that holds situation at that moment, but certainly Oh yes, you see one of the things that if we were the only thing they had to worry keeps us believing that we've got to have them together, that enables them to go on battling against seemingly impossible odds about they'd send the marines. American troups, we've got to have Amer I tliink if it was just a matter of people ican money - is the belief that we can't do .fROM. wanting it, then it would happen tomorrow. anything good. But it isn't just a matter of people wanting The oldest example of that is asking it, it's a matter of re-organising the whole people how many American Indian tribes economic and political system in the country. they can name and how many Australian Aboriginal tribes. And what it demon strates instantly is that wc have heads fiUed with American film culture. The belief that comes with that is that everything good and exciting conies from some other country. directed against other people on behalf of ^o TKOROUCHIV WiTERPROOF those empires and also as a reaction against ,« k FREStRVIS UATHER > / being dominated by Britain and America. You then build up this sense of your own BLACK empty importance. So you've got to go around saying that you're better than every is that they are quite sure who they are and body else and you know they're better why they're there and why it belongs to because they've got control of you. And you them. These people aren't better than them, can't get rid of chauvinism until you've got these people are in fact inferior because they real independence in every area. And I don't don't have any real beUefs and nationalism think it can happen m one area without in that cultural sense which is absolutely working through all the others as weU. >| DINKUM /* essential. That doesn't mean any sense of chauvin And is it possibly within our grasp at this Tha llluitrstlons on thij paga and on ism. Chauvinism usually arises when you stage? l)i1( Issue's cover corns from 'Symbols of can't be independent. It arises when you are I don't know that it's within our grasp Auitralla', compiisd by MImmo Coizolino, trying to assert yourself and therefore you as easily as that. I don't know what the publlshad by Penguin say that everybody else is inferior to you. American government would do if Aus- TRIM CITY GYM & FITNESS CENTRE FOR RESOLVE STRESS MEN & WOMEN & TENSION ^. 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The whole genre of bush culture was shelved, Wilfred by theestablishraent of FM radio stations in 1975. Owen and Rudyard Kipling were widely read, and the nat Warren Fahey runs an assorted folk paraphenaha shop Sid Vicous? The Damned? Any of the new breed ional sport became two-up. in Sydney called Folkways, as well as llrriken records, a of Satanic jesters? He and his group have been Fifty years later, the digger legend was totally irrelevant label speciaUzing in bush music. playing for over ten years now, but Dobie Newton to an Austrahan. The early 70's was a time of blandness, 'As a record company, I tend to look towards the al and his group The Bushwackers, would blanch at and the upheavals in France, Germany, London, and ternative radio stations as being an obvious target for our any description of their music other than bush. America accentuated Australia's feeling of lack of cul sort of music, because we provide more intelUgent music tural tradition. than the mulri-nationals produce.' A common misnomer for bush music is country music. Country music is a twangy, Tamworth, Tex Morton style Musically, a strong folk scene existed. But this was very 'Double X in Canberra, which is basically a community that is dominated by the steel guitar and has its roots home much a solo scene, with an individual singing and accom station based witliin a university, much the same as your on the range in the American mid-west. panying liimself on the guitar. Rock 'n roll had tempor 4ZZZ, has since it's inception programmed a considerable Australian bush music is, like so much of Australian arily done it's dash; Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens were the amount of bush music on their playlists.' culture, Irish based, and developed as a distinctive Aus messiahs of early 70's Australian youtli. 'Their 'Lark in the Morning' (a Sunday morning folk tralian sound in the second half of the 19th century. AU this, plus an emerging nationalistic surge, which programme) is the most listened to programme on the Gough Whitlam both played upon and developed led to entire staUon, and it outrates for listening audiences even The romantic theory has it that the only instmments a closer examination of Australian roots. As the 70's pro the current rock 'n roll programmes', says Fahey. bushmen could take on the track were compact ones, such gressed, no-one would play 'Waltzing Matilda' in a folk as tin whistles, mandoUn, fiddle. Certainly the guitar, an club, but the 'Rliybuck Shearer' was very much on the y 1978 Australian bush music had developed to the essential in modem folk groups, was added later. The harp, cards. extent that it was recognised as a valid form of music which gives Irish folk music a softer, more rounded sound, Bin its own right. The Bushwackers set off for London, is absent from all Australian folk tunes. The revival in Great Britain of traditional folk music and in 1979 The Cobbers followed suit. On the other side, Australian music can boast as its accelerated the Australian revival. Groups such as Steeleye 'We'd play as support for the Oiris Burgon Jazz Band, own unique instrument, the lagerphone, a percussion in Span and Fairport Convention began touring Australia, and the fellow who was their manager said, "Have you strument made of beer bottle tops nailed to a board which and their electric folk/rock style influenced the previously ever thought about coming to England, I want you to is attached to a long stick, and the wliole device is struck staid Australian format. play in a rock concert". We said "Oh yeah, sure," but sbc with another stick. Still, the bush music revival was not an instant pop fad months later we got up and left," said Christy Cooney. which bedazzled Australia. Christy Cooney is an Irishman Many of these early practitioners of bush music had who came to Australia in the late 60's, and in 1972 formed Subsequently in 1979 at the height of punk rock. The been middle class, educated men back in the home country a band to play Australian bush music, TTie Cobbers. Cobbers found themselves playing on the same bill as who had come to make their fortunes m the gold rushes. 'When we started playing, people used to look at us as if 77ie Qash. Peter Gabriel, and 77ie Damned at the Redding When the massive nuggets failed to materialize, a lot of we had two heads. Outside of folk clubs, people just used Rock Festival. these men were forced on to the land as shearers or fencers. to treat Austrahan music as a joke. In Ireland there had 'All the punks liked the lagerphone for some reason, I This solitude coupled with their new-found working class been a very big band scene, and this more or less put me on think it must look destrucrive. They didn't have a clue status gave rise to a songwriting activity that was often the path to forming a group,' says Cooney. what we were singing about - shearing and all that — but political in nature. Tlie Cobbers first venue was the Dan O'Connell pub in I think they liked the music because of its energy,' says 'Waltzing Matilda', the story of a swag^e who drowns Cariton, Melbourne. It must have been lively at The Dan', Cooney. himself after being hounded by the squatters and troopers, as the Bushwackers were another group playing there at TTre Cobbers spent about two months in England, Ire is a case in point. that time. land, and Scotland before going lo America. There they Early years for bush bands were something of a struggle played in New York before going to California to a 'folic Bush music was, of course, only one element b the festival' which turned into 'The Great American Show cultural stream of the 1890's which led to Federation and as they fought with radio stations for space on playlists. In 1975, the Brisbane folk group. Vie Wayfarers, played Down' featuring such bands as the Flying Buritto Brothers, established the independent, self-reUant bushman as the Canned Heat, and the Charlie Daniels Band. epitome of all things Australian. as the supporting band to Steeleye Span, and the audience - Continued on page 18 - Semp«r, September 8,1981 .13 Learning under pressure The semester system is currently under review at Queensland University. LYN TAYLOR reports. Although there is widespread dis far more conducive to continuous assess even keen students read virtually that there was time to study only two poets satisfaction with the current semester ment than is a semester system. nothing that is not prescribed, that and no drama and that those works which were covered were done so sketchily. system, particulariy amongst the staff, For many subjects at this University, the semester system keeps students working, and that students have less A semester system encourages the break it is unlikely to be radically altered. the term 'continuous assessment' is a mis nomer - 'conrinual assessment' would be time to participate in the extra ing up of learning into smaller parcels and The costs of reverting to the year closer to the tmth. Students do not like to curricular side of University life. the fear is often expressed that this makes system would be high. Because of be set orUy one assignment worth all or most it quite possible for a student to complete the present government economic of the marks for any of their subjects as Under a year system, there would be a very fragmented degree. On the other policies the University is so hard this is too much of a hit or miss situation. time for students to do a couple of pieces hand, students have a much wider choice of pressed treading water (it is sinking It does not allow for any room for improve of work simply for comment from the tutor subjects than under a year system and can in fact) that innovations, whatever ment, learning from one's errors or experi or lecturer rather than for marks. Students specialise more narrowly in their areas of the education justification for them, mentation. Consequently two or three could then afford to be more adventurous interest. are unthinkable. assignments often followed by an exam are rather than having to play it safe because the order of the day for most semester they were being assessed. Tlie semester Staff members object to the semester To many students, the semester system subjects. Multiply this by four or five, system must be particularly difficult for first system on the grounds that it lengthens the seems like the natural order of things. The depending on the number of subjects the year students. Virtually before they have academic year, involves them in more admin facts are, however, that most of Australia's student is enrolled for and then squeeze had time to find the Library, their first istrative work and does not leave much of a nineteen universities still operate under a all into thirteen weeks. Repeat tlie whole assignment (possibly worth fifty percent of clear break for research. In terms of admin year system. Queensland University has performance in second semester and you their marks) are due in. istration, a semester system must be more sported a semester system since 1974. will be faced with a recipe for constant costly than a year system in that it involves two exam periods as well as re-enrolments When the decision was taken to change pressure at best, suicide at worst. Another frequent complaint about the in the middle of the year. over to the semester system, it was assumed semester system is that it encourages shallow When the semester system was introduced that the rest of the universities would do The semester system provides no oppor ness in the coverage of the work. There is no in 1974, many arguments were advanced to likewise. This, however, did not occur. tunity for practice assignments — everything time in thirteen weeks for in-depth study. support it. One of these was that it would Monash University changed over but, realis must count. T.E.D.I. (the University's Many students make the suggestion on their reheve the burden on very popular subjects ing the error of their ways, changed back to research institute) published a review of Alternative Handbook questionnaires that because they could be repeated in both the year system as quickly as possible. the semester system in 1978 noting: some subjects (particularly in the Arts semesters. Another was that if students For some reason, people tend to con The picture on assessment is clear, Faculty) should be spread out over a year failed a subject, they could repeat it in the fuse the issues of the semester system and from a number of statements. A large so that there is more time for discussion next semester rather than having to wait continuous assessment. Many think that a majority of staff agree that the and the pursuing of areas of special interest for the following year. reversion to the year system would mean a amount of assessment has increased, to the student. reversion to block-buster end of year exams arui that students give little attention In a first semester En^ish course called However, what has tended to occur is as the only means of assessment. Quite the to anything but meeting assessment 'Introduction to Twentieth Century Liter reverse is the case in that a year system is requirements. It is also agreed that that existing year subjects were broken into ature' for example, students complained two parts as the University simply does not have the facilities to mn many subjects in both semester. Of 115 first-year-Arts subjects offered in 1981, only twenty are offered in both semesters. At the 9th Ordinary Meeting of the ter which Committee meets first some busi APPOINTED BY COUNCIL. 