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15 March 1976 Semper Floreat Vol. 46 No. 2 Registered for transmission by post. Category B. EDITORIAL: „ „ u .« * So you noticed that Semper in Seventy-six is somewhat different Or does she |udge 'lust' as harmtul too? i can't see anything wrong with than ill been in the past. The most striking difference, of course, is people lusting over each other. I think a strong case can be made for its size, but this change has implications other than just meaning that lusf to be seen as part of a healthy sexual appetite. you how have a more easily readlble magazine. 2. It is virtually impossible to maintain an overtly Homosexual relation The fact that Semper has changed to a magazine size rather than con ship in present day Brisbane. The 'love and joy' still have to be exper tinue the facade of pretending to be a newspaper does not mean that ienced 'in the closet'. Which seems to me to indicate that the status quo we intend to delete news stories. On the contrary. With the help of a of the relationship between gays and the hetero culture is being main number of dissatisfied journalists and other interested people in Bris tained. That status quo is an overwhelming oppression-even from bane, we hope to provide altemative news (i,e. news ignored or squash such allegedly liberated people as Tina Arndt. ed by the established press) so as to provide Brisbanites with a more balanced view of what happens in this state. ' 3. Because the oppression is so overwhelming I have no wish to denigrate either the 'love and joy' my gay sisters and brothers experience And it is not to be assumed that we are confining ourselves merely to within M.C.C. or the wori( the poeple of M.C.C. are doing. locally based issued, in the first issue we printed a long article on Timor and next issue thereli be an interesting look at the situation in Angola^ So 111 make the point again: the oppression of homosexual people in Not only political and social issues will be covered in the magazine, but Brisbane is overwhelming. If you want an 'amazing' experience try culturally we offer the most comprehensive review section available in being overwhelmed most of your ilfe. (Gay men I know from the gay any Queensland publication. What we are looking for is a balance of scene don't acknowledge me on Campus). Then conjure up love and information from all sources which will keep you wanting to read joy' and feel that experience. Share our joy, sure. Buy why avoid the Semper. (Or at least to assure you that therell be something readible PAIN of our oppression! to while away the hours in the boring lectures). What we are looking for is a balance of information from all sources Brian Day which will keep you wanting to read Semper. (Or at least to assure you that there'll be something readible to while away the hours in the bor ing lectures).

As Semper is funded by Union fees, one of our main responsibilities Is to report on Union activities (which lets you know what's happen ing to the rest of your money). Campus news in general, and scandals with the administration are also allotted prime {pace - as we are, after all, existing to serve the University community.

Any writers, journalists, cartoonists, photographers, news tips or ideas are always welcome with open arms. Don't forget to bring up any classified ads, you'd like us to print (10c per line for students and SOc per line for non students).

Also we wish you'd get off your arses and enter the Schonell compet ition. I m,ean its not hard and you get a free pass to their film.

Non students can easily get hold of this invaluable magazine (I) by sending $4 subscription to the Semper office - which covers the cost of the magazine for a year. ^^r>«.'

« Semper Floreat Vol. 46, No 2.15th March, 1976. Processed by C.P.L.-C.A.T. (Central Photo Litho. Central Art & Type) 10 Bailey Street, West End, 4101. Ph. 44 6021.

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LETTER: To the ladies who edit Semper:

This is a bitch about the article you carried about M.C.C. and gays.

1. It seems to me that Troy Perry denounces lust; and that Joanne in oreparing the article, might have drawn him further on the subject Copy, deadline for the third issue is Monday 15-10 a.m. gCecacfc

At the Uni on 2nd March to address students that, while they are RAPED, they request.a was HIshammuddin Rais. Hisham was President review- of their employment status before of the University of Malaya Students' Union in actual retirement takes place. the 17th Council. The U.M.S.U. was banned in Sept. 1974, juit before Hisham was to have This phase of the programme will be known as taken office. In an interview with 4ZZZ he He had thick dark brown hair, a youngish face SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired spoke of the circumstances leading to his ar and didn't seem any older than 20. He was Early Workers). All employees who have been rest and imprisonment in Johore Bahru,forhls quite short, around 5' 4" -sorry I don't know RAPED and SCREWED may apply for a final part in the Tasik Utara Squatter Uprising. He it in metric ... and he was of medium to slight review. said, "1 was trying to stop a police officer from build. I have a suspicion he was travelling in a trying to do his duty, and that was destroying a car though he told me he lived behind a block This phase will be known as STUFFED (Study house." Hisham was arrested under the Internal of flats near the ferry. of Termination of Use for Further Education Security Act. He said that, under this act any and Development). citizen of Malaya may be arrested with no trial, I was too tired to get hysterical and that seem "i hearing, or no charge. ed to make him angry if not frustrated ... A Programme policy dictates that employees may fine mood for his next encounter. If you be RAPED once, SCREWED twice, but can get know anyone who walks this route alone at LIVE IN CHINA? STUFFED as many times as the Management night please pass this on to them. sees fit. The Commonwealth Department of Education is offering six scholarships for study in China. MILKOS & NAKED LADIES MAORIS MOVE IN Applicants must have studied Chinese language All right girls, you know how sultry it's been NEW ZEALAND for at least two years at an Australian tertiary these days. What do you do when you get institution, or have reached a similar level. home? Strip off? If so, how much off? Well, While in Wellington, N.Z. over the vac. I spent the other day I stripped to undies and bare a wet afternoon talking with the United Peoples The scholarships include a living allowance, free feet, then compromised and put on a pair of Liberation Movement of Aotearoa. (Aotearoa tuition, and a return air fare. The scholarships shorts. Several hours later, thus attired, 1 was Is the Maori name for New Zealand.) are offered under the Australia/China student comfortably oblivious of my physical being exchange scheme. Scholarship holders will when rattle, rattle, "Milko!" (Theise daylight The myth of harmonious relations between spend a year at the Peking Languages institute deliveries still have me flustered; it used to be Maori and Pakeha (white) has been in recent studying the language before going on to stu so much better to put out the bottles and months completely exposed, with die Maori dies of Chinese philosophy, literature or lingui money last thing at night and forget about Land s March, traversing the North Islarid. stics. them till morning.) Out I strode to hand over the money as the milkman exchanged my The U.P,L.M.0.A. are a part of the larger fac . Applications close on April 23, - the study empties for fulls. Small talk about the weat tion of Maori Land Marchers. This faction is a course begins in October, tjut a later start may her, the appetising smell of my cooking wafting loose combination of several Maori groups, the' be possible for students who want to complete out towards him, and he was on his way again. divisions between which have become wider, their 1976 studies. I stooped to collect the bottles from the door This development can be illustrated by the step and whoopsi On looking down, my eyes rejection of the U.P.L.M.O.A. of the collective's Applications should be sent to: Overseas were arrested by the sight of my decoratively slogan of "not one more acre of Maori land" Scholarships Section, Department' of Edu brief bra, and I got the giggles. I've never had i.e., to be reclaimed by the Government (echos cation, P.O. Box 826 Woden, 2606. that happen to me before. And I'm still gig. of Aurukun?). They in accordance with their gllng wondering what the milkman said to his socialist revolutionary ideology, demand collec EARLY RETIREMENT offsider as he got back into his ute. tive ownership of all land of Aotearoa. PROGRAMME Ariene Their struggle then is against the disadvantages Due to the economic situation. Management of the Maori; for instance, there are 83 Pakeha has decided to reduce the current work force WARNING and only four Maories holding seats In Parlia and has devised a Reduction of Employment ment. Their interests are not restricted however i simply'wish to record that an incident occur programme. to ones of racial disadvantage but includes oth red to me on the 2nd of March at around 8 pm, er depressed sections, hence are a vanguard foi in which a young bloke attacked me after first Under this plan, older employees will be plac the class struggle. ed in early retirement, permitting the reten exposing himself to me. He approached me in Macquarie St., near the ferry though the in tion of employees who represent the future The other groups within the organisation ol cident took place while I was crossing the river- of the company. Maori Land Marches, such as the "Radical end of the park next to the Curry Shop. I'd Left" led by Mrs Cooper M.B.E. (or similar like to warn others to be careful in this area A programme to phase out the older personnel honors list buy off-Tom Skinner, Bob in case this fellovv decides this is a good venue. (over 40) by the end of the current financial Hawke's N.Z. counterpart.was similarly lured), year will be put into effect immediately. This differs a little in aims and a lot of strategies. What struck me most is how unlikely a sort of programme will be known as RAPE (Retire These were responsible for the attempt at set attacker he seemed to be. He looked a little ment, Aged Personnel Early). Employees who ting up a tent embassy on the lawns of Pariia tike a student; moderately long hair, casually are RAPED will be given the opportunity to ment. seek other jobs within the company provided dressed and in no way struck me as abnormal. I pointed this out to show the similarities be Horrors - caught in the pooh I tween the last few years of the Aboriginal Land Rights struggle in our own country. This can But perhaps Walsh views bike ways as an elec be explained, in part, by the aid in organisation, tion gimmick like his insane waterfall on Kan by aboriginals like Gary Willis, who joined the garoo Point (with a built-in freeway running marches for some of the journey, underneath).

The inclusiveness of the United Peoples The fact is, however, that bikeways are com LM.O^V. is I think, a valuable example for mon and successful overseas and are now similar sectionaiist groups fighting racism or proving themselves in Melbourne which has re sexism here. This would require the generalisa cently built them. Of course we cannot expect tion of these movements into more broadly Brisbane to be too fast on this one, after all conceived socialist movements with perhaps there's not one multi-storey carpark been specialised activities. Perhaps this has happened built on campus to date. The problem can't Post Mortem on a Political Chat Compered by without any demonstrative change in move- be all that serious as yet when it takes only Mungo McCallum and Illustrated by Michael nrwnt labelling? half an hour to park somewhere on unt. Leunig: Orientation Week.

The joining of the Maori marchers by aborigines Undoubtedly the permanent establishment Do you reckon McCallum was pissed? and other-Internationals shows that the move of bikeways to the University, servicing the ad Yeah. Stroppy toward the end wasn't he. ment has greater significance than merely stim jacent suburbs, would do much to alleviate the Bet you didn't like what he said about Cairns ulating an enormous amount of media coverage frustrating problem of parking congestion and and Vietnam. and interest in N.Z. but that it has an influence landscape pollution on campus. Notwithstand Did you think that'd upset me. on comparable movements elsewhere and per ing the lack of safe and adequate provision for Well you like Cairns don't you. haps more generally If only the reports from bicycles as a form of transport an Increasing McCallum waildn't know. overseas were more frequent and not exclusive proportion of students are taking to bikes. True. ly involved v^nth events like Kirk's death or This is evidenced by the continuing brisk sales N.Z.'s own loans affair. When was the last news at the Union agency. The shop has expanded its At one stage there I was (|jng to pour a jug of report from New Zealand, that you saw? What range of cycles and accessories and has employ water over him. was the last you read? ed a full-time bicycle mechanic and salesman. I felt a bit like that. My grandstanding days are (His name is Leo.) Business is looking up. Part over. The U.P.L.M.O.A. are to commence the third of the reason could be because T.E.A.S. allow 1 'm stifi into it a bit but not pouring jugs. stage of the March up the West Coast of the ance hasn't been increased for two years. Bicy What was your question? North Island in early March, after court hear cle transport represnets economic necessity to I asked him if he supported any political party. ings conceming trespassing (?) on Government a low income student. Fringe benefits are signi Not him, he's just a cynical journo. grounds. Anyone planning a Tasman crossing ficant-non-polluting, easy to park, and a i9on, the West Coast is the one with Mount exhilarating effect on physical fitness. To many I just thought it was alt too serious. Always on Egmont, and you'd be welcome. students the establishment of bikeways is a about politics. non4ssue but opposition to their Implementat Queenslanders are like that. Fanatics. Barbara Allen ion is indicative of a mentality that puts cars Yeah but Leunig couldn't do any cartoons and freeways before people. If we can't have about political crap. suburbia adjust to bikeways what sort of real Why not? social change can we expect? He's on about the human condition. . That one with the aristocrat in tails, surrounded Which brings us back to Walshie. The Catch 22 by weeds was semi-political. about the promised bikeway is that it is to be Yeah. experimental. Plans haye not yet been released What about the 1984 computer one .... filth eh? ../%:=, and it is suspected by many to be simply a Do you reckon they coulda been had up for vyhite line along Sir Fred Schonell Drive., bad language. Maybe, if Joh'd been there.

BICYCLE BILL REPORTS Sex, dopC and I didn't think he'd be so young. Who Leunig Recently Bryan Walsh announced plans tc Yeah. I thought he'd be old. Elderly anyway. Ktablish an experimental bikeway from Too Rock 'n' Roll? With glasses, bow-tie and, a band around his wong Station to the University. This was an arm to keep back the sleeves. unexpected initiative from a man totally op Got to admit, I didn't think he'd be like that. Dosed to bicycle transport. Having said that: With blue eyes, M.iybe he had long hair once. (Brisbane is too hilly, bicycles.are too danger TRUE BLUES Yeah it looked like that to me. ous, too slow. have plenty of The first one he did was best. However, it is not so surprising given the The little man, like an amputated thumb, squat proximity of the City Council elections anc ting with a hand over his face. considering the recent pressure put on Walsh JEANS & Yeah, the one that disappeared cause the ink by groups such as the Save the Coronatior wasn't strong enough. Drive Committee, the Bicycle Action Group Do you reckon he'd-done much drawing? and the Students' Union. Even Zelman Cowar T-SHIRTS Yeah I do mate. has approached the Lord Mayor to have a path Made a fortune out of it. way built. To top it alt off the Westem Suburbs Probably. Advertiser exposed Walsh as a conniving cool 10% DISCOUNT when they published correspondence he hac issued on the matter along with his extraordi IN TOOWONG .sorry, no dapel Gerard Lee nary verbal statements. UNION VIDEO GROUP SEEKS The on-campus showings will be held at a DEBATING NEW iVi EMBERS regular publicized time in the Union Office —Free Workshops commence Shop or Creperie. Members of the group may The 1st General Meeting of the University of wish to specialize in only one area such as Queensland Debates Union for 1976 will be editing, or camera work, or even wish to form held in the J.D. Story Room, Union Building, Regular free workshops on the use of video their own video production team. at 7.30 p.m. pn Thursday 18 March, All peop- equipment commenced recently. These work le interested in debating at whatever level, re. shops are open to all Union members. Whenever possible priority in the use of the gardless of experience (or lack of it) are'enthus- equipment will be given to those in the Video lastically invited to attend, with the assurance The workshops teach participants how to use Group (which is open to all) so that regular that this is as good a place to begin debating video- cameras and recorders to make tele good quality programmes (e.g. on current as it is to continue with it. Our activities for vision tapes and programmes. Editing is also issues or visiting speakers etc.) can be pro the year will be not only competitive, as it is taught. duced for other students to see and enjoy. felt that social debating is an important part of Group members may even wish to help in run a balanced community debates club. Ample No previous experience is necessary and the ning the workshops. opportunity will exist for members to partici camera and recorder workshops last only two pate in any type of debating they wish, since hours. Although some important skills and The Union Video Unit has two portapaks and we believe' flexibility and variety are the hall- knowledge have to be acquired, participants also editing facilities available for use. mark of good speaking. will find video amazingly easy to master. Those interested in joining the Union Video The program of the year's formal activities will Video equipment can be likened to audio Group can obtain more information by con be formulated and discussed at this meeting, so ' tape recorders in that amongst other things it tacting Denis Reinhardt at 4ZZZ-FM or Bruce if you have any suggestions or ideas, come stores a visual image as well as a sound track on Dickson at Union Office. along and throw in your twopence worth. a tape which can be replayed over and over again or even erased and re-recorded. BRISBANE FM "FIRST" Use will be made at times during the year of Stereo FM with Pictures video facilities in order to allow self evaluation, All those who complete a workshop qualify and hopefully improvement of individual to use. the Union's video equipment which On Tuesday night, March 30, Queensland Uni speakers and their speech presentation, as well exists for their enjoyment and exploration. versity's FM radio station, 4ZZZ-FM will join as aiding those interested in adjudication. Op One of the most fundamental things using vid with ABC Television to present for the first portunities will exist for those interested in ad eo can do is help you psychologicaUy to break time In Australia something that should excite judication and it is hoped that discussions and down the false mystique which surrounds tele all hi-fi enthusiasts, a simulcast of a live TV pro seminars to be held on this and other topics vision and other media and assist you in devel gram with stereo FM sound. will be of benefit to speakers and adjudica oping criticisms of these. tors alike. The occasion will be a show starring entertainer Video can be used for many purposes including Jamie Dunn, in a concert at the University's Debating is an activity which not only enhances those you see it used for on television Schonell Theatre. The concert will be open to one's ability to express oneself effectively and interviews, documentaries, creative and experi the public, and will have Jamie Dunn backed by to communicate with others, but also develops the ability to think quickly and logically, helps mental programmes, for replay of your own a forty-piece orchestra. Other artists will be one gain confidence in oneself, and helps devel- efforts in other areas such as learning to dance seen In the non telecast portion of the show. — the video helps you see yourself in action and op a sense of maturity which will extend Itself into mgny other areas of one's dally life. In can improve your performance as a result. The ABC will telecast part of the show live and short, it's something very worthwhile. Why Drama can be' videotaped — in fact anything viewers will see and hear it exactly as any other not come along and give it a go? can - there is no limit to Its uses. program. However, viewers who also have Jf you wish to take advantage of the free work stereo-FM receivers can obtain the bonus by shops - check the notice on the door of Meet turning down the sound on their TV sets and ing Room 4 in the Music Room underneath the 'tuning in station 4ZZZ-FM, where they will Schonell Theatre for when the next one is hear true hi-fi, sound, in stereo. NEWMAN SOCIETY scheduled or contact co-directors, Denis Reln- hardt at 4ZZZ-FM or Bruce Dickson. At pre 4ZZZ-FM co-ordinator Jim Beatson said this "What's on" in the Newman Society to which sent the workshops are being held fortnightly will be the first time such a thing has been done you are invited? (sometimes weekly) on Wednesdays from 5pm in Australia. ABC program director Bernard to 7 pm in Meeting Room 4. Terry confirmed this, and added that when - Discussion and Mass on Sunday nights 7.30 pm perhaps he should have said if - the ABC est -14th March at 22 Ferries St, The Grange ablishes an FM station in Brisbane there would -21st March at 38 Mareeba Rd., Ashgrove, UNION VIDEO GROUP quite likely be several programs for which the ABC would join the proposed FM.radio to its General Meeting and Elections television transmissions. Anyone who has completed a video work -Friday 12th March, J.D. Story Room (re- shop or who has had previous experience in named E.G. Whitlam Council Room), 6.00 pm. video is invited to join the newly formed Union Mr. Terry added "many people aren't aware Video Group, This group intends to prepare they already have FM sound in their homes. Sessions on the new rite of Reconciliation, regular video programmes of all types for pub The audio component of a television transmis -Sat. 13tb March and Sat, 20th March; St. lic showing on this campus and others, as well sion is FM, so really there's no novelty about it. Thomas Aquinas Hall (underneath St. -Lucia as at schools and in the city at the Access Cen The really exciting part comes iri using 4ZZZ's Catholic Church, Central Av.) tre there. transmitter to present this FM sound in stereo." ' AFCaiANI BLACK,CAIBNS HEADS

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l~$6ld out 0l [Gena Audrey saddle bat UNION AGENCY I OBSCENE CALLERS PLEASE RH IS&IiL i3711611ext24 This is an edited text of the speech by the Governor-General in open Primary industry is yet another field where Labor policies must be ing the SOth Federal Parliament last month: reversed. Stories of farmers having to sell their planes and made do with • only three cars were only too common under the previous administra Wa assemble at a time when large areas of Queensland and New South tion. Decent Australians showed by their votes that they want this state Wales have been devastated by severe flooding. It is truly remarkable of affairs remedied. An immediate start has been made with the reintro-1 that the Labor Party could cause such disaster, some months after its duction of the superphosphate bounty for all farmers with bank balan-, dismissal from office, but my Government will do ail in its power to ces in excess of $30,000. Only by rewarding thrift can the dignity of ^ remedy this situation. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has commenced the individual be restored. negotiations with God and it is hoped that this regular flooding of parts of the continent will stop. In the field of foreign policy, steps have been taken to restore the < contacts .with our great and powerful allies, contacts destroyed by the My Government's immediate objective is to root out the influence of previous government To this end, a delegation will arrive from the the pernicious socialist centralist communist government which ruled United States next month to select various sites for the installation df this nation for three sad years. My government's long term objective nuclear bases, bases essential to repel Communist aggression and save is to root out the influence of the pernicious socialist centralist com the Free World. Only by assisting our great ally in this way can we hope munist government which mled this nation for three sad years. An as to be safe in the eveiit of nuclear war. Non-voluntary national service sociated objective is to prevent the increasing dependence of individuals wili be introduced and all those who missed the opportunity to sen/e on the stat^. This is particularly so in the fields of health, education and their country (between 1972 and 1975) will be given the chance to social welfare where the previous government destroyed the dignity of make amends. the Australian people by making them dependent on the state for health care, schools, pensions and so on. These areas are properly the My government believes in equai opportunity for all qualified people province of charitable organizations and my government will give all along with maximum freedom for people to pursue their own life sty moral assistance to such bodies so that they can assist the needy. Fin les. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere and the government ancial assistance will, of course, not be given, since to do so would can no longer be expected to grant unemployment benefits to lazy, destroy the dignity of both the organizations and their clients. dirty, scruffy, long-haired, stinking poofters dressed in rags: such peo ple are an affront to humanity and the government has a clear mandate My Government has acted quicidy in establishing a Ministry of Busi to deal with them. ness and Consumer Affairs. This will enable coordination of business activities so as to best look after the consumers' interests. These two During the next three years the Australian people will be called upon portfolios naturally go together to help those most in need: the opp to make many sacrifices, forego many luxuries, perhaps even forfeit ressed businessmen, m^ny of whom were forced to take refuge in South traditional freedoms. I have great confidence that with God's help we America due to the attitude of the Labor Government. will all smm so that Australia may once again be a free nation, cleansed of the socialist ills inflicted by the Labor Government^

Humphrey Jonathan 8

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Union Council Meeting held on -That this Council ratify the tentative agree of $3.25 thus making an admission price for 25/2/76 in the E.G.Whitlam Room ment between the Unidn, hospitals area com one movie $2.75 - and if this film is shown at a mittee E. and U.Q. Medical Society, regarding Schonell matinee, it will only cost you $1.00. occupancy and responsibility in the Hospitals Most suburban theatres offer no discount at This took the form of a grueling session from Bookshop and Refectory Areas. all and other city theatres still only give you 6.30 p.m, through to 2,00 a.m. the next day. one movie for $1.70 at night and $1.50 at In the early hours of the meeting Councillors —That capital equipment be restricted to clubs matinees, and of course, no other cinema even were subjected to passioned rhetoric and ela and societies with a common room. wants your business on a Saturday night — it's borate demonstrations from the nominees for full price or nothing. the position of Union Cocktail Convenor (a —That the J.D. Story Room be renamed the redundant position), E.G. Whitlam Council room. Now your OWN theatre, the Schonell, operates on an admission policy that hopefully will Later in the night. Council toyed with„the For any further information on student politi make the theatre pay its way throughout the constitution debating for over an hour as to cal aspirations and idealism and on how Coun whple year. As a result, you are only charged whether or not flying is a "sport". A motion cil appropriates its $600,000 income, students $1.75 for TWO movies, on any night of "the to allocate $8,700 to the Flying Club towards should not hesitate to attend a Council meet week and $1.00 for a week-day matinee movie. the purchase of an aeroplane was eventually ing. All welcomes soundly defeated. The Late Show admission is $2.00 for two mov C. Conniving Councillor. ies for everyone - the reason being- Still later in the night Councillors were enter (a) Students make up igo% of the audience and tained by the continuing saga of the chip mach- as there is limited time between sessions, we irie at Herston refectory and the latest episode can save time by not having to check. Student in the Senate's legal challenge of the Union's s. tiâding operations. The cost of putting this show on is three that of a normal session. , Good news was reported of the bouyancy of tê Union's on-campus trading activities (shops Schonell is very pleased with overall and refectory). Altogether a large volume of endance the theatre is now receiving in lousiness was consumed, A few of the more Int neral, but of course if it were not for the eresting motions follow. now increased support from the public we would not be even able to open our doors. —That this Union calls upon the Federal Many of course would like our prices to be even Gjovernment to restore the cuts in N.E.A.T. cheaper, but what most don't realise is that payments to continuing students already enrol they would be if all the empty seats at off peak led in courses and tertiary institutions and that times were filled .with students, particularly the Union points out to the Federal Govern the week day matinees. ment the hardship caused to many students by this abrupt and arbitary cut in the scheme. This year the Schonell is proud to announce the best line up of movies by any theatre In -That this council urges the Federal Govern VVHY PAY MORE FOR MOVIES? Australia. We will be screening exclusive first, ment as a matter of ur^ncy, to clarify its release art movies, first presentation of classic policy on child care. vintage movies plus all the best that the city It's surprising to find so many students unaware cinemas screen. —That thit Union declares that the University of the fact that In reality, they, as members of Senate which represents not the University but the University of Qld. Students Union, OWN We are the only theatre to print a full monthly the controllers of political and economk:.power THEIR OWN THEATRE. programme with information of every kjnd within this state, is acting to suppress student enabling you to see what is coming weeks in initiative in the establishment of an off-campus No student, I am sure, who had his own advance. retail outlet, the revenue of which is used to business would go out of his way to other pre serve the objects of the Union according to the mises to buy what was availablie in his own li Constitution. store —yet, thousands are prepared to attend So all we ask now is for you tp seriously consid any other cinenfta to see most movies which er the ôve facts ahd give your movie support -That all Schonell Theatre concessions avail generally are released at the Schonell — be it to your own cinema, so that we can hold our able to full time students apply equally to part a week, or month or so later. prices at the present level despite the tne\ntable time students. Inflation increases that are sure to come. This Is made more amazing when one looks at —That the Union Secretary provide a full list the Student discounts "rip-offs" other theatres of meeting dates for the Hospitals Area com offer. Hoyts now require you to pay 50 cents mittee in 1978 and this list be displayed in the for B student card and then you can only re- ^ Herston Refectory at all times. ceive a 50 cents discount off an admission price Ron Wakenshaw 9

UNION BY-ELECTIONS 4ZZZ STUDENT DIRECTORS

The University of Queensland Union invites nominations for the fol The UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UNION invites nominations for lowing positions on the 65th (1976K Council of the University of Student Directors on the BoanJ of Directors of 4ZZZ. There are 4 Queensland Union. (four) positions to be filled on a total board of 7 (seven). j

Executive: All members of the Union are eligible to nominate and vote for the Treasurer * positions. Local A.U.S. Secretary Nominations open at 9.00 a.m. on Wednesday 3rd March, 1976. Faculty Representatives and Other Positions: Nominations close at 5.00 p.m. on Thursday 18th March, 1976. Arts Faculty (Full time) Details are as for other positions being elected at fhe Union By-Elec*. Nominations open at 9.00 a.m. on Wednesday 3rd March 1976. tion. Nominations close at 5.00 p.m. on Thursday 18th March 1976. John Campbell Nomination forms are available from Union Office and from Area Vice Union Secretary Presidents. Part-time students will be sent nomination forms upon writ ten request Notice of all intending Candidates If you haye any doubts as to what a position will ential or about your Any active member of the Union except a part-time external student eligibility to stand for a position please get in contact with me c/- may nominate for the position of Treasurer or Local A.U.S. Secretary. Union Office before nominations close. Any full time Arts student may nominate for Arts Faculty (Full-time) •IT representative.

