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;:if> i^'\ PLOISE^T 1932-2002 THEIIW\ OPQUiBNII 0. ••7;^y^iVy/V'|KV^^;«:';1>;*'c5^'•^••^'.•' •'•• Semper respectfully acknowledges that we stand on what always was, and always will be, Indigenous land. We acknowledge that It is stolen land, and that Indigenous Australians are the rightful, sovereign custodians of all Australia. We acknowledge that the discrimination and genocidal practices that have been waged against Aboriginal people since white invasion continue still, and for this we are deeply sorry. We apologise and express shame over the dispossession, marginalisation and attempted genocide of Aboriginal Australians. We also apologise and express shame at the Government's refusal to demonstrate meaningful regret towards Indigenous Australians. We demand an end to all racism in Australia. Editors: Hannah Brooks, Renee Dodds and Holly Semper is published by the University of Queensland Zwalf Union. Address all correspondence to: Union Cover John Osborne Complex, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4067. Centrefold: Holly Zwalf The views expressed in Semper Floreat are those Email: [email protected] ofthe respected contributors and are not Phone: 3377 2237 necessarily held by the editors or staff. Fax: 3377 2220 m r FInrpnt FHiMon fi HinHsinht •»nn'» '2^1^ Barhcf^s Bookstores Barker's Bookstores i Queensland's Leading Wc arc the official Booksellers for the Bookstores exchange of Text Kelvin House, Adelai(ic Street Books. Send your Y.M.C.A,Building, Edward St. lists to us at the end of the Term. Neu- anti Second Hand The Unioersity of Queensland Tf.\'/ Dooks in all Weekly Newspaper. SECOND HAND DEPT. subjtcls. ADELAIDE STREET Vol. I.. No. I. Thursday, i6th June, T932. Trice 2d. The ICditorial Staff has S.C.M. ADDRESS much pleasure in pre- ,senting to you {i.e., on WHAT'S ON THK OXI-ORD MOVKMKNT. payment of a small The weekly address arranged by the sum) the first edition of W. E. S. Student Christian Movement for I'riday, loth June, was given by the Rev. H. D. ,^j? The Wider iCdtication Society Com "Semper Fioreat' mittee regrets to state that Sir Campbell, M,A., B.D.. whose subject was Kdward Macartney, K.B.Iv., will be " The Oxford Movement." The speaker j. In the southern I 'livcrsities the existence of unable to lecture on Thursday owing began by stressing that this great move iicw.spapers pnbli.shed by the .student bodies, to illness. ment in the Church of Kngland is still and Riving the student viewpoint, have Tt is hojied that this lecture will .active and is of interest to all denomina tions. It is unique in the history of proved successful, and it is hoped that this take i)lacc in the near future. Christianity. paper, following as it does on nuich the l-riday, 17th June I.R.C. Dr. \V. After outlining the general conditions same lines, will satisfy a long-felt want here. P. Chen, Chinese Consul-General, on in England at the time when the Move The aim of this paper is to afford present " International Kivalrics in the I'"ar ment began, Mr. Campbell gave an account and past member of the University a com '.ast. of the conditions within the Church. In 1807 only one parish ill three had a resident mon uicdiuni for the expression and .Saturday. uSth June; Women's clergyman. I'lnralities were conunou and Hockey Dance, Main Hall. fjtcliauge of news and \iew.s. So among its parishes were often bought. (The price contents will be found detailed descriptions • Tuesday, 21st June: S.C.M. varied with the age af the purchaser). QI .sporting c\-ei]ts, reports of activities Study Circles: The churches were very ugly. . of the various swicties and clubs, informa " l-aith •' - -Mr. I. Stewart. The leaders of the Movement had brilliant tion about our graduates ami about other " L'urpose "--Dean Barrett. academic courses at O.xford, and both " I'nemploynient " -Mr. Ingram. Keble and Newman gained Oriel 1-ellow- Universities, annomicenients of coming sl)ips, which alone at that tixiK were events, etc., etc. Have you any grievances Wednesday. 22nd June: Musical awarded after an examination open to all lo air ? Then write to the Kditor und make Society Practice, Mr, Ilcrold Kyng. members of the University. The Movement tisc of our wide open spaccs. (We hope began with John Keble's famous Assize • to make this section of the paper a Sermon, "On National Apostasy," preached on July 14, 1833. 1'his became a [ vehicle for the expression of unbiased great rallying cry of the reformers, and its ' and interesting opinions - a thing which centenary will be celebrated next year. has been so tioblv achie^'ed by locnJ Ten days after Keble preached thi.s Dailies.) 'SEMPER FLOREAT' I sermon, a conference of supporters was ITS STAFF. i held at Hadleigh, Sussex, as a residt of The position of the newspaper may which an address to the Archbishop of need some definition. All matter appear Canterbiir.v was prepared, signed by 7,000 Editors— I of the clergy, and by 230,000 heads of ing herein is written by the special staff W. A. MAHONKY. jl families. of the newspa|)er and not by the club con E. T. S. PKARCK 11 Newman's great powers found suitable cerned ; so that it e.xprcsses an independent employntent in tlie writing of tracts. The and impartial opinion. Any (?) criticisms tract was at that time much despised, Bin^incas Mcmuiifr- then, of such opinions, will be willingly but the clear, nervous language of Newnmn printed in these cohunns. D. CrRlKWIS. and his sincerity triumphed. Other authors of tracts soon appeared anci, altogether, By the way, you will observe other .hhrrli.siui^ .Muiuisicr • ninety tracts were jjublishcd. Newman supplemented his writings bv his •sermons matter in this journal-a species of self- W. H. HAUT. at St. Mary's, Oxford. laudation, almost boasting—the ad\-ertiso- and There is no doubt that the reformers ments. Undergraduates could do no made a great many mistakes, and a strong Innumerable Correspondents better than patronise these reliable firms opposition arose. The publication of Tract who show themselves so fearless in adver 00 created a tremendous uproar. The heads tising through the colunms of such a paper of the colleges protested, and Newman retired. The Oxford Movement had a as " Semper Ulorcat." .\V^^] h'elknvship to Newham College, Cambridge, great influence on art, in all its forms. which enables her to spend three years In conclusion. Mr. Campbell remarked over there doing research work. On the on the fine inspiration to be found in the GRADUATE'S SUCCESS. strength of this- -.she is trijjping out to see characters of the Movement's leaders. The her family before starting work. She is most abiding result of the Movement was that " Jesus became, not the centre of Dorothy Hill, M.Sc., wlio won a travelling expected lierc nhoiti the beginning of dogmatic (hnrtrine, but a living master and schoiarsiiip from here in i()30, has won a August. saviour." i« i< c T. h. 1. S. Pearce. After gazing through pages and pages of Semper it's disturbing to recognise that the big issues of each decade repeat themselves over and over again. The same struggles, the same wars.... The Sixties and Seventies were renowned for their frankness and open debate about the injustice of the Vietnam editorial War, inspiring us today to tackle the similar circumstances of / had a tutor in first year journalism who I thou^tit was prettythe War against Iraq, and American Militarism in general. crazy. He had wild hair and massive eyes and, unlike his Local Brisbane issues haven't been reconciled in the last forty associates in the department, he encouraged me to write years or so either, it would seem. We noted articles on articles about lecturers that looked like Leonard Cohen. Hehomelessness , police violence and corruption and dodgy state told me tales about his time in the Canberra Press Gallery politics- . The satire and criticism aimed at Sir Joh from Semper about the piss-ups and the bullshit. He also hod a habit ofdurin g his reigning years was the basis for our cover. Using rollins back in his chair, staring at the ceiling os he climbedsimila r texture and style of various Sempers of the last few decades, we have attempted to revive the irreverence and through his seemingly hazy memory, to tell the class about his naughtiness of the tate Sempers, as well as to send a political days as a Semper Editor. message to our 'cheery' Premier, Peter Beattie. At a University level, the similarity of the struggles we are facing is A few weeks after I took up my position ot Semper, I ran into frightening. Increased fees, restructuring of faculties, student my old tutor at the Night Owl. I told him the news. He poverty, appear again and again through the years. looked ot me with his bulging eyes, grabbed my hand, shook it solidly and said "Congratulations. You're one of us now". So we must ask ourselves, is Semper a mirror or a crystal ball? After working on this issue of Semper, I understand what heAre we merely watching ourselves repeat old mistakes, never meant. climbing out of the scratch on the record of time? Or are we foreseeing a different future, where another world is possible? Welcome to Hindsight, our Retrospective Semper. We entered It is easy to believe the former, particularly when we look at this job nine months ago vaguely aware of Semper's impressive the patterns, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and now the history, nervous about living up to the ideals we had set pending War on Iraq: once again peace is not something we ourselves. It wasn't until Alan Knight, an ex-editor, wandered can take for granted. Women still do not have equal rights, we into our office one day that we found out the first Semper had still need Reclaim The Night marches, and Miss University been printed in 1932, making this year Semper's 70th beauty pageants have returned from the grave this year. If Birthday... time indeed for a retrospective. What followed was anything, students today have even more to fight against. Yet days of research into the history of the magazine we were perhaps we also have more to fight for. working with each day, but really knew nothing about. It has been an amazing journey to say the least. More than once we In the questions we asked every past editor, one stands out for all felt as though we had not been living up to the radical, its relevance: "what direction would you like Semper to go in?" exciting paper that Semper had once been. Although if there I think the answer that any true Semper editor would give is is one thing we have learned from this self-indulgent dive into onwards. There will be a time when the tides flow our way. the past it is that looking backwards without also looking Until then we will struggle, but the struggle is making us ahead can be detrimental. We chose to make Hindsight a stronger. Norma Nord, a woman who has been an activist for blend of old and new, a celebration of the past and a view to almost as long as Semper has been around, said something in the future. Throughout the magazine, we have interviews her interview that we must all remember: "Once I longed to with various ex-editors (Thanks to Hannah and her endless say people are marching all over the world. And now they ' hours of research chasing people up). We tried to contact are!" Yes, we are fighting many of the same fights that have everybody, so if you happen to be an ex-editor holding this been raging for over a century. But every day we grow copy in your hands, we tried to get you too! We have also stronger, and in its small way, it is Semper's role to tell this reprinted various covers, pictures and some small articles or ongoing story and lend it strength. The truth is our biggest editorials relating to different years. We have made this issue weapon. Never underestimate independent media, it can into a journey through the seventy years of Semper. shape lives and change paths. We are a part of something bigger. And most importantly, it does not end with us. The Semper clothes A huge thank you to all the Fryer staff, and swap was a roaring especially Maira Turaids, Margaret Rose and success, although it Rachael Salmon. Without you this would not has left the office have been possible. Thank you to the past Looking like a i{ editors who lent us your stories, you have Chinese laundry! inspired us beyond belief. We would like to /jf ' *] extend a special invitation to you to join us in a ^ • reunion at the launch of this edition. Sunday 29 September, 7:30pm at The Healer. We would like as many past editors there as possible, to help us ^yv,.> cut the anniversary cake! Thank you to Greg ii^^:^ Maltory for remembering what it's like to be a '^'^^.m starving student and allowing us to go to the ^iS Radical Times Conference. Thank you to Dan O'Neill for your time and wisdom. We have so much to learn from each other. Holly, Renee and Hannah A Brief Semper In the beginning, there were two men, William. A. Mahoney and E. T, S. Pearce. The year was i93i/ and The University of Queensland was but a tiny university situated in George Street, Brisbane City, where The Queensland University of Technology now stands. Semper Floreat was a two page tabloid size newspaper featuring University sports and local news. Throughout the years, both the size and the reputation of Semper, along with UQ grew considerably. UQ gradually made the move to St Lucia between 1946 and 1972, but only after allowing the buildings here to be used for military purposes during World War II as advanced headquarters for the Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific. Semper made many style and cultural transitions, becoming a highly radical independent paper In Brisbane in the fifties, sixties and seventies, and progressing to the alternative street magazine you hold in your hand today. In 1975 local community radio station 4zzz was started up at UQ, a radical radio station to accompany a radical paper. Proving too radical however for a conservative union, the station was soon kicked off campus but continued to stay alive and today is one of Brisbane's leading alternative community services. For many years Semper was sold in newsagents across Brisbane for various amounts of money. In 1979 Semper had a brief name change to Time Off, which, in the following year went on to become a magazine in its own right, and continues to this day as a popular Brisbane Street Press. Semper throughout its life has seen the extremes of the political arena, from editors being sacked for telling the truth, to people dying for the truth being told. The following story came to light in our research and is perhaps the most potent example of what happens when the truth is suppressed: In ipd// 3 man called Hugh Childers wrote an article for Semper on apartheid in South Africa. As part of his research he contacted several students from the Radical Student's Club in South Africa. When it was printed he posted them several copies of Semper, with the article in it. It was intercepted by the Covernment, and the students involved in corresponding with Hugh on the article were arrested. They were held without trial under the 180 day detention law. Hugh was informed by the South African Minister for the interior that he would never be allowed back into the country. The students were held in solitary confinement while the police questioned, and possibly tortured them. Hugh tried desperately to find out if they were oK and later found out one of the students involved committed suicide. He has never heard any news of the others. For the past 70 years, Semper has held a thermometer to UQ and to Brisbane, and is one of the leading student magazines in Australia. Its strength Is In Its diversity, and the fact that It Is constantly changing as new editors show their faces. Here's to the next 70 years. THE EDITORS 1932 - 2002 1932 William A Mahoney, E T S Pearce 1970 Bruce Dickson, Alan Fowler 1933 J PRyan, M V Fogarty 1971 Robyn Bardon, Paul Davies 1934 J P Ryan, M V Fogarty 1972 PaulTuUy 1935 J Richardson, M M Purser 1973 Alan Knight 1936 MM Purser 1974 David Franken 1937 Frank W Coaldrake 1975 Jan Turner-Jones, Anne Draper 1938 Max N Julius, P V^ Henderson 1976 Julianne Schultz, Jane Camens 1939 Peter Connolly 1977 Mark Wolffe, Ross Peake, Radha Rouse 1940 Reginald T Matthews 1978 Bruce Dickson, Mark Plunkett 1941 Walter B Campbell, P Donovan 1979 Bruce Dickson, Robert Cameron 1942 Reginald T Matthews, C A Wyman, Ron Adair 1980 Tim Low, Kjaz Perry 1943 Ron Adair 1981 Anne Jones, Shelley Dempsy, Tim Low 1944 EG LeBreton 1982 Kay Nicol, Andrew Fraser 1945 Alan Casey 1983 Andrew Fraser, Damien Ledwich, John Henzell 1946 Margaret Catt, Ewen Gillies 1984 John Henzell, Harry Dunstall 1947 Ewen Gillies, Trevor Utting 1985 Gavin Sawford, Lenore Taylor, Kevin Vellnagel 1948 Alan Roberts, Herbert Cornelius 1986 Angela Ward, Howard Stringer, Scott Farrow 1949 John 0'Duff 1987 Karen Fletcher, Howard Stringer 1950 N A (Alan) Walker, Malcolm Ham 1988 Kevin Folet, Helen Nolan 1951 John H Quinlem, Peter Edwards 1989 Jeff Cheverton, Bree McKilligan 1952 Zell Rabin 1990 Diana Cassidy, Nick Douglas, Corina McKay 1953 William Dent 1991 Robert Heather, Mandi Curties, Janie Fitzgerald, 1954 Alexander Jolly Craig McCosker 1955 Ian Moles, William Hudson 1992 Darryl Rosin, Martin Bush, Phillip O'Dea, Melaina 1956 Barrie Hayne, Jonathan W Perssee Faranda 1957 Lorna Bollman, Peter Hutton 1993 Andrew Horton, Kathy Wild, Nick Dent 1958 Harold Love, Anthony Paul 1994 David Boltons, Stephen Dann, Cameron Ward 1959 Dan O'Neill, Desmond Macauley 1995 Greg, Ward, Kyla, Sandy 1960 Joan Lyndon, ACW Sparkes 1996 Marcus Salisbury, Marcus Brown, Justin Kerr, Arthur 1961 John B Dalton, John R Fogarty Chrenkoff 1962 Jack Carmody, John Dalton 1997 Paula Shaw, Nick Leys, Mark Fallu, Bronwyn Powell 1963 Peter Muhlburg, John Moore 1998 Margaret Smithhurst, Jane Daniels, Joe, Sara 1964 Humphrey McQueen, Alan Richards Synnot 1965 Brian Toohey, Richard Pincus 1999 Sam Aliwood, Ellen Browning, Lieszel Darcy, 1966 Michael O'Neill, Michael Ong Carmen Seaby 1967 David Ferguson 2000 Ben Eltham, David Campbell, Mark Fallu, Thorun 1968 Kenneth Bradshaw, Nick Booth 2001 Kate Scott, Rachel O'Rieily, Mark Gomes 1969 Michael Kelly, Tony Melius, Ron Eedy, Alan Davies 2002 Hannah Brooks, Renee Dodds, Holly Zwalf 1939 I don't think it's possible when the country's at war. And when..,particularly when you've got some particularly nasty people on the other side. It wasn't just nice guys on both Jlonat sides ...it was ah pretty awful things happening. Fortunately not, you know, in our area. EDITORIAL STAFF: Editor MR. P. CONNOLLY. Can you remember any high point? Social Editor MISS PEN FALCONER. Sports Editor MR. T. TON.AKIE, Oh dear, dear, dear. Business iVIanager MR. D. .MURRAY. Maybe just the whole time was it? Vol. virr. THURSDAY. 24th MARCH, }939. No. 3 Oh, well you know what sort of days they were. Anyway we all had to go away and (EDITORIAL forget about it. We went abroad of course I have ju.st made a profound discovery. It all comes from most of us. reading newspapers. As a rule I never bother with newspapers. 11 eleir LonnaiolllJ i I find they bore me, and my greatest effort in life is to preserve Where did you end up? myself from boredom, except when we have a crisis, that is.i What year were you an editor? Then it's fine. There's nothing like a crisis for an emotional [ Oh, i finished up in the Middle East. pep-up. Back to the simple primitive feelings, that's what I! saj'. Gee-eli? Oh that's not fair! Wow. But about my discovery. Do you know what, I have a fceiing the world's all wrong. It appears from these newspapers! Why? There's no wow about it. There's nothing I've been reading that the Fuehrers are planning on another little war, and it has mc quite perplexed. I had been taking I can't remember! very exciting about the Middle East. But there could have been - it depends on where to meditation on the higher beauties, and in the contemplation 0+ my navel I had seen my soul growing upright and splendic on was. I was curious enough to think that it Ok. Just tet me have a look • I have a list. as tiie lily. It now appears that Fuehrers object to my pre Ah...1939. was a very depressing thought that when we occupation with my umbilical apparatus. (Please do not take got to the Middle East we couldn't get into oficnce, ladies and gentlemen. You doubtless perceive that this Tobruk. Why couldn't we? Because ah, they Oh, that would be yes. That's the beginning is symbolism of no mean order.) The Fuehrers have, in fact, had all the people that they could feed as it of the war. decided to put a bullet right through the middle of it. In conse- were in Tobruk and they didn't want anymore. . qucnce I am perplexed, and when I can rise to it, I am more And I was always a bit ashamed in fact that I ' than a little annoyed. What was ft Uke at that time - the political didn't get into Tobruk. But I suppose when I climate? You sec, I liad planned rather a wonderful life. Wonder i look back on it I was very lucky I didn't. ful lo mc. anyway. 1 had iioped that before I was twenty-j five I should be familiar with ali the major compositions Oii M the university itself? Well it's hard to take Did you actually serve in the army then? B-r'- ;v1o7.3rt and Brethovon. and Ihat I .should pf>rhapH liavfj' one's mind back to it all.But of course we acquired that taste for dry wines, wnich continues to ekide ni... i hadn't gone to the war then. It started, had I also wanted to work through the Oxford Book of Latin Verse,' Oh, of course. started elsewhere, but it hadn't started for and I thouglil that in time I might discover what was so won-; us. And, well, there we all were. I think you derful about the Italian masters. That last point is intereslin;>, better examine me because I don't remember How did you find that? • by the way. primitives and e.v'rcme modernists I find quito very well. ; fascinating, but madonnas an' .