70th Council of the University of ness is left unfinished. There is also unnec LSC/49 (Page 47) In recent years the semester system has Queensland Union to be held on essary duplication of discussion on theseTha t Regulation 8.1.1 (a) be amended to created serious problems for student parents committees. As well, over the last few yearsrea d "A CONVENOR ELECTED AT THE in that school holidays were still organised Wednesday the 30th SeptemLo- 1981 on a three term basis and vacation child-care at 6.15p.m. In the E.G. Whiur^m the practice has grown where the memberSPECIAL ELECTION COUNCIL." ship varies by only one or two from UHC has been difficult to organise. Even though Room, the following Constitution LSC/50 (Page 48) to FAC.) the schools have re-organised their holidays Change will be presented for a First That in Regulation 10 1.1 (b) the word along semester hnes this year, the difficulties Reading - "Treasurer" be deleted. have not been alleviated because University REGUUTION CHANGES (1st Reading) LSC/51 (Page 51) and school holiday times are still out of THE FOLLOWING REGULATION That Sections 9.53 and 9,54 of the Con That Regulation 10 1.1 (f) be changed to phase. stitution be deleted and the following CHANGES WILL BE PRESENTED FOR A read Regulation 10 1.1 (f) enacted in their place: FIRST READING: LSC/52 (Page 51) 9.53 A management committee shall be set THAT THE FIRST READING OF THE That in Regulation 10 3.12 the following With the introduction of the semester up in accordance with the REGULATION CHANGES BE ENACTED. words be added after the word "council" system came the credit point system. There {/) regulations to (!) supervise and conduct McKENNA/ on the last line . . . "and consistent with is no doubt that the workload per credit the trading operations and premises of That Regulation 2.5.33 be deleted, any Budget of the various committees or point varies dramatically from subject to the Union, LSC/43 (Page 33) Areas." LSC/53 (Page 52) subject. In spite of student complaints (ii) advise council on maners pertaining to {The appointment of a Finance Secretary That Regulation 4 5,30 be deleted and about the heavy workload in some subjects, finance in accordance with the Regul no longer exists) the following enacted in its place: the credit point ratings are difficult to ations. That In Regulation 10.5.14 th words "to 5. Turbot Street Area Committee change. The main reason for this is the (/7) The Committee shall have the power to the Finance Secretary or" in the third line 5.30 (1) The Turbot Street Area Committee economic nature of the credit point i.e. enact, amend or repeal By-Laws consistent be deleted. LSC/44 (Page 53) shall consist of; credit points help to detemune W.S,U,s with the Regulations and &3nstitution of the That in Regulation 4 11.47 the words "Con (a) The Turbot Street Area Vice President (weighted student units) which in turn University of Queensland Union whidi by venor of the House Committee" be deleted. as Convenor. help to determine the level of funding laws shall have force and effect upon their LSC/45 (Page 42} (b) The President of the Union (or the which each department receives. As with adoption by union council. G.V.P. as his/her deputy). contuiuous assessment, however, the two That in Regulation 4.11.45 amend the last do not necessarily go hand in hand and the The Committee shall consist of; (c) The Union Secretary. line to read "Regulation 13.21.103." issues have become confiised. a) The Treasurer as Convenor LSC/46 (Page 42) (d) The Union Treasurer. b) Sudi ex-officio members as provided by That Regulations 5 2.13 (1) (e) and Regu (e) The President of the University of The University Committee vvhich is the Regulations lation 5 2.13 (3) be deleted. Qld. Dental Students Association. currently reviewing the semester system is c) Eight (8) members elected by and from LSC/47 (Page 44) (f) One other person appointed by the moving very slowly so even if they do decide the members of the Union. That Regultton 7 4.14 (1) and 7 4.15 (2) UQDA. that the semester system is not worth retaui- d) One person appointed by the Senate of be deleted and the following enacted in its (g) One representative elected by and ing, change would not come quickly. After the University who shall not have a vote. from students in each clinical year. seven years of the system, most students and e) Three (3| staff members elected by and THE PERSONS APPOINTED BY COUN (2) At meetings of the committee a quor many staff have never known any other. from the University of Queensland CIL TO MANAGE TRADING OPER um shall be five (5). For those who have, the semester system Union except those who are ex office ATIONS CONDUCTED ON THE (3) The Turbot Street Area Committee leaves much to be desired. as provided for in the Regulations. UNION'S BEHALF FROM TIME TO shall a) administer monies pursuant to Reg. LSC/55 (Page 13} TIME SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE 10.11 8( 10.12 b) report to council and REFERENCE: THROUGH U.H.C. TO COUNCIL FOR make recommendations ori matters that T.E.O.l. A Report on a Review of the Semester (At the moment mattens need to t>e con THEIR OPERATIONS, LSC/48 affect students as Turbot Street Area System. (U.Q., October, 1978). sidered by both UHC and FAC and often 7 4.15: Students. LSC/54 (Page 40) matters have to go to UHC first while others THAT SUCH PERSONS REFERRED TO FIONA McKENNA have to go to FAC. This means that no mat- IN REGULATION 7.4.14 ABOVE BE Union Secretary 14 Black rights in Queensland The find round The rights of Queensland Aborigines are under threat. Uniting Church minister, DR NOEL PRESTON, puts the case for land rights. - Excessive delegation by Pariiament of ers are encouraged to be "normal Queens- LAND - THE ISSUE It is intolerable that Aboriginal landers". In effect, the not so subtle aim As always it is the land issue which is Australians are governed by widely legislative and other powers to the ad ministration with inadequate hmitation of abolition of the Acts is the abolition critical - and it is the land issue where the differing legislation throughout this and Uttle real prospect of any effective of the Aborigines as a race. National Party is most intransigent. It is Commonwealth. Pariiamentary review. This assimilation Une is the pliilosophy worth recalling the hypocritical and cynical - A series of major and minor violations of the Department of Aboriginal and Is approach of Queensland authorities to the In particular, some have land rights with of fundamental human rights as form landers Advancement. It fits like a hand land of indigenous people. In a dispute with fair protections like the Pitjantjatjara people; ulated in the Universal Declaration of in glove with the outlook of many in the Papua New Guinea in 1978 over the Strait others are paupers who have lost their land. Human Rights and in successive pro gerrymandered Queensland parliament who Islands, the Queensland Government claimed The critical, immediate focus of this . nouncements of the International Com are ruthlessly intolerent of minorities, the Islanders' traditional ownership was question is, once again, the Aboriginal and mission of Jurists. those who are "different", and those who under threat from Papua New Guinea. Islander population of Queensland. "The dissent, whatever the colour of their skin. Today that ownersliip claim is denied. Acts" which have determined their lives WHY ARE "THE ACTS" GOING? Aboriginal people in Queensland have de since the last century are to go; but what In announcing the repeal of the Acts (3) The chief motivation, however, clared themselves for ownersliip of land. will replace them? As this article is written, last July, the Premier has conceded none is to open up areas for mining, tourism, 85.6% of those surveyed in a research pro we are in the penultimate stage of a human of these criticisms. Not surprisingly, his and other interests. Although Aboriginal ject of 1978-79 by the Foundation for rights drama which is a watershed in Aus- announcement and his initial briefing of reserve lands contribute only two per Aboriginal and Islander Research Action ttalian history. church leaders showed no coherent plan cent of the area of Queensland, they in asked for that "Inalienable freehold title". clude sites of great tourist potential, areas From Aunikun to Cherbourg and from Palm In launching the National Party election of reform. of major interest to bauxite, uranium Island to Doomadgee,this is what they want. platform in November, 1980, Premier The Premier's statement was vague. But and tin miners, to say nothing of fishing Bjelke-Petersen's announcement that the it seems that he intends to impose ridicu and forestry possibilities. Yet the pohricians are playing witli other Aboriginal Act and Torres Strait Islanders lous conditions on the leases: the land must options: a 50 year lease and a perpetual Act would be repealed was welcome. be used producUvely. No "miUtants" will The repeal of the Acts will pave the way lease. No lease will meet the just require The Acts have been the subject of con be included, etc. to de-gazette the Reserve Lands; any leases ments of Aboriginal people for security and siderable criticism throughout Australia Three intentions seem to motivate the then drawn up may avoid those areas of recognition of their prior ownership of tWs and overseas for many years. Law Professor land before the white invasion. National Party led Government in the vital interest to developers from around Garth Nettheim has been an infonned critic the worid who will impose the socially Prior to the Premier's recent announce of the legislation. Several years ago he anal proposal to abolish the Acts: (1) The Acts represent an embarrass devastating effects of their exploitation ment the Queensland Association of Pro ysed the Acts for the International Com fessional Anthropologists and Archeologists ment which is to be removed before the on to the indigenous peoples. The prog mission of Jurists. His criticism of Queens declared their support of Abori^nal claims 1982 Commonwealth Games in Queens nosis is for more and more Weipas around land law for Aborigines may be summarized Queensland. for land: "We believe that in the wake of as follows: land. protectionist and paternalist era in Queens- - Lack of consultation with the people (2) A step will be taken along the path most directly affected, namely the of assimilation as Aborigines and Island- Continued on page 18 — Aborigines and Islanders themselves Jt^ .•;^S:S *=:•;!%;?>>?• vwf .. . .