Any member who resides in a college within the University is eligible to stand for the position of College Representative. 1)0 YOU NEED No person shall nominate for more than one Union Council position at this by-election. Voting will take place during the week of April 5th • 10th 1976, by means of a polling booth in the refectory. Clini /^dvice from trained librarians cal years of Medicine, Therapy and Dentistry students will be sent a on F0¥ to fret information for postal vote. Any other person requiring a postal ballot will be sent one your aRsi^mraent on receipt of a written request to the Electrol Officer. John Campbell a booklet on HOV/ to understand Union Secretary a catalomae card :i

The UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANO UNION invites nominations for the following elected committee positions. Terms of office are for an audio-visual programme to help the duration of the 65th Union Council. you get niPi.terials from the TJnderf^rad. Library UNION HOUSE COMMITTEE FRANCHISE THET^ Imember of the Committee General VISIT — FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE 1 member of the Committee Part-time Central Library' nnderprad. Library UNION THEATRE COMMITTEE or 2 members of the Committee General your nearest A position with a general franchise is open to all active members of the branch libraryl Union and elected by same. A position with a part-time franchise is open to and elected by part-time internal students.

Nominations open at 9.00 a.m. on VVednesday 3rd March, 1976. Nominations close at 5.00 p.m. on Thursday 18th March, 1976. INVEMtTYdiF WESttUUD UMMKS John Campbell Union Secretary 10 ICnATC VI union

In the past few months a sustained challenge transactions that occur between the enrolling customer and a Gas company over (say) insufti has been mounted by some members of the student, the University and the Union (or cient supplies is of no concern to tfie news University Senate to the independence, the SPRA). It has a QC's opinion which contra agent, who acts as a money collecting go- finances and potentially the very existence of dicts in vital respects the opinion given to the between for the two principal parties..The Q.C. the University of Queensland Student Union. Senate. This opinion is that the money concern instructed by the Union believes that the Union In the background a few junior government ed by the Senate on behalf of the Union: that has acted within its own Constitutidn - in the M.L.A.'s and pro-censorship forces also appear is, the money belongs firstly to the individual matter of the FM Stereo Sound Shop. to be taking an interest in the affair. student (and In the case of T.E.A.S. students is part of an incidental allowance granted All this necessary but dry legal preambfe would A dispute is current over the legality of one specifically to pay Union fees) and secondly to probably do nothing else but show how lawyers of the Union's trading ventures (FM Stereo the Union (or SPRA). There is no intervening make their money if it were not for the impli Sound in Adelaide St). The principles involved, stage at which it belongs to the University - cations. however have wider implications. The crux of it merely passes through their hands much as the matter is money - your money. bank deposits are physically "possessed" by The argument so far has been about the Hi Fi cashiers. If this is so then the University of Shop however, there are similarities with the The "Student Service Charge" which you pay Queensland Act does not apply, and the only Schonell Theatre, the Calculator Shop and the on enrolment is based on the Union's member restriction on your Union's ability to spend its external catering activities of the Union. In all ship fee plus the Sports Association fee ($52 money lie in the Union Constitution. cases they were begun with Union funds and + $18 for full time students per annum). This they seek to bring on campus for the purpose money, has in the past arrived, albeit tardily, The claim that the "Student Service Charge" Is of commerce people who would not normally in toto at the Student Union or Sports Associa University money is not borne out by their be there. They cannot be justified, as can the tion's bank. Upon receipt it goes into General 1975 or 1976 budgets. No such item appears refectory, on the basis that they serve the Uni Revenue and subject to the Constitutions of under "Income" and the item "Student versity community (they do that too, of the two bodies is spent by the elected office Services" under expenditrue refers mostly to course). There is no indication that these ven bearers. In the case of the Union, this means Health and Counselling Services and has noth tures are challenged (indeed the Senate has Union Council after appropriate reference to ing to do with the Unions alleged "grants". supported the Schonell and External cater Finance and/or House Committees — these According to the Act (Sect. 31a) the Budget is ing in various ways) but the logic of the Sen committees too are elected by the Student to consist of ail the funds of. the University ate's legal opinion seems to point in their body. except bequests, donations or special grants direction - if it Is enforced. which are dealt with in'a different manner and The Union regards the money that arrives in are not relevant to the matter under discussion. it's bank account as membership fees and This danger to the more profitable parts of the Union's trading operations is obvious enough hence (amongst other goodies) you get a vote Therefore we must assume that the persons but there are a number of other activities in Union elections, can stand for all positions charged with preparing the University Budget which this Union has funded in the past which and have a very real say in how your money is did not regard the Student Service Charge as a could not conceivably be deemed as (in the spent and the Rind of services you receive. The "fund" of the University. The appropriate words of the Act) "for the purposes of the Uni Admin, gets to keep the late fees and any analogy might be income tax payments by versity". income it may derive from its temporary invest staff - collected on behalf of another body ment of these funds. compulsively, vwth the University's only Amongst these have been small donations to responsibility being its safe delivery. Late Fees "Liberation Fronts" Bail funds and the activi This uncomplicated state of affairs has changed etc. were included in the University budget. somewhat recently. The Senate has obtained, ties associated with the anti-conscription and Springbok tour campaigns. Even fiariy innoc from a University employee, a legal opinion The Senate's legal opinion appears to advance uous campaigns to save Fraser Island/Mt Etna that the "Student Service Charge" monies are the principle that "compulsory collection Caves/Democracy would appear to direct Union a fee charged by the University and the equals ownership". If this were applied In othei- funds via clubs and society grants to purposes amounts handed over to the Union and SPRA areas some quite strange results would occur. far beyond the scope of St. Lucia. are in the nature of grants. According to this In a closed shop. Trade Union fees would view, presumably the custom of referring to belong to the employer. The State Public Ser- them as membership fees is only a convention. \nce, insists that new recruits join a Trade Probably soma members of Senate vvould Union. If this means that Joh "owns" the resul regard some articles in Semper Floreat as Im If as this opinion claims, the money is Univer ting membership fees It gives him one hell of an proper to a University.. And therein lies a dan sity mpney then It may only be spent for the edge. Suddnely compulsory superannuation and ger. Even if the present Senate were a'body of purposes laid down in The University of insurance schemes could provide interesting liberal-minded all-wise tolerant 6nd humane Queensland Act 1965-1973. The relevant test cases. people (and who am I to say they're not) parts for legal buffs are Section 30 and parts Senates of the future might interpret student discontent at Govemment. policy as not for of Section 27 • 28; The Act makes no specific Before leaving this legal stuff we should men "the purposes of the University." mention of the Union nor does it envisage a Hi tion one other point of dispute. The Senate's Fi shop in Adelaide Street The Senate's legal advisor contends that die Union is in breach of position is that such a venture Is not a legal its own Constitution. If this Is true it is a seri The present Vice-Chancellor In his first few use of funds under the Act. It may also be ous matter but one between individual years was given an exceedingly unpleasant time (though the legal opinion doesn't say so) that members of the Union and the Union itself. by persons basing themselves on the Student other activities of the Union are ultra vires the If this were the only ground of complaint the Union. Fortunately he weathered Une storm Act. More on this below. Senate would presumably have no need to in of abuse with his principles intact. Could we tervene. As an analogy, a dispute between a guarantee that, in a similar situation, some The Union insists on a different version of the future Vice-Chancellor with a sympathetic Senate and a narrow interpretation of the lection of its main source of revenue. Volun- 17 Act might not act to cut off supply? ^ry payment of Union membership would The Union Is a big business and at the same realise about as much as voluntary payment of time a representative body. It cannot be treat If the Senate's legal opinion becomes the basis Income tax and the Senate would be within its ed as a gentleman's club or a school debating for Union-Admin, financial relations we stand rights to refuse to collect Union membership sodety. There should be an assumption that to lose more than the HI Fi shop's profits. If fees. such a body, with the accumulated experience the Union's finances were governed by an of its employees can conduct Itself soberly and Act of State Parliament that Act could be make decisions in the best interests of its^ amended in any number of unpleasant ways. The Senate on the other hand should realise members..If it doesn't it should be answerable' If the direct connection between the Student that the Union provides very valuable services to its members and not to the Senate. Hope Union plus SPRA subscriptions and the Stud to the University community as a whole. fully future relations between the Union and ent Service Charge was broken some future Sen the Senate and other University authorities ate might well decide that other "Unh/ersity The alternatives are 1. for the Admin, to run will be based on that principle^ purposes" (i.e. Health and Counselling) should the trading area themselves which they show no get alt or part of the charge. Even the minimum Keith Stanley sign of wanting. Predictions as to the efficiency, requirements of the "opinion" warrant the warmth, responsiveness and eagerness to please Senate or its officers vetting new Union pro of an Admin.-run refectory are solicited from WHY^OON'T jects and auditing the books. This is an unac anybody who enrolled this year. ceptable amount of interference in the affiars Yon of an independent body. A Union so curtailed 2. Some commercial company might run it would becoming nothing more than an Admin, WORK WITH but it is doubtful if the application of profit front. motives would keep prices down or quality up or the refectory open after 6 p.m. And how do we need: WRITERS The whole basis for future Union-Admin, fin you make a profit on the music or billard JOURNOS ance may need to be re-examined. Perhaps a rooms without making prices prohibitive. Of NEWS TiPS & system based on convention and gentlemen's course the Schonell could be run at a big pro IDEAS agreements is not a sufficient base for planning fit and you know what happened to student come up and see us in these unconventional days. The Union is re discounts at Hoyts. FIRST FLOOR UNION BLDG liant on the good offices of the Senate for col ASSIGNMENTS GETITNG THE BETTER OF YCX;?' Check texibooks, stationery, imifonns and what about a calculator? Ut us take aU the work out of problem'sohing and leave your time to enjoy the pleasures of campus life. Come in and see us at the Union Calculator Shop. We carry a wide range of calculators for general and special, ized uses; and all at a price which you can afford. SCIENTIFIC CALCULATORS HEWLETT Lhpj PACKARD MOYIK &^ J33:0O$26.OO HP 21 $95.00 ^ SUderule SPECIAL HP 45 nimited stocks) 142.00 Mathematician 1532.001 HP 25 (programmable) $174.00 A Mathematician hrog. $80.( ^ Scientist j;65UO$48.00l HP 55 $295.00 ,S^ft0tf$48.OO Hp65 $722.00 ^ Statistician Financier .$^5:0(I$48.00 Hp22 $148.00 ^jift00$96.00 Hp 80 $253.00 Programmable Models Canon NEW CZ 8127 $^9.00 F.7 $100.00 CZOlll $75.00 CZ 0123 $65.00 NEW CZ 2901 (? memories) $99.00 I|>UALITR1»S CZ0911 (Progiammable^l05.00 CZ8109F (Financier) $58.00 1419 -$56:0(J$4i.ool 1420 ;$»^$80.00] GENERAL POCKET AND DESKTOP MODELS SANYO CX8145 $29.00 SANYO CY 2161 PD $195.00 CX8133 $24.00 CY0112P $113.00 CX8i34 $19.00 CY2051 P $117.00 CX8034 $15.00 CY 2157 $ 67.50

CANON LD81 .$17:00 NOVUS COMPUTER ^481Jtf$32.O0l LE81M $26.00 LE84 $25.00

All Canon Rechargeable Units and Battery Packs $12.00 AU Sanyo Rechargeable Units and Battery Packs $10.00

Do come in. Our friendly staff will be glad jto help you. union calculator shop MON -THUR 9AM to 7PM PH.3709817 MAILORDERS FRIDAY 9AM to 5PM 3711611 ADD $3-00 13 Radha Rouse AUS & INSURANCE Acting local AUS Sec. •i^ir- AUS Insurance offers policies specially tailored (drapes, carpets) and appliances less than two to meet your needs as students and after you years old at the time the Policy is effected. graduate. It Is part of AUS Friendly Society - Dental Scfieme This policy protects your goods against loss or a non-profit Welfare Service section of our damage by fire, explosion, burglary, larceny, Union. Premiums rates are lower than those theft, flood and accidental glass breakage. And usually offered because, AUS li]surance recog it automatically includes a $100,000 Personal nises that students don't have much money to Liability coverage. This protects you and mem play around with - and with our large member ship AUS Is In a position to offer these low bers of your family normally residing with you rates. against claims for personal injury or property damage (excluding damage to premises which you own, rent or lease) arising out of an acci The second good thing about AUS Insurance Is dent that because it is part of a non profit organisa tion emphasis is placed on giving advice rather Premiums are low, with $1,000 cover costing than ripping you off as quickly as possible. All only $5.00 per year. policies are underwritten by highly reputable insurance companies. THE DENTAL SCHEME GLADPLAN This A.U.S. scheme is to facilitate students This policy combines the features of Contents dental care by offering 100% rebate on all and Personal Effects Insurance. It is a compre preventative work and encouraging the pat hensive package covering the building contents ronage of ADP dentists. and personal effects of the resident against accident or loss due to burglary, larceny and Those eligible are members of AUS between theft in and away from the residence. It includ 17 and 30 years of age (inclusive). Students es personal liability. who have deferred their studies are also eligible. Married students: both partners must be mem bers of AUS and they must joing singly. Child The premiums of Gladplan and all other in ren are not covered. formation is available from AUS insurance in the Travel Office downstairs in the Union building. Other insurance policies available Payment: $35 per year and $21, half year. This are-Calculator, Termplus (life), and Bicycle provides cover in the following manner: you Insurance. will pay nothing for preventative work if your dentist is a member of ADP (the dentist collects STUDENT TRAVEL- from ADP) for basic work you pay 50% How Far Will You Go? (dentist collects the balance from ADP). Gowns must be pre-authorized. We're here & We're the cheapest A.u.s. offers an opportunity to Its members If your dentist is not a member of ADP (a list to further their education through travel. It is TYPESETTING ioped by offering cheap flights to London, of members is available from AUS insurance/ Bangkok, Philippines, San' Francisco, Copen- Travel Office) you pay the bill and forward ^ —at Semper Floreat -— lagen. New Zeland and almost everywhere else it to ADP for rebate -100% on preventative /ou've always wanted to go (but never been work, 50% on basic work up to the maximum ible to afford) that a real'cultural exchange nrwdian fee. •IBM Electronic Composer setween Australians and overseas residents may take place. *ideal for club & society PERSONAL EFFECTS magazines, pamphletts, bulletins ^US Travel offers a summer program from Movember to March which includes many tours This provides a cover for your personal effects *large range of fonts !.g. a six month expedition from Kathmandu including up to $100 for cash and negotiable 0 London. instruments in and avvay from your'normal There are also special THRU-YEAR FLIGHTS place of residence within Australia and New « Come up and see us anytime 6.9. you can fly to Singapore for $248, Bang Zealand for such items as tape recorders, radios, kok for $306, Hongkong for $296, Los Angeles watches and cameras, or phone 3711-611 ext 26 $450 (from Sydney). The AUS flights to London are normally $478 ($928 return) com It offers current replacement cast for specified pared with $1025.80 return for the cheapest items' less than two years old. All other items commercial excursion ticket after April 1st covered by the Personal Effects Policy are sub APOLOGY If you fiy AUS charter on one of their six thru ject to depreciation including specified items Vtfe would like to apologise to tho year dates it is only $398 to London. that are over two years old. It protects your those who were mislead by piersonal leffectS against accidental damage, CONTENTS INSURANCE accidental loss, burglary, larceny and theft. the FiVI Stereo Centre advertis advertisement in the last This provides cover for your household goods Automatically includes $100,000 Personal Issue of SEMPER. The price and personal effects, including up to $100 in LiabiUty cover. Coverage for $1;000 of Person- cash and negotiable instruments In and around al Effects if $13.00 per year, of tiie Hitachi turntable was your place of residence, ^t offers current quoted as $133. It should > replacement cost for furniture, furriishings have been $188. Eds. •i'-! *-

Last,year Activities toured Jearinfe Levyis and JT^rt jary Studeh ts - j hmrrif I - :'• Al Ward, CaptaiV.Matchbox,; and.the^^^^^^^^^^^ . <,.>,„, Brick Roadshow; around' the; Old; MimpuWsv;, /J6unt.ofA\wrk inyplyeddpii^ vculairspMk^re/thrp^ yrari;WatcH^pr;;;;: OLD vREOIONAL CULTURE this, especially with the other: pampuses;^ QLD#RE(3lblMAL ACTIVITIES out'full-time' Activities Directors; (niost',6f ^the ;•. •, ,^i. ^^ -r; ;;;t/-;-K:; V'-r •'-• ''"'•• ' ••• • ^: ..Vv^ ^Jt''; ^^••' ^ Ct)NftRENCE;^: other campuses are chapticly organised) surely.; iEnquiries; Mick Hughes, Activities-;^ indicates that for ;the • Old reigjon to ,)unctipn ;v; effectively, a full 'time regiortar drganlsieir arid • AGTIVITIES IvIARKET ,,J.pr^tbrv Robm.'Uhioh Building, Sat, juarieh coop is a'.necessity .•.;•;'•:. _;.'v • S ;;'-v"-'•;'••:•;;;' 13.andSun.mardii4i- 7 , • :EyeryVWednesday iri the; Union- Forumvarea^^

;-,;-.-i.--'';i-i;:::-•.•,•.'.',.-' •^^, ^•.•,.' •• • . :• - \. . Leatherwork,V jevyeilieiry; etc, oh sale. New;; "liie /National. Activities;-Conference held at the conference will also .discuss .things:-Okie; arts and crafts workshops, dealing With "die;; veridat-s'wanted. Sell your old clothes and junl< Gopjwa/'Sqiith Australia' iii August last year, media, organising publicity etc. Anyone who's ; etc; No commission, • ; ortan|irnbusiy;agreed on thb, oeed^ for the formflv interested js very welcome to cofine There vviir • tion of ranatlpnat cultural; organisation to re- also be a fevv free promotional Concerts during ;place'lthd;previdusiy deficiiBnt and presently the conference- ; ^: ; ' W- ; defunct^cuJtUral vying of tli9 Australian Union -Sat. lyiarch 13, Concert "Marga", Ralax:Block '' ofSujbenti'^^A!^^ had the SONNY TEBBY & , -Sun. March 14,'Concert "Bentley's Boogie , • responisibill'ty^ of louring musicians, groups, BRi^NIE MciG^HEE :; .,:•'' Band", Rela^ Block; gMei^.Vspeakeit,.fUms'efc: nadonally around the University Mayne Hall . Australian (^^pyses.^t import THurs^ IVIarch 18^ ant j«.«ylce,;jtd^^^ because it TickiBlts - Studihi^ $3:5d^^ ;'was. E)po^ly;^prgan|^^^^ ahd?soaiTecl Into/idebt :Rufanc^H:;>j;;; ^;> '-S ^'^v-ii i:oy€ir|fIil^Wnj^AyS^^ 1975 anphilated ROXYS

' vits: f uncling^^^Âctlyi f eli#iat '•t-'i •'• -.-. Roxys will be running alprbgramme' of live :;tKe;; bniyjVj«V;;that^ acoustic rnusicians,; street .theatre, j poetry, 8ofiriiv^jiraify;;ar|tf ;'ccfjiid-^^^î^ :î- :ji6?giprial| rock music etc. every Friday night in the well-it iidWh;^pbi«ie^ •bM|8y(tfle^dnfej«n^^ „ .^^ DUÛ *.•««« o •«nr.r.r«v i«-„ theirpif^j;\'--fv^'-i.''y}t^-^'-^rr'.-^.y:--'rf;;.-,.^î:-i^r.. ' i.,:^.;!....-, ,. Union Reax Bock from-8 tO/approx 1 a.m.pbpliJarr^Wot, ^ ^^'f^^^^^ fact that:thev.i:inionVF}naHce , ...^ ,. ..^,^ . ., -, - ,. .^ ;;5yjâl.8o^dâpp|y^,.f^s^n^ ;AUS:^ln^th^; meantime.;,t^^ ' L. ,.^ .. .-^-...-. r_ ,.. —,.!__...-.* i orgaoii0r« iledtedratVthe "ddri'ference decided to; S-j;;,jv^

^g9,aheBdi;ana work on^settipg up independent ^"?;^^^^ S:y:f.«;;'ii.s^f^:':?;jf, regions . haw . foi'mect .^cornpariies -^ Campus and hopefully horne made gopdj vAct^yitles' V'ittorta ':artdj;.^Can[ipus^' Activities^ saleviCotsôfihelperSiareineeclî' /•South Australia.; ^Cam Australia^;IA^S 'pi^vtdusly v^Campus' Round, a; All enquiries contBpt Russell; Tait atîl^fe:AcilW^;^^ V regibnel brganisa|îbriywhich h been success^ ^'fullyjbtirlrigrgroups m\Spiith'Austra||a for the ties;6ffice^r;:ai/^38:;iChasely^^Strâdah^ fpasHW&ryears.. Hopefully; tjf\ep •flower;'T'^- r.:'m.::;-'mi-ymrfimm^ cpimpanles. wijl tw' set^ up, by May this •.. year. 'GONGERTS • --^v',' ••.:";' $^''f'A'^'!(!!.i'f:-^^^^^^ T|Ve• fundingjappllcatiopi^to:;AUS,.was .only; ;v mbderately. successfu . Cbuncli lathis iVeaf;allpM^ $1^0^ ,'W?'en the regions towaids t^ •;^jîglbnal coipps'aind•cpmpanies'anci tfifeemplpy- ^, li^tfpf; regional cultural organisers: The Qld. reglws:hBs;.bTOn 9^^ ipuffibsel'.