-nidren, in chairs, under frui'. Oh well, it was great. I'm very proud of the . trees, playing with goals, pla^,ng with sheep, and the rest of i:..! Okay. Not a prob. You didn't have a co- army. It was first rate and still is. ; I have always found rather Laesome. Gee ch? { editor, you did it ali by yourself - did you find ] So you see that I have quite a lot of intensely intereslin/: that difficult? Do you still read Semper? j things to do. Then come the Fuehrers, and want to drag me into; la war. You will admit that it is perplexing. Of course thej Well, it wasn't a brilliant effort anyway. I Oh, when I get an opportunity but there again ; Fuehrers say tliat I am somewhat degenerate. A man, they say,'' don't think so - typical undergraduate stuff. when t got to university these days it's on I should yearn to die in battle. I don't yearn to die in battle . Fridays to catch up with the school of classics I That raises an interesting point. Either I am not a man, o.\ I the Fuehrers are mistaken. Either possibility could be argued; Did you enjoy the experience though? and that's become my main interest in life apart from issues in academic areas ,with much plausibility. However, I prefer to believe that thi.- I Fuehrers arc mistaken. Take Fuehrer Lyons, for example! Oh, of course. I Now, there's a man who's made his name in the world. Therc'nj So what did you end up doing with your ^ pillar of society for you. Well, he's just gone and told Fuehrer! What made you decide to do it? career? You were a lecturer? I Chamberlain that I will fight for them, if necessary, against i Fuehrer Hitler. As a matter of fact, I have not yet made upj Somebody asked me. I was a very suggestible I did in fact for no reason that anybody has my mind on the subject. I feel that with a little courage II chap - I haven't changed very much. ever been able to justify | did for one year, I might tell all these Fuehrers that I have no intention of dying; think I acted for Thomas Rye who's long since before I have heard a Brisbane choir and orchestra do the Ninth: Symphony of Beethoven. And I rather feel that if I, and per-j And what sort of thinss did you focus on in dead. But he recommended me to substitute for him to lecture for a year for a specialty in , haps you also were to tell thom that, calmly but firmly, tha:; your year of Semper, was it student life or...? history. i they would probably be very reasonable about it. As a matter: of fact, if there were enough of us, they might decide to post-1 Well it was trying to look at something that . pone the war until we were ready. And, judging by the present j was in fact happening. You know, something What did you end up doing then? 'standard of Brisbane musicianship, it probably wouldn't occu': that was on. And well of course we were 1 in our life time. That would be fine. ' pretty raw chaps in those days. I remember What I finished up doing, j suppose. We went to the Middle East and we were over there for j I suppose Ihe sensible reply lo mt: would be to say that, when I first tuned up to.... i was the editor i I am an unpractical idealist, I should like someone to say that.j some years. Then we came back for the good and I thought it was all right...the president of ;Then I could come back with a nice argument I've thought out.i the student of the student union who in those and sufficient reason, of course, that the i You seo, I believe that I am more of a realist than lots of people.' days was a chap called BiU Gibbs, BiU Gibbs Japanese had decided that they would buy j I believe that mon are concerned with art and thought, but j turned out to be the chief justice of Australia. into the exercise. Anyway these were the as I most of all with life. I don't believe they want to die for the | Not then of course it took him some time to it were the great days of Queensland 's j Fuehrers, But it still perplexes mc to see them going ahead | get to that point. It was a funny period undergraduates who were back from the war ! and doing it. I wonder why it is so hard to persuade men to do and who were of course completing their I do the things they want to do? naturally, no one particularly wants to go to degrees. You wouldn't get anything better in war and nobody has much choice about it But some day men will say to the Fuehrers: ''We have many minds. anyway.,, but they were great days. things to do with our minds and bodies that are so Jnuch more? important than your wars, The heart's blood is not dye for a flag, nor the tears of men a wine for your drinking. You art' Did Semper have a stand on the war? wpstinji nur time." OBALISnflQN :tj|^' ilUl *%nn V,il1Hi ti.ii.V "41 J. ' V^i)\ili\liliil\i\\l PINE GAP is a ten minute drive south-west of The miiitarisation of space Pine Gap plays a plans to be in an unrivalled position with the Alice Springs in our Northern Territory. The Spy pivotal roie. Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Space ability to wage war while being able to thwart any Base, referred to as an American-Australian Joint Command, Joseph W. Ashy states "Some people missile attack, thanks to Pine Gap and similar Defence Space Research Facility, is a complete don't want to hear this, and it sure isn't in vogue, bases,. This will result in the collapse of the Anti- misnomer; it is in fact the biggest, and probably but — absolutely ~ we're going to fight in space. Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Nuclear Non- most important, CIA base outside the US, built on We're going to fight from space and we're going Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Aboriginal land which was "sold" for I2 to fight into space. That's why the U.S. has Treaty and an end to any arms reduction peppercorns to the US Govt in the 1960s, Much of development programs in directed energy and hit- agreements. An already unstable world will be the "research" carried out there is secret, even to to-kill mechanisms. We will engage terrestrial given a huge shove into even greater chaos. our own Government. Because of the secrecy targets someday — ships, airplanes, land targets America's National Missile Defence will'not surrounding PINE GAP, the Base is the focus of a — from space" (Aviation Week and Space protect it from suitcase nukes or from September national protest from 5-7 October this year, when Technology, August 9,1996). The U.S. Airforce's 11 copy-cat attacks but it will imperil all of us. its role will be challenged as "not being in planning document Vision 2020 states that the Australia's best interests" (to quote words often nation which dominates space will enjoy fabulous Aboriginai land rights There is a major Song uttered by Prime Minister John Howard). The control of Earth's resources. Une running along the McDonnell Range close to presence of Pine Gap potentially brings many Pine Gap. The base itself straddles sites sacred to dangers to our country and the protest to be held The nuclearisation of space NASA (National the Arrente people who were not consulted over there mirrors similar protests which have tal Cosmopolitan Cafe: Early morning dining institution of the young urban bourgeoisie. Known to give GSTE discounts to local writers, so receive good review here (see: Espresso, good). Eagle Farm: Suburb; the actual location of that racetrack you see on the Pub TAB screens. Espresso, good: Rarely found in Brisbane. Generally misspelt. Fatboys/Rics: Late night dining and dancing institution of the young urban bourgeoisie. Indisputably the best pizza in southeast Queensland. Writers can now expect discount. able to agree on what the weather is supposed to do when the top light is yellow and the bottom light is red. m^ mm Mount Coot-ha: Geographical landmark; home to television signal transmission towers. Virtually every home in Brisbane has a clear, uninterrupted view of the mountain, yet no one has decent SBS reception. %m^ mi New Farm: suburb; not, as generally believed by inhabitants, the TIMl HE 60t^ centre of Brisbane, but instead a nice, gentrified area, purpose planned for continued propagation of the 3/4 length trouser industry. I TO (HE VAWI- "Royal Exchange Hotel: Main lecture hall, University of Queensland. ff Paddington: suburb; not, as generally believed by inhabitants, the centre of Brisbane, but instead a nice, gentrified area, purpose planned for continued propagation of the pairs-of-silly-dogs industry. Park Road: situated in Milton; rumoured to be a cafe strip. Unproven. Researcher unable to get a park on three occasions due to the same bank of prestige cars monopolising the only available parking spaces. Powderfinger: Local bards, unseen of late. Believed to be spending time in Sydney, reviewing plans for their burgeoning property development empire (See: Festival Hall). Reds, Queensland: Sporting team, (see: Rugby Union). Royal Exchange Hotel: Main lecture hall. University of Queensland. also famous for ribald adult entertainment (generally not in conjunction with breakfast). Rugby Union: Brutal private school cult; fiercely ritualistic, centred around accountants and dentists stepping on one another's Soorley, Jim: Benevolent leader. The man responsible for heads. doubling parking fines in the CBD, to pay for the ever-increasingly spectacular 'Riverfire' celebrations, implemented to assuage the Shamrock Hotel: Fine inner city breakfast establishment. Now anger of the natives over increased parking fees in the CBD. Certified pyromaniac. Southbank: Tourist Mecca; prohibitive prices generally exclude anyone trying to shop with Australian dollars (see: Airport). Popular location for getting knocked down by a renegade roller-blader. South East freeway: Marvellous traffic structure, designed to speed traffic flow between Brisbane CBD and Byron Bay. Serves as potent reminder to suburban homeowners of the power of state government compulsory home resumption. Final stages still under construction; motorists are presently still required to drive through southern slum regions (see: Gold Coast). Spring Hill: incomprehensible suburb situated on the northern fringe of the city proper; home to over one hundred medical specialists, and three parking spaces. University of Queensland: Educational institution; cloistered shelter designed to insulate young people from the outside world until they finish their law degrees and walk into daddy's practice (see: Griffith University). West End: Quaint, traffic-riddled inner-city burg; principle purpose seems to be the propagation of daytime cafe trade. Don't those people have jobs to go to? XXXX: Locally brewed beer; eschewed in favour of Victoria Bitter by virtually all Queenslanders. Virtually entire yearly sales generated by one or two games of Rugby League (see: Lang Park). 1946 1954 1957 Lex Jolly Farewell ... Spotlight on Union Romance Dear fellow students,— I begin these customary Unoa of farewell wilh profound feelings of regret and disappoint What year were you an editor? ment; regret that we have not seen implemented I was editor in 1954 all our plana for "Semper" 1957; and disappoint ed with you, the studcals of this University. You may have wondered as some have if your Who were your co-editors? editors had any definite policy for "Semper." It was a broad and flexible policy wc thought No co-editors were appointed but Alan out this time Inst year: to use every means Demack (later Justice Demack) was that suggested itself to provoke your interest and contributions even if it meant deliberately sports editor. laying ourselves open to criticism. It looked as though we might have succeed Why did you decide to run for Semper? ed when there came letters lilte that of "P.L.E," Unfortunately "P.L.R'' could do no more than God knows why! 1 was initially "shot- write one anonymous letter and the vision of gunned" by the then editor, BiU Dent another better type of contributor vanished. We tried appealing to your interests in com and defeated Cedric Hampson in a mon as 'Varsity students, we tried calling out vote. your sense of fair play, your youthful idealism —«till no response. Then in tiie surge of enthusiasm that voiced Did you ever have any problems with protest against the Appeal Board wc gained several new and worthwhile contributoj^. From the UCi Union, university the front page we hopefully proclaimed administration, police or government? "APATHY DEAD!" Through Semper one was able to That was not our first mistake—the attack on Bill Edwards was. But even our seduction in lampoon those elements of society who the unsavoury entanglements of the Tennis in my opinion got too big for their Club brought not one comment. There should have been more contributors boots. Whilst I criticised these like "Jack Point" with his comments on topical institutions regularly and I recall issues. Varsity groups with the exception of devoting one issue to the moribundity the Engineers were unheard of: though the Dramatic Society, sporting clubs and religious of the UQ Council, this suited the bodies supplied us with more than their share "steady as she goes" principle that the of copy. Comments by overaeas sttidcnts on the China IVOR A.VD MARGAKET S.MILE FOR "SEMPKR- president, Eddie Broad (dec), adopted articles showed that more contributions are as policy. needed from these students if wc arc to have a Tlif M.'ii.^;itioM of llu^ wtek was, un- Varsity life. He l>ecame Vice-presi aympathetic understanding of their national oiibtcdly, the announcement of Uic dent of the Services* Club, then was problems, and their personal problems of living sjid studying in a strange country. nKUKcmvtU o/ /vor Ciibti und Mar-elected to the coveted jwst of Presi What was the highlight/craziest point arct Cjitt. Thcjf i» no need to intro- of the job? It is impractical and improper that "Scmpe*" uc«' {h(.-sQ two very iwpuljir peopleden t of the Union, and many there •tterapt lo be a NEWS-paper. "Semper" should ) .studelU^: even those who are un- are wiu) c;iii allt-sl to the assistance Each closure date for copy was both lippetr primarily to aur the thopghts and feel- tags ot students about their life and work cx- irtutiatc enouKh not to know them and advice which Ivor, in his own the highlight and the craziest point of jperienees. "Semper" is the paper of the U&i- eisimally, ;nc aware of the promin- friendly, unassuming w;iy, has given the job. On the one hand the venity of Queensland STUDENTS, and vihete- nt i>;ivl that both hitve played tn to Ihcm. As he has now been elected expectancy of unsought contribution ever "Semper" goes outside Ihb University its aisily aUaii>. So, althouKh wc cun- content is taken as the expression of the inter a life nu'mber of the Union wc can ot say tiini llu- nows really came as provided for each issue highlight, and ests and capacities of each and every one of sh«Kk td us, we (eel that we arc not doubt that he will continue to the fact that none were forthcoming, yov. choiiiK the sentiments ol all when take an interest and be a force in or at least rarely so, the sudden Yoar ate directly responsible for what you •c wish them boUi loads of hap Varsity affairs. read in "Semptfr," since it is only by your con iness for the future. knowledge that I would have to tributions that there can be a "Semper." provide the missing copy descended I.sjiould like to tliank those who liave con Ivor, who is an Old Southpor- Margaret, who was a frcsherette as tributed to'"Semper"' this year, and vvho have jninn, first entered the Varsity in recently as 1944, soon found that with Uke a black cloud over me. Sometimes given ;«p tlieir time for administrative and tech- 940. but tiitcrrupt«Ki his course at I would have written the whole of ni^ work on our paper. popularity go responsibilities. The And think you all, who through the Union, le end of 1941 to Join the A.I.F. as secretaryship of the Women's Club semper, inventing pseudonyms. member of which he served for two entrusted km with the production of "Semper" last year was but ^ beginning, for 1S5T, It has been an experience I would not cars In the 1st Aust. Armoured this year she is president of that have missed and which I shall'never forget. orps. Discharged in March, '45, he club, vice-president of Uic Union, What particular issues did you focus Sincerely, LORNA BOLLMAN esumed his studie.s and graduated as and. until her resignation only this on? Bachelor of Arts this year. Taking week, was Editress of "Semper." I don't recall any particular issue upon p a post-graduate course, Ivor soon This last has not been an easy job— jund himself a prominent figure in with such a huge enrolment at the which Semper disagreed with the Varsity this year the number of harsh institutions of "^ critics has been greater than ever— and wo must congratulate her on the government except lal you know what is goinjt on—and splendid Job she has done under such the newspaper bill, lis does not alter the fact that you adverse conditions. lould tell him what you think which apparently nould go on! offended the The draft Union Constitution And now just a word to you over^ student population. as then brought up. Mr. O'Shea enthusiastic ones who delight in sec jok the chnir, vacated by Ivor dur- ing people mairied oft, for better or >g Ihe discussion. O'Shea, you may worse-^if you arc listening for wed What do you do jmcmber, has been largely respon- ding bell."!, you listen in vain. Mar now? ible for drawing up Ihe draft con- garet is a sensible, modem girl—no titution. lingering strains of wnr-fevcr for her I am a retired —;ind intends to continue on and solicitor in private The mam \ui\n\, of controversy in complete her course at the end of ic early stages of the discussion was the year. As for Ivor, all thoughts practice and I feel le representation due lo the Even- of courses are definitely out, (or with that the 12 months in the Editor's Lorna Bollman a Peter Hutton ig and Extcnuil students on the new responsibilities ahead, he In Chair taught me that if you want ouncll. This, it soon became np- tends to tum his Union experience to arent, would prolong the meeting good purpose and enter the advertis something done it was easier to do it •ell into Thursday—so ut II pjiv the ing business. We don't doubt thot he yourself. teeUng was adojumed until 3Ut will succeed—in fact, we don't doubt uly. that they will both succeed. How long did it take you to find out what Semper Floreat actually meant? I knew what Semper Floreat meant because my matriculation required me to stiidy latin. To what extent did you get involved in student politics? I was never involved in student politics as an editor, but after my term of office I became a Vice President of Council, representing St Lucia Campus. m.