* , 4 Semper, September 8,1981 — Frompage is justice to Queensland Aborigines is too priorities of economic development" against land legislation should be passed to enable high? "human development" which the Queens inalienable freehold title of reserve lands land Premier so blatantly expresses? to be held by Aboriginal and Islander The reality to date has been that the Eraser Government does not have the will land tnists. Where Aboriginal and Islander There may yet be the possibility for a people desire it, such trusts will consist of to put justice for Aborigines ahead of its own pohtical and economic expediency. deal better than the seventy-one year old discrete groups of traditional owners (or It is relarively simple to refuse visas to Queensland Premier has unilaterally offer clans) who will hold title to the parts of the Springboks; it is a more effective test to ed; but clearly this is the last chance in reserves that are their tradirional lands. look at Australia's commitment to Abor Queensland for full land ri^ts and approp "Elsewhere, land trusts may also con igines. riate self-management legislation. Anything sist of discrete large extended family group short of this will be repudiated by most black Australians and should be rejected by ings which hold title to separate freehold Already the Aboriginal Affairs mmister. the churches and all AustraUans of good-will. blocks within the reserve; in these cases the Senator Baume, has sided with the Premier If our democracy fails to respond to the nature of the division into freehold blocks of Queensland over the 50 year leases. His wishes of Queensland Aborigines in this would be agreed upon by the Aboriginal Department's public relations newsletter case, it will be another signal not only to and Islanders communities, though not- took the same line in its newsletter of blacks but to many of us white Australians necessarily on the basis of traditional land July 24th; it gave front-page coverage to the that our democracy is not to be trusted. tenure systems. Premier's statement and made no criticism of it. "A further possibility which may be ex INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY plored by communities is that title to the A Federal Government which for years has refused to provide one cent in Queens In contrast to the "wobbly" support total area of the reserve be held by some land to conferences or organisations con of Queensland church leaders, the World fonn of single elected Aboriginal or Islander cerned to raise the issue of Aboriginal land Council of Churches invesUgative report land tmst. We do not believe leasehold title rights and which backed down over Aurukwn released on August 10th has correctly and (including the kind currently held by the and Mornington Island cannot be trusted to directly summed up the issues. communiries at Aumkun and Mornington be courageous in this regard on behalf of They said; "Powerful multinational in Island) to be a sufficiently secure form of Queensland blacks. terests have already contrived with the tenure for Aboriginal and Islander comm States to deprive Aborigines of their rights ... unities." The fact is that Senator Baume's public This alliance poses a serious threat to Abor (The Catholic Leader, actions are making it difficult for Queens iginal survival." July 12,1981). land politicians like Bonner and Edwards to To supplement the machinery for land work for appropriate legislation on land The report goes on: "The Federal Govern rights, legislation would be needed to pro tenure. As Liberd leader, Dr. Llew Edwards ment has not met its constitutional respon vide resources and services for Aboriginal wrote on 6th August, that no submission has sibility to effect justice ... the passing of self-management. Clear proposals to this been made to Cabinet by the Minister for responsibihty back to the States can only be end have been made by Aboriginal groups Aboriginal Affairs on the repeal of the Acts. interpreted as political cowardice..." In the words of the Worid Council team such as F.A.I.R.A. He added, "the announcement recently report: "Only uitemational solidarity can made by.the Premier is not consistent with The reaction of the Queensland Premier bring the necessary pressure to achieve, at FEDERAL UNWILLINGNESS our own policy". to the visit of the W.CC. team is in itself an the least possible cost, the goals of the It is now beyond dispute that a Federal endorsement of the need for international Aborigmal people." Government which has the will, also has the Why are there no signs that the Eraser pressure in the struggle for justice for black power to achieve Land Rights in Queens Government is supporting the opponents of Australians. So the Commonwealth Heads The Governments and peoples of this land through the purchase of land. The cost the Queensland Premier on this quesrion of Government meeting in Melbourne short Commonwealth must face up to this or be of compensation to Queensland might be a within his own Government? ly, and the 1982 Commonwealth Games are shamed before the international community. dilTiculty; but, by what justification can the Could it be that the present Federal obviously cmcial opportunities to expose Government of Australia say the price for Government is committed to the same the human ri^ts deficiencies in our society. - From page 13 — us in our lifestyles are not that different town - Ronton, This End Up, Ringtail, 'People are proud now of bemg Aust By the time The Cobbers had returned in terms of political content than the old Bale Em Up, and the Venmdah Band. ralian, and this music is Australian music in eariy 1980, bush music had developed folk songs', says Warren Fahey. Brisbane lacks a specific folk venue, but in rnuch the same way that blues is the past the stage of performing strictly trad Sydney is the centre of this political/ the Tar Pot Folk Club at the National music of the American Negro', says Horr itional songs. The political/topical/comical topical/comical development, but Melbourne Hotel on Thursday nights and dances at ocks. ditty set to a traditional tune had evolved, has more bush bands, more venues, and Marawah Fanm are increasuig in popula Unhke the Venmdah Band, the Bale Em and the major practitioners of this form more people at concerts. There are only rity. Up's write some of the songs that they per- were the Adelaide band, Redgunt about six bush bands in Sydney on a Sat The Verandah Band are a seven member forni, and these songs are ui a comical Other groups adopted this style. 'The urday night compared with up to fifteen group who work about three nights a week rather than a political vein. old songs are obviously of vital importance, in Melbourne. at different venues around town. They are They're more appUcable to modem but a lot of bands are very aware of the fact Brisbane, ninning true to form, is follow a very traditional group who see dancing day Ufe than songs from days gone by. that they are part of the living tradition of ing the national revival a little slower and a as the basis of the bush music revival. One of our songs is "The Royal Ball", folk music. Many modem songs, be they little later. 'Dancing is an easUy organised, very soc set to a tune caUed "Finnigan's Wake", and political or songs about issues that affect There are five major bush bands around ial way of enjoying yourself. People don't it's about a romance between Prince Charies think "I've heard the music - I'll go to a and Dame Edna Everage', says Horrocks. dance", it's more "I've been to a dance and In aU this analysis there has been very I liked it" ' says Roger Rosser, a member Uttle mention of the music itself. It is very of the Verandah Band. for all ladies accessories rhythmic music that is easy to get involved and jewellery Russell Horrocks, of the Bale Em Up with, and very few people would leave a the band agrees that dancing is important, bush dance without having had, as Warren but feels that cultural factors also under- Fahey would say, a bloody good time. accessory pui the revival. OXLEY HEALTH & BRISBANE boutique BEAUTY SUPPLIES TIBETAN BUDDHISM Opposite Centre Stage •^Kawasaki Four Free introductory City Plaza Full range of vitamins & Lectures Phone 221 3508 natural cosmetlces PHIL DEfiumonr by Australian Monk Have you seen Led en Sherab Miss Trendy Lady? 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Though aware of the need to reduce * Design with minimum window areas power demand, 'most respondants were on the cast and west walls to reduce not interested in saving energy for its own eariy morning and late afternoon sake, or out of patriotism, idealism or summer heat load. Windows and roof concern for future generations'. overhung on the north side, absorbing A synopsis all the more distressing when radiation from the low winter sun, the energy problem is seen as fundamentally while shading windows from the higli one of over demand rather than under supply. summer sun. Prior to the industrial revolution, society * Insulate to nunimizc heat gain and loss kept in step with the complex energy e.g. build underground. flows used by other members of the bio * Landscape to provide shade, and re sphere. Then came the era of industrial duce winter breezes 'revelations' fuelled by cheap coal and oil, * Subdivide land to accomodate desir and based on increasingly energy-intensive able house siting and orientation. processes. While low-density detached housing The result is that our society's main- promotes self-sufficiency, medium- tainance (let alone development) demands density development facilitates sharing massive amounts of energy, scavenged from of energy resources. our environment, in retum for poUutants. The solution is low-energy design using, A startling example of passive heating not abusing, natural processes - a strategy design is the hydio-cleclricity generating withm grasp of our developing wealthy boards' multi-story headquarters in Toronto. nation. . The only heating source used is the build- Energy is a valuable commodity with ; ings' human inhabitants, lights and type regard to potential uses and profits. writers. In fact, suiplus energy is used to The Australian energy sector employs heat the adjacent building. less than 200,000 workers while providing The promotion of better energy manage An unusual strategy to increase use of Australia should follow the lead of the about 10% of the Gross Domestic Product. pubUc transport has been proposed by Peter American south-west where many self- From the levy hnposed on LPG and cmde ment is a major goal of our Federal Govern ment's energy policy. While commendable, Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy of the sufficient homes are being constmcted from oil alone, the Federal Government expected School of Environmental and Life Sciences materials ranging from glass bottles to an estimated $3157 miUion last financial one hopes this is a long-temi objective, and not a compensatory crutch to be dropped at Murdoch University. mbber tyres. year. , , . • r if a sustainable high-energy resource such They cite Brisbane as a prime example Dr S.V. Szokolay, director of the Arch The trend set for future decades is tor as fission is developed. of how high traffic congestion and few park itectural Science Unit at the University of AustraUa to be a net exporter of energy, Initiatives include the establishment of: ing spaces can reduce private vehicle use. Queensland, feels that houses with reduced mainly coal and uranium, while imported * National Energy Conservation Pro Taken to an organised extreme, this would energy demand can presentiy be built in Uquid fuels will be supplemented by petrol- gramme responsible for a fuel con force an increased use of public transport, Australia, The problem is marketing the pro eum substitutes such as seed oils and alcohol. servation campaign and a set of providing finance for much improved duct to the builder and the buyer. Proven Australian resources by Advisory Booklets for industry. services, and would allow the coiistmction One project in which he is currently energy content are uranium (12%), coal * National Industrial Energy Manage of malls, planting of trees, and a less involved is the restoration of a 55 year old (84%), gas and oil (3%), ment scheme to promote small and polluted central city area. nursing home at Alice Springs. The build Last decade, AustraUan