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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. has revealed that since its announce­ ed ruling, in which he told the city Laurel Olszewski designed this week’s ment more than 300 true blue Austra­ council which was attempting to get rid 8:8 cover, to coincide with International EAT ME, WHIP ME: Federal en­ lians have informed them that their cars o f the dreadful non Christians to piss Womens Day(s), march 8 & 9. The day Bvironmental minister Moss Cass will no longer be acceptable. Mr Peter off, Mr justice Street remarked: “ If originated in New York in 1908, when went down on his knees in front o f a North, managing director o f Leyland in everybody dressed, looked and behaved women marched through the streets to gaggle o f Canberra students and admit­ Australia, mincing no words, said: “ We alike, a drab monotony would pervade demand the vote and protest sweatshop ted that he had “ a glorious series o f stand accused of opening the doors to the city.” 8 8 conditions. In Sydney on Saturday (march failures" to his credit. He then proudly the slant eyed yellow bastards from the 9) there will be a rally at Victoria park (10 admitted that his best failure so far was north.” Soon this same white lobby will B ang, bang, you’re dead: M am) and then a march from the park down the drowning o f Tasmania’s Lake Ped- demand that all boomerangs in Australia After promising an investigation i:;:*: Glebe road to Bidura, a child welfare der and the building of a post office must henceforth be made by white men over the shooting of a 17 year old youth home. On Saturday afternoon there will be tower on Canberra’s Black Mountain. only and that all goods o f asian origin by New South Wales police, New South a forum on women against the Violent be immediately returned. Wales justice minister Maddison issued Society, for women only, at the Glebe F YOU CUT DOWN ALL THE the police department’s rules for the use *8: town hall. IFORESTS, THE BLACKS WILL HE “ SLANT EYED BASTARDS” o f firearms against one’s fellow man. :-:8: In Melbourne, there is a gathering in the HAVE NOWHERE TO HIDE: As the TALSO LACK A SENSE OF The regulations in essence say that it’s city square on friday plus a rally and march : “ Charm to aboriginals year” continues HUMOR: The Chinese embassy in Paris quite okay to kill as long as the quarry Sji-i on the Saturday (city square, 10.30 am) ; to roll along, a dusty gentleman by the has lodged an official protest with the is running away from you. and other associated celebrations. - Eds The Living Daylights is published every tuesday by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn street, West FIRST CONCERT APPEARANCE OF AUST'S Melbourne, Victoria. Y ou can write to us C/- PO b ox 5312 BB, BIGGEST CAMPUS ATTRACTION GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03)329.0700, Telex AA32403. SYDNEY OFFICE: Stephen Wall, 18 Arthur street, Surry Hills, 2010. 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SUNDAY, MARCH 10TH, 8 PM, $2.00 Page 2 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-1 1, 1974 MUNGO MacCALLUM it Met- U I- LliU Metr u lilf OOKING at it through a hangover chance of falling over them. Then about security if only anyone had ever asked to to mixed boos and cheers; Whitlam Lnext morning, which was how four kilometres o f red carpet were laid see them. Spectators lined the roof of remarked to one o f the cops that it wasnt everybody looked at it next morning, the down in geometrical patterns so that the parliament house in a perfect position to as good as Warragul, which was where the opening o f the second session o f the 28th official party would know where to walk. shoot the queen; in fact, with the wind phosphateless farmers had threatened to parliament o f Australia was really just Then a lot of cops and spooks came and behind them, they could probably have toss tomatoes at him. The atmosphere another party. In fact, as parties go it was peered behind all the pot plants (and no pissed on her. was less than electric. more boring than the Liberal party, more doubt under the carpets) to make sure There were, eventually, a couple of Finally a cavalcade o f cops led in the pretentious than the Australia party, there were no mad gunmen lying in wait. hundred demonstrators there (the noisier big black car, there was lots o f more humorless than the Labor party, Then all the attendants from the house of ones were all white) and maybe a trumpeting and presenting o f arms, and and more absurd than the DLP. representatives (where, incidentally, the hundred pro-queen people, with sun Herself walked up the stairs and smiled I dont know why anyone went (yes, I queen was not going; she’s a senate only umbrellas and flags; one rather cynical and glittered down on the masses — the do: to fulfil every socialist’s dream of girl) were decked out in lovely new green MP remarked later that this presumably diamonds were the only bit that didnt grovelling before royalty, and for the free uniforms. Military bands were produced, proved that Charlie Perkins was twice as look like plastic. piss). True, we had an unusual attraction guards o f honor were conscripted. popular as the queen. Also, it was very We can reveal exactly how she was in the case o f the Mad Black Gunman, but Artillery was wheeled across the lake, hard for even the most experienced dressed, because a pommy poltroon had that was six miles away, and he was all planes were sent up to fly past. Many stirrers to get the aboriginals going: Bobbi put out a press release on the subject the over by the end o f afternoon tea anyway. were the oohs and aahs o f anticipation as Sykes couldnt manage, and it was a while day before: evening dress o f silver tissue But where were the great performers o f it was learnt that the parliament house before the familiar strains o f “ What do banded horizontally with gold tissue, yesteryear? Where was Andrew Jones catering service was moulding several life you want? Land rights! When do you diamond fringe tiara, three row diamond chundering in a pot plant? Where was size chocolate fish for supper. And finally want them? Now! What do you get? Fuck necklace, drop diamond earrings, the Mick Young waving aloft a bottle of beer the great day dawned .. . but here we all!” started to waft up the steps into order o f the garter and family orders and announcing that it was on in the need a little flashback. Kings hall. (these were a pink square and blue square speaker's office? Where was the Liberal As the Charlie Perkins affair boiled The politicians and hangers on started pinned to the left tit, and looked exactly member who was sprung giving a typist a over, plans for a large demonstration had to arrive; when anyone was recognised he like dry cleaning tickets someone had knee trembler in the senate lavatory? been announced. Showing a commen­ got a cheer or a boo, or occasionally (as forgotten to remove). Nigel Drury (Lib, Gone, all gone; we shall not look upon dable sense o f politics, not to mention a in Whitlam’s case) both. The largest Qld) was to remark in an awestruck their like again. Or at least we didnt on commendable sense o f humor, activists cheers were for the Chinese ambassador, whisper to Bruce Graham (Lib, NSW) thursday night, when the pompous managed to give the rather gullible police who appeared slightly bewildered by the some time later: “ She looks every inch a ceremony dragged itself to a close. the impression that some thousands of whole thing, and Gordon Bryant, who queen.” Actually, she looked like a very It had really started some weeks blacks, many o f them armed to the teeth, earned the title o f undisputed piss ant o f expensive Christmas decoration. before, when wellknown man o f the would be surging round parliament house the year by turning round at the top o f The demonstrators booed and chanted people, republican, nationalist and social at the very moment that Herself was the steps and smiling and waving to the a bit, but when the national anthem reformer Edward Gough Whitlam made likely to be passing by. So what did this demonstrators. “We want Gordon,” they started up, most o f the blacks died down: his thoughtful decision to prorogue fervently anti racist, egalitarian, liber­ chanted: They can have Gordon. the whites tried to get them going again, parliament and cause everyone endless tarian government do? That’s right, it Some politicians came out to take but on the whole failed. The queen then trouble and expense so that an overpaid called in the cops, put up the barricades, their own pictures o f the whole went o ff with Magnus, presumably for a and ageing British boiler could be seen and made a lot o f noises about law and schemozzle, and a man wearing a piss, and the action, or lack o f it, and heard to open it again; an exercise order; a typically impressive performance. sparkling new pair o f Can’t Tear ’Ems switched to the senate chamber, where whose futility was only outdone by its It was all, o f course, completely gave the closest bit o f red carpet another the opening was to take place. Inside cynicism. unnecessary, not to say futile. If anyone going over. A pom reporter referred to were the senators, many o f them in their The first thing that happened was a had wanted to knock the queen o ff the bloody bolshies. The president of the finest array, well prepared for the big day large number o f men were hired to dig up (surely a grotesque proposition) it would senate, sir Magnus Cormack, emerged, o f their year; it’s the only time anyone and cart away the perfectly adequate have been very easy indeed. About 18 looking ridiculous in his wig and robes, comes to look at them. They appeared lawns around parliament house and different sorts o f passes were issued to and was whistled and booed. He was much as usual, even the ones whose replace them with new ones, so that the anyone who was going to be going in and accompanied by the Usher o f the Black names no one could remember. The most royal h oof would have fresh grass to paw. out of parliament house Rod; many of the demonstrators offered noticeable thing about the atmosphere Then some more people unearthed the that day, which might to show Magnus evidence that they were was an overpowering smell o f eau de rather sinister collection o f indoor plants have shown more fitted for the job. Magnus did not cologne, possibly emanating from the hair which grace the halls and corridors of a real look amused, and nor did the speaker, o f the opposition leader, senator Reg parliament house on these occasions and T m n r p r n Jim Cope, whose electorate includes put them where people would have most

THE LIVIN G DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974— Page 3 now with a patch over one eye (had a I MX , l i H l l l i :L'Ltf tiL lf someone finally got to him?), clambered Continued from page 3 in with the duke who is a prince asking a Withers. (Yes, it really is a name, not a cop outside why he was looking after his sentence.) (Phil’s) security rather than after their A new Country party senator was (the aboriginals at the embassy over the sworn in, and the bullshit got under way, road) security. The cop was apparently with the queen coming in and sending too polite to answer that it was probably Black R od out to get the bodies out o f that more people disliked him (Phil) than the house o f representatives. them (the abos). They came in with much grovelling, They played Her song, after which the Snedden trying to keep up on level terms program allowed 20 minutes for mingling with Whitlam, and Lynch comfortably with the guests. From all corners o f the beating Anthony in for the position of room desperate socialists and their wives second most important man in the flung themselves panting towards the opposition. Most of the Liberal front royal arsehole, kicking and gouging for a benchers were wearing morning suits, chance to mingle. A few more defiant rather as if they expected to be instantly ones who had not worn dinner jackets sworn in as a government. (which the head of the prime minister’s Their sense o f anticipation, however, department, sir John Bunting, was heard quickly gave way to jaw dropping gloom to remark was very bad form indeed) as the queen started her speech — ostentatiously moved the other way. And thoroughly political (it was written by then people started moving towards the Whitlam's staff, after a long and diningroom, where there were more ugly successful fight with the queen’s staff, Quick as a flash the minister replied, "I’ll scenes — since most had not eaten since however, gatecrashers from the press and who said that sort o f thing just wasnt bet it’s A1 (Grassby)” . But it wasnt: A1 lunch — and many had been on the piss ministers staffs were starting to infiltrate, done) and was full of stuff about how the was by now presumably on his way home for several hours. so the numbers stayed roughly constant, government (“ my government” ) had a to start changing for the evening, a mere Food was wolfed: the chocolate fish, and the rate o f consumption if anything mandate for change and was bloody well four hours away. Other people left quite not to mention the ice sculpture of a increased. The heavies left, Gough going to get on with it. Outside in Kings soon too, either in search of a drink, or swan and the candy one o f a kangaroo, eventually managing to drag Margaret hall, where a coterie o f undistinguished simply because they were bored shitless - were ignored in favor of protein. More away (“ I’ll com e when he calls me guests were watching it all on color it was turning into that sort o f day. By piss was consumed. And then the cardinal properly,” she remarked loudly to a television monitors, reaction was muted, sunset, it was turning into that sort o f problem of the evening emerged, because group of people) and the serious drinkers or perhaps non existent; seeing her on night. there was no band, and therefore no got on with it; but it still wasnt much o f a color television wasnt really like the real The big bunfight, described by our dancing (most o f them were with their party, and by midnight most of them had thing. friendly socialist egalitarian government wives anyway) and therefore nothing for turned into pumpkins. But the speech itself was enough to as a “royal reception” (dress: dinner people to do but talk to each other. As The smart ones went home or over the turn a Liberal republican. By now, of jacket) was timed to kick o ff with the the enormity of their plight dawned on road to the aboriginal embassy, w ho were course, Bob McLeod was doing his thing arrival o f Phil the Pig at 9.15, but them, people started to edge towards the also having a party, and at least they had over at the department o f aboriginal since the bars opened at 8.30, Kings hall exits, some even before Phil (which a guitar. Enough, even o f free piss, is affairs, but very few people realised: they was already packed to the rafters by the Bunting would no doubt have thought enough. ^ ^ were still agog as the queen went o ff with time the official party, including Magnus, was even worse form ). At the same time, Magnus again (what’s wrong with the woman’s bladder?) and eventually left, late, for pommyland, to appoint what her loyal subjects laughingly call a govern­ ment. The rest o f the guests wandered off Buying off the anger to the senate rose garden where people were drinking tea and eating cucumber sandwiches, and where the press was WARD McNALLY aghast to discover that there was no grog. AST WEEK, senator J. L. Whitlam was informed of the McLeod LCavanagh, minister for abo­ business on his way over, after farewelling riginal affairs, told the National Herself, and commented to a minister Press Club in Canberra that abo­ that it was a terrible thing, and that a riginal affairs under Labor had man with a gun had taken a hostage. been a “ disaster” . We all knew that. He neednt have told us. There had been a dispute when Gordon Bryant was sacked last

M .A.C. Music Presents September and Cavanagh took his place. Last week Cavanagh also announced the suspension of the assistant secretary in the aborigin­ al affairs department, Charlie Per­ kins, for calling the Liberal and Country parties o f Western Aus­ tralia racist. Most people regard the suspension as persecution o f a man who has the courage to speak out in defence of his oppressed Monday, March 11th people. If further proof of the sort of ROYAL MELBOURNE state o f affairs Cavanagh has al­ SHOWGROUNDS lowed his portfolio to drift into was needed, it was produced last 8 Hours of Rock thursday when the queen and prime minister Whitlam were jeer­ from 2 pm ed by 1000 aboriginals outside parliament house and representing FEATURING black thought from all over Aus­ tralia, and it was reinforced by the BILLY THORPE & AZTECS display of militancy by a black MADDER LAKE gunman who held some staff COLOURED BALLS members of the aboriginal affairs MATT TAYLOR department hostage for an hour THE DINGOES during the queen’s visit. Anyone who spares a construc­ CHAIN tive honest thought for our black RED HOUSE ROLL BAND brothers and sisters would know PLUS that Cavanagh has dredged the FIRST CONCERT APPEARANCE OF bottom of the bucket many times in the month he has been min­ DADDY COOL ister. His worst example o f this and was when Charlie Perkins said AusTs Greatest Jam Ever Cavanagh had set out since assum­ ing his aboriginal affairs portfolio Featuring to smear his, Perkins’, character 2 0 of Ausfs Best Rock Musctfs and to divide the aboriginal peo- J pie into two factions, Tickets $2.50 — MSD, Myers, t Both men were correct about Hotel Aust^Pelebrity Services. uj certain aspects o f their claims. Phone Booking 60.1911 5 Cavanagh, when he said aboriginal Q affairs policies designed by the ^ Labor government had turned out q failures instead of the brave new Continued on page 5 Page 4 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 PQ PN DC o P e anger ofasneegvrmn. Cavanagh government. sincere a f :o year old wife, Gwynneth. wife, old year architectural white were Others student Terry Farr and his 22 22 his and Farr Terry student law student named Paul Richards. year Richards. Paul final named student young law a was followers o o N mny I at o see to want I money. No go. to looking hungry nosed, snotty four afraid to lead protest marches marches protest lead to afraid bewildered expression on her face. her on expression bewildered the in involvement with place f former o out his was that fices anti­ an was there thinking help years, is being paid a large annual annual large a paid being is years, acts blacks. against provable brutality f o for police denounce Volatile, wasnt. Walker fighters. gutsy, imaginative, rights black oen fr ep u te tole they but help for someone a with office his to staircase thetall at staring stood children small left. had He late. was I him. see me. told he rives,” people. deprived a f o humanities f­ o the about atmosphere septic by ofral st ofcs in offices f o set comfortable ably past in sympathy f o lot a evok­ ing f o capable man a and stirrer Rich­ me.( told ards evaporated,” have against lot a Labor under around money an­ $12,000 reputed a on is he Services Aid Legal Queens­ Aboriginal the land to solicitor As stirrer. f o leader undisputed was Walker misdirec­ the compounded has efforts misdirected the by caused government’s former the against ago months 18 only which whites But an aboriginal woman with with woman aboriginal an But to ar­ finally way time good that week­ a when on retire go Probably to ends. Somewhere on. to the council for the arts. the for council the to attached officer project asa salary war waged Denis problems the f o publicly to or Brisbane, through tions. unity blacks. f o towards policies front oppressive solid a offered there. found Brisbane’s George street. I couldnt couldnt I street. George Brisbane’s rank front former a Brady, Don much so There’s longer. any fuss nually. and blacks f o factions two tween omsin t hl wt a pro­ a with aboriginals. on help based gram to Commission, flying visit to Brisbane on behalf behalf on Brisbane to visit flying Waa Wee Moree, points and in people irate rot­ and abuse accepting 1966, towns in NSW western around dents of the Australian Broadcasting Broadcasting Australian the of by thrown face his in fruit ten stu­ university Sydney by rides i rc t b a od ertr in ridiculous. was secretary department, the good a be to race his in­ really wasnt Perkins that did, to think, to detract ability doesnt their fact from That blood. suffer pain like the rest o f us, or or us, f o rest the like pain suffer ismixed population f o aboriginal our most that affairs, aboriginal for only not stupid. as but unnecessary aboriginal part only terested in or knew enough about about enough knew or in terested . . . and themselves children their for better want to asbeing Perkins f o criticism snide f o be guidance to sensitive out the started under they concept division o f thought has developed developed has thought f o division that. 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Not waging waging Not concern. his be should seri­ The underdog. the of tector politics Labor in role original his con­ more and party f political o racism a on Perkins by in attack an interested less be should anagh u bsns of rpry admin­ properly f o business ous ments. his f o purposes real the for cerned the to transported and lanes and from feet their to helped are who ut o W’e o wsig time wasting not We’re do. must his is and church old the Walker at up do friends Denis What “ eal h dy we h ws a was he when days the recall - embarrass­ the for to causes remove the should embarrassment Cavanagh anLabor. coming portfolio. sensitive club. 30 from to sleep to place a offers Brisbane f o forever. life part aboriginal a remain must hn h peet brgnl night­ surely? mare, aboriginal present the than dreams!” on to 50 aboriginal men and women women and men aboriginal 50 to h togt ht lcs ie the like places that thought the we what o d to need we money have the here we believe I affair. their the parklands, the back streets streets back the parklands, the Bornfree Club in South Brisbane, Brisbane, South in Club Bornfree black theatre, too, Denis,” Terry Terry Denis,” too, theatre, black Farr prompted. Farr al, n nvr loig them­ allowing never and daily, understand our aspirations for our our for aspirations our understand now, now, hours few a working for aries to on leaping people white the vet wiped be would them behind Cavanagh in that category right right category that to in try include ICavanagh who people. asa down people us f positions put o - official in community our - ity either. And problems. in­ black with emotionally volved become to selves sal large getting solicitors know, out... huh ta ilrd h omun­ comm the rid will that thought Richards, Paul to referring not I’m you . . . now bandwagon black the to need We thought. f o revolution men The threat. a as out brought lto of ilne W wn a want We violence. f o olution sake o f our people they’re never never they’re the people for our f o hope sake I But around. guns The whole history is disgust disgust is history whole The ing... cer, Don Davidson, that a militant militant a that Davidson, Don cer, the Brisbane Valley and had mas mas had and Valley Brisbane the sive stocks o f arms. f o in stocks sive training were blacks f o group in that knows history Australian hm n wre fr o wages. no for worked and whim sense” claims by senator Neville Neville senator by claims sense” at down shot been have men Benner and aboriginal liaison offi offi liaison aboriginal and Benner our aboriginal used that and have girlsaswhores, overseers own and station ers country, this f o sion the outback, since white expan expan white since outback, the f o essentials barest the research third grade food and cheap tobac cheap CO. and food grade third Queensland for no wages. Just Just wages. no for and Queensland Territory Northern the in als inclination have worked aborigin aborigin worked have inclination racist. People o f their political political their is f o parties People Country racist. add and to like Liberal just I’d so months, he wouldnt call the Liberal and and Liberal the call wouldnt he this: the whole history o f the the f o history whole the four this: or three for publication for racist?” parties Country of saying anything constructive constructive anything have saying I’ll chance of last the about is He could start by remembering remembering startby could He The angry Australians are be be are Australians angry The Cav­ senator that is view My Club Bornfree the night Each Commented Paul Richards Richards Paul Commented Better by far than living with with living than far by Better better But Perhaps. Dreams? “ We need a minister w ho’ll ho’ll w minister a need We “ “ We want a revolution o f f o revolution a want We “ rev a want dont we Anyway, “ “ Probably there’s still some some still there’s Probably “ Walker dismissed as “ non non “ as dismissed Walker “ Anyone who has bothered to to bothered has who Anyone “ Walker went on: “ I reckon this this reckon I “ on: went Walker o. .” too.. ” A very quiet roarers anon II day in court ALB IE THOMS DAVID BLUE Filming the carnage HE VICTORIAN Liberal warm day in late december. The rHEN THE French celebrate T party, has applied political police gave evidence that not only i W Ithe proclamation of Lib- THIS HERE CHEESE WAS YEltOW muscle to suppress the story o f a had the youths stolen the cars but erty, Equality & Fraternity in the car stealing gang involving the son they had also found stolen prop­ glorious days of their bloody rev­ N O W IT’S m i l OF H O LES! o f a state Liberal MLC. erty with them. olution they choose Bastille day, The MP’s son, a student o f Kevin O’Connor SM, listened in memory of that day when the swank Wesley college, with three intently to eloquent pleas from prisons were liberated & those the of his. schoolchums were caught barristers representing the sons o f state classed as criminals joined i stealing a car near the school in the establishment. He found the farmers & shopkeepers in their Prahran. The story o f their crimes charges proven and adjourned efforts to liberate Europe. It is and subsequent arrest were hush­ them for 12 months on the con­ significant that the release o f pris­ ed up during the state govern­ dition that they not offend again. oners is celebrated as the key ment’s clampdown on crime news. This was indeed a good result event in the temporary triumph of The four were sprung when a for young Long and his mates for the three revolutionary virtues. man went to Prahran police sta­ many other youths have been The English found a better way tion to report his car stolen. While jailed for similar offences under to handle the agitation brewing in there his wife noticed some boys the Liberal government’s law ’n their prisons overcrowded with V & S l tampering with another car near order campaign. victims o f class oppression — they her residence. She rang the wal­ After all, Long faced two transported them to Australia. We lopers who swarmed to the scene charges o f larceny o f a car, two o f celebrate the arrival o f these pris­ of the crime and nabbed ’em. unlicensed driving and one o f oners in Sydney cove as Australia The thieves were identified as larceny of goods worth $89. Gam- day. This society in the South GEOFFREY RICHARD LONG, ham owned up to two charges o f |Pacific was established by felons 18, son of Richard John Long, larceny of a car, one of larceny of regarded as danger as to the estab­ Liberal MLC for Gippsland and a goods worth $10, and one of lished order in England. prominent Warragul barrister. His unlicensed driving. Mayfield wore Somehow we seem to have colleagues were David Falla, 19, two charges o f unlicensed driving, forgotten those events of 200 Robert Garnham, 19, and Paul one o f tampering with a car, one [years ago. The plight of today's Steven Mayfield, 18. The Prahran of larceny of a car and one of prisoners is not regarded as im­ police went about their onerous larceny of goods worth $10. portant by those who seek free­ KEEP IN THE COOLER FOR task o f extracting confessions Falla was landed with one dom in their own lives. The shoot­ TEN YEARS TO LIFE from the students. charge o f larceny o f a car and one ing o f unarmed prisoners is regard­ But the bells o f political in­ o f larceny o f goods. ed as part of the con’s lot. After trigue soon had them gasping. When we rang Richard Long [all, they were stupid enough to oners bargained for amnesty & the Attica, forced by an alarmed pub By the end o f the night the about the case it went like this: get caught in the first place. hostage screws bargained for their lie which had seen the events on quartet were released by police TLD: Could you confirm that it Two and a half years ago in lives. An Observers Committee o f their TV sets. Then NY state and charged by summons. (Most was your son who recently faced Attica prison, New York, an event nationally prominent newsmen indicted 65 of the prisoners but car thieves are arrested and have charges concerning larceny? took place which drew attention elected by the prisoners also bar­ not one o f the marshals who to o k to be bailed before they are allow­ LONG: Well break it up, now to how the American state gained for their lives. And while part in the murderous assault, nor ed to leave.) break it up. I dont confirm, deny | handles its prisoners. Thirty eight the nation watched, the governor any o f the screws accused by the By the time the case reached or otherwise. There’s a lot of unarmed prisoners were gunned ordered the bloody siege by state prisoners o f beatings, torture & Prahran court the good and true Longs around this area . . . I down in a siege o f the prison marshals who recorded their own killings. boys in blue had been leant on to TLD: The report we have states which also resulted in 200 men footage o f the carnage they in­ An aware public can put pres­ release no details o f the crime to that your son was part o f a group wounded. .Mpsjt.of the prisoners flicted. sure on the NSW royal commis­ the press. Any leaks would mean I were Blacks & Puerto Ricans, not of Wesley schoolboys involved in These are all seen in Attica, a sion to let the prisoners speak, to either instant dismissal, demotion surprising if one sees prisoners as larceny. . . feature-length color documentary enable the events that led to the or very slow sinking through the LONG: Well, all I’m telling you is [victims o f the class war, & racist o f the events, that has been sent Bathurst jail riot to be brought rank. The policemen knew their that there are a lot o f Longs in American justice. It was the cap­ to Australia by the Attica defence out in the open, the brutality that careers stood on the line so they italist Baron Rockefeller who or- this area. fund to aid Australian prisoners in persists in Australian prisons to be kept mum. TLD: But is your son the person [ dered the mass murder. their efforts to alleviate their op­ halted. No details of the 20 men The student quartet sub­ who was involved in the charges? Over a hundred million Ameri­ pression. It will be shown at the shot at Bathurst have been made sequently fronted the austere and cans saw those events live on their Pause . . . |— | Sydney Teachers Federation audi­ known to the public. The brutal archaic bench at Prahran one Click. I I TV sets. During the three days torium this Wednesday & then will that the prisoners had control of ity that led them to destroy their be seen around the country in a jail has gone unquestioned. It is their prison they allowed black fund-raising drive organised by the cameramen to record the events time to speak up, to come out in Prisoners Action Committee. support o f the prisoners, to de­ inside the jail where they had A royal commission into the mand that the royal commission is established their own democratic Bathurst outrage is coming up in not just another Attica whitewash, community. Millions watched the NSW. It will, no doubt, be like the Seeing the film Attica will daily press conferences as the pris- McKay Commission Hearing on clarify some o f the issues. The money raised by the film will be Campus hideout of direct benefit to prisoners in terms o f legal & other aid. As PIOTR OLSZEWSKI cil, said the SRC’ s proposal was Haywood Bums, national director meaningless because they do not of the US National Conference o f EMBERS of Melbourne’s have the power to declare the Black Lawyers has observed: “ The Prison Action Committee M campus a haven — only Hough­ Attica brothers charged & their had quite a hectic week last week ton’s council has this power o f­ cases are of critical importance. on tuesday two members who ficially, but officialdom is mostly They raise some o f the most partook in recent Pentridge dem­ ignored at LaTrobe. crucial questions concerning the onstrations appeared in Coburg Police chief commissioner true nature o f the manner in court charged with loitering near a Jackson said the situation, if true, which our justice system, or penal prison and attempting to com­ is appalling and any students in­ system, &, by extension, our so­ municate with a prisoner. The volved should be expelled. cial system functions.” This is no demonstrators, Barry York, PAC The repercussions of the SRC’s less true in the case o f the secretary and Thomas Griffiths action seems to have caused the Bathurst prisoners. were found guilty and fined $250 state government to act. On Satur­ each. day night premier Hamer made a Cinda Firestone, the former Later in the week the LaTrobe surprise announcement stating member of the Liberation News university SRC, who are closely that the government was moving Service Collective, who made the BABA MUKTANANDA affiliated with the PAC (they towards the ultimate aim of mak­ film .Attica has stated about her [share offices and phones), an­ ing Pentridge obsolete. Hamer film: “I would like this film to A perfected Siddha Yogi with the power to make people wonder about the awaken One’s Soul to enjoy the fullness of life. nounced that they would declare gave a brief outline o f changes to whole institution of prisons & the campus a haven for escaped be initiated “immediately” this taking that a step further, wonder in Melbourne prisoners and asked students to year; these include weekend jail, about a society that can create shelter escapees on the university periodic imprisonment, and work Free Lectures 8.00 pm. things like Attica.” Or a society grounds. release for prisoners. that can create Bathursts, Pen March 12, 19 — Assembly Hall, 156 Collins St. The SRC, who “believe all Hamer also announced that in­ March 16, 26 — Augustine Theatre Church, prisoners are political prisoners” vestigations had commenced to tridges & Long Bays. 500 Burwood Road, Hawthorn. land “ are all victims o f their socio­ set up a new remand section, Groups wishing to support March 18 — Pram Factory, 325 Drummond econom ic positions” have harbor­ abolish Pentridge’s C block, and Australian prisoners & raise Street, Carlton. ed prisoners at LaTrobe in the build a new high security jail. money for them by showing A t Visit Baba at 30 Wellington Street, Kew. |past - once in 1971 and again in March 8-28. Phone 86 9213. Hamer said that alcoholics and tica should contact the Sydney 1973 - these prisoners are still drug offenders would be offered Film Co-op, which is distributing Baba will be in Tasmania from March 28; | free. “ treatment and rehabilitation” in­ the film. Write to box 217 PO contact 5 Cecilia St, St Helens 7216; ph 76 1397. Victoria’s social welfare minis­ stead o f “ punishment and degra­ Kings Cross 2011, or phone And in Sydney from April 1; contact ter, Houghton, himself a member 16 Fairlawn Ave, Turramurra, 2074; ph 44 4966. dation” . 31.3237. r of the LaTrobe University Coun­