-iWai^r^^TaaiiyitiiTiTiaiiyna Howard's Hired Goons "There's something rotten in the crawled through the UQ grounds. One student was pinned to the ground, while police twisted state of Denmark"J someone in his arm hard behind his back. He was screaming Hamlet once said. There was out in pain, and when the police realised how something rotten in the state of bad it looked they decided not to bother ^ - arresting him, and let him go. Excessive force Queenslandf too, a few weeks was used regardless of whether the protesters ago, and its name were resisting arrest. It was a mere show of was John Howard. power over us; an His Highness Mr Furby (see intimidation tactic. As ex-editors page, 2000) the cops advanced paid UQ students a visit. students were shoved Correction; paid select out of the way. A privileged males from St woman near me was Leos College a visit, while thumped in the the "ordinary" UQ breast, another students organised an thrown on her head. impromptu welcoming There are numerous party outside. It was such reports of homophobic a shame we hadn't been and sexist behaviour: given more than a day and a half notice. one woman apparently was called a "dirty, filthy However despite that, around 400 students lesbian" and many women report being grabbed showed up at Mayne Hall to show their disgust at by the breasts when forced out of the way. the Howard Liberal Government. When word got About 15 people were arrested. Only six were around that the venue had "changed" at the last charged, and many let out of the Paddy Wagon I stare at you 'and shout abuse till spit minute we marched over to St Leos, undettered. on Coronation Drive. John Howard was in no sprays out in my anger Someone must have forgotten to stick a sign on physical danger. All we were doing was I insult you as best I know how the door informing us of the room change.... exercising our right to protest, ON OUR OWN I reason with you, ted you how it is MY way CAMPUS. This Give you' the facts, and then abuse you M The Boys in Blue had started without us; a line is yet another again in my frustration. -» of cops was formed, keeping us away from the example of a Are you really heartless or is this a mask limo that waited outside. For two hours we return to the you wear chanted, students from all walks of life united Sir Joh era. under several key issues; the demise of public Does anything I say ever effect you? People, have education, anger at the racist refugee situation, no illusions. is there a magic word that will make you a general anger at the Liberal Party policy We are living snap? governing our country. It was heartening to see in a police Make you see it through my eyes, if only for so many new faces screaming "sexist, racist, anti state. a moment? queer, Howard is not welcome here!" This was no rent-a-crowd, fleshed out with the usual How can one of flesh and blood have such A formal suspects. In fact, some of the loudest voices an iron heart? complaint has belonged to the most unlikely faces; people What do you think about, behind those eyes been made to who, to pander to the stereotype, would that can't even stare at me the Police normally be discounted as being too conservative stare over or thorough me at nothing to attend that sort of thing. And it was Commissioner, Is there any movement behind your solid . wonderful to be proven so wrong! For two hours and the Crimes stance? the energy levels didn't waver, although after a and Have you truly perfected the art of while people took to calling out, "Show us your Misconduct becoming a robot, on order from the "fat, eyebrows!" and "We want the little man!" when Commission has been notified. An investigation capitalist controller? Howard took so long to appear. When he finally may find the police were acting illegally, but it will only reiterate what protesters have been Will I ever break your cast? emerged he made a dash for his limo, and the chanting crescendoed, for once face to face with saying for decades: the law is not our friend. the figurehead of their discontent. A group of The law does not represent or protect us. The students had formed a peaceful blockade of the law does not apply to us. We must take matters road, in an effort to stop the car from leaving. into our own hands; create our own law. The police arrested most of these people, including a disabled man. The police shoved "When people fear the government, there is fingers up his nostrils and dragged him away by tyranny. When government fears the people, his nose. He was badly injured, and yet at no there is liberty" (Thomas Paine) time did he respond with by Holly Zwalf violence. The force used by the police was completely unnecessary. Another protester was arrested, and when he complained that his wrist hurt they charged him with obstruction. Later medical examinations showed his wrist was indeed badly injured. When the blockade had been broken through the police surrounded Howard's car and slowly pushed the crowd back, as the car D«««»»«««M»««»»« i •i'l •Yi POLICE ARE RfVID. MANY QLD POLICE HAVE BEEN FOUND PERFOMING THE HOKEY POKEY AT STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS HOPING TO EARN A QUICK DOLLAR MR BEATTIE: NOW THAT YOU'RE LETTING POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST PEACEFUL STUDENT DEMONSTATIONS CONTINUE, WHY NOT BRING BACK CORRUPTION? AT LEAST THEN WE COULD EARN SOME CASH ON THE SIDE... The Guy Who Turned His Back The day after the anti-John Howard protest was alive with unjustifiable hour and half detention, during which he was gossip, as can be expected. Catching up for the people On John handcuffed. It can be assumed, and Gary agrees, that the that missed it or left early, finding out who got arrested, police were attempting to prevent the students inside, who got charged, who was attacked by police... Our Prime including Gary, from mixing with the protesters outside. Minister had visited the uri the night before to attend an Howard annual dinner at St Leos college and upon leaving was Gary got little support from his peers for tne symbolic bombarded with over three hundred very angry people. protest, which is hardly suprising, considering the well- The most remarkable rumour floating around regarding the entrenched racism that exists in most colleges, of which night before, however, came not from the protest but from the National Union of Students has been trying to open up the dinner inside. Apparently... someone at the dinner had to public knowledge in recent months. Gary says that St stood up and turned their back on the 'good' Prime Leo's is one of the most racist places he has ever lived, Minister. We were thrilled at this news and eager to find "People make fun of Aboriginal art on front of peoples out who it was and if he would want to talk to us. Luckily doors and shit. They'll do finger painting and have the Terry, our Goori Berrimpa President was on the case and finger there. They come in they chop my room up. They're pretty soon wc had sitting in front of us in the office Gary all country people and their perspectives on Aborigines are Fridolf, a first year Indigenous student who couldn't the ones they have in that one incident they might have believe we had heard about event let alone wanted to with a drunken Murri fel!ow down the pub or something, interview him. Gary is so passionate about his struggle so that's their whole perspective. And a lot of them, they that it inspires us just watching him talk. His speech is a just think, I'm one of them too. If anything gets stolen, 1 mixture of slang, swearing and repetition for emphasis. mean anything, I don't steal man but if anything gets stolen, I'm the first one to blame." He fills us in on what was happening inside the venue while we were chanting nutside. When John Howard Anthony Mundine was the inspiration for Gary's stunt, approached him before the dinner, Gary began to question having tried something similar when approached by John him about his people his first question being, 'What are Howard some weeks ago "I went down and saw him you doing for my people?' "Straight away he says to me, about five or six weeks ago... it happened when John 'mate, your people have to help themselves first: And I Hovjard went up to him at the 99 grand final with St thought, that's like, splitting the people, and I said 'we George. John Howard's a real big St George fan and he need inspiration and motivation man! It really got to me. went to the dressing sheds and because Mundine had I was just like 'brother what's the deal', and he tried to dedicated that game to the stolen generation and so when come up and do this 'yeah brother' kind of thing on me, it he came in to shake his hand Mundine just turned to his • was so weird, he was like, this little fellow in a suit. And locker and kept doing what he was doing, while all the when 1 said wc need inspiration and motivation, that's other payers were shaking his hand. And that's what when he walked away on mc,to try and dodge me, and Inspired me to do what 1 did. And it sends a message, then he just turned around and said 'Noel Petersons a more than a thousand words. He'll remember that black good bloke'!" fella at the back with his back to him." It was during Howard's speech that Gary turned his back Similarly to Mundine. it Is Gary's Aboriginality that Is his on him. He relates, "He started talking about motivating purpose, he explains... "See 1 have no purpose multiculturalism, and I thought he was going to talk about in life, except to improve my peoples social and economic Aboriginal culture and for some reason he started talking condition. That's all I have. If you take my Aboriginality about Catholicism and I'm thinking why are you talking away from me, to be honest with you, I don't have about Catholicism? You're a protestant, man, You're so anything. I was put on earth to be something. I'm not biased to the Protestant church you even elect a here to be a brickies labourer, I wasn't meant to contribute Protestant Governor General so you're ass don't get kicked to society in that way I'm here to contribute to my out. To ne he just seems like a little bitch for doing that. people. You know in the Bible it says God created I just stood up, 1 didn't have my back to him, I was just everything in his image. Well God made me Aboriginal staring him out. And everyone was like what the fuck because he knows I'm strong enough to carry the burden, man?', and I was just standing there, and I thought he to carry the weight of standing up in front of two hundred was going to talk about Aborigines and then he was thousand people and saying I'm gonna do it my way" talking about multiculturalism and about the Irish Catholics and how they came and settled here you know, Before he leaves, Gary enforces his message, making us tell talking some bullshit speech, and that's when I turned my him what we think his wnole point was. Somehow back on the cunt hey, I just had my back turned to him for though, his powerful presence allows him to get away ages." with turning the interview around on us Gary's message is simple though, "My whole purpose is my people. Gary said he had his back to Howard for fifteen minutes Aboriginal and Torres State Islanders. That is the whole before leaving, during which Gary was sure he would at sole purpose. I don't care about... student fees. They're all least begin to talk about Aboriginal issues even just to good, there's other people fighting those issues. My fight, make him look stupid. Not so, however, Howard's talk man, is just my people. It might sound racist, but that's became even more lacking in any meaningful attempt just me, that's just how it is. I wasn't fighting for the toward reconciliation and Gary attempted to leave the Refugees, I wasn't putting my back to them, I wasn't premises Dut was arrested by police who held him for an putting my back for all that other shit, I was doing it for hour and a half in the back of a paddy wagon. "I couldn't my people. 1 don't want the wrong image, that I'm trying get out, I came out, everything was locked and so I was to fight other people struggles, I ain't and I'm not saying banging to get out,. Some cunt grabbed me, I didn't even I'd be wasting my time, but I would be wasting my energy, know I was cuffed for about a second there was so many I've gotta focus myself to one goal, that's to improve my cops on me and so many bodies and then the next minute people and that takes everything man. everything. I don't I was being escorted out", There were no charges laid want people thinking I'm going to be part of their this and against Gary even though he was given a completely that. I mean I'll support it but my people come first." 1958 as a result of being a Semper ed? No. But that hangover the Royal Harold Love Exchange gave me I've never been What year were you an editor? able to shake. 1958 How long did it take you to find out Who were you co-eds? what the name Semper Floreat Tony Paul, a journalist of genius while actually meant? I was a mere dilettante. No time at al. Passing Nuns told us what it meant, in those days the St Why did you decide to run for Lucia campus swarmed with nuns. Semper? One didn't run in those days, What do you do now? editorships descended by apostolic Recently retired as editor-at- succession, large/AsIa and columnist for Fortune, AOL Time Warner's Did you ever have any problems with business magazine. I remain a the UQ union, university contributing writer on Asia-Pacific administration, police or government? affairs for Fortune. The government got annoyed with us over withering comments by our state Anthony Paul Did Semper help further your career? in the 1950s had done at least two political columnist (whose identity even Yes. I suspect that the resume entry years of school Latin. Incidentally it's What year were you an editor? today remains a secret). helped in the early years to get me my floreat (third person present 1958 However, this went no further than a next job. subjunctive) not floret (third person talking to by a bureaucratic present indicative). Who were you co-eds? person. Harold H. R. Love was co-editor. What particular issues did you focus on? What do you do now? What was your highlight/ craziest pointProfesso r of English at Monash. Why did you decide to run for We launched the campaign for a of the job? Semper? Gain editing experience. student rep on the University senate. Using old hot-metal technology I went abroad for nearly 40 years and Did Semper help further your career? (hissing lintotype machines, clanking lost track of Senate developments, but In a great many ways both tangible Did you ever have any problems with flat-bed presses) at our printer's. believe that the campaign was and intangible. the UQ union, university Trying to write headlines in administration, police or government? ultimately successful. hand-set type with vital letters missing What particular issues did you focus Can't recall any. from the case, and succeeding. Do you still read Semper? on? What was your highlight/ craziest pointNo . Seldom see it anywhere. Hard to remember without looking, but Do you have any words of wisdom for always with outrageous of the job? future editors? What direction would you iii^e to see overstatement and unashamed The night Harold and I recruited the Read the works of the great Dr Samuel Semper head in? partisanship. Foreign Editor (Photo of Johnson and imitate his style! announcement of successful Balinese Campaign for a larger population for Do you still read Semper? candidate attached). Australia, with more energetic Did the experience change your life? immigrant recruitment in Asia. No, because I no longer live in Undoubtedly. Do you have any words of wisdom for Queensland. future editors? To what extent did you get involved in Have you at any point been in therapy Avoid the job if you want good grades. student politics? What direction would you like to see as a result of being a Semper ed? Semper head in? Vice president for evening students for No — only our readers. Did the experience change your life? a couple of years. North West or possibly South East. Yes. It helped make me decide to How long did it take you to find out j^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ .^^^^^^^ ,-„ stick to journalism. what the name Semper Floret actually student politics? Have you at any point been in therapy I"^^"^f. . . ^ , Deeply but always ironically. No problem: most university students LIVING ON THE BOUNDARY FREE West End Community House and Coolibah House proudly present a unique drama production "Living on the Boundary". To coincide vyith Metal health week this unique story reveals STUDENT the life of a young girl who has encountered trauma and isolation in her life. It traces her problems associated with hostels, frequent doctor visits and the stigma associated with a MEDITATION psychiatric disability. Thfs play is set in West End and is based on real life situations and has a touch of humour. CLASSES The public is invited to this production being held at the Uniting Church, Sussex St, West End. Show times: Monday the 7^^ and Tuesday the 8^^ of October at Phone: 3395 3677 11:00am and Sunday the 13^*^ of October at 2:30pm. Admission is free or gold coin donation, greatly appreciated. for details Further inquiries contact: Malcolm Campbell, 3846 2114, Carolyn Perry, 3857 0377. 1959 arts and pranks. But it has a He "writes verse and mighty sting to it. Bitingly crazy articles for satirical, it parodies everything from themselves to the aptly Semper. His work titled 'Sunday Fail' - a take-off has inspired many of the Sunday Mail. "I remember we ran stuff about imitators but there is the whole nature of education in Queensland in the context of no substitute for the culture of Queensland", O'Neill". says O'Neill. "We published an article by the guy who was the Semper Floreat 1960 nephew of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane. He was the black sheep of the family - he was a kind of rationalist. The article was called 'Pizzeycal Culture' because Pizzey was the Minister for Education. That was found so offensive by the University authorities that they called us up before a committee of the Senate to explain why we published this. We just defended it on the grounds that it was freedom of speech. We successfully defended ourselves against that." t's Sunday evening at the Red "We also published an article Room. Amidst the crowd of young, about Aboriginal issues. But by Ibeer guzzling college types, there and large I think we probably is a cluster of people, hidden, right weren't as political as the up the back at a tiny, smoky table. Semper of the 60s." The group contains some of the key It was not until the age of 28, figures from the Radical Times seven years after his time at conference that had taken place in Semper, that O'Neill feels he the bowels of the main refectory that had his political awakening. "It weekend. There are two young was when I came back form women present - two thirds of the overseas and I was sort of current Semper editorial team - and reviewing my whole life in a this gang of radicals. We make an way and in particular my unlikely bunch but there is a strange relationship to the feeling of camaraderie. Catholic Church. I "the Vice Chancellor, Zelman Cowen, eventually started to think about tried to get me dismissed" Among the group is Dan O'Neill. A those sorts of issues." cult hero at UQ, Dan was an editor of were later called). Semper Floreat in 1959.He eventually "I was in the Newman Society. It was O'Neill explains that there is a statute moved to the other side - the a very interesting organisation in that 'That led to my becoming a member In the University constitution about University - to become a lecturer in there was no provision that said you of the SDA", says O'Neill, "and by bringing the University Into disrepute. the English Department. But he is had to be an absolutely believing that time I was effectively This was Cowen's reason for best known, perhaps, for his presence Catholic to be a part of it. So there politicised". From here, he was attempting to dismiss O'Neill. Cowen on campus as a political activist. were a a range of people in the Newman Society • kind of DLP types, heavily Involved in critique of the took the motion to the University MCC, right-wingconservativ e university and civil liberties issues, Senate but he couldn't get enough The conference was a retrospective conscription and the Vietnam War. support to pass It. There were look at the student and political Catholics - along a whole spectrum of people who kind of described "By that time a number of people allegedly plans for Cowen to try again activist movement in Brisbane during were developing a kind of theory of but at the last moment he decided to the 1960s and 70s. Dan's comrades themselves as Catholic atheists and so on." what kind of society this was. They not go through with it. continually ask for his memories on were beginning to declare that we events they are trying to recall for were antl-capltallst and socialist and While O'Neill is sketchy on the details our entertainment and knowledge. O'Neill describes the Newman Society eventually saying we were (this did happen a good 30 or so years He just nods and tells what he can - as "a cockpit in which a lot of revolutionary socialists and so on." ago) he believes the situation arose he doesn't exaggerate, he tells it as it struggles went on about issues in from a leaflet that was distributed by is. As the night wears on I see him relation to the church but also about "It was just like an ongoing gradual some of his friends in the student wearing thin. He looks tired as he society and social conscience". process of Increasing politidsation movement. They assumed that O'Neill rearranges his glasses, pulling his Debate escalated as the Vietnam War because of contacts that you made would approve of a cause which was address book out of his breast pocket began to be widely discussed. The with people that came out of calling Cowen to attend a meeting at like an accordion as he searches for nature of the university was often different traditions." which the students would discuss his phone numbers of other ex-editors I talked about as, "a lot of us felt that alleged Involvement in possible new want to track down. this wasn't a very effective intellectual community", he says. ike most of his cohorts, public legislation that would regulate exhibitions of free thinking put people's conduct in buildings In order 'Neill describes his year at As discussion began to focus on civil Lhim under the watchful eyes of to quell more student occupations. Semper as "deep in the 50s - liberties issues arising about the the authorities. "Yeah, I was arrested Othere wasn't a hell of a lot of quite a lot. It also led to a certain "Cowen wrote me a letter saying active political involvement". repression of protests, members of the Newman Society came into closer amount of trouble within the 'when I first came here I met you and Looking at the archives of his year as university because the Vice contact with a group called Students I had respect for you and even some CO- editor, the magazine plays with Chancellor, Zelman Cowen, eventually for Democratic Action (SDA, or the feeling of liking. Now I neither like frivolity focusing on social life, the tried to get me dismissed". Society for Democratic Action as they nor respect you', or something like that", says O'Neill nonchalantly. "It ^•-'j was a veiled threat anyway that this Some of these i'RICE I SABRINA KIDNAPPED?-see P. 2. Moonshine liftout could lead to action against me." developments were the After trying to sort the situation out removal of what O'Neill with an arbitrary body who declined calls 'God professors' to help, O'Neill payed Cowen a visit. who were elected for life to run the various "Cowen at that time was under departments. The considerable pressure. I noticed that movement managed to he was sort of repeating sentences a replace this antiquated couple of times. It was widely system with a more believed that he was under democratic one that psychological stress because of the included students in intensity of the student movement consultative here. He was having maybe a kind of committees within nervous breakdown." various departments. O'Neill reaction was to tell Cowen "I think what they've ICENIENARY The U.Q.U. that If he intended to take action done is to dismantle SEDITION SEMPER FIOREAT Newspaper against him he would have no that strap by strap. Tf/MY. WAY 1. recourse except to make the issue And now, when they've BRISBANE, Today,-— High - ranking cop, public. Shortly after O'Neill restructured the fearing an autoinaiic, emergency rifle, stems published Cowen's letter in Semper University and iwling mob of leytd student beasts who, in Floreat, Cowen requested to see him simplified the faculty nge Street 10 minutes ago... again- he had decided to not go structure, stripping it iM*r^' ahead with any action. down to five or six faculties, they've got s the years have passed, these executive deans. O'Neill's critique of the They've tried to make AUniversity has not diminished. sure that every During the controversy of the planned committee in the % restructuring of the University in whole University has 2000, O'Neill was part of a group, gone merely advisory nostalgically called the University so that individuals '•^-^'\ Reform Group, who openly opposed really take control and the planned restructure. The group these individuals are distributed leaflets arguing that the subject to the ,te? hierarchical re-organisation of the Influence and fear of H;**.. University would be a terrible mistake people further up the and that instead people should push chain culminating In (D in a direction of more collegiality and the great John Hay" democracy within the University. . . . viciousfy attacked this terrified spin- Q. "It's like, In a way, RUTEs (ster as tlieir contribution to "36S days ot Cen- 5: tenary fun ... 