>^Thi^;primarv;aim:'^^^^^^^ ; CPnjference fs.to^^t up a regional cultural COTOP (jni'the'i^fbwiit^rt^^^ ilesQiieehiflanid;) ''if-'-

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.,:-:?^ :'-V, 15^ Your •estabi) Free admissiqr)^-^b:;^!t^nin9^ ^t .V- to see one (Tipyie^ whe^ Aniphg^^thefotheK:'8rtist$:iSbrmvriâ^ i-y--'--^v > •„ , SI16?)-Ea«:h;,îs.;a>t&Sbg^ .Withârei-R8yer^ndJ;Garyvt>a^ \--v^r:-- •;?-' • •:v; r ^b- •;; manv^jiai^'-lirit^TelBast?^^^ 'denied"-to -: kinS^;îg:;Bilj;;Brbbnzyi^vi(^^ :•:;•• • Brisbane-cineam;';!?^;;;'• z;/^'^^ '''•'•':•• 'Hou8ibn^:,Leadbîy'and Mlssiss(ppr^bhn:;lûrt^•^••:^;K^^T-v ^.-^^^^ •" ' ' • , Reduced admission>(ha!f pr^cejit.b,bUrVp^^^ ; \..V^'^^^^-'' '^t^-Jc'''^^^,^J^W'i&rl^^ the assistance of the seasons of public screenings from tirnb to tini^^ jWaltery Broyyii^McGhee^nlcHâm^^^^^ then;'tr6asiit^r.-Alah Fowler,' arranged for the during the year;';v; ')• ' ;;•' .;:'^''*!^•^•;••^^^^'^•'•-'=^•''•'^•^•^ :^''^^?r!};in'.!fathe^; wasn't around^ He begein placing v ylarie, Tangerine .bream, the Australian Blues Festival (sold out; >.• 19^3'.ahdy 19741)7- professionally in 1933, playing af house parties > Festival ;etci For some of the concerts we at Informal film and discussion nights at our Club : and on the streets. Moving away from hprne,; tempt^, rebelling tickets at the Activities Room at 303 Adelaide Street-- : . " -i he hitchhiked around for about 6 years. Iri Office, This proved to be a chaotic hassling ex The venue for all screenings will be this :i 1939 he .ran into Sonny Terry in Burjihgtdn, perience.- No one in the pffice had transport RIALTO THEATRE, Hardgraye Road, West , North Carolina before finally teaming up with , .and traipsing back and forth to Festival Hall End. Programmes will include.;35 mm .first-,*: hjm the following year. .. .%" lijnsure of the numbers we could sell, gave the releases, as welt as rare classics ispeciailyliTlport-i! • people>i:qhcerned musical headaches. We quick- ed on 16 mm by the varibus Ernbassiiss and prlr : During the late 40's and 50's he did a consid ly gave that practice up. After a few nasty ex- vate distributors. ;';:;• A;,;:;",-.; ;.;:*- erable amount of work as a studio.guitarist , periences.; with sleasy promoters promising The Annual General Meeting Will be held be-: ; .including work with his brother StickiMcGheei- . ^discpun.ts? then rerieging on the deal after de- for ethe screening on' January :29, and'is open ' .Big Maybelle, Josh White :• and > Leadbelly; mending X Amount of work from us, we nearly to all 1975 aindi1976; merribeTS^;(aithbugh bniV>; ; gave it up as a bad joke. 1975 members,can' vote). The Vneeting will be ' Sonny and Brownie have featured in movies followed by SULLIVAN'STFIAVELSandthfE"• (Sonny in "Buck and the Preacher" and 'Xiscb Towards the end of the last year, when Activj. Pike" and Brownie in "Face in the Crowd'-and EALING COMEDIES:;;^:. li-^t-l;>--r-M'-- '-'^'.^ ' tês arranged for the Union Agency to sel I . "Roosevelt Story") and on Broadway (Sonny Memberships are available fi;orb•the^;Arn J • cbncert; tickets, the stipulation was made that Book,Storei, 229Êlizabeth" Sti^t;>br ffom -; in: "Finian's Rainbow" and Brownie in "Cat on ; ,alt: tickets.sold on campus had to have at least G.P.O. Box 1655, Brisbane,400l.;:>-";'^: '•;,;• ; a Hot:tin Roof" and "Simply Heavenly") and ''$1 student discount. Unfortuniately because of of course have made many television appear a;, change; of staff and communication break- ances, including an excellent programme for' ;do.w^^the Melanie tickets went on sale at the /the ABC which was shovyn nationally fqltbW- '"sAg|iicy^;with, only a. 50c student discount. l8y ' ing theii- first visit to Australia in 1973^; " • • 'v •^^^^l^^^^î'^Mv'^'^? found out it was too late to vget ;|ne .Jtjcket price changed. Considering the It woiild seem that Sonny Tei'ry and Brbwnj^ ", ^^^lahje^"Tou? vyaf ;brg8rii^^ commercial -be our-loss. '',,:'.:;••••.••••••.-.;;•'••. of the carnpuses in-Âustralia the 50c discount .:.w«a_grbss;ripi.bffr-;;-: •••.•.•^;- ;;„•:;•; ;:^v; ••

For most; of the Interstate and international .c.onterts>corning",to. Brisbane tickets will be on ^WlhiTER WORKSHOP v;iM|e at-thejA^^ with tlje exception of those \SCAtlOiSi SCHOOL; ; cqncerts; hejd -at Festivalc Hall; where .they re- . serve tihe; righr^tqrseJl' at'tick^si The Union ./Agencistheblcycie'^^ v^^Siradbroke • lis-VMbn Julvr 12 -rSuij.'yiily 1B^ .•'.-Shopping Af<^e]!r;fn?'=--^^^'-'" '•'tl'W^'- '''^'••-

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•'-"- ••>;;.•••''' Well, I know this Is by now a rather hackneyed issue around campus, however these short-sighted beginnings are the source of the current pitiful'state of student theatre on campus.

Student theatre suffered its most tragic blow at the end of last year }y['%^\:- klljlMHi^l^l^^H when the Cement Box was closed as a theatre by the Building Inspec mk tors, the Fire Department etc. etc. This action means that there is Uni-que's first production of the year is a piay called Bandersnatch, now no feasible venue on campus that can be used for student pro written and directed by Charles Bachman, lecturer in Drama. The ductions. play will go on at the Avalon, and It is free. Not because Uni-que doesn't need the money but because, by law, they are how allowed to There Is hope for the future however - thanks to the efforts of Edwin charge as the Avalon is no longer licensed as a theatre. So If you've Relf and John Henderson. Plans have been drawn up to convert the nothing to do between 3 - 20th March on Wednesdays to Saturdays at Cement Box into a fully equipped theatre. The total cost of these 8-10 p.m. - pop along. Moral support costs nothingl renovations has been estimated at $54,000. This year $15,000 was allocated from the Union to start these necessary alterations. A small Bandersnatch uses several theatrical styles and effects, and should be start, but better than nothing. entertaining, at the least, interesting.

A further $5,000 has been allocated towards the cost of hiring a Direc The lunch-time theatre group U.P.Y.A. is at present in rehearsal with tor of Student Theatre. This will be the most exciting thing that has a Peter Barnes play called Noon Day Deamons. So watch out for it, happened to student theatre in a long time. as l.'m sure seeing it will be a very pleasant way to spend your lunch hour. It has become obvious since the introduction of the Semester System that full-time students haven't the time to run and co-ordinate major Yet another area of theatrical activity going on at the moment, is a theatrical events. politically orientated piece of street theatre being devised by Brent McGregor and the actors working with him. Look out for them too. There are still quite a few problems connected with Student Theatre, but it hopefully won't be too long before it's back on Its feet again. The story of student theatre then, isn't all tragedy. Despite all the political hassals, there are three separate areas of theatrical activity in Despite the current woeful circumstances however, student theatre is full swing at the moment . stilt very much alive. The year started well with a good variety of work shops during Orientation Week. These were all well attended, and if you are interested in getting involved in theatre, contact Edwin resulted in Unt-que's gaining about forty new members. Relf, or John Henderson at the Union Building, and get yourself on Uni-que's mailing listg| SPAGALINI PIZZA SPAGS :• SPECIALISES IN B

lasagna Y mr spagalini ALSO pizza 0 PREPARES ALL OF HIS salads & DELIGjOUS MEALS TO GO 6 Rd spagetti We Knead Your Dough bending their own banana M THE JOINT EFFORTS: Then at 11.00 sharp - a feature of the night 4ZZZ's SECOND FRONT being the high degree of organisation achieved by both bands and Triple Z staff-Sydney Taking 4ZZZ-FM beyond broadcasting, the sta Jazz-Rock group Crossfire began what was to tion has already begun dance and concert pro be a shaky first bracket. Having struggled for motion around Brisbane. The first 'Joint days to get to Brisbane and having finally arriv Efforts' as the station has dubbed them, were ed just hours before their performance, it was held at the end of Orientation Week and to be expected that their start would be tenta were, from all accounts, highly successful. tive. In any case. Crossfire returned to the stage Certainly the bill for the two nights is Indica and having settled.in, played some of the best tive of the high quality of performers 4ZZZ is - tightest, cbntrolied, yet explorative ~ music trying to attain. Brisbane has seen. Finally, 50 minutes after the schedules time Crossfire had to finish -to en cores, ovations and a stunned crowd — because Friday night began with local groups The time had just run out. Booze, Blues and Boogie band, and Moonlight, the group why by now must be considered After such a solid start - both Joint Efforts t Brisbane's top dance band. Moose Balone and and 11, by the way, costing just $2 - Triple Z the Mohairs, a country band centering around intends to consolidate its reputation with 2 of pedal-steel guitar, relieved Moonlight in the the best acts at present in Australia. Refectory whilst Quasar, Brisbane's wizards of Jazz-and-Progressive Rock, took over in the The first Is a concert featuring Australia's Relaxation Block. leading contemporary vocalist, Jeannie Lewis, and supported by amazing Sydney duo Al Ward To bring the night to a fitting climax The and Dan Johnson, who will appear at Mayne Carol Lloyd Band, recognised as Brisbane's Hall on Friday March 19 at 8.30. (Tickets best, assumed control in the Refectory. Unfor are now on sale at Festival Hall or The Union tunately their Film Crew, who managed to get Agency in the Shopping Arcade.) Then, on in the way all night, blew the power supply Sunday 21st of March, Joint Effort HI presents half-way through their performance but for a continuation of the entertainment spectacul tunately the crowd seerfied to be enjoying ars begun during Orientation, No III will feat themselves enough to wait around till the band ure a band comprized specially for our Joint began again. Effort from the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. This group will feature original material, and The only other matter of great import on the will include lead actors/singers, Trevor White Friday night was the usual 10.30 invasion by a and Jon English, both rock stars in their own bunch of drunks who literally risked death in right Local bands Including Moonlite will vain attempts to scale vertical columns and so also be on the bill, as wil! a full night of free gain entry. Although they claimed not to have films and food and drinks will be available. the $2 admission, they were noted to be $5 Once again, it's all for only $2.00 drunk and so received little sympathy. crowd eating out of his hand as soon as he ap proaches a stage and on this occasion the pack- 'Joint Effort IT, held on the Saturday night, refectory were yelling and foot-stomping for was an even more impressive line-up. Bob 'More' even before Hudson had finished his Hudson who with star billed Crossfire had had allotted time. Moonlight then brought the a long and tortuous time fighting to reach crowd to its feet with their usual tight coher Brisbane amkist an airline strike featured after ent style whilst Queensland's best two Coast Quasar with an outrageous performance of Oz bands. Rock Steady and Magar alternated their Kulcha. Hudson has that rare ability to have a styles of dance music in the Relaxation Biockj

caxol Uoyd band 18 I CAN IMAGINE, FOR INSTANCE, THAT YOU COULD HAVE SOiVIETHING LIKE AT OXFORD, BOATS ON THE LAKE. YOU COULD ROW UP LflnPSCflPE AND DOWN THAT BIG LAKE WHEN IT WAS EX TENDED AND PRESUMEDLY WE'VE CLEANED IT OF THE CHEMICAL WASTES.

The Great Court remodeled! Circular Drive closed! Extensions to tht "I agree with practically every line that's down on paper. I think ifs lake! A multi-storey car parJcl A new body of water called Mill Pond! damn goo d and I think it would be marvellous, because I've been inti What's going on? mately involved right through from the beginning of it until its final presentation." These are some of the proposals of the Unh/ersity Landscape Master plan which at a cost in the vicinity of $10,000 could change the face Hovrever, Dr. Glen McBride from the Psychology Department, was not of the University. For better or worse is die question for which only so enthusiastic about all the plan's proposals. you can provide an answer. He explained that I had caught him without his written comments, The plan came about because, well, 1 was requested by the Unhrar because, "I do most of these sorts of things in my toot at home." sity to assist in the preparation of a landscape masterplan and towards this end I suggested that we go to an outside consultant specialist/' said Mr. James Maccormicl(, the University Architect. In their report Buchan Laird and Buchan say that "The Great Court is an uncomfortable space and does not attract much usage." Or. "In 1975 the Univenity toolc the plunge and it asked me to make a McBride said, "They're wrong about the amount of usage that the study of who might appropriately undertake this plan." Great Court gets. My guess is that 100 people a day would sit out on the Great Court and have something to eat. The usage isn't provided Buchan Laird and Buchan, Architects and Planners, of Surfers Paradise for. got the job.

"And coincidentally, and I mean it, the office manager happened to be jVilliam Heather who had been my immediate assistant, working for the i.Univenity as an architect back in 1972." said Mr. Maccormick. (• "So he had many attributes and the deeper insight into what the St. Lucia campus was all about So what eventually came out of the Land scape Masterplan was something that he and I hatched out together,"

^The maj'or conceptual component of the plan is the re-aforestation of ithe whole campus. What also "hatched out" was a wave of opinion and ^enquiry, both ^vourable and not so, about the proposals.

'iWithin the plan the University is divided Into seven major units, which are further sub-divided. The units are as follows- 1.00 Centre Knoll; <2.()0 West Knoll; 3.00 South Knoti; 4.00 Flood Plains; 5J)0 The Lake; 6.00 Westem Creek and 7.00 The River Bank.

In each of the sub-divisions detailed studies were undertaken of the features and characteristics of the erea. Natural and cultuhil criteria distinguished each sub-dh/ision. "There is no versatility. It pnly provides for people who lie down. The chaos that the people leave after is some sort of indication of how Some of the major changes that tiie plan outlined were the landscaping it is used." .of the Great Court and the extension of the existing lake. Professor Saini from the Architecture Department thought that the ^That the Great Coun be developjad as a mora p/easantplace in which landscape plan was a great improvement on what we have now. to sit, to talk to study or fust to relax. That strong new focal.points be introduced Into the space and views He was aware of the problems of the Great Court. Pedestrian walkways be directed and controlled by various means. have been proposed for the Great Court. miat in the development of the Great Court a fountain be included." "I see paths as part and parcel of the landscape and they can be treated And that "the existing Lake be extended North over the low lying in such a way that they merge with the grass," said Prof. Saini 'The grassed' area immediately East of die Student Union Building Great Court I thmk is a special problem, because it's rocky and the ^Complex.*' trewjre stunted In fact we could boast to have perhaps the worid's largert bonsai garden,''he said. "I think that If trees can be planted it Naturally Mr. Maccormick whole-heartedly endorses the alterations. would humanize the Great Court much more thaii It is now Ifs too mnsTERPLnn 19

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vast and people feel a bit lost and wander all over the place without any "Students would see them though, wouldn't they," said Mr. focus." Maccormick. "I can imagine, for instance that you could have some thing like at Oxford, boats on the lake. You could row up and down Prof. Saini believes that the landscaping of the Great Court should not that big lake when it was extended and presumedly we've cleaned be formal. "1 would like to see more informal landscaping as a foil to it of the chemical wastes." the very formal buildings around it. I think it should be handled very "I think its again going back to aesthetics and the imagination of the sensitively and with a certain amount of freedom in terms of landscap plan, which suggests that ifs nice to have a pleasant environment ing," he said. where you enjoy looking at things, looking at trees, looking at water, looking at the landscape all around you, at buildings, reflection of In Dr. McBride's opinion, focusing on views was not a viable proposal. buildings in water... you know, there's sort of a poetic feeling about "One feature of the plan is that they accentuate various views, and I ail that." think this is naive," he said. "I think they know very little about the Another major proposal of the Landscape Masterplan Is to convert behaviour of people if they think you can organize them to look in Circular Drive into a pedestrian area. various ways. By making the whole area attractive, which 1 think is a very fine part ot theplan, the whole place is turned Into a forest. That in the pedestnanlsation of Cin:ular Drive, service roads be re This would be the nice thing rather than pretend that people are going constructed to minimum widths and geometry suitable for their usage to be taken by particular views." and also that the driving surfaces be treated to prevent high speed vehicle movement/' One of the "particular views" that is envisaged is of a larger lake which That area for pedestrian use be suitably paved with finishes and pat \could be seen from various points on the campus. terns related to pedestrian movement and the surrounding spaces." That a major tree planting design be prepared for die pedestnanlsation "Just bloody expensive," said dr. McBride. "Half a dozen little foun of Circular Drive." tains would have just as much visual impact There is lio part that you'd That spaces be designed as major community areas or nodes providing be able to look at that extension from which you couldn't already see opportunities for groups to gather, for obtaining information, for the existing lake. These seem to be ways of spending money." groups to eat and drink, for persons to sit or study and also for protec tion from or exposure to, the elements. They must also be designed for Although Buchan Laird and Buchan point out that, "Water, whether night time usage as well as day time usage.'' still or moving has a real and psychological cooling effect in Summer and its ability to scintillate and reflect makes it always pleasing to Prot Saini realises that trees serve many purposes. "For a tropical any viewer.", do we need another large body of water (Mill Pond) at setting what we basically lack is shade and this plan will go a long way die intersection of Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Mill Road? to provide this," he said.

One of the functions that Mill Pond would serve, apart from aesthetic When "major tree planting" has been carried out on Circular Drive, considerations would be to collect storm-water ninoff. Mill Pond- "People should be able to walk from one end of the campus to the an expensive flood mitigation system? other without worrying about having to dodge traffic and witiiout • having to sweat it out" said Prof. Saini. "I'd like to see as much water as possible. To be quite honest I like lakes, I like looking at water," said Mr. Maccormick. "Right over the Ail major pedestrian paths would also be designed for occasional use other side of the university I can't imagine that you'd ever be able to by emergency vehicles and service vehicles. Sir William MacGregor see both aMhe same time. Why not have tyvo?" he said. Because the Drive would be established as the outer ring road for the Univenity. students don't use them? This has been critised by the Department of Town Planning and Profes sor Keeble of tills department

"What we said was, it's foolish to have an outer ring road like Sir William MacGregor Drive because it means a vast lengtii of road which has to eventually be brought up to pretty high standards, vary costiy and with lengtiiy service roads coming in from it," said Prot Keeble.

^ "Wa emphasised that a lot of the road junctions on the unh/enity plan were much too complicated, instead of tiiese complicated junctions you could have round-a-bouts or T junctions."

Would the roads in the University Landscape Masterplan be adequate or inadequate? Vlu*> oX' 3. QP *»i^^*^ Utca cxt3. ous fMfxfiU^

"Not inadequate, but unsatisfactory," said Prof. Keeble. 'Too much road running around the outside, and therefore an excessive lengtii of ance costs. I really don't envisage any vastiy increased maintainance service road running inward." costs. It's not trees that increase our maintainance costs, ifs gardens that have to be weeded, gardens and paths and hl^ly landscaped Mr. Bailey is Deputy Assistant Director of the Building and Grounds areas." Section of tiie Univenity. He is concemed witii tiie maintainance of buildings and the grounds. Dt McBride said, "Of course there's a conflict here; an architecfs concerned to present a plan that will be expensive because his fee is a "There.are certain regulations which we must adhere to and abide," proportion of that plan, whereas we, as usen are concemed to get the said Mr. Beiley. "There's a sub-station at tfie back of tiie Duhig Buil maximum benefit from the minimum amount of money, and as aca ding and the City Council absolutely demand, they own tiie transfor- demic usen we're concerned to get the maximum usage for academic men in them, that they must have road access to them." purposes for staff and students." "This is not shown on tiie plan but ifs only a minor detail. So tiiis plan is only meant to act as a guide. Everytiiing from tiie aesthetic and Prot Saini believes tiiat student opinion on tiie proposals is essential. tiie practical point of view is looked at in tiiis and tiie roads will be But he says, "You can't just start shooting opinions out of tiie air. adequate because they'll have to be. No practical tilings will be sacri You've got to have some basis for discussion. We can't just ail become ficed purely for the appearance." landscape plannen overnight"

One of the prime problems of the university is providing adequate "Students are the usen and their preferences and their needs should parking facUities. fn the Landscape Masterplan a multi-level car pari be paramount in any plan that is finally adopted," he said. IS suggested. This would be near the Chemical and adjacent Engineering biiilding. Ifs up to tiie Building and Grounds Committee to accept all proposals or recommend alterations to the Masterplan. All recommendations are Al Prof. Keeble salcf, "I think for many reasons, almost tiie last tiling tiien passed on to the Senate, which has tiie deciding say. that we ought to do here is build a parking building. They're immensely costiy structures and they're always invariably ugly." "Weil, lets face it i think we botii know tiiat if tiie Buildings and Grounds Committee recommend sometiiing, seeing half the memben jWhat are tiie alternatives? Several surface car parks have also been sug: are already on the Senate ifs quite likely that the Senate would form gested but these take up valuable space. Public transport? For a large erly approve," said Mr. Bailey. proportion of people who come to tiie univenity, car is tiie only practi cable means of transport. "There's no question of the students not having an opportunity. If a large group of students didn't like what was being done, tiiey would "It seems to me that one of the cheapest ways to provide paricing is to take it up witii the Union and the Union representatives on Building take every blasted road, extend it a littie bit wider and have right angle and Grounds and on tiie Senate would voice tiieir opinion.^' parking," said Dr. McBride. "Monash has made a brilliant job of its Student representatives have equal voting power on oom^uie oom- car parks because instead of lines tiiey've built garden beds, and tiie gar mittee and the Senate. den beds have got magnificarit trees over tiiem, which provide shade, and one'sees can, yes, but tfirou^ a curtain of trees and shrubs." Anyone wishing to comment on the Landscape Masterplan Is asked to do so In writing, to the Secretary ofthe Buildings and Grounds Com And what would be tiie estimated cost of tfie Masterplan? "I have mittee, Mr. WJ. Humble, before SOth April, 1976. absolutely ho idea; nor has anybody else," said Mr. Maccormick. There are portions of tiie plan tiiat are not very far off. Mr. Maccormick "If a small percentage of what is suggested is achieved in tfie next 10, said, "Ifs not so terribly expenshre or difficult to think in terms of 20 yean, I think that wili go a long way to achieving something. But extending the iake around the Union. I would have thought that maybe no plan is rigid and Inflexible, and I don't think any planner ever be we might have achieved tiiat all going well, in the next trianium." iievei tfiat everytiiing that is put on paper should or would ever be ach Ieved because over tiie passage of yean attitudes change." The Unh/enity Landscape Masterplan may crumble like Ibsen's Master- builder, or remain. But whatever the outcome students have an oppor At present Buildings and Grounds employ 26 full-time gardening staff, tunity of voicing tiieir opinions^ Mr. Bailey said, "I don't tiiink the lake would increase our maintain Sue Dennis 21

LI1l.[13UJS....L[1l.n3UiS....lJ[1l.nSUJS.,. With the kind of reaction it has been getting, ED CRUISE ON THE BLUE SEAS the future of subsequent Leonid Subinov cruises appears fairly assured. The only altera delighted to meet new people, and welcome Walking alone along the endless corridors of tions Professor Christa would like made are. the Forgan-Smith building one gets the uncan opportunities to talk about themselves and their country. that they be made longer and more frequent. ny feeling of being watched. At least that's He would also like to be able to call in to Rus The cruiser, Leonid Subinov, visits such island how I felt as I strode along, passing anonymous sian ports en route, and this possibility Is at paradises as Fiji, Noumea, Port Vila and, Lao- brown doors with plaques brandishing foreign present under consideration by the Soviet tuka, and in between stopovers as mucli as is names, armed with my brightly-coloured government. Semper-surplus 120 x 185mm Spi rax note practicable to done to simulate Russian living. book. I was searching for one Room 20A, hop The food is Russian and the Russian entertain ing to find, of course, the elusive Professor ment features live music, dancing and films. Christa, Russian conversation wherever possible is en The east wing of the building Is the last place couraged. Although the normal Russian course Pasadonna one would expect to find a Russian Depart continues on board, supplementary talks are ment, but sure enough the sign appeared from given by speakers on issues such as women's afar, barely legible, and I could just make out roles in the Soviet, education framework, Coffee "Russian Department: Enquiries". I drew closer country and city life, customs and cooking. not altogether unapprehensively, and finding Students are also taken on inspection tours the correct door, decidedly pushed my way in around the decks, learning In Russian the tech V. Lounge side. A woman of midd|e-age who had been nicalities of the bridge, hospital and engine- n 174 Garence Road, woi'king at her desk gave a gasp of surprise. rooms. I was told after having made my purpose quite About fifteen students will go on each cruise, g INDOOROOPILLY clear, that the professor wouldn't be available the first of which for this year leaves Sydney HOT AND COLD until after eleven o'clock. The woman was March 31st. Last year, to launch the idea, the DRINKS, SNACKS quiet and soft-spoken, yet politely edged me Soviet Government sponsored the whole four out into the corridor, after which the door teen days, which cost them about $350 per ft LIGHT MEALS dosed abruptly, ending all further possible stucient.. This year students-will pay $150 but communication. I made my way outdoors, in must arrange their own transport to Sydney, itself an arduous process, trying to overcome for which they get a $30 concession in air fares. my discouragement with the consoling thought Opportunities for. such low-price Pacific Island that perhaps all Russians are secretive and don't cruises seldom appear, and the reaction to both like prolonged intrusions. Nonetheless, as 1 cruises.has been encouraging. Some students Open 6 nights a week retraced my steps I couldn't help feeling that will be going a second time. Apparently the now, more than ever, I was being watched. students who have come back have found that (CLOSED TUESDAY) Professor Christa, I found on my return, is a the fortnight did Improve thejr language abil very polite, warm and good-humoured Russian. ities. He understood perfectly that this was my first 10% DISCOUNT ON ALL REPAIRS! assignment, that I'd be a long time taking notes, and that I'd ask each question at least four THEPOT-ocB.^ times. This being understood, and relieved that Are YOU getting the Best Deal in a casual rapport had been set up, i proceeded with my assignment, which is what I'll do here. Motoring Service. Call at &THE POURR' Nidc Xynias In 1975 fourteen students and staff from the «us-rRAi.i>oN Russian Department spent a fortnight cruising Phone around the South Pacific on an all-expenses TOOWONG paid 'field trip' to study and learn to appreciate 36 0562 Russian life, language and people. Professor for GUYS Christa, head of the department, sees this kind TWEEDS OvVNEP of thing as a vital supplementary exercise to the mm THE FASHION CENTRE OF TOOWONG Cnr. academic-styled lectures and tutorials given by SHERWOOD HOUSE AflCAOE | staff with an acquired, rather than native, Coronation Drive & Cribb Street, Milton: knowledge of the Russian language. Speaking 39 SHERWOOD ROAD Specialising in with people who have a foreign language as TOOWONG •Electronic Tune Ups their native tongue, and who speak it with all its idioms and accents is an infinitely superior *Oxy& Electric Welding method of gaining appreciation of foreign •Free Brake Inspection with all lubes languages and cultures, he said. In this regard, li\/oii cruises have the edge on visitation of foreign •Huge Discount on Tyres countries, for in the country few people are • • Ui FORALL willing to spend two hours discussing foreign I ^^^/O STUDENTS •All-Work Guaranteed proverbs, whereas on ships the crewmen are fringements, are the only recourse Admin., has A student at the end ot 1ij/b found his exam to enforce its rules. results withheld because of an unpaid $3.00 parking fine. Not knowing whether he had students I have recently been in contact with the passed or not he did not know whether to do a Deputy Registrar, Mr. D.J. Munro, who wel supplementary exam. Tbe public press high comes my. intention to Include a regular discus lighted the story, all sympathies on the stud sion column In each Issue of Semper Floreat, and admin* to liaise between students who have difficult ent's side. University Administration was pic ies knowing what to do about disciplinary act- tured as some sort of monstrous red-tape bur Ions, and relevant Administration staff memb eaucratic machine, intent on destroying the ers who can help solve the dilemmas. Mr. careers of defenceless and unwary students. Munro Introduced me to various Heads ol Departments in Administration, and we were He could have avoided such action by paying able to discuss the ways in which students the fine when notified of it, or appealed to the difficulties could be avoided in the first place Registrar (page 45 of "Know Your Univer or resolved once encountered; sity" handbook) if he thought he was not lia ble. He could have done far better by running to Administration than to the Public press. Mr. Munro emphasised that Administration De partments hesitate to impose fines, but thai regulations must be enforced to avoid chaos AU students have access to the "Bnroiment Guide" and "Know Your University" (publish ed by the Administration's University Inform This emphasis was re-iterated by Dr. Rayner ation Office, which also produces the fort Registrar, who informed me that in 1974 nightly "University News"). Ali students should about $53,000 was levied in various fines and become thoroughly familiar with services late fees, bringing financial discomfort to three offered by Administration. or four thousand students. They would rathei not have staff tied up, and Administration dut Heads of Departments in Administration, ies slowed down: often it is more expensive tc including the Registrar, Dr. S.A. Rayner, and extract these fines from students than what the the Deputy Registrar, Mr. D.J. Munro, are hon fines are worth. This is why the Undergraduate estly puzzled as to why students allow them Library has largely abolished the fines systen- selves to fall into traps requiring disciplinary (see Semper, issue one). They are aware of the action. The information is there at hand. If you inconvenience caused to students, and woulc find yourself hit by such action, it will be be- far prefer the work of Administration to run cause you did not read the information book more smoothly, if students would keep the lets carefully, or you simply ignored notice of rules and dates in mind and aliide by the neces fines imposed for rules breached. sary statutes.