Page6 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 VICTORIA STREET WENDY BACON & TERESA BRENNAN IX WEEKS ago Theeman ELBOURNE’S Liberate onstrators gathered in the Treas­ made an agreement with the grass march and vigil last ury gardens. Some o f these people S M BLF to fence o ff and board up his friday did not go as planned. The came prepared for what they call properties in Victoria street, organisers, members o f the La ed “ peaceful violence” and came Sydney, and to get his “ control­ Trobe university based Marijuana armed with rotten eggs to be lers” o ff the street. For their part Action Group, apparently didnt hurled at any “ non-peaceful per­ the BLF said they would lift the “ get it together” and failed to sons” . green ban if residents of the turn up. A huge specially prepared joint whole area endorsed a council was openly circulated and smoked However, despite the inade­ action plan due to appear at the by those present — at one stage a quate publicity and lack of organ­ end o f march. lone policeman was spotted trudg­ isation, and the circulation o f The houses stand doorless and ing across the turf towards the those persistent rumors o f im­ windowless. The only signs o f life demonstrators. However the pol­ pending busts (including tales o f in the houses are the occasional iceman skirted the group, and an ingeniously “ planted” narc strains o f jazz from the room o f after a short glance at the puffing who had supposedly infiltrated Mick Fowler, the sole remaining dope smokers, decided to focus the core of the operation), ap­ his attention elsewhere. tenant, and a little group o f “ con­ proximately 30 determined dem­ trollers” who remain “ on guard” outside Theeman’s office. Michael to X ’s child. Inside, the first controller and Theeman (Frank’s son) spends Following this suggestion, another repeated the question and most o f his days with the control­ which X understood as a threat, told him he had broken a window lers. It was not surprising then Mark asked her if she would like in the “Stables” and that they that last week the BLF executive to work for them in providing intended to charge him with mali­ passed a motion stating that Thee­ information. After a preliminary cious damage and trespass. They man had broken*-their agreement meeting with Mark in a coffee produced some bottles with petrol and that consequently whatever lounge in which the proposal and and wicks in them, a bag with action took place in the street the “ threat” were repeated, X syringes and sticks wrapped in would be o f his own making. went to meet Meissner the follow­ paper. These Chris thought to be a The guard consists o f a mini­ ing evening in Theeman’s office in molotov cocktail, drugs and gelig­ mum of two men on duty at all Victoria street. Meissner explained nite. They told him they had found times of the day and night. Allow­ the sort of information they want­ these in the houses o f the squat­ ing $ 1 0 0 for their manager, Meiss- ed — when meetings were on, ters. The first man then gave him ner, probably an equal sum for what was decided etc. He did not a kicking, badly hurting his knee Fred Krahe, apparently the senior directly threaten her - but men­ and ankle. They then rang the man in the operation, and two tioned that he did not hurt Darlinghurst police who came and dollars an hour for the others, women and children . . . Before Theeman’s bill for the services o f arrested Chris. He was charged she left, Fred Krahe, the ex-cop, this team cannot be less than with malicious damage and tres­ called in. He recognised X and $850 a week. A costly overhead pass at Central Court and placed suggested to Meissner that she on $50 cash bail. By the time for a man who is said to be feeling could be checked out through his the strain o f $10,000 a week Chris had managed to contact us a sources. week later, he had spent a most interest payments! Following this meeting, she de­ We first became aware that uncomfortable week in the re­ cided not to take the job and Krahe was connected with Thee­ mand section of Long Bay. made a full statement regarding man when he was seen in the com­ On the afternoon we bailed the incident to a solicitor. A pany of Kevin Murray, Theeman’s Chris out, Peter Murphy and Dal, couple o f weeks later, she heard barrister, during the case against both members o f the Victoria that a man, claiming to be a John Cox, a squatter. An ex­ street RAG, were in the street welfare officer, had rung her doc­ police detective, he started his taking photos o f a truck laden tor. Referring to a conviction own security agency a couple of with furniture. A large grey suited some 12 years ago, he suggested years ago. His partner is another man rushed over from the office, that she might not be a fit and ex-cop, Keith Kelly, who recently grabbed hold o f Peter and started proper mother for her child. Furi­ accompanied Theeman to a meet­ banging him against an iron railing ous, X went to the child welfare ing with Mick Fowler. fence. In return to Peter and Dal’s department. They denied all Why in the face o f the bad threats to have him charged with knowledge o f the call. assault, he replied that he would publicity it has brought him, and Other incidents also involved the demands o f the BLF and the have Peter charged with assault. threats. For instance John Taylor, One of the controllers then grab­ residents that he should sack these one of the men most frequently men, does Frank Theeman keep bed Peter who was eventually let seen in the street, was called a go but only after the film had PICS: DON SHARPE employing them? Surely a regular “ thug” by John Cox, an ex­ been removed from his camera. security firm would do the job squatter. Taylor, who drives a cab, more cheaply and respectably. chased the cab in which Ruth and The answer to this question is that John Cox were travelling and VICTORIA street has been a rude the “ thugs” have other duties in made a series o f threats. shock to us. Brought up in the the street besides the obvious one Last thursday, we bailed out a protective atmosphere of the mid­ o f guarding the property. man, known as “ Chris Jenkins” to dle class family we were certainly One of their jobs has been to the squatters, out o f Long Bay naive about the amount o f vio­ strip the terrace houses (the ones jail. Chris had lived with the lence in our society. Frank is meant to be preserving) ? o f many o f their valuable fittings. squatters for several months. Orig­ To Wendy, the most frighten­ inally a builders laborer from Mel­ An inspection with the BLF last ing experience is still the mysteri­ bourne, he is now an invalid pen­ ous disappearance of Arthur King, I- week revealed that 15 fireplaces are missing (five o f them stored, sioner. Just before our eviction, almost a year ago, and his failure he moved from a flat he was temporarily at least, under a to tell us where he had been when occupying on his own into one o f house), many Victorian tiles have he returned after three days. To been removed, all the cedar doors the larger houses with two other Teresa, it was the sight o f the gang and wooden shutters have been people. He was disappointed of men armed with huge sledge taken away. Information received when, on the morning o f the hammers advancing, with the ap­ eviction, his plans for a siege from locals is that, according to proval of the cops, on the houses failed when his two companions the controllers, every fitting is on the morning of the eviction. “ up for sale” . We know for sure deserted him. When we saw him The developer’s tactics are to that one fireplace was offered for several weeks later, he told us how threaten - beyond that they will over $100 and tiles have been badly he was missing Victoria probably pick on the most iso­ sold. street and the people who had lated and the most vulnerable. lived in it. Lacking the social * * * It is clear to us then that the resources o f some o f us (eg. access other job of the “controllers” is ON St Valentine’s day, Wendy to lawyers), Chris was one o f the to conduct an active campaign o f received an orchid spray with a more vulnerable o f the squatters. intimidation against the Victoria bullet in the middle o f it. The This is the story he told us: at street Resident Action Group. message read, “ Have a good time about 7 am on february 14 he was Viewed from this angle, the activ­ but avoid barber shops” - pre­ walking up Hordern place (a pub­ ities o f the "controllers” could sumably a reference to the Chica­ lic lane running between the well be relevant to the future o f go gangland murders. houses) to visit Mick Fowler. One small but militant political move­ A couple o f weeks after the of Theeman’s “controllers” ap­ ments in this country. What we eviction, X, an ex-resident, and an proached him. A brief conversa­ have in Victoria street is a small unmarried mother with a six year tion began during which Chris was private army who presumably will old child, was having a conversa­ asked if he had anything to do offer their services to whoever will tion with two of Theeman’s em­ with the fittings that have been pay. If Theeman gets away with ployees in the street. Following an disappearing from the houses. He it, some other businessmen pla­ argument, one, known as “ Mark” , denied it. The controller then told gued by political opposition may suggested that it would be unfor­ Chris to go with him to the office well be their next employer. |— j tunate if something was to happen which he did. TH E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , march 5-11, 1974 — Page 7 NORTING the last of my is this that calls lightweights like SNew York cocaine we nosed Jim Morrison poets?” through clogged traffic across the Jones just finished another 600 Seine. We nosed, I snorted. Odile page novel, with a new block­ does not approve of cocaine. buster already under way, screen- coke& bubbles rights sold, an eager publisher, Meeting me at Orly airport, she frowned when I told her I had paperback deal tied up. Square smuggled it. She considers cocaine translating “ Fritz the Cat” she son o f a bitch. house garden. MICHAEL ZWERIN a symbol o f our bisocial nature. was pursed in doubt even then, Jealous. Let’s hear one for The more revolutionary I be­ “ Bisocial” is a term used to eyes brightly clicking like a fresh jealousy, a prime mover in bi­ come the more time I seem to describe revolutionary elitists reap­ born chick just popped out of the socials. Jones jealous because Jim spend in penthouses. Bisocial! Morrison was "hipper” than he is, ing the benefits o f capitalist so­ “ Hell, man, that’s not selling shell. My big taste came after I interview­ me because Jones is widely pub­ ciety. She has a point. I was in out. That’s ripping off the Estab­ “People in New York seem to ed Eldridge Cleaver and Timothy lished and rich from it. fact not sorry to have snorted the lishment.” think a lot about money,” she Leary in Algeria. Cleaver’s “ bust” last o f it. Cocaine is one more evil Do all the revolutionaries live said. Mouth pursed under stress, All those novels laughing at me o f Leary there was my "sco o p ” . I foisted on my weak side by a city in penthouses, ripping off the something new to consider once from the wall on the other side o f immediately found myself an “ ex­ Jones’s long polished table as I it was good to be away from. Establishment? In New York I more. pert” on the Black Panthers. My carved my personal pheasant last Odile dashed across Boulevard had hung out with Stamp in his, “ That’s where all o f it is.” name meant something at parties. night with silver purchased in de l’Hopital on the way to buy a or I should say hers, a blackeyed “ Oui ...” Pursed. "... Y ou’d I was invited on TV talk shows. I Leningrad for blocked Russian bouquet of chrysanthemums. At Italian lady o f considerable like to have money, wouldnt traipsed around town with my bag royalties. One complete shelf o f the gate o f Pere Lachaise ceme­ beauty. “ Y ou’d be surprised how you?” o f tricks . . . a cassette o f the his own novels M orocco-bound; tery a guardian pointed out the easy it is to fall in love with a rich The spotlight went out. The interview, extra speaker for great­ and even this threatening after­ general direction. Further direc­ lady.” Stamp got a $20,000 ad­ gentleman went back into his pent­ er clarity, xeroxes for reading noon he was as he is every after­ tions proved unnecessary. “ JIM vance — spent fast — to write a house. From penthouse to grave­ along. There had even been noon banging out still more socko MORRISON” was chalked in large book on the Weatherpeople un­ yard, underground to penthouse negotiations with a producer for a dialogue spoken by characters white print on the tomb of one M. derground; he knows where . . . all the penthouses with exotic dramatic reading with me playing who relate, develop and certainly Duclos, followed by "... is a Bernadine Dorn and Mark Rudd brand names . . . Colombian tops myself. The producer, a trotsky­ sell, held together through 600 cunt” scrawled in childlike script are right now. He interviewed at $60 an ounce, $100 a gram and partially scratched out by ist, lives in a penthouse. I found them last month. He’s sorry now pages with a beginning, middle and other trotskyists living in pent­ pure, coke, pills I cannot even another hand in blue. An arrow he sold the book for so little. end by a plot you just cannot put houses. I wanted one myself. spell, for a buck each. New York is next to it pointed straight up. Interviews with two of the ten worth whatever you have to pay down. I got the shivers writing an Though not exactly a pent­ ' “ Oh. Is that where he is?” I most wanted “ criminals” in for it, or better be. Y ou cannot article for Cosmopolitan. “ What house, close enough with high looked at the fast moving clouds. America are marketable, in addi­ overpay in New York, the more am I doing?” I asked John ceilings, a terrace and a view o f "N o. That's where you are.” tion to good penthouse conversa­ you pay the more it is worth and Gerassi, “ writing for fucking Cos­ the Seine, and I . . . Fragment- Odile should not seem bitchy. On tion. Remember selling out? thus the more you are worth or mopolitan? Have I sold out?” man having sat on to o many the contrary. Although I suppose We were between richer tombs better be. Five o f us on only one “ How much they payin’ ya?” stools and between them . . . she could be excused; the English now, decorated with gaudy rings joint . . . three immediately cack A veteran o f many barricades, terminally bisocial . . . Boss’s son had landed. of flowers below carved reminders out, while the other two fall into Gerassi’s revolutionary credentials in a family business, first trom­ “ The English have landed” is of Legions of Honor. Odile deep trances before a color screen; go back to his father, who was the how the French sometimes refer thought hard, full mouth pursed, “ Dynamite to grass!!” The aim is bone player with several second- model for general Gomez in Jean- to menstrual cramps. While, on tongue running her lips like the not to get high but unconscious. rate jazz bands, author o f miscel­ Paul Sartre’s Age o f reason. the other side, gonorrhoea has first time I flashed on her gamin Unconsciousness is worth $60 an laneous pithy pieces currently Gerassi knows Sartre, Huey New­ wrapping fish, one record and one long been known as “ The French face haloed in blonde shining out ounce in New York. ton and he was a good friend of book to my credit (both out of Disease” in England. Joan o f Arc, o f a hippy jungle. The furry office We stopped to eavesdrop on a George Jackson. Huey Newton, print), collector o f insights not whom Odile resembles - at least of some trippy Paris weekly, guide pointing out interesting founder o f the Black Panthers, thought fully through, scored with the Jean Seberg version - still tombs to her tour. “ People live in lives in a penthouse. anguish (“ middle aged failure” ), hovers over the Channel. the past,” Odile said. “ It’s all they She grew thoughtful then. We “ Fifteen hundred.” jotter of conversational bits ... I “ How long will it take ya to have.” am jealous, hell yes. I press my were walking straight ahead Dont you want to remember write it?” Always practical, face to Jones’s window, nose flat­ through the graves. “ This is fun,” after you ’re dead?” Gerassi sees nothing counter­ tened in the mist o f my pants. I said. “ Tomorrow let’s go to “ I w on’t care then. I want to revolutionary about penthouses This has got to stop. Colombey les deux Eglises and dig know how to live now .” She and cocaine. His way out also This is no jealousy in a grave­ your man de Gaulle. . . the bloody switched the chrysanthemums helps him come to terms with his yard. We who stand here are the fascist.” Maybe I shouldnt have into her other arm heavy gambling. These things, you winners. You can have your old said that. “ Then isnt so far away.” I took see, are not bourgeois per se, only Legions o f Honor. Here we find Being jewish, Odile inherited out my notebook and jotted their exclusivity. After the revolu­ God. God is the present tense. this blind love o f de Gaulle from down the line, wondering if James tion, everybody will be able to “ This is it.” Odile pointed to a her parents. His broadcasts from Jones has a better memory than I afford penthouses, cocaine and a small grave crammed between London had represented hope as do. It was Jones (“ From Here To gambling tab at the Playboy club. larger ones, a modest plot o f earth their relatives were being deported Eternity” ) who prompted this “ Three weeks.” framed by a concrete rectangle to German camps. To reject de graveyard walk in the first place “ How long can ya live on with a hand-lettered headstone of Gaulle would have been to reject last night by saying (I jotted it that?” . „ sheet metal: “ La plus grand poet her family, her heritage, her child­ "... maybe two months. down): “ What sort do tous les temps . . . James Doug­ hood. o f generation I remembered how I had felt at las Morrison, 1943-1971.” She the age o f ten when my mother placed the chrysanthemums on told me Charles Lindberg liked the earth. nazis. I refused to accept that too. I jotted down the graffiti on If being an adult involved reject­ the grave and on those surround­ ing my heroes I wanted no part of ing the grave o f James Douglas it. I needed my heroes. I held on Morrison. “ . . . No existence to Charles Lindberg just like Odile necessary, Jim . . . Will meet you clung to Charles de Gaulle. in the next world and we w on’t be Jim Morrison was not exactly a late ...” Some shrivelled flowers hero, more a symbol o f a certain attached to a faded note streaked kind o f hope which vanished, per­ by rain: “ For my beloved Jim; haps coincidentally, about the Patricia,” and finally: “ May you time o f his death. Star o f The find peace at the next gig.” Doors, pop poet, romantic, a I could have used another glorious crazy, he died in Paris at snort. The sky had become a the close of the 60s under mys­ churning surge o f black waves. terious circumstances. Some say a Enormous drops began to fall. heart attack, others an overdose Down the hill a couple draped in o f heroin. He is buried here in black, both bent almost double Pere Lachaise, along with Edith with age, concluded their after­ Piaf, Maurice Chevalier and Leon noon mourning and moved off to Blume, etc etc. escape the downpour as fast as Odile was in pain. The English they could which was painfully land particularly hard on Odile. slow. I turned towards Odile to Okay. We were close enough by suggest we move too. now to walk silently together in She had produced a bottle of peace. The sky grew greyer. Stone what we kids used to call “ bubble monuments big as small rooms stuff” . Smiling, she dipped the lined both sides o f the paved path little wand that comes with it in hundreds deep. “ Jim Morrison” the bottle and blew bubbles at was scrawled once more on a me. Just then the sky dumped a tomb, followed by another arrow, solid black column o f water over pointing left this time. The sky the penthouse. The bubbles were grew black. The wind picked up. all the colors of the rainbow. From behind us a perverse sun Suddenly there was no penthouse, suddenly broke through over a only sky. There were no more white apartment house by the graves, only grass and trees. A fire edge o f the cemetery, gleaming seemed to flame over the grave. o ff the tapered slate roof and its The elderly couple straightened bundles of red chimneys like a up. Odile grew pregnant through spotlight on a Paris set. A gentle­ one bubble. It was very beautiful man came out to tend his pent- bubble stuff. □ Page 8 — THE LIVIN G DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 DEATH Alison Gillmore