3 O'Neill says the University reaching back to the administration has attempted to "roll medieval courts of the >retori Bay Figlceif, back anything that remained of the middle ages as a ^°V _f?JjA. *y!^ limited democratisation of the solution to the t- Century Veracity REVEALING P CKIES INS DE University that was achieved as a upgrading of result of the student movement In the universities to meet early to mid seventies". the mass demands of democratic education of tertiary because something happened levels. It's just bizarre." everyday. There were leaflets to print and distribute, rallies and The recent proposals by the University occupations to be held, people to to introduce domestic up-front fees meet. Mallory says he felt like this highlights the impotence of such again leading up to and during the committees within the university conference. Now, he says, he has to structure. "I went to an Arts faculty wake up and go back to work - board meeting a few months ago and regular nine to five like most other there wasn't a single person who people. Yet in the days after the spoke in favour of up font fees", said conference we have received regular O'Neill. Despite this opposition emails from O'Neill, Mallory and their O'Neill asserts that staff have been comrades organising an rendered powerless because often, intergenerational conference for next when the issue reaches levels such as year. It seems that these people have the academic board "everybody had a bit of an epiphany too. simply falls into line". ver a few more beers, the conversation continues, i run Oout of tape and don't really mind. Sitting here talking to O'Neill and his friends I feel inspired and proud to call myself a local, after five years in Brisbane. As I am leaving the Red Room, tired and dried out, the conference organiser Greg Mallory tells me how much he has enjoyed the weekend. Back when all this stuff was happening, he says he had a reason to get out of bed In the morning. He would wake up excited knowing that something would happen today - ments anli-establishnient. BRIZARO 'The !.ocal and Live NJusicI * M In mid 70s Brisban; was the largest [ I Scene in Ihe 70's .* • activist movement in Australia because I Qiy the Brisbane Devotey it hadn't been lulled by the Federal They say we now live in liriz Vegai ind Labour reformist government. We had although I try to keep "in", that Joh and when Go-jgh fell lo the Techno Thump on Queen Street still I Kerr/Fraser coup of November 75, sounds like an upilated Disco beat to | Brisbane activists decided it was time I me. li for social action—let's do something I These stories are from way hack different, Let's go oul in the City on a! when. This is not a story however, of | Friday Nighl. It is t measure of thei times were belter- then and let's all limes that tliis was radical thinking in [ fondly recall; this is not retro nostal 1976/78 Brisbane. gia. Bent coppers aren't pennies left on Wilh tlie enterlaiiimcnl scene so far I tram tracks to me. >/ « ' ATI described, it should not surprise that I HA This is about what 1 witnessed. the first thing people wanted to go out I Surely after over twenty years, some V*' to was the airport and train station. sort of Statute of Limitations applies? :* <- Brisbane's 70.s you;!-! fled down south Bands wlio arc now legends and ones or overseas and jusi ouL of it. Many I who thought they'd been forgotten, 1 * never returned. characlers and cliques that followed Tiiese refugees ard exiles kept their j agendas, Al! those mentioned don't j stranded brethren fully informed of start looWnfi at libel nr giving me a j the live music scenes beyond the [ pummel. *i\ Peanut Curtain. Your crappy acts and cheap tricks, I m^ To establish aiv. thing like this in I your habits and performances wove •/•^•'^^: Brisbane, the first t equirement was a the tapestry of the Brisbane Music VVi^ sweeping away of 'he existing metal I Scene H\al made mc—The Bris-banel -mm. and cabaret scene. This was done by) Devotee. :tVc- disco. This is for those who only became a I L«-V«1 main act at a fuiu-ral, as well as those who went onto fame in'.ernalional. Tol Disco hod it all. tl was new music. ihose unborn and non-resident and fori ^%<*^il.. w^^ You danced to it. It introduced the locals who went away to become! exiles and refugees Down .South orj xi»o^^";iS?S8?:y lifestyle foshion iliat distinguished Overseas. This is Brizaro. its adherents as 'with it" modems. Music credibilily was given because ] American Negrces championed il. They'd bought jaz::, rhythm and blues, I On a dry-i'ced fogged, strobe lighted, soul and all Uie best in popular music, 1 colour sequenced illuminated | so that if Uie Negro says disco is cool, it| Brisbane stage, a hair-swtshing, wa-wa i must be so. pedalling 20 something produces However disco was also the greall through his folded-back, wofferedf white hope of the multi-national I 5000 watt PA, the strains of Smoke on] fe-. record companies. With it's standard the Water. beat of machine ;.ound, it didn't need | a human musici.in. Irrelevant that he is in an acousti- cslfrrh.-ilkngcJ loc;:! luburbin hall,J L;i3td was ^oi.i;{ to save"onT«jyalry1 designed for a single mike public j cheques and the record companies address system. Ue knows the criteria] were now sticking their fingers into] for excellence—loud is good and' even the tills of the local hall dance. louder is belter! Instead of eight or so local musos get- Progress in the Brisbane Battle of] ling the gig, it turned to a wannabe DJ I the Bands was based on how muchl ThTfoiiowers of star signs, or all with boxes of company product. Teens ] A muso's career choice was whether least the ones who knew they were in and twenties who'd spent years strum equipment had been bought or hired! he should get a new paint job on his through the sponsor, the Academy of) the Age of Aquarius, listened to Iheir ming and dreaming were told: you j panel van and his path led to a carnal Music. Every muso knew this crite music at Uie St. Lucia Uni. shouldn't have bothered—you've knowledge charge or joining a cabaret ria—"Equipment Makes You A| This campus was Commonwealth I joined into a drug-taking, sweaty acUv- j band. Professional." land. Nol only was 18 year old drinking ity Uiat's old hat—disco rules! You could make money, an income This .'cd lo pantecs pulling up all legal, but the Queensland police had Parents willingly sent Uieir teenage I supplement of $30 a gig in a cabaret suburban venues like the Camp Hill I only veslricled access. In mid 70s I daughters lo the wholesome activity of j 1 band. If you were on the Cloudland,! School of Arts where the main act| Brisbane, a place where the pigs could-1 Uie disco. They'd seen Uiat funny bloke I function, club circuit you might gig might gel paid $150. n't gel you had great advantages in a hat, Molly Meldrum, praising two or three times a week. In the mid I It led to lead guitarists being graded 1 Drinking and entertainment at Uni I disco. Some remembered him from 70.-;; netting $100 a week was handy. on Slratocastcrs played through I was for engineers and other ruggerj Brisbane in the 60s, too. They'd seen| Marshall amps, it led to twenty piecel bugger low lifers. Abba, Olivia and Rod Stewart in leop drum-kits, complete with gongs andl A 20-30 yeor old, who'd married In a pit under the Uni Refrec (later I ard skin trouser:; and decided that! giant triangles to play Pink Floyd| loo young and wanted to get out the 4ZZZ radio studios), a gross ofl disco was good clean teenage fun. If il songs. tit night, could convince the wife males who introduced their private I were a corporate plot, you'd have to It led to every muso making sure hel he was a muso for profit. school girlfriends as "This is my lady",] think McDonalds was too and that's 1 kept his day-job and it led to every| sank kegs after footy training in a tra just loony, isn't it? muso being assumed to be a he. Cabaret bands played cover songs, dition ironically known as smokos. Disco was resisted. Metal andl "Chicks", what the hip muso called "al lop 40 hits, old Beatles songs and if the The popular entertainment ofl cabaret bands tried to form a Union little lady", might be singers, but nol audience wanted raunchy they'd play Queensland Uni mid 70s was thc| wiUi the slogan '"nike your music livel" distraction was lo be made from thej Gloria or Wild Thing, or anything by | rads—red, black and rainbow. However, when they approached lead breaks, the drum solo, or that I the Stones. H.A.R.P.O. (How About Resisting! Trades Hall they found there already quintessential moment when the! The average cabaret band member I Powerful Organisations) put on hap- was a Musicians Union. This was made Musos, the Equipment, the Ugi^ls, and I hnd len, maybe iwenly years playing pjnings of slr^eel theatre; magicians, up of orchestra and old Palais players The Vibe all came together and the experience. Guitars were popular gifts film and poets integrated wilh bands | from Uie 60/40 dance scene of Uie 1930 Metal Musos was Jammin'. The Jam, I to 10/12 year olds in the 60s. School ?.;i backlit by a swiriing lightshow. lo 50's, This membership took great The Jam. Every metal muso knewl bands and massed acoustic guitar ren In the acoustically designed, low! delight in telling the upstarts that that's what the audience had come to| ditions of Kumby ya were the training | ccilinged Refec this music was head-1 "good" music never dies and you were sec and hear. ground. feeding as opposed lo head-banging, j never musicians in Uie first place, and no ya can't join the Union. These tradi The audience? You have to remem-l Cabaret musos made some money I There were slill ISmin music inter-! tional Labourists even dreamed Uial as ber we're talking the Camp Hill School! ind made sure they had Running Bear | ludes, but Ihey were called improvsl disco was dance music, supported by of Arts herc. The metal musos were the| and The Hokie Pokie in their reper- instead of jams. This was Progressive! "family values", Uiey might make a only over 20 year olds U)cre, Inirc. These songs with lyric changes I Music • a mixture of jazz, classical and] come back! Come dancing the old Hall dances ran on parental sanction. were Iheir only originals. Before there | rock. Women played violins in Progl fashioned way made a brief appearance I They were advertised in school I was sex education in Brisbane schools, Rock bands and the audience sat on| up at their old sl.^mping ground ofl newsletters. Legal 18 year old drinking I '.Running Bear and The Hokie Pokie] the floor. Nol only the clumsy tripped. Cloudland. A much more radical solu- f in pubs had only been legislated in I played on a Brisbane stage. tion was required. 1974. Hall dances ran on 14 year old What any self-respecting cabaret I Mid 70s Brisbane was when the girls who'd convinced their parents muso really wanted to play was jazz, or hair grew bng on men's heads that it was only just up the road, all maybe the blues. This was Ihe music of and in the women's armpits. _ The one "Gougli send" that the their friends were going and of course | Ihc adull vcnuss, of wine bar and city f Brisbane activists hod from there's no alcohol. Parental supervi hotel. However tliis was not the purist 1 The reactionary Joh government! Whitlam was thu 1975 licensing sion was reduced to deciding whclherl jazz or blues, It was Dixieland, trad had the effect of energising all move-l of FM raciio 4ZZZ. il was all right to stay at Kathy's place] jazz with the blues represented by a I overnight. Buri Ives tune. Its audience was 30/40 vear olds, goodtime life and^real estate 'sal'jsmen \%no a told thiir wives ihey were making contacts but were look ing for disenchanted divorcees, or soon to he's. These salesmen waited! with Uicir playboy lines like: what star I si3:1 are you, ro wait, let me guess,! need a record contract, do it your Disco was never played on Zed, even in selves. You can produce a record that if he had, then Henry too would have the request show. Check the '76 Zed veteran pro muso bands. They arrived makes an impact in far away music been arrested as a commie synipa- Hot 100 and you find the records of with numerous original songs (most Mecca's like Sydney and London! You thiseri commercial F.'^l for the following 20 notable Stamp Oul Disco and could do it even if you arc just a band Brisbane was "past carin'" when the years. Turn on /U^l radio today and you Taskforce) and a selection of pure punk in Brisbane; the big record labels could English and Yank Left were aghast in hear the songs of twenty years before j covers. come to you. the 80s at Uic excesses of conscrva- Razar wanted lo slice life young, fast Zed opened. .Musically speaking, il] Uonism. Thatcher and Reagan could must be said Zed saved lives in the 70s. i I come not to defame the Saints, but and non-boring. Theirs was a sound 1 do say shame Saints, shame. You are have taken lessons from Joh. 70s Zed was an important component. like hot-wirin' a car—when it works the band that abandoned Brisbane like Brisbane had the civil liberties ofl yooou're on the roooad and if Razar Along with the import record shops j the pop song says, just when we Johannesburg. Instead of African was to go far, i'.'d be hard and thru and the airmailed copies of NME from needed you most. I found il interesting blacks living in a police state, it was every light change. London, it kepi Brisbane informed and that on their member's infrequent anyone who looked like they supported up to dale on all thin^Js happening and | returns a variation of jazz prog rock opposition. sounding. was played. I found it disappointing Can I say again? Repression causes The Go Betweens knew Jean Paul As it was happening, Brisbane heard ] they chose life in obscure French or no', suppression, but a reaction. .Vever Sotre, not how to hot-wire o car. that the overseas rock scene was being | Swedish towns—even .Melbourne over think 70s Brisbane was a weak, pig- subverted by a new style called punk. here. What was the matter Saints, beaten place where Ihc only thing that This was music that despised and belit couldn't you handle Brisbane? happened was Law and Order. The Go Betweens were 20 somcUiings, tled all Uiat went before it as "Dinosaur 1 Brisbane crawled with deviance, 1 well steeped in the Arts Department of Ironically the bands that remained Queensland Uni. Rock". It was the sound of those who [ after the Saints departed were called from pre, post, avant-garde Arts stu-1 I put on the Go Betweens first paid felt detached and alienated from their the Survivors and the Leftovers. With denls to drug addled, third-sex explor gii; in Baroona Hall, April "78. Instead society. Brisbane snorted—you should | Uiese Iwo bands Brizzo punk played to ers on a day pass from Lowson House. I of bringing extra equipment like lights live here! paying audiences. By 77 it was easy to find a fellow trav You may see punk and Uie safety pin I eller for any trip, all you had to do was and some paying fans, they arrived The Survivors were from the 60s with two old Genoa lounge chairs and as a foreign fashion label. However ifl tradition of R & B in Brisbane. A go oul. punk is defined as the music of dam some fanzine editors looking to be Survivors repertoire was cover ver Going out again centred on the city, frcebies. aged, anti-establishment, disillusioned sions of 60s Kinks and Yardbirds type not just on the Uni "safety zone". If you youth, Uien Brisbane had all the mak-1 songs. Not only the classics, but per started in Elizabeth Arcade, drank at Their act consisted of jusi the two of ings of being a 70s punk capital. haps Uie unheard of B sides. What dif White Chairs and went to inner city llieni standing on these lounge chairs wilh their mikes fully extended some If 1 were writing this as a back- j ferentiated them from a cabaret band hail dances you were in Brisbane i 3 metres in the air and playing their ground to Briz Vegas, I would now] was the power and speed at which boliemia. couple of songs, one aboul a librarian launch into the perceived wisdom of | lhe.se covers were delivered. Their Bohemia conjures up London Art and one aboul an ageing film actress. Uie greatness of the Saints. 1 am writ records never captured their live School, the Pari.s poets and Warhol's | The rest were covers. They played ing however, about what I saw andl momentum. New York. Brisbane is the further- heard as a witness lo the 70s Brisbane J lOmins and called the act Armchair Promoting punk dances, I always most-fUing, backwater capital city ofl Hock. 1 thought they had support act music scene. Mine is an agnostic view. slotted the Survivors last. When the Western culture. Bohemia in Brisbane Consider, Saints fans, if they v.'cre so I potential- anyone would look good Taskforce was congregating at the could be achieved by man or woman coming on after them. great why couldn't Uiey wipe off all Uic door, I hoped that the strains of "You simply having short hair and wearing a Nol many people saw Ihc Go metal, cabaret, jazz, and prog musos i j Really Cot Me" might- calm the shirt with maybe a tic. Smoking Uelweens in '78/79. On this armchair have previously des:ribed? Inspector and get his foot tapping. Cauloise nailed it down. When stale I Clinton Walker, who grew up in the I occasion fifty or so people stood out An Inspector's foot kicking was sanctioned behaviour is going to a[ Saint's suburb of Corinda, suggests ill side in the alley refusing to come in more likely if the Leftovers were on disco wiUi your childhood swecOieart, was because of some "wrong side of thej while Uiey were on. They'd rather eye stage. The Leftovers passed over musi it's an easy step into deviance. tracks" syndrome. ball the Dog Squad than watch the Go cian competency and went straight for By the end of '77 other bands had Betweens. style. The Leftovers were a living '76 arrived to join the Sun'ivors and the The GBs in '78/79 were mainly the Clinton, whose insider Saints] . example to^sbane of the slogan—No Leftovers. Fuller Banks and the | support act for the Riptides (evolved knowledge was traded into a career as j Future. Debentures and Metro Taxi were pro from Grudge/Neon Steel/Numbers). Jndie_musL John Birmingham answers the question on everyone's lips: Who the hell is Howard Stringer? Howard was a two time editor who gave me my start in writing. My very first piece as published for him and he whipped me like a black dog on a chain for the rest of the year to get more copy out of me. Later we hatched numerous plots to bring Australian publishing to its knees, but they inevitably ended with Howard fleeing the country, pursued by his creditors. He ended up in New York at one point with some US publisher offering elephant bucks for a sci fi shooter he'd written. But he knocked them back on the first offer because he wanted them to bet the company on him. They demurred. I think he's in the Czech republic at the moment. He may have been behind the recent flooding. Howard Stringer circa 1986 co-editor Angela Ward's editorial after Stringer's dismissal EDITORIAL So what actually tiaoDenedP MY UFE WITH THE UNION DONT MESS WITH THE PRESS Editing Semper is a trying task. * Approximately three months ago Howad Stringer photocopied a confidential document which he removed form the desk of the Secretary to When Howard and I came to office in December last year we looked the Vice-Chancellor, George Davies. The document was the minutes of a forward to putting out a newspaper that contained something to meeting between Professor davies and State education Minister, Lyn Powell, interest everyone. about Mr Powell's proposal to make the $168 student services charge non- The last thing on our minds was playing petty political games with compulsory. This proposal would close down the Union - including Semper. petty polidcal people. Howard was writing a story on the issue. The sacking of Howard Stringer represents a significant threat to free press on this campus. * Howard Stringer tells Jillann Farmer that Professor Davies has given him True, some students may believe that Howard's decision to leak a some information on the matter. Jillann finds this peculiar becasue all the confidendal document was a serious breach of his editorial dudes that Information passded onto her was fn strictest confidence. warranted sacking. Jillann checks with Professor Davies office and is told Howard was given nothing. However, the crucial point remains that the decision to dismiss Ho ward vfzs not made by the students who elected him. It was made by an * Jillann Farmer, Union Treasurer Mark Herberr, and Union Secretary Jennu elite group of diirty-two people in Union Council; almost all of whom Fox take a master key and enter Semper Office late Saturday night without were members ofthe A.L.P. Club dominated S.N.U. faction. the knowledge of either editor and search it until they find the document in The sack motion was put forward after publication of die last edition of Howard's desk, Semper. As a consquence most students were completely unaware diat an elected office bearer was facing dismissal. * Howard comes clean after being confronted by the Union Executive At the Council Meeting, members ofthe S.N.U. faction sprouted alot because he is assured that anything he told them would be in the strictest of hot-air about how in touch they were with students, and how diey confidence. Later his letter admitting he leaked the document is circulated had the best interests of students at heart. to other Council memebrs and is used publicly as the prime piece of Why then were students not invited to comment on the matter.