total energy medium sized organizations to de Their study also recommends areas of ing's massive thick stone walls, extensive demand increased at an average annual velop energy management programmes. higher population density, which would verandahs and passive water-cooled venti growth rate of almost 4%. During 1979- * Energy Management seminar and eliminate suburban sprawl into undeveloped lation system reduces internal temperature 80 the largest energy consunung sectors workshop programme. land and promote shorter trips by foot and fluctuation to about 5 degrees C, whereas were electricity, gas, water (32%), manu * National Energy Management Awards bicycle. external changes may be as high as 25 degrees C. facturing (30%) half on basic metal pro scheme. ducts; and transport (26%) of wliich 74% Further, they claim that sub-regional Nothing short of total social upheaval was by road. LOW-ENERGY DESIGN centraUzation of faciUties would aid pubUc transport and reduce cross-city trips. could achieve a tmcly low-energy Australia, Our energy scenario is one of increasing Many may equate the energy crisis with However, significant change could be achiev denwnd, increasing coal and uranium tech- the increasing cost of fueUing cars. In doing Clusters of general services and dwellings positioned along pubUc transport routes ed today if thfe consumer were to become a nolopes and diminishing socio-environment- so a finger (or two) would be directed at conserver, utilizing public transport and could readily act as modular energy systems ti harmony, a villainous luxury requiring much energy investing in low-eneigy design buildings. - sharing a solar driven generator and a ENERGY MANAGEMENT to manufacture and function. In the long-term a self-sufficient Aus The most apparent solutions are to fennentation plant to convert garbage to traUa would liave to shift the job market The transition towards a low-energy biogas. future, will require basic changes in society's design a more efficient engine and body, out of the factories of energy-intensive , and to drive at 88 kpm; or to use an altern habits and physical stmcture. To start, we The effective use of alternative energy industry. Innovations like micro-circuitary must stop energy-intensive development and ative fuel such as alcohol, seed oU, LPG, could reduce demand for raw materials hydrogen or electricity. Whatever the resources such as solar, wind, biogas and promote low-energy design, whOe deeply- synfuels is aided by low-en .•19 iSamper? Sept8mber-8,-l981- Student tlieatre Nothing could be more aptly blamed it on bad scripts and unskilled train named than F.A.S.T. The Festival of ing. 'People just don't understand that a Australian Students Theatre, held rec certain standard has to be reached. And that ently at La Trobe University, provided they must demand of themselves,' Sue said. a racy saga of nouveau drama, work shops, creativity, or as some described And yet, Queensland University's produc it, pure arty-fartiness. tion, 'Off the Boat' received only praise and even stunned awe. As Greg Marginson, organiser, said; 'There were some gems. Over 200 students from tertiary drama Commedia was an absolute knockout societies throughout Australia experienced because the actors had training and skUls a stimulating interaction of plays, drama and a lot of work had gone into it.' he said. skills and discussion. Much of the' success of the week resulted from the superb org 'Frogleg', another Q.U.D.S. play.'aroused anisation of a few of the La Trobe stu heated discussion. Southerners slammed it as dents. 'a typically Queensland product'. We were Sue McClements, a F.A.S.T. co-ordinator left in a quandary wondering what that said they had been planning the week for meant. It was accused of using 'Joh' figures, ConandVince over eight montiis. It's been a fuU-tune being too sexy, sexist and self-indulgent. job. They strove to organise a F.A.S.T. that' But then, those were the pet words for the Melbourne has a large and lively thea same baby. We immediately swore brotheriy was innovative, interacting, in ... tre restaurant scene. Theatre restaur aUegiance and were put in a boy's home for week. ants? No, not Dirty Dick's style, but using bad language.' Tights were in as was Uie Melbourne, Workshops were worthwhile and gave rather a distinctly Australian, even But more recently both have appeared weather. But the dominant trend that students a tantilising whiff of various skills. in serious acting roles, together they present emerged, en^neered by the F.A.S.T. or vaudevillian theatre. Included were clowning, voice, playback the radio show 'Punter to Punter' on 3RRR ganisers, was the presentation of new or Out of this have come various theatre, circus skills, mime, community and have made a fihn called Take it Easy - nearly new plays by student drama groups theatre and creative dance. 'Creative dance performers and artists like the Whittle a Day in the Life of Con and Vince'. 'This idea mirrors La Trobe's approach Family, Los Trios Ringbarkus, and caused a main controversy because some In their blindingly chequered suits and to drama; self-written material, new con Con and Vince. cepts and improvisation,' Sue said. people think it's almost a pseudo-reUgion', variety of garish costumes, Con and Vince Greg said. Yes, some people did walk around BiUing themselves as 'stars of radio, film, deUver their humour which sends up Aust So naturally, plays tended to be experi feeling the air. television and all that', Con and Vince are raUan institutions and personalities. mental, 'home-grown' and of great variety. They ranged from caberets of poUtical in Queensland to open a new theatre restaur HopefuUy a theatre restaurant scene in ant in Caloundra, the Coral Capers. satire to plays about people fucking each Special activities were arranged. Students the Melbourne tradition wiU grow in south other up the arse. Queensland University could attend the Australian Nouveau Con and Vince are Tony Rickards and east Queensland, so we can accommodate Drama Society's plays were somewhere in Theatre, 'Anthill', for a stunning production Simon Thorpe who, they claim, 'met at the and encourage people Uke Con and Vince. between. of 'The Madman and the Nun'. Alternative legal tender age of 2/6 in the dark streets -ANNE JONES ly, the choice was the La Mama Theatre. A of Sunshine while stealing candy from the F.A.S.T. organisers admitted they were Barry^ Dickins play, 'The Ability to Eat disappomted with the standard of plays and Crow', was especially commissioned for F.A.S.T., which, despite Dickins' antics, was parochial. Ntghtty at 8 pm THli' Mattnees on WMs Films, demonstraUons, the Murray River Presenting the eight most popular fjlnrs from and Sit at 2 pm Perfonning Troupe, plus colourful clowning the Sydney Film Festival. Evening-$12,90 and $9.00 m the Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne kept Screened at the Schonell Theatre everyone on a high morivation plane despite $11.90 & $8,90 Friday Oct 2 -Saturday Oct 3 -Sunday Oct 4 Studants — $7.90 the late nights and hungover mornings. all parformaricM Interestingly, the symbol of F.A.S.T. Subcriptions: In advance from the Schonell •i0- and the American Book StocB. ^\ this year was a swift AustraUan bird, the $21 adilis, $18 students and pensioners. ^f^>' Emu. Anyone involved in the week would Fnday double bill: $7, $5 students and zealously agree with the F.A.S.T. organ pensionets. All other sessions: $4.50, isers that 'Emus keep mnning - even when $3,50 stixtents and pensioners; they've run out of path.' -KAY NICOL by Ronald Hsrwocx) Friday: TfiejoatisFull(Sw.) 7.30,doubled drecied by Rodney^isher PfpPle who missed out on the three wilh Marra Turns 100 {^.) 9.30 wtx A SUPERB AUjSTRAllAN CAST pre-F.A.S.T. performances of "Off the NOW PLAYING TIU SfPTEMBER 19fh. 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Oz Theatre is going through a So much for the touring scene - Bris 'popular' theatre boom period. Some bane's slice of the national action - what of thing it inherited from the 60's which the developments of theatre in this town as has been boosted along by the finan it relates to the Oz Theatre scene as a whole? cial squeeze of the 80's. The fervent Of foremost importance is the new Per healthy rush by Oz Theatre to inter forming Arts Complex, presently under con est and please a wider cross-section of struction across from the Queen Street the community does not mean an end bridge. In 1982/83 this wiU bring to Bris to high-styled inteUectual drama. It bane a wider range of higji-quality (expensive does mean, however, a simplification but subsidised) theatre events. Wliat this will do to the on-going theatre scene in of forms and styles, vi'ith a conscious Brisbane is difficult to say. Certainly it will emphasis on audience enjoyment and put a strain on the local tlieatre companies full understanding. as people have so much money to spend on entertainment and the Performing Arts Com The 'popular' theatre movement has plex will bring to Brisbane the best it can. taken two basic forms. One is a form of Perhaps this will ecccntuatc the polarisation 'popular' theatre in the large capacity between the mass 'popular' theatres and the theatres which present a commercial pro established community theatres producing duct that must meet the tastes and needs 'popular' theatre to develop audiences in of a mass audience and the other is simple small local areas. It is more likely that the but effective 'popular' entertainment in effect will be more complicated however, small theatres which has something to say with the Performing Arts Complex sharing to a localised audience. some of the community groups smaU 'popu In the 80's we have an insurgence of the lar' theatre's development role and the Com touring two-hander (eg. Los Trios Ring munity theatres needing in turn to commer barkus, Con & Vince) who perfomi at non- cialise (mass 'popularise') some of their theatre venues on a largely unexpected seasons to pay the rising bills. The appear audience (i.e. 279 Club with the Reels ance of large civic complexes in other state tour, U.Q. Refec al lunchtime). They do well as having a professional theatre-in- about euthanasia, did not sell like The capitals has had varied effects - I'm sure straight to tlie point comedy in a vaudevill education team which tours to pre-schools Dresser, starring Warren Mitchell {Alf Brisbane will be typicaUy unique. ian quick change of character style. This is in the Brisbane metropolitian area. Import Gamett, King Lear etc) and Gordon Chater What may appear as harsh judgements 'popular' theatre of the second detlnition, ant, too, are the frequent one-off projects (My Name's McGooley, etc). A liglit piece on the mass 'popular' theatre movement however then urgency to entertjun often outside the theatre which meet the needs of entertainment about backstage relation must be qualified by the obvious public leaves their poUtics under the back stairs - of various sectors of the community. ships, love and loyalty. Whose Life Is It interest and success of these shows. They as leminists wiU have noted. Popular Theatre Troupe, in association Anyway? did try to publicise itself as a do generate an enormous audience and with the Red Hill Community Arts Project, laugli a minute, rollicking comedy to make that is a benefit to Oz Theatre generally. also work with the aim of involving people up for the disadvantage of an 'unpopular' The smaUer community theatres make a Another familiar forai of small 'popular' subject, but the mistake had been made. theatre in Brisbane is that of La Boite in the process of theatre, not simply in much .stronger impact on only a small fract Obviously the mass 'popular' theatre, witli Theatre and Popular Theatre Troupe. viewing a finished product for leisure. They ion of the community at a time. hope to have a specific impact on an audi its widely defined target audience, succeeds La Boite is an eariy starter in the presently The 'popular' theatre movement means expanding fomi of Oz Theatre wl\ich con ence which they contact inrimately. best where the script is light and the play has Mass 'popular' theatre is quite different no intention of tliought-provoking impact. that audiences are developing both vertically centrated on a small impact