Trouble is, the only contacts students have with Both Dr. Rayner and Mr. Munro suggested thai Administration is through their Enrolment every student keep a diary for important dates Forms, with that dry, impersonal-type format — those on the Enrolment Guide, class assign demanded for computerisation. Students may ments, examination dates, social functions, feel intimidated by the multiplicity of deadline any other deadlines. You can also circle the dates (first page. Enrolment Guide) and conseq dates on a wall calendar (but don't spoil youi uences of not meeting thenri (pages 6 and 7). Hobbit Calendar!) Seemingly self-evident They are deterred by warnings of exclusion advice but how many actually do it? It really rules, cancellation or suspension of enrolment, does help to keep you out of strife. and with-holding of exam results. Correspond Sometimes a fine is incurred and a student who ence from Administration is terse, concise, very is financially embarrassed just cannot afford to official. Inery working smoothly. It is set up in a pay it by the due date. If this happens, you are bureaucratic framework, as are alt large organ advised to talk the matter over with the Head Both new and continuing students get the feel isations In government and commerce. of the relevant Department (Library, for ing that Administration is a faceless, stern However, the "red tape" stereotype is not as instance), or talk the matter over with Mr H.B. authority, and that any dealings with It should impossibly bewildering as some seem to think. Green (phone 370 3235 for an appointment, be avoided like the plague. When a student The J.D. Story Building, hovering over the bus if the matter is serious). Mr Green's slogan is comes across a matter needing attention by an stop like some foreboding grey citadel, does not "My door is always open". But most such en office in Administration, senseless fear and have iron bars on its doors and windows. The quiries involving inability to meet payments can apathy seem to prevail. Then the axe falls, and staff inside are not computerised automatons: be dealt with at the Revenue and Student the student's previous trepidations are rein they are approachable human beings, the maj-. Accounts Enquiries Desk, Room 127 in the forced and broadcast. They spread like wildfire or Ity of whom have been students at this Uni J.D. Story Building. Go there when you first to others, and a collective image of Admin, is veristy. know you cannot meet the deadline, formed. V A shape with lion body and the head ofa As a continuing student, I am aware of the Many enquirlres of a more complicated nature man, difficulties many find when faced with an auth are best sent by rhail. Page 15 of the Enrolment A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun " orlty they feel is beyond their means of per Guide explains how to set out a letter heading W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" sonal contact, tt s^ms that major difficultiej for speedy results. Although all letters should occur at very inconvenient times, before oi be addressed to the Registrar, the internal mail This University is a very large and complex during examination periods, when students sorting office will refer enquiries directly to organisation, with about 20,000 students. The attentions are fully on their studies.'The over appropriate administrative sections, beans of task of collating, processing and storing neces sights and procrastinations regarding fines anc Faculties, etc. Alt letters you send are filed sary details about these students is immense/so "closing dates" are more likely then.'And re centrally, and may thus be referred to if you computers are absolutely necessary. About 700 sultant disciplinary actions are felt with a sense write again. File every item of correspondence Administration staff working in over forty of outrage or at least indignity. But these act you receive from the University for your own sections, must try to keep the cogs of the mach- Ions, often seemingly harsh in view of the In reference. •'" — fr A very important matter where many students Another point raised by Mr. idunro concerns IntendingL to do a Diploma in Education are fall down is in the returning of their "Confirm the need to plan ahead for many courses. Many strongly advised to consult either the Dean of ation of Enrolment" form. This will be sent to Arts students plan to do a Diploma In Educa the Faculty of Education (Dr. M.C. Grassie) or you about late March or early April, and must tion after obtaining their degree. There is a Professor G. T. Evans. Make an appointment at be checked and returned, or you may find that quota on Dip. Ed. enrolments, and preference Room 138, Social Sciences Building (phone you will not be considered as having enrolled is given to students who have In their Arts 3706185). at all —a most disturbing discovery around courses a certain mixture of subjects, this de- exam time. I will* mention this again, when the signed to fulfil the varying demands for teach I welcome letters from students who have had, time comes for the relevant operation. ers of certain school subjects. Arts students or are having, any difficulties conceming Administration. If you are uncertain as to how to resolve any problem, contact me through the Semper Floreat office (leave a message) or write to me at P.O. Box 390, West End, 4101. It is quite probable that I will be able to put you in contact with the officer in Administration or the staff In your Faculty who can sort out your difficulty post-haste. Areas where common inquiries occur may provide material for ex- olanatory articles in future issues of Semper.

The most important date to remember now/ is: 27th March (end of fifth week of Semester D- Fjhal date for cancellation of subjects without x>unting as a failure fbr exclusion purposes.

^ny letters requesting information about 'Administration should reach me by 18th Vlarch^ Ron Muir GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY one year later objective the establishment of an intellectual Griffith began 1976 with an Orientation Week tralian environment). Humanities (to explore framework within which students are able to of martial arts'displays, lunch-time concerts, human values as expressed in the Arts, i.e., integrate their later subjects. It is designed by a street theatre plays, and what ever else weather literature and films). Modern Asian Studies multi-disciplinary staff team and covers all as permitted. (to gain an insight into political, commercial, pects of the School's work. In some Schools industrial and cultural factors in Modern Asian there is a single Foundation Course, white in For the second time the serenity of Mimosa societies that affect their relationships with others the final part of the first year Is spent on Creek is broken by the pulsating Intellectual each other and Australia), and Science (to a Supporting Course, which also provides es pursuits of some 1000 young people of create an awareness of the complex interaction sential theoretical knowledge and skills neces Brisbane's second, and Australia's 16th univer between science and society, while encompass sary to make the transition into main studies. sity. ing the study of chemistry, physics, earth scien In this way students experience a period of ces and biological sciences). university study and a taste of different sub Whether the first Australian to translate Dante jects before having to commit themselves to a (his copy Is in the Griffith Library), the Rt. These are broadly based schools of study, and specific career choice. Hon. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, P.C. learning need never stop because it has reached G.C.M.G., M.A., L.L.D.,. Q.C, sometime the end of a subject's traditional area of con THe ultimate aim of Griffith is to produce grad Premier of Queensland, first Chief Justice of cern. More such schools will be added as the uates that are able to be of utmost service to Australia from 1903 to 1919, realised in his life University expands towards its planned target the community either within or out of the time that a university — or an electorate - of 8,000 students, range of their vocations. It is hoped this aim would benamed after him, he certainly would will be achieved by unique methods that await not have realised how unique that university Each school has a set of problems relevant to to try themselves against the tests of time. wouldbe. contemporary society requiring students to draw knowledge from related areas. Thus they On visiting the campus of Griffith one cannot For Griffith is unique in the fact that it offers become equipped to solve other problems that fail to see that it will succeed. The dazzling an alternative type of tertiary education to that may arise in their professions in Igter life and modernity of its buildings [University House, of James Cook University in Townsville and our have a better understanding of their own containing a bookshop, which. Incidentally, own University of Queensland where the con- studies within it. is the first in Queensland belonging to an Inter ventional departmental-faculty organisation is state cooperative chain, chemist, post^ffrce, adhered to. In place of this Griffith has adopted The first year of study is common to all stud- bank, campus shop, the library, Sport Centre, the "School" as its basic academic unit, and, at ents who enrol in a particular school. An inte- the various Schools] set amid pristine bushland, present has four of these - Aultralian Environ- grated course introduces them to a range of left as much as possible untouched. Is die very mental Studies (to foster an understanding of subjects and inter-disciplinary questions. This picture of confidence that arises from its uni- problems in the relationship of man to the Aus- Foundation Course, as it is known has as its quenessgl Robin Warman Oraffili V

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Someone was telling me today tliat al ready she was feeling alienated (and tiius depressed) in the institution. That is al ready this year, again. SWANN ROAD, TARINGA Anyway, graffiti artists in Brisbane and along the east coast generally, have been particularly active since the last election, and the pre-election period generally. A political crisis often tends to stfmulate the ephemeral arts, like graffiti and pos ters and wall murals. .Unfortunately Australian culture hasn't accommodated wall murals on any scale yet. Australia's on the -street walls have lieen monopol ised by commercial advertising, and the Teenage Heaven sub-<:ulture has not yet seriously challenged this commercial hegemony, except lately in the form of graffiti - an essentially anarchist cuni dada art form recognising explicitly and probably implicitly that property is theft. Savvy?

Anyway, everyone is asking her how the holidays went (terrible) and what she did (nothing) and where she went (no-where) and commenting on how weli she looks (appearances can be deceptive) and generally boring her with meaningless chatter. Well, there was a thought that this was really just suburban life, Ken more Imperialism. Isolation and aliena tion and articulation merging in graffiti communication.' •

Personally I'm not into meaningfulness HALE ST.. MILTON But articulation as a response to a hostile SIR FRED SCHONELL DRIVE, ST. LUCIA ^fi' QiteAcillon

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environment seems like a pretty interest ing thought. Mailer wrote an article for "faith of Graffiti", a study of New York name graffiti in which he said it was the response of tropical people to a grey urban temperate environment. Talked with a kid called CAY 161 who sat in subways watching his name go by on /(Of r^^ ^r^J-' trains all day. 1 haven't seen that in Aus tralia yet. V Grafitti has been written of as an expres sion of political alienation. Personally '^'"'T'^ ^•nvf' I'm not so sure that alienation is a mature .'jk'-T-**''^ urtxA*"' concept, but I was glad to see that some MILTON RD., MILTON ^i.'..:A: 'K.e one finished the SUPPORT FRETILIN .. * • h^A' "WORKERSMUST on Milton Road, I hate unfinished graf Unfinished. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ p^^^, fiti. I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't • much graffiti in Brisbane, compered to the south and the west (the latter only on heresay) whatever happened to the revo lution? Also, where are ali the articulate feminist graffiti writers of Brisbane? (Hello Judylll)??? Also, where are the radicalesbians who are such a force in Melbourne and Sydney graffiti?

Just drawing conclusions on the walls, blasts from the past n'all. The-artand lit erature aspects and the reasons for all interest me further, also the aesthetics, like the place and style are important. •• "^M ' '*«nj|(iw**' '•ill j^ I * (B^>»;"J^ ., ,: '_.;*-ni^, Maybe more later. By the way. Do you people realise that a can of spray paint BSEQIfiD is only $1.25 at Woolworths???

Thanks to Jackl for driving and Liz for some inspiration 25 26 IJ.]V.«ZIOMSltt OR llAOSM?

THE DEMISE OF THE LEFT The U.N. has been taken over by a majority ies. In comparison with the non-democratic which, whatever Its internal differences, agrees countries In the Middle East and elsewhere it that dictatorship Is beautiful, while democracy still is a paradigm of freedom and human rights. The story of Israel, the Jews, Zionism and the is not. Israel failed to adjust itself to these new If it has no automatic claim to sympathy or Left grows more and more curious. Who can realities by relinquishing outmoded democratic exemption from criticism it has a right to fair forget those days before the Six Oay War when institutions in favour of a progressive military ness, but this quality has been in short supply every free world capital saw massive rallies in dictatorship, or at the very least a one party in recent years. support of Israel. From London to Warsaw the state. To this extent, Arab complaints about common man supported Israel in its fight to the alien character of the Jewish State in the live. Even the leftists back Israel, although one Today they try to explain Middle East environnwnt are no doubt correct. can only feel that the Left would rather have avoided the^subject entirely. But Israel's victory Today they try to explain to us that there is an lost her any'left wing support she had. Israel Present day attitudes to Zionism are dictated Arab socialism. There Is a socialism of slave- suddenly became a "Force of reaction" and a by a great measure of cynicism, whereas the traders and a socialism of oii magnates. There bastion of "antirevolutionary activity". If Israel Israeli reaction has been naive, sonwtlmes in are ali kinds of socialism, all aiming at the one had lost the war she would truly have ingra tiated herself with the leftists. They would have held their sympathy rallies and would wear the Star of David as the symbol of nation al liberation. She would have come to represent the fight for freedom: the universal struggle to Statement delivered in the Knesset by tfie Prime exist Her people unfortunately "driven Into Minister, Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, in the wake of the UN the sea" would haye been martyrs to the cause. Assembly resolutions, Jerusalem, 11 November 1975 It would fiave been beautiful but Israel lost her one golden chance to be loved by the Left. She survived. And for that she shall be punished. "... AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE ESSENCE The nature of the punishment has assumed AND FOUNDATION OF ISRAEL" varied and frightening forms. In the words of Paul Johnson, "The world is increasingly gov erned not so much by capitalism, or commun Let us have no illusions; This is no matter of an abstract ism, or social democracy> or even tribal barbar ism, as by a false lexicon of political cliches, ideological debate, but art offensive with a definitely political accumulated over half a century and now significance and purpose, and as such '*: is unprecedented in assuming a kind of degenerate sarcedotat auth- the history of the struggle in which wt; have been engaged orlty". The most degenerate of all the cliches has now reared its ugly head in a totally un for deeades. The purpose of the Arab representatives and abashed form. Today thp U.N. has told us that their supporters is to place Israel beyond the Pale, to Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimi undermine the essence and foundation of Israel, so as to nation. prepare the political conditions for the intensification of Perhaps It was no real coincidence that this their struggle against its very existence as an independent indecent resolution was passed by the U.N. on State in its own land, to prepare the ground for the' Monday, November 10th, 1975. This was after- establishment of an"Arafatist" state In place of the State of all the 37th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), when Hitler unleashed his Israel and on its ruins. storm troopers against the Germai Jevvs. Per haps the symbolism goes even deeper. Perhaps anti semitism runs on a 37year cycle. ANTIZIONISM OR ANTISEMITISM? the extreme. Thus they tended to assume that and the same thing-the overthrow of im since the establishment of their state that they perialism, which happens to be one and in had a claim to the support of all people of Anti-semltism is an ugly word and It tends to divisible. Once there* was only a single kind of goodwill In what remains of the civilized worid. bring out violent denials in ail good anti-Zion socialism, which fed on principles, some of This is sadly not so. ists, but consider the following carefully. them moral. On the day that morality died there was born the particular, convential social It is easy to point to the short sightedness and Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal rights ism, changing from place to place and from indicision of successive Israeli governments, of Jews as citizens within society. Antl-Zjonism time to time, for which there is no other name particularly in relation to their Arab neigh denies the equal rights of the Jewish people to but National Socialism. its sovereignity within the community of bours, to manifestations of narrow-mindedness ahd intolerance among public opinion, to the nations All that has happened is that dis It Is possible to understand Arab enmity to baneful Influence of a small but vociferous criminatory principle has been transferred from Zionism and Israel. It Is less easy to find a credi religious lobby. It is equally true that in an im the realm of individual rights to the domain of table motive for the passionate advocates of perfect world, Israel grosso modo is neither collective Identity. anti-Zionlsms and antl-lsraelism who being better nor worse than other democratic societ- neither Jews nor Arabs, have nevertheless be- n

come deeply involved In this conflict between two nations. In the name of justice they de nounce the forcible delousing of a suspected Arab terrorist or some archaelogical excavation i[r.i as crimes against humanity. For systematic tor ture, the murder of political opponents, the An »nMly$i» of Iti* politictl tyttamt Afiht nttiont voting on iht extermination of national minorities and other U.N. niolulion lo iatnllfy Zionism at»form ot rscitm »how$- such events elsewhere in the Middle East VOtlNG FOR THE RESOLUTION: 72 MEMBERS excuses are readily found or they are passed Midi0»car .. Miliiaiy dictaioiihip AfghintatM .. OfltHn»niul» over in polite silence. , . ^ „ l^tliytit Pifliamanliry damoericy sometimes the influence of petrol-dollars, AJbini* Communiil dicutonhip Aly«rli 0n»-p»rt»i«t« Mildiva subtly and not so subtly, can be detected with Bihcim ShiMom l(l,ndi ParItamantiiy democracy BtflQiidtih... Martiit-liwdicMiorihip Mjti Miliiiry-dicuiarship oetro-experts and petro-moralists busy at l^glli Parliamamiry damoctiqf Bdiii Mlliiiry dictitorahip /vork. But their impact is limited In a free Bulgtrli Cominuniil dictitouhip Miuntanla .... One-party rule M|,((co Pailiaininury demociacy Burundi MlliUnr dictstouhip jociety; much of the passion is genuine and Mongolia Commumit diciaiorihip Byilofufti* ••. Sovt»giiiiian Nominal dumocracy Congo Militirv dicuiorthip Poljnd Commuhist diclatorihip A/hen western critics echo Arab or Soviet Cub* .. Communis dKUtoithtp Portugal Military rule references to the Zionist stranglehold over Cyprul Mixtdrutt Citchotlovikti Communitt dict*lorthJP Qiur ShBiWom Rwanda Militiiry diclalorthip the American economy or attack "Zionist OthoiMY ..... MIHiirydiciiioriMp Egypt On»p«rt* fuJt sto Toini racism" it is not Zionism they aim at. Outside a P/incipa , Parltamanliry democncy Uganda, it is no longer fashionable to praise Oulnu Onc-patcy rul* Saudi Arabia.. Abjoluia monarchy Hitler openly; where anti-semltism is concern- Gtmbli Partiamantiiy damocraey 5(n„gil Pidiameniary damocracy EIM Carminy Comtnuntit dicutorthip Somalia Military dictatorship 3d, circumlocution has taken over. But such Giintdi Pirliaminliry damocracy South Yimar Lufii" dictalorihip Soviiil Union Cbliimgnisi diclatorihip Culott Onaparlyrula niceties do not change the fact that blood, as Sri Lanka Parliamanlary damocracy Guinii-Biiuu Onapsrtyruli Military diclatorthip Wr. Moynihan recently observed, is In the water Guyana Nominal damocracy Sudan Qnaparty rula Hungary Communitl diclaiorthip Syria and the sharks are gathering again. One party rula Inilii |mais*ncr «ni woman rvK Tantanli .. Pirliimeniiry demociacy Indonatli Mililiry diCUlorihip Tuniiia .... . Pirliamantary dtinocitty |r«n AbiolulK moniichy Turkey ... , Military diclaloriMp l(ti) Ona patty rula Uganda ... The debate still rages over whether the transfer Ukraine ... , Soviii republic Joidifl Kingdom United Artb of antiJewish discrimination from the realm of Kuwait fimilydynnly individual rights, to the domain of collective Lam Communltl dlcutorihip Emiriiea... Shtlkdomi UbMM ParllimanUiYdamoetacT <;»niin MitiUiY dicUtotihlp identity can be branded antisemitism, only on a Ubyi Mllltaiy tfJctilotthlp YugQilavia • •. Communitt diciatorihip new scale. Perhaps the reaction of the P.L.O. is > Of i« u.s. tirt motl n»«w>i of Weal luim 1975 (Newsweek). 'The Zionist ghetto of Israel Wirt IIMmeorKlti tni only | nMntriii run by dlcutou f*^m min must be destroyed". Goebbels would have ad CMU MM, Oiwnwk. Oomnlun «#puWo, I »ilvi:M:

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Dear Myself, spunkrats out there I'll bet) Well, well.....You all worked very hard to Weli me, here we are, you and { ^gain^ IVe lived with me for get here too, didn't you? Shoes shuffle...... embarr8ssed. Of course you 23 summers, and once I cried with joy and smiled with hate, did. Yes well, you're here now, that's ail that counts. You're here and and when It rained and they went away I had a hot bath and I'm here, though actually I lie I'm not here at all (The gown lifts laughed at my shoes. But then she smiled with me with painted revealing a nostril moulded finger which points high at the eagles crag lips and now hot baths make me cry. Love is a Hollywood Fraud windows in the lofty admin, building) I'm up there really most of the she said and she's always right, so you see me I can't be in love with you anymore. And though I'd like to>be good friends me, time (Thinks -1 think). And that is of course where you'll find me if I can't because I don't like you, me| and in fact I'm going to you ever need me. My door is open to all even Arts students with leave. See you me. ' appointments. Shoes clack with respectful laughter. Seriously though, Mine with regrets. 1 want you to remember that this institution has been on the verge of Me. being a great - ah, a truly great - ah! (restless seconds as the finger goes word groping) University! (sighs of relief) eversii)ce I arrived, and Yes that was a dear me letter. But on td the story. The scene 1 want you all to know it will continue to verge on the verge with your - bright sunshine, sparkling sample bags, white teeth, and radi concentrated money. Ah! Heavy cough - work and the unswerving de ating smiles. Bang shang • alang - bisca bosca bop-pop votion of the staff. I don't think there is too much or toojittle one fucked the weasel never let it go. can say about your staff and mine. Suffices to say whether they be serving drinks in the staff club, researching new lecture notes in Rio Oe Yes my children it's Union night 1976. High heel shoes are everywhere. Janierio or endlessly searching for better accommodation from a sun- The carnival has started. Step right up chickadees, take a sample bag chair in the Caribbean, they have your and only your best interests at here or get domed with the Archi. hermaphrodites there. Why with just heart. 1 have heard, and may say that I've been disappointed to hear one of diese magical tee-chirts a^ a regular schasm price you - Yes boy - some talk about this - ah, um University, places too much stress on I say youi will walk and talk just like us-you'll be a new man boy, results - a degree factoiry some misfits are calling my unh/ersity. Well! come on now, don't you see its all in the tmile, smile just like me you Well! I just want to laugh in fact I will laugh, we will all laugh! Are can do it. you ready a one, two, HolHolHol All laugh Ijkedrains, 21,000 human draimt all except for the dadidadum ..... lone mastuAator still hard at No! No! No] Qon't.iisten to film boys and giris - over here's where it's wori(. Gown continuBs-Now what kind of results is thinking like that at- come get an eye^ of our green green tents, and shiny pop guns going to get us. I am sure that vire are all here for love of knowledge and - we're the llni regiment and we want you too. We dress up in uni no baser values. Afterall why else would we be here? Why else would forms and yell at each other. Won't you play with us - our average IQ we come? Why else would our Gross Exclusions Officer bother to is higher than theirs. cohie? Oiir Careers Counsellor? Why else would we have the Univer sity bookshop selling at such reasonable prices, less if you buy bulk. And so it goes. Why else would your student union build a swimming pool so enjoyed by our water polo boys, why else the Posaidon-er-Schonell theatre, or A voice - Order! Orderi You demented misfit I want to see some order the different unique and startling FM station you all enjoy so much in this story. Apologies. as an educational aid? Heads shake bewildered - shoes shuffled.