E ARE standing beside an empty affairs minister, Rafferty then ordered a They are able to d o this because they as one’s duty to the deceased. Wgrave, contemplating the catchment large but secret inquiry into all aspects of d o not keep updating their hearses, and Undertakers know that the first cut out o f last fortnight’s rain. On either side of the industry that is causing ripples of they use churches and chapels in the o f any estate goes to them - as soon as it are new graves, covered with canopies. panic through the industry. Rafferty had cemetery instead of the funeral parlor for the will has been assessed - and often They have only this afternoon had the heard that pensioners were being sold the service and the coffin used is expect to work from a blank cheque. The rainwater pumped out; one is to be used “ funeral policies” which would ensure substantial but not expensive. These two flamboyant taste and affluence o f a quite shortly. As we well discover, when a that they would be able to pay for their companies know that big business funeral parlor speaks for itself. funeral procession wends its way down own funerals. The cost o f these policies controls the rest o f the industry and the Eastern avenue through the highly was approximately $600 over a few years. funeral directors of each, Crawley and 6. Range o f choices available to the polished desert o f flat diverse monu­ This was actually a way o f selling a $600 Jensen, are the only people in the consumer is limited. Some companies ments, and comes to a halt beside one of funeral disguised as a piece of benificence industry who d o not belong to the dont stock the cheaper flatlid coffins and these graves in front o f us. ... if their mates had had to bury them Victorian Funeral Directors Association. offer only the middle to upper range We glimpse a close-up o f the light only about $200 would have been spent. Crawley and Jensen fear the rolling rich casket. Thus the customer doesnt know bright w ood casket, ornamented; the But Ian Elliot, the young and dedicated members of the association will undercut cheaper coffins are on the market when floral tributes, the poster displaying the secretary of the Citizens Action Federa­ their tenders and put them out o f he is shown around the display room. The name o f the undertaker in the back tion, wants a fullscale public inquiry. He business. salesman makes a commission on each window. This is a 20 car funeral in the wrote to premier Hamer giving nine valid casket sold. mediterranean quarter of Carlton ceme­ points why the funeral directing business 2. Ownership of the industry and recent tery. Around us gleam the ebony, obsidian - as he put it — stinks. Hamer has not changes. Smaller family firms have been 7. Financial kickbacks. Elliot claims and jet tones o f highly polished marble replied. infiltrated and taken over by big business some companies tickle the palms o f set in altarlike fashion with plastic Here I paraphrase Elliot’s points: interests. matrons of private hospitals and old flowers and tiny, round photographs. 1. The extent of collusive tendering in peoples homes thus cornering that section Within minutes a large crowd has formed; the industry for public contracts. The 3. Entry into the industry. Entry into o f the market. there are members o f every age group. We government lodges tenders in the the VFDA for an outsider is impossible move to the periphery. The knotty old government gazette annually for burials except by way of a company takeover. 8. Price control Elliot says the VFDA men wear black hats and wide-shoulder­ such as state burials and paupers burials. In the past 47 years only one non controls its own prices. He suggests some ed, doublebreasted suits. Their sons are Destitute people who die without known VFDA director has entered the industry. government price control. dressed executive-style, and stand atten­ relatives are buried in a potters field free tive to the latin service rolling o ff the o f charge. A simple coffin is used, there is 4. No competition in the industry. Each 9. The code of ethics of the VFDA. As tongue o f the franciscan. Women sob no ceremony, and the field has no funeral director appears to have "allot­ this association has control over the under veils. Others hold babies in their memorials. There is a potters field in ted” , by agreement, religious or suburban entire industry and as its objects say arms. An old man falls over and comrades Carlton cemetery, but you can’t go there. territory. Rates are not publicly displayed nothing about the general public interest rush to his aid. Dumbfounded children Naturally the government tenders go to to discourage “ shopping around” . at all, who could say what goes on? stand with their parents, absorbing all the cheapest bidder. In the past few years dimensions o f the event, maybe wonder­ it has gone to two Victorian funeral 5. Restriction of information available to ing secretly how to react. parlors whose policy it is to bury people the customer enables hard selling and One detects the ghost o f an order, in simply, cheaply and without pretension. encouragement to buy expensive caskets Ecology that the closest relations express their REMATION has been adopted by feelings dramatically, without restraint, Clarge societies as an answer to the while others obviously hold it all in. The problem o f space (except in the old inner circle is dressed in funereal black, Indian barbarity o f sutee). It’s less while the outer have come along in work expensive than burial, although you still clothes and slack suits. The casket is have to buy a coffin which is incinerated lowered by men of the clan - down, after the metal handles have been down on the narrow strips o f canvas. One removed and returned to the funeral man takes movies. The funeral director director. However cremation may be moves to the car and takes down the dangerous to the astral body or what flowers, arranging them around the grave. catholics call the soul, especially if the Now the casket is out o f sight, the inner burning takes place a few days or less circle moans as a single body. The from the time of death. I’m serious about franciscan scatters earth into the hold, this; it is an important factor to consider, and bids relatives to d o likewise, then the just as real as any o f the others. director covers the grave discreetly with Cremation seems to be closer to the plastic grass. ideals o f ecologists; actually it is a waste The driver o f the hearse is impatient, o f good organic matter. One o f the points puffing a cigarette behind the wagon. The o f having a gross body is that it should crowd splits; the nearest relations leave eventually replenish the earth in a way the graveside, covering faces with hands. that is useful to nature. Bodies in part A young girl weeps on her friend’s metal caskets - lying in cement-lined shoulder. There’s mass migration back to graves, covered by a desert of marble the cars now, leaving the undertaker superstructure — rot just as quickly as (pin-striped pants and morning jacket) bodies lying above ground. But the access shaking hands with the franciscan. Cars o f the earth to their potential is nil, rev and back down the path as the especially if pollutants such as formalin undertaker’s assistant collects black and :osmetics are also present. ribbons and plastic grass from the site. Soon there is no one left at the site but The nearest thing to ecological burial us. It had all happened in less than ten in Australia must surely be the potters minutes. field. There, the poor have the luxury o f becoming one with nature more directly than their brothers and sisters in their plush caskets. There is enough bacteria in Politics the earth to take care o f the normal HE Australian Consumers Associ­ decomposition of a human body; it is Tation invited its subscribers to send only where a civilisation is threatened by them information concerning experience epidemics o f bubonic plague, typhoid, with funeral directors because, as no anthrax etc that precautions such as undertaker displays rates or services cremation should occur. If the quantity publicly the question was obviously o f these organisms is great enough, they raised as to whether people were being may withstand the decomposition o f the ripped-off in their time o f sorrow. Their host. The potters field sets no stubborn mouthpiece, Choice, published the objections to nature’s recycling o f her findings in january. Victorian consumer own. It is^a burial which does not deify the ego.

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The Parsees have an ecological system cultures where materialism has not bent for taking care o f the dead. After a the minds o f the living, we note an certain time has elapsed for the subtle interesting phenomenon; knowledge, not body to retire, the gross body is taken to faith or hope, of reincarnation. It has an area o f wilderness set aside for this been proved to have occurred. purpose. Wild animals come down in their You and I, Arjuna, have lived many order, each removing what it needs. lives. Jackal and vulture clean the bones which I remember tfiem all; you do not are collected after 40 days and ground remember. down to a fine dust which is scattered . . the case o f Shanti Devi can be from a tower by the “bodybreaker” . found in Frank Edwards’ Stranger than However, we no longer have the fauna science. She was born in Delhi in 1926. or mentality to support or appreciate When she was seven, she told her parents such a system. Having done away with that she had been born before in a town most of our wild brothers and sisters of called Muttra (Mathura). She described the fur, we have the last and greatest her life in some detail, how she had been scavenger to contend with in plague married and had three children, she died proportions - the blowfly. Burial at sea when giving birth to the third. Her name, Over the zones of frozen obsessed with the gross and final attitude she said, had been Ludgi. Her parents pollutes the waters that are already to death. Democracy or mass-dependency polluted with plastic bottle caps, suntan orgones assumed this was pure imagination. But in relieves a man o f his self-responsibility. 1935 a man called at the house on cream tubes, aluminium cans, oil slicks, F THE mind, as a computer, is With the various industrial revolutions business, and Shanti Devi stared with and the whole range o f human ordures. programmed by society to accept man has removed from him certain amazement, declaring that he. was her We are basically landlubbers and are oneI attitude or system of beliefs, it can cosmic realisations which he no longer husband’s cousin. The man confirmed meant to melt into the soil. also be erased o f that conditioning and refers to as “ realities” . Culture, a natural that he was from Muttra, and that he had reconditioned to accept another system The problem is not really where to put drive ensuring the continuation of a a cousin who had lost his wife, named just as easily. This is the basis for the ’em when they die but it’s the old one of species, in this case man, inverts and Ludgi, in childbirth ten years ago. antipsychology o f Laing, Leary and becomes destructive when the natural . . . for zero population avoid copulation "Ludgi’s husband was brought to the others. Do I hear you ask yes, but who limits o f population have been reached. (car sticker) or having not so many o f ’em house without telling the girl he was programs society in order for it to The present western attitude to death around in the first place. Life is pretty expected; she recognised him instantly program us? is o f a morbid and final finishing, to cheap in our society. If it continues in and threw herself into his arms. Taken to There are two main approaches to an which organised religions have furnished this fashion it is foreseeable that the dead Muttra, she was able to point out various answer: that it is programmed by a force the processes o f hope and faith. These will be eaten by man within 100 years or people and places correctly, and converse outside itself (the external God theory) two processes are actually the fag ends of so. (Ironically that is an ecological with the relatives o f the dead Ludgi in or - which philosophers and scientists are a knowledge - certain and clear in every proposition, if you could consider any local dialect, although Shanti Devi had beginning to embrace - it is programmed meat-eating to be an ecological detail — as to what actually happens to been taught in hindustani. by a force within itself (biological the soul metamorphosed by death. proposition.) The “alternative” folk pray “ A scientific commission which investi­ tradition). But these are not opposites; The Tibetan Book o f the Dead daily for a cataclysm that will reduce gated the case found that she was able to surely the cosmic viewpoint is to contains a majestic exposition of the world population to a quarter of its direct a carriage through the town even acknowledge that we are programmed by subject, taking the reader through all the strength, each hoping for some individual though she was blindfolded, and our own forces working in relation with stages beyond death into new rebirth. It saving grace from this phenomenon. recognise various landmarks. She recog­ greater forces over which we have no explains how the astral body remains The answer itself has to lie in the nised her two eldest children, but not the control and these in turn are working with the gross body for a number of days raising o f mass-consciousness to a higher one whose birth had cost her her life . . .” from their own and much greater external after clinical death. Western psyche has level; breaking down of the repressions (from Colin Wilson, The occult). forces o f a psychic, etheric nature. retained a picture o f this in its collective and actually experiencing the essence of This is not an isolated case. Ian Steven­ Materialistic societies are naturally subconscious: the hellfire trip. In life so that consumerism and its allied son, MD collected 20 examples for a trades become redundant. After all, what volume, put out of the Proceedings of the is life for? American Society for Psychical Research. Many of his subjects had died a violent death in previous lives and this may explain the continuation of memory. How to bury your dead. There must be some very good reason why the majority o f us do not have any 1. Make your own softwood coffin motion o f previous lives except in flashes, and stipulate in your will that deja vu or LSD trips (mescalin, psylo- you are to be buried in it. You cybin, etc.). It’s possible there is no real can use it as a piece of furniture point o f dwelling on events in past lives. or to keep the kids toys in for But the knowledge of, or the experience the rest of the time before you of, these flashes can at least give someone need it. The commissioner for a glimpse into the whole karmic game of health will give you the details which reincarnation is a process. That we of the cemeteries act. will come back again and again to experi­ ence every possible facet of human - or 2. If a friend dies go and pick him animal or plant - life until it is truly up yourself and keep him at experienced in view of the perfection of your place until burial arrange­ the universe. Experiencing this idea can ments are made. (Buying a plot, certainly alter one’s concept o f gross, or arranging cremation, and final and morbid death for - shall I say - making or purchasing a coffin.) ever? But experience o f any sort, especial­ ly psychic experience, is something that 3. Read the Tibetan Book of the has always been toned down in modern Dead to him quietly into one western societies. ear. Even Jesus believed in reincarnation and showed by his life example to the 4. Take him to the crematorium or people around him that it was the spirit cemetery yourself in your car that controlled his body and not vice- (on the packrackor on a trailer.) versa. But the inmates o f modern society Bring all the friends. do such cruel things to each other that it is not surprising that we have struck the 5. Have a service at the grave or if bottom o f the pit, spiritually speaking. you feel like it, a rip-roaring Even the churches do not understand party. Why not some of his that the current trend o f drug-consuming favorite music too? is mainly due to the lack o f spiritual experience which no organised political 6. Insist that the grave you put him body called a church has been able to into is not lined. allow people freely. In our society the cosmic issues o f life are not faced openly

Page 1 0 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 so o f course death remains a mystery to into. Breastings is a euphemism thousands o f years, today’s are most people until they have to do it. It for shroud, just one of the many likely to decompose within one takes place behind screens in old peoples euphemisms used in the industry. year. homes or in hospitals. (“ Cost of casket” is never used by It is surprising that embalming Modern medicine with its acute bar­ the discreet undertaker. It’s is persevered with in these modern barities is a monument to our civilisa­ “ amount o f investment in the times. Embalming schools are run tion’s fear o f death. Having lost contact service” .) by funeral parlors where anatomy, with the essence o f nature, how is anyone However, people can be buried chemistry, etc is taught after the to become their own physician? This fact in their own clothes, or in the manner of modern medicine, and remains; that the morbid attitude to nude if they say so in their will. If inspectors are sent out from death is an underlying drain upon life and they dont, then the relatives England to test the students. But tends to make life morbid also. (Freud’s decide. In Jessica Mitford’s there is no real purpose in death wish idea seems to be derived from American way of death a street embalming today; the Egyptians the addict’s obsession with his drug; part survey was taken in an American at least felt it was a life-or-death desire to know the truth, to fully experi­ city where people were asked how matter in the hereafter. Today it ence it, and the remainder a fear o f loss Cxrf Kamioe-Karnidci invented the b ft-d eT ecio rm they wanted to he buried. The is part o f man’s stubborn refusal of the present state.) The funeral director vast majority wanted the simplest to let himself be recycled in a removes the reality o f death; we do not W e 3i" in diameter f red in th e lid above the. deceased burials, pine box, no embalming manner dictated by nature, which witness it. We witness the theatricals. person idlest. A clasr bail was attached to a spring, or fuss at all. The author then he rarely acknowledges, in life as Modem medicine staves o ff death with­ and thir was C a c h ed to a long Wire threaded thnwoh a pipe on th e end op th e pipe, above asked a funeral director whether in death. out improving the spiritual quality o f life the ozuod, was a bo/. In the. box tuas a this attitude worried him It Embalming on the whole is not - except in a few cases. spdattingtube^ bell, and a lamp. didnt. Ultimately the relatives popular, in Australia, but there It has become difficult, with the diver­ Attached IP the box was a flag. A slight movement cfVned&sT would decide, and they are easy prey to are still a large number o f people sion o f culture, to live the meditative and release3 the spring, snap off the glass and the hard sell. who want it for their relatives and reflective life in which to be "alone” cause the wire to be pv lied This would open one side of-the box to reveal are prepared to pay the $100 or doesnt mean to be lonely. People who the lamp If would also cause the so it costs. Where an expensive like being alone are branded anti-social. flop of the box, from which hvna theflad, casket is used, embalming usually But death is an event which we all must to 00 up m the air tv s lettinahcht sna air down the sh ^ ft. The belCuxXM also takes place, ie. where a thousand enter alone; and the deathbed is not the Start ringing. buhenthiS happenedthe EMBALMING is not popular dollars has been spent on a man With trie spade would rush to the cpd best place to start to get to know among Australians as they tend to funeral, embalming has probably yourself. | j I think the custom of viewing been done, and the remains remains is a trifle obscene. All viewed. undertaking establishments have First the blood is removed by the facilities to embalm and cutting a blood vessel in the neck restore; it’s used in state funerals into which a tube is inserted. The and for the wealthy. When a body tube is then connected to a pump. is sent overseas it is embalmed and While the blood is being pumped EPILOGUE:Talking to the undertaker the cost is $100 upward. There is out a solution is being pumped in. no such thing as eternal preser­ This may be a mild saline CAN give you something “ The $307 will be spent in this certainly cut costs. The high cost vation in the modem funeral solution, or formalin, depending I nice for $307” , he said, way,” he continued. “ Firstly, o f maintaining a hearse must also directing industry. The only on how long the body must “but of course that doesnt include collection o f your friend. We use a be considered. Many undertakers effective method of embalming remain composed. Results of the cemetery plot. One of those special car and a collection box. change hearses every three or four known to the world is the ancient embalming are always unpredic­ will cost you $113 in the Then delivery to the cemetery; we years for newer, flashier ones Egyptian royal method. This table. Hot weather tends to cause Melbourne cemetery. That’s the let you have one funeral coach especially imported from America involved the soaking of the body quick decomposition, but the cheapest. They’re $185 at Fawk- and a hearse. All this will cost for a cost o f about $15,000. in a solution o f natron (native saline solution will preserve a ner, in the lawn. Incidentally it's $169.” It’s a transportation cost, "Sim ple preparation o f the sesquicarbonate of soda) for 70 body for a week or so. There are the same price for three there — even though the distances travel­ body, and the cost of a coffin, days after each organ of the body patent dyes produced in America so you may as well buy three for led may be less than 15 miles. A will cost $109,” said the had been removed and embalmed which can be added to the the price o f one.” body that weighs more than 180 undertaker. He was referring of separately. On occasion the formalin for a rosy checked This “ bargain” merely means lbs in the box requires by law course to the flat lid, or Seddon, cavities were filled with bitumen effect. that the gravedigger digs to a three men to carry it, and they coffin. These are $95 at cost which ultimately produced a Next the intestines and some depth of twelve feet six inches work on an average o f $2 an hour. price. The Nelson coffin, with a black, hard mummy; but more organs are removed b y inserting a instead o f the six feet six for a But, if collection occurs between single raised lid, costs $120. From often they were filled with sweet trocar in a slit made into the solo burial. Three coffins can then 5.30 and midnight, they are on then on the torso-shaped coffin is spices, garlic, herbs and more peritoneum. Embalming fluid is be neatly stacked on top of each time and a half; between midnight replaced in the higher price ranges natron. Bandages up to 300 cubits once more pumped into the other, allowing the legal six inches and 6 am is double time. With a by those tiered and domed (about 500 feet) were then wound cavity. The eyes are closed, o f closely packed earth between metal casket which is quite lignophagiknown as caskets. They around the body, separating each sometimes needing to be stuck each. “ To buy three for the price weighty, more men would be range between $245 and $1500. toe and finger from its neighbor. with glue; the lips tend to shrink of one means that the other two required to ship the body to the The casket comes lined in velvet That was the age o f the zenith o f back from the mouth and, if our will be reserved for you whenever cemetery. The old tradition of and has a suit o f breastings to the embalmer’s art;today’s embal­ friend is to be viewed, they can be you or your relatives need them: friends and relatives carrying the match. Breastings are so called ming is shoddy and pretentious, invisibly sewn from the inside to it’s only $55 to reopen an old casket seems to have been because they are backless gar­ by comparison. Whereas the produce an aloof, mysterious grave,” said the undertaker. usurped, although it would ments easy to slip the deceased Egyptian mummy remained for smile.

the working classes on one side, collapse like a pack o f cards 1929 From and the people who own style, or worse, in a slow motion ANGELO QUATTROCCHI property, the bourgeoisie, defend­ free fall, in a steady, monthly 1HE NIGGERS OF EUROPE in Rome ing the system on the other. deterioration, in a kind of creepy Really, down to 19th century crawly way, like some good T’S GOOD to write for you thought was useless only five survive. It’s a very difficult job to basics. Each country according to science fiction stories have told IAustralian people, you ’re so years ago, is now jumping like the know, from week to week, from their own peculiar shape, f :ze, us? far away that I’ve got to put proverbial cat on a hot tin roof. year to year, which banquet has social and sociological composi­ Listen, there are many signs, things in perspective — for you We thoughf cups o f tea and the the best leftovers.) Well, w e’re in tion, internal balance of forces, some are a decade old. You and I and for myself. BBC would keep them quiet. trouble too. and power . . . and every literary information Come what comes, it’s nice to Stupid archaic marxist fools (or The government is shaking (all Jesus, the media is going to be pollution biped in our world live historic times. Nothing has non marxist fools) we were. governments in Europe are shak­ so important! Thank god we have knows about the ecological happened to Europe since 1968, The FRENCH bastards, know­ ing, apart from the French one, all the students, because they have fuck-up, but there’s much more. that merry month o f may when ing history the way they do, are and there it’s going to happen the army — for the past five years Much, much more. I know that we took over Paris and France and trying to carve a nice niche for another way). I’ll stick to Italy, they have been quietly organising poor, working people eat less thought . . . Well, I knew it wasnt their very comfortable bourgeoisie but the temptation of talking all our European armies, and meat, they eat more plastic shit, going to be the only revolution in and let the rest o f Europe fall. more generally about all o f training them for internal up­ processed rubbish, packaged dung, my lifetime (revolutions are the The six million niggers o f Europe is very strong, after all, heavals. The US calvary continues canned piss; they live in paper orgasms o f history OK?). And Europe, the PORTUGUESE, Europe is a sinking boat with to occupy us militarily, like the thin houses, and you can go on here we are, just as we said, just as ITALIAN, GREEK and TURK­ people fighting each other to play colony we are. I dont want to from there . . . we knew, something is coming. Mr ISH slaves who have built the the last violins. That’s not just the sound apocalyptic, but reality is The western economies are Jones doesnt know and I dont european .economy are being sent view of revolutionary crazy me, really overtaking me. Everything geared to planned obsolescence. know what it is myself. back where they came from and but according to at least three or is in the melting pot again. The They can’t make it the way they In Europe at the moment, the you’ll hear from them soon. four ministers who have used the best way to play it is like a game. are structured. And what d o you symptoms o f revolution are right. GERMANY, the sleepy cretin­ elegant metaphor. Will England sink, or come out think is going to happen when the Economies are shaking, paper ous ominously efficient institu­ Here in Italy they will black with a peoples government? Will working people in Italy, and in money waves are eroding the tion is breathing very heavily, and the price o f bread, wine, oil and we all (us Europeans) go to build the rest of Europe, can’t take it shores o f middle class certainties the rest o f Europe is listening to milk, so that poor families with television factories over the dunes anymore? The middleclass will and the twin winds o f recession its grumbling, with awe. lots o f kids will survive. In case o f the Sahara desert, and so cling to their property, half scared and inflation are blowing hard Very polite Arab sheiks are1 inflation creates havoc (they pre­ survive, once again, with our shitless and half arrogant, and will during this edgy autumn o f classic dancing minuets all over european dict 20 percent inflation in ’74, centuries old patched up two-class continue to say, we are producing capitalism. embassies, quoting Metternich to and between the lines they are system. more, so we all get more, even the ENGLAND is sinking. It might halfwit european chancellors and scared shitless). In so many gentle, The best question. The one poor will get the crumbs. mean a general strike or it might speedfreak Kissinger. subtle and delicate ways they are everybody is asking themselves This is, as the politicians say, not. But it’s already a naked Back to Italy. We the funny telling their bourgeoisie to buy with a half smile. The question the fabric o f society, but if we get confrontation between capital and ones, the beggars at the banquet, property and unload paper that no minister, ambassador or scared that next month w e’ll get workers, disguised as Ted Heath are the first ones to feel the pinch. money. When, and if, the worst national newspaper dares to ask less? And if we really do get less, versus the miners. Whatever (We have got to be very fast and happens, you ’ll have the new for real is: Have we did it? Is the next month? .— happens, the only country that we smart in certain things in order to version, the electronic version of fabric of western life going to Write to you soon. |_ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974— Page 11 Page 12-T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 A LIFTOUT GUIDE TO W H AT’S ON IN THE WEEK AHEAD. LISTINGS ARE FREE

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others: Opera House, 6.30 NFTA’s Off Hollywood pm , $ 2 .0 0 . season — VANISHING THE MAGIC FLUTE — POINT plus ICE: Aust Mozart opera in English: Govt Centre, 7.00 pm, Opera House, 7.30 pm, $1.20 (members only, join $1 0.50-$6.50. at door $3.00). FILM

NFTA’s off Hollywood ROCK season — ALICE’S RES­ c m f a e a t y TAURANT and THE GLEN ROWAN, GEOR- HIRED HAND: Aust Govt DIE: Chequers. Centre, Phillip & Hunter FILM 69ERS: Brighton hotel. streets, 7.15 pm, $1.20 (members only, join at ATTICA — Anatomy of a door $3.00). prison rebellion: Aust FOLK CLEO FROM '5-7 premiere in aid of Prisoners (Women’s Week): Film­ action group: Teachers’ Red Lion Folk Centre with makers Cinema, 10.00 pm Federation House, 8.00 RAY and PHIL DURHAM, (members only, join at pm. PETER DODDS, door $1.00). DREAMLIFE (1972) by MAUREEN CUMUSKEY, LA KERMESSE HERO- M. Dansereau — (Women’s DERRICK CHETWYN: IQUE (Women’s Week): Week): Filmmakers Red Lion hotel, Pitt and Filmmakers Cinema, 6.00 Cinema, 10.00 pm, $1.50. Liverpool streets, 1st floor pm (members only, join at THE IDIOT — Dostoiev­ 8.00-1 0.00 pm door $1.00). 31.3237. sky: Opera House, 7.30 DON MORRISON: Red I AM A DANCER: Nure- pm , $ 2 .0 0 . Riley, Surrey Hills, 7.30 yev, Fonteyn — Opera pm. House, 8.30 pm, $3.00. Harry's wine bar, 165 Flin­ CLASSIC MOVIES: Old ROCK ders street, Dario, 8-10 pm Church, 184 Palmer street, Free. 8.00 pm, donation. GLEN ROWAN, GEOR- DIE: Chequers. JAZZ, FOLK 69ERS: Brighton hotel. TV