^ evidence in Howard's dismissal. Even the timing of the meeting to discuss Howard's sacking dis * Howard Stringer is dismissed from office because the healthy relations couraged student panicipation. Council began debating Howard's between the Union and the University administration has been irreparably future at midnight and did not finish with the matter until 2 a.m. damaged. In short an elitist group of career motivated student politicians have meddled wiUi Semper's autonomy. Ic appears that Union interference in editorial matters is to continue. At the next Council Meeting a motion will be considered that would compel the Semper editors to devote pages six, seven and eight to Union News. Will the next proposal bediat"All Semper editors mustbe members of die A.LP. Club"? In the light of Howard's sacking, anything is possible. ANQKLAWARD university of queensland union St. ILKla,4067 cables:unistiici brisbaix^ 3711611 <^- AN QPKN LFTTTER FROM THF PRRSIDFNT. This is perhaps the hardest thing I will ever vn-ile. How can I explain my decision to resign from the position of President of your Student Union. Perhaps I was naive ,_,. When I agreed lo run for President with S.N.U. I knew they were the Labor Club. Perhaps I should have been warned by watching the transformation of people like from open, thoughtful Idealists into party hacks. Hut I thoujihl the Labor (^luh meant Bob Hawke and reconciliation. I was to learn that it meant number crunching, toeing the party line, the .stifling of dissent in the name of 'caucus solidarity', 1 was to learn that it meant the cynical stacking of meetings, the sellout of democracy in the name of representation, the self-promotion of bhitant opportunists whose main concern was - not the students they were elected to serve - but their own curriculum vitae's. Perhaps I was naive Last Wednesday night - without any consultation with the studen! body - S.N.U. removed an elected SKMPER Fxiitor, Howard Stringer. To do this we needed 32 votes A meeting of the ALP Club was held the day before. There was a call for caucus .solidarity. People were threatened they would have their pet projects blocked unless they voted the right way. They still did not have the numbers. At the Union meeting next night, 13 positions (over 20% of the Union Council numbers) were declared vacant They then elected their friends to these positions. They still did not have the numbers. At 2 o'clock that morning they rang around and dragged four bleary eyed members to the Council meeting to vote to seal Howard's fate. Al the time, I supported the sacking of Floward Stringer. I supported their actioas. I thought the ends justified the means. Ii seemed to be the only responsible thing to do. I thought Union Council would support me. I didn't realize we would have to go to such lengths just lo get rid of Howard. When if started to go the way it did, I thought, well if this is w hat we have to do, then we'll just have to do it. I thought the end justified the means.»...« Since then ! have spent many sleepless nights, I have prayed, and now I see I was wrong. No ends can ever justify such means What kind of student democracy is this where the .students aren't even consulted?? At the meeting on Wednesday night the Democratic Rights Club turned up. They argued that the present parliamentary model of Student Union democracy is wrong; that Is gives to little power to the students; that it gave to much power to the Council and the Fjcecutive. They argued for a more participatory model of Student Union like GrifTith University's Union. Perhaps they were right In any case I now believe our present Student's Union is a dangerous farce. I hereby resigri as President of the Student Union. Yours sincerely. ni.i^ANM FARMER HI lann Farmer'*: letfer nf resionatinn on drugs. It's hip-hop night and 'get it together' is played. I'm so pleased I dance and run off to the toilets and spill coke on my bag. S 's eyes are ^Kamed%o^in im rolling back in his head which is unpleasant to watch on most people but stylish and sexy on him. It's the weekend after New Year's and the bar is full but not crowded. Two Czech girls are having what looks like a large night to our right, fending off a British backpacker who refuses eviction. Finally, the one we've both been eyeing turns to us and asks if 'we mind if she and her friend B interrupt us?'. Why, no. Her English is good and we discover a common interest in Warhol - there's a small exhibition at the Modern Art Gallery over the river and we're carrying the same free promo postcard. I p'ay Oprah with the frustrated still-ogling Brit and try to pry him loose from her (K ) with gentle healing words, to which he tells me I have no joy And then, B is kissing some guy goodbye and the music stops and lights come up. Maybe he's right, and I don't have joy, but 'm the one getting into a cab with the two Czech girls and the Scottish-Italian, hailed for us by T the dealer. As a movie it's been done before; as my life it's pretty damn fun. The girls have something mysterious going on. Or maybe it's just those eastern-european smiles which all resemble the Mona Lisa. K mentions a club called Mecca, over the river. guy and a girl. S talks to the guy while I take the girl for a taste of what she It's a good club. A large room through open double says is coke. I try some and it burns (it burrns!) so doors, candy-coloured scooped-out -rectangle ask S to try and identify it. We go home couches, parallel glass-panel fishtanks, a bar at one J and later he tells me it's smack. Well. This seems to end. Then a toilet and coat check, and through an S is the only dentist in my life; he's Scottish- be the unpredictable vyeekend I had asked for. Italian, 6'4" and one degree of separation from the open doorway to decks and dancefloor and more seats. We buy vodka and watch the people move. mob. He has the nicest cock I've ever met, the most Prague is the most beautiful city Friday is sunny. We K is twenty-three, was eleven when the wall insane true stories I've ever heard and the unnatural watch the ski-jump on TV then head out for food and came down and the Czech Republic was released ability to club extreme in any city. We met up in beer and to be awestruck. The evening finds us at from the USSR. She reads Kerouac and remembers Prague in January this year. The plan was one Roxy, chasing again. I can't help noticing how the velvet revolution. We sit to roll a joint; there are weekend together, then he'd return to Glasgow beautiful Czech women are and wanting to take one flyers for an afterparty on the armrests so I grab one. (where he lives and works) and I'd do my individual home - a playful one. S is happy at the The lights come up and we file into the first room, lour of the city before heading off. Our rendevous thought but has other things on his mind. I dance lean on the bar pre-planning. S gets our was settled over a series of 160-character texts from and he watches. He gets bored and we go back to the jackets. 1 shrug mine on and light a cigarette. Paris to the UK; I asked him to meet me, he organised Chapeau Rouge. He meets T , who happens to a hote!, we swapped flight numbers. I flew out of be a drug dealer, and we pop pills and go home to Paris with friends and got on the Then there's three loud blasts; 1, 2....3 - and it's the same flight as him from Heathrow. third one that strikes a resonance This was Thursday 3rd January with me, because it hits me on my right side lateral, just below my scapula. I am th'ust forward a bit but surely I couldn't have been Meeting up again is okay Strange shot, not with a real gun, right? I half-hearted sex, the kind you have run to the toilets and check my wilh someone you don't know that back (oh god what does it look well when you've reached an like what if it looks like...) it all uncertain relationship wilh your seems fine. Fuck it hurt. I tell body's new winter coat. We truncate S that I've been hit There is fornication and go to look for a bar commotion inside and I'm he's heard of Can I say the name? The breathing and moving my arm; I Chapeau Rouge. Don't mention my still have circulation, I must be name. Outside it's freezing and alright The world ceases to walking is difficult on the ice-covered register logically the definite stones, prolonged by our getting lost. impact confused by the fact I'm Finally, we face a small red-glowing still alive. We move outside and to window and once inside the red walls the left of the building a guy has and a backlit ad for 'velvet been shot twice, is blanketed with a crowd gathenng and a police underground' beer have the effect of welcome-mat watch the adult channel and read Italian porno car rolling up, but no cops emerging. I just want to wallpaper,,. I play table accessory while he ambles off comics (which are surprisingly graphic, contain get the fuck out of there so I ask the girls how they to buy some pot and a bunch of pills which look amusing sound-effect words and assist in learning suspiciously OTC. S has what you could call a the language). feel about the after party. Fine. We leap into a cab 'high tolerance' coupled with great faith in his and I feel under my jacket, shirt, thermal, singlet.bra: blood. I ask S to check me out He drawls in metabolic enzymes; he throws back three to my one. Saturday it all happens. Like Friday, it's sunny I've Glaswegian "You've been shot but it's superficial. been postponing photography until he goes back to You're alright". There's not much happening so we go walking in Glasgow. Stupid. By day we wander and smile, that minus-seventeen to another club, Roxy. It's closed so night back to meet T at the Chapeau Rouge. We cross the bridge again to the familiar side of back to the first one. Two people are 'waiting' for us; The bar staff and a scatter of people know us; Cheers Prague, walk upstairs to another club and buy a vodka. he refuses to believe it:" Well, you have to enrol for dejected at being shot and alone. The doctor who I take off my jacket and sight a spot of blood, about uni by the eleventh and it's already the seventh" treats me is a woman, and just wonderful. A nurse the size of a twenty-cent piece, on - "yeah okay but first I'm going to have to sort out this takes me to the nearby polyclinic for x-rays and they my shirt where the pain entered. The entry wound.,." tell me there's a bullet lodged in my side I start crying girls are worried and tell me to I strip the beds white the maids come and go and again and try to explain that this sort of thing doesn't check it out - yeah, in a nightclub, organise the costs for a doctor. happen to me, I'm from Brisbane. Apparently it's prety smoke and blacklight No thanks. I " I've come to believe Dad asks if I couldn't just go to a rare for Prague too; city of the Velvet revolution and feel faint from the central heating hospital. I refuse to walk all that. The nurse takes me to see a surgeon and dad and clothing layers. I opt to leave, I have a long life, anywhere where bullets can reach. calls again about uni and advising to 'get the incision storm out of there calling a cab with and postmodern- After the hote' staff leave, I realise done in London' but I don't know if I'm allov/ed home my shot arm. S follows. Once there's illicit drugs on the TV and early or not yet and I cringe at the thought of beeping in the cold again my head clears. We film-ic near-death am certain they've been seen. The through each metal detector. The surgeon and the head home and I grab my clothes Czech police could be at my door health care people are starting to doubt my faith in soap and start to de-blood my plotwists seem more any second, fuck... methodically the Czech health system so I ask for ten minutes to layers, prolonging the inevitable likety than dying in a and paranoicially I clear any have a cigarette before cutting; 'sure' the nurse says, wound-sighting. It's there and yes present evidence of drug use from 'you can have a cigarette in there' pointing to the it's superficial, the entry point I'd felt Prague hotel away the room, slinking out to the bin adjacent consulting room. Twenty minutes later I'm by the lift to discard it forever, under local and my cousin (who dad has reached and earlier and a raised lump on my from family and right side, rather like a large sandfly yeah. Then I call friends, insurance conveniently works nearby) is seeing me for the first bite. Shrapnel? Or a part of mc? I friends before hitting company, and try to locate a time in four years, facedown, topless, getting a bullet shower and dress the wound, cousin who is supposed to be removed. When it's over I show him my bag - wander in to S who is lining twenty-four." Vyforking in Prague. The insurance a Mooks affair which I'd felt guilty about buying up and mentions how good I look company call-center drone seems to think I have no need to come considering I've been shot; which doesn't seem home early Repeat the word ludicrous at the time. I've come to believe I have a long life, and postmodern-film-ic near-death plotv^ists 'shot' with feeling. Six o'clock the doctor seem more likely than dying in a Prague hotel away knocks on my door. He's a tall. from family and friends before hitting twenty-four. Mostly Shock has me everywhere; I sit on his lap and consider being traumatised but instead do two lines and stand. "Thank god they didn't (sweatshop labour) but which nonetheless took the first impact and probably saved my life. We head back to his work via a Diesel shop where a Slovakian salesguysays the bulet looks Russian and I gel straight to retail therapy I stay with my cousin at his work-paid five-star for the next few days, v^'hich are spent meeting great people that post traumatic stress disorder prevents me from properly acquainting, and leaping out of the way of the sounds Get him from Game arcades. Fun. The insurance company to photograph my finally agrees to let me go to London so I meet up with wounds. We shag and finish the coke but finally I can't anymore, even though if I sleep I fear I'll K again and we drink at her local (and those never wake up again. Blood is seeping through the moustached Czech Czech girls can drink) and to get to the Warhol bandages and I'm tired. I retire thinking back to first man in a suit, carrying a large blac< exhibition at the modern art gallery before flying out aid, and how lying on the same side as the injury doctor's bag emblazoned with a Barbara Krueger-style Thursday, a week after arriving. might decrease blood pooling in most organs Check white-on-red sticker reading 'DOCTOR! I wish it were my insurance pamphlet before closing my eyes. spelt 'DOKTOR examines me briefly and I photograph his bag. He gives me Nurofen and asks me to drop by Sleep ends, afternoon. S rolls a joint and leaves, the clinic tomorrow. He's never seen a bullet wound depositing the unused mix on my Nina Morelli' before but advises that I vill liff until tomorrow. To pay London's good. Lots of paintings and the friends I split from in Paris are there. S comes to visit, puts us calendar (left in a locker in Florence and grabbed by hin I have to go to an ATM and I'm shocked how up at the Hilton and we go out to Fabric to see James me) on top of the TV. I'm glad he leaves and I can be vunerable I feel on the street There are no english- Lavelle. He retracts the text messages he's sent me pro-active but action escapes me, I'm exhausted. The larguage newspapers around, nor does the hotel have while coming down after Prague (Vm going back to maid enters and finds me standing over blood- one so I can't look for an article about the shooting. prague to find and mutilate the fucker who shot you splattered sheets. 1 start crying and apologising, saying Back in the room I access the mini-bar (chocolate and coz nobody is allowed to mess with you now). I'm I've been shot She has no idea what the fuck to do. chips; unsatisfying but convenient] and at nine p.m. back in Prague at this year's end; I asked him to meet She fetches the other attendants and I stand before decide I'm safe from the legal system, scamper back to me in Budapest but he's in deep desire for a friend of them weeping for a bit before the concierge appears the bin for the contraband and nearly fall asleep in the bath with a joint mine. Bittersweet really; there is no one quite like him. and offers to call a doctor. Djring all this my dad calls There's no one like her either. I think they're off to and aks how I am. Budapest together next week. - "not too good, I've been shot" The next day I navigate to the clinic, pissed and 1961,1962 politics - big men on campus big in therapy. stuff about that. There was an women on campus - that sort of WeU, frankly I think that's bullshit. indication of the changes to come. thing. Ha ha ha. It was fun. You know, But being the sixties we were fairly editing a student newspaper is hard conservative. Were there any women writing for work but it should be fun. And we you? enjoyed it immensely. So it was more university life and Oh, we had quite a few. It wasn't a things //ke that? , sexist conspiracy to keep them out it Did you i^now what Semper Floreat Yeah...the first student demonstration was simply that we won the election actually meant when you started the occurred when I was editing Semper. and that's how it was. So we made job? every effort to have women involved. Of course I did. I'm a Catholic -1 did What was that about? Latin. May it always flourish - Semper Will Wong. An immigration issue Willy What was the highlight/craziest point Floreat. Wong was going to be deported. of the job? The Commem edition I suppose. The And what do you do now? Who was Willy Wong? commemoration - you don't have that I'm a semj-retired academic. A Malayan, 1 think. They had decided now do you? that that he didn't come up to scratch What is your field? and they wanted to send him off John Dalton No. What is that? Politics. straight away. So we demonstrated Commemoration was a week of outside the Immigration Department, 1961,1962 celebrations commemorating the Do you still read Semper? which was next to Anzac park then. foundation of the university, Well, I don't get it. If you sent it to What made you run for Semper? graduation, all that sort of thing. We me I would. What was the highlight or craziest I had always been interested In words always had a huge procession through point of your time at Semper? and ideas. I suppose Dan O'Neill was a the city with floats. Every faculty We're trying to get it online at them Gee. That's a hard one role model - he was an editor the year would put in floats - the French moment. because...each issue had its own thing before. department might have a float or the Well I was going to say if you did and, you know, you kind of put that Engineering faculty would have a float something like that I would. aside and went on to the next one. What particular issues did you focus - they'd all be devoted to different There was no major scandal apart on in your year of Semper? themes. Any words of wisdom for future from the stuff vrith the Student Union Oh, we did student issues, editors? but you know we were just trying to international issues such as the White Sounds lilie fun. Enjoy the experience. give the facts and not sort of running Australia policy, Apartheid. You know Oh it was. It was enormous fun. And any line on it. We weren't running we had a mixture we had a bit of that was a nightmare in terms again of Did you get involved in student around trying to push something. everything. We had literary issues producing it. Also that was the only politics? 'cause John Fogarty was doing honours time Semper was distributed to the Oh yeah. Very much so. In a sense When you started the job did you in English. A wide range of things- the public. We used to sell them on the that we were part of the Student know what Semper Floreat actually usual mix of domestic issues, street. And give the proceeds to Union machine. You had to go to meant? Australian national politics, charity. We used to have boat races Council and you would report council Of course, it was chosen by my father. international politics, cultural issues, down at various hotels. We had a meetings. Without going into detail apartheid, White Australia Policy, race female boat race too. You know what 1961 was a pretty tumultuous year for That's right! You're the only second relations particularly in terms of the a boat race is? Student Union politics and we generation Semper Editor. White Australia policy. reported all those. Most students Yes, I suppose I am. Ah...no -1 guess you race boats...? didn't go to Council. They didn't have Did you have any problems with the Chugga lugging beer. It's called a boat a clue what was happening. I'm sure Do you remember your father talking UQ, Union, uni admin, police or race. it's still the same. There was big about how Semper came to be? government? money involved and lots of clashing I recall him saying something about Not really, no. Our main problems Oh. egos and all that kind of thing people feeling the need for a paper. were production because It was And We'd sfng; 'Here's to Hannah different interest groups. We used to And the people there thought they printed down at Watson Ferguson in she's true blue. She's a piss pot rage against the medicos and the wanted to do it to. I think they found South Brisbane and we were out at St through and through. She was gonna greasers - engineers in other words - the demand when it got going. Lucia so there was a hell of a problem go to heaven but she went the other cause they used to get the lions share in terms of getting to and fro St Lucia way. Drink it down down down down of the Student Union funds. So it was more of an experiment? to South Brisbane. And, in our day, down!'