A black tasseled gown arrives - the film flam men scurry away, boder A Robert Redford smile illuminates the heavens from the facia of the hats, white shoes, and canes litter the nice lawn. Which is IN FACT A gown. He's won again. Well I will now proceed to the Matriculation FILTHY DETESTABLE DULL GREEN LAWN. OH GOOl HOW t Ceremony - if you will all just lower your heads M«... and so it goes. HATE LAWN! The crowd dispenes (goes away). y The voice - What did I just tell you! Pull younelf together or youll >.'< go straight to the Gross Exclusions Officer. Muttered apologies. Queues of shoes from outside the bookshop, tills register, grim faces mount library stairs, goons prowl and the electronic library dinger is THE GOWN SPEAKS - ito tassel hangs limp. The shoes stop clacking straining to ding. and a hushed silence falls - disturiwd only by tha throbbing thump of a lone mastuibator oveiwNmed by silken lags and black ankle straps. tn the Union Building, our student president who looks nothing like his election posters, sits alone and talks to himself. They'll get what The Gown-Weil, well, well, here you are at last ehl (Thinks-few they deserve .... They'll get what they desenra ..... mother fucking cynics.... mutter ^.. mundanity manaclers - it's what they make of it that counts not their lousy seventy dollars.

Meanwhile back at the Toowong shopping centre in Wooiies, service with a smile, the lone masturbator is busily stuffing cutlery down the front of his pants. But little does he know that he is being watched by dadidadum .... The Security Officer who did not go to University and does not share the existential humour of our champion.

And little do the Toowong police on their way down to Wooiies to ar rest our mad flagellator, who was stealing spoons when he should have been stealing forks, suspect that something is going on in the Royal Exchange beergarden. Yes, its all in the smile there too and the smile IS going to get it at the corner table. She's smiling back with lustful eyes and his penis is on the verge of being a great University.

But little do they know that over in the other corner, that beautiful little lady giving him with the strange face an affectionate hug, is about to walk out of his life and leave him with a DEMENTED face. And that he'll scrawl a dear me letter to himself before he runs out on himself.

But little does he know either that the solitary figure at the bar, is the man who's going to be on telly next week when he jumps in from of a train at the Toowong station.

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And little does he know that the other solitary figure standing beside him at the bar could have given him the meaning of life which he found in a waste paper basket which he came upon as the University of Queensland janitor. But they hadn't been introduced and besides who telks to janitors anyway.

So it goes but first a Catty song to the dead man on the tracks at Toowong. Minimum Charge: 60c per person after 10.00 p.m. Liquor service available during licensed hours Who'll be his love Pizzas to go a speciality Who'll give a stuff Will anyone smile on his shoes? OPPOSITE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL HOTEL And the moral of this story is-When your lecturer tells you to look at the person beside you and that next year, one of you won't be CNR WELLINGTON AND STANLEY STREETS diere - Shake him by the hand and wish him well on his way - but EAST BRISBANE only if you've a mind tO0

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X NEEDED: A CAR, ONE THAT WORKS SYMPOSIUM ON SURVIVAL, Qld 1976. Preferably automatic and not too crappy. ADVERTISE FOR Radio Casette and "ail the extras" (what Come and held Quoemland Conservation 'BUGGARALL' ever they are). Can psy phenomonly high Council (Q.C.C.) run the following sympos IN SEMPER sum of $600. (Wili settle for less than all ia.. 16th March 1976 - Brisbane Tomorrow Students 10c per line the above particulars) Environmental Disaster OR Sub- tropical Outsiders SOc per tine CONTACT: Semper (Jane) pafBdiaa. 25 March. 1976 - Survival of QM. lit April 1976 - En^ronmental (Action) Armchiair Supporter or Survivor.

The Yoga Meditation/Relaxation Group will For too long the people of Queensland have recommence its meetings on Thursday March let the Qki govt, and the multi-national com The Student Christian Movement meets 11th at 1 p.m. panies, exploit and steadily destroy Qld's In Room 32 of the Forgan Smith Building environment Help Q.C.C. change this. Ring at 1.05 pjn. on Mondays. SCM is a comrn- Please note change of location. Due to struc !221 0188 for information. nity of Christians who meet for regular tural alterations in Mayne Hall, we now meet worship, prayer and lively Informed debate In Room 203, Commerce Building and on about current issues. President: Trevor Thursdays (not Fridays as previously). T^ere Is Jordan, Secretary: Mark D. Hayes, Trea no attendance fee. surer: Arthur Harting. Contact Mark In the AUS Office of the Union Building (ph. HUMAN Relations Group - self knowledge and Enquiries 445514 or contact Margaret Merritt, 371 1611 or 221 0036) for more info. Human Movement Dept. improved comniunlcations. Sunday evenings discussio'n group. Ph. 33 5824 or 370 7711.

•SEMPER would like to apolo^ to those National Day of Protest on East Timor FILM GROUP . who brought up classifieds up to the Semper ^1 ndonesian Troops out now Monday, 15th March at 7.30 p.m. office during the first week of Semester. -Recognise die Democratiot Republic of Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond East Timor Discussion Evening at the Group's Office, our control they were tost. Would those affect -No Aid No Trade with Indonesia Room 6, Second Floor, Desmond Chambers, ed please come up and we will print the ad In -Solidarity wjth Fretilin Rally, Friday 303 Adelaide St. Members only. Supper provid the next isuie - - or refund your money. Sorry. March 19, City Square, 12.30 ed. The subject will be ANIMATION. Films Eds. will include HEN HOP (Normal McLaren, Canada), WEEKEND (Zagreb Studios), FELIX IN HOLLYWOOD, BETTY BOOP, SYRINX, RIDES- To Sydney- 2 rides share gas, WALKING, RICHTER ON FILM, EXPERI- driving. Call after 7 pm 2051395. MENTAL ANIMATION, LEN LYE. Special What is a^ndersnatch? guest will be Max Bannah, Brisbane animator, (Probably a portmanteau word-suggesting who has taught at the London Film School. an animals' snatching proclivities with either a 'bandog'—a ferocious vi^tch-dog GERMAN CLUB QUEENSLAND MODERN AND or a bander which Is Hindustani for rhesus monkey.) ' , : Monday to Wednesday, March 29 to 31. Rialto. CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY 1976 Summer Season of Modern Dance It is also the title of a play by Charles The Group, In association with the Goethe in works. Twelfth Night Theatre- Tiies. Bachman. Uni-Que is doing a production of stitute, will be presenting a special season of , March 23rd - Sat. March 27th (8 pm) and the play and you are invited to attend. We New German Cinema vvith emphasis on the Sat. 2.00 pm matinee. won't charge you admission, or sell you a work of Reiner Werner Fassbinder. The Febru programme or coffee. But, we will let you in ary 2 edition of NEWSWEEK has a cover story and we will give you a programnie and on the new German Cinema stating that "a Sat. 2.00 pm matinee. Wed. Night and coffee. We won't even ask you for a corps of young West German directors with Sat Matinee. Student performances • att donation. Butllll names like Herzog, Fassbinder • and Schlon- tickets $2.00 - Otherwise tickets $3.50. ,dorff has been stunning the world's movie See BANDERSNATCH at the Old Avalon critics and capturing major International prizes" Theatre.. Wed^at 3rd to 20th March, 8.20 The Fassbinder films we are hoping to screen B.Y.O. Cushion. Enquiries 36 6640 are The American Soldier, The Bitter Tears of TYPING SERVICE: First class, electric :Petra Von Kant, Fear Eats the Soul and Effle typewriter, reasonable rates Ph. 263 5766 .Briest. We are atso hoping to screen Werner Mrs Agney, 5 Rockett St, ASPLEY. DISCOVER DANCEl JHerzog's new film Each Man for Himself and A group of dance enthusiasts are trying to God Against All or the Enigma of Kaspar set up a dance club. We need support! Hauser. This should be a very challening and Enthusiasm rather than experience desired exciting season for all. Full details in April (and we want males as well as females). If you are interested come along to our "Fade Out". Women's Bookshop and Sociai Shop, 68. meetings Mpnday 5 pirn. - 6 p.m. Dave Wynnum Road, Nomnan Park. Phone 399 3780. Gym, Connell Big. (Human Movement Sell- Bultaco libito 175 Trail Bike. Recondi Feminist and human sexuirtlty books. Non-cex- Studies Dept.) tioned motor $400 o.n.o. Apply Leigh Rowell, ist Children's books. Open Mon - Fri 11 a.m. to Union College, St. Lucla. 371 1300 4 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m^ '"'•i^mr •-•'••" IPPEj •/•> 33

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. R£vau/rK>w*y??S'5a7Esy Continued from page 27 THE REAL MEANING OF ZIONISM

People df goodwill cannot let this evil resolu tion equating Zionism with racism go unans wered. Zionism is the product of revolution against racism and racial discrimination. Zion< ism is one of the world's oldest anti-imperialist movements. It aims at securing for the Jewish people the rights possessed by other nations, it harbours malice towards none. It seeks co operation and understanding with the Arab peoples and with their national movements, Zionism is as sacred to the Jewish people as the SPECIALIZED OUTDOOR EQUIPMEOT national liberation movements are to the Ricks nations of Africa and Asia. Even if the Arab States are locked today in conflict with the For Jewish national liberation movement, they must not stoop in their attitude towards it to * Mountaineering the fanaticism and barbarism of the Nazis. If Mountam * Rockdimbiog there is to be hope for peace in the Middle East, there must be between Israel and the Arab ^Caving States mutual respect for each other's sacred * Overseas Trsvellefs national values-not distortion and abuse. Shop * U^tweight Cami^.

The tyranny of the majority of the U,N. has denounced as racism the Zionist claim that the Tents, Packs, Steeping Bags, Boots international tapestry must in honour, justice Climbing Equipment. Ropes, Clothing. and history contain a particular Jewish thread. Honour and justice are too often meted out IVlanufacturer and Stockist of according to the-rules of numbers, but history MOUNTAIN DESIGNS sleeping bags. and truth do not change just because those Men - Thurs 4 - 6 pm who once proclaimed it grew tired of their Friday 10 -6 pm veracity. History can only be. changed as gaturday 9 1 0 nr.nn ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^* TOOWm« Orwell suggested, by rewriting the new truths. "^ "'^'^^ WRniP.O. Bm 12Toowiii«4a$6 But wh»it of the old truth? Mountainous piles of buti.ina books destroy the old truth-Ah, PhOBe 370-2294 A.H. 375-5387 yes, the Nazis were good at that too^ Steven Skala On the 21st November, 1974 the Minister for Mines wrote to Q.C.C. and the National Trust stating that the mining company was to carry CnviRonmsnT out an Environmental Impact Study, copies of which were promised to both the aforemen AGNES WATERS The sandmining company, Mineral Deposits tioned bodies. While Q.C.C. eventually received Limited, has an Authority to Prospect over its copy the Minister did not fulfil his undertak- CAMM'S FOLLY almost all of the Agnes Waters/Round Hill Ing to give the National Trust a copy. The Anatomy of a Head area. Sandmining Controversy On 2nd May, 1975 the company presented its The company has a number of leases in the area E.I.S. to the Bundaberg Mining Warden, The and it was the request that three further lease Warden adjourned the Hearing until June 30, The Agnes Waters/Round Hill Head area is a applications be granted that was the subject 1975 so that proper review and assessment of largely unspoilt section of Queensland coastline of a mining Warden's Hearing last July and the the company's submission could be made. Incorporating a number of very attractive fea- decision by Cabinet on 28th January, 1976. tures. It is distinguished in history as being the The Premier and the Minister for Mines both second place in Australia where Captain Cook There have been charges that Q.C.C. has used wrote to Q.C.C. stating that this submission landed, (on May 23,1770). obstructionist tactics In this matter. This quite (E.I.S.) was to comply with the State Govern simply Is not true. The leases were applied for ment's Procedures for Environmental Impact In this area the coastal sandmass rises relatively In September 1974. The Mines Department did assessment (On 21 April, 1975, the Govern steeply from the sea up to 200 feet and is heav not hold a Mining Warden's Court Hearing on ment adopted as policy the procedures detailed ily covered in rainforest and banksia forest. the applications until June 1975-more than in the Procedural Manual, issued by' the En It is the only area in Australia where repeated 7 months later. vironmental Control Council). recordings have been made of the nesting by leatherneck turtles, which is an endangered spe The Hearing was completed in eariy July, 1975. Queensland Conservation Council synthesised cies on a world basis. The Warden issued his recommendation after numerous criticisms of the E.I.S. The overall July 24 and it was received by Q.C.C. in early criticism was so damning that the Environmen- The Queensland Conservation Council lodged Au^st, In the 5 months August - December, ^ tal Control Council was brought into the issue an objection to a Mining Lease Application by Q.C,C. obtained a legal opinion on these recom by way of an objection from Q.C.C, The critic Mineral Deposits Limited for three areas at mendations, made the decision to act on this, isms of the E.I.S. were aired at the 7 day War Agnes Waters. sought Legal Aid and took out a Writ of Mand den's Hearing, and also communicated to the amus. Compare this with the 7 months of in- Environmental Control Council. The sequence of events following ^Is was: that action by the Mines Department. There were no (a) the Mining Warden issued a recommen unnecessary delays and nO "obstruction". Ten expert witnesses presented evidence at the dation for granting of the leases following a Hearing which showed beyond doubt the inac Hearing at which 10 expert witnesses advis What is not generally appreciated is that there curacies and inadequacies of the E.I.S. These ed against this. has been real obstruction of the developnnent of experts included the Curator of Mammals at (b) following legal advice that the Warden's the Agnes Waters area by the mining company. the Queensland Museum, a biologist, 3 econom recommendations showed that he had not They have claimed exemptions from Labour ists and two forresters. understood his duty, on Dec 15 a letter was Conditions over lease areas at Agnes Waters on sent to the Mines Minister warning that a freehold land every six months since 1957, Sub The Mining Warden found that the company's Writ of Mandamus would be taken out. division and tourist development cannot take submission was inadequate but nevertheless re (c) on Dec. 23 a letter was sent informing place on Mining Leases, so that any options for commended granting the leases. The Environ the Minister that the Writ would be served. development of this land have been blocked by mental Control Council and the National Parks (d) on Dec 31 the Writ was served on the the miners. and Wildlife Service in their assessments also Mining Warden. . found the E.I.S. inadequate. The Federal (e) on January 28 Cabinet appproved die The three leases approved by Cabinet in Janu Department of Environment (which has been granting of the leases. ary include one which covers Public Camping reviewing the E.I.S.) also considered it inade- (f) on Feb 19 Mr. Camm said that the decis and Recreation Reserves and one on the Deep- aute. ion was made before the Writ was taken out. water Holding National Park proposal. For Cabinet to recommend In favour of grant There have been statements-made, both by the In 1974 an affilllated member of the Queens ing the leases meant that the Government's Mines Minister and by representatives of. the land Consen/ation Council enlisted the aid of own E.I.S. procedures were not carried out. Rutile and Zircon Developers Association, that the Conservation Council to study the possible The Department of Mines must have over-ruled mining will not take place on beaches but will impact of mining the area. It was found that the presentation of the E.C.C. and National be behind the dunes, this Is untrue. Mines sandmining might be destructive of the natural, Park and Wildlife Service submissions to Cabi Department maps, and indeed the maps submit dense vegetation, could lead to erosion, and net. Cabinet also acted unilaterally without ted by Mineral Deposits Limited in their Lease destroy some important fauna and floral associ waiting for the Federal Government's decision. Applications show leases extending over beach ations. es, headlands and high dunes. The Envlronnrwn- The Q.C.C. sought legal opinion as to the legal tal Impact Study subrnitted by the company The local conservationists suggested as a long- ity of the Warden's recommendation. Such op for Leases 152, 164, 165 shows the mining term plan, that sufficient areas be set aside as inion was that the Warden had not understood path to be coincident with the high dune and National Parks and that the remainder should and undertaken his duties as required by law. extending down the eastern face of the dune. have carefully controlled ^development with A Writ of Mandamus (to have the Warden constant thought being given to the existing adhere tb his legal duties) was sought. Mr Just In 1971 a officer of the National Parks Section natural features. ice Lucas of the High Court found that the of the Queensland Forestry Department survey- Q.C.C. had a prima facie case, and a date for ed the coastline south of Rockhampton for Queensland Conservation Council called for a the hearing of the Writ was set. Documents suitable National Parks. Two areas he proposed proper and detailed regional plan and Impact were served on the Bundaberg Mining Warden were In the Agnes Waters area. They are Eurlm- study for the area before any decision concern on December 31 and on the mining company bla Holding and Deepwater Holding. ing mining or other land use was made. at a later date. The major companies involved in Fraser island Cabinet preempted any such hearing by Its Uranium enrichment is a complex and decision. It blatantly ignored the spirit, if not sandmining are pillingham Mining Co. of Aust expensive process requiring vast amounts of ralia and Murphy Ores Holdings. Dillinghams Is the letter, of the law of the land, and its own electricity. Such electricity needs to be produc environmental policy. a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dillingham. ed cheaply and for a long term. Hydroelectrici- company of Hawaii quietly extracting its due ty Is Ideal. However, bearing In mind projected By its action the Cabinet has effectively remov levy from the Pacific Basin. This company demand for nuclear generated electricity by the forms part of the Bank of America Group of ed the opportiinity for the public to protect year 1990, — one reactor a day must come on their interests (something that, it could be arg Companies in the U.S.A. This business shares line to meet projected demand in the US alone interests in such diverse operations as Kaiser ued, is largely a government or public service by 1990 (AEC figures) -it would be senseless responsibility). While giving carte blanche to Industries, Lockheed Aircraft (we know about to waste a significant amount of power just to them don't we). Kaiser Aluminium and Chem mining interests. One can only wonder how perpetuate the system through enrichment de long it will be before there is an attempt to ical Corp., which has interests in Comalco and • mands. Thus, in 1948, the British, working to Queensland Alumina Ltd, Kaiser Steel, with int remove the (farcical) right of public objection break the then monopoly on world plutonium from the Mining Act. erests in Hamersley Holdings Ltd, Northrop held by the US discovered a principle which to Aviation (we know about them don't we) and day has resulted in the fast breeder reactor. The Cyprus Mines with large interests in Goldswo- first fast breeder was developed In the late thy Mining Co. P/L and Cyprus Mines Corp. of 1940s by brilliant New Zealand nuclear physi Qld. Also tied up in the mess is Getty 0.il, cist Cliff ond Dalton and is situated at Doun- which has major interests in Pancontinental reay in northern Scotland. Dalton later came to Mining Ltd and Poseiden Joint Venture, work in Australia in the Australian Atomic Energy programme at Lucas Heights in Sydney, He died of radiation poisoning in 1962. Strange Another corporate web unfolds as we look at circumstances surrounded his death, and for the Queensland Titanium Mines Pty. This company next twelve years his widow, Catherine Dalton has leases in the Tin Can Bay Area, at Double was subjected to assassination attempts, vicious Island Point and Inskip Peninsula, This com defamation and slander attacks and all manrier pany used to own Mineral Deposits Ltd, involv of bureaucratic nasties in an attempt to shut ed in Sandmining in NSW, Both companies are subsidiaries of the Titanium Mining Corp. of fi^iy^ her up. She wrote a book about it and submit ted It to the Senate in 1971. (See: The first America, which has links to the National Lead reading of the Pig Slaughter Levy Bill - Sen, Company of the USA. Also involved in Cavanagh May 1971, Senate Hansard, pp. 1602- Queensland Titanium Mines is the Alleghany 1607). Lidlum steel Corp of America with a 25% int Zirconium is thus a vital mineralfor the atomic erest. This steel company is part of the Mellon Group of companies in the USA. This group of energy programmes of the US, Japan and Eur megabusinesses includes Gulf Oii, Alcan, also ope. The links between sandmining on Fraser with interests in Queensland Alumina Ltd, and Island and the U.S, atomic energy programme K.G. Luke and HJ, Heinz Co. of Aust. Ltd. THE POLITICS OF are not coincidental. The stakes are high — the The star of this group, is, of course. Westing- SAND MINING survival of the US economy and nation until house, one of the two major manufacturers of fusion power becomes viable by 2020. Nuclear Power infrastructure in the World. The other.is General Electric. The sandmining industry is a capital Intensive The sands of Fraser are considerably' denser extractive industry concerned with the extrac than normal sands, due to the mineral content. tion from beach sands of fairly rare and valua Recently, three top development engineers If the mineral content is removed and vegeta with G.E. resigned in protest over the dangers ble minerals such as Titanium, Rutile and Zir tion distuited, the Island falls prey to erosion con. The characteristics of these minerals are they saw in Nuclear Power. That is a horror which will destroy it. The ubiquitous taxi dri story in itself. varied but some such as titanium and mtile ver, long the subject of front seat classlessness are used to strengthen steels and alloys for In Australian literature, doubles an informant In return to our theme, the politics of Nuclear various applications such as aircraft design when picking up one American engineer. The Power and sandmining; in a court in Pittsburgh and pressure vessels of various types. Zircon, dispassionate yank informs Joe Cabbie that if USA an action vwis heard on November 3, a semiprecious metal has interesting character the minerals are taken from Fraser, the island 1975 to determine the distribution of uranium istics, particularly when processed and refined is finished. Joe Cabbie speaks to Mark Ecofreak owned by Westinghouse. Westinghouse had into a metal called Zirconium. The refining pro who records this useless piece of info in his entered Into a number of contracts to supply cess is extremely complex and for Zirconium to dustbin mind. utilities with reactors and fuel, but those con be useful it must be freed from an impurity cal tracts were frustrated, the company argued be led halnium. The final material is called Zlrca- cause the' uranium was unavailable from prim loy and is made into long hollow rods. The ary suppliers. In his pleading, Attorney Jentes afore mentioned interesting characteristics are was heard to say "The ishortage is near term concerned with the behaviour of the zlrcaloy we don't h'ave enough to meet our commit when placed in a nuclear reactor. It Is almost ments" "Maybe if the Labor government transparent to neutrons. When used to hold is thrown out in Australia in five weeks so that Plutonium, and placed in the core of a fast we can get uranium we thought we had " breeder reactor, the zlrcaloy allows neutrons Five weeks from November 3 is the week of from the highly radio active plutonium to pass December 1, a week and ahalf before the day unimpeded through itself and bombard of the last National Election. The US defence enriched uranium U238 surrounding the rods. base agreement was due for renewal on Decem Through a process called neutron transfer, the ber 10. The last day of 1975 on which a general blanket of U238 is converted to plutonium thus election could have been called was November eventually producing sufficient fuel for a simi 11. The next two matters on the House notice lar size reactor, over a period of seven to ten paper were the Stailings affair and the release years. This is the point of a fast breeder reactor of the Petrov papers. Neither have been consid — economics. ered by the present government, which is selling Australian Uranium overseas, cont'd page 43 mCDIA COflUncnT - bv bf uce

What are the imputations of Murdoch's media victory. Well for a start In Australia because of the way Murdoch and a small minority of die stories (typed in larger than usual type) "exposing" the proposed businessmen control the mass media (which are virtually our only Iraqi financial assistance to the ALP and the "scandal" of Whitlam's sources of current political and social information) Labor virtually involvement in all this, came at an opportune time for the Liberals. cannot win. If they try to be slightly honest with the people they're slammed by the press; if they try to be devious and cover their tracks For once in their long history of governing Australia the Liberatiwere the way the Liberals have successfully done for years (no prizes for actually jxperiencing a few weeks ago some "whistle blowing" from guessing why) they are caught out by the only examples of so called some Public Servants and others who had been leaking Fraser's plans "investigative reporting" we are ever likely to see from our media. to renege on his election promises etc. As well^a Liberal Minister had They are caught out as well by right wing leaks from the public just been forced to resign for alleged illegal election activities and service etc and-even from within the ALP itself. The Liberals always stories linking the CIA with the Nov./Dec. 1975 Election events were have the Establishment and existing thinking working for them whilst being published in America - this causing potentially even more harm Labor always has to overcome these to proceed. to the newly elected government's image. Someone may say that what I have just said is not true-after all The Whitlam/lraqi story vims in effect taking the pressure off these didn't Murdoch and other papers support the Labor Party in 1972 anti-Liberal stories even though the content of these stories was ofa and help them win office? If he is so biased against them now, wasn't far more serious nature as far as its consequences for Australian demo he biased for them then? cracy are concemed. The fact is that in 1972 everybody could see that despite years of Fraser has been wanting to see politics taken off the front pages since attacks on Labor by the media (the use of the communist smear, for his version of a do-nothing conservative regime was elected, however if example) die writing was finely on the waif - their election was im Gough and the ALP are still getting the hatchet, well why should he minent- and if you were printing a "popular" paper which was again object? After all he stands to lose his main opponent in Parliament, the "in tune with the public", wouldn't you like to show that you had same Whitlam who had demolished so mdny of his Liberal colleagues correctly predicted and were on the winning side? Murdoch also before him. felt that they would owe him some sort ofa debt after having office, no doubt. POLITICAL SCANDAL!' Upon election in 1972, Labor should have moved by various pariia Returning once more to the present Murdoch conspiracy - what this mentary means against the whole media to reform it regardless of what Iraq "expose" demonstrates most effectively (besides a good case of ever hue and cry about attacks on the so called "Freedom of the Press" eggbeating), is the extreme hypocracy which dominates Australian this might have caused. The cold fact is Labor will most likely never political thinking - Whitlam and the ALP almost taking a $500,000 have the media on their side and if they had then wished to see it gift to cover ALP expenses for an election brought about by Kerr's play a prober and responsible role in the community and work in the and Fraser's scandalous actions, h considered "outrageous" or "com public interest, they had nothing to lose by seeking reforms. Afterall promising", whilst at the same time the Coalition. Parties continuing a three year campaign of distortion of their policies by the media, their well known practice of receiving assistance from Big Business amongst other things, helped defeat them in 1975. Incidentally in my and Multi Nationals and who knows who else, is considered to be quite view, it is the cumulative effect qf news stories over a long period of legitimate. time that can influence attitudes, not necessarily individual editorials or news items written just before the election \s held. Well before the Which is more scandalous? The Liberal National Party Queensland 1975 election Labor liad been effectively painted by the media as Government receiving in a smelly deal 5 cents a ton for the Japanese "socialist" (that h, almost communist) and as virtually solely respons for our coal for years and years white at the same time claiming this ible for inflation. was the best price they could get(1) OR the Labor Party receiving campaign assistance from an Arab government. One complication here The reason Labor,with the exception of the release of a few com is that most racist white Australians have never really like Arabs or munity radio licences, didn't do anything really productive in the "Wogs" as they were called by Australian soclidiers in the Middle East area of media reform was that they had appointed an inept and con durinp World War 11. servative thinker, Doug McClelland, as the first Minister of the Media. The so called "Overseas Loans Affairs", the "Morosi Affair", the "Jobs McClelland had no vision of what changes were necessary to bring for the Boys" accusations - all of these storm in a teacup/drummed up about a more responsible mass media. Labor possibly, at that time, media stories which helped bring Labor down reeked of journalistic were also still trying to keep people like Murdoch on side and avoid hypocrisy and double standards - but the Australian public turned a the risk of more attacks qn them by the media. (Of course Murdoch blind eye to all of this (or should I say turned two blind eyes). changed his tune when Labor once in office didn't help him further his business interests and empire building,) Lionel Murphy being appointed to the High Court by Labor is no worse then Garfield Berwick being appointed eariier by the Liberalsjthatsame ELITIST JOURNALISTS court, yet no mention was made of this, when the press were running stories and comments which attacked Murphy's appointment. If not the Labor Government,who else might have been able to reform the media? If you have ever hoped for large scale action by journalists Even during these current press accusations, concerning the Iraqi you had better think again. Despite the admirable but relatively inef deal, only Bill Hartiey actually defended the idea of receiving the fective strike by the journalists working on The Australian in protest money from another "socialist" govemment and raised the probability at Murdoch's blatant hatchet job on the Labor Govemment as well as of there being a conspiracy behind the publication of the stories. This his abuse of "normal" journalistic "principles"in late 7975, journalists points to another problem of the ALP - they rarely go on the offensive are predominantiy a conservative bunch who will most likely never by taking issues to the public and pointing out the ridiculous nature take decisive and united action '^across the board" - i.e. against all of of this type of charge and the gross hypocracy exhibited by them, Murdoch's media empire simulataneously which is the only effective (Admittedly, it is hard to be on the offensive when a hostile media.are way to challenge him. controlling how, or whether, what you !iay is reported.)