WOMEN’S WEEKLY — new supper show, produced entirely by women.Back theatre, Pram Factory, DON DE SILVA: Mac­ TEfiT CARD AND MUSIC: quarie hotel, Woolloomoo- FOLK, JAZZ Chan. 2, 6.30 am. 325 Drummond St, friday to Sunday, 10.30 pm $1 .20. (Essential to book.) Opening song: Nova, Pol loo, 7.30-1 0.00 pm. MUTINY O N T H E and the Fairfax papers/Teach us all those feminine gfaces/See them use our smiling faces/To keep us DICK HUGHES: Frenth’s DON MORRISON and BOUNTY — movie, Charles tavern, 7.45-10.00 pm. BRIAN SOMEBODY: Red Laughton, Clarke Gable: in our places. TIM BROWN: Northbridge Riley wine bar, 7.30 pm. Chan. 7, 9.00 pm. hotel, 7.30 pm. ERIC DAVIS, ANDY JOHN BURKE: Hang Toe, GEORGE, MORAG CHET- Chris & Eva 51.9563 or leave messages 217 Commonwealth street, WYN, MARTIN FLAG WAVING Surry Hills, 7.30 pm, 50 51.7425, write Flat 8, No. 7 Irving DOHERTY, BILL MAR- cents. GAN: Hotel Elizabeth, Martin Plaza Cenotaph avenue, Windsor, 3181. ’TKM o u ’ im DON MORRISON: Red Elizabeth s t r e e t , guard ceremony celebrates Riley wine bar, 211-3240, 8.00-10.00 pm, 70c. war, 1 2.30 pm. hotel, Preston. Beaum aris hotel. Beach 7 .3 0 pm. MERV ACHESON JAZZ KUSH: Sundowner hotel, OUTDOORS road. MILES MOONEY: Harry’s TRIO: Bellevue hotel, Geelong. wine bar, 165 Flinders Paddo. KUSH, TANK: Waltzing VIOLIN RECITAL: Flag- BLUES street, Dario, 8.00-10.00 CHRIS TAPPERNAC and Matilda hotel, Springvale. staff gardens, 12.10 and DUTCH TILDERS, HUGH pm , free. DAVE FURNISS JAZZ: TRIDENT: George hotel, ROCK 1.10 pm. McDONALD: Frank Tray­ Forest Lodge hotel, 7.30- THE HISTORY OF nors, City. S t K ild a. 1 0 .0 0 pm . FILM DINGOES, TARKIO: DRAMA — by the Caravan CLOUD NINE: Grovedale I MPTiash Uni. ROCK JOHN EWBANK: Harry’s Players: Treasury gardens, hotel, Geelong. MACKENZIE THEORY: NEW MUSIC wine bar, 165 Flinders LUCIA — H. Solas 1969 12.1 0 and 1.1 0 pm. SHERBET, HOME, PIC­ Institute of Technology. QLEN ROWAN, UEORD- Jtreet, Dario, 8.00-10.00 (Women’s Week): Film­ YOU: Commune, North NIC: Moe Civic Centre 1E> Chequers. makers . Cinema, Dario I CHAIN: Melbourne Uni pm , free. M elb o u rn e. (only 80 miles away). $1.00, 10.00 pm (members (lu nch). RADIO TRINITY: Melbourne Uni only, join at door $3.00) BLUESTONE: Council NEW SOCIETY: 3AR, FILM (lunch); Monash Uni (even­ TV, RADIO EVENTS | Club hotel, Preston. 7 .1 5 pm. ing). CHRISTOPHER ROBIN: THE MAN WHO HAD HIS EDUCATION NOW: 3AR, TARKIO: Melbourne Uni. NEW SOCIETY — Educa­ PARTICIPATE — Public George hotel, St Kilda. HAIR CUT SHORT — FOLK, ROCK 7 .3 5 pm. BLUESTONE: Epping tion Now: 2FC, 7.15 pm. quilting bee: Foyer, OTC KUSH: Croxton Park (Andre Delvaux) and L’IMMORTELLE (Alain hotel, Epping. THE SINGING WHALE — House, Martin plaza Red Lion Folk Centre with I hotel, Preston, TV AZTECS: St Albans hotel, Jacques Cousteau, whale (’tween Pitt & Castlereagh BILL MONIHAN, JACK PANTHER: Prospect Hill R obbe-G rillet): NFTA, j S t Albans. music, just add water: streets), materials and HOPKINS, MEGAN, AND hotel, High street, Kew. TIGER TRAIL — nature Dental theatrette, cnr Grat­ doco: ATV-0, 7.30 pm. tan street and Flemington Chan. 1 0, 7.30 pm. guidance free. REW AMOT: Red Lioh road, Carlton, 7.40 pm, FOLK “MY FIRST REACTION POETRY READING: Old hotel, Pitt & Liverpool MORE MUSIC WAS TO BUY A GUN” — $1.20, 80c students. MIKE O’ROURKE, GRA­ Church, 184 Palmer street, streets, 1st floor SINGERS: Commune cof­ Doco on burglary: Chan. 2, HAM DODSWORTH, 8.00 pm, free. 8.00-10.00 pm. fee lounge, 580 Victoria 8 .0 0 pm . t v e d t t e & t y OUTDOORS JOHN & JUAN ITA HAIR OF DOG, BCR street, North Melbourne. ROYAL COMMAND PER­ NARD BOLAN, LUCYl VIOLIN RECITAL: Treas­ BOOTHROYD: Dan TV PETER PAR KH ILL: FORMANCE — with Rudy VORST, BOB POMEROY ury gardens, 12.10, 1.10 O’Connell, cnr Canning Frank Traynors, 100 Little ROCK Nureyev, Duke Ellington: BILLY AND PERCY — Hotel Elizabeth pm . and Princes streets, North Lonsdale street, City. HOT CITY BUMP BAND: HSV7, 9.00 pm. 8.00-10.00 pm, 80c. THE HISTORY OF C arlto n , 8 to 12 pm, dramatised account of MUSIC: Polaris Inn hotel, Whitehorse hotel, Nuna- THE MALTESE FALCON Billy Hughes’ term as PM DRAMA: Flagstaff gar­ $ 1. 00. 55 1 Nicholson street. wading. — movie with Humphrey of OZ: Chan. 2, 8.50 pm. dens, 1 2.1 0, 1.10 pm. PHIL DAY: Tankerville ROCK North Carlton. RED HOUSE ROLL Bogart: Chan. 10, 10.00 Arms, cnr Johnson and DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS M AYOR, OCEAN: MUSIC: Prospect Hill BAND: Croxton Park pm . Nicholson streets, North — movie, indoor plants, Chequers. | hotel, High street, Kew. hotel, Preston. Carlton. 8 to 1 0 pm, 60c. gone wrong: Chan. 10, BAND OF LIGHT: Cabra- BILLY THORPE AND RADIO JOHN CROWLE: Frank 9 .0 0 pm. matta White Eagle Hall. FILM . THE AZTECS, CLOUD CRAFT Traynors, City, 80c. TWENTY THOUSAND OTHER ENDS AND BUF­ FILM PORTRAIT/ NINE: Sandown Park PICK OF THE GOONS: THE NICHOLSON YEARS IN SING SING — FALO: Rockdale Masonic REMINISCENCES ON A hotel. 3LO, 8.02 pm. INSPIRATIONS FROM STREET REBOPPERS: Spencer Tracy, Bette H all. VISIT TO LITHUANIA: DINGOES, SID RUMPO, ANCIENT AND ETHNIC Polaris Inn hotel, Davis: Chan. 2, 11.00 pm. NFTA, Dental theatre, cnr CHAIN: Latrobe Uni. TV FIBRE WORKS — talk by Nichols-on street, Carlton. Grattan street and TRINITY: Latrobe Uni BOCCACCIO 70 - 3 Mary Jane Leland (US): CLASSICS BLUES, JAZZ Flemington road, Carlton, (lu n ch ). stories, Sophia Loren, JAZZ Thorburn galleries, 75 7.40 pm, $1.20, 80c stu­ HUSH: Sundowner hotel, Anita Ekberg, Romy Clarence street,. 8.00 pm, VERDI’S NABUCCO: BLUES GUITAR WITH dents. Geelong. Schneider: HSV-7, 10.55 DAVE RANKIN AND 50c. Opera House, LARRY: Hang Toe, 217 TRIDENT: George hotel, pm. THE ELASTIC BAND: PARTICIPATE — a public $10.50-$6.50, 7.30 pm. Commonwealth street, MEETINGS St K ild a. Alma hotel, 32 Chapel quilting bee: Foyer, OTC Surry Hills, 7.30 pm, 50c. OUR PURPOSES — by street, St Kilda. House, Martin plaza NOEL CROWS JAZZ David Miller, discussion in- FOLK OWEN YEATMAN: Pros­ (’tween Pitt & Castlereagh BAND: Red Neds, Chats- | vited: Existentialist So­ pect Hill hotel, Kew. streets), 12.00-2.00 pm, wood, 8.30-11.30 pm. ciety, 90 Victoria street, BUSHWHACKERS AND FRANK TRAYNOR: Ex­ materials and guidance DOC WILLIS JAZZ | cnr Exhibition street, City, BULLOCKIES BUSH ROCK change hotel, Cheltenham. free, bring your own cre­ BAND: Albury hotel, Ox­ BAND: Polaris Inn hotel, 8. pm . a tiv ity . FILM ford street, Dario. GROUP MEDITATION: 551 Nicholson street, MATT TAYLOR: Station NEW MUSIC EAST COAST JAZZ | Ananda Marga, 141 Barkly North Carlton. hotel, Prahran. BAND: Unity Hall hotel, THE LAST STAGE (1949) RED HOUSE ROLL INVESTIGATIONS OF CLASSICS B alm ain. | street, Carlton. — (Women's Week): Film­ BAL BHAGWAN Jl: DLM, JAZZ BAND: Whitehorse hotel, THE NATURE OF ART BLUE BAYOU JAZZ/ makers Cinema, Darling- ring 419.1184 for further Nunawading. AND TRAVEL: Com­ SYDNEY WIND SOLO­ ROCK BAND: Stage Door hurst, 10.00 pm, $1.50. revelations. FRANK TRAYNOR: JIGSAW: Croxton Park mune, North Melbourne. ISTS— play Bach, Mozart, Continued over page Continued over page

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Tavern, 7.00-10.00 pm. AL HEAD: Red Riiey, EROS AND THANATOS CHILDREN’S SHOW: Block Theatre, East Syd­ with the Bus company: DON DE SILVA: Mac­ Surry Hills, 211-3240, 7.30 — new Aust environmental Filmmakers Cinema, Dar­ ney Tech, 8.30 pm, $1.20, Old Church, 31-9729,8.00 quarie hotel, the 'Loo, pm . music play: Pact, 264 Pitt lingh urst, 2 .0 0 pm (sea a t o t t d a p $1.00, 75c, 50c. 7.30-10.00 pm. PACT FOLK: YWCA Cel­ street, 8.30 pm, free/, pm,-$2.00, stud. $1.00. sat.). A (MORE) SINGULAR FOREDAY RIDERS: lar, Liverpool street (near d o n a tio n . French's T a v e r n , Paris cinema), 8.00 pm. RANDOMS FILM SHOW with GRAHAM 7.45-10.00 pm. LOWNDES, BOB HUD­ TV, RADIO 8MM FILM WORKSHOP KWAIDAN — ghost film S O N , MARGARET JAZZ, BLUES FOR ALL AGES: Old by Kobayashi: Opera ROADKNIGHT and MIKE ROOM TO MOVE — Chris TV, RADIO Church, 184 Palmer street. HotfSe, 7.30 pm, $2.00. McCLELLAN: University Winter returns with more DAVE STEVENS and East Sydney, free, 1.00 MEDEA (Italy 1969) by of NSW, Science Theatre, progressive rock: Radio 1, JAZZ ON A FRIDAY MERV ACHESON: Bel­ FILM pm . Pasolini plus THREE 1.00 pm, $1.00. 8 .0 0 pm. NIGHT — Eric Child levue hotel, Paddo, THE TAMING FORCE by SONGS OF LENIN (USSR WORDS BY BECKETT — interviews Herb Ellis: ABC 3.00-6.00 pm. M O T HER (1926) Paul Burns — a new play Y934): Union Theatre, pure music brought to the Radio 1, 7.15 pm. ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: (Women’s Week): Film­ with the Bus company: Sydney Uni, 7.30 pm, free border of the theatre: ABC K IN G R A T — m ovie re Vanity Fair hotel, 4.00- makers Cinema, Darling­ Old Church, 31-9729, 8.00 to members only (40 films POETRY, STAGE Radio 2, 8.45 pm. Changi H.O.W.s: Channel 7, 7 .0 0 pm . hurst, 31-3237, 6.00 pm, pm, $2.00, stud. $1.00. Per year for $9.00 or $4 MONTY PYTHON’S 7 .3 0 pm . DON DE SILVA: Louis $1.00 (members only, join MUSICIANS UNION AND first term). THE POETS LAND — FLYING CIRCUS: Chan. THE SOUND AND THE Tavern, Elizabeth street, at door $3.00). THE 17TH BATTALION poetry readings: Nimrod 2, 9.25 pm. FURY — Decadence in the Paddo (afternoon). MAEDCHEN IN UNI­ REGIMENT clash cymoais MUSIC Street Theatre, 33-3933, STAR SOCCER — Wolver­ south: Chan. 2, 10.00 pm. BLUE BAYOU: Stage FORM (1931) (Women’s at Hyde Park and Victoria COL NOLAN SOUL 8 .3 0 pm. hampton Wanderers v. IN CONCERT with Door Tavern, 7.00-12.00 Week): Filmmakers Park, respectively, 3-4 pm, SYNDICATE, SERGE THE TAMING FORCE by Manchester United — as Chubby Chequer, The pm , $ 1 .0 0 . Cinema, Darlinghurst, free and easy. ERMOLI QUARTET: Cell Paul Burns — a new play the fire rages, England Coasters, Jackie Wilson, DOC WILLIS: Beresford 31-3237, 10.00 pm, $1.00 Bobby Rydell, Dion, ,The hotel, Surry Hills, (members only, join at Crystals: Chan. 7, 11 pm. 7.30-10.00 pm. door $3.00). FO R E D AY RIDER: ROBERT RAYMOND’S French's T a v e r n , WILDLIFE SERIES: Opera House, 10.00 am WORKSHOP 7.45-10.00 pm. Merran and John, P.O. Box 135 Upper SILK SCREENING, POT- DON DE SILVA: Mac­ continuously to 6.00 pm, TERY, CANDLE quarie hotel, the 'Loo, $2.00, kids $1.00. A d e la id e Sturt 5156. Phone: 278-1811. MAKING, 16MM FILM- 7.30-10.00 pm. WR — MYSTERIES OF MAKING: Old Church, BLUES GUITAR WITH THE ORGANISM plus UP THEATRE THEATRE 184 Palmer street, East LARRY: Hang Toe, Surry IN THE CELLAR: Union KAMAKAZE Theatre, Sydney Uni, 7.00 Sydney, 8.00 pm, free. Hills, 7.30 pm, 50c. f a e A d a y HAMLET ON ICE: Sheri­ BIRD DROPPING — at­ pm . BIEDERMANN AND THE F I R E B U G — T herry dan theatre, 8.15 pm. tempts at man-powered NFTA’s images of the flight from Uni.footb ridge: OPPRA 'OUSE Dramatic Society presents Adult pantomime by mind series: LE BON FOLK River Torrens opposite MASSED MUSICIANS OF CLASSICS a m o ra lity w ith o u t a Michael Boddy and Ron HEUR plus LA PEAU Adelaide Uni., 2 pm. THE NAVY, ARMY, AIR moral: Willard hall, Wake­ Blair, MacKinnon parade, DOUCE: Opera House, MOONSHINE JUG AND FORCE, MARIAN HEN- HANS HOTTER — Ger­ field street, 8.15 pm. North Adelaide. 7.15 pm, $1.60 (members STRING BAND: Modbury DERSON, DICK man baritone: Conserva- MICHAEL'S MINDLESS BIEDERMANN AND THE only, join at door $3.00). hotel, 60c. HUGHES: Opera House, torium, 8.15 pm, $5.20, SHOW: Matthew Flinders FIREBUG: See Wednes­ $3.70, $2.20. ARSENIC AND OLD 8.00 pm, $5, 54, $3. theatre. Flinders Uni., 1.00 day. AUNTY JACK 'N THE LACE and KEY LARGO: POETRY CHARLES GLENN — pm . Free. GANG IN BLOODY CON­ Metro King, 3.00 pm, 7.15 pianist plays Haydn, Pro­ TV ROCK CERT: Opera House, 3.00 pm , $ 2 .5 0 . RAGA ARTS GROUP — kofiev, Beethoven, Debus­ MEETING RAGA ARTS GROUP pm, 8.00 pm. Ginger Workshop, also WAR AND PEACE — BBC, sy and C h o p in : Opera presents original Australian music, films etc: 1 Arthur serialisation of Tolstoy's House, 8.00 pm, $2.00, WOMENS STUDIES music concert — also Aus­ MUSIC street, Unley. whopper: ABS-2, 8.00 pm. stud. $1.00. TV, RADIO ORIENTATION MEET­ tralian films: Baptist hall, A SINGULAR SHOW — FILMS ING: Old staff room. Norwood, 8 pm. GRAHAM LOWNDES, Humanities bldg., Flinders THEATRE THE WORLD OF JAZZ Uni., 7.30 pm. Open to with Eric Child: 2BL, BOB HUDSON, MAR­ LITTLE MURDERS: Mat- BLUES THE HOSTAGE by Bren­ GARET ROADKNIGHT & public to discuss womens SMOKE STACK LIGHT­ 1 0.2 5 am. thew Flinders theatre, studies course. dan Behan: Cronulla Arts PICK OF THE GOONS: MIKE McCLELLAN: Get Flinders Uni., 7.30 pm. ENING: Eagle hotel, Hind- Theatre, 523-6888, 8.15 2BL, 12.00. their early fora seat, Kirk 50c. EVENT iey street, 7.30 pm, $1.00. pm . THE CAPTAIN OF KOPE- Gallery, Surry Hills, 8.00 ROCK EROS AND THANATOS p m , $ 1 .0 0 . ORIENTATION WEEK NICK by Carl Zuckmayer, DANCE BILLY THORPE AND THEATRE — new Aust environmental ABC PRESENTS CLAS­ BALL: Flinders Uni., 8.00 Nat Radio Theatre: 2FC, THE AZTECS — Orienta­ T H E IMAGINARY music play: Pact, 264 Pitt SICAL MUSIC ON THE pm, $2.50 single. 8 .3 0 pm . BALINESE DANCERS: tion ball: Barr Smith INVALID: Her Majesty’s, street, 8.30 pm, free/ HOUR: Opera House, T H E R A Z O R ’S E D G E — Plaza, Flinders Uni., 1.00 Lawns, Adelaide Uni., 8.00 8.15 pm, $6.00, $4.50, stu­ 11.00 am, 12.00, 1.00, d o n a tio n . W. Somerset Maugham’s pm . Free. UNLIKELY pm, $ 3 .0 0 . dents half price. book movied: Chan. 10, 2.00, 3.00, 4.00 pm. THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL 9 .3 0 pm . $1.00, kids 20c. No ad­ LECTURE DELIGHTS BLUES PLACE: Arts theatre, 8.30 vance booking. pm, $3.70, students half THE WAR LORD — movie WATER MELON EATING with Charlton Heston: BB KING: Blues of course: JACK MUNDY: Matthew SMtJKE STACK LIGHT- price. g a C u n d M Hordern Pavillion, 8.15 CHAMPIONSHIP: Flinders ENING: Eagle hotel, 7.30 Chan. 1 0, 8.30 pm. Flinders theatre. Flinders Uni., 12.30 pm. CORALIE LANSDOWNE pm, $5.20, $4.20. Uni., 2.10 pm, ex-Builders pm, Hindley street, $1.00. SAYS NO: Theatre 62, WORLD PIANO SMASH­ FILM Laborers Federation sec­ SMOKE STACK LIGHT­ Burbridge road, Hilton, ING RECORD: Maths ENING: Moana Beach Surf TOUT VA BIEN — J.-L. DEMO retary, Flinders Uni. Also 8.15 pm. World premiere of lawns, Adelaide Uni., 2 Show, Moana clubrooms TV, RADIO at 1.00 pm, Barr Smith pm . Buzo’s play by Nimrod Godard/J. Gorin 1972 INTERNATIONAL and beach. $2.00. (Women’s Week): Film­ W O M E N ’S 5 D A Y D E M O lawns, Adelaide Uni. Street. $3, students half THE STORY OF POP — price. makers Cinema, St Peter’s at Bidura Childrens TV 26 part rock series heaped FOLK GERTRUDE STEIN’S lane, Darlinghurst, 12.00 depot, Glebe Point road, EVENTS FROST OVER HOLLY­ with nostalgia: ABC Radio GERTRUDE STEIN: Scott midnight, $1.50. Glebe. Meet at Victoria WOOD — interviews author STEPHEN FOSTER: Barr 1, 1 0.00 am. NATURAL D A N C E theatre, 8.30 pm, $3.50/ A T T IC A — r. inda Fire­ Park 10.00 am. of "A Clockwork Orange” ^mith lawns, Adelaide SHE MEANT TO TELL CLASS: Corner Queen and students half price (but stone: Filmmakers Cinema, (Anthony Burgess) and Uni., 1.00 pm. HIM ON THE ISLAND — William streets, Norwood. cheaper on monday — see St Peter’s lane, Darling­ stars of the film: ABS-2, radio play: ABC Radio 2, $ 1. 0 0 . m o n d a y !). hurst, 10.00 pm, $1.50. KIDS 1 0 .3 0 pm . FILM 4 .0 0 pm . HAMLET ON ICE: See WOMEN AND SOCI­ THE PIED PIPER: inde­ Q U O V A D IS — m ovie re BULLET: Matthew ALISM (US, Vietnam, TV thursday. pendent, North Sydney Christianity birth pangs — Flinders theatre. Flinders BIEDERMANN AND THE Cuba) — (Women’s Week): 2.00 pm, $1.20, kids 60c. Robert Taylor, Deborah MIDNIGHT CASE — Doris Uni., 2.1 5 pm, 40c. FIREBUG: See wednes- Filmmakers Cinema, St THE MAGIC TRAVEL Kerr: Chan. 7, 7.30 pm. Day gets dirty phone calls: LET IT BE: Union hall, day. Peter's lane, Darlinghurst BOX: New Theatre, New­ WILDLIFE SAFARI TO NWS-9, 12 noon. Adelaide Uni., 12 noon, 31.3237, 6.00 pm, $1.50. town 519-3403, 2.15 pm. ETHIOPIA — The Blue 40c. DANCE THE OLD WOMAN WHO ROCK Nile: Chan. 2, 7.55 pm. SLASK — The Polish Na­ LIVED IN A SHOE: AMP- CONCERT EXTRA­ THE PUBLIC EYE — radio THEATRE tional Song and Dance Co: ROCK Theatre, $1.60, kids $1.00. VAGANZA — Matthew play: 2BL, 8.00 pm. HAMLET ON ICE: See Appollo stadium, 9 pm, SIMBA, SEBASTIAN C H IL D R E N ’S S H O W — Flinders theatre, Flinders WORLD IN ACTION — th u rs d a y . $5.50 to $3.50. HARDY, BUFFALO: Batman, Desert Hawk, Uni., 1-3 pm. Steve Foster, documentary on Tamic tea BIEDERMANN AND THE Hornsby Police Boys, Daring Circus Youth: Film ­ FOLK Rob Boucher and others, pickers and imperialism: 20c. FIREBUG: See W ednes­ CHILDREN $ 1 .5 0 . makers Cinema, 31-3237, Chan. 2, 9.10 pm. SALVATION AIR FORCE d a y . MAYOR, O C E A N : 2 .0 0 p m . THE WAVEDON SEASON CATACOMBS — open TALES OF NOONA- — Barr Smith lawns: Free, C hequers. — jazz special with Cleo night — all welcome to MEENA: Prince Alfred Adelaide Uni. EVENT DE CASTRO, LOTUS: Laine, Dudley Moore, play: 1 Hackney road, College theatre, S pm. H ackn ey. Bondi Masonic Hall. THEATRE Georgie Fame, Chris Bar­ NIMBIN KARAVAN: Marionettes directed by DE CASTRO, KAHUAS FILM Joanne Priest. Children THE EAGLE HAS TWO ber: Radio 1, 9.30 am. Flinders Uni., all day. JUTE: Taren Point youth FILM LA VIE A L’ENVERS and 60c, adults $2, $1.50, stu* HEADS by Jean Cocteau: TOPAZ — CIA-KGB movie Yoga, dance, instrument centre. MAN WHO HAD HIS dents half price. Genesians, 798-3608, 8.15 cast of thousands: Chan. WOODSTOCK: Matthew making. Batik. Peace feast BUFFALO, BAND OF 10, 8.30 pm. HAIR CUT SHORT: Na­ DOLL EXHIBITION: pm . Flinders theatre, 2.15 pm, at sunset — bring food. LIGHT: Greenacre YMCA. THE WILLESEE SHOW — 40c. Flinders Uni. tional Film Theatre of Aus­ Scotts church, 11 am-8 THE HOSTAGE by tralia "Images of the Humor, satire. topicalpic START THE REVOLU­ TV pm, adults 30c, children Brendan Behan: Cronulla Mind” season: 7.30 pm. FOLK interviews: Chan! 10, 7.30 TION WITHOUT ME: 15c. Arts Theatre. 523-6888, THE STRANGER: Orson pm. Adelaide Uni. Film Group, State Govt Theatrette, MEADOW BAND, JEFF 8 .1 5 p m . State Administration bldg., Welles, NWS-9, 12 noon. MEETING and TRICIA, ANDY THE TAMING FORCE by Union hall, 2 pm. 40c. Victoria Square. Members DAVID CASSIDY WEEK­ GET TOGETHER OF GEORGE, BERNARD Paul Burns — a new play KIDS only. Membership $3.00. END AT WEMBLEY — ADELAIDE'S FINAN­ BOLAND and THE LAST with the Bus company: THE MAGIC TRAVEL DANCE (Over 18 — join at door), documentary on Cassidy's CIAL NIMBIN MEM­ BUS: Hotel Elizabeth. Old Church, 31-9729,8.00 BOX: New Theatre, Balinese dancers: Adelaide program $1.20, students Wembley concert: NWS-9, BERS: 1 William street, 8.00-10.00 pm. pm, $2.00, stud. $1.00. 519-3403, 2.15 pm, 70c. Uni., 1.30 pm. Free. 80c. 7 .3 d pm . Norwood, 8 pm.