community (small 'popular') and horizontally (mass base. Rather than look to a general mass because it is intrinsically linked with the This 'popular' theatre forni is geared to its financial demands of the industry and does need for massive audience support to make 'popular'). It seems, however, in the final audience, the aim of these community of analysis that theatre that is more than not seem to have the political or cultural it pay. legionil theatre companies (as some are substitute television - is where the found known) is to provide, not only a season of ideals of the small 'popular' theatres. If you And what of the two-hander/three-hander or solo commercial touring productions, ations lie for the future growth of socially- locally relevant productions, but a range of want to tour something as large as Vie , integrated theatre. That is a necessity, not participatory community activities. La Dresser you must know that the box office like Max Gillies' Scanlan, at La Boite? These are viable for touring because of their re a budget luxury. Much more needs to be Boite, for instance, tuns workshops for wiU flourish. One way of ensuring this is to done in the various areas of small 'popular' adults, a full youth theatre programme, as have name-known talent (stars) and a general duced costs in terms of actors' salaries and production/technical requirements. These theatre and under the banner of audience script which wiU please all; sometlung development, it possibly will. unpolitical, nice inoffensive stuff. are not mass 'popular' theatre shows, they •Barbara Allen was administrator of Cement Whose Life Is It Anyway? starring T.V. can afford to, and do, say sometlung sub Box Theatre in 1980 and is currently employed known, Robert Coleby and others, a play stantial because they do not need massive at La Boite. BRISBANE'S ONLY SPECIALIST CAMPING & RUNNING STORE /t\ CANVAS We don't stock fishing rods, darts or dumbelis HKe most THE SPECIALISTS sports stores, We cater for runners, ^ Have you seen the new showroom at Running is a subject we know well, so call in and talV lo us about It. 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The facts of die lunch are these; available but it is never forced. it's free, run by the Hare Krishna group, located on campus grounds, and vegetar ian. The Krishnas are extremely genial. Once diey ran out of food with a few people The Hare Krishnas serve lunch every still unfed. Someone suggested to one Wednesday at 1 pm on the lawn outside of the men that he should take a lesson the main refectory or, in the case of rain, from the man who provided for 5000 in the Activities room. people with a couple of fish and a few The food is standard vegetarian. Usua loaves of bread. He laughed. able to anyone who is interested. lly thev give unleavened bread, rice, a old adage that there is no such thing as Entertainment is provided by tradit The Hare Krishna lunch has a multi a free lunch vegetable stew, salad and a cup of fniit ional Krishna music with cymbals and -JOHN HENZELL juice. On one of the days that I ate there tude of benefits. It gives an insight into sitar. Vegetarian cooking classes are avail an alternative lifestyle and disproves the •fiV THE CORAL TROUT: 194 Break friendly. One waitress walked the block nesday, Saturday and Sunday resident fast Creek Road, Newstead (52.1741) to buy cigarettes for us! Our wine glasses band, Virtually Anydiing, play their up Semper usually reviews cheaper were never emptied. tempo form of modem jazz. restaurants for the benefit of poor The Coral Trout has a warm, tasteful students, but exceptions are made for atmosphere without ostentation, remin Virtually Anything consists of Craig other outstanding cases, such as this iscent of a subdued English bar. Claxton on guitar, Toni Mott vocals, Gary one. Ward bass, Pat St.Ledger keyboards and A restaurant which could not be improv saxaphone and Gary Nucifora on drums. ed upon. The Coral Trout is exceptional. It is a -SHELLEY DEMPSEY cosy licenced seafood restaurant located Nucifora described Bonaparte's as a listenmg and dancing venue. Whilst you eat in the Burleidi Marr complex in Newstead. Try as I did, I could not fault the service, you can listen to the jazz and after, you can the food or the atmosphere. The prices are dance on a reasonable size dance floor. He high, though on average comparable to other BONAPARTE'S HOTEL: Cnr. St. said Sunday nights were probably the most seafood eateries such as Gambaros. Pauls Tee. and Gipps St. Fortitude popular at Bonaparte's and on the Sunday VaUey I attended, it was quite full. The Coral Trout departs from basic sea food options - crumbed or fresh - special It used to be the Exhibition Hotel. With the lack of Sunday night entertain ment in Brisbane, Bonaparte's offers a very ising instead in gourmet sea dishes. The Now its been redeveloped, painted menu consists of delicacies such as : prawn enjoyable evening at minimal cost. (There red, white and blue and called Bona and ham mousse, avacado and crab, (for is no cover charge.) In fact it was pleasantly entrees) and Lobster provencale (Tomato parte's, housing Josephine.^; Gourmet surprising to hear jazz playing in such an base sauce with champignons - $15.50) French Restaurant and a thriving jazz up-tempo danceable fonn. and whiring caprice (deep fried in bread community. crumbs with grilled pineapple and banana • Nucifora said the band's influences came S8.80), for main courses. Brisbane's jazz scene has long been served not from traditional jazz but from artists by such places as the Jazz Club and the Jazz like Lee Ritenour, Joan Armatrading and A magnificent cheese platter is also avail Cellar, but in the last year there has been an Rickie Lee Jones. In fact, the set I heard, making it an ideal venue for a Saturday able after dinner, as is dessert. apparent boom in venues that offer jazz as even included an excellent modem jazz afternoon or a Summer Sunday night. entertainment. Bonaparte's is one of these. While I treated myself to a cold seafood version of J.J. Cale's 'Cocaine'. For Utose who think you're too hip platter, (S 16.00), my partner had Moreton Bonaparte's is open from Tuesday to Bay Bugs and sea scallops in mornay sauce, The only criUcism of Bonaparte's is its to listen to jazz you should think again or Sunday. On Tuesday and Thursday there is size. It's far to small for the number of at least make an effort to get to Bonaparte's. (S9.80). Both were perfect. The servings, an acoustic quartet, Sarabande, which especially the seafood platter, were extra people it is attracting and alUiough it is re You will be pleasantly surprised. basically plays mood music, on Fridays - garded as cosy, it takes too many 'excuse -BRUCE CLARK large. Clare Hansen and the French Connection The service was quick, unobtrusive and me's' to get to the bar. 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The best and most popular films are chosen from the Sydney festival and taken to non-metrop olitan areas all over Australia which do not normally see alternarive cinema, Brisbane isn't exactly a non-metropolitan area, but many art films pass us by, so this year the Travelling Film Festival is coming to Brisbane. It is being brought here at the request of the Brisbane Film Festival which will not be presented this year. Some of the Festival's highlights are described below. ) MAMA TURNS 100 'Mama Turns 100' is an extremely witty and amusing film. Directed by Spaniard, Carlos Saura, it concerns an TRIALS OF ALGER HISS extraordinary family on the eve of the mother's 100th birthday. It seems that some members of the family are Documentaries do not always find a place in small plotting to kill Mama. With the aid of Ana (Geraldine film festivals, especially feature length ones. But 'Trials Chaplin), she tries to thwart their plans. of Alger Hiss' is particularly fascinating. Alger Hiss was an officer in the US State Department who was accused of being a spy during the Cold War. Directed by John Lowenthal, 'Trials of Alger Hiss' uses contempory newsreels and interviews with participants including Hiss himself. His investigations into Hiss's alleged Soviet connections brought the formerly obscure Richard Nixon to national prominence. Even today. Hiss is trying in court to clear his name. CANADIAN ANIMATION THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER To those not in touch with the animation world, it may 'The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter' attempts to come as a surprise that Canada is virtually the leader. This reconstruct the experience of working women in the is largely because of initiatives taken by the Canadian USA during the second World War. During that time, Government when it founded the National Film Board of women worked in traditionally male-dominated factory Canada in 1939. jobs. Canadian film is dominated by Americans, but in the The romanticised view of these women was that they medium of animation some great creative work emerges. BEADS OF ONE ROSARY were middle class housewives who tore themselves away The animation unit of the NFBC was founded in 1941 by from comfortable homes to serve Uncle Sam. And that Norman McLaren, a brilliant animator. McLaren pioneered Poland has a thriving cultural scene, but only rarely do they were anxious to leave the factories as soon as the optical printing and drawing directly on film and was aspects of it surface in Australia. The Sydney Film Festival War ended. also the originator of hand-drawn sound. featured five Polish films, 'Beads of One Rosary' directed by Kazimierz Kutz, was immensely popular and has been 'Rosie the Riveter' looks at the true picture. They were McLaren set a standard of excellence and originality that included in the Travelling Film Festival. unskilled, poorly-paid workers attracted to the war indust has carried on to the present day in Canadian animation. At ries because of the better pay and union benefits. These the Travelling Film Festival there will be three short It concerns one man's fight against being moved from the women were devastated at the war's end when they were Canadian films, 'Zea', 'Baxter Earns His Wings', 'Getting house in which he has lived his whole life. laid off in massive numbers so the men could take the Started' and 'A Sufi Tale'. An old settlement of miners houses is to be pulled jobs. They were forced to seek re-employment in their 'A Sufi Tale' is based on an ancient Persian story. It is a down to make room for an estate of high-rise residential traditional low-paid occupations. simple black and white animation in which colour is used buildings. One retire miner, Karol Habryka, cannot come to Written and directed by Connie Field, she interviewed sparingly to highlight certain elements of the tale. The story terms with the prospect of leaving; it hits at the very 700 women to compile the material for the film. She concerns an Isolated villiage in which the inhabitants are foundations of his life. explored both the family and work histories of these startled to find a large, bizarre object growing in their field. He remains even when the bulldozers are devastating all women from their birth to the present day. All three animations promise to be interesting, not only around him. The film is consistantly funny as Habryka What emerges is a moving, real film, which remains for their intriguing, simple stories, but for the quality of the takes on the authorities, but tinged with sadness as he relevent to working women today. drawing and animation. can't fight them forever. Semper, September 8,1981 23ss Gemini-a flawed gem The Holden Gemini holds top sell wheels ($227) and laminated windscreen ing place in the small four-cydinder (S57). car class. In 1980, the latest model Gemini (IE) was the fourth top sell RIDE/HANDLING (6) ing car, beaten oiily by the Holden The handling of the Gemini is, for a rear- Cornmodore, Ford Falcon and Mitsu wheel drive car, excellent. The car corners bishi Sigma. widiout trauma, and exudes confidence. Additionally, there is a lack of body roll The car originates from Isuzu of Japan, due to taut suspension. On rough surfaces but incorporates local refinements, like the car is a little less sure, performing a radial tuned suspension (RTS). The current few nervous slips, but still remaining