For a good example of the individualistic and elitist attitudes which As far as The Australian's coverage of the issue is concerned, if it were many joumaUsts exhibit, recently a move to have the AJA (Australian not for that lone cartooning battler, Bruce Petty, one could never hope to see any material of a sane nature appearing about major issues in that Journalists Association) join tbe ACTU was defeated largely because paper. Unfortunately even he has now gone and been replaced by the die journalists wished to maintain their "professional"status. On other basically conservative, one time Liberal Party candidate, Larry Picker occasions the AJA has not co-operated witii or assisted printer's union ing, a further staff change by Murdoch. industrial actions. It "is time" the Labor Party were honest with the people-they are Some, if not all, journalists live in fear of losing their iobs since three not a "socialist" government and they only confuse the public about monopolistic companies control virtually all dieir work opportunit the real nature of socialism by claiming tq be anything other than the ies, in Australia. Murdoch could at any stage, threaten to close down reform orientated social democrat party which they are. It is also high The Australian (it has been'unprofitable'in the past) so as to make them time that control of Australia's media was taken from the irresponsible lose out In the long run. That is why only an Australian wide united and conseivative hands of the Murdochs etc. and placed squarely where action, such as a strike or occupation against all of his empire by the it belongs - with the citizens of this country where it can serve them ioumalists, printers, etc can force changes upon him. But that type of in a truly democratic and genuinely free way^ action will be a long time coming,on current indications. ion. At 27,1 was tiie senior reporter in Sydney mainly because of tiie paper I was working on."

"By tills time head office had moved to Sydney and 1 had been doing munco more political and industrial reporting. I was very wary not to fall into tiie trap of becoming a specialist The paper had tried to get me to spec ialise in legal affairs, science and industrial relations but I had seen so many specialists get tied into one job and end their future as a journal on ist by doing so. They even tried to get me writing features exclusively and I compromised by starting my own column entitied'The Moming After". It was a change fronr straight newsreporting I had been doing and it gave me the opportunity to develop a lighter touch. I tried to make it as political as 1 could even though tiie paper didn't want too fliunco much politics." LATE LAST YEAR WAYNE CRISTAUDO TRAVELLED TO CANBERRA TO INTERVIEW MUNGO MACCULLUM FOR A BOOK "I was still writing the column after I came to Canberra. 1 had threaten : ABOUT WRITERS IN AUSTRALIA', WHICH THE JOURNALISM ed to resign and in an effort to keep me tiiey offered me the position as DEPARTMENT WAS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. THIS IS a political reporter in Canberra which I reluctantiy. accepted, but when THE RESULTING PORTRAIT OF MUNGO I got there I thought it was terrific." lAfhen 1 first came to Canberra I realised that I wanted to explain ^Probably tiie main reason I liked Canberra was tiiat the peer group of politics rather than just write stories and also to try to make people journalists was better than in Sydney. At tiiis time most of tiie journal ' read more about politics. What you should do constantiy is inject ists, except tiiose at the top tended to be under-educated but tiie ones descriptive bits: explain tiiat tiie Prime Minister's office is directly in Canberra were there because tiiey wanted to be. Generally tiiey were . over Jim Cairn's, explain tfiat as soon as question time is finished university educated and interested in what they were doing. They were ' only four people remain behind to debate while the rest have some very different from tiie otiier group of Journalists I had met previously. thing to do, explain the geography of Canberra - where Pariiament ^ house stands in relation to the various public service offices and why >n*'.It's a very hard peer group to crack and if you make a bad first impres some people have easier access to information tiian others." sion as a journalist by pretending to know it all thenits hard to get : These are tiie words of Mungo MacCallum, a bushy bearded 33 year old back on top which can have a limiting effect on your stories. Also you Fabian socialist who looks more like an Australian bushwalker than a must remember tiiat the peer group does not only consist of journalists member of tiie Canberra Press Gallery. At the moment he could be one but of press secretaries, staff ministers and so on. So, if you get out of of the most politically perdaptive journalists in tiie gallery and it would favour witii certain journalists then you'll inevitably get out of favour be easy to think that he was a grand old man of political journalism. witii \hos9 people in the same peer group, and lose good channels of Yet he has only been an A-grade journalist for six years. information. I'd say there still is a number one group and anumber two group and if$ much more useful to be tn the number one group. To get Before becoming a joumalist he had completed an honours degree in into it when you get to Canberra you must shut up and just listen, Matfiematics at Sydney University - "1 wasn't sure whetiier to do Eng be entiiusiastic but never boring, you try to associate with tiiose in the lish or Maths honours as I was majoring In botii but by third year number one group witiiout being too obtrusive. You won't get in tfie I decided that I couldn't bear tiie Sydney University English Depart number one group unless you've got a good mind and you're a good ment". As a student he had worked on tiie university newspaper witii joumalist It's useful to be in the number one group socially because "Nation Review" editor, Richard Walsh. He had also been a casual con- tfiere's a great deal of overiap if people are discussing their work, tiie . trjbutor to Walsh's Oz magdzine and when Oz newsletter came about, days events etc and it gives one the opportunity to bounce ideas Mungo found himself writing most of tiie political bits in it. around."

; He tiien left for England and drifted into doing some advertising agency "At the time f came to Canberra tilings were beginning to change as far work. It was about tiiis time tiiat he started doing some freeland work as being a political journalist was concerned. The journalists in Canberra for tiie BBC. "When 1 came back here I had an exaggerated idea of how were trying more and more to explain tilings ratiier tiian just report easy it may be to live as a freelance journalist and writer - which of political incidents. These were tough political years but you were never course it wasn't 1 was earning belween five and six pounds a week in told what to write, although occasionally 1 would be told to lay off a England as a part time freelance contributor. I tiiought there would be subject if t had been pushing it too strongly. I was pretty lucky in tiiat more market in Australia and as I'd be doing it full-time I thought I the editor at tiie time always stood up for me, if Murdoch ever got could probably earn enough to suivive; which wasn't tme. So obviously angry witii me. In fact the editor advised me to get out in tiie beginning I needed a job and sifter unsuccessfully trying to join the "Sydney of 1971 as he knew that Murdoch was going to clean the paper out^nd , Moming Herald" 1 gota job witii "The Australian". get rid of tiiose who were giving him trouble. 1 left and he followed six montiis later." He was sacked for trying to destroy everything Murdoch "This was in tiie early days of 'The Australian" when tiie head office had stood for." ij was in Canberra. At tin'sstag e | was in tiie Sydney office. The paper was '[ tremendously understaff and everybody was doing everything which "After leaving The Australian Richard Walsh offered me a job witii : was vary good trajning as you had to leam tb do it very fast You had Nation Review. At tiiat time it was known as tiie Sunday Review. 1 ' to leam to get around and isolate tilings. Most of us at this stage were found it hard at first to adapt to Nation Review. When 1 was writing writing five or six stories a day. Not only were we writing a lut of stor- for The Australian 1 was writing for a large audience tiiat I was trying j ies but because of the lack of staff we were also coveting big stories to interest in politics. But, tiie Sunday Review audience was opinion : quite eariy In our career. My first big story was tiie H.G. Palmer case ated. It thought itself IBH wing and tended to tiiink it knew more tfian which was being held in tiie equity court. You also had to write It did. It wanted scandal, gossip and jokes and I had to revert back to features and if you were any good you rose quickly in your profess tiie style I had been using witii Oz newsletter which vvas prptty different from what I had been doing witii The Australian. At first 1 went through a blundering period, 1 wasn't sure what to talk.about Of course it was terribly tempting to talk about tilings you knevir they were interested in, like abortion, law reform, dmg reform, aboriginal land rights, or American bases, to the exclusion to tilings tiiat were much more important and relevant I ended up by tiirowing in the odd story along the lines that interested them but mainly I tried to concent rate on the personality and mechanics of politics to try and show tiie ludicrous way things happened and how silly tiie people were who did them. I wanted to educate tiie public to the realities ofpolitics-a reality tiiat had been a surprise to me when I first came to Canberra, really happens is a vast amount of accidents, tfie result of people work ing together in a highly charged atmosphere. I wanted to make the readers aware of this by discussing what 1 thought were the more important and basic political issues rather than what tiie readers were concemed with."

"Gradually the readership changed and I would like to think it became more mature. However, 1 spent a long time trying to find a style to satisfy botii me and the readers. I found a very curious tfiing eariier on when we were getting reaction from readers. They liked it when I pour ed shit on somebody, they thought it was terrific when I took the piss out of McMahon or Snedden or any of tiiese people but whenever I said anything nice about somebody or said Whitiam was a reasonable politician tiiere woufd be an immediate outcry. They would not accept tiiat I could possibly be saying sometiiing good unless I was sycophant, or tiiere'd be something in it for me. When 1 praised Whitiam there were all sorts of reactions commenting on a Mungo-Whitlam love affair."

"Another tiling 1 noticed after a short time in Canberra is just how paranoid politicians are about the press. They think that every word is noted by the viting public. They think tiiat everyone reade*-. the Iea3^ er columns, when in fact no one reads tiie leader columns except the politicians, and for this reason they listen far too much to journalists. A reported in tiie press gallery has got political power even tiiough tiie readership in an electorate may be short circuited. You can go along to a politician and say I think you should do so and so and nine times out of ten he'll do it A good reporter is very good on politics - he can see tfie game cleariy. Canberra is very much a self-contained thing and we're all in tfie game togetfier, joumalists, politicians and public ser vants. In a sense this can be bad because knowing successful politics is different from knowing about what is good for the electorate. Quite often a politician or a member of his staff is trying to convince me in stead of my readers because of my position in the press gallery. Nation Review may not be that important, but they're not too sure about my infiuence on the press gallery."

"Thus because you're part of the political game you must have tfie ability to mix witii people when you come to Canberra and you must be able to make quick judgements even tiiough you should be prepared to change tiiem if necessary. Basically you've got to be a good reporter willing to woric and a self starter."

"Another tiling I found different when I came to Sunday Review was tfie way in which I woriced. Working with a weekly was different from a daily -you've got to keep one step ahead. In a daily you've always got something set up to write about and generally most dailies mn tfie same stories, but in a weekly you've got to print a story tfiat will last so that readers will buy tfie paper a couple of days after ifs been re leased. Nation Review prints on Thursday afternoon and I usually write Thursday moming and even tiien I'm competing wltii Friday's and Sat urday's news. If I've got a breaking story tiiat's going to change radical ly by Thursday aftemoon I can't write about the story as such, I've got to find anotiier angle. If you're trying to find news stories tiiat otiier iVIUNGO ON iVlUNGO cont. about tiiem and when you're writing witii Nation Review it's a.very easy band wagon to jump on. You've ^got to remember that the papers will miss, it's hard. For example, if I find a good story on majority of politicians started as ideaijsts - tiiey were quite genuine Monday I've got to sit on it hoping no one will see it before I write it and really did believe tfiey had valuable views and opinions for the up on Thursday. It's probably more difficult woricing for a weekly country. But something happens to a politician on the way up - like &/en if I don't have day by day pressure." all tiie compromises he inevitably has to make to gethispositiori. Like tiie politician, the joumalist originally wants to get things done and.get "I do tend to work less and on a Monday I normally say bugger it to the real Issues, but it is terribly easy to be taken in by the game. It's because a story won't probably last that long, but 1 do look around to •something I see often when 1 read back on a Saturday morning, what 1 see if there is sometiiing 1 could hold up my sleeve. I'm normaliy at a wrote ttie preceeding week. I often end up saying,"you dopey bastard bigger advantage when pariiament is sitting because all tiie politicians you've let it happen to you again-all you're writing about is the are in town and as they're sitting tiirough all the issues you have tfie power play and not what really happened." opportunity of talking to them and getting ideas for stories."

"You tend to get fairiy friendly with the politicians but you never hesitate to publish a story that could damage that friendship. Most of the time the politicians expect it and know they deserve itNormally it doesn't affect your friendship with them, for example, I've given both Whitlam and Jolly John Gorton several roundings but we're still per sonal friends. I was friendly with one Liberal member a few years ago who did a few things I considered fairiy stupid and said so and he did take it personally but that's pretty rare. It's not so much a question of friendship as of contacts. You work the game; if you've got one bloke in cabinet giving you a lot of stuff out of cabinet and there's a fairiy minor story you get that puts him in a bad light you have to consider the break and the benefit Obviously, from a journalist's point of view, and atso from the public's interest, it's better to keep the big stories coming out of cabinet rather than to cut it off for some fairly minor story. It's a question of balancing it and a question of the people invol ved. You've also got to remember that it's most unusual If you lay off him and otiiers don't It reveals him as a contact."

"Probably the best news story I've ever done was the breaking of the Vietnam cables. In terms of what I've written some of tiie most import ant pieces I've done have not been news stories as such, but commen tary pieces in which you can say that you've changed the way things were going. Probably the best thing I wrote along that line was a piece in the Parliamentary column one Saturday in The Australian about the abortive thing the Gorton Govemment was trying to start with a law and order type campaign. I poured shit on it and took it to bits and showed that it wasn't going to woric. That was tbe end of the law and order campaign. Cabinet politicians told me afterwards tiiey realised it "After you've been in Canberra a while you do tend to forget how ig wasn't going to work and that I'd seen it quite quickly. Other sections norant you were when you first got tiiere. You become part of the sys of tiie press would see it pretty soon and it just wasn't wortii carrying tem and forget that other people don't understand the mechanics of it on. Political reporters are constantiy pitting their logic against the it as well as you do. You don't pick up any new audience by doing this. logic of politicians." When you've been tiiere for five or six years you sta retaking all of this for granted. We are all terribly pleased when a journalist in the number "Political reporters do tend to get infiated egos about how they influ one category comes up and says tiiat was a great piece. You tend too ence government and it's very hard not to if you know that you have often to tiiink you're writing for him or the politician instead of the done so. We've really got to remember that we're not in it for influenc public and because you're at pariiament house it's a very easy trap to ing government but for explaining it, getting people involved in finding fall into. You also tend to get Impatient with people outside Canberra," out about politics and telling them what's going on. With this in mind, I'd judge my wortii as a political reporter on how m'any readers I could "As a joumalist I'm probably more radical in my views than most, get interested in politics in a sensible way. Thus in terms of Nation probably more educated tiian most and I've probably gota more cultu Review i'd judge my success with that paper if 1 can get people away ral background tiian most If you put me in tiie same room as Barnes, from the simplistic, naive, rather left wing ideas they used to have and Oakes, Lombard and Paul Kelly we'd have fierce arguments, but you make them realise tiiat politics is much more complicated and more wouldn't say we're different in our approach. Insummingmyself up I'd important than this. As someone more important than 1 once said, say intellectually I'm a Marxist but practically |, can see reformist poli politics is the most important invention of mankind - it's the only tics as.being tiie only way to improve Australia; I'm an atheist, a divor way to solve disputes without actually killing people. Unless people cee (which Isan occupational hazard of.journalism). I like watching are prepared to tiiink about it seriously and sensibly its importance gets sport on tiie TV, I like tiie bush and I like Canberra. I read everything limited to very few people, which is a pity." I can get my hands on - history, poetry and science fiction. All in all I tend to lead a fairiy bourgeois middle class existence, but above every "Working in Canberra as a joumalist you tend to get swamped by day tiiing I regard myself as a professional joumalist witii something to say to day events and it is very easy to develop undeserved contempt for When you've stopped trying to say something new tiien you've had itas most politicians which simply reinforced tiie. way the public tiiinks a joumalist and it's time to get into something else/'^ understood .... it's a currency type thing Sonw of your humour is almost black humour. and there's not much room for interpretation.. Yes, but ifs basically based on good will. I As I speak my words are very specific but if I . think ifs an act of love to create a joke. It's icuniG draw I'm not sure what I'm drawing. It's a med difficult to create a Joke which basically people ium that people don't have a preconceived will smile at and feel funny inside. Just as It Is reaction to. They see a drawing and they're to write music that makes people feel that way not sure how to handle it. You're getting into inside... or poems. I think music is created an area where people aren't sure of their depth- out of love ... if someone writes music they TAIHf!! or what it's really about, but they can handle don't do it for any other reason except that Michael Leunig is a really nice guy. He was words because we're trained to appraise words there's a sort of compulsion to give. invited to Brisbane to take part in the Orientat and understand words but we're not trained to ion Week activities - and he came. Along with appraise or understand visual images, which is Can we take for example the cruelty of die Mungo McCallum he held an over-capacity a good thing I think, i don't think we should laughing hyena in the cage? audience in Abel Smith Lecture Theatre en be trained that way. Well you see, there's a lot of emotions obvious grossed for an hour and a half in the aural and ly that are so interwoven and so interiinked. visual excursion into gross irreverence called Language tends to divide up all human feelings ... you know, love, hate, humour, pathos, What(l) Politics(?). In your cartoons do you portray the embiguity all those kinds of things... but I think there's of the human situation, or are titey a reffection an area where they all can be together. It's a In normal life, Michael is a cartoonist for of your own life style or your own feelings? dangerous area in a sense because there's no National Review. He is tall and quiet-spoken, I think you can only reflect your own life style. way to behave once you start, fhe responses, the author of The Penguin Leunig, and one of You can only reflect your own feelings ... the interminîng of feelings you don't know. the best cartoonists in Australia today. In the well I can anyway ... The professional cartoon How do you react? What do you say? Oo you midst of a busy and drunken itinerary, Michael ist in the traditional sense looks at any given feel that ifs an odd mixture of humour and altowed himself to be interviewed by Semper pathos? I mean, what? Do you laugh? Do you Floreat staff. cry?... It's that area half way between laugh ing and crying which I find fascinating, it's Howdo.you feel about ducks? just my interest in that area of the human Ducks? Oh dear, ducks. I've goft to explain. response. This sounds terribly serious but I'm pretty tired and likely to say a lot of thafs why humour is. ..Ifs.. .it's more sloppy things that I'm not really sure about. than just laughing. Perhaps a lot of my humour Ducks, dial's a difficult place to start actually. is basically a situation where innocence con fronts ugliness, and either ifs funny or ifs What's an easier place to start? disasterous... ifs funny or it's tragic depend No hang on. 111 persist with ducks for a mom ing on what situation ... You get the innocent ent 111 just see if I can get them out of the duck confronts, I dunno, a shark or something way. Ducks are just sort of my part of symbol or.... ism .... well I like ducks anyways, which I don't question very much. I Just Hke their meanings The man widi die spray that's going to get rid .... they're nice humorous kind of persecuted of diem? creatures. Yeah, well you see it all the time ... you know, the little old lady in the mMst of the traffic Did you ffrow up with ducks around you? trying to cross the road and she drops the Well I did actually ... well a few anyway. oranges out of her string bag,.. thafs kind of an everyday situation and ifs terribly, terribly So how do you feel about moons? sad, but in a way ifs terribly funny. Oh moons. Once again BH these things I Just kind of write them instinctively. A moon is a past symbol for something but i'm not sure Do you think your sense of humor has a bit of what it is. I'm not sure why I do it all the madness in it? time .... it's a kind of a lonelinese symbol or a A fair deal I think. But of course there's terrible political situation and makes an ironic com symbol of what's not understood. It's an evo- madness in lunatic asylums, but outside lunatic ment or something... they're a more tradit oitiye thing really, it evokes feeling .... ifs a asylums there's all sorts of other madnesses ional style of cartoon, but thaf s just an area I haunting thing traditionatly. I'm sorry to sound I mean humor is a madness. steer away from ... ifs all too welt trodden, serious but these seemingly light questions are but as I say, Ifs the kind of feeling that I find in fact probably tsrribly serious. myself interested in nowadays. Do you think you've got a keen sense of the ludicrous and the ridiculous? ne questions were put because you seem toWhat do you see yourself as providing tiirough Well, yes. I think you have to have a certain favour ducks and moons in your cartoons. your cartoons? liberated state of mind. You have to be fairiy I don't know why. I suppose it's just instinct I don't know. Perhaps something akin to music irreverent and have a gr«it disrespect for all raally. You see Mungo can give specific answers Preaching to the converted is the major sin. of things. I think you have to be fiariy brave in a to political questions, that's the nature of the this generation. I'm talking about this genera sense. writer but it's different for a graphic, an artist, tion of students and young people. Most of or a cartoonist. Jhe whole cunency of graphics them subscribe to a fairiy standard set of val Cynical? fo not really understood. I don't understand it ues and they entertain themselves by thinking No, never cynical. Cynicism suggests to me a terribly well myself, but for some reason thinp that ifs pretty way out, pretty alternative and lack of goodwill. I sound like i'm being a like ducks and moons, certain landscapes Just ail that, but in fact ifs readily understood. So goody-goody all the time by saying this but I evoke sort of moods, which it what you're what you're trying to do is provide a real don't believe I'm a cynic... Where was I?... dealingwith. altemative. You're Just trying to get into areas the ludicrous thing... you have to be feirly that people don't normally think about, or feel brave, you have to be prepared to take a risk What do you mean by graphic language? about. Just sort of sharpening peoples' percep. .... to be obscene... with a total disregard for Well, verbal language is a very well defined area. tion or. their sensitivity. Any worti has a specific meining and it is really conventional attitudes and appeals. LEUNIG TALKS confd Do you like to draw? socialism ih certain areas, more in the life style Oh, yeah I do when I'm doing them. at the moment. See Asia and the sodaiism of the family for instance, and the extended'fem- Do you sit back and think 'well that's ok' or Do you feel that you're exposing hypocrisy? ily... not just mum and dad and the kid but 'that win go over well'. I don't consciously ... I'm not aware of that mum and dad, aunties and undes, and all that yes, but not so much 'that'll go over well', ifs very much ...I do believe that people are kind of socialism is terrific and does work more a feeling of 'I like thaf, and if I like it, terribly hypocritical generally ... I mean sode well... It's not encouraged in this country everybody must like it... but you do identify ty is hypocritical, very obviously. It's very at all... you know the nudear family in that with people fairiy welt,.. you think you feel ashamed of ifs sexuality, ashamed of ifs hum- suburb and mum and dad in that suburb and you're in touch, you comprehend what people and ashamed of its conscience it might be its ifs very conducive to acquisition and material like. I don't think you have to be terribly skil humanness... You know ifs got sdch huge ism .,, You just have to bear it around you to ful to recognize what is likeable and you know humanity. You go out and you see Canberra survive, but I'd like to see that socialism ofthe when you've done something thafs too obscure politicians with no sign of humanity. There's life style. I believe in a socialist community on but you do persist with it nevertheless. You no sign of them looking a bit tired when they're that account. might do something thafs obscure and you say, tired. They like to keep up the'front and every 'Oh, bugger iti I'm going to do it anyway be body does that. Everybody keeps up the front. cause I'm sick of it.' I mean, people love ob Do you tiiink that will ever come to fruition? We are terribly dehumanized,! think. In smaller scurity too, and In their better moments may Well, it's terribly difficult in this country cultures, in small societies there's much more be they'll see it the first time and they'll ignore because we're so committed, Ifs onjy by a cal evidence of humanity. People respond to each it...then later In the evening they might amity or a catastrophy, or a hall of a lorig time other in a much more human way than they have a few drinks and they'll sit down and they can it come about. People in country areas stili do in a big city ... People are very cold and might see something in it. have a hope. You hear the farmers and every unfriendly in big cities, and in small towns thing who are rampantly anti-sodalist and you they're aware of each others problems a bit go along to any country town and here's the more... because you can't hide things... co*operative and the bloody local football you don't try to hide things... there's more matches and all ê mothers turn up and make chipping in and sharing. ' cakes... they're madly sodalist in a sense. Do you tive in the city? Well sort of half and half. My family live in the Could it,be that communism and socialism have country and I spend a lot of time in the coun been so delighthilly confused in tiiis country? try, and a lot of time in the city. Yeah, right. With cities, everybody shakes their heads in horror, not knowing whafs going to happen ... but then again in the bigger dttes fn your cartoons is that you speaking or is it you putting yourself in someone else's position you start getting areas of, say in,Melboume and speaking? around Cariton and the places like this where you get a real community thing developing ifs funny you see. But my particular madness is that when 1 draw something it ceases to from within the place you'd least expect. belong to me ... it becomes a world unto itsel People are just sick of being lonely and cut and ifs remarkable how convinced you are of off and they do make a very conscious effort. its own life. It's got its own Ufe, and its own forces so you draw something ... You think, Do you consider yourself an optimist? 'oh. well, there's that man there and I'm here, Well, here I think we get into this thing, this now 1 better be polite... and 1 put a duck vague area of words .... there kind of thing if thafs all right with him. It doesn't work like that all the time, but most Well,sorry of the time you get totally absorbed in another Oh, no i use the words too, bf course. But you worid. must be an optimist I think. Everyone who is alive must be something of an optimist. You It seems a fantasy. kind of expect that the sun will rise in the It Is, It Is a fantasy, in fact thafs probabh- what moming... thafs enough. It's what you're I'm on about in a sense or 1 guess any wriior or content with, if the sun comes up and you You work for Nation Review, do you call your haven't got cancer, you should be thankful. poet musician, etc. Is on about. Ifs creating self a Socialist? another world. i guess just naturally 1 am a socialist... I think we're terribly afflicted with materialism. Michael first started publishing cartoons Do you find your cartoons widely popular or Materialism is all about and in many different through the newspaper of the Monash Univer do tiiey appeal to those who are likely to be forms. I don't really believe you can own any sity Union, Lot's Wife. From tiiere he moved iusceptabte to your style? thing in this worid ..; you can't really own to News l^y and the Sunday Observer in Mel Well, there's an amazing acceptance by people anything but you can create things. To say boume as a political cartoonist. He has been who you wouldn't expect. Generally ifs just that you can't own anything sounds very nega with Nation Review for the past five years. the people who read National Review but there tive and polemic but thafs why I think die is a good acceptance on a fairly broad level. positive alternative is that you can create whet Do you consider yourself a political person? her goodwill, or to create a worid or something, Yes, in a funny sort of way. I was,naturally a Do you ever get a negative reaction from or to create a building or something thafs normally political person for my a^ group, people of your cartoons, a totally negative nice, or build a chook house, or write a book. there during the' conscription issue, and I was ', reaction? There's people who do contribute and there's involved in that kind of business, but as you age ] 1 don't think you get negative reactions. You people who don't contribute and who just you look at Canberra more dosely. To me accumulate and acquire. 1 think people who do might get no reaction. Sometimes you get there's something more to politics than what contribute are probably aided by a sense of ^people who don't understand, and are dis- happens in Canberra.... It's more to do with humanity ... maybe ifs something to do with \ turbed, 1 mean just mildly disturbed and who people kicking each others heads in the street socialism, 1 mean, 1 do in a way but I don't 'might say, 'Well look t don't understand that than people organizing ^lots in Canberra, it's particularly call myself a rampant organized ' but 1 want to know,' you know thafs an irit- a personal thing... you know ... why people -êresting response. ' socialist. Obviously we need some sort of disrespect each other and hurt each other and and stupid. A lot of good stuff comes out of all that kind 6f thing. Thafs the area of politics that You've got to be really brave, and be bold ENVIRONMENT- 43 / obviously I'm interested in really, although I and be daring and all that kind of stuff. Just THE POLITICS OF do follow politics fairiy dosely. say 'Oh, fuck them.', Ifs only in doing that SANDMINING cont. from p. 35. can you break new ground. The Australian Atomic Energy Commission National Review has recently moved from Mel and the Bureau of Mineral Resources are pres bourne to Sydney but Michael Leunig has Oo you see your future as being in Australia, or ently conducting a joint survey to assess the re stayed on in Melbourne. Up until the shift he elsewhere? serves, annual production and prices for zircon, was involved in production and editorial Probably in Australia. I'd like to see the world the Australian and World requirements for work as well as cartooning. of course, but I can't see any career type Zirconium for nuclear reactors and future zir future there. conium production and prices and the current How many cartoons would you produce in a status of the technology for the refinement of week? How many years have you been working for Zirconium (1970). An industry commentator In effect I guess 1 do a real lot but I don't Nation Review. said in 1969 that "Emergin Atomic Power in have many published, not because I submit a Five years, six years. the world depends significantly upon the metal lot and get them knocked back, ifs just that Zirconium." there's no much space in a paper for cartoons Do you tiiink diere's a limit? for a start. You tend to arrive at one cartoon Yeah. With facts such as these one does not cry out but generally sit and go through a lot of paper "Conspiracy" but query I just doodling and doing lots of things.... How fyr away? It's uneconomic, you might be sitting around Pretty soon. There usually are reasons for things. People doodling all afternoon and generally wafting don't do expensive and difficult things like pull on to yourself and come up with something a coup for no reason. A coup is a complex, thafs trite and very simple and seems hardly delicate business, like the breeder reactor, and worth your while, so I don't really work. the consequences for mistakes are equally mes sy. The mopping up can be expensive and dan Does the Review put limitations on what you gerous too. Fraser' Island is no accident; there are definite reasons for it, as there are for Auru want to do? kun - excursus - aluminium can be used to No, none at all. make very strong pressure vessels useful to carry pressurised natural gas. Greed, meglo- Do you think this would happen if you were mania, profit or economic survival?|| working for someone «/«?? Yeah, but woricing for a newspaper you've got to be diplomatic with the editor and the staff Mark D. Hayes .... get to know him and so convince him that what you're doing is not ratbaggy but is in his AUS Environment Officer interest, like 'it's alright, and it looks dirty, bu'i in fact it's into something deeper than sex Ifs not muck, you know.'