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avenue, Windsor, 3181. EVENT pm — with Sumner Locke CHILDREN Elliott, Peter Porter, M u m Radolph Stowe. THE WAY OF THE L E T ’S T A L K T O T H E YOUNG WRITERS cveek CROSS: Christ church, ANIMALS — RIG ANI­ READING: Edmund Jeffcott street. North Ade­ MALS: Adelaide zoo direc­ Wright house, 8.30 pm — FOLK laide, 6 pm. Audio-visual SHERBET, ROSS RYAN, tor introduces children to Janine Adams, Helen PANCAKE KITCHEN — concepts by Gunther, POETRY FOLK FOX: Kew civic centre, some of the animals in Bansemer, Adrian Flavell, Jam sessions and singalong Stoper and David Gallasch, Adelaide zoo. ABS-2, 6.30 Peter Goldsworthy, Peter K ew . up to 40c cover charge: 13 BRUNSWICK POETRY GLEN TOMASETTI, $ 1. pm . Hicks, John-Peter Horsam, KUSH: Southside Six Gilbert place, city. WORKSHOP: Saxon hall, HANS GEORG, BRUCE C H E S K O O RAREE Susanna Johnson, Stephen (afternoon) Saxon street, Brunswick McNICHOL: Outpost Inn, SHOW: Scott theatre, 2 Measday, Graham Row­ AJAX, HUSH, COLORED FILM (behind town hall). 52 Collins street, City, 80c. FLINGS pm. Pantomime clown fes­ lands, Rob Tillet, Richard BALLS: Frankston Police BUSHWHACKERS AND tival for children. Adults Tipping. North Terrace. TRASH and FLESH: and Citizens Youth Club, HIGHLAND GAMES: $1.50, students half price, Capri, Goodwood, 8 pm, MEETINGS BU LLOCKIES BUSH F ran ksto n . Adelaide oval, all day. kids 60c. $2 and $2.25. BAND: Polaris Inn hotel, TRIDENT: Whitehorse FILMS CONSERVATION V EX­ C arlto n . Track and field events, TALES OF NOONA- UN SOIR UN TRAIN SOVIET SONG AND hotel, Nunawading. PLOITATION — Michael JULIE WONG, PETER Scottish country dancing. MEENA: See S aturday. PERSONA: National Film DANCE ENSEMBLE: HENCHMEN: Croxton Warner, King William Garrett: Friends House, PARKHILL, JOHN Theatre of Australia Park hotel, Preston. street, 11 am, 2 pm , 5 pm , 631 Orrong road, 8.00 pm. CROWLE: Frank Tray­ TV “ Images of the Mind": Sea­ RED HOUSE ROLL 8 pm . nors, City. MEETINGS son. 7.30 pm. Rothman's BAND, CLOUD NINE, KEITH MICHELL AT Theatrette, Wayville show­ JAZZ TANK: Blaizes, Ormond THE NEW THEATRE — DRUG AND LEGAL grounds. Members only, THEATRE RADIO Hall, Prahran. recalls past performances PROTECTION UNION: membership $3 (over 18, KIAROS’ 74 — Street the­ CHANCE, ROCK BOOKS AND IDEAS: BRIAN BROWN QUAR­ at the New Theatre, Lon­ Clear Light Bazaar, 201 join at door). Program atre: Adelaide shopping GRANITE, HOME: Cano­ don: ABS-2, 7.30 pm. Rundle street, 8 pm. centres. Also music, arts, 3AR, 7.15 pm. TET: Commune, North pus, Box Hill. $1.20, students 80c. M elbo urne. ELVIS PRESLEY FES­ crafts. A MERRY PROGRESS: SKYLIGHT: Prospect Hill T I V A L — th e “ p el” in EVENTS THEATRE 3AR, 11.10 pm. ST O RYVILLE JAZZ hotel, Kew. “ C la m b a k e " , “ B lu e BAND: Manor House Hawaii”, “Roustabout", HAPPENING IN ELDER OTHERS hotel, City. FOLK T H E IMAGINARY TV "Paradise Hawaiian Style": PARK: 2 pm. Free. INVALID: See S a tu rd ay. CLEAR LIGHT BAZAAR: PETER PARKHILL and NWS-9, 9 am to 4 pm. KAIROS ’74: Elder park, T H E BRIDGE OF FILM others: Dan O’Connell, Alternative communica­ MAGIC ROUNDABOUT: ROCK ’N’ ROLL LIVES — 1.30 pm. Alternative hap­ GOSPEL PLACE: See tions centre, Craft centre, Carlton, 3 to 6 pm. T H E R O O T S O F R O C K — ABV-2, 3.10 pm. FORTUNE AND MEN'S pening in the Jesus move­ S aturday. bulk food. 201 Rundle GORDON MclNTYRE, history of rock featuring B. WORLD IN CINEMA: E /E S (R) — about prisons m e n t CORALIE L A N D S - street. MEGAN AND RAY: Com­ B. King, Muddy Waters, ABV-2, 10.15 pm. and stuff: Trak, 445 W R IT E R ’S W E E K O P E N ­ DOWNE SAYS NO: See DOROTHY PLAK CREA­ mune, North Melbourne, John Lee Hooker and Ray Toorak road, 11.45, $2.00. 10 to 3 am. ING: 4 pm, Barr Smith S aturday. TIVE CRAFT WORK­ Charles: NWS-9, 6 pm. QUACKSER FORTUNE lawns, Adelaide Uni. Mich­ GERTRUDE STEIN’S SHOPS: Drop in for advice JOHN AND JUANITA, HAS A COUSIN IN THE ael Frayn speaks. GERTRUDE STEIN: AMP on all crafts. St Magill PETER PARKHILL, BRONX (NRC): Athen­ HANS GEORG, BRUCE RADIO theatre, 1 pm, $1 — At road, St Peters. aeum, 188 Collins street, TV Scott theatre, 8.30 pm, McNICOL: Outpost Inn, PICK OF THE GOONS: 10.30 pm, $2.25. C ity . $3.50, students half price. LITTLE SUPERMAN: JOHN AND JUANITA, 3CL, 11.30 am. WILD LIFE SAFARI TO Also see Saturday. ROCK Capitol, Swanston street, DANNY SPOONER, GOR­ ETHIOPIA — ACROSS GARGOYLES: Theatre 1 1 .3 0 pm . DON MclNTYRE: Frank OTHERS THE GREAT SALT 62, 11.15 pm. Late night. & o o & * t o c v DINGOES: Station hotel, Traynors, City. DESERT — featuring ani­ Bawdy Medieval revue, A LADY OF FASHION: Prahran. TV mals never before filmed: directed by Murray Cop­ Garclew, Montefiore Hill, ABS-2, 7.55 pm. land. $2.50, $2. Burbridge MUSICAL EVENT MACKENZIE THEORY, VIVA ZAPATA, Marlon JAZZ North Adelaide, 3 pm. DAVE RANKIN AND MAN IN QUESTION — road, Hilton. CHAIN: Chelsea city hall. Brando, Anthony Quinn: Anne Schofield collection CARNIVAL OF THE ANI- THE ELASTIC BAND: JOHN BELL: Sydney A REMNANT: AMP the­ FULL MOON: Winston HSV-7, 10.00 am. of women’s fashions from MALS — Saint Saens. Fea­ Lemon Tree hotel, 10 actor and director John atre, 8.30 pm. Jack Charles hotel, Toorak. IN CONCERT: Seals and 1800 to 1940. Adults 60c, tures Don Dunstan reciting Grattan street, Carlton. Bell interviewed. ABS-2, Emery's one man show Crofts, Curtis Mayfield and children 30c. at the Adelaide zoo. BLUESTONE: Di Marco’s, THE PLANT WITH 9 .2 5 pm . based on life and works of Bo Diddley: HSV-7, 10.00 Essendon. M IFFY: Polaris Inn, hotel, Samuel Beckett. $2.50, pm. THEATRE C arlto n . students half price. CLOUD NINE: Croxton NATIONAL THEATRE Park hotel, Preston. SKYLIGHT (afternoon), * * t o * t c f a u KIDS OF THE DEAF: March RED HOUSE ROLL JUNCTION CITY JAZZ 25th-30th, Her Majesty’s. BAND: Sundowner hotel, BAND (evening): Prospect THREE AUSTRALIAN t a t w u d j M / ZAGREB CARTOONS: G eelong. Hill hotel, Kew. FOLK ONE-ACT PLAYS — "The VICTORIAN JAZZ CLUB: BLUES S.A. Govt. Tourist Bureau PHASE 2: George hotel, St CATACOMBS — Lester Les Darcy Show" — Jack Manor House hotel. City. theatrette, 1 pm, 2.30 pm, K ild a. ROCK Wahlqvlst, Chris Brown, Hibberd (world premiere), B. B. KING IN CONCERT: 4 pm. Free. Really bril­ TANK: Prospect Hill hotel, Lake Country Fair and “A Married Man” — James FILM. Apollo stadium. lian t! K ew . DINGOES: Matthew others: 1 Hackney road, Searle, “The Frog” — Pat­ Flinders hotel, Chadstone. QUACKSER FORTUNE rick Whelan: Matthew SKYLIGHT, DINGOES: HAS A COUSIN IN THE Jtjlackney, 8.30 pm, 8

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1 9 7 4 -Page 15 ‘ T K M o u r u t e Continued from centre spread. RADIO SUNDAY NIGHT RADIO H.Q., 8 pm. THE CHESKOO RAREE THE SAVAGE MESSIAH THE NATIONAL BAL­ 2: 3AR, 7.30 pm. SHOW: Moomba stage, (M ): Ken Russell’s film and LET OF SENEGAL: Pal­ GALLERIES WHERE IS THIS HERE SUNDAY SOYLENT GREEN (M): ais, L o w e r Esplanade, St WORLD OF JAZZ with Alexandra gardens, to BUILDING? Dor Carlton cinema, Faraday Kilda, comm, tuesday, 40 PAINTINGS FROM THE Eric Child: 3LO, 10.25 am. WANDONG COUNTRY thursday, 8 pm. Haworth: 3AR, 4.00 pm. street, Carlton, thursday- MUSEUM OF MODERN JOY MULLIGAN: 3LO, MUSIC F E S T I V A L : dancers, singers, drummers, THE PUBLIC EYE, Peter ETHNIC sunday, 7.45 pm, 90c. etc, promises to be excit­ ART, NEW YORK: Till 7.1 5 pm . Wandong Sports Ground, Schaffer: 3LO, 8.00 pm. 3 4 7 .5 5 2 4 . ing, $3.70, $4.70, $5.70, march 10, plus HUNDERT AMERICAN TOP 40: 11 am to 6 pm. OCCASIONS TRIPLE ECHO (M) and nightly 8.15 pm, friday 6 WASSER EXHIBITION till 3KZ, 7 to 1 0 pm. IMAGES (M): Hoyts, Mal­ march 17, plus Cartier ORANGES AND LEMONS MONDAY pm, Saturday 2.15 pm, reg­ GREEK N A T I O N A L vern, cnr Glenferrie and ular agencies. Bresson’s FRANCE, 8-13 — William Walton: 3AR, DANCES: Alexandra gar­ Dandenong roads, 8 pm, march. All for 20c. n t o * t d t w MOOMBA PROCESSION: 7 .3 0 pm . dens, friday 8.30 pm, Sun­ Saturday 2, 5 pm, Sunday THE CAPTAIN OF KOPE- 10 am, dont fail to miss it. day 7.00 pm. 5. 50.3193. ORIENTATION WEEK NICK: 3AR, 8.30 pm. ROCK HIGHLAND DANCING: CABARET (M): Hoyts, S B A C K to U n i this PLAYS PERFORMED E Flinders Park, 10.00 am Camberwell, 8 pm, Satur­ week for Melbourne and THURSDAY TV day 4.15 pm, Sunday 5 pm. JOHN RUPERT AND THE Saturday. Monash (La Trobe follows LESSER KNOWN GRO V E R C H O V E N A -U K R A I N - 8 2 .1 0 0 0 . HENCHMEN: Croxton next week), and there will MONASH ICE STATION ZEBRA I AN DANCING GROUP: THE HIRELING: Rivoli Park hotel, Preston. be lots happening. Lunch­ with Rock Hudson: Moomba stage, Alexandra Twin, Camberwell Junc­ PICNIC, HUSH: Teazer, time concerts, evening ISAAC AARON: lunch- HSV-7, 8.30 pm. TUESDAY gardens, Saturday 8.30 pm, tion, 7.45 pm, Saturday, C ity . doings, films, debates, or tim e. Sunday 4.15 pm, $2.25, BUSTER BROWN: Station monday 8.00 pm. what you will. Much of it HOT DOGGERQUE: 5.30 SLOVENIANS IN MEL­ $1.00 students. 82.1221. hotel, Prahran. ENEMY by R o b in is for the students, but pm. BOURNE DISPLAY: LOVE: Rivoli Twin, above w ttd a # BLUESTONE: Prospect Vaughan: Mordialloc The­ visitors are welcome. Here CONTRACEPTION: Moomba stage, Sunday 3 address, 8.15 pm, Sunday 5 Hill hotel, Kew. , atre Group, AMP theatr­ is a selection of events that fo ru m . pm . pm, $2.25, $1.00 students. MADDER LAKE, MATT ette, 535 Bourke street, may interest you: 8 2 .1 2 2 1 . TAYLOR, DINGOES, City, 8 pm. THURSDAY CRYSTAL VOYAGER: ROCK CHAIN, RED HOUSE FOR CANINE Brighton town hall, mon- ROLL BAND, AZTECS: MELBOURNE WEDNESDAY LOVERS day-friday, 8.30 pm, Gee­ TUESDAY HOME: Teazer, City. Royal showground, Flem- I’M TALKING ABOUT long Pix on Sunday. HUSH: Icelands, Ring- ington. OPEN DOG OBEDIENCE GREEK students’ revue: JERUSALEM by Arnold 6 3 .1 0 3 9 . MELBOURNE w o od. TR IA L: Flinders Park, S u n ­ Prince Phillip theatre, 8.00 Wesseker: Dramus theatre, MACKENZIE THEORY, MORE MUSIC day 1 pm . FOLK CLUB concert, pm , $ 1 .0 0 . SKYHOOKS, CAPTAIN AMP theatrette, City, 8 ALL WEEK FANNY OF THE FOOT­ AND DONT MISS THE mixed lounge, free. MATCHBOX, KEITH pm. LIGHTS: 7.00 pm, buffet PHIL DAY: Frank Tray­ FIREWORKS S P E C ­ TYRRANY OF TESTING STERLING: Ormond hall, MR JONAH & DONT THEATRES inc, stud theatre. nors, City, 80c. T A C L E . . . and w a te r ski — looks at examins. Prahran. KNOCK JONAH — two STORYVILLE JAZZMEN: BLUESTONE: Prospect revue, Yarra River, 7.30 ANGELIQUE by Ibert, FANTASY: Croxton Park musicals performed by the ON YER MARX — Aussie Prince Phillip theatre, 1.00 Hill hotel, Kew. pm. What better way to Union theatre, conserva- hotel, Preston. Melbourne Revival Centre, Marx Bros: Pram Factory, pm . finish yet another eventful torium students, 6.30 pm HUSH: Icelands, Ring- Rialto theatre, 218 High 325 Drummond street, THAT WE SHOULD KEEP NEWMUSIC Moomba Festival? How $ 1. 00. w o o d . street, Kew, 8 pm. Carlton, tuesday to Sun­ IT CLEAN: Debate Soc, about staying in bed? SKYLIGHT: Winston day, 8 pm, $2.50, $1.50 2.00 pm, mixed lounge. NIAGGRA: La Mama, 205 Charles, Toorak road. THURSDAY students. 347.7311. DESCHOOLING Faraday street, Carlton. ALL WEEK KUSH: Fitzroy gardens, 3 WOMENS WEEKLY: Back WEDNESDAY SOCIETY: Copeland lec­ pm. I T ’S A T W O F O O T -S IX - theatre, Pram Factory, ture theatre, 2.00 pm. POETRY YARRA YARRA JAZZ INCH-ABOVE THE above address, frid a y , Sat­ MELBOURNE F IL M S : “ J en n y” , “ G o t BAND: Old Melbourne GROUND WORLD by urday, 10.30 pm, $1.50. At”, “Living Together”, FOLK POOR TOM’S POETRY Motor Inn, Flemington Kenin Laffan, presented by WHY BOURNEMOUTH? FORUM ON ISRAEL: "Jo’s Film”, womens lib, BAND: Commune, North Heidelberg Rep. Company, road, North Melbourne, 3.00-6.00 pm. JULIE WONG and others: and THE MISSING LINKS Union theatre, 1.15 pm. Melbourne, 60c; also in AMP theatrette, 535 7.30 pm, monday to satur- WOMENS LIB forum and Outpost Inn, City. — both by John Antrobus: WINE AND CHEESE Alexandra gardens, 8 to 9 Bourke street, City, 8 pm. day, plus Saturday after­ child minding on lawn. DANNY SPOONER and Actor’s theatre, PARTY for wine freaks pm. noon. Church street, friday-sun- GORDON MACINTYRE: BLUES WORKSHOP: and mice, Redmont Barrie FRIDAY day, 8.30 pm, $2.00, $1.00 Frank Traynors, City, 80c. Union big, afternoon. forecourt, 4.00 pm. RADIO POETRY students. 50.2534. BBQ: North consort, 50c, FRENCH FILMS: Babel MR JONAH & DONT D I A L - A - P O E M : R i ng AN ELEMENT OF theatre, 2.1 5 pm. POETRY ROOM TO MOVE, Chris followed by Daddy Cool, K N O C K J O N A H , see Wed­ 3 2 9 .6 0 3 9 . DOUBT by William Bates: ALP Club film of the ’72 Winter returns from Eu­ Ross Ryan: Wilson Hall, nesday. Tait theatre, 107 Leicester election c a m p a i g n , POOR TOM'S POETRY rope: 3LO, 8.00 pm. 8.00 pm, $2.00. ORDINARY DECENT by COURSES street, Carlton, friday-sun- 11.00-12.00 am, Guild BAND: Alexandra gardens, WORDS BY BECKETT, Ted Nielson: Waverley Interesting and varied day, 8.15 pm, $2.50, $1.50 FREE FILMS: all nite, theatre. 8 to 9.30 pm. new music based on Sam­ Theatre Group, AMP the­ courses are starting this students. 347.1515. followed by breakfast RUSSIAN FILMS: Guild uel Beckett’s writings, by atrette, City, 8 pm. week, C.A.E. 63.4231 — THE REMO VAL 1ST by theatre, 2.00 pm. FILM Giacomo Manzini: 3AR, (“ Hatari”, “Willard”, ask for brochure. David Williamson: Russell “ Fistful of $s”). ANGELIQUE by Ibert, 8 .4 5 pm. LITTLE SUPERMAN: SATURDAY Cairnmillar Institute of hu­ Street theatre, City, mon- TRAVELLING DJ plays in Union theatre, conserva- Capitol, Swanston street, man relations, 63.9876 — day-saturday, 8.15 pm, the mixed lounge, Union torium students, 6.30 pm, City, 2 pm and 11.30 pm, MR JONAH & DONT ask for brochure. pre-dinner friday, 5.15 pm, big. $ 1.00. $ 2. 00. K N O C K J O N A H , see W e d ­ season tickets available. nesday. FLOOR SHOW 6 5 4 .4 0 0 0 . JAZZ CLUB shows New­ THURSDAY MEETINGS ROSENCRANTZ AND CULT — musical about the port Jazz Festival film, CAPTAIN ROCK, musical Guild theatre, 1.00 pm. GILDENSTERN ARE comedian: appearing night­ future, performed by stu­ MONASH ASTROLOGICAL KEY DEAD by Tom Stoppard: dents, written and pro­ ly at the Flying Trapeze, ANGELIQUE by Ibert, TO THE BIBLE by Mr J.- Warrandyte Arts Associ­ 201 Brunswick street, Fitz­ duced by ex-students, Bur- SEMINAR ON TER­ A. Farquharson: Theo- ation, AMP theatrette, wood T.C., 221 Burwood Union theatre, conserva- RORISM: Dr. Knopfel- TUESDAY, MARCH roy, 41.3727. torium students, 8.15 pm, sophical Society, 188 Col­ City, 8 pm. DEL SHANNON: Dorset road, friday and Saturday macher, Albert Langer. lins street. only, 8.15 pm, $2.00. $ 1.00. AUSTRALIAN BALLET: Gardens (friday, Saturday SUNDAY THE IMAGINARY IN­ Myer Music Bowl, 8 pm. only) — for those who like SEXUALITY AND FRIDAY VALID by Moliere, pre­ OUTDOORS out-of-town p la c e s . WOMEN: Womens lib MEET THE WRITERS: MR JONAH & DONT 7 2 5 .6 2 1 1 . sented by the Stratford public lecture, theatre, Old MELBOURNE MLC theatrette, 8 pm. KNOCK JONAH, see W ed­ POP GOES THE PARK Ontario Co: Princess the­ A rts big, 1 .0 0 pm. n e sd a y. starring Kush, Doug Park­ WEDNESDAY FILM atre, Spring street, City, FANNY OF THE FOOT­ GREEK S T U D E N T S ’ inson and guests. Special until thursday, 8 pm. LIGHTS: Buffet inc, 7.00 REVUE: Prince Phillip OPTIMISM or THE MIS­ segment THE MARCH OF MEET THE WRITERS: FILMS — These may pm, stud, theatre. theatre, 8.00 pm. change at a moment’s no­ ADVENTURES OF CAN- THE ROCK — THE BILL MLC theatrette, 8 pm. JAZZ: Bebop, Prince Phil­ DIDE by Voltaire, present­ HAYLEY STORY: Fitzroy AUSTRALIAN BALLET: tice, so check w ith the lip theatre, 1.00 pm. o v t e e & cinema to be sure. ed by the National Theatre WEDNESDAY gardens, 3 pm. Myer Music Bowl, 8 pm. FANNY OF THE FOOT­ THE SENSUALIST (R): of the Deaf of America: MONASH LIGHTS: 7.00 pm, buffet FRIDAY KIDS Trak, 445 Toorak road, Princess theatre, commenc­ inc. RADIO TOM WITTINGSLO W’S nightly 6, 8 pm, Wednes­ ing friday, nightly at 8.15 COMMUNITY CONTROL C A R N IV A L : 6 .4 5 pm , Sat­ day^ and Saturday matinee, pm, matinee thursday and FILMS by the Monash OF EDUCATION: mixed AMERICAN TOP 40: TRAD JAZZ: Myer Music urday 10.30 am, Sunday 2.30 pm, Sunday 5, 8 pm, Saturday, 2 pm, $5.70, Astronautical Soc, Lecture lounge, 1 0.00 am. 3KZ, 9 to 12 am. Bowl, 7.30 pm. 1.30 pm, Alexandra gar­ $2.50, $1.20 students. $4.20, $3.20, concessions theatre 8, 8.00 pm, free. WAVENDON JAZZ dens & Flinders Park. 2 4 .9 3 3 3 . available to children and FOLK AND JAZZ nite, in SATURDAY SEASON, British Jazz: SATURDAY THE PORTABLE PLAY­ ENGLAND MADE ME (M) pensioners. tent in forum, and horror 3LO, 9.30 pm. films thurs early morn. ERS: G. G. Association, and TRAVELS WITH MY BUTTERFLIES ARE MELBOURNE TRAD JAZZ: Myer Music ROSS RYAN: lunchtime STORY OF POP, from Bill Flinders Park, 7.30 pm till AUNT (M): Dendy, Mal­ FREE: Kenwood Studio Bowl, 7.30 pm. concert. Hay ley to now, in 16 friday, Saturday 8, 9 pm, vern, Glenferrie road, Mal­ Players, 572 Glenferrie GREEK S T U D E N T S ’ BRASS BAND SPECTAC­ parts: 3LO, for sleepless Sunday and monday 2 pm, vern, 7 days, $2.50. road, Hawthorn, thursday- COMMUNITY FEAST: REVUE: Prince Phillip ULAR: Salvation Army Union, 5.00 pm. nostalgic rockers. 7 .3 0 pm . 5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 . saturday, 8.15 pm, $1.20. theatre, 8.00 pm.