precise. Gemini range was introduced in October Ride is good, without too much transmission 1979 and covers four sedans, a van, and a of jolts and bumps, but can be harsh on wagon. uneven surfaces. The rack and pinion steer ing IS precise, but has a slight lack of feel Options available include radio (sedan to it. However, the turning circle of the car only - S211), radio-cassette player ($368), IS good at 9.5m kerb to kerb. 5-speed gearbox ($154), automatic trans mission ($569), cloth scats ($150), alloy PERFORMANCE/ENGINE (4) Performance is reasonable, good in third and fourth gears but poor in second and RATING GUIDE first. The lack of quick perfonmance was {1):FA(LS - car fails complately to achieve evident even though the engine had only simple. The Gemini is fairly stable at speed, what IS required of it Legroom is inadequate with a carload of done 2000 km. Torque is good, however, due to its aerodynamic styling. However, adults. Rear seats are comfortable but the (2MNC0MPETENT - car falls short of accept- once the needle approaches 100 km/h, fo e "andards. Only meets some aspects pving strong pulling and acceleration in front seats are too fiat, lacking back and (3>:LACKING - car falls marginally short of third and fourth gears at low speeds. there is some vibration, and wind makes thigh support. acceptable standards. Does what is required of The engine is quick to start, either warm the car less stable. l!.fc*?r>*/°J^f ""'^'^^ °f f"'"Of points. or cold. Idling is very quiet and vibration- Driving position is satisfactory with good (4)FAIR/C0MPETENT - car meets acceptable SAFETY (6) adjustment on the seat. Steering wheel is standards. Does what is required of it hut no free, but the engine becomes vocal under more. acceleration. The car returned 25.1 mpg The Gemini tested was shod wilh Dunlop off-centre and unadjustable for hciglit. steel belted radials. Brakes are strong but the (5):G00D - car meets acceptable standards over the lio km covered, which isn't bad Handbrake and gear levers are well placed pedal has little movement, resulting in a plus a little more. It achieves a margin above considering the new engine. but pedals are at different heists, hinder basic necessities. sharp reacdon. ing co-ordination. (6):SUPERI0R _ car performs well above Headlighting is excellent. Front indicat acceptable standards. The four-speed gearbox is accurate and The boot is deep, but the upright spare (7).EXCELLENT-car excels. liglit to use. Ukewise the clutch has easy ors are large and bright. Rear indicators and wheel positioning wastes space. There is movement, making gear changes quick and brake lights are large and can be seen from no boot liglit. the side. Reverse lights are readily visible SERVICEABILITY (5| and provide good illumination at ni^t. Bumper bars are big and strong with The engine bay is uncluttered and most parts of tlie engine are readily accessible. rubber inserts and end caps to protect them The distributor, oil drain plug and carbu from minor bumps. Visibility foreward is rettor adjustment are all unobstnicted. The good, as the driver sits high above bonnet oil filter, deep in the bay, is awkward to level. Side glass area is large. Rear visibility reach, but is easy to remove and replace. isn't too good, as the driver can't see the Fuses are well placed in the car. edges of the boot without straining. The large air filter partially obstnicts the FINISH (5) spark plugs and brake and clutch fluid Finish was quite good. The panels fitted reservoirs. Holden supply a jack and wheel flush, the paint job had few blemishes, the brace but no tool kit. Spare parts are easily rubber seals keep dust and water out of the obtainable and are cheaper than most other cabin and boot, and there were no rattles in small car brands. uie cabin. The only fault was the poor fitting of the carpet. SUMMARY (5) purveyors of good quality, reliable USED CARS The instniment panel was well laid out with easily read gauges and an excellent Overall, the Gemini SL is a pleasant central strip of warning lights. little car. It performs most functions satis factorily, others it performs with brilliance. Other features include a trip meter Its finer pomts include handling, safety announce — rear speaker for the push-button radio,' equipment level and ease of servicing. child-proof rear door locks, and excellent sound insulation. The mediocre engine, poor seats and poor SPKIAL DISCOUNTS venUlation let down an otherwise fine car ACCOMODATION (4) These faults can be largely remedied by to all Front and rear headroom is quite good for after-market products. The Gemini SL. at a car this size. Legroom in the front is OK around $6,400, offers reasonable good QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY with small passengers (children) in the back value for money. J=f «« CTT-P:) AS A SECOND-HAND CAR STAFF The Gemini is a good second-hand car \ and tends to keep its value. It's best to get the RTS model (post-April 1978) as the and (I - eariier models had a choppy ride and poorer D handhng. STUDENTS Rust resistance is fairly good, but check merfy B the door bottoms and body seams. If the car Finance arranged is an automatic, check it under acceleration D for irregularities that may require repair. Trade-ins accepted leather jackets - jeans The Gemini is a competent and basically :jWX^ants good all-rounder. There are some can that Ring 57 8104 57 8105 zips replaced Vrelined rate better but most of those are new to full suits made to meastire the market and relatively unproved in terms a/h 350 2294 of rehabUity and longetivity. The Gemini 'general repair ^ has existed in various forms for about six 82 Lutwyche Rd„ 24I9 lb<3AN R6 D^ years, and has a proven record. M-v c:««r^ -CAMERON LAWRIE Bowen Bridge, Windsor. Next issue: FORD LASER ^^-(O^ilri'^frorn^rtiri'j Miter ^)!' V, 4030 BodyRj^ln) ofT^Jn^^ '"""'"^ co >«1nf?fjtiii»y.i»;iiTts;-i B;^Si® <0m: !f SHOGUN: Produced by James Clavell, starring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune. (Hoyts Regent) 'Gone with the Wind Goes to Japan', was one person's summation of this film. A promoter described it as *in the Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power trad ition'. And, on the subject of com parisons, it bears an uncanny resemb lance to the locally produced Beach Blanlcet Samurai, thougli this probably means little to many people. Shogun is all of the above. Romatic, humorous, heroic, adventurous, tragic, especially romantic. Pilot Blackthorae (Richard Chamberiain), the hero, and Mariko (Toshiro Mifune), the heroine, indulge a grand romance which surprisingly achieves heights comparable to the best dewy black and white romances. Surprising ly, because good arty romance seems to be rarely captured in larger than life size colour, althougli Shogun's romantic strength is also derived from tlie mythical Japanese Lord Shingen is morally wounded in heroism, a concept prevalent in medieval The story is a cross between Gidget films culture. battle and instructs his generals to use the Japanese literature. Kurosawa describes and a samurai fiick with rock'n'roll thrown A friend studying Japanese cuhure and Shadow Warrier for a temi of three years the theme as 'a terrible beauty' and its in - plus more groaner jokes than seems history says that historical elements in Sho to avoid their strategy being severely threat tragedy will leave audiences stunned. possible to be crammed into a 20 minute gun the book are not strictly factual. To the ened. Althougli the Shadow Warrior is from movie. If you do not enjoy this film style forget everyday viewer this would not detract from the peasant class, he has the intelligence and Beach Blanket Samurai has what most tlie film. On the contrary, the storyhne, wit to charm liis way into the hearts of the Kagemusha. But if you are willing to exer feature films lose; spontaneity, enthusiasm based on Japanese history, is fairly compUc- generals and Lord Shingen's family. cise a little patience and be prepared for and plenty of ideas. It easily brings the res ated. One of the most touching facets of the some heavy entertainment, you will find ponse that al! good super^^ films should; Shogur is not a challenging film. It does movie is the development of the relation Kagemusha as Helen Duncan of'Cosmopolit that film-making is within the reach of not den and anything from the viewer. ship between the Kagemusha and Lord an' describes it 'usually stunning ... mental anyone with a little time, enougli money But it is fun and hi^ drama, an attempt Shingen's grandson who melts the hearts ly stimulafing and genuinely dramatic to for film, and a borrowed camera. at a mini epic does come off. of the audience with his innocence and watch.' -SHELLEY DEMPSEY spriteliness. -GEROWYN HELSDON But more than that. Beach Blanket Sam urai is genuinely entertaining. The script is As time progresses, the Kagemusha ass amusing and fast moving enougji to always KAGEMUSHA (Shadow Warrier): umes the sobriety and leadership of the maintain interest. BEACH BLANKET SAMURAI: dir directed by Kurosawa (Hoyts Regent) original Lord Sliingen which pleases the generals to the extent where they accept ected by Chris Surplice, starring Tony Although some of the cast occassionally For connoisseurs of Japanese trad his word as that of Lord Sliingen him LonglatKi, Rosamund Vidgen and lots look a Uttle drunk, performances are cred ible. Some even displayed a fine comic sense, ition, Kagemusha is not to be missed. self. However, the wariord's own son seeth of other obscure Brisbane actors. Its slow deliberate tempo, however, es with resentment as he must now kowtow would you believe. will seem tedious to the unconverted. to a common thief. When a samurai warrior's knives turn out to be Christmas tree decor The point is that none of it is believable. Kagemusha is set in war-torn late i6th A highlight is a robbery in a jewelry store ations, it's evident that a film has been century Japan. The two most powerful clans For movie-goers who appreciate the which an onlooker finds very amusing. This are fitting for supremacy. A thief is given beauty of cinematography, Kagemusha will made on the cheap. Beach Blanlcet is what home movies should be all about. the opportunity to live, as he bears an un Samurai cost S258 (including tinn- be a dcUght. The director, Kurosawa, was -ANNE JONES canny resemblance to Lord Shingen Taneda originally a painter. This is reflected in ies) and took three days to film on who heads one of the clans. The thief is his treatment of the production. location at Nudgee beach, JC Slaught trained to act as a double in case of Lord er Falls, and other exotic places. Shingen's premature death. Kagemusha reflects the idea of tragic . Ad(in Ant ind SUN 20TH Oivin* m n Mi KAGEMUSHA ^ "INCREDIBLr' 7.15 CUCKOOS NEST 9.30 BREAK, AWAY MQN 21ST The new TTT CUCKOO'S NEST film from \ 9.30 BREAK. AWAY DEREKJARMAN mmim TtJg WKO 22.23RO ,dhi»'- I vi/ho gave you ,'p^ MASfCRPICCewoik o( incompiahintiblt I \M i()\i)\ go° 11AM WIZARD OF OZ 1PM LITTLE PRINCE 'SEBASTIANB'^iy- dtplh. Il IS • 'lotdmap to (h« wul'l' iKii I -I r\Ki()\ I M ^ ll)Mll\ 7.30 POSTMAN,.. 9.30 CUCKOO'S NEST 5 MAJOR THUFRI 2426TH BEST FILM OF THE YEAR AWARDS ihrvttoukShow Upturn thaU^ TSB XlTEBEDSTATES KMioKAUOcun otfuMctmct 9.30 NO NUKES QNEnnrf THE SHADOW W*RRIOW SAT 26TH TPJT TESS 7.30 ALTERED STATES 9.30 NO NUKES BipuaHG SUN 2JTH "WW TESS JPT^ PRINCE ___^ B9TH 7,30 NO NUKES mvirBicH ••WAX i KiihinlKilr JfM KAGEMUSHA 9.15 MAD MAX gPM KAGEMUSHA On« of (he year's iO best. MON aSTH BHUCE SWlNGSrttN jRomar powerful, terrifying, 7.38 MAD MAX JACKSON Bf?OWNE [wilP™nPoiansKi SDLO OUT 9.15 ALTEREDSTATES "VVI ^ol3n< suspenseful, mind-blowing ItTH TUEWEO 29-30TK Obsessive, excitlng-T/ma flo NINE TO FIVE TIAMBLACK STALLION 2®TESS' 9.30 CHCECHSr 1PM WATERSHIPO. CHONGS NEXT MOVIE 7.30 ALTEREDSTATES 9.30 MAD MAX UI 12TH Mtenhip 5,15 NINE TO )-IVE OCTOBER WHIN TH( G*NGS TAHl OVtn MERED CROSBY SIILIS AND NASHi TH[ HIGHWAYS CHflT Ht S .30 NINE TO FIVE JidlJ —— 1ST OUT IHIM SOMIMHim ' KEN RUSSELL'S i.