How many copies of your book have you sold? I think ifs about 40,000 up to date.

That a pretty remarkable sort of situation. It is in Australia apparently. They were surpris D\h/0SP\oR.j Pv Dv(ti/^ ed. They only printed 10,000 in the first issue, but it's remarkable in one sense but I mean in another ifs not.

It's not? Where would you go after that? Well I wasn't very surprised ... I thought, of I'd probably leave cartooning. I suppose Ifs course, you know I'm not stupid, you'll sell a easy to say that. I'd probably miss it, but. lot more of these but there's not many of that siort of book around.

Whafs the staff of the Review now? What would you do? There's three permanents in Melbourne, editor I don't know, really. ial staff that is, five in* Sydney, one in Can berra. Ifs not that many people really. Ifs Have you ever thought of iournalism? still a shoestring thing, very much like a univer No. sity newspaper. At this stage a message came from the Staff Isn't that what a lot of the critism has been House tiiat Mungo McCallum was waiting and Leunig was to continue on his itinerary. With founded on? that, we relinquished him and the interview Yes, I know, and ifs the sort of people who was, unfortunately, ended^ offer that critidsm basicaUy are fuddy-duddies. People who are desperately trying to grow up and forget their origins, and forget fon, and Semper: Max Blenkin, Val Dennis, Julianne forget irreverence. I think being under-grad is a Schultz, and Mark Wolff. bloody compliment as for as I'm concerned. Compiled by Val Dennis. There's a lot to being undergrad and being stupid, and taking risks and being embarassing shame,

Kari Marx once said that shame was a revolut I'm sure that most of you remember the inter Evans, Saunders and Cronin I see as represent ionary feeling. White Queenslanders who read minable journey of Bourke and Wilts whose atives of a new breed of Australian Sodal this work on race relations in Colonial Queens desert treks seared their paths through my historians who are interested in those classes land will I hope feel shame. As the authors fifth grade consciousness. I have some faint and races and that sex previously Ignored by state in their preface they are not interested in memory of a Social Studies reader (which my even the best historians. Their history is the looking for only pity and condemnation but mother assures me she also had) and an illus history of those "done to" as well as the instead an understanding of why the exclusion, tration of "myalls" spearing Kennedy and, of 'doers". Then thorough use of archival mate-- exploitation and extermination occured. course, another of the "faithfol JackyJacky". rial and primary sources as detailed in their bibliography Is a creditable attempt to enter the Shame when combined with the understanding So ended primary school. minds of the aborigines, melanesians and Chin and knowledge of colonial Queensland that this ese of colonial Queensland. important book provides may help foster a As if the dust of these dry explorations were "revolution" in attitudes to racial minorities not enough, high school was a series of ordered Because of the paucity of personal records kept and a rethinking of popular misconceptions chapters called Land, Gold, Wool, Meat, Wheat by members of these races, history must atso that most students have conceming Queensland and the Stump Jump Plough etc. etc. etc. be written from '\fvhitB" records but where history. possible they have utilized oral and written In these we learnt the geneoiogy and' mutl'nre of records of the people themselves. The work is When I studied History in secondary school, life of colonial government officials, squatters the study of a society as a whole so traditional Australia's colonial history terminated at tenth and other "important" people. Ned Kelly and sources were used to document white attitudes gjrade. Even though History was a favourite Ben Hall were just part of the anonymous band and actions. subject among my peer group, we ali welcomed of "bushrangers", while aborigines were Because racism was not as unfashionable as it is this and agreed unanimously that. Australian "myalls", . melanesians. may have got a today, few efforts were made to cover the real history was the most boring of all. Recent con paragraph somewhere as "kanakas" and Chinese ity of colonial racism in records of tiie day. The versations 1 have held with school leavers con never existed except in a story grandad told me bastardised version of History you and I leamt firm that only minor changes have occured and about them being good tucker according to the in school was shaped by the guilt and perverted Australian colonial history is just as unpopular aborigines. nationalism of later generations. as ever.

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Although this volume is not a chronicle of atrocities but a systematic sociological explora tion of racism In colonial society, I feel some facts as revealed by the authors may surprise eaders. 1. At its peak the Chinese population In Queensland numbered 20,000-of course, many more individuals than this came and went during the gold fever yeans; 2, 61,000 melanes ians were introduced to Queensland in the period 1863 - 1904; 3. The estimated aborigi nal population declined from between seventy- five to one hundred thousand to around 20,000 by the end of the century; 4. Even though there were large numbers of immigrants coming throughout the latter 14 of the century, there were only 285,262 white people in 1884.

Somehow In twelve years of education one was never taught about the exclusion of over 20,000 Chinese from white society In the 19th century; the exploitation and expulsion of many of the 60,000 melanesian de-facto slaves and the extermination of aborigines so their population dedined by around 80%.

Other recent, well-meaning books purporting to rediscover the significance of those fomnerly hidden from history, have had a disturbing tendency to be long on theory and short on primary research. This is not a criticism that can be levelled at this work. •

The painstakingly honest archival research sets this book apart. The authors are honest enough to consider documentary evidence in contra diction to their own conclusions. At no stage do they indulge in glib generalisations or poli tically fashionable but falacious assumptions. T«i> niioi KO JBWHIKT Tht k4fT mHi*tmt,'{iir,iiujr^^t'* ,.m^ Tb* Bolt 8«inu»l Orilliib dMUlita thkt ha tmrnni ChiDMH to any olbur uulunid Ubor beoAUiM Nevertheless, from a firm basis of fact they U ll "taura Miaily cuutrullvd." proved to construct a penetrating sociological Thf Figaro of 1883 imagines whiil il might be like (July). analysis of Queensland colonial society and white obsession with race. It is this faithfol attention to detail in combination vvith a broad Perhaps the most chilling feature of the volume conceptual framework which does not lend Popular mythology surrounding the history of is the extent of violence it reveals in colonial itself to brief summary in review. Australia emphasises the heroic.pioneer tradition - sons and daughters of the soil driven by jociety. Queensland's traditional history ignores the suffering of hundreds of thousands of non- The book is divided into three distinct sections the protestapt work ethic and love of Queen /vhites in the 19th century. Explanations rang A'ith Raymond Evans handling the aboriginal and country. To some degree this is true but ing from convict forbears to meatâting have section, Kay Saunders, the Melanesians and too often the corollory of these characteristics 3een suggested to explain such violence but Katharyn Cronin, the Chinese. The beauty, of is forgotten. Most colonial Queenslanders were there can be no doubt that when a society is this structure is that each race is considered parochial to the extreme. They reflected their violent In nature those who suffer most are separately and thoroughly. They avoid the anglo-saxon forbears with their intolerance of those physically weaker (women and children) ethnocentric mistake of seeing all aliens as difference whether of race, nationality or and those with inferior fighting power. Not 3Vok|ng identicle prejudices. Each race has Its religion. Few had more than a rudimentary gious would often quote the cursed tribes of own story containing separate reactions, stereo- aducation but then education would not nec- Ham tradition to support brutality to non- typejs and fates. assarily have liberalised their views and the reli- whites. & GX^rEllMIMTHIN!! 46 only was aboriginal and nnelanesian military In theory racial minorities were protected technology leu developed but their physical under British legislation but In practice Impot and mental condition from malnuitrltion or ence and unwillingness of officialdom in the HTLLGIVEIOIJA ::ulture shock made them even more tempting face of widespread and popular abuse and viol targets. ence meant no justice for these races. Accord ing to British law aborigines were British sub In his chapter The Blood Dimmed Tide": jects entitled to<:^full protection and the rights Frontier Violence and Aboriginal Resistance, of all subjects;.China had an agreement with Evans says: Britain to the effect that Chinese were to be Australian social history itself has not yet protected when in British possessions just as been sufficiently studied to make any accu rate assessment... of the degree of viol the British were in China; melanesians although TIMT ence implidt in the convict system and its comprising a highly unfree form of labour were aftennath, in the inheritance of turmoil not slaves in law and were protected from mis from frontier land and mineral rushes, in treatment. the urt}an and rural pattern of crime and tUZI! As elsewhere the contradictions between eco- punishment, in the institutional treat Oownunder Crest... that's the scene ment of sodal deviants, in the general nomic self Interest and idealistic ndtions of Friday and Saturday nights vyith the public support for war and extemal aggres British justice was resolved in favour of massive Goodtime Jazz Band and star l^tsy Lee. civil disobedience. sions, in the glorification of tiie soldier, NO COVER CHARQE 7 -11 P.M. in the protracted struggle between capital JNTERNATJONAL HOTEL BRISBANE PH.2217788 and labour In religious sectarianism, in the Evans explains though that it is a mistake to see domestic situation and the treatment of racism as a purely economically-mothâted women. In the xenophobic reaction towards response. 0. Mann oni, iii this work Prosperc certain migrant groups and in the entire and Caliban believes that the justification ol 'mê ethos' to which the Austraitah 'nation hatred on the grounds of sexual guilt is at the RECORDS, CASETTES al character' seems to be wedded. root of colonial radalism. The events as desc and ribed in the work of all three authors certainly bear out Mannoni's claims. Two major sexual BARGAIN OFFERS He continues with numerous examples of the oreoixupations of colonial society were the des degree of violence in aboriginal<«ettter relations ire for black women and the protection of and actually describes it as a guerilla war on the white women from aboriginal, melanesian and Queensland frontier. Chinese men. direct from the U.K. by efficient ' Though the eventue^ outcome of this 'trial', between spears, and rifles was undoubtedly Fears for the safety of white women were large mail order service. Wide repertoire, 8 foregone conclusion, aboriginal resistance ly unfounded. The Idea of the black or asian outstanding value. Send for FREE was determined and powerful enough in man as sexual athlete whom white women 40 page catalogue, now. many areas to drive white settiement back might find exciting is commonplace in legends temporarily. Indeed, on all frontiers in about negroes and other "savage tiaces". The existance of these myths points tb considerable Jo Jo's Records Queensland, one finds evidence of labourers sexual anxiety amongst white males. Kay 60 Adams Street deserting their employment, of stations Saunders has carefully collected all accounts of being abandoned, of sheep or cattle speared Birmingham B7 4AG sexual crimes involving Melanesians and their or driven off, not in ones and twos, but in England occurence is astoundingly low considering that hundreds, even thousands. 59,000 of the 61,000 melanesians imported "Lords of th9 Lash", Methods, of Correction, into the Colony were men. Coercion and Restraint, a chapter by Kay These fears and hatreds were common to ait Saunders, details the slave-plantation conditions dasses of colonists. 19th century Queensland endured by nrwianesians on sugar estates In society was rigidly divided by class yet racism northern Queensland. • appears have straddled all economk: dasses and the unity of whites in racism made the exdu There, sion, exploitation and extermination Inevitable, the white staff and proprietors knew ihey All three authors use extensive examples drawn could act with virtual impunity - they from academics, scientists, sugar planters, ml^t be reprimanded in a Magistrate's •squatters, clergymen, workers and farmers- Court by some zealous offidal, or even be in fact, every level of sodety. ostracized as a "nigger-killer" by more discreet settlers-but this is as far as il Exdusion, Exploitation and Extermination isa would go. landmark in Queensland history. Not only has future Australian will wish to read about not it revealed the history of people whom many economic units in a pile of statistics or romant-. However murder of Melanesians was never as Queenslanders would prefer not to remember ic figures too good to be true. popular as vvith Aborigines because of their eco and even more hope never existed, but also nomic position in the sugar industry. challenges all Oueenslarid and'Australlan histor Their work should be required reading for stu ians not to romanticize and trivialize the events dents of Australian and Queensland history, of the past Government, Anthropology, Sociology and Kathryn Cronin recbtds that the Colonist Psychology. Indeed, any person who. claims newspaper wrote in 1887 that: Ray Evans, Kay Saunders and Kathryn Cronin Australian nationality or identity should read When a Chinaman walks out he knows that have honestiy portrayed Queensland as it really this book and accept the shame that that Iden the law protects him. as little as it can, and. was. For me, the most exciting aspect of their tity extails^ . that he Isat the m«iey and whim of every work is that they have set tiie standard for body of larrikins ha rheets. sodal history where people are real people that. Julianne Schwenke Aroad safety course 47 designed to help get you through to graduation.

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A rather amused Bettina Arndt, editor of the magazine that Tina edits. I commented on the of years ago, no one ever came up to me and controversial Forum magazine, sat down in her fact that very few of the many letters printed in said why they objected to me, they would chair in the airport lounge, crossed one long the magazine were abusive, and asked Tina simply arrange for 200 housewives to ring the suntanned leg over the other and studied the if diey received many complaints. She shook radio station and complain, which of course newspaper clippings we had handed to her. Her her head. "No, we don't get any direct critic resulted in a ban. I think the ban rather typifies forthcoming lecture, an Orientation Week ism In the magazine — it's a shame in a way, the whole topic of discussion tonight, the forum on sexuality, entitled Nice Pe(H>le Don't because it would be good to be able to publish Broadcasting Corporation were not prepared to had been the subject of a heated attack by the critical letters, but people tend to work very say what they found offensive - they were r\oX Parents of Tertiary Students Association sec- much behind the scenes. It's the same in all prepared to specify a single word I used that retary, Mrs J. Greadiead, and the Committee cases — when I was originally banned a couple was objectionable, or a topic I discussed that Against Regressive Education Spokeswoman, was going to cause harm to young children — Mrs R. Joyner. "I THINK THE NEW ANTI POF)NOGRAPHV and yet they were prepared to make blanket LAWS ARE VERY SENSIBLE. FOR ONE statements about the overall topic being offen Dire consequences were forecast if Tina's talk — THING -THE BEST THING-THE sive." "filth directed against the culture of a Christian GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE DONE FOR country and contrary to the spirit of a Christian PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BUY THAT SORT Again Tina stressed the fact that all her critics University"-went ahead. But It did, anad OF THING WAS TO PUBLISH A LIST OF seemed to employ these tactics, that "they tend apart from a brief uncomfortable encounter ALL THE MAGAZINES' SO EVERYONE to be a little bit frightened that \f they do afterwards with the aforementioned ladies, Tina KNEW WHAT TO ASK FORI NO REALLY, IT specify a point that's meant to be objectionable spoke cheerfully ahd without interruption to an MAKES EVERYONE HAPPY BECAUSE IF they might be forced to sit down and talk enthusiastic audience. YOU GO INTO A SHOP AND ASK FOR ONE, about it - and its possible they'll lose!" NOW YOU'LL GET IT IN A BROWN PAPER Just what was the aim of this controversial PACKAGE FOLDED UP INSIDE YOUR With her five years ekperience as a psychosex lecture? SYDNEY MORNING HERALD -AND THE ual therapist, and her three years of editing ONES WHO OBJECT TO PORN. DONT Forum, Tina is often considered a very con- '/To enlighten perhap^ to educate? Really HAVE TO CONFRONT IT STRAIGHT troversial character. However, she denies that iust to entertain," Tina said thoughtfully. "I'd AFTER BREAKFAST WHILE THEY'RE she is usually under attack from people such as like to think if all you can do is to get people WAITING FOR THEIR BUSl" Mrs Greathead and Mrs Joyner. "I lead a very talking about sex, which is not often talked sedate lifel" she said, laughing. "I t's only when about openly, and if they then go away arguing you come to places like Brisbane actually, about it, then all this controversy is basically a I'm becoming positively establishment - it's all good idea. You know, If people bring It out in rather frightening to mel No," she reflected. "I* the open and argue about some of the issues don't feel particularly under attack anymore - I'm raising." She paused to take a sip of orange It's Interesting to find little bands of saviours juice -a very straight drink.for a supposedly filthy and protectors of our morality still around. In shady lady - and continued. 'The trouble is, Sydney and Melbourne they still exist but I a lot of the critics find it difficult to spedfy • think they've been convinced that we're not what exactly it is we talk about that Is offen rag.... really going to do that much harm." sive-they say 'the way she put it was ab normal', and so on, rather than being prepared Foriim magazine is often accused of being to come out and say 'I object to that', so we pornographic, but its frank discussions on sex can sit down and have a discussion about it. are all. part of the magazine's aim to help peo It's when they simply become morally out ple with senuai hangups, "What's really hearten raged, it makes rational discussion very diffi ing," Tina said, "is to find doqtor's prescribing cult. I'd like to think this is what the students it for patients now - take two doses of Valium will get out pf the lecture, it should be more of and a year's subscription to Forum!" a discussion, giving them a chance to give their point of view. I think probably last year what people objected to wasn't so much my actual Tina edits the magazinis because she loves the lecture but the sort of issues that came up e$ field she's working in. "I find the whole area a well as that," She laughed. "I was once telking , very interesting one," she said, "especially to a P. & C. group, and a woman got up, very vyhen I'm doing counselling. It's like obstet upset, because her son had been to one of these rics — no one dies on you — or very few people discussions and when he got home it took her ariywayl With a sexual problem, you can help so long to get him around to her point of view most people very quickly, and for an eternal about homosexuality againi And she wondered optimist like myself I .find It a very cheering why everyone laughed." occupation. And. its an area where so many things are happening-j mean, so much re search is being dOne into sex that couldn't have The conversation moved on to Forum, the been considered ten^ years ago — medical PORum on PORum