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N RIO it is town), a demonstration at a football | not hard to see match - a directly political problem two facesI o f Brazil. The There again there may not be. Ask a I huge statue o f Christ which Brazilian in the street and he’ll just shrug I stands on the Corcovado and smile and say nobody knows. It may | mountain overlooks blocks of all just be a show o f strength. flats rising in the suburbs In banks, armed guards in specially I of Ipanema and Copacabana, plated observation boxes survey every I customer. Road blocks in out-of-town-[ the fashionable areas o f town where districts are common. Military police still 'nightclubs, cafes and expensive boutiques control all traffic, and after 10.30 pm the I line the streets and where rich young area around military and naval academies Brazilians go to buy their authentic Viet­ is cordoned off and placed under heavy [ nam combat gear, complete with blood­ guard. stains. Traffic jams o f Volkswagens, In the press muffled echoes o f violence I music blaring from their radios, wind appear, enough to intimidate, not enough | along the strip o f land between Guana- to inform. Odd accounts of “ bandits” bara bay and the mountains, and bring and unexplained “ shootings” appear on the Avenida Vargas in the centre of town the inside pages. A story about a Spanish to a rush hour standstill. priest mysteriously “ assassinated” in a With growth rates averaging ten per­ railway station does not say that he was | cent for the past five years, inflation down to the “ manageable” rate o f 15 helping to organise victims o f the govern­ percent, and rapid expansion in exports, ment’s economic policy. A sensational | account o f the roundup o f ten teenage the capitalist development of the world’s sixth largest and fifth most populous “ hooligans” in the centre o f Sao Paulo I does not say who they were, nor that | state is well under way. As prices of some o f them were killed once they were primary products - coffee, sugar, soya carried away. beans - soar, Brazil is carrying out an Yet despite the facade of careless extensive industrialisation program: in­ ignorance, everyone knows. dustrial production rose 14 percent in Each Brazilian can tell you where the 1972, an estimated 15 percent in 1973. OBAN torture centre is in Sao Paulo or Manufactured goods already account the CODI centre in Rio. Everyone knows for over 30 percent of Brazil’s exports: she produces more heavy trucks than about the Death Squadron, the off-duty police group that has murdered at least Italy or Australia, exports watches and 2000 opponents in "mysterious” condi­ motor vehicles to Europe. Volkswagen tions: you cannot avoid them, because alone exported $36 million of goods from their unlicensed Cadillacs, darkened win­ Brazil in 1973. dows and the monogram “ EM” and the This is one side o f the Brazilian “ mir­ skull and cross-bones painted on them, acle”. The other is equally obvious. can be seen prowling the streets o f the Downtown Rio is sporadically frozen as main cities. uncovered trucks, carrying 30 heavily The dead are silent, but it is not hard armed military police, roar through with to find the living victims o f government wailing sirens to unknown destinations. terror, the women paralysed by multiple There may be a riot in a favela (shanty

Page 18 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 beatings and rape; the men psychologic­ being displaced by the speculators and Today a number of different, non­ ed by the popular and radical Chiquo | ally destroyed by their time in the hands large financial interests moving in from military, forms o f opposition survive. Buarque de Holanda. of the government’s torturers. They have Sao Paulo. In 1972 a small guerrilla There is no organised trade union opposi­ In the printed media theoretical marx-1 | had electrodes placed all over their bodies movement began to operate near the tion, above or below ground. The existing ist works of no apparent practical applica­ - on their hands, feet, ears, tongues and town o f Maraba in Para state, concentrat­ trade union structure was virtually dis­ tion (by Mandel, Althusser or Marcuse) | genitals. They have spent hours or days ing its activities along the river Araguia. solved after the coup. Labor demands are translated and sold to those who risk | buying them. The stands they say are tied into containers ot treezing water. Led by around 50 members of the pro- now go through the pelegos, state-control­ watched by police monitoring possible | They have hung for a week or more by Chinese Revolutionary Communist party led trade union officials who act as agitators. But no works on political strug­ their knees from the pau de arara, the o f Brazil who had settled in the area in organisers and informers under a system gle, and especially on armed opposition, I parrot’s perch, and have been beaten with the mid-60s, they executed a number of inspired by the corporatism of Vargas’ are allowed. special clubs and given shock treatment. large estate owners and survived a series presidency. A former trade union lawyer In the daily press, one section o f the Their eardrums have been pierced, they of attacks by government troops and told us over 2000 decrees concerning regime, represented by ex-finance min­ have been injected with pentathol, the freelance heavies sent in by land specu­ labor have been passed giving Trade ister R oberto Campos, is supported by the “ truth drug” , they have had their jail cells lators.'Their demands are for security of Union Law control to government bu­ weekly Politica: its main position seems j filled with disorientating gas. Those who land tenure, and for a fair price for local reaucrats. to be that there should be greater “ p oliti-! can, talk. produce. Even so, last winter in Sao Paulo, cal pluralism” to correlate with the “ eco­ Thousands more, it is not known how While isolated rural protests reflect the where at least 250,000 peasants come to nomic pluralism” now prevailing. The many, have died. The government prac­ violence of what’s happening in the Bra­ find work each year, there was a satirical weekly Pasquin prints gossip and tises the policy o f the big lie. They deny zilian interior, they are unlikely to im­ series o f stoppages and lightning strikes graphics that might offend the public it happens. International protests have pede its progress. in all the major Sao Paulo car works. Puritanism o f the regime. More serious apparently had little effect: foreign capi­ In 1967-68 the situation became more Isolated protests were reported among than either o f these is the weekly Opiniao tal continues to flow in and the US gives antagonistic: the “ democratic” politicians construction workers in Belo Horizonte, both political and economic backing to were pushed to one side by the military; the third largest town, in july and from (opinion): founded in October 1972, it the regime, as well as training its officers workers angry at inflation and students the dockers o f Santos, the largest port, in claimed a circulation o f 30,000 and was in the art o f repression. In may 1971 the protesting at military rule staged mass the same month. made up o f Brazilian coverage, plus mate­ Western Hemisphere Affairs sub-commit­ demonstrations. Armed urban guerrilla The most vocal critics-of the regime rial from the New York review of books, tee o f the US senate, under the chair o f groups went into action. The response of are to be found in sections of the media Washington post, Le monde, Guardian senator Frank Church, held hearings the Costa e Silva government was Institu­ and in the church. While cinema, a mass and New statesman. which amply demonstrated the scope of tional Act number 5, under which the medium, is heavily censored, the theatre, Opiniao went to the limits permitted torture in Brazil. In 1973 Amnesty Inter­ president was given full powers and all to which only a minority of the intelli­ in Brazil: it printed protests by catholic national published a detailed Report on constitutional guarantees. A wave o f un­ gentsia generally go, is able to express a church leaders and reports on permitted the allegations o f torture in Brazil, listing precedented violent repression then broke greater degree o f opposition. In the cen­ “ social” problems, while its heavier criti­ cisms were reflected in articles on foreign 1081 torture victims. The government’s across Brazil. tre of Rio, a play called Missa Lega (Lay main response appears to have been to This hardening of the regime coincided mass) is staged three times a week free of countries - reports of torture in Turkey, or on censorship in Vietnam, or on the issue new instructions on dealing with with a radicalisation o f the left. As charge. It is an outspoken and violent badly marked victims: whereas before elsewhere in latin America, many young attack on the government, and relies on building o f socialism or guerrilla struggles. they were sometimes released, they are members of the opposition, including audience participation for effect. It gets While at first permitted to publish, Opin­ now to be killed. A crippled, live body is church radicals, influenced by the world its response; the mixed audience o f stu­ iao was blocked: in april 1973 an issue bad evidence. prestige o f guerrilla war (Vietnam, Cuba, dents, radical bourgeois and urban work­ was banned, and since then the editors Stretching out from the towns o f the China) are radicalised by the failures of ers continues to fill the large theatre — submit the material and, in order to Atlantic seaboard is the vast interior, over the parliamentary left up to then, believ­ and the play is in its second year. conceal the censorship, no blank spaces | 60 percent o f it still forest, source o f two ed that the regime could be overthrown Another play staged in Sao Paulo in can be included. There are, nevertheless, spaces o f black with the printed-out thirds of the world’s oxygen. In the through the building o f a guerrilla move­ august, Um grido parado no ar (A cry Amazonian wilds and in the dry lands o f ment. A number o f initial successes (cul­ frozen in the air), portrayed by a group message “ Read Opiniao” . The most active and widespread op­ the northeast over 30 million people live minating in the kidnapping o f US ambas­ o f sad, disillusioned intellectuals harking in a situation equal in violence to the sador Burke Elbrick in September 1969) back to an unspecified “time” when position is that within the catholic torturing o f the towns. Here an economic appeared to offer a viable alternative. But things were “better” . A scarcely conceal­ church, and this takes at least three forms. The national federation of I reality that was always brutal has accen­ by the end o f 1971 the leaders o f the ed portrayal of a torture scene, and a tuated its pressure on its victims as the guerrilla movement had been killed (Mari- stream o f complaints against censorship bishops, the CNBB, andthe bishop o f | Recife in particular, Dom Helder Camara, government’s "opening” of the interior ghela in 1969, Lamarca in 1971); most o f and dismissals, conveyed the sense o f have unflinchingly condemned torture I has proceeded. Two new highways have the groups had been smashed. despair which has gripped Brazil’s intelli­ and the economic oppression of the poor promised wealth to the region, instead The guerrilla strategy failed because o f gentsia: the very hopelessness o f the play they have brought even fiercer exploita­ the absence o f a mass movement parallel could have saved it from banning. majority of the country. The government [ has responded by placing bishops under tion, and the guarantee o f more immedi­ to the guerrilla actions. This both dulled Music remains an important form o f house arrest. Lower down the hierarchy, ate military control. the propaganda effect of specific actions popular protest. People still sing the there have been widespread and sometimes Brazil’s economic development has — which appeared to the masses to come radical songs of Gilberto Gil and Caetano violent opposition from priests and nuns I been characterised by regional booms and out o f the blue — and meant that there Veloso — the ones they wrote before slumps which have created severe regional was no “water” in which the “ fish” could their imprisonment in ’68. At a recent who have worked with students, dwellers [ and structural imbalances. In the north­ swim. The groups were condemned to a concert Gil presented his latest numbers in shanty towns and peasants in opposi- east, depressed relic o f the sugar-produc­ hermetic clandestinity. Whereas in Argen­ to a packed audience; they got a tepid p tion activities. ing slave plantations, real income has tina the guerrilla groups active in the response, but the audience nearly brought Outside the ranks o f the clergy are fallen in the past decade to around $200 period preceding Peron’s return ran the house down when he sang his early radical catholics who see their religious I per head, and half the population dies side-by-side with a vibrant, organised political numbers. Gil and Veloso, after duty in a campaign for social justice and before the age o f 30. In the Amazonian working class movement, no such move­ living in Europe and the US, have aban­ the end o f military rule. While many | jungles the indian population is being ment existed in Brazil and the strikes o f doned politics for mysticism, saying that members o f the catholic church have radicalised in recent years, militants out-1 wiped out by guns and disease. In this ,1968 which signalled deep working class the stakes are too high; but there still side the catholic church who four years century alone 87 tribes have disappeared, discontent were not co-ordinated by any exists within the world o f music an and the indian population has fallen from working class organisation. important school of protest culture, head­ before might have favored armed action two million in the last century to 80,000 now see work with the church as the today. The government is aiming to settle most concrete way o f gaining contact I families along the highways. It offers with the poor and enjoying a minimum | them land, but no tenure, a shack but no protection from the repression. The active crushing o f opponents has I aid. The jungle is difficult to live in, almost impossible to farm But the peas­ gone together with a subtle ideological ants have little choice; many come from campaign, designed to mobilise support and give the impression that all is well in the deserts o f the northeast and having Brazil. The most direct form o f this is the reared their children on parched earth, censorship. In 1973 all live radio news | are assured at least o f abundant supplies broadcasts were banned. o f water in the jungles o f the Amazon. Occasionally protests are heard about N o medium can mention torture, arm­ the fate o f these families or about the ed opposition, or strikes. Nor was there policy of genocide and government ex­ any reporting of the recent means by I propriation; or discoveries are made of which the army selected the presidential “ slave” camps in which indented labor is nominee for 1974. There’s a general ban held by groups o f armed guards. But the on leaving blank spaces where articles protest is more likely to be about the 15 have been cut. Thus, in more positive | million acres o f the region’s forest con­ ways, there is a deliberate playing down verted to pastures, or the million trees per o f individual government leaders, and o f | day that are chopped down for export. the government’s policies: all is assimilat­ The cries o f the victims in the jungles and ed into a gargantuan, ongoing concern - deserts are even more strangled than those Brazil, half o f latin America, and now the in the towns. envy o f the world. Sports heroes - Pele Yet one group who have achieved in football, Emerson Fittipaldi in racing some attention in the past two years are - are boosted by covert government the posseiros, the small farmers who policies. Many o f the Brazilian left hope Funeral o f priest murdered for organising demonstration against government I migrated to the jungles from the north­ east in the 1930s and 1940s and are now

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974— Page 19 Brazil loses international sporting events the now muted and disorganised resent­ suffer a severe recession. If not, Brazil flew to Chile to help the military junta to undermine popular passivity towards ment of the population may explode. still faces the problems o f too great a there after the coup - a Brazilian football I the regime. One young militant, who had Half of the population of Rio and Sao dependence on the export sector at the team was flown in to play in the Santiago I been tortured for several weeks told us: Paulo live in shanty towns: they keep out expense of the domestic market, the stadium when Russia refused to play. | “ The left here loves Jackie Stewart.” o f the smart downtown areas. But one labor problems created by capital inten­ In a tour o f Andean capitals in july ] A favorite ploy in this "indirect” day they could move down and claim sive industry in a country already plagued 1973 foreign minister Gibson Barboza I propaganda campaign is the promotion of their own. by under-employment, and the continued signed credit agreements with Peru, little “ messages” , which are set to music, Foreign control is one winner in the failure to bring about desperately needed Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. Petro- placarded on advertising hoardings, and new economic boom. 100 percent of the reform in the agrarian sector — such is the bras, the state oil concern, is involved, distributed as car stickers. “ Say N o To car industry, 91 percent o f the tobacco price o f the Brazilian “ miracle” and it with local companies, in Ecuador, Vene­ Inflation” was arranged as a samba. industry, 82 percent of rubber and 54 remains to be seen how long the Brazilian zuela and Colombia. Across the Atlantic, “ Brazil Deserves Our Love” , and “ We percent of chemicals are foreign control­ people will be prepared to foot the bill. Brazil is trying to strengthen its ties with Are All Part of a Great Successful Enter­ led. The only leading industrial areas with So far the US, which helped give birth African states as a means o f boosting | prise - Brazil” are standard issue. When strong Brazilian representation are petro­ to the military regime in 1964, is well, exports. While Brazil has the largest tim­ the Brazilian football team returned from leum, electricity and textiles. In the pleased. Washington has promised $58m. ber reserves in the world, timber will be I their World Cup victory in 1970 president mining areas o f the North East and in military aid and to continue training imported from the West African state o f | Medici greeted them with the phrase Amazonia, enterprises established before hundreds o f Brazilian personnel at the Gabon. Not that politics are neglected: “ Ningum Siguro no Brasil” , “ Everyone is the end o f 1974 are given tax remissions International Police Academy in Wash­ under the transparent banner o f solidarity | I on the Move in Brazil” . of between ten and 15 years, provided ington. The increased economic and mili­ between Portuguese-speakers, the Brazil­ If sport is the most obviously promoted they obtain official approval. With huge tary penetration o f the rest o f latin ian junta have invested heavily in Portu-1 I diversion another o f even greater potency reserves o f bauxite, iron, manganese, America by Brazil fits the overall im­ gal’s African colonies as a means of is umbanda, the religious system o f the niobium and tin, Brazil is the source o f perialist strategy of decentralising power. boosting a likeminded regime, and Af­ Brazilian masses made up o f mixtures o f metals essential for the future o f the US Brazil has a com m on border with rican liberation movements claim that they I Catholicism and African religions brought economy. So great is the exploitation of every other South American state except have sent troops to boost Portugal’s'! by the slaves. In it the symbols o f the mining boom by the US that as one Chile and Ecuador. Chile was the main colonial forces there. Catholicism - statues, vestments, bells, observer put it “ Little by little Bethlehem continental rival before the September 11 Although firmly in command at home, candles and so on - are invested with the Steel Corp is hauling Brazilian land back coup, now it’s Peronist Argentina. In the junta has been disturbed by recent I I significance of African religions: like to the United States” . And while exports Paraguay, Brazil is helping to finance the trends in world diplomacy. The guerrillas I voodoo in Haiti, this syncretic belief. are expected to rise from $4000m. in Itaipu dam, which will enable them to have let it be known that in a world 1 centres on trance and often on sacrificing 1972 to $21,000m. in 1980, Brazil’s control the Parana river which flows into deprived of firm Christian leadership, I animals, and forms both an ideological foreign debt will rise from $9500m. to Argentina. In the other intermediary Brazil will be ready to assume a “ more | land a social system for the mass o f the $75,000m. in the same period. state, Uruguay, Brazil openly threatened important” role. I population. But these practices are not And, most dangerously, Brazil’s pros­ to help crush the left during the 1971 General Ernesto Geisel, the man nom­ confined to the poor: the top officials of perity depends on the continued stability elections and now patronises the Borda- inated to become president this | the government are known to consult of the world market and on the boom in berry dictatorship. Brazilian influence month, appears to represent a more ration­ | their macumbero fortune tellers. primary products. If either of these situa­ helped to install Banzer in Bolivia in al and active style of executive power The catholic church complains that tions changes the Brazilian econom y will august 1971, and Brazilian interrogators than that o f his three predecessors: the I the military is actually encouraging hesitant Castello Branco (1964-1967), the umbanda at the expense of Catholicism in manic Costa e Silva (1967-1969) and the I their attempt to control the population. thuggish Medici Garrastazu (1969-1974). Workers who spend their days produc- He is rumored to favor a slightly more ling cars and driving buses become by nationalist econom ic policy, having been | I night the embodiments of Xango and the director o f Petrobras until his nomin­ lOkun. The sound of drums, incantations ation. Rumors also suggest that Geisel j land shrieking emanates from the candle will encourage a slightly more liberal lit shrines found in all working class and regime, what is termed “ political decom­ peasant districts: while it is no more pression” or, as one sycophantic news­ irrational than the sound o f church bells, paper commentator put it, the attempt ] it’s an opium that will intensify as the “to promote the re-encounter of the misery and dislocation imposed on the revolution with its democratic inspira-1 masses by the economic “ miracle” in- tions” . Every president so far has promis­ | creases. ed liberalisation and a return to the | The economic record is the rock on constitution, and has then done nothing. I which the Brazilian regime now stands. Politics within the military is opaque I Brazil has a relatively unified ruling but the younger officers, members of an ] group, in which a highly centralised sys­ ultra-rightist faction known as the “ Indo­ tem is administered by a few military and nesians” , who favor intensified repres-1 I civilians, while private capitalists, mainly sion, have in the past blocked attempts by | from abroad, get on with their allotted higher officers favoring a slight relaxa­ Itadrs. Brazil has a double economic tion. There is nothing in Geisel’s own I advantage: prices for its main raw materi- political record to suggest that liberalis-1 lals have risen and so has foreign invest- ation is on the way; moreover nor is his Iment in manufacturing. By 1968, 69 choice of henchmen, like vice-presidential percent o f US investment in Brazil was in nominee, general Adalberto Pereiraz dos the manufacturing sector. This boom in. Bullet ridden corpses: the handiwork o f the Death Squadron Santos, a known hardliner and supporter j both kinds o f production has been helped o f Medici’s. 1973 has not been a “ liberal” by the “ undogmatic” capitalist policies year - the Death Squadron has become I associated with economics minister more active after two years o f relative Delfim Netto. The cruzeiro has been obscurity; several opponents have been devalued by small amounts around every shot by police in mysterious circum­ 40 days, and wages, prices and debts have stances, and the former chief executioner been adjusted to compensate for infla­ of the Death Squadron, commissioner tion. Brazil has “ denationalised” by en- Sergio Fleury, has been released from | couraging foreign investment. prison under pressure from within the The political cost of the country’s 10 police and army after he was arrested for | | percent growth - the thousands killed killing a suspected dope peddler. and tortured - has already been mention­ This year the regime has shown its I ed. On top o f this is the fact that the confidence in an epoch of commodity growth has polarised incomes: in the boom by announcing a 50 percent cut in I decade between 1960 and 1970 the rich­ coffee exports and abrogating all special est 10 percent of the country increased supply agreements in favor o f sales at the their share o f total income from 39.66 prevailing market price. It reckoned it I percent to 47.79 percent, while the poor­ could not lose from this reduced but I est 10 percent’s share fell from 1.17 more expensive marketing, since in 19731 percent to 1.11 percent in the same alone its exports had risen in value by 5 3 1 i period. The inflation figures also conceal percent. At the same time the new| the polarisation: the price of the staple president, Geisel, signalled no change in I feijoa (black bean) has risen 400 percent the form o f political rule: he let it be I in 1973 as a result o f the increased Indian 'jungle jack' known that “the confinement of the] production of soya beans for export; milk armed forces to activities which are strict-1 rose 120 percent and potatoes 300 per­ ly related to national security is absurd” . I cent in the same period. In the shortterm Brazil enters its second decade of| military rule, with torture and direct [ this represents an economic problem - Pikes against guns the limiting of the domestic market be­ mutilation of political opponents and | cau se o f the narrow spread o f rising economic torture o f the tens o f millions | incomes; in the longterm it means that of oppressed.