. And you had to drink a yard of Yeah, yeah, it certainly wasn't pre you tended to carry copy with you and ale or whatever and you were timed analysed or had surveys done about there was no internet or that sort of and the fastest drinkers won. John Fogarty the need like our days. thing so if you had an article to go in 1961 you had to jump on the bus or grab a Sounds wild. Do you still read Semper? taxi down to Watson Ferguson and It was. What made you run for Semper? You're probably computer, make it all hope to God that the compositors I'd always (iked doing that sort of up on the computer now? would set it up on their linotype Would you say the experience at stuff. machines. Cause we had the old lino Semper changed your life in any wayl Yep. press and then we switched to the Oh, I wouldn't say changed my life but And what were you studying at uni? Oh God it must be easy. We had to offset production but we still had to it certainly developed talent and gave Arts law, I was doing English honours make it up on the stone at Watson get the Unotypist to do it for us. me experience 1 othervnse wouldn't in the arts. Ferguson. That and pull the proofs have had? and check the galleys and all sorts of Apparently there used to be a box on Did you have any problems with the things. the campus where people could put So do you thinii it helped further your UQ Union, university admin etc? their submissions for Semper in? career? Well there's a defamation Issue, there / can't believe the stories about how Yeah, sure. People would come by Oh, certainly. It taught me to write are a couple of hot things that blew you had to do it. and stick them in and we'd read and to produce under a deadline, yes. up in Council. Is ft still called Well, we had ...there was usually one them, edit them. And don't forget we A lot of people can write but they Council? co-editor was a trainee journalist and had different editors - we had a sports can't write to deadline. they knew their typefaces and all editor and so on. It is and it's still boring. those sorts of things. Then we had a Did you end up in therapy in any pointWell , there were lively moments when couple of years just prior to that where Joan Lyndon...well Joan had So you actually had staff? after Semper? we were there. Oh, of course we had staff, yes. To be Therapyl Ha ha ha ha. I ended up in some pretty interesting ideas about layout and gave it more the magazine working on Semper was regarded as the publ Why would I end up in What sort of things did you focus on appearance. We tried to copy that being fairly prestigious. therapy? in your year? but we didn't have quite the flair. Well they were building the new Really? There's a rumour tf]at Semper Eds arerefector y and there was a fair bit of Oh, yes. In the sense of student particularly vulnerable to ending up 1964 1966 1964. Since 1975 I have lived as a take Brian Laver seriously. I can freelance historian in Canberra, remember him from time to time publishing 14 books and millions of dashing into the Semper office, words in newspapers and magazines. which in those days was on the first floor of the union building overlooking the forum area, gesticulating and declaring our Michael obligation. O'Neill He wanted us to publish stuff that focussed on the Vietnam war. He was trouble with a capital t, from In answering these questions I have the naVve point of view of a good been completely dependent on my Catholic boy like me who was still memory of what's in my Semper pages struggling with the really important and what was in my head and heart questions like how to engineer my 36 years ago. Since memory always first real sexual experience with a errs, at least mine does, on the side woman. By some fluke his pressure of self-glorification my ansv/ers may found a crack in my complacency and that time of year a mad little Humphrey bear little relation to the objective self absorption and 1/we allowed tradition of publishing a more pocket facts about my time as Semper editor Semper to begin aligning itself in an sized thing called Wacko. The and a lot of relation to my McQueen open way with the growing protest journalistic quality, never in strong mythologised fantasies of the good 1964 movement. supply, was more or less expected to Following from our chat I shall not old days. C'est la vie. PS. Give em sink into the gutter for Wacko. heaps at Pine Gap. answer the list of questions but give Two, staying up all night to meet the background to my appointment deadlines and getting completely Do you have any words of wisdom for What year were you an editor? and resignation. high. This was years before I ever future editors? 1966 encountered weed or any other drug No. I went to uni full time in 1962 and set than alcohol, and while getting pissed Who were your co-eds? up the Freethought Society which was common, the highs I refer to here Did the experience change your life? held weekly lectures on sex, politics My co-editor was Michael Ong, a were not alcohol-induced. Lack of Yes. By end of year I had lost my and religion. This was a shock to the Chinese man from Malaysia, whom I sleep, creative effort, and communal virginity, almost lost my university administration. I also edited a one thought of as a great asset at the psychotic delusions of self-importance degree for lack of time given to study, page newsletter which they used to time because he could quote reams of were enough. It was a big buzz to totally lost my political innocence. I Illegally suspend me for a few days in English Romantic poetry and could walk around the campus in the remember before I ever got to uni • I July 1962 on the grounds of obscenity. pull the chicks. In return, I did the morning after getting the paper to was 23 when I came to U of Q as a The outcome was that I was found lion's share of the editing. bed at 5 or 6 am, mingling with first year English Honours student in guilty of conduct unbecoming to a common students who didn't know 1965 - going on doorknocks for the student, which was not an offence in Why did you decide to run for they were in the Presence. Then National Civic Council and casting my the university regulations, but was Semper? later watching them pick Semper up first vote for Bob Menzies because my dreamed up to save face for the 1 became a friend of the 1965 Semper and read it and discreetly observing mother, who was frightened Catholic, President of the Professorial Board editor (Brian Toohey, now writes a their faces for the flickers of naYve about politics, voted for Bob who had exceeded his authority in regular column in a Sydney Sunday enjoyment that satisfied my ego. Menzies. I never voted Liberal again suspending me. paper, the Sun Herald 1 think, though after Semper. it could be another) and he Three, a lot of it is wiped from my encouraged me to stand. That had a The next year 1 contributed articles to memory now and 1 don't have my Editing Semper was the most big-time powerful influence on me because I Semper and got elected as sole editor bound copy of the whole year's thing I had done since I scored a job admired his reckless personal courage for 1964. For the end of first term, I Sempers here to flick through (do in advertising at age 18. It gave me in denunciation of cant in some of the planned a magazine issue on they still bind a whole year for you to confidence to know I had done it. posers around at the time. censorship by getting staff to keep forever when your term is up?), Being Semper editor was more contribute reviews of a list of banned but one story 1 printed comes to mind important than editing Semper. In reality, 1 didn't need too much books. The text was decorous in the as I key this response. Miss Uni was encouragement because 1 fancied extreme. The printer took fright and still alive and well in 66, so there was Have you at any point been in consulted their solicitors who advised myself a writer and thought of simply no thought of Semper therapy os a result of being a Semper Semper as a grandstand on which I that if they were sued, they would be boycotting it and I doubt I ever ed? liable to be sued, or something could show off. It was also a family entertained so bold an idea. (I Editing Semper was therapy. equally tautological. They did not tradition, which is a nice way of probably thought it would be a way to allege that there were grounds for a saying Dan had been Semper editor seduce someone if I played my cards How long did it take you to find out charge. The printer refused to years before and I was feeling right anyway.) But right before (or what the name Semper Floreat proceed with the issue and the competitive, was it after?) the double page spread actually meant? President of the Union, a Roman on the candidates - a layout of I knew before I became editor. Catholic engineer, declined to back Ofd you ever have any problems with photographs each with a square Knowing the meaning of Latin words me so I resigned in protest. I was the UQ union, university rectangular border, which 1 think I was commoner then. Many more replaced by at least one Evangelical. administration, police or government? titled "Pick a Box" - came the page people than now did Latin at school We tried all year to get the word fuck with the headline "Death of a as I did, and years of serving the Latin The paper had been attracting livelier printed and eventually wrote it in fine Bourgeois Harlot", if I have spelled mass as an altar boy meant Latin was writers and artists, as well as boosting felt pen unobtrusively above the arch and recalled it right. The copy, as I not a strange tongue. And you could the intellectual and political content of a doorway (I think it was, anyway) recall it, was a mash of self- score a bit of prestige and seem before I became editor. We also in a photograph. They were simpler righteous, pre-feminist, resentful, urbane by knowing such fancy stuff. redesigned the layout to allow for days, at least in the beginning of 66. jejune and celibate indignation, My It wasn't quite in the same league as white space and some colour. I can't recall us ever getting "in mind was emerging from darkness and reciting bra-melting Romantic poetry, trouble" with the authorities per se still blinking a lot. but I didn't have the memory for The Commen issue that was sold in for anything we did in Semper. that. the city during the Commen Four, putting out Commem Semper Procession was a fake of the then What was your highlight/ craziest publications. For Commem Semper What do you do now? afternoon paper, the Telegraph, and point of the job? proper we mimicked Time magazine For about 27 years I have been in the its front page headline - "Indonesia There are several contenders for that and had a lot of adolescent counselling game, both pre- and post- Invades" - sent up fears that have honour. undergraduate fun doing it. There doing a Social Work degree back at U never gone away. were still Commem processions and of Q in the late seventies and early One, the crisis of growth 1 went pranks tn the city In those days at eighties. ^ through struggling over whether to I have not done n^uch editing since Commem time. And there was also at TEMPER vol. 36 no. 10 thursday 15th September 1966 10 cents CmL LIBERTIES AMD THE w CD 3 T3 to QUEEHSLAHD POLICE FORCE CT) Did Semper help further your career? expected It to have just the opposite passage, altered me in a way that but I don't honestly know. I am sixty Almost. My Semper experience effect. It was all academic in the saved me from getting sucked back years old now. Semper almost always taught me I was no journalist and I end, because I lost interest in the job into the sham world of advertising. now seems impenetrably different never tried to get into that trade when I was trying to prepare a Just the sham world full stop. from, and culturally exclusive of, me. seriously, other than helping publish dummy ad at home afterwards (part It hardly matters whether 1 can read stuff as part of the radical movement of the selection process) and realised What particular issues did you focus it or not, anyway. I'm sure it Is partly in the years immediately following. how far from that mentality I had on? that I do not try hard enough. But there was a moment when, moved as a result of my politidsation. Vietnam, racism a bit. Hard to What direction would you like to see strapped for cash and unemployed, I Editing Semper was a major part of remember what else. semper head in? applied for a job back in the that transformation. I don't think i can say anything advertising business. When I was Do you still read Semper? sensible about that. being interviewed it somehow On reflection, maybe my answer to I am rarely on the campus now. When emerged I had edited Semper. I was this question should have been a plain I have picked up Semper over recent To what extent did you get involved genuinely surprised to see this jacked yes. Editing Semper, because It years 1 have almost never been able in student politics? me up a notch in the eyes of the wasn't for me a journalistic to fead it. It may be generational As Semper editor, probably not much. interviewer. I suppose I would have experience so much as a rite of (whatever that really comes down to) back quick enough to go leak it all to referendum for ...2am in the the press! So 1 leaked it all to the press, Aboriginies and illegality and It was on the front page of The and we won both. It was morning their Truth. The front page! And there was a wonderful. 1 went up to homes were Its all just phone call on Monday morning telling me the Trades Hall that night to report to the office, and I and the place was singing. ransacked and went up, and you know, that The whole placel And some of them man was shaking with people came out of the were rage. He was shaking I woodwork, all these And he would have middle-class people that arrested... if a little loved to have bashed had been undercover, you had a red me up, I'm sure. helping. And he said "I book they'd thought I told you What was it like being a take the red not to tell woman in the movement? book away bit anybody!" "Oh," I said, "I only told a In my day, the Trade because they few of my Unions used to say, these thought it was friends!" But the women shouldn't be damage was done. working. They're taking the little Red He couldn't undo it. the men's jobs! 1 used to Book. of die every time I heard it. Honestly, they Later on in life I I was secretary of the worked for the MLC, and Waterside Workers took Bibles when it was suggested I go Women's Committee. We away with red and interview the army, they fought for the wives of covers on! history turned up again to say "Mrs Nord the waterside workers. is not to go to the army". They must We always sat on the have thought I was a passive sort of strike committee, and we'd sit up there at the agitator, so I didn't need arresting or top table, and they'd take the City Hall for mass anything, but I needed to be watched. I meetings for National Stoppage. It'd be standing was dangerous. room only, and they'd put microphones outside, repeating, and I'd get up there and speak...the other Have you ever been arrested? women wouldn't do it. Norma Nord is the convener of the Grassroots Resource Centre in West End, a No! I've tried, I've been in quite a few My words of wisdom? Women don't know how hub for local activist groups. At 87 she demonstrations, but I've never been arrested. much knowledge and power they have. They are has been a peace activist for nearly And then as I get older I'm afraid that I wouldn't raising the next generation. When my grand be able to run away or anything. I can't march daughter was eleven I asked her about a school seventy years...almost as long as Semper even. I couldn't do a long march now. I'm 87. essay she was doing. I said "what did you do it has been on the streets. I talked to her on?" She said, "oh, feminism and witches". And about feminism, war and change, and And then I joined the Communist Party. A sad that's because her mother is a wonderful, strong although she told me history can never little old man met me at the Gabba and took me woman. repeat itself, I couldn't shake the strong round some back streets and up a rickety staircase into this little, little, little / always look at the Vietnam years in awe. feeling of dejavu... room to have a meeting. I joined in a You had thousands of people marching. We ...you'd meet very bad time, because the Communist don't get those numbers now. I joined the peace movement in 1937, someone in In my early twenties. I did so because Party was illegal in those days. This I was concerned about war; because I the dark and really feels strange when I say it, but Yes, but it took time. In the beginning, we'd couldn't find out what were the causes they'd give you know, back then, if we had even a organise a march and 5 or 6 of us would wait at of war. I was walking in the city you a letter small peace meeting there was a police Roma Street Forum, and only a few people would square one day and there was a little car always outside. The meetings had come to join us. Then one day Brian Laver to pass on... to be kept small, we didn't gather in man selling the Worker's Weekly, and 1 marched all these students, all the way from the large groups for fear we'd get arrested. bought that, paper, and there it wasl University of Queensland, and round the corner And people just flocked. They were heady days. Very clearly stated: the struggle of power in the they came, waving thefr red flags, and then the You had to be careful. You had to carry out your world and colonies and monopolies...and then 1 rallies really began! And soon the peace work more or less on your own. You were only to began to read, and the peace movement was movement built to 20, 25 000 people. know a few people...the people you made advertised there, and so t joined. contact with to pass on leaflets and things. Freedom of speech is under threat again witb You'd meet someone in the dark and they'd give I Was under surveillance by the Commonwealth the new ASIO laws being introduced. Do you you a letter to pass on.... But that was nothing. Investigations Branch. They followed me around think we're moving backwards? The leaders, 2am in the morning their homes wherever 1 was working, and they phoned one were ransacked and some of them were day and said (my name was Porter then) they As someone said, when war start:s, truth is the arrested...if you had a red book they'd take the said, Porter, the CIS want to see you. And I first thing that's killed. The truth, and then your red book away because they thought it was the thought, that's funny... well I'd better go; so I civil rights. And now its happening again. It suits little Red Book. Honestly, they took Bibles away dressed up very nicely, very demurely, and I went the government, and it suits the fascists, it suits with red covers on! there, and he talked about the peace movement, the multinationals, it suits the World Bank and and he said, did you agree with the statement the IMF that the Soviet Union were correct in going into Because of my job 1 couldn't come out too openly Finland? And I said "yes, I think it was". So that but I still did my very best to strike a blow. What do you think about the War on Terror? was how 1 was caught. And I knew who told them There was an illegal paper called The Spark, and because I knew who was at the meeting the night at 2am in the morning 1 would hike from New Well it's the terrorists having a war on terror. 