-r, STATES 1.30 C&C N. MOVIE T45 TESS tXXfilE Br?.CARLV SIMONJ 25 Semper, September 8,1981 stranded in the Brisbane backwater Ask a random sample of people, "What are you promotion in town wants anything to do with you. Sub planning to dp in the next six months/five years?" jectively, bar a few friends, one lives with negative feed You'll find they're ail planning to go down south, back and waits for reality and myth to geJ. The two bands out to the country, overseas or insane, but they're waiting under these circumstances in Brisbane at the mo not going to stay in Brisbane. ment are the Young Identities and the Bent Elbows. The Young Identities are a "decadence" band with The Queensland Government might bring capital punish money from day jobs to support their "uncared for" ment back to remove 'undesirables' but they'll never have music. As fgr as I can tell, they haven't had" a paid to institute banishment. Who'd be threatened by it? gig in twelve months. Are they progressive or self indulgent? Why do they leave? Popular opinion is that Brisbane is Martyrs for Art or Morons with Money? The main identity the ultimate small town hell hole. Somewhere else lies The Saints are THE example for Brisbane bands. No crisis this band has, however, is their followers of Anal Nirvana, that 'place in the sun', where human beings live matter that you are getting nowhere with something that' Retentive Toilet Busters, No one wants them; no one wants and gambol like they never have in Brisbane. you consider 'good' Keep at it and get out of town the first you. Reality. diance you get. Split and you too can join the Brisbane In this way Brisbane breeds culture snobs. This town spit. Maybe there is such a thing as Karma - what goes The Bent Elbows, as their publicity states, are brought is overcrowded with people who know all the latest from around, comes around. to you by Brigalow Home Brew, Not for them to cultivate New York, London, Lower Patagonia, but they care little the 279 Club 'elitists', they prefer* RE yobbos. If they and think less about Brisbane, Maybe it's true I'm just a Trapped in a world they never made it in, Brisbane, would really do themselves a favour, they'd put heavy troppo ratbag, but as far as I can see, people can live, die The Saints produced the lament '(I'm) Stranded' and sent metal out of their minds. It's only an aberration from a and be nowhere all around the world. It's not the unique it to where they considered home - Empire Headquarters. true wasteland - the Mid West States of America. Brisbane experience that a drift from this town will cure. The critics were amazed that from the backwaters came this pearl and it became the first English Top 40 'punk' single. You only get anywhere playing heavy metal if you're It's said to be long way to the top if you have to rock n some incredible pretty boy cheap stud that 14 year old roll. As an illustration of this dictim, Brisbane has it's Trouble was The Saints went to where their hearts girls wet dream over and 14 year old boys lust to be like. classic 'can do no wrong now' band - The Saints and two were and the critics saw long haired colonials and not If you see yourself like that then the currently non exist- current getting nowhere's. The Young Identities and The English de-rigueured punks. So they banished and dis ant high school dance circuit is your Brisbane market. Go Bent Elbows. missed them. Too big or maybe big headed to return to for it and don't forget the paternity insurance! Myth, Brisbane, they wander now far from us who could appreci ate them. Just another band that couldn't, wouldn't, didn't It might be hard to make it to the top, Brisbane Bands, want to be known as a Brisbane, read backwater, band. but'it's very easy to be nowhere if you do the wrong thing, Below: THE SAINTS - no desire to be known as just at the wrong time, in the wrong place for the wrong reasons, another Brisbane backwater band. Who follows The Saints Brisbane tradition now? Object THE BRISBANE DEVOTEE Below right: THE BENT ELBOWS - prefer playing to ively that tradition is that the 'smart' people haven't heard RE 'yobbos' than to 279 'elitists'. of you or laugh at the mention of your name. 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However, I have the feeling it's working without In the final analysis the album contains some excell maximum effort by the band. What I mean is that ent and memorable songs, making the album worth having written some sure-fire hit songs, they found it investigation, relatively easy to come up with the goods and are there -DAVID ST.JOHN fore not doing their best. I could be wrong but I hope not, as I have the feeling they will put all their efforts into the next album just to make sure it does as well as Chemistry. Chemistry is good and worth indulging in, but Mondo IJJ I'l 1 I I I 1,1 I 11 rrri Rock can do better and I hope they do. 11 rrri •"ITM'I 1 i I'lTi ("rriTi -DAVID ST.JOHN 'J-COJ rcrr'i 1.1 1 1 1 1 H^^^H rrr'i'i *; pcjtcr ^^ CCCCC' i_i 1 iTi i~i"i"i~ri 1 1 r iTi l®9 rri'iTi «I rrri 1 1 1 1*1 1 rrrri"i rrrrri ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H rrcrrtiTi'i'i' i UI'.LO I < I I I rrrrri rrrri • »1 ij 11 I'l'l'l'l' rrrrri rrrri'i rrij'i'i i"i*i i"r ivrrfi 11 IJ 11 rriTi' 1 0 1 H 0 0 1ri'iTi " '-'-C'"'"' K% 1 rriTij IJ 1 iTi iTi.iTi 11 111 L'J i"'"i "iTij DEXTERITY: Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons C'"CC'' \"~i I iTi iTi 1 B 0 1 N 0 0 J'"'~CC' " 11 rrri (Mushroom) 111111 i,i_rri"i I rrri i •Ti iTt '~'~CC'" IJ rrri ^^^^ 1 rirr%'\ i What with a new Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons just un rri rri rrr>~\'i~i~("t~t' I rrrri mu 1 rrrri i rri iTi ^•••v^ rrrrc II ri"i"i Mil 1 riTi'i I veiled, Dexterity, a special 10" |25y2 cm) mini-album 11 IJ 11 rrrrr rri'rri ij~'~'~'-' ri'i ri"i 1 rrrri mc 1, Itnod^ 111111 serves to tidy up the loose ends from the last line-up. All TiTi"!' 111111 I ij"i IJ 1 TiJ 1 1 rrrrc 1 rrrri i"i i~i~i I nine tracks are relatively recent recordings and only 111111 CCi iV 1 \"rri '^l^ r«"»~rt"» ijj_ijj ^B CCCC'! •"•"iTi t three have been available before. t~i~ij_i" rri'iTi TiTi I I Four of the songs come from the November '80 sess 11 IJ 11 Ti'iTi I iVi »"»"i ^^^^H rrr.i r cccco 1 Tij 1 1 11 ijj ions for the 'Sweet/Rub Up Push Up' single, including ri"ijj' those two tracks, with 'Yeah Yeah Yeah Tighten Up' CO-CO '"•"'-'-'! CUT LUNCH: The Models (Mushroom) rrriTi i~i~ijj. and 'Fool Enough'. They are the oldest band material ri"i f I Cur Lunch comes in a compact package (10"), takes CCCCC' * A- iTi I i' here, preceded only by Joe Camilleri's solo, 'Nosy ri"i I«' less time to consume than yer sit-down, serve it up, full- l"»"ljj~l rri 11' Parker', released under the Joey Vincent pseudonym, '~'~CC'~' f^MttUUMtiillMI i"i"rC'" course LP (2072 minutes), and was prepared without and representing his most far-reaching excursion into rrrrri rri 11" too much fuss (The Models entered the studios with a reggae. Of the newer tracks, 'Fallen Heroes' has the rri'iTi few vague ideas and built the album around basic older sound of a soulful rocker and 'Johnny Kain' is rhythm tracks). Cut Lunch is packed with The Models ONLY A LAD: Oingo Boingo (Festival) a typically sharp Jo Jo Zep pop song, while 'Flexible' usual quirky pop and there's enough material in this The first time I came across this eight piece American and 'Please Please Please' are the same fragmentary $4.99 snack to sate their growing number of listeners. band was with the title track of this album, released a melody with different treatments. Standout tracks are 'Atlantic Romantic', resembling while ago as a single. A lively, thoroughly enjoyable All that makes Dexterity a fitting epitaph for the end some of Split Enz' faster numbers (due, no doubt, to slice of modern pop, it held out the promise of a great of this version of a fine Australian band, in that it its co-production by Eddie Rayner), 'Unfaithful to the album. balances quality, diversity and value with positive Corps (borrowing in parts from The Beatles 'Mr .Kite, This was not to be, with 'Only A Lad' being far and results. And the whole thing is easier to take, knowing with its perverted waltz beat and swirling fairground away the best of the ten tracks here. Oingo Boingo seem that we haven't heard the last of Jo Jo Zep. effects), the aggressive 'Man O'Action' (an ideal sub to have carefully isolated the sound components of both BILLHOLDSWORTH Devo and X.T.C. and re-assembled these into a not stitute for the Army Reserve recruiting theme), and the dissimilar approach, now and then throwing in some moody title track. lOCC-type cleverness. -MATT MAWSON ' 'J- 111 I« 11 11 '''. I«I The X.T.C. connection stands out the most, from ("rrri'i 111 I i"i (Tri'i'i 111 I i"i the tense hiccupped vocals, right down to the demol i*f"i"ij'i tVt I I ' *JJ rrri ri ition and reconstruction of a pop classic - X.T.C. did I I I I IJ I I'l C'JI'~I"' TUT. JiH fR}fOU<; r SATfl Clt^ll ic ^y iTiTi'i » L' Ti't it to 'AH Along the Watchtower', Oingo Boingo do it IJZC'J-' rri"i~i"i >JJ. I r* C'lC'IC* »"i~i~ri I ri~ri~ri I 'J I Ti to the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me'. rrrri.i '"'ICCC' 111 'rri The album is suitably bouncing, frenetic and cocky, iTiTij rrrrrii"i"i"i"r i 111 'iTi -l- -'-.'-' 111 i IJ 111 'iVi but ultimately plastic and suspect (just how suspect CCCCC* [f32^^|^»Mi rrri'ij rrrrct I i I I I'l II ijj_i rrrrri can be seen from the lyrics). I read somewhere ihat ij~i_ijj iTiTi I ' 'J .'-C' 111 111 CCCCC' "JiT I'ljjjj i"i 111J III "iTi Oingo Boingo used to play a totally different kind of ^F'^-'^ i~i~ri~i I iTrTi I rct Ti'i i"i~rri I »"'_'•»_'-' music, then a year or so back, decided that new wave ^^!?Q l~l_IJ_l_l • •-' I i"i i"i"i ri_i «'J 111 was the way to go, and suddenly switched over. I'd *r/ ili^^MH i"iTri I iTrrij I I.I. 111 CCC'"»"i rriTi I l"lj~l~lj III. !'"•"' believe it. •£V CCCC'J i_i_i. ,ij'i i~i"i"i"i_i l"i I I I I I»t. -BILLHOLDSWORTH I I I I i_> iTi I I I 111 ^^KmJi.' 11111J .111 •"rri i_i ("riTi'i III I Ti rri "rri ^Kl^^^^ ijjj.ij Ti I » I I •"i I {•Vt^^^^^B •-'-'-'-'-' 111 •••-'»- ("I'i'ij Tijjjj • 11 rri i"rrri« 1~l*l"t"l"l 111 'rri ("i~ri"ri I < t W^ ^il '''~CCC' rriTi'i »'i"«"i"i i 1 1 1 1 Tt tTCi'i I 1 1 1 1 Ti iTrri I CHEMISTRY: Mondo Rock (Avenue) I'lTri I Let's face it, this is an album full of hits. Australia CATH0L5C BOY: The Jim Carroll Band (CBS) seems to be the only country, at present, consistently And from the New York Corner, a pretender to producing albums of. pop-rock hits, (e.g. The Sports, the rock jjoet throne that Patti Smith vacated after she Jo Jo Zep. Split Enz, Cold Chisel, etc) and now Mondo ran out of good ideas. Rock can be added to the list. A concept album, no less, about being an anguished Although Ross Wilson has always been involved urban ex-catholic boy. The virtue is a powerful lyric somewhere in Australian pop (Daddy Cool; work with presence; e^en when the mix obscures the words there is Skyhooks) on Chemistry his role as song writer seems to still a cleai mood and image to the vocals. have been curtailed. New member, Eric McCusker, is When they're audible there is a sharp but twisted responsible for most of the catchy songs and this is sense plainly at work. An American who can sing remarkable as he has really just appeared on the music 'those who died young, they're my heros' and sound scene. Perhaps Ross is taking advantage of Eric's fresh like he means it. ness, however, his mark is there and his singing style is The Band are a relatively conventional American definitely likeable. hard rock outfit. On four songs (especially the title This plays a larger part in the album's success than track,) the formula of Jim Carroll's declaratory vocals one might expect because Ross Wilson is a subliminal and an aggressive musical backing works well. The part of Australian music (e.g. 