Page 20-T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 radical physician, said that women HE SIGN on the door says can’t run away from doctors. She “Self Help Clinic”. You T insists “ we should ask instead why walk in and, over to one side a we dont have more understanding, woman lies on her back, her legs humane gynecologists - and try spread apSft. She’s separating the to do something about it” . outer lips o f her cunt with a Sue Reverby, womens health plastic speculum. A couple o f expert, claims that self or group women are intently peering up examinations, even for routine in­ her orifice while a colleague is fections, are not accurate ways to manipulating a mirror enabling make diagnosis. She described an the woman on her back to get a example of how she had wrongly panoramic view o f the inside o f diagnosed herself and consequen­ her own vaginal passage. tly administered the wrong treat­ In another room a woman is ment. having her period extracted. She's Arguments against self-examin­ got a plastic tube, or, to use the ation itself seem fatuous - professional jargon, a cannula up women can only stand to gain her and another woman is operat­ from increased self-knowledge ing a syringe-like apparatus. It and, providing a woman has been only takes a few minutes and all shown how to use a speculum the menstrual fluids are sucked gently and safely, and has been out. And if the menstrual ex- made aware o f the necessity of tractee was pregnant, there’s now cleanliness (there’s a maxim - a 98-99 percent chance that she’s never put in your cunt what you not. wouldnt put in your mouth), This processis commonly there can be no harmful effects. known as "menstrual extraction” . In treating self-diagnosed ail­ Among medical circles it’s known ments, a certain amount o f care is as endometrial aspiration or necessary. If there’s any doubt menstrual induction. The sensa­ check with a medically qualified tionalist press call it “ early abor­ person. It’s over menstrual extrac­ tion” . tion however that the big question There’s a lot more going on in mark hovers. the Self Help Clinic. Some women HE BASIC equipment orig­ are looking at slides o f vaginal inally used for menstrual infections and are discussing sim­ T extraction, a syringe and plastic ple “domestic” remedies. A tube, was unsophisticated. There Roneo machine clanks out in­ was a danger that too much formation o f a forthcoming train­ uterine material could be collect­ ing course in birth control and ed and, that by pumping air into introducing an abortion referral the uterus, a fatal embolism could service. This printed information be caused. is later to be distributed to sub­ Self helper Lorraine Rothman urban working class women in an has improved this basic equip­ attempt to illustrate to them that ment. Her new kit, called Del Em, ignorance of their own bodies which has been designed for use in adds to their domestic and eco­ Self Help Clinics, features a by­ nomic plight and heightens their pass bottle and a valve system, dependence on an expensive medi­ and is safer and more efficient. cal system. Rothman admits that menstrual INCE their inception in extraction is still in the experi­ S 1971, American Self Help mental stage and that she and Clinics have flourished — there are other self helpers are watching now more than 100 such clinics in closely for long and shortterm the US. O f course reactionary and effects such as: conservative elements have de­ • Pelvic inflammatory disease rided this development. Op­ which could be caused by bacteria ponents of the womens movement introduced by the cannula into dismiss self help as just another the vagina. example of womens liberation’s • Perforation o f the uterus. obsession with technological mat­ • Eventual cervical incompetence ters and ask when women are - the weakening of the cervix’s going to stop “mucking around” potential ability to hold back with their bodies. However self baby and waters during pregnancy help diagnosis is receiving growing thus increasing the possibility o f support from women throughout premature births. the world. During extraction severe In fact American women acti­ HELP cramping can also be a problem vists have found that it’s much but, if this becomes too painful, easier to induce women to attend the process can simply be stop­ self help clinics that it is to ped. Women with reflexed, anti­ involve them in ideological dis­ THYSELF■■■■Mi mtrnBmm tmmKmm mMMMb flexed uteruses, serious infections, cussions. Women are quite awed polyps, extensive scarring, en­ by what they can learn about dometriosis and double uteruses their own bodies through self- should never undergo menstrual examination. It seems too that she proved she was out o f town extraction. shown how to, with the aid of a there’s quite a “ trip” in self-exam­ on one of the days a policewoman Advocates o f menstrual extrac­ plastic speculum, a lamp, and mir­ ination - women have made state­ undercover agent allegedly receiv­ tion state that the participant’s rors, open the vaginal cavity and ments such as, “ It’s the inner eye, Angeles abortion reformist, Carol ed advice from her. The jury, awareness o f its experimental inspect the walls and cervix for the opening to the soul” , and “ It’s Downer, saw another wom an’s eight men and four women, re­ nature is crucial to the procedure. discharges, infections etc. Being good to know life will never get cervix during an IUD insertion. turned a verdict o f not guilty. The Groups o f US women who have adept at cervical self-examination boring. Everyone’s cervix is differ­ She examined her own cervix and trial and subsequent publicity been regularly meeting to extract means a woman can follow ent” . then demonstrated the procedure helped the movement to a consid­ each others periods have been changes in the cervix during Self Help Clinics were estab­ to a group of friends. The group erable extent. One self help acti­ keeping data on their findings, but menstrual periods, be aware of lished in America by women expanded, met regularly in a fem ­ vist commented that: “ The trial this has yet to be publicly releas­ any changes due to pregnancy, health activists to give women inist book shop, and then moved taught women all around the ed. recognise and treat yeast and Self helper Laura Brown sums more control over their own bod­ to the LA Womens Centre. country about the yogurt cure. It other vaginal infections, recognise Predictably, all hasnt been up the attitude o f menstrual ex­ ies and to circumvent the medical was a big PR job .” system hence lessening the ex­ syphilis and gonorrhoea, and also peaceful. On September 20, 1972, traction experimenters by de­ ploitative powers of male doctors. to learn to extract menstrual LA police busted the original e n s t r u a l extraction, the claring: “ We have the right to do In the US women make, on fluids, to give themselves a “ five Womens Centre and arrested M most controversial practice it as consenting adults.” average, 25 percent more calls to minute period” , and/or an early Downer and colleague Colleen o f the self helpers, has not yet There’s another danger in doctors per year than men, con­ abortion, a guiltless abortion be­ Wilson for “practising medicine been legally tested in American menstrual extraction - it’s “ rip- sume 50 percent more pre­ cause the woman need not know without a licence” . Wilson plead­ courts. However, the New York o ff” potential is extremely high. scription drugs than men and are if she was pregnant or not. ed guilty to one o f the 11 charges city health department recently American women are already more frequently admitted to hos­ US self helpers also examine against her and received a $250 became the first city to declare complaining about doctors who pitals. Although 70 percent o f the the possibility of more advanced fine, 25 day suspended sentence, that menstrual extraction is now are charging $50 per extraction. US health labor force is comprised paramedical training and form ac­ and two years probation. Downer subject to the same health rules An example of such a “ doctor” o f women, most patients and tion groups to continue the repeal pleaded not guilty to her one governing abortions. is Harvey Karman, a self-taught workers are under the dominance o f sex laws and to promote cheap­ charge — diagnosing a vaginal Self help has also caused dis­ abortion expert who has been and supervision o f male doctors er, safer abortions and contracep­ yeast infection and applying sension among the ranks o f radical aborting for more than 20 years (only 7 percent of US doctors are tion. Ultimately they hope the yogurt as a cure. feminists. Ellen Frankfort, author and has been busted “ more time women, the bulk o f these special­ clinics can be taken beyond in­ Her lawyers represented the o f the column “ Vaginal Politics” than he can remember” . Karman, ising in pediatrics). dividual groups and challenge the case as a domestic administration in the Village voice stated that who credits himself for all the The credo o f the US self help current medical system. of a family remedy, which is cervical examination is a move­ major womens breakthroughs (in­ movement is “ happiness is know­ The movement began in the US excluded from the medical licence ment indulgence with limited cluding the “ invention” o f the self ing your own cervix” . Women are in february 1971 when Los law. Downer also benefited when diagnostic ability. Dr Jane Fisher, helpers speculum which he claims THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974— Page 21 kiss a patient. was a “ hot shot” idea o f his more into the problem, and a report Beatrice Faust, an extremely demonstrated how the method To help women find sympa­ than ten years ago), has also devel­ giving statistics should soon be active radical, the woman who worked. thetic doctors the Womens Elec­ oped his own menstrual extrac­ tabled. originally established the extreme­ He said it should only be per­ toral Lobby keeps a “black” list tion kit which is designed for use ly effective Womens Electoral formed by medical staff and that and a “ white” list. Faust recom­ by doctors and medical clinics at Lobby and is presently involved in the idea of a woman extracting On the mends that women avoid catholic $25-$50 per extraction. Karman, the Abortion Law Repeal Associ­ her own fluids was impractical. He gynecologists at all costs, and that his modish clothes, unctuous good ation (ALRA). strode into the middle o f his home front jewish gynecologists are usually looks and baby blue XKE Jaguar, Faust believes that Self Help office and flexing his knees, as u r p r i s i n g as it may be, the best. Faust warns against un­ is hated by self helpers for his Clinics are definitely needed in though about to demonstrate a in Australia, where womens married female gynecologists - blatant disrespect for woman and S Australia because most women are golf stroke, he showed the diffi­ services are seriously undeveloped she says these women are just as his hip experimentation on naive and incredibly ignorant culty a lone woman would have in and where, paradoxically, women bad as cunt shy men, that after women - his first cannula patient, about their own bodies. She says inserting the tube and then manip­ have one o f the highest rates of making a lot o f career sacrifices by his own admission, “ didnt even that our medical system is in ulating the syringe. He also said usage o f the “ pill” in the world, a these women develop a contempt know she was one” . better shape than America’s but that self-examination was tech government financed Self Help for other women, are extremely RITISH self helpers are in a women should be actively involv­ nically negative and that he would Centre has been established and unliberated and their conscious­ different situation to their ed in improving the attitudes of not advocate the prescription of B will open officially on march 8, to ness is usually badly in need o f American counterparts. In Ameri­ Australian gynecologists. Accord­ any substance or drug, restricted coincide with International raising. ca the medical system is extreme­ ing to Faust, most Australian or otherwise - but he quickly Womens Day. Faust has very definite views ly capitalistic and exploitative, gynos fall into two basic categor­ added it was not up to him to tell The centre, known as the on menstrual extractions - she with poorer, lower class citizens ies - those that are cunt shy, and women what they could, or could Leichhardt Community Health maintains they should only be denied medical access. Conse­ those that are cunt happy. not, do to their own bodies. Centre, has been given a grant o f performed by trained medical or quently American women have to Faust described the catholic ATER that day I found $33,000 by the Federal Hospitals paramedical staff, and only for militantly set out to improve the doctor who delivered her first myself trudging up the and Health Services Commission, abortion purposes. On hormonal L attitude o f the medicos and alter child. To suit his own ideals this dingy cement stairs leading to is the first Australian government balance, she believes the gradual the system so that it benefits doctor would not administer a the Fertility Control Centre, the financed community service to be release o f menstrual fluids plays a them. painfiller. The birth was particu­ home of well known “abortion’ operated by an independent body. very important function in the In Britain, which, according to larly painful because Faust had to referralist, Bertram Wainer. Sitting The idea for the centre rose hormonal cycle and rapid release Eva Learner, a social health care be cut to facilitate the baby’s exit. in Wainer’s reception room, you out of the Womens Commission o f menstrual fluids would cause lecturer at London’s University Then when this ghoul began to get the feeling that this is the of 1973 which discussed the need a hormonal backlash and depres­ College hospital who is currently “ sew her up” she demanded a nitty gritty of the cunt business for a centre to act as an abortion sion. visiting Australia, has a “ potential­ painkiller. He refused, and Faust, referral centre, to cater for Self help, she says, should be - furtive, whitefaced Mss nervous ly beautiful health care system in agony, threatened to kick him womens medical and paramedical extended to training women to ly await their call; tired, wan, open to everybody”, the role of in the face (women on the deliv­ worried women look at posters needs, to give contraceptive ad­ take their own smears for vaginal Self Help Centres are more in the ery table are in an excellent posi­ that proclaim “ Y ou ’ve come vice, to perform an educative role and cervical cancer testing. area o f general social work and tion to deliver such a kick) unless in the community, and to pro­ UT WHAT about the long way baby” ; a tear stained girl the raising o f womens conscious­ he administered the painkiller, mote self help and knowledge of “ wom b men” themselves, clutches her boyfriend, desperate ness. which he then did. This doctor, B the body. how do they react to self help and ly kisses him, as though she might Learner, who is broadly experi­ says Faust, was cunt shy. A d o c­ never return from “ in there” . Judy McLean, secretary of the menstrual extractions? I put this enced in obstetrics and gynecol­ tor who didnt like women, centre, said that initially the question to Dr Trevaks, the medi­ When the last patient’s gone, ogy, and is a consultant in these enjoyed their pain, liked to, and centre would be “ fairly conserva­ cal superintendent o f that all im­ Wainer calls me into his office and fields, has been involved in both felt it his role, to punish women. tive” when compared to US Self portant institution, the Royal begins a relaxed, informal chat. American and British self help Then there was the time Faust Help Clinics. Womens Hospital in Melbourne. Broaching the subject of self help, movements. She says that British stripped o ff in front o f a gyno. He The centre, situated in an old He was earnestly bemused about Wainer states that he’s not oppos­ self helpers face no political prob­ said that she had fine white skin working class area, hopes to act­ the whole thing. He gave me a ed to women “ looking up each lems except to push for certain and that she would be good to ively work among the women of conspiratorial male grin and shrug others fannies” . In fact, he says, developments to be made avail­ make love to. This was a cunt the immediate area but indica­ — the universal indication among he’d more than welcome any able on the National Health Ser­ happy doctor, one who “liked” tions are that women from all men that they’ve really got no movement that would help vice. women. over Sydney will make use of the idea what goes on in a woman’s women overcome their ignorance British self helpers examine Women are under a distinct services. The centre will be staffed head. about their genitals and the repro­ each other vaginally but are not so disadvantage when dealing with by two doctors, two nurses, one However, Trevaks knew a lot ductive “ mysteries”. involved in diagnosis or using medicos and are usually too timid fulltime, the other parttime, one about womens bodies. He discus­ He explains that he’s not a home remedies. Only a very small to demand a gynecologist to im­ health education officer, one re­ sed menstrual extraction in very “ medical chauvinist” , that people number of women carry out prove his methods and manner. search worker and a secretary. efficient terms. Yes, he’d heard it in general should leam more menstrual extraction - the pro­ Faust dismisses the medical board Unfortunately, apart from the talked about, read about it in the about their bodies and that they cess is still underdeveloped in as not very useful — it usually should even perform such simple Leichhardt clinic, there is no popular press, and explained that Britain and is being examined by tends to cover up and only acts if procedures as taking their own other organised self help body in it was practised, where practical, legislative bodies. It is available on a gynecologist is reported to have blood pressure. Australia. I contacted several in “ therapeutic” abortions in that the NHS but it’s carefully moni­ done something obviously out­ Wainer has a companion, a women from various womens or­ hospital. He drew me a “ map” o f tored. rageous, like trying to forcibly glamorous blonde, middle aged ganisations — some had no knowl­ the uterus, identified the common Learner advocates the training American colleague. Her high edge o f self help, others had heard enemy, the fertilised ovum, and, of paramedics to carry out extrac­ forehead, arched eyebrows and o f it, but dismissed it. I spoke to menstrual extraction kit in hand, tion under the medical care service. accent traces, indicate that she has She is not in favor of women an upper class european back­ performing the process on them­ ground. She also has a very cold selves. She views menstrual extrac­ attitude towards her patients. If tion purely as an abortion she had her way, “ ordinary” method. She thinks the idea o f people wouldnt even be allowed women going to such lengths to to take their own temperature, let alleviate the hassles o f a period is alone examine themselves. This morbid, and throwing women woman, who declined to give her back to the archaic era, and that name, said that in America there’d women who carry out the process been a campaign to educate are a bit “ kookie” . women to check on the placement Learner says the problem of o f their own IUD insertions. She women being conditioned to feel said she’d com e across a woman “dirty” during periods is still a who had infected herself — she was bloody nuisance (her pun) and working in the garden and then one o f the aims o f self help should walked inside and stuck her dirty be to ensure that all British finger up herself. women have a healthy attitude Wainer leaned forward and urg­ towards menstruation and feel ed me to ensure that I didnt credit free to fuck etc, during menstrua­ this quote to him - “ the womens tion. She maintains that “ men­ libbers would crucify m e,” he strual anxiety” is still a wide­ -DO IT YOUR-SELF EXAMINATION- said. spread problem in Britain. FULL bladder will obscure lums are available from most med­ push the blades further in to His female colleague then in­ British Self Help Clinics are A findings — urinate before ical suppliers. expose the pink cone like cervix, formed me that it takes a great designed more as walk-in centres examination. Lubricate the blades with surgi­ the opening to the uterus. The deal o f training to become a gyne­ where women are invited to learn Lie comfortably on your back cal jelly - easy on the jelly, too cervix moves about a bit. If it is cologist and that it had taken even about their bodies, or merely to on a firm surface (floor or table), much jelly can be confused with out o f view massage your lower her a year before she could feel chat about their problems. British or on the edge o f a chair, and let vaginal secretions. abdomen to gently push it back to and recognise “ things” . Wainer self helpers involve themselves in your knees fall gently apart. Pull the lips apart with your centre. thought that menstrual extraction all areas o f health, including Then, using a goose neck lamp left hand and insert the closed Using the hand mirror, inspect performed by untrained women mental health and also examine and a hand mirror (Beatrice Faust speculum blades with your right the mouth of the cervix. Look for was the height o f nonsense, that legal and social problems. recommends motorbike wing mir­ hand. cervical erosion, red mqist areas non trained people shouldnt pre­ Eva Learner says that one o f rors - they’re ideally suited for The blades should run perpen­ around the opening. Look for tend to be doctors and that this the most important developments the job), examine the external dicular to the floor - insert them discharges coming out o f the cer­ was in fact backyard abortion and o f British self help had been the genitalia. Look for growths and parallel and you ’ll press soft vagi­ vical mouth — these discharges are therefore highly illegal. Wainer discovery o f the high incidence o f skin changes, such as rashes, dis­ nal tissue against the pubic bone signs o f infection in the uterus or says that it is a good idea for wife bashing. Large numbers o f coloration etc, and any discharges resulting in pain. fallopian tubes, such as gonorr­ paramedics to be trained to per­ “ battered” women have been coming out o f the vaginal open­ When the speculum is firmly hoea. Discharges coming from the form extractions. coming to the centres seeking ing. inserted turn it so that the blades vagina, but not the cervix, are Finally, Wainer told me that shelter - previously they had no­ Next pull back the outer lips are now parallel to the floor and signs o f vaginal diseases such as it’s his opinion that do-it-yourself where to go, stayed at home, and and expose the smaller inner lips. squeeze the outside arms towards trichomonas vaginalis or fungus in­ extraction kits were an obvious did not come to public attention. Look for cysts in the crevice lining each other. This spreads the fections. gimmick and showed me an inter­ British Labor MP, Jack Ashleigh, the inside o f the outer lips. blades open inside your vagina. Finally, slowly release the national newsletter, InterCom, shadow minister for social secu- Now use a speculum which has The teeth on the handle will teeth of the speculum and remove which warned that these kits were rity, has ordered a full inquiry been sterilised in alcohol - specu- lock in an open position. Gently it. becoming a dangerous big business. Page 22 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974 MY NAME MEANS HORSE: both credited for backing vocals) Ross Ryan (EMI EMA 301). Ross, the singing horse sings a soaring line which brings to OSS Ryan more or less mind Cocker’s Beverley Gardiner Rsprang out o f nowhere last MARGARET MacINTYRE or the unspecified backing vocalist year, when he was chosen as a who helps make John Denver’s supporting act in WA for Roy Aerie a great album. It is one o f Orbison, and since then he has title for a song. the album is Dont look to me, an failure in his efforts to help man those strong songs which builds gone from strength to strength. As well, there are the personal ambitious but successful song in and decided to cop out: So dont and builds and stays firmly in His biggest break in the eastern love songs: A Jules song, There is which Jesus is both subject and look to me/It is over. mind after one hearing. states was the Hollies’ tour, when no pain, and Nobody waved good­ narrator, yet the song is neither In the last rousing chorus line Battle song is a wistful anti war the audience was so disappointed bye - the last two tinged by a farcical nor a steal from Jesus the backing singers swell above song, bringing the blame quite by the main act and so pleasantly gently bitter tone. Christ superstar. The message is the strings, and either Allison squarely back home with a gentle surprised by Ryan that they came The most outstanding song on that Jesus has declared himself a MoCallum or Kristi Lane (who are hushed female chorus: L ook on away raving about the support down/see what we’ve done. Peter act. A breakthrough for both Martin who arranges the strings Ryan and an Australian audience. delicately and tastefully through­ EMI have a great deal o f faith out the album plays some nice in their singer/songwriter/guitarist guitar on this track. boy wonder and this shows on the Edith child has a cover P.S. packaging of his second album As attached to the lyrics: “This is well as printing the lyrics in the what is known as a ‘chunga handsome fold-out cover, there chunga’ song. It’s for you people are explanations from Ross on in record land who believe all certain songs, giving it all a very music is for dancing. Power to personal touch. Cynics suggest your feet. So there you are folks that this faith stems from the fact - it’s got a beat and you can that Ryan has an American pass­ dance to it.” port and therefore will be easier I am Pegasus, the single from for EMI to break in in America, the album is explained away by and though the removal of visa Ryan with the words: “ This song problems can be o f great assistance does mean something. However in this, I think the main reason is the explanation is so confusing it Ryan himself. would probably only bore you.” I On stage Ryan has an amazing know more people who hate this talent for projecting himself to song than like it - partly perhaps, the audience with feeling and af­ because of its radio exposure. I fection. He enjoys handling an dont mind it however, and its audience and is one of the few obscure lyrics amuse rather than Australian performers who can get annoy me. the crowd to sing along without The last track on the album bludgeoning them about the head Sing-along-horse-song, subtitled or resorting to threats, as some the song the world has been wait­ rock groups do. As well, he has a ing for, is a nonsense play on the fresh sort of rugged yet amen­ name o f the album, so named able boy next door image which because the name Ross means perfectly suits the type o f materi­ horse. It is not an important track al he sings. here, with its rollicking sing-along, All this is captured on his new but I can imagine it playing a album Many o f Ross’s songs are lively part in Ryan’s perform­ drawn from personal experience ances. and observation: Orchestra ladies Ross Ryan begins his album is “dedicated to those young with a message to listener and ladies who, as rumor has it, help reviewer alike: fill the empty hours of the lonely Why dont you walk over /and travelling musician” , and it is a lift off the needle- fresh and sensitive approach to Just dont lay the blame/beside the oft-used and abused subject of m y name groupies, suggesting that “ you You put me on. come look for a dream/and you And I left it on, and I enjoyed find nothing there” . STEVE HARLEY of Cockney Rebel said it all when he it. My name means horse is a very Blood on the microphone gives commented on a sell-out Mott the Hoople Concert for pleasant, easy listening album the listener a glimpse o f the stage Melody maker last year: “ It was rubbish. But it made 2000 There are m great profundities from the other side o f the lights, kids happy, and that’s what’s important.” And that’s how in the lyrics, no stunning innova­ when the performer is facing a photographer Rod Manning saw the recent Melbourne Slade tions in the music, but gentle, disinterested, almost hostile audi­ Concert. pleasant albums arent too easy to ence. A nice angle, and a brilliant come by. So if that’s what you feel like, give this a chance.

