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For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Living Daylights 2(9) Publisher Incorporated Newsagencies Company, Melbourne, vol.2 no.9, March 5- 11, 28p This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/19 30c Vol.2No.9 March 5-11 1974 INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY march 8&9 Stomping the violent male Brazil’s decade of murder Grovelling in Canberra What’s on in your town Liife & Death HIS week The living daylights looks i cakT AD/); Tat dying. When Allison Gillmore visit­ w f cArir h w i f ' ed the offices with plans for exploring the b E U \E Fk, Australian way o f death, we said sure, FOP-TMM a n d mason smilingly, and expected never again to see Richard Beckett CANT C0N\peT£ Wl7b her. Ideas are cheap around newspaper OVfK P R IC E S ' offices, with the talkers outnumbering the beats up &JT 7 7 /f5 executors, and while much is cast upon the - s /f o p waters, less is washed up by the tide. But the w eek’s news Allison returned, with a thick folio on HAT’LL TEACH US TO ACT AS death styles — including a guide on how to TAN INDEPENDENT NATION: bury your own — which begins eccentrical­ : Still totally unable to get used to the ly on page 9. : idea that Australia is no longer ruled by Death doesnt stop there. It seeps into : a gaggle o f pro-American puppets, the the article before, propelling the wistful : US deputy secretary o f state, Kenneth Mike Zwerin to visit the grave o f Jim : Rush, complained that prime minister name of Robert Arthur John McLeod, French government because of a film en- Morrison in Paris (p.8). And there’s an : Gough Whitlam had no right to declare was fined $40 in a Canberra court and awful lot o f coffins in Brazil, from which : that the bombing of Indochina from titled Les Chinois a Paris, made fun of placed on a good behavior bond for one the glorious revolutionary peoples army we have received an important report by : Thailand bases was “ militarily ineffec- year for daring to stand up for his in the Communist party approved the- Maxine Molyneux and Fred Halliday, who : tive and morally monstrous” . On top o f peoples rights at the business end o f a retrace 10 years of political oppression. : this, president Nixon has so far refused atre. The spokesman for die Chinese .22 calibre pistol. Later it was explained embassy in Paris said in a rather amazing §:$: Death comes not only to bodies, but to : to accept the credentials of Australia’s that Mr McLeod had decided to lay reputations, which is why a normally petty new ambassador to Washington, Patrick statement: “ This is a very serious affair siege to the department of aboriginal and inconsequential court case is reported ; Shaw. Thus, the once proud nation for relations between our two countries. affairs in Canberra because the white The French government must not ignore this week. Why should what makes head­ staggers on its way to second childhood. media were, as usual, treating aboriginal lines for the poor be hushed up by the With any luck and a few more com- the consequences this could have.” It is protest demonstrations as a sort of long believed that shortly the great Mao will :*>: rich? ... in cooperation with the police, : ments from Whitlam the US might playing comedy and he felt that if demand that all the world’s written and magistrates and press. Murky details of a threaten to close down its bases on our Australians continued to both laugh at spoken material be submitted to Peking *i* tinpot coverup, page 6. : soil, although that really is the land o f and ignore aboriginal claims to equal for official approval before being issued. It is life which is our daily bread, and it : make-believe. goes on and on, with such hilarious inepti­ status, violence would break out. It is pleasant to realise that we have at last tude. The grand opening o f the Australian OTERS SHOULD GIVE THEIR irst the bush, then the M managed to drive at least one member parliament had the lunchtime O’boozes ANSWERS IN NOT LESS THAN BUILDINGS: A report to the Si- V of the gentle race into total uncontrol­ UnitedF Nations Educational Scientific chundering in the aisles, and we bring you A THOUSAND WORDS: Unofficially led fury. and Cultural Organisation by Mr Ian a first hand account, opposite; plus a opening his senate election campaign, souvenir spread of the Royal Occasion which also suffers from the addition of Grant, a British architect, states not i:*:; ERVES HIM RIGHT: Finally los­ (p. 12 & 17). five referendums dealing with voting surprisingly that all Australians were ing their tempers with old Teddy happily destroying their brick and mortar *>•: A few continuing sagas this week, ages, state upper houses and the eleva­ S Heath for forcing them into the polls, heritage in every large city and that the Victoria street, the blacks (and the buying tion of himself to pope, prime minister the stout British proved they had some leaders o f the pack were government off o f militants) and prisons. Incidentally, Whitlam claimed that the whole busi­ spirit left by voting for almost everyone departments who were “ the most de- :*:j: congratulations to Barry York and others ness was crucial to the survival o f from Ethel the Red to Godzilla. Thus structive o f all bodies” . Meanwhile the of the LaTrobe university SRC for making democracy in Australia. The refer­ satisfied they sat back and listened to Builders Laborers Federation continues a staunch political gesture in support of endums “ represent the most thorough the shrill cries o f “ we w on” emanating to be branded as a disgruntled group o f runaways — dont be browbeaten by side­ and fundamental attempt since federa­ from the world’s oldest and most tracking waffle o f the “ but what if he tion to establish the basic democratic communist malcontents, despite the renowned kindergarten of the year. In a fact that they are the only organisation raped your sister” variety. right o f Australians” Whitlam intoned local note on the farce, our own opposi­ The film o f the US atrocity, A ttica, has before the Victorian ALP state council. in Australia doing anything about con- tion leader Billy Snedden came in with servation. On a state by state basis, if 8 8 been specially rushed to Sydney to raise With all that ticking and crossing the one of his more useful statements by you’re interested in learning about the 8 8 money to support action groups and will average voter will be lucky if he escapes declaring that the election, which in greatest villains, Queensland and Tas- be shown Wednesday, march 6 at the from the polling booth in under half an point of fact gave the Labor party Teachers Federation Auditorium, 7 and 9 hour. mania tie for first place although West- iS:-: pm and Saturday, 10 pm, at the Film­ more seats than the Conservatives, ern Australia believes that “ anything £8: was a “ warning” to the Australian may be sacrificed for new roads” and *8 makers cinema. Albie Thoms gives a back­ he conservationists must Labor party. No wonder the Libs have runs a close second. ground rave: page 6. HAVE GIVEN HIM A NEW T now hired ageing beauty queen Sue The above should have been in the fat POLO PONY: Proving that he’s not all Gallie to tell the party members how to new Delights lift-out, but the copy was bad all o f the time, Phil the Greek told ight another candle for M groom themselves and how to speak in late. Far too much material is arriving in members of the Australian Conservation YOUR PARTICULAR GOD: New 88 public. L this office over the weekend or monday, Foundation that they should attempt to South Wales judge, Mr justice Street, has for expected inclusion on tuesday. That disrupt the wood industry conference ruled that members o f the formidable makes life here a misery and the paper which will set timber policy in Australia he whiter than white and powerful Hare Krishna sect may messy. for the next 50 years and which, it TSEAL OF AUTHORITY: The continue to bang their drums and give §8: Earlier copy please, regulars . Great appears, may be slightly unsympathetic Leyland motor company, which you away incense sticks in the streets o f space shortage this week, and there’ s much to environmentalists. As.befits meetings may remember wants to import a hand­ Sydney without being molested or stuff held over, including horrible Harry o f this nature, attended by the captains ful of Filipino workers into this country harassed by the forces o f the Sydney Gumboot, who will bounce back next of industry, the conference is due to to screw spark plugs into its vehicles, city council. In a surprisingly enlighten- :£8 tuesday. open on All Fools Day.