1 had said it, so I knew who the spies were. And Farm to West End to work the old flatbed printer. That's the way I think it is. Because who created he did the fatherly thing, you know, "a nice girl Gosh, you got ink all over you, and it would never the terrorists? Why are there terrorists? If you like you shouldn't be getting involved in this sort work properly. You did the stencil on your look back, the terrorists arose from the attitudes of thing. You don't really know what its all typewriter and you put it on a silk screen and you of America. I think a lot about this war. They about". That was the worst thing he could say! inked it by turning a handle or running a roller. say that history repeats itself. I really think And he said "would you do something for me? Well you can imagine, it was not exactly a that's a silly remark. History can't repeat itself. Would you let me know who the leaders are professional job, and it would break our hearts Not repeat itself fully. We should cherish the there? You know, their names?" And I said, "oh, I sometimes. You'd spend all your night there and work of the past and take it into the future. I don't know if I could do that. They're my it still wouldn't be much good. longed to say people are marching throughout the friends". And he said "well, give it some world, and now they are. thought, and I'll ring you again". I couldn't get We came out of illegality when we had the Holly Zwalf 1967 1969 budgeting / promotional elected as a faculty rep on UQU helped produce once the latest issue Tony Melius skills I learnt have been valuable Council for 1970.1 was later AUS rep was out; working with some What year were you an editor? along the way, and I have appreciated for the Mt Gravatt CAE student union interesting Part of 1969. the learning 1 gained through many of when I studied there later in the people. the people I was associated with at seventies. Who were you co-eds? the time. Do you have any words of wisdom for Michael Kelly was the originally Ron Eedy future editors? Seeing that you have a elected editor, but he left for greener What particular issues did you focus What year were you an editor? question below about therapy, I guess on? pastures after using up almost all the 1969 (Actually, I was only acting Co- it might be: do your best to hang on year's budget producing the first few Everything that was imporiiant to a Editor for 2 issues after the official to your sanity. More seriously, though, issues. Ron Eedy and I took over as late teen/young adult at the end of Editor, Michael Kelly, resigned.) try to ensure that "Semper" is or co-editors for a while, then Alan the sixties (of course, adulthood remains an intelligent alternative to Davies and another had the co- didn't arrive until the age of 21 Who were you co-eds? the mainstream media, with a then), as well as the usual news, editorship for the final few issues of Tony Melius broader spectrum of viewpoints and the year. views and other essential stuff that intelligent analysis presented on paid the bills Why did you decide to run for issues (whether political, social, Why did you decide to run for ... each issue of Semper focussed on a Semper? economic, cultural/artistic or different theme, but all were meant whatever). Semper? I enjoyed the challenge in terms of to be both relevant and provocative. Didn't actually run ,.. I had been on content (writing articles) and Did the experience change your life? the volunteer staff since the end of presentation (organising layout etc), 1968 (e.g. the credits in the first Do you still read semper? No; but it was an interesting Issue of 1969 list each name, then experience and something different. "and Tony", for each function ...) and J SYKTIE3I3 OP dl LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAKir>| was co-opted by UQU Council (i.e. n.ckel Have you at any point been in Ron Eedy and I volunteered). COOH therapy as a result of being a Semper (QJJ ed? Did you ever have any problems with t-l No. (Has this been an occupational the UQunion, university »v\dole hazard for editors of "Semper"?) administration, police or government? rnalony* How long did it take you to find out Mainly problems with some factions in chieride I KiQ,OMe UQU, but also with the police - 1969 what the name Semper Floreat issues featured highly psychedelic actually meant? r<>j pCC-CU^COCL covers, drug manufacturing formulas, Can't remember exactly; but I think it was in my first year at UQ. (1 was on nudity, the occult, anti-Vietnam war <2) and other left-wing political opinion, H "Semper" in my final year.) ... just about anything that would upset the highly conservative Z-n/HCt What do you do now? Queensland of the beginning of the Teach English at Brisbane School of Joh era! (and the special branch, the Distance Education drug squad, etc., etc., ...) OH Did Semper help further your career? Not directly; but some of what I What was your highlight/ craziest ( benzcui learned is useful in teaching media as point of the job? 4/ chlortie. part of English. Actually getting to do it officially ... r^-pj SJ&SfiJPJSJft JTJam 43. issue No.t WOMAlAncH a. t»7:t PRICNE IO CEKTS N CAMPUS point of the job? When the State Police raided the Semper Floreat office looking for an elderly escapee from a mental asylum. Do you have any words of wisdom for future editors? Hang in there and don't let the 1^ UHIfHSlTV ? bastards get you down! Did the experience change your life? Yes, it was in the year when the Whitlam Labor Government was first elected, in December 1972. The Vietnam war was at its peak, student activism was at its great est and there were many causes Paul Tully worth fighting for. i0miMiMH... Hove you at any point been in thera What year were you an editor? py as a result of being a Semper ed? 1972 Yes - my whole life! Who were you co-eds? How long did it take you to find out None. what the name Semper Floret actual- ly Why did you decide to run for meant? Semper? My first-year at University in 1969. A general interest in the media as well as the desire to do something a What do you do now? Councillor, Ipswich City Council little different if 1 had the opportuni ty Did Semper help further your career? Did you ever have any problems with Yes, it gave the opportiunity to focus the UQ union, university on politics which lead on to my cur administration, police or government? rent political involvement during the Only when the Union President had to past 23 years in Ipswich. personally sign each proof page for vetting prior to it going to the printer, What particular issues did you focus which at the time was the Sun on? Newspaper Company in Fortitude On campus issues, environmental Valley. causes, state politics and a few spoof issues sending up the mainstream What was your highlight/ craziest media. " Do you still read Semper? No, unfortunately. What direction would you like to see Semper head in? m"^' ^ Exposing those who should be exposed and always fighting the good fight. To what extent did you get involved in student politics? Fairly involved then, but in 1975 I joined the ALP and subsequently became an Alderman and Councillor in Ipswich for the past • DICK SHEAnMAN (on ri|hl} in typiati luncMnvr torn* tn tht UMon Rtftetory, iprMdfcts Chtlnnin 23 years since 1979. MM'fttoughtstotfwitudmti liberties. There was still the question what people should be doing now. But of the right to march - all of those What was the highlight/craziest point it seems to be - as you know, 1 went sort of things, freedom of expression. of your time at semper, if there was in to the Semper office a couple of The sort of issues that drove the left one? months ago and it was just like when through the whole sixties in fact. The we did it and really it serves a similar Student Union elections in 1972, the The craziest point at university was sort of function. It can satirise the left took over the Student Union for being with Kim Banikoff, going out to administration, it can basically deal the first time in years. those army rifle ranges and painting with issues the mainstream press anti-war slogans on their rifle ranges, couldn't be bothered v/ith or just So what extent then did you get it was an enormous amount of fun aren't intellectually equipped to involved in student politics? Were you because they'd pick us up everyday in understand. So 1 reckon it's still going quite political? army trucks in the centre of town and really well. of course we'd get into this convoy of Absolutely. But not in Student Union army trucks and we'd get in the back At my university the student's union is politics. I was a full time student and we had this huge red flag which so conservative that one of my \A activist for about five years, that's we'd fly off the back of the truck. journalism students wrote a critical why it took me five years to do the As far as Semper is article and the union president degree. 1 came to university late. I'd concerned...5emper was a lot of hard complained to the Vice Chancellor. Alan Knight spent two years in the public service work basically It was really about But obviously Semper is operating and I'd come across people like Brian putting the paper out. We'd come out freely without too much constraint. What year were you editor? Laver speaking down at Centenary every two weeks during semester and 1973 Park, and I'd heard them and got it was a 24 page tabloid sometimes Kind of. We've had a lot of problems involved in that. I used to get on my 32. And it was chokka with graphics this year with censorship by the Who were your co-editors? little motor bike at lunchtime and go and information. So no, I can't think union. Almost every issue they've out to university listen to the of anything. been problems. Did you? No-one speeches, then go back to work in the department of Air Force of all places. That's okay That sounds crazy Oh, we ran the Union. They didn't What made you run for Semper, did So I was very politically active, I enough. How long did it take you to worry about us at all. I can't recall you have to run in elections? guess, but never what you would call find out what Semper Floreat any problems 'cause as I've said it a leader in that sense. actually meant? was the highpoint of left activity you Yes I did, I was elected by the know after all those years of left Council, from memory. 1 had support Were you ever arrested? What does it mean? activism we just took over the whole of the left faction the best, the Union. previous year I had been the editor Yes I was. On July the forth 1969 I Always Flourishing. (even though I wasn't a post was arrested for assaulting police. At the moment the same people have graduate) of a post-graduate Well there you go. been running the Union for the last newspaper called Quest. We put that Did you? five years. For us it seems that it's a together basically because we thought What do you do now? case of 'our politics are better than that poor old Paul Tully was such an I can't really remember. I was pretty yours' and our positions are 'higher' right wing idiot that it needed some weedy when I was eighteen and I'm a professor of journalism at than yours. sort: of alterative, and basically-1 nineteen and the police were always Central Qld University and I've been a mean Paul not such a bad guy - but pretty big. Maybe 1 did and maybe 1 journalist now for 30 years. So they regard themselves as being his was very much ALP. There was a didn't. I didn't get arrested though the source of all wisdom. And that's whole lot of issue that we didn't think for lots of other things I did. Do you think that Semper helped a pity because one of the best things he was dealing with adequately; like further you're career? about student politics is that they the Vietnam war, aparthide, all of Did you have any problems with UQ change all the time. Turnover and those sort of things. Union, University, police because of Oh, yeah ft did. Because what that's what keeps things like Semper your work at Semper? happened was we had this really good Floreat going. How old were you when you were an photographer called Eric Perdro. In editor? Not much at Semper really The Union those days Queen Street wasn't tried to have me expelled at one actually a mall it was streets. And Twenty-four. stage because I'd graffitied 'Ho lives', there was this guy, a 'Ho Chi Min Lives' on the main black guy, who used to Were you still studying? entrance to the Student Union in drive this old FJ Holden. front of the eyes of the Liberal Party All weekend he'd circle I was finishing up a degree. It took Secretary of the Union. When he told Queen Street and the car me five years to get my BA. me to rub it off, I told him to get had 'rock and roll' on the stuffed. He sort of took action and front number-plates and Were you living in a share house did they tried to expel me, but in the end he was known as 'Rock people do that back in those days? they sort of backed off. And also, and Roll George' so we they at one stage, were thinking did a double poster. That Oh, absolutely. In a huge house about prosecuting this one person was what got me my first although, um, it was small. Around over a demonstration called erotica.. job cause I commissioned about that time I was living in a house it. I figured we needed on the top of Hillston Road in Taringa. What was that? to record it because he There was about eight or nine was just known to bedrooms, and we had about a dozen Don't ask. It was really about everyone in Brisbane at people staying there, Hari Krishna's libertarianism. I mean we tricked that time. Part of our downstairs, and one of the guys was people really - we said it was about common cultural history. in a bike gang. It was really a totally pornography but of course the over the top household, I dunno, I pornography was actually people Do you still read Semper? never got any work done. getting murdered in the Vietnam war. So we had lots of photos of mutilated Yes, I read the current Yeah, nothing much has changed.What corpses and they thought we were version while I was here. issues did you focus on, in your year? going of have naked women and we Politically, what was going on at the didn't, at least 1 didn't. I was What direction do you time? photographed by university security think it needs to go in to man holding up a sign saying 'fuck the keep flourishing, if you Arrgh, anti-Vietnam war, gay rights draft' and they were going to will? anti aparthide, women's rights, I think prosecute me but In the end they there was some of that in there, civil backed off. wouldn't presume to say Wnpvround coittr/yom 1973. Photo ofRock'n'RoU Ctottt by Ralph fartlncr like feedback through the foldback these are the gigs of our lives. !lja'?'ia:i''J\ '' Tii.i ^^ • Forget hindsight.The way I see it, one should look to We know that the potential for every possible the future. Looking back only leads to endless future is inherent in every moment. Any decision, every instant, affects our future. Maybe 2a revivals, nu-metal, and other social ills. Hindsight will m lead me back, at least in spirit, to mistakes like if you turn left instead of right you might live lA 10 grunge. In the past I was a Semper editor. In the instead of die. Maybe if Bill Clinton had inhaled x: future I'm going to run an underground radio he'd have ended up nrrore like George Clinton. w station and play Leonard Cohen tracks over and over c I'm just noticing that this is my most confused again until my fellow students rise up and My friend G (the name has been changed to lc comic ever. I do feel there's some message to be overthrow the evil headmistress. keep her anonymous,and to sound more like derived from all of this:some pearl of wisdom. If Kafka) once bought a packet of fortune cookies you know what it is, please email me at three days late. By this I mean that every event [email protected]. Here's a picture ofthe Semper they described had actually occurred three days office from when I was an editor, and a picture of earlier.it is a measure of her astuteness that she DJ Bacon. It doesn't have much to do with this noticed this was occurring. comic and I'm over pictures of DJs/turntables but it was looking pretty cool and I don't have anywhere else to use it so I thought I'd include it. ^^M5^ What was your highlight/ craziest during my Semper years. But the exact truth about Queensland poitics. point of the job? answer is that I am the Program Well, I guess, sex in the office I Director of Channel Seven Brisbane, Did you ever have any problems with remember fondly. 24 hour days, one of a collegiate group of Program the UQ union, university ' sleeping over in the office and Directors who guide the future of the administration, police or government? showering in the Student Union program format of the Network. 1 know No problems with Union which was Building, woken by the cleaners in the that here, now, as then, there, that I always supportive. mornings. The AUS Office over the make a difference. The rest lies in corridor where I encountered my first v/aft in your next question. The University administration absolute love affair of my life - not the investigated Semper for exposing the sex in the office one. People who Did Semper help further your career? bogus enrolement a special branch worked with me who have become In an absolute manner. 1 knew, as I police officer, as a student, who did lifelong friends, Bill Holdsworth and recall so very clearly now, the moment not pursue studies, but only attended Peter Ford - remarkable men both. • in fact - in the Semper office, that to spy on student demonstrations and One an accomplished writer, global media was where I was going to be at rallies. I was summoned to attend journalist and so much more; the home. I later tried out for a great before the University Legal Officer and other, also accomplished, whose life many jobs, in advertising, in public Deputy Vice Chancellor to reveal my long career in musicology commenced relations, in journalism - for all these sources, which they suspected came with Sempen were 'media' by my definition. It was from an unauthorised leak in the David Franken because of a letter from Western University administration. They were What year were you an editor? Do you have any words of wisdom for Australia in late 1973, or early 1974, right, of course. Concerned this was a The year was 1974, my 24th year. I had future editors? that introduced Peter to me, and prelude to disciplinary action, I been through the Left Movement as Yes, get lost in the moment, celebrate accidents quite as remarkable that attended represented by now Federal one of the founders of the wildly and do whatever you think is flowed from that, that I was then Court Justice, Jeff Spender QC, who Revitalisation Of Christianity the right thing to do, think not of the further introduced to my current told them I was not answering their movement [ROC] which was formed on future - that will come in its own time. career. questions and the inquiry was dropped. October 1st, 2nd and 3rd 1969. The Try to be a good person, try to learn As far as the police were concerned, i Sixties were disappearing and it was everything you can handle knowing What particular issues did you focus assiduously avoided arrest at all time. time to move on. It felt like the last about the world and then spread the on? gasp of the worldwide cultural word. There are people around you, in It was my intent, remarkably remains What was your highlight/ craziest revolution at that time, and it was, in bright light and in shadows, who will so in strange ways to this day, that the point of the job? the way that it was. change you life. More: two finger paper should have a broad appeal. For Laughing at Matt Mawson's cartoons-. typing will get you through life quite only then were the concerns of the Who were you co-eds? acceptably. Left in which 1 believed capable of Do you have any words of wisdom for There were rarely collectives of being read by a wide audience. I think future editors? editors in the late Sixties and early Did the experience change your life? that the paper, in ways large and Be honest and do not harbour sinister Seventies. I was recommended by the Yes. I was a child of the Fifties, of a small, achieved this. At least I beUeve designs. This is the first and hardest former Editor, Allan Knight, to the lower middle-class family and so to this day. Progressive ideas, rule of the Samurai. Observe this and Union Council, and was thus naturally, like so many others, lacked wrapped in populist communication. all else will follow. unopposed, having worked with him in self-esteem. I recall with precision the 1973 during his editorship. moment, in the Main Library toward Do you still read Semper? Did the experience change your life? the end of the Semper year, when I Occasionally, when I give lectures to Yes, along with everything else that Why did you decide to run for semper? knew I had worth because of what I Queensland University Media Studies went with being a student on the Great Interrogative. Why? Because it had done. That made a Big Difference. students annually, and pick up a copy Queensland campus in the 70's. was inevitable. There was something, To everything that came afterward. of the paper in the corridors that something magical, that summoned me There were the people, Barbara my continue to echo with the sounds and Have you at any point been in therapy there. I had fallen in love with the ghostly lover for so many many years, sights and dreams of years past. Buffy as a result of being a Semper ed? mediation of it. The opportunity to Say and Peter my best friend who St Marie sings "My dreams have lost You have to be in much need therapy Something through the student press. introduced me to a concept of destiny some grandeur coming true". That is as a necessary prerequisite to be a So I did, as the record shows... that is so beyond self-esteem, and Jini true, but there remains a voice against Semper editor. my compatriot in the struggle to find the prevailing times in the occasional Did you ever have any problems with what to believe in, and Bill who was editions I read. I'm pleased to hear a How long did it take you to find out the UQ union, university such a gentle sceptical soul who familiar voice resonating over the what the name Semper Floreat administration, police or government? became my travel buddy and the rock years. actually meant? Of course. Naturally The late Sixties, of my adult revolutionary journeys, As a good catholic boy, in addition to which were the Sixties in Australia and Ann-Maree [who devoted her life What direction would you like to see being as an altar boy, I studied Latin to [there was a time lag] gave me a to the world and makes a difference Semper head in? matriculation level. Hey, we could all healthy disrespect for authority. That still)..others still. To ignite an insurrection against the speak Latin in them old days. was the great gift of the time. ruling classes of course. Vietnam, as 1 have often said over the Have you at any point been in therapy What do you do now? years, was the name of the gate OS a result of being a Semper ed? To what extent did you get involved in Barrister-at-law. between my childhood and my Ha! Unexpected questions are the ones student politics? adulthood. I'm very pleased to have to have fun with. My life at the time - That answer has already been spoken Did semper help further your career? my 'red badge of courage', a criminal before, then and since - has been an here, Hannah. 