schools are beginning courses, everyone's be ple seem to read it for a year and then give up fl,^^^ ,... • ginning to show an interest." reading it. From my point of view that's fine," P •^' ^^ j f:^ ^ Tina continued, smiling, "In some ways it wor-1; A common complaint against Forum Is that it ries me a little that people have continued to narrows people's interest down to sex and tends read it for three years and tried every possible | to make them less interested in other things. variation. For one thing, I wonder where they Tina feels this is unfounded. "I think people find the time, and also, it does seem to me a tend to be really interested in sex when they're fairiy trivial way of spending every waking most worried about it ~ I mean, you really houri The pity of it is, though, that sex is so become obsessed by sex when you've got a important, and for so many people this is problem, jf you're impotent or frigid it because they are so screwed up about it." becomes an obsession with you. What we have Tina feels that Forum is making some headway, to do through education Is to overcome this merely by the way many women's nâgazines obsession and make it unimportant. So 1 see are progressing to more direct approaches to reading Forum or having therapy as a phase in sex. She is also concerned that Forum doesn't people's development. 1 think its a phase try to project the same images of sexuality through which they pass eventually, most peo as the rest of the popular media. "I'd like to think we're working to counteract some of the jiamage that's being done by the Body Beauti ful Image that's being projected by some maga ...or journal of inter— , zines, particularly things like Cosmopolitan," she said. "You know, artides on, 'How to wear a gold chain around your tummy so he doesn't Tliis is your Forum. personal notice it's got a bulge In it' - and how you're It exists to express supposed to do that while you're screwing, I'll yot/r genuine never know! Basically we try very hard to talk opinions, relation about old people who can have sex too, and stress that what you look like has got nothing experiences, to do with It. We published an article on the criticisms, ships topic of sex and the handicapped person once, and interests and had a tremendous response to it —from regarding any patients and from occupational therapists who aspect of human have introduced that topic into their sessions. relations. That's a beginning." It's obvious that Tina treads on a lot ot danger ous ground speaking on a topic as touchy as ' sex in a city as touchy as Brisbane. But she still sees it as necessary. "Of course some people are going to be offended, but others might be helped, and its a matter of weighing these effects up. I don't try to shock people,".she continued. "But I think the last thing we want ' from a lecture on sex is that it should be dreary and dull - 1 sat through many like that when 1 was a giri and I wouldn't like to repeat the ' experiencel It should be a nice topic to discuss. No, I really don't believe in offending people unless its necessary — I think that shows on" television which might upset people should be screened late at night - but If the people who are offended by them won't turn their sets off that's their problem!" Having met her now, 1 tiiink that what most of Tina's critics are upset about is not the issues she is raising, but the fact that nice people OPEN FORUM do ..I . • • Linda Heron David Coverdale, replacement vocalist for lan rinky.tink, cutesy-pie Freddy Mercury specials Gillan, is rapidly emerging as one of the most which reek of the era of spats, straw boaters distinctive voices around. Along with Paul and briliiantine. Rodgers and Robert Plant he is among those few rockers who can reaUy sing, in addition, Fans of Queen's distinctively heavy sound are he and Bolin seem to have hit it off in a big not as well served on this album as they rhight way, for of the nine tracks on the album the have been. While tracks such as Death on Two Solin/Coverdale combination supplied five, Legs and I'm in Love with my Car do nothing while each had a separate hand in the writing to disgrace them, others like The Prophet's of the other four. Song, which could have been turned into front- rank heavies suffer badly by. being over-lyricis- COME TASTE THE BAiMD And finally, for those who get off on such ed. Consequently, Brian May's guitar is given DeeiJ Purple ^things, the Deep Purple resurgence has extendi, little chance to shine through, this having been (Purple Records) ed itself as far as the a/bu.n cover. This one is the most prominent feature of Queen's previous about the most tasteful the group has ever work, I can still remember being absolutely issued. bowled over by May's spectacular guitar acro ,.LIke many Deep Purple fans, I still truly regret batics on Brighton Rock, from Sheer Heart .ithe passing of lan Qillan and Roger Glover, Go out and buy or borrow this one - or even Attack album, but 1 came away from this one •the vocalist and bassist of the Deep Purple steal it. It's worth a few minutes in hell. with just the slightest feeling of disappointment .^.which produced Deep Purple in Rock, Fire . of there being something missing. -ball, Made in Japane and the brilliant Machine- jhaad. Both were sacked mainly at the instiga- Surprise package of the album, ironically in the ..îon of Richie Blackmore, rock's favourite light of what has Just been said, is a song by ; asshole, who opined that they were hindering Brian May called '39. It's a rocking, acoustic .Purple's development, which, under his father- ballad, heavily underscored by John Deacon's Jy hand, resulted in monumental flops such double-bass line, which, sounds as though it Stormbringer. could have been written by Peter, Paul and Mary. May, for the first time, takes over the •ôvlij Blackmore himself' has gone, replaced by role of lead vocalist from Mercury, and handles Tommy Bolin; and it is with a certain quiet it exceptionally well. In fact I'm surprised , sense of satisfaction that I can report that the that he hasn't tried his hand at singing lead first Purple album with the new lineup, Come before, because his voice goes a long way to Taste the Band, is a beaut. wards making this one of the best songs oh the album. ' Deep Purplse haven't been this consistently good since Machinehead' Predictability, once al- However, in the final analysis, it's difficult to 'most the group's stock-in-trade, has given way view A Ni^t at the Opera as surpassing Queen's •b a willingness to experiment; and although previous work. I'm inclined to regard Sheer 'they never transcend the heavy metal field Heart Attack as their best work to date, and (Purple are hard rockers and have never preten possibly this one suffers by comparison! But ded to be any different) there is considerable that Isn't to say that it's not a good album. 'evidence of progression in the fomr^ of a far i Far from it. Musically it presents the compet |more fluid and melodic approach to both ence that we have como to expect from this ,vvfIting and playing. Queen A NIGHT AT THE OPERA group, and Roy Baker does his customary sup Personnel: Freddy Mercury vocate, piano erb job of production. ^his I think, can be largely attributed to Bolin. John Deacon bass ^his gentleman of the green and purple streak- Brian May guitars From the time that I purchased their first ^bd hair has quite a distinguished career behincl Roger Taylor drums album, I have been convinced that Queen was him, having played with such bands as the one of the best rock outfits around, A Night James Gang, Zephyr and Billy Cobham. The at the Opera, although it could stand a little flexibility which- enabled him to play with Queen have always seemed to me to be a group with their tongues at least partly in their, imprqvement, has nevertheless done.nothing 'Bands with such diversity of styles, he now to make me change that view. 16ncls to Deep Purple. Tbe result is a fiariy easi cheeks. After listening to this album 1 am now ly identifiable new sound. Blackmore, while firmly convinced of it. There must be more b'feing a brilliant guitarist in his own right, than a hint of self-mockery in a group which STEELEYE SPAN- LH tended to limit himself to a particular style of writes liner notes after the lyrics of its songs "All Around My Hat' f)|aying, one which singled him out as 'the gui- such as 'Vocal orchestration of brass', 'Vocal Chrysalis Records L 35692 Jl^/lst'. Bolin,' however, seems to Integrate orchestration of woodwind', or 'Operatic hjmself more Into die totality of the music, vocals'. ^Kating In and out of Hughes and Paice's driving In their search for a radier elusive mass apeal, I'hythms, and combining with rather than com The album itself is full of nutty, and ultimately Steeleye Span have undergone some significant peting against Jon Lord's keyboards. endearing things WV-e Uzlng on a Sunday After changes In approach. To consider each album noon and Seaside Rendezvous, a couple of consecutively does not reaiiy highlight the extent of the differences but when they are pulled more Irhportance than it really should. out of sequence for comparison, the changes are all too apparent. This eighth album, for ex The overall impression that is gained from this ample, contains only a shadow of the motive album is that it Is mildly Interesting, with tracks strength of the fourth or fifth records, Below such as Gloria and Lane/worth at least a couple the Salt and Parcel of Rogues. of listens. |t Is marred by an uncompromising sameness, as track follows track Into oblivion The material is the usual gathering of Ye Olde As a result, the album doesn't seem to lead any English folk songs, the subjects of which where or do anything. Directionless and form less, It merely staggers around, finally to coll Include the traditional array elves, knights, apse under the weight of its own emptiness and fnrgin rhaids, and odious crimes. The fact that incomprehensibility, virgin maids, and odious crimes. The fact that electricity plays a dominant role in their music means that these days Span should be consider ed as more inclined to rock and away from NORTHERN LIGHTS- their initial folk stance. Although the selection SOUTHERN CROSS of songs for this record contains no stunning pieces of the likes of Gaudette, Cam Ye O'er Tine Band Frae France orThomas tiie Rhymer {from the (Capitol) fourth, fifth and sixth albums), the quality HORSES overall is quite a high standard. Patti Smith The recent release of the very early Bob Dylan Arista work, The Basement Tapes, as weli as the later The group's drift toward commercialism is Planet Waves and Before the Flood, all of which Indicated not only by this album but also by contain examples of The Band's work at its Perhaps it was my own fault for the way In the acquisition of a new manager and producer. best, has undoubtedly stimulated a resurgence which 1 approached this record - perhaps what Manager Tony Secunda has a reputation for the of interest in that group. And although it may ever pre-conceived ideas I had of Patti Smith creation of high^ôwered publicity campaigns. seem a little unrealistic to compare The Band's and her art were not justifiable — but I found During the last tour of Australia, he caused an work as a backing group to the performance her first album. Horses, a considerable dls- uproar In Sydney's blinkered press when a of their own material, it need only be pointed eppointment. group member was offered as a contest prize. out that this is their first album of new songs in Needless to say, the free exposure did them no some four years. Ms Smith has gained for herself something of a harm. New producer Mike Batt is known more reputation as a rock poet. So, I reasoned, since as the guiding hand behind tbe pop group, poets tend to be heavily into words and the im Nevertheless, Northern LighH-Southern Cross The Wombles. With this record, he has seen fit ages that words are able to conjure up, it's fair is ample repayment for that four year hiatus, to add various orchestrations with the conseq to assume that the music here will take a back for it is a very fine album indeed. Certainly it uence that he has removed some of the edge seat. Unfortunately, it is, in fact, the other way isn't an album that is memorable because of from Steeleye's sound, which has long been a around. Were It not for the fact that the lady anything spectacular about its construction - strong characteristic of theirs. Although Maddy has a good band behind her, tight and clean- it doesn't leap out of the speakers and physical Prior's voice still exhibits a delightful purity, it sounding, the sibum would be a whole lot less ly assail you; but rather, it establishes Its own has been somewhat tarnished on at least one listeneble to than it is. peculiar brilliance through the moods it creates. track. Similarly, where a singular darity and If this isn't straining the metaphor too much, exuberance pervaded eariier work, the produc For reasons best known to herself (and pre it could be described as a comfortable album, tion manages to round everything out, giving sumably, to John Caie, who produced the the type that you can easily settle down into the impression of solidity but actually develop album) Patti Smith seems to go out of her way for some fine gut-level appreciation. ing less emotion and vitality. A personal dis to make her lyrics Incomprehensible. A cynical appointment is the non-appearance of the trad friend of mine observed that maybe that was Robbie Robertson, who proves himself still tb itional jig. just as well. But I wouldn't have minded a be one of the classiest guitar players around, chance to decide whether her poetry was any has composed every one of the eight tracks on After those criticalremarks, I feel I must relent good or not. Ms Smith cannot sing - not that this album, an indication, surely, of the rest of a little and acknowledge that All Around My this has ever stopped her or anyone else from the group's confidence in his ability to produce Hat Is, on the whole, successful, with enough having a bash at It - but that seems to me to be the goods. Occasionally he flounders; It Makes attributes and suffidently fine music to con no excuse for the slurred, mumbling, monoton No Difference, for example, Is decidedly vince me that it warrants a place In my collec- ous, couldn't-give-a-shit type of delivery which mushy. But more often, he soaris. My favorites tion. Noteworthy tracks are Cadgwith Anthem dominates many of the tracks, right from the are Hobo Jungle, an Intensely introverted ac count of the passing 9f a hobo, which tends to which features five exceptional voices singing opener, a heavily reworked versiori of the old leave the listener with that empty feeling that acapella. Sum Waves (Tunes) in which Peter Van Morrison hit, Gloria to the condudlng comes with sadness; and Acadian Driftwood, Knight lets loose with some searing electric Efegie which seems to be somehow concerned Robertson's version of the wanderings of the violin. Black Jack Davy a typically charming, if with Jimi Hendrix's death. unhappy, Steeleye narrative, and The Wife of French-speaking Acadians of Canada throu^gfi* Usher's Well, originally intended for the prev out the US. ious Commoner'^ Crown album. It is possible to pick up interesting Irttle images here and there, but the difficulty lies in trying This particular track is distinguished by itii Even though some of the more dedicated fol to piece them together to arrive at some kind of beautiful melody, and the almost mathematical lowers may find cause for disquiet with this condusion about her work as a whole. This precision of its arrangement. Guest fiddler, record, it is certainly obvious that Steeleye tends to generate annoyance and frustration, as Byron Beriine, Is gently surrounded by Garth whatever communication may have been there, Span's' drift towards a more commercial rock Hudson's piccolo, accondlon and chanter, or may have been intended irrevocably breaks position can only win them more friends. while Robertson's delicately restrained accous down, and the steady, three-chord, flfties-influ- tic guitar and Manuel's clarinet fill in any gaps Bill Holdsworth^ enced musical background begins to assume that might be left. which Vonnegut's delightful eccentricities be All the arrangements, for that matter, are Trout hails from Bermuda, which leads to the superbly well done, as is the overall production. come ensnared. Two tortured minds; somehow popular misconception that "in Bermuda, they Quite frankly. The Band has never sounded as linked together, eventually meet and create call mirrors leaks". good as this before, for there exists here a clar pandemonium. The two protagonist's finked ity and distinctiveness which was sadly lacking fates are described by Bonnegut as being dir 1 was wondering if 1 should go on and give a on earlier albums. As an example of this, the ected purely by his whim. We^have theauthor, precis of some more "good bits", but I don't vocals of Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and in incognito, intruding into his microcosm as an think I will. particular, Leavon Helm are mixed well forward observer. thus giving a more solid feel to the album as a All I'll say is, that now you're back at Uni, and whole. This is balanced by a greater range of It is a purely megalomaniacal manifestation for you might not want to get into anything over instruments, especially those employed by him to insert himself into the worid which he whelmingly heavy, but want to read something Garth Hudson. He uses string synthesisers to directs, which he owns, over which he is omni entertaining, read Breakfast of Champions. create orchestral backdrops, as well as the fami scient! But, this is vindicated when a dog of the liar organ, brass and woodwinds. In fact, of the author's invention leaps savagely at his throat. That is, of course, unless you've read it, because whole group, Hudson's musical progression is Yet in tbe dosing pages of the book we have Mr I've read it twice and it's lousy the second time. the most prominent. Vonnegut casting aside his previous mischief making ways and assuming the mantle ofa lov tVlike Webb This record is by far the best thing that The ing god. Band has done on its own so far. Emotionally The humour Is sometimes heavy handed but satisfying, sincere and lacking affectation of mostly light and entirely original. A clever piece THE TITANIC EFFECT- any kind, it deserves every success. of "business" the author uses is a technique Planning for the Unthinkable of repeating a joke or word play In a particular Kenneth E.F. Watt, theme. One of these theme jokes I enjoyed was the whimsical application of the name "leak" Sinaver Associates Inc. instead of "mirror". Kilgore Trout, Vonnegut's Stanford, Conn. 1974. "hero" indulges in a fancy which has mirrors being personal doorways into another universe. It is good to read a carefully researched and During the passage of the book, Kilgore Troiit thoughtfully argued book which gives a fairiy has many opportunities to tell someone who is coherent overview of many of the Issues, pres "taking a leak" that "where 1 come from that ently confronting the U.S. economy. Though means you're stealing a mirror". BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS weak on some points - for example he does Kurt Vonnegut

Reading this book, phrases like "counter cul tural conformity", "aging flower child" and others in a similar vein flow through the mind. CAMERA HOUSE Kurt Vonnegut embodies most of the flower children mores and professes an affinity with the schizophrenia that age produced (i assumed KtPPARING CAMERA HOUSE i^cw DCTCDC ^AMCQA un.icc that it Is dead now). SHOP K 14 PETERS CAMERA HOUSE KIPPA-RING SHOPPING VILLAGE a 4020 " REOCLJFFE PARADE. REDCLIFFE a 4020 With an intro like that you'd be forgiven for . PHONE: 284 0088 ^^^'^^^ 284 8844 thinking that I am about to write an unfavour able review of Breakfast of Champions but it is difficult to write a wholly defamatory critique ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR 1419 when I have enjoyed every moment of reading the book.

So it is with a divided mind that 1 express any 14 Didgit Display opinions regarding this rather self-indulgent lODidgitlVlantissaPlus book. Do I denigrate Mr Vonnegut for his entirely predictable philosophy, or do I acclaim 2 Didgit Exponent the deliciously witty manner in which he has 1 tVlemory expressed It, Algebraic Operation Vonnegut describes the work as his fiftieth H sg ai OS a Advanced Scientific Functions- lie n' i>i III iKt birthday present to himself. He writes a purely a m a m m Commercial book, there is no pretence to any refer Keyboard m,m amm kind of soul searching introspection ~ the book m u is obviously going to make him a lot of money! aa n M Bl SPECIAL BUYING- ' » 1 » - Yet he says in his prellnrilnary blurb that he is m m undergoing some kind of spiritual cleansing ALLOWS US TO BRING THIS UNIT i9 BB here, he is flushing away a lot of the ditritux that clogs his fifty year old system. 1 find it TO YOU AT A SPECIAL PRICE OF hard to belie\fe that there is any such serious motive behind this work. A, yes he is satirical but his satire is more in the style if intelligent buriesque. if there is such a beast. In fact, I would venture to say that Breakfest of $43,251 Champions is related to true satire as his Slaughterhouse 5 Is related to science fiction. With Tax Free Form

The book has a plot akin to a spider's web in not consider the political economy behind the survival of the U.S. economy up until the present and the importance placed by plannen on nudear fusion with its intricate dangers, to dose the U.S. energy gap by tha year 2000 — his guides to solutions are far more acceptable than those of another commentator on the GUTSY CURRIES not a feast, at least by judicious use of the chil same phenomenon - Alvin Toff ler. lies en acceptable curry. The lady of the party complained the sen^ngs were not large enough Once every decade a shattering new culinary but I solved the problem by ordering a half It is interesting the two writers use similarly event flashes across the wall oven firmament serving for an extra dollar. The decora is to say emotive titles for their analyses of ptesent and lo.... a trendy new eating house is born. trends. Toff ler calls his nightmare an "Eco- I personally would make no such claim for the least rudimentary but never the less not Spasm"; Watt has created a "Titanic Effect". The Curry Shop but then It is great to see rea unattractive. sonable curries served up at reasonable prices The Titante Effect suggests Watt is caused by to unreasonable people like me. And for those who wish to dine in style the the Allure of people to recognize that disasters back verandah is a pleasant spot with its splen> did old fashioned dining room tables and airy are possible and their subsequent planning, by The Cunry Shop, which is situated about half breezes. ignoring the possibility of disaster, is tJhus way down Sir Fred Schonell Drive, is lodged faulty. Using such devices as the exponential in the shop which used to house The General The restaurant is still a little disorganized but curve. Watt proceeds to point out in readable, Things Shoppe. This particular shop was once this is probably not too great a pr^ce to pay for lucid language that the U.S. economy must the Conservation Council, before which there a little individuality. The only disappointment come to terms with the possibility that it was the- late Mr Natural and before that there was the vegetarian curry which seemed to lack cannot continue unchallenged. The awakening was a butcher shop which had occupied the site any real individuality of flavour. A little more in the U.S. of people such as Nader and groups for uncounted sons. But despite the varied seasoning would have done wonders. And per such as the Sierra Club or Friends of the Earth history of this store the latest effort is a wel haps the side dishes could be a little more gene* are seen es strong signs of hope. Watt's future come change. depends on participatory democracy - the rous, particulariy the yogurt mouth saver. people must once more practice democracy The newest temptation for discerning Brisbane But as the man said 'Isn't it great to get a curry' themselves. The public must become concern^ palettes is Indeed a brave gesture. For only and aware and above all involved in the govem $2.20 you can get a passably decent feed- with GUTS'. ment of their country. an unusual event in these days of Fraser aus* Sam Whittenbar terlty. What he does not consider is the power of the multi-national corporations, big finance and Indeed The Curry Shop is a very brave gesture political economy. It was no coincidence that by the owners. Anyone who has had any deal ALFIES the Chile coup occured at precisely the time ings with leigendary Oz palate should be wary Fantastic Value when U.S. atomic scientists were bemoaning indeed about launching into something as pot the lack of copper wire, and soon after Allendre entially explosive as a cunry shop, { mean we 888 Stanley St., East Brisbane rationalized the U.S. controlled copper, mines. have all lived through those indlgestable meals The CIA helped out with a carefully planned of glugg rice wil^ the curry thrown haphazard The Scarlet Lady and I (sorry Sam, but die lady' and executed barraga of propaganda on ihe into the pot by a loving but demented mum. wore red) dropped along to "Alfies" the other' U.S. controlled media and in training the tort Experiences like this could discourage the most night. After a full day of lectures we were both urers and butchers presently re-establishing stout hearted apprentice curry fan. So to an a little wilted, and so were quite pleased when freedom in Chile. extent they will have to rely on the good will served nearly immediately. Our waitress was of that growing band of people who have late pleasant and informal, a pleasing personal touch The U.S. economy is based on imperialism — ly retumed from the hippy highway of South In Brisbane, where most food attendants regard Vulture-like, preying upon the heart and soul of East Asia. Ahl Retum for a night to the mystic themselves as Nearer thy God than Thee (well, host countries all over the worid. imperialism is East and the Buddha Grass that's pretty close anyway). a brutal business and Watt does not conskler this. The U.S. ran out of manganese iri 1948 And so having recovered from the hangover Lighting up our imported French Cigarettes, and must import 27 different components to caused by the opening night it was with some taken from her embossed case from the Isle make steel; Watt ignores this and argues for an anticipation that I once again entered the of Capri, we surveyed the Menu carefully and internal solution. If v Strip-mining for coal Is Curry Shop with flagon in hand. There were all ordered a Lime Soda (40c each). We followed not allowed In the U.S., dien Queensland cah these people I knew... I even knew people this up with an entree of the Chef's Vegetable supply just as well. cooking... home.... Just like the R.E. Weli soup (70c each) with the main course being a we sat down the lady approached and asked Peppered T-Bone ($3.20) and a Fillet Steak Toffler's solution simply put, is to clear the our desires. The choice was simple... mutton, ($3.20), To conclude our gastronomic orgy, we brush and *g|ve freedoni to the multi-nationals beef or vegetarian. As were diree in number decided ori Brandied Bananas ancf Whipped to expand and develop. He too ignores the and wa were keen to try all the wares we each Cream ($1.50) and Capuccino Coffee (40c' channel house that was Vietnam and the chose a different style. An unfortunate event each). horror that is Nambla, but he, at least is more was the appearance of plastic glasses but 1 realistic. expect such things are e temporary phenomena The Lime Sodas were served quite quickly and and will disappear as the place gets on its feet. were fair enough. (One can't exactly enthuse in Watt has a good sound overview from a U.S. great detail over Lime Sodas, can one?) The perspective, of the problems fadng the U.S. After some two glasses the meal arrived suitably Vegetable Soup was delicious and hot. There His solutions are good and thought-provoxing accompanied by safron rice.Th e meat and vege were plenty of real vegetables (not the usual but must be considered globally and not only tables, served in small bowls were not over spi plastic kind) and the quantity was generous. from a U.S. perspective. ced and later inquiries revealed that most peo TTie soup was also served with bread and butter; ple found them hot enough. For those after The main course followed about seven minutes Mark D. Hayes extra zest there were side dishes of chillle and later, end here is where the shock and surprise sliced onion. And to cool those with advanced set In. Both serves of meat were superbl seared mouth there were also side dishes of the dreaded Palms Chutney and a yogurt-onion- 1 can truthfully say that in all of Brisbane, C8psicumearance in shining white robes to the Cruc or rotating advertisements in shop windows. It ifixion, he played the part powerfully and, fasdnates you with animals, other people, rac Two local choreographers have also been work tragically - I think he held the show together.; ing rivers ^and tangled traffic. You exist by ing with the dancers. Desley Gardiner, a highly means of'rt everyday, from the eariiest rising regarded dance teacher on the Gold Coast, has Although the acters seemed to be hampered out of bed to the last flicker of the light switch choreographed Paradise to music by Australian "^uite considerably by the tiny stege, the per at night Being alive means movement ahd composer John Sangster, with the content formance on die whole was good. movement is the material of dance" (Cheney about the Gold Coest. It is set in different times & Strader: 1971). of die day and goes through the three styles I disagree with the critics who have slammed modern, contemporary and Jazz. Also Inara Jesus Christ Superstar for being old hat and. Undoubtedly the choreographers for the Svalbe fron^ the Queensland Ballet Theatre cliched, as far as I'm concerned it could be Queensland Modern and Contemporary Dance choreographed Adagio a piece with slightiy played over and over again without losing its company would agree with these thoughts of religious overtones to music by Tomasso magic. Gay Cheney. Once again the company has got Albenoine. It should be noted that Whatever together for its second big performance in I do. The Man Who Died, Paradise and Adagio Linda Heron Twelfth Night Theatre. Up until recently, are Worid Premieres which adds an air of the company has mainly been only doing small intrique and excitement to this season of their \

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