'Eagle Rock') and the DOLL BY DOLL: Doll by Doll (Festival) others sadly flirt with mediocrity. audience is predisposed to like what he produces. All This is the first local release by Doll by Doll and it A must for ex-catholic boys and girls: optional for the singles from the album have sounded good but has sparked some interest in their earlier work none of which I have heard. Amercian rock affecionados. somehow familiar at the same time. No new ground - DAMIEN LEDWICH Semper, September 8,1981 27 ^^mrtHi eodbljrawttiinanlJf LIVING BETTER WITH LESS: by ors believe that a redistribution of wealth Australia should not pursue the path of V^ Iwwtourt wutemdltnpravtourllvK ^S Ian Pausacker and John Andrews. is necessary for the maintenance of conser- "technological" recycling. Instead: Penguin, $7.95. vcrism. They seek to change the present Household collection schemes as part of \m PAUMCUpaild Vp ANDREWS Aussie attitude of "no other bludger should Ian Pausacker and John Andrews' book regular collection should be implemented get any more than me and mine". for glass, metals, paper and (eventually) *Living Better with Less' is an example In eight chapters, Pausacker and Andrews of the kind of alternative lifestyle publi food wastes in as many parts of Australia explain how the conserver principle could as practicable. cation which has become common on the improve our present social, economic and book market of recent years. Industries should be required to use more political system by working within that secondary materials in their production But it is not typfcaJ of such books, and system and reversing the current major processes. does not advocate the 'back-to-thc-simple- economic trends. Government incentives such as tax and Hfe earth garden' ideal of a nation of Nim- Each chapter finishes with a set of con freight concessions should be introduced bins. Rather, it is a focusing of the alter clusions which provide useful summaries of to encourage more use of recycled mater native ideals under a more realistic and the authors' arguments and recommenda ials. practical light. tions. The major achievement of this book is And on the subject of technology and its recognition of the need to make alter Towards a sustainable agriculture they work for the conserver: native changes within the political context. recommend: A conserver society should encourage And while tlic arguments may strike the TJtere should be a shift in empjiasis in worker self-management throughout the reader as a little simplistic, the book does Australias' policy regarding food exports, economy, in which there was a real make an effort to detail the enormity of away from exporting to rich countries and transfer of power over economic and tech participate in such changes, and will adopt the problem facing the human race and to towards exporting to countries in need. nological decision-making from share the 'Living Better with Less' guidelines, list the possible solutions to it. The extra cost of such a policy would be holders, boards of directors and manage may be overiy optimistic. Its simplicity, though, does not destroy funded out of government revenue and ment to all workers, But without such optimism, couched as the value of the ideas presented. not by Australian farmers. it is in realistic and practical terms, there The focal idea of 'Living Better with ^Living Better with Less' is not a blue seems to be little hope for future Austral Less' insists advocacy of the conserver On conserving mineral resources: ians. 'Living Better with Less' may be just principle. A conserver society, in the authors print on how to set up a conserver society. A Depletion Quota Tribunal to be set Nor do its authors claim to know enough what the person in the street needs to words, is one that seeks to "conserve all up by the federal government to deter become more aware of our problems which resources for as long as possible. It would about the complex changes needed to mine annually the amount of each fossil brins about such a societal change. governments, with their short term profit attempt to eliminate all forms of waste fuel to be extracted in Australia, and the policies, seemingly ignore. and develop its economy in harmony with, What they do argue for is an independ allocation and price of production quotas ent Australia. One in which individuals and rather than in opposition to, the natural to interested public and private enter -JOANNE BAXTER environment". government cooperate to bring about prises. change. Their belief that governments will Such a society, the authors argue, must evolve from the existing mainstream soci ft^::?SS::%::::%?:::¥::A^^ ety. It would be based firstly on the ethic of stewardship - placing a high value on THE PENGUIN COMPLETE SHER Although Poe must claim the original Doyle shaped the future of detective novels conserving resources in current decision LOCK HOLMES: Arthur Conan detective in Auguste Dupin from The making, and emphasising conservation for with Holmes. Doyle, Penguin 1981 ($9.95) Murders in the Rue Morgue, it was Conan At a recent crime writers conference in our future generations' benefit. Doyle who popularised the genre years later The second key ethic is equity. The auth- "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Stockholm, the Australian delegate Peter Holmes (in A Case of tdentity) as with Holnfes. Corns said, 'We talked cricket and then moved on to the problems of writing a series we sat on either side of the fire in As a creation, Holmes was always larger his lodgings at Baicer Street, 'life is of books with the same hero.' Agatha than life. Tall, given to wearing caped coats Christie had Hercule Poirot, Peter Corris infinitely stranger than anything and caps with ear flaps, 'an expert single has Cliff Hardy and so on ad nauseum. It's which the mind of man could invent." stick player, boxer, and swordsman', violin a hallmark of crime writing. But now the world of Sheriock Holmes ist, habitual user of very smelly tobacco and cocaine, 'the most perfect reasoning and The Hohnes novels and short stories are seems infinitely strange. The eccentric detec rivetting to many people. And the mono- tive and his companion. Dr. John Watson observing machine that the world has seen', mysoginist and the author of 'a little mono maniacal detective with strange habits, is take the reader through a myriad of riddles obviously a formula that works. in the more obscure corners of Victorian graph of the ashes of 140 different varieties England. of pipe, cigar and cigarette tobaccos'; Conan With Conan Doyle's easy writing style, the clever plot devices and the familiarity of his two main characters; it is under standable that these stories have remained •>•••:.:•:•:•:•:«••••:•• so popular. They are perfect escapist read ing; no problem to absorb and completely "EXHIBITION of ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS by Brisbane Prlntmaker distracting. Who care if the plots do seem to RIC BRIAN HATCH repeat, the scenarios are diverting in them LJWRENOE SATURDAYS 2.30 - 4.30 selves. TUBS to FRI10.30-4.30 Sell,„d &C0. 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Do you like Lawrence yes thought you would act (When he goes home in the afternoon, he can look "Cigarettes in the ash-tray resemble cork- ually when I was an undergraduate I liked Law at the stripes on his back and, with the aid of a coloured corpses amongst the cremated rence but as you get a little more mature and mirror, can paint a small tunc on his skin, a short remains of their friends. They are the hollow literary like me you will pass through this tune suitable for his time of suffering.) men, black on the ends and filled with straw. Lawrence phase he was a male chauvinist pig-dog. We are all hollow men. We are all burning Alfred's a queero. Alfred's a quecro. Chant from Raining heavily, down come the watery strings of slowly, depositing our own ashes into the the suburban youth. his world. wind." A.B.M. Fingers won't stop moving. Why won*t his fingers The fingers have stopped and the notes won't come. stop moving? Alfred B. Minor. University of Queensland, No black and white. Dots and lines are fading. ' Alfred will you please stop bothering the class with Student Number 022329-80L Arts. Tearing, scratching, no more greatest works. that tapping. Thank you. In his room at college, Albert lost, the little cell a What was his name ... Beet... Bayt... Bait... Psst. (Whisper) Look at Alfred's head. It looks box of jumbled notes and sheets. The wind roars, grey clouds curl and spiral away. like a chunk of chewed gum. (Laughter) Out of place again is Alfred. Too many trendy Curl and spiral away. Alfred, if I have to warn you again about that people. Down crash the keys at once. Too many crochets. tapping. Look at all the lonely trendies. Too many stems. Psst, (Whisper) Perhaps his mother dropped him on Too many colours for Alfred. Bright pink and Eating each other. Musica Cannibalia. his head when he was a baby. They say a piano green pants on males and those funny fishnet (By Alfred B. Minor?) fell on him. shoes and all the giris trying hard to look like No more. No. It just won't come. This is not a happy time. thespians. Everywhere a thespian. The decline of Alfred B, Minor. Big boxes on wheels carry away the sweaty, The barefoot thespians. Take the single string. U is the closest he has ever fruit-smelling students every Wednesday morning Clouds passing over, close to earth but smashed. had a piano string to his neck. It burns Alfred's skin. for swimming. Black and white pieces shattered and buried It has a painful harmony. Alfred's favourite day. Hide. Hide. Hide. across Alfred's ivory keyboard — aggressive ivory High on the chair, Alfred looks around at the floor, Like a plover stalks the black Alfred on the school teeth. covered in the leaves of his musical autumn. oval, back and forth, carrying other students Someone is cutting the piano strings. The Fall of Alfred B. Minor. school bags, the negro porter on a grassy subway. The tutorials, sweat-boxes for middle-aged Kick away the chair and Alfred swings. Pile them quickly Alfred. housewives. Alfred B. Minor's body, the elongated note of his Piles of bags, the multi-coloured crochets. Long Nod. Nod. The^ nod to everything. final sonnata, sways gently to the rhythm of the lines of cases, the stems. Pile and line. Read this book? Nod. Seen this opera? Nod. wind, Poor tired Alfred B. Minor climbs higher, up to Greying heads go nod, nod, nodding. Driving "Summer is the perfect season for suicide. the roof. Alfred crazy. Crazier. The cool breeze, the heat, and the piano." Below unfolds his greatest work. More feminist tutors. Ms. tutors. Girl talk. A.B.M. A football oval, the grassy sheet, one hundred Giri talk. yards of music. How come the giris say everything right, Ms Tutor^ Concerto in Grass and Cardboard. Giri talk. AMPOL TARINGAEAST Service Station Gailey Roady Taringa BATTERIES $34 65 (with case trade) to suit most 4 and 6 cylinder cars MENTION THIS AD Ken (; ran I ham I'lumv :W(I 2929 .'.;••• ••V•^.v^^•^.^•;^{;V•^•.•••V.^•^V^'•.^^^^vV.v,•.•;:•^ SivAvX. CAT WHACK YOUR PORCUPINE, and NEVER EAT ANYTHING BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD, by B. Kliban, Published by Methuen Australia. ($4.95 each) ".'••fsV.'.'.'"; extra bonus have introduced Whack Your Porcupine, his third compila As a practitioner of the suspect art of cartooning, this reviewer often tion, to Australia {four years behind the U.S., but well worth the waitl. finds that his appreciation of the work of other cartoonists is restricted As the works on this page suggest, Kliban's vision takes an enter to their techniques and styles. Their humour, if any, is often overlooked taining detour from the cosy straight and narrow of everyday familiar in the process. ity and skims the edge of the nether world of surrealism. As he says; •.v.v.v.- B Kliban is one of the few cartoonists who can induce an involuntary ••••'.••:••.* "My cartoons aren't that far from realir/. Unrelieved fantasy is realty laugh before I get down to studying mundanities like crosshatchmg. tedious. Even in silly stuff there's got to be some reality anchor, some In that respect, perhaps he can be regarded as a cartoonists' cartoonist. thing you can identify with". Anchors like the oral hygiene fairy, falling His appeal, however, is not restricted to his contemporaries in the sheep, Norman the toaster-sucker, and the primitive accountants. V;c;VV.*i world of graphic guffaws. His first book. Car. is in its 18th printing Welcome to the lost world of B. Kliban - a genuinely funny cartoon in the U.S. and his Cat Calenders 1979 through to 1982 all sold out ^^ •?;i ist reluctant cult figure, and one hell of a crosshatcher. before the printers' ink had time to dry. -MATT MAWSON Methuen (Aust.) have just re-released the first two Kliban compila .^WV.V "•.•••.•:v tions. Cat and Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head and, as an •".-.y.v Semper. September 8,1981