LAMENT FOR SAD JONAH

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THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, march 5-11, 1974— Page 23 AMOS DRUMMOND Something there is about you . . . similar school but there he is PLANET WAVES: Bob Dylan This man loves Dylan.... howlin’ and honkin’ and between him and The Band who is pushing e v ie w in g a Bob Dylan He substituted the sports hero dies monotonous. But it always into one of those “Here’s what who? I dont know what the hell album is more than a bit for the so called cut-above-the- takes me so long to find out Dylan seems to be saying” raves R rainy days on the great lakes or difficult. It’s hard because the mob scene. which ones. And there are prob­ or even “ Here’s what he’s saying walking the hills o f old Duluth man’s music - his songs - has Christ. I hung on every album ably a couple o f songs that fit this to me” jags cause they aint worth (and it had to be Ruth . . . Phyllis stood so high so long, has not wondering where the guy was category on this album but I just a bucket of cold spit as a former doesnt rhyme with Duluth) has to only reflected but channelled and going so I could change gear ac­ can’t recall which right now. American vice-president once said d o with it but I like it. translated a decade - in many cordingly and smirk at all the It’ll take a bit more time and a explaining the worth of his office. Forever young is my favorite cases, mine included, the guy has bastards who couldnt follow his few more hundred listenings be­ But we’ll have a small run song on the album. His gift to been able to form the opinions drift. He had achieved artistic fore objective judgment enters the through so you can have some­ others is his gift to me. If I could and yea verily change the lives of freedom because I’d grant him picture. Right now I’m glad be­ thing to argue with me about. only share with you what this others with a guitar, a rough hewn anything and wait until it grew on cause there is no one like him, no On a night like this is about 14 song does for me . . . May you verse and a voice that has fluctuat­ me and grow it did and does. one coming close to him, no one hours after the New Morning. If always know the truth and see ed between frog and fairy. But hang on! That was years who impresses me more with their I’m not too far off/ I think we did their lights surrounding you with It’s gotten to the point where ago. Where the hell is that matur­ sincerity, and no one who makes this once before the man sings. Dylan’s voice sliding from note to reviewing him has become a bit ity everyone promised me for so me so happy to listen to. Yea, but it’ s all right. image. like reviewing God and his World long? When Planet waves was first Where has our blue eyed son Going going gone . . . Robbie Dirge brings up that scarey past Game Plan (now there’s a show released I took a cab to the record got to now? Well for one thing at his clinical best and Dylan again and it’s a tune well named that should truly have bombed in shop and ordered three copies, he’s in love and he’s howlin’ about singing about what seems to be a but nothing I care to think o f New Haven). waiting to leap into a trance, nod it, and he has this group called narrow escape. There’s a lot that right now. But that, o f course, is so my head in approbation and con­ The Band backing him up and happened back there in the past You angel you and Never say wrong. Somewhere back in the firm that the king was indeed nobody can set up a howl like this that scared shit out o f Dylan but goodbye are nice and simple, soft early 60s when critics were de­ alive. band. he can still sing about it or allude rocking love songs. Wedding song scribing Dylan as a chaplinesque I know that all sounds like Back in the drug days Dylan to it at least. is Dylan and guitar and the ideal character with the face of a choir crap. I know I know. But god­ said he played with Robbie Tough mama . . . a gritty side love, the full circle (I love you boy and the voice and style of a dammit it happened. He did it Robertson cause he was the only o f the sad eyed lady. I wonder if more than madness). And again, neo Woody Guthrie cum Blind again. I just can’t kick the habit man alive who oould mathemat­ this is gonna be one o f the ones I yet again, he disavows his role as Lemon Jefferson, before he start­ no matter how old I try to get. ically dissect his music. Right he dont really care for. prophet leader (It's never been my ed to define the protest move­ Planet waves is a fucking great is again. While other groups pro­ H a zel. . . Hang on, did he say duty to remake the world at large, ment, Dylan made a strong point album (and anyone who thinks I vide a wall for the singer to hang STARDUST IN YOUR EYES . . . nor is it my intention to sound o f saying that the one thing he should end the review right here, out on, The Band cuts through a Y eah and he also moans the battle charger). Yeah, well he learned from Woody - one of and I do, doesnt realise that the verse and Levon Helm, on drums, oooooooohhhhh for the touch of can just do what he wants to do many catalysts — was that no man reading public demands more and moves it along. Damn! This isnt a your love . . . but if the truth be and I’ll be satisfied. should be made to suffer the idol I get paid by the line). group it’s a holy communion with known I’m in a romantic mood My overall impression is that syndrome. Now I’m going to make a slight Dylan as the host. There. Now I this year and Dylan the sucker Dylan has forsaken the melody That, I believe, is a simple, confession that will lose me a know that’s a gross exaggeration punches me with this song. It’s for the package but it doesnt sensible point that he immediately couple of friends who burn but what the hell do you want me simple and soft and tender and bother me. Where he will go from began to contradict for this or candles in front o f Dylan’s pic­ to say. They’re good? Give me a this is getting me sick to my here doesnt interest me right now. that reason by condoning by ture. Some o f his songs bore the good old exaggeration over an stomach but I’m writing it. He’s But may he stay forever young. silence the myth that others, we pants o ff me. Some o f his lyrics understatement any day. singing it. It makes a helluva were more than willing to build. are tearfully trivial and his m elo­ Now I dont feel like getting difference. □ ....but not the Four Tops

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healthier than most kids. activities. Without wishing in any way One issue only And I see no reason why biological to play down Sartre’ s contribution, the THE majority o f gay liberationists in parents should be expected to hang on fact remains that the philosopher o f Sydney are conversant with police and to “ their” children. It is a nuclear action played a much less active role prison brutality and depersonalisation. family myth that a biological parent is than, say, Camus, the philosopher o f They also support any moves to necessarily a child’s best friend. The despair and quietude. (Sartre is being clean up the current mess in this state’s fact that someone grew on your sperm only a little self-deprecatory when he police stations and prisons. / tw i ceac/y or ovum doesnt entail that you’ll like says in the New left review of nov-dec But the Sydney Gay Liberation them (or they you). 1969 that “ all I did was a few errands” .) Front, despite efforts by the marxists & ? n y / t / e If someone doesnt want to have 2) “ After the war. . . (Sartre) join(ed') and gay SYA members to force it to, “ their” kid and someone else the kid the French Communist party” and is, at this stage, still a one-issue likes does — eg. a barren woman who “renounced his membership in the organisation. That one issue being to wants a child to live with, a “ single” party following the 1956 invasion o f fight for gay civil and human rights. person, a commune, a “ couple” homo Hungary” . Sartre has never been a It was therefore a surprise to read in or hetero, a mother who wants more member of the party (though he did Wendy Bacon’s report of the recent kids but not thru her cunt — then say at one stage during the 60s that he demonstration outside Long Bay jail simply reshuffle living arrangements. would join were he living in Italy), as (TLD 2 /8) that among the groups There’s no reason why people any acquaintance with Beauvoir’s listed on the bottom o f the pamphlet should remain in nuclear family ranks memoirs, or any o f the standard books read to prisoners inside the jail and — that’s sheer superstition. Of course on the French Left (Caute, Lichtheim) distributed outside was Gay Liberation y e z c anybody w ho tries living in other than confirms. It is true that, in part (with a capital “ G” and “ L” , denoting the holy family arrangement finds vari­ because o f the Merleau-Ponty’s influ­ a group not a movement). Those listed ous exciting(?) problems of maladjust­ ence, Sartre in thought and action was were, according to Tony Green’s yew t//fa c e t/ / ment (resulting from nuclear family closer to the stalinist French CP in the information to the police, organisers o f upbringings). 50s (before Hungary) than ever before the demonstration. This can mean that unorthodox or since. Let’s get the record straight. The non-nuclear family live-ins often “ col­ 3) “ He chose to remain a marxist, matter o f Sydney GLF assisting in lapse" before long: but that doesnt rather than returning to existential­ organising this or any non-gay mean they're no good. People evolve. ism” . But o f course, in crucial respects demonstration has not been raised this It is just another NF myth that a living (the fixation with cartesian subjectivity D on’t b s com placent about this. Australia needs year or at any time during the group’s m on ey— n eeds it urgently. A nd it's up to every- arrangement has to be permanent. and the reification o f the isolated b c d y not in the fighting forces to see that she two-year existence. If individual gets it A n d that m eans you . If you can lay your Perhaps TLD could function as a individual), Sartre has never abandoned hands on a thousand pounds, lend It. If you can members o f GLF wish to take part in on ly raise ten pounds, lend it. A nd if y o u can’t child swapping exchange, cutting out his existentialism despite his professed m anage that, then arrange to Invest ten pounds non-gay demonstrations (and it’s b y instalments. But whatever y ou d o. lend. Lend officialdom. There’s a lot of miserable conception in the Critique of marxism MORE than you can afford. Lend every penny interesting to note the pamphlet makes you’ve got. Australia needs your money now. kids around, a lot of unwilling moth­ as the only philosophy of our time, The men who are fighting for Australia need the and of existentialism as a parasitic no mention o f poofter bashing or pack support and backing your m on ey can give them. ers, and a lot o f people w ho’d love and rapes in prisons) they are free to do so, Can you withhold it? be loved by these kids. ideology living on the margin o f marx­ but as gay liberationists (small “ g” and Officialdom is evil and to be avoid­ ism (his words), the existential tail “ 1”) not as representatives of Sydney ed in child swapping because they soon comes to wag the marxist dog. GLF. dehumanise it into bureaucratic pro­ 4) “ Sartre may be an existentialist, If your readers are interested in gay ceedings. They but it is an existentialism of his own life behind bars then they can read an LEND TO AUSTRALIA j * J A A (1) keep kids in child prisons (which making. If tragedy and isolation are the insider’s report on that subject in the they call “ HOMES” ), condition of man, they are not any current issue o f Stallion (inquiries to (2) give kids to the most plastic longer (sic: they were never, for Sartre) PO Box No 162, Alexandria NSW buy u m f a w M n / s f foster parents they can find, the ones the excuse for surrender, but reason 2015), Australia's only national gay who meet their “ standards” (= middle for combat” . Whatever else Sartre’s magazine for and by the gay class materialism), and “ existentialised marxism” involves, it is community. (3) w on’t give kids to beautiful most emphatically not “ tragedy and Power to the (gay) people, one percent of the camp world. Barry people, indeed sometimes isolation” as “ the condition of man” . MARTIN SMITH, Humphries retorted that “ Australia NF myths (4) they take kids FROM beautiful Material scarcity and class exploitation Glebe, NSW was a country of latent heterosexuals” , THE BITTER experience of “ Trapped, people. can be drastically reduced if not entire­ he didnt mention marxism! ly eliminated through class struggle. of Wodonga” is a perfect example of Now what do we do if there’s a PETER FRENCH, This is the message of the Critique. French letters the evils o f the enforced nuclear family fight over w ho’ ll “ have” a kid. Some­ Double Bay, NSW 5) “ Sartre has forged a deeper under­ I READ with interest the article system o f living. times people disagree over the best standing of idealism, and the practical, regarding the demonstration outside I dont know whether I can help living arrangements and there’s horrible coldly realistic decisions that underlie Long Bay jail. (TLD 2/8). While not “Trapped”, but I can think o f lessons affairs o f kidhunts, dobbing in, etc. More proof it” . This is at best confused (mixing professing to be an expert on the we might learn from her plight: Rather than lose the kid into evil (eg. two totally different notions of “ideal­ activities of the majority of organ­ IN TLD 2/7 I wrote that a reward of (1) dont get married — it’ s all trap Child Welfare Department) hands, we ism” ), at worst utter nonsense. isations listed on the pamphlet, it’s $20,000 (TLD compositors increased it and no boon, should use a code of GUARDIAN­ Historical and factual ignorance is interesting to note the inclusion of to $28,000) had been on offer for (2) dont have kids for no reason SHIP. Here’s the idea. nothing specially to be proud of; but it such marxist organisations as the CPA many years in the Benighted States for it’s cruel to you and them, Each kid has a guardian. That is not out of any pedantic predilection and Gay Liberation. anyone who could prove that the Salk (3) dont allow your friends doesnt mean a kid has to be living with that I point these facts out. Such Perusal o f the pamphlet indicates polio vaccine was not a fake. This was “ spouses” to “ forbid” you to relate — his guardian or be provided for by his complacent displays of disregard for the “ exploitationism” of “ situation- an error and I wish to apologise for it. that's deserting the human race, guardian. Ideally, the kid can live fact (however caused) have important, ism” by these organisations. No The amount was actually $15,000. (4) dont make “ material security” where he likes. But if there’s an irre­ negative, ideological and political con ­ mention, o f course, o f the multitude o f Not that the amount matters a the first priority for kids; if you have solvable fight over a kid, the guardian, sequences. persons imprisoned without trial in the damn. One would have thought that care o f kids — “ Trapped's” kids, for says what goes. Now who shall be the They play right into the hands o f marxist countries or the fact that Salk, and com panies' which were example would be better off with no guardian? Well, unless otherwise stated, the Knopfelmachers and all the other homosexuals are even more persecuted making millions from production of shoes and a happy mother. the guardian is the natural mother. If apologists for the capitalist status quo there than in this fair(?) country. the vaccine, would have been only too I’ve had a kid myself for two years there is to be a different guardian, the who tax the Left, in particular the New It is fitting, however, that these willing to provide the proof for and much of this time we have been guardian has to choose one who agrees Left, with irrationality, disregard for organisations are listed together. Both nothing — if they could. broke. She’s never had shoes, never for to take the role and then he or she, the fact and logic, historical naivete, etc. are a national joke and Gay Liberation LARRY DRAKE, long a fixed abode, etc, but I would latter, is the guardian, and so on. particularly cannot profess to represent Gin Gin, Qld say she’s physically and emotionally (I like the word “ guardian” because N o movement serious about radical it doesnt sound so much like the social change can afford to damage The tragedy is that N&W has “ com­ most other newspapers, who regard parental ownership scene, but more itself in this way. missioned” poets & has promised them poets as second class citizens & their like a sort o f servant, who just stands PAT FLANAGAN, Disowned layout control, decent presentation work as mere filler. guard in the wings while the kid largely Hazelwood Park, SA News & Weather, does his own thing.) I WOULD LIKE TO DISOWN the etc’ ^ut seems that you have editori- 41 Wharf road, As for “ Trapped” , I can think of a News & Weather page Sweet & Sour invalidated all of that, as I suppose Birchgrove. way out that works for me. If you are Counted out Sonnets” that was described as an blackmailed into some shitty work or irregular page prepared by myself and YESTERDAY I bought my third and home or other social predicament by Richard Tipping; and to apologise to last issue of TLD. :A t one stage I money-security concerns, the only ulti­ all those poets whose work appeared thought your magazine was going to there. mate solution is to become independ­ fill a long felt want, but not now. ent o f the things money buys. Sweet & Sour Sonnets as sent to You featured McNally’s article on Renounce one com m odity after you, was designed to allow the simple the need for an Australian Boxing another, and find by experiment how Commission and promptly turned & dignified retrieval of the sense & independently you can live. style of each poets work ... (a poem around and published another article in If you dont need their bread, they which he was called a “ crap merchant” needs space like painting, sculpture or can't buy you! and generally offended writers. Is this dance) the poems were not accompan­ PHIL O’CARROLL your idea of fair play and loyalty to ied by that “ zappy” jejune nimbin contributors? artwork. One of the primary aims of When the author o f the attack can N&W is the creating of an awareness of Appalled an intermedium between graphics (lay­ I’VE JUST had occasion to read your come through as much adversity as cheerfully as Ward McNally has and can out/typography/photos/illustrations), introduction to the Interview with point to anything approaching his & verse . . . that poets can use these in Jean-Paul Sartre (TLD, 2/5). Pleased knowledge of, and involvement in, the making of a poem. Richard Tip­ by your reprinting of the piece, I was boxing, he will be entitled to be heard. ping’s page if ever printed should make appalled by the introduction’s cavalier Only as long as he refrains from trying this point. disregard o f fact 1) “ In world war two (Sartre) engag­ to be a smartarse though and treats real Q. “ What is a Rolling Stone Haiku?” ed in a lonely and dangerous struggle men as he himself would like to be A. “That verse form, in an inch & against the German occupation” . This treated. a half 12 em column space that a rec­ seriously distorts and inflates the ord company didnt buy. JACK SHAW, Th eirs Ours nature and status of Sartre’s wartime Brisbane, Old

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Thanks to those who’ve sent reports of the Duval Creek Workshop — a lazy outdoor investigation into alterna­ tive living styles recently celebrated near Armidale. Solzhenitsyn feedback Among the daily visitors were Joan and Max, a middle the professional police. It has not done aged couple who participated in the tribal rituals with WHAT Pan Flanagan, in his article such a good novelist) shows the lives o f different individuals in quite different away with social hierarchy in produc­ gusto. In this open letter to her daughter, Joan offers Solzhenitsyn: the case against hysteria (TLD, 2/7), totally ignores is the most emotional and social situations in the tion. It has not lessened the total her impressions of the workshop. important thing about Solzhenitsyn — Soviet system. subjection of the local community to his novels. He makes passing reference There is, for example, in Cancer the power o f the state. On the con­ to them, only to dismiss them with a ward a character who is a petty- trary, in proportion to its evolution, My dear Shelley quote from Knopfelmacher (for whose minded, ambitious bureaucrat. (I can’t the Soviet state shows a tendency in remember the character’s name.) He’s the opposite direction. truckloads of food, gear and tools opinions he shows little respect else­ JOAN PRAED where in the article): “ Solzhenitsyn's a weak-minded, cowardly individual — “ It shows a tendency towards in­ had been delivered. It seems to me Here we are back in the sys­ literary work . . . contains almost noth­ the kind o f person on whom the Soviet tensified centralism o f the state, a that while such organisation is government is probably to a large tendency towards the utmost possible tem, returned from the Duval ing which has not been known about laudable, such methods teach only extent based. Solzhenitsyn is able to strengthening o f the principles o f hier­ Creek Workshop - our own local the Soviet system, or which was not a few. It should have happened easily available fcr detailed scrutiny in take us into this character so that we archy and compulsion. It shows a mini Nimbin! Jupp and Paul took after everyone had arrived, so that western countries, at least since the can see clearly the kind of cowardly tendency towards the development of sleeping bags and camped with we could all learn what was need­ M oscow trials of 1936-38.” egotism which is at the centre o f one a more specialised apparatus o f repres­ friends, so theirs was a 24 hour a ed and take part in the work. It’s probably true that Solzhenitsyn o f the pillars o f the Soviet bureaucratic sion than before . . . In the crucible of day adventure. Max and I went government His insight goes deeper reality, the power o f the soviets has Was it a success? Yes, it was. It gives us little new information about out from home each morning, the Soviet system, in what might be than political analysis. He shows us become the ‘ soviet power’, a power doesnt really matter whether it parked the car at the inner gate called statistical terms — facts about the what it is in human beings that makes that originally issued from the soviets was a survival workshop or a and walked the bush mile to the prison camps, the number of prisoners the survival o f such a dreadful system but has steadily become independent five-day picnic. It functioned well, possible. of the soviets.” camp site, sometimes loaded with in them, or the ways in which the there were so many good vibes Another character in Cancer ward is Solzhenitsyn’s rebellion is not root­ food and sometimes in the rain. Soviet “ state capitalist system” con­ about you wouldnt believe, even in trols the society by means o f the a man who has held high positions and ed in metaphysics o f escapism, ideo­ (The outer gate carried a sign the wet, and while there was some camps. What Solzhenitsyn does give us has been gradually demoted because of logies and utopian dreams, but is a which said Park here, or bog later! disagreement on what form a is the opportunity to see just what it’s his lack o f sympathy with the govern­ reflection of pitiless bolshevik reality - one of the many directional commune would take, no bad like for an individual to live in that ment and its methods. But that man, that imprisons and eliminates devia- works o f art which had graced despite his profound objections to the tionists and dissenters, and does not feeling was allowed to take root. system — the day-to-day emotional and fence posts at every problematical social realities o f life both inside and system, has never crossed the system, tolerate any criticism. A reality expos­ They are rejecting material com er.) outside the prisons. has never actually refused to carry out ed by the sailors o f Kronstadt a long things in favor o f cooperation, It was a delightful bush setting And, not only does he show us what orders which he knew were morally time ago: “ . . . the communist power conservation and caring. Here is wrong — for fear, as he puts it, for the has substituted for the glorious em­ - plenty o f trees, open space, life is like for himself as an individual, one person for whom the lifestyle, safety o f his daughter; though we can blem o f the workers, the hammer and birds, insects, practically every but he also (which is what makes him but not the principle, comes too see, by the nature and extent o f his sickle, another symbol — the bayonet Australian species o f aggressive late. I wish them well. guilt, that he has been motivated also and the barred window, which has ant, and a small creek. There must b y fears for his own safety. permitted the new bureaucracy, the have been about 80 people there Solzhenitsyn’s picture of Stalin, in communist functionaries and commis­ at the best of times, though there Your Mother, ( W e is life a banana ) The first circle, takes us beyond the sars, to procure for themselves, a tran­ was a great deal o f comings and usual image of the arrogant and cruel quil and carefree existence. goings and some hopefuls arrived dictator, to see the endless morass of “ But most debased and criminal o f only on the monday, losing three horrible paranoia as well as the stupid­ all is the spiritual slavery established by the communists. They put their hands days. Every conceivable form of ity of Stalin’s behavior. These brief accounts can’t do justice to the depth on the thoughts and moral life o f the temporary shelter was scattered and strength o f Solzhenitsyn’s writing. workers, compelling everyone to think among the trees, from sophisti­ While Pat Flanagan is probably right only according to their formulas. With cated, expensive tents through in saying that “ Solzhenitsyn's demands the aid o f state unions, they have domes and pup-tents to chunks of for petty bourgeois civil liberties . . . chained the workers to the machines, plastic sheeting draped between are abstract, supra-class demands," it and transformed work into a new trees. Between trees was a popular seems to me that the limitation o f his slavery instead o f making it pleasant place — for hammocks in one article is his total concentration on T o the protests o f the peasants, which case, for the big Coolgardie cooler those abstract demands, overlooking have gone as far as spontaneous revolts, the very real matter of the novels. And the demands of the workers, compelled in another. The cooler seemed to next to the tangible, human subject by the very conditions o f their life to work quite well, with bags sewn matter of Solzhenitsyn’s novels Flana­ resort to strikes, they reply with mass together and draped over a bar gan’s concerns seem to be quite ab­ shooting and a ferocity that the czarist between trees with the ends in a stract, if not, “ supra-class” . generals might have envied.” What hole full of water. Shades of The purpose o f this letter is to Solzhenitsyn has just done is to have Western Australian goldfields, encourage those who might have been broken the silence and to have lifted where I saw these long ago! discouraged by Flanagan’s article, to the curtain which reveals the stifling They built a communal kit­ read Solzhenitsyn’s novels. They are atmosphere suffocating the people o f chen, dug a three holer communal very good, stimulating and enjoyable the Soviet Union. And just for that he toilet, dug garbage holes and put reading (although very disturbing at has been condemned to exile. times) from which we can learn a great The left capable of rallying forces, up a communal all-purpose deal, not only about life within the against American atrocity, the war in dome. The toilet was at the top o f Soviet system, but also about our­ Vietnam, the coup d ’etat in Chile, and the slope, with very inadequate selves. also in support o f Angela Davis and privacy — when you rose from the RENE BUHLER, others, has failed to do so in the case hole you exposed your backside Hazeibrook, NSW o f Solzhenitsyn. Why? The answer, to the view of anyone who hap­ * * * complex as it seems, is simple. pened to glance your way. Not SOLZHENITSYN! A name that re­ The Soviet Union is Mecca o f social­ that anyone really stared or cared. echoes in the hearts o f many slaves in ism. It is a sacred ground one should not tread upon. Its misdeeds, unlike There was also a sauna down and out o f the Soviet Union. Like Prometheus he has defied the gods o f those o f rotten capitalism, are results by the creek and a big bell in a the Kremlin who, instead o f sending of a noble aim, the establishing o f tree could be rung to call the him to a jail, a concentration camp or a socialism, therefore, while undesirable group together when anyone had mental asylum, forced him into exile. they are nevertheless tolerable. Social­ something of group importance to But the bare truth is “ that socialism ists learn by their mistakes. Without say. Phil Huggins initiated a group without freedom is slavery” and that mistakes there is no progressive devel­ o f us in transcendental meditation no amount of manoeuvres can cover opment. But no such mistakes are and those of us who are co­ the ugly bolshevik reality. allowed to capitalism because capital­ counsellors made ourselves avail­ In the Soviet Union there is no ism has fulfilled its historical function. able to three groups formed to freedom from slavery, oppression, class This approach is based on miscon­ ception o f socialism. It is riddled b y learn about it. distinction and class antagonism. If, as One o f the main aims was to K. Korsch argues, the “ genuine prole­ ideological garbage and wishful think­ tarian dictatorship” is “ distinguished ing. The reality is that in the USSR investigate group techniques that from every false imitation of it by its there is no socialism but a pyramidal can be helpful in running a com ­ creation of the conditions of intellec­ structured society, a replica o f ancient mune, as the Alternative Living tual freedom not only for ‘all’ workers Egypt The Pharaoh-god — the general Foundation wants to start one in but for ‘each individual’ worker” then secretary — and his tentacles, the this area. Already they know how Solzhenitsyn’s case refutes the exist­ central committee, the party, security to communicate, to tackle diffi­ ence of “ genuine proletarian dictator­ police, the jailers, who force the people culties in open session, to sing and ship” and indicates that “ conditions of of the Soviet Union to labor and dance and enjoy being together intellectual freedom are virtually non support them in the name o f class justice denied them here but promised and to care for the environment. I existent Solzhenitsyn is a rebel against a them in heaven. felt they do not yet know how to regime o f lies, deceptions, persecution But as Yevtushenko says “ silence trust each other to get chores and tyranny, a regime established by becomes lie”. The left continues to done - by the time most people Lenin and Trotsky. “The Soviet perpetuate the lie that the USSR is a started arriving the communal state” , writes Martov “ has not estab­ socialist country. toilets were already dug, the lished in any instance electiveness and kitchen was up and the fire recall o f public officials and the com­ JACK THE ANARCHIST, blazing in the shearers oven and V V manding staff. It has not suppressed Stanmore, NSW

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