1 wish it had saved me from it. record for refusing to be drafted, interior journey into The sacred Self. occupying the National Service Office, Hermann Hesse, then Leonard Cohen, Thankyou for the opportunity to share What particular issues did you focus - the last to leave - the CMF later Joseph Campbell - these were my my mind with another whose path into on? occupation at St Lucia, occupying the therapists, but rather more, mentors. the future has already begun, plowed Laughing at the authoritarianism of Administration building at St Lucia. Tour guides on the greatest adventure. by farmers and weather of which she Queensland politics. And my months on the run from the Inwards. knows less than she can possibly Federal Police up and down the East imagine. May your journey too be Do you still read Semper? Coast, my arrest in a symbolic How long did it take you to find out interesting. Where can i get a copy? cemnonstration in King George Square what the name Sen)per Floreat before my ten days in Boggo Road in actually meant? What direction would you like to see December 1971. Back to your question I did Latin at Gregory Terrace. Mark Plunkett Semper head in? Playing an important part in -1 published a photo of the What year were you an editor? What do you do now? • undergraduate irreverence and student Administration Building in Semper 1974 I think it was 1977-8" (I think) with the caption "Grey and crooked I am now, as I have been for more humour. years than I realised, a programmer. dke the men inside"... the Union was Who were you co-eds? Not in the terminology of the Nineties. To what extent did you get involved in a collective of my friends then. No Bruce Dickson problems. A few censorship issues over Something so much older than that. I student politics? program as a painter paints. It's self- I took the Groucho Marx approach to the publication of streakers, I recall. Wtiy did you decide to run for Semper? expression. I learnt that, unknowingly. organised politics. To have fun, write and publish the novel - and we don't pass until we've Semper head in? see their words in print. Jan Turner-Jones written a book report: about it." Left. Craziest time was the day Kerr sacked Did the experience change your life? What year were you an editor? Whitlam. To what extent did you get involved The experience wasn't life changing Editor in 1975 in student politics? but was worthwhile. Do you hove any words of wisdom for Was Social Work rep for Union Council Who were you co-eds? future editors? for a few years. Supported favourite Have you at any point been in Anne Draper Good luck with old technology. Stir causes in writing. therapy as a result of being a Semper the pot - we were on the cusp of such ed? Why did you decide to run for an interesting time that slid into dull, Thinking about having repressed Semper? dull, dull. Anne Draper memory therapy. I ran to get a break from Social Work. Did the experience change your life? How long did it take you to find out Yes, changed me from a social worker What year were you an editor? what the name Semper Floreat Did you ever have any problems with 1975 the UQ union, university into a writer who's lived on a quarter actually meant? of a living wage ever since. Still don't know what Semper Floreat administration, police or government? Who were you co-eds? No real trouble. Someone stole the means. Jan Turner Jones typesetting machine and all the fonts Have you at any point been in the week before we started. No overt therapy as a result of being a Semper What do you do now? Why did you decide to run for rumbling about the big issues, though. ed? 1 am Librarian at the University of Semper? Loudest criticism from STOP and CARE No, just in suspended animation. Queensland. I was studying journalism and as it (two reactionary religious was International Womens Year organisations). Someone would How long did it take you to find out What particular issues did you focus and I thought it was important to gather armfulls of 'Sempers' and what the name Semper Floreat on? distribute same to members all over actually meant? have female editors. The issues we focussed on were the country, then we'd get sincere Safer never to know. feminism,politics,and we even had a letters asking us to "improve our Did you ever hove any problems with poetry issue. content". Most mail was about an What do you do now? the UQ union, university article 'Human Sexuality: Beginnings' Read, write plays and songs, work for administration, police or government? Do you still read Semper? (hetero/homo/bi). Example of a a Labor politician. From memory some religious groups I read Semper very occasionally. letter from a CARE member: "Dear got upset over some of the articles. Sir, in the mail yesterday J received Did Semper help further your career? What direction would you like to see two pages of 'Semper Floreat'. i am Probably not. Got pregnant that year. What was your highlight/ craziest Semper head in? the mother of two boys whose time point of the job? I think Semper should be looking at was occupied in the following ways What particular issues did you focus The sacking of Whitlam was an social issues such as education, the instead of sex: music, hobbies and on? unforgettable moment as was the plight of refugees in this country, suitable animals."! Feminism, human relationships, threat by a rejected contributor who religious intolerance. politics, entertainment. threatened working class reprisals if we didn't publish her article. What was your highlight/ craziest To what extent did you get involved point of the job? Do you still read Semper? in student politics? Do you have any words of wisdom for My highlight was the Engineering No real access. I was Arts Rep on the Student Council future editors? student who wrote: "I want to and a member of the first womens Watch out for bad poets who want to protest that we have to read a whole What direction would you like to see rights committee. THIS HEAITHY. NORMAL CHILD HAS A HANDICAP SHEWAS BORN FEMALE SHE IS ALREADY ROLE CONDITIONED TO ACCEPT HER PRETTY, PASSIVE PLACE when she grows up her job opportunities will be limited,and her pay low. maybe you don't care-- but It's a fact •- Job discrimination based on sex Is not against the law. 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Send us a short email telling us what you'd like to do by FRIDAY SAM SUPERFLUZD live f < ^"'^ the 20th of SEPTEMBER to $15PRESOLD+BF [email protected] i $20 @ DOOR ^HAPPY HpURS 5PM^9^M \ CONTACT STRAIGHT OUT OF BRISBANE: BPQ on^Deck +„Lii^i HsiH^fflw^si «zzz Last night at the Gabba Last nigiit I watched as small scenes cavorted around the parks being picked up by the radar just to the right of the bar like silent movies. ark that was targeted, heads too big for bodies, lies as large as apple pie mythologies, ontology's spread thin over exposed breasts breathing of their own accord, all the Surprised fooks discord pulled tight round my neck like a chord with a sword in my pocket, a well hung noose worn backwards as a locket, a wallet filled with erroneous dockets and a beautiful passing from ex-lovers through clouds of smoke, tender stranger In my hand. Bands transporting boys and girls for embraces slipping onto center stage without even a snigger thirty minutes, all the white kids learning how to sing and of embarrassment, an older woman choking in the corner wanting only to be wanted and remembering the days when dance, the elusive search for some peace before we finish^ she didn't have to beg to be smeared like a yoke on toast, god please help us last for more than the sum of these young girls dreaming of makeup before they have even flooded awkward minutes stacked up on the backs of all our berthed a wrinkle, eyes twinkling, glasses being broken by fears; tears shared between strangers and sighs and rubbing silent Germanic screams, dwarfish men throwing themselves alcoholic thighs- and wondering why- and the high's and down stair wells so as to never need to embellish their bye's and the urge for just one more drink replacing animalism with sentience; (he wasn't pushed he fell). childhood dreams about the day we'd certainly learn to fly; Sentences coming out too early all over her sheets, all jumping from trees to clutch the clouds down from the sky through her fair share, yells replacing conversation, smothered by scent filled rooms that give a collective fuck conversations revealed as station to station calls: shudder to all the sequestered sacrifical bowls of lent. Bowen Hills-Bowen Hills, next stop- Outer Space; wounded But it was never that simple, all of the children understood Space, then onwards towards the safe place of embrace the facts from an early age. The cat with the hat may have where you have all failed to leave much more than a trace, come back, '^but Popa, why is he always smiling like that? (in death and in love there will be no one to save your His eyes crossed and with a little feather in his mouth and place) followed by the great big final fleshy curtain fall. what was all that racket that we heard coming out from the cracks beneath the stairs?" Albion, Albion Station. Eagle Junction. Eagle Junction. stares missing marks, electric eels, dreams unhinged from ballerina's about fucking near dead bodies in vacant car Ben Doran KKK PIA mn GURRY MHIANDA STANffi Featuring musk; by THE HIVES / Live the dream MOTOR ACE ^ KATIE NOONAN ^ MASTERPIECE/ ...Love the trip . SPIDERBAIT ^ - ANDREW MERCAOO, CHANNELS HHM AlEX niYAS Tl DnCTH IF HIE GROW Ali DARK CnV IN CINEMAS OCTOBER 3 '^m CUB t aMonua WMAOE ON nsma wusHnooy wconos [Ij mti iT|P^^Wl! WWKfiMUC{UYST1iaMVE.(milU Julianne Jane Camens Schultz What year were you an editor? 1976 What year were you an editor? 1976 Who were you co-eds? Julianne Schultz Who were you co-eds? Jane Camens Why did you decide to run for Semper? Why did you decide to run for Thought we as journalism students Semper? could do it better than the previous Ambition, politics, and thinking that a lot. student newspaper could make a difference in the stagnant world of Did you ever have any problems with the UQ union, university Queensland in the 70s. administration, police or government? Did you ever hove any problems with Several issues of the publication were the UQ union, university censored, mainly due to political administration, police or government? sensitivities. Nothing memorable with the union or university, just the usual back and What was your highlight/ craziest forth about defamation etc. I still point of the job? Above. have a strong sense of being watched by the state / police, especially after Do you have any words of wisdom for going weekly and publishing more future editors? news, and as the level of activism on Write for the publication as well as commission campus increased. | seem to pieces. remember that a photo of Joh Did the experience change your life? superimposed on a target board caused a particular fuss. 1 spent so much time in the Semper office I didn't get great grades. What was your highlight/ craziest What do you do now? point of the job? (See below) I also run an international Deciding to go weekly. editors in town. Semper head in? • Follow the mood of the times - lots of literary festival in Hong Kong, teach creative writing and write fiction. Do you have any words of wisdom forWhat particular issues did you focus material. Is it available online yet? future editors? on? Did Semper help further your career? Just do it. Whitlam dismissal, civil liberties in To what extent did you get involved Queensland, women's rights, Timor, in student politics? Possibly it helped get my first job in journalism. Not politics-the Women's Did the experience change your life? political intrigue and corruption. Lots Like all journalism, involved but at Weekly! No, but it set a trajectory and and lots of conspiracies. arm's length, it did provide a good created lifelong friendships. introduction to the role of factions. Do you still read Semper? What particular issues did you focus on? Hove you at any point been in \f I'm on the campus and see a copy. Politics. therapy as a result of being a Semper What direction would you like to see ed? Do you still read No, but after the last Semper? issue, decamping to THE No. Straddle for a month, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND living in a shack, not What direction would talking to anyone, there it isfolkst you like to see sleeping, lying on the ^ YOUR \'EKYOky DEGREE CO.mMEA'TSOFSE.»fER Semper head in? beach and reading the ;7S YOURmTOTHk FUTUREASD YOUR GUAkAS7EET0.i Controversial. Golden Notebook helped. FLA CE /.V THE FROFESSIOS.iL DOLE QUEUE To what extent did How long did it take you you get involved in to find out what the student politics? name Semper Floreat Was chair of the actually meant? having fuinilecl tho condiiions prcBorlbed by the University le this day admitted to ihc degree of Women's Rights Older hands were keen Committee. to impart this knowledge to starry eyed blonde BACHELOR OFb^ first years who volunteered to work on the paper. What do you do now? Media consultant and writer. VHU VNOC. INI MlUrOII MAI GUIDE FOR MORONS TM Did Semper help further Fin Ind) your nun), ^^huntellor your career? (a) Yoiit tMc* ol inm *.»• Not initially, trying to PnctidlRtlK.Survivtl fl,E.Attindinot get a job in journalism in SchootUSchutDriilt Muik Room Mulln( Brisbane after a llbtMY Fornicalloa *U.»tc. reasonably high profile editorship looked like ^?r trouble to most of the Studm Numbtr (•], If) RJiik ki hriivthv nd l|) VMI. and set straight to work, in his new work clothes. 4ZZZ officially went to air at 12 noon. 8th December 1975. It survived those early days due to the determination and commitment of political activists and Queensland University students. In the days of Bjelke-Petersen, "if you lived in Brisbane and had an interest in anything, you got arrested". Apparently, the coalition minister at the time had the police records of everyone wbo worked at Zed on his desk. Zed had been issued a 1 kilowatt licence instead of the promised lOkw. In fact we weren't granted our full licence until 30th November, 1978. Ten years later, in 1988, conservative elements within the student union resulted in Zed's funding being cut by $17,000. There were whispers about accessibility to the student body, financial management and health and safety issues regarding the premises, Victoria Brazil was elected president of the Student Union. Presuming that Zed didn't have the means to seek redress, Brazil ignored legal advice and proceeded with Zed's forced eviction from UQ. The women's rights body and Semper were also targets of the "New Right". On the Uth of December, 1988, at 4.17am, the on-air announcer was allowed to take an address book ad he'd seen in Rolling Stone. Zed was described and tape recorder before being kicked out of the as a station that wanted to "play progressive, studio by Brazil and a team of followers. He and modern music, be non-commercial and have links some fellow Zed heads went to the transmitter at with the community". According to Jim Beatson, Mt. Coot-tha, recording along the way a message "under the terms of the Wireless and Telegraphy asking people to go to the station. This message Act, you were only was broadcast allowed to hand out from the licences to transmitter somebody wanting repeatedly. This to broadcast a brought narrow type of supporters to the program, so the station. Minister made an Possession is announcement. 9/10thsofthelaw, They would only and so by licence 12 additional occupying the stations on top of station in large UV and the MBS's, numbers for a and they'd all be couple of weeks, campus based, Zed's supporters educational licences, and in fact there was one saved it from eviction from the uni. The renewed interest in Zed at this time generated some It all started In 1971 during a UQ strike, when oddball amongst them and that was us. The money, which enabled the station to move off- "...there were fires in the great court, tents stations were all controlled by Uni admin except campus. This move was necessary at the time everywhere, bands playing and long earnest us who were controlled by the Student Union. In and enabled Zed to develop a wider orientation. meetings...someone would often say, why don't fact, the radio lobby was the tail wagging the This year we've been building a renewed we set up a pirate radio station?" That someone dog, we totally dominated the student Union, relationship with the UQ Student Union, which Is was former Semper editor Alan Knight. There because the radio station was such a major exciting. And of course Semper has always been was a meeting in Semper's office in 1973 and It project, and everyone thought the radio station there, keeping us in the loop. was decided that a licence should be obtained, so was a fantastic idea." Written by Ashley Gill using material taken from that Zed would be a longterm project, and not "Generation Zed: No Other Radio Like This", a closed down by the police. It Everyone pitched in to to build a studio in the magazine compiled by Garry Williams and had to be an FM station, not .su/cif?n( leaders no-nonsense .ipproiich basement of the Student available at 4ZZZ office and stalls for $12. limited by bandwidth like the Union building. There Melbourne uni station SUV. ffi^v j were 2 studios plus a This resulted in an alliance with performance studio which "the hi fl people", because Zed was designed with the jointly proposed Public idea of supporting local Broadcasting and the intro of bands. (This is still Zed's FM stereo - the only way to go studio layout, by the way.) if you're playing music. Everything was HM-I.IMl,.,««MrfitaH««.l>« homemade, using scrap While waiting to obtain a It's been a tough gl^^: materials. It was a great licence, there was a temporary Iweek for Victoria '-—^- •-•-. r-'j.-ji I- co-operative action. studio in a room above the When John Woods arrived Schoneil cinema. At this stage John Woods was from Adelaide, having answered the ad in Rolling the only experienced broadcaster involved with Stone, he was picked up at the airport and taken 4ZZ, as it was known then. He had answered an straight to UQ, where he was handed a shovel hoppg dogs o his'lorg oi ^zzz morkp-tdog - looking on 'thp posHivp s^clp t) The Brisbane institution that is 4ZZZ Market Day include the Dream Killers, unusual to find a stage dedicated to acoustic Market Day grew out of the 4ZZZ Custard (1992), Toothfairies, Screamfeeder or world music, plus the Kidz Zone for Open Day events held outside the (1993), Not From There, Regurgitator (1994), parents and kids to enjoy together. Powderfinger (1995), Taxi (1996). George, stations studios at the University of Six Ft Hick (1997), Gota Cola (1998), Soma Market Day engenders a sense of community Queensland. These were based around Rasa and Tulipan (1999). and belonging, with heaps of volunteer Radiothon and Octobanana in the helpers 8: staff, its focus on the community- 1980s. Hundreds of local Brisbane acts have been based radio station 4ZZZ-FM, and its clear given an opportunity to perform on an fund-raising rather than profit motive. (if After the station moved away to Toowong outdoor stage to a crowd exceeding 5000 you are interested in volunteering to help on and the Valley, 4ZZZ Market Day evolved into punters. the day at cither the bar or the front gate- a free festival in the early 90s with an you will get In for free, and get a drink increasing number of bands and stages in an The number of interstate goups who have ticket for every hour you work...most shifts all-volunteer run and organised fundraising played at Market Day and gone on to make a are 3 hours long..call 3252 1555 for details. effort to keep 4ZZZ on the air. The money mark nationally is also impressive - You Am i was made from running a bar on the day, (1993), Jackson Code (1994), Poliyanna, Big This year Marketday is themed and this cash injection kept the station Heavy Stuff, Frenzal Rhomb, Grinspoon "BANANAGEDDON" and will feature a record going for another 6 months...! (1995), Mavis's (1996), Something 4 Kate number of local acts...over 60 bands will be (1996), Black Lung(1996) Warped (1998) performing over 6 stages. Headiing this year and Shihad (2000). wfll be SPIDERBAIT. ED KUEPPER (performing A huge number of local Brisbane bands have a retrospective of Saints, Laughing Clowns volunteered to play for free to help 4ZZZ. As Market Day strives to provide an affordable, and his own solo work), ANUBIAN LIGHTS the event grew, these bands benefitted from all-ages, non-corporate space for (an electoexotica outfit from Belfast), the exposure at a Market Day. So much so. entertainment and enjoyment for the people SHAPESHIFTER(Drum n Bass boys from NZ that in recent years, well over 250 acts have of Brisbane...who want something a bit now living in Melb), and heaps and heaps applied for a spot on the Market Day bill. different. And Zed aims to cover as many more...log on to www.4zzzfm.org.au to find styles of music as possible to reflect the out everything you need to know about Some of the local bands who have found a diversity of music broadcast on 4ZZZ-FM. Marketday and Radio 4ZZZ-FM. new audience through an appearance at The DOOF TENT is legendary, and it is not ^m^ Que? Isn't it Semper Floreat? Or have I got it wrong? Hated "always The year as co-editor was being flowering", sounded like a little involved in an intense melting pot of 1930s literary magazine run creativity. It gave me the incentive bysquatocracy dilettantes with to go on in journalism. wispy moustaches and bow ties. Anyway, we renamed it "GAMUT". That hasn't been necessary - yet! (It was multi-campus for a while with special sections at the back Still looking. specific to each University - couldn't be seen to be UQ "taking For my sins in a past life, I deal with over"). Suppose, after 70 years, politicians and their flaks, day in and and still going, "alway flowering" day out, from an office in the federal is apposite. parliamentary press gallery. What do you do now? I was determined to launch into a Communications Manager, Aviation career in journalism and Semper was Safety Promotion, CASA: websites, a good start. videos, multimedia, guidebooks, Have you at any point been in seminars and (yes) a magazine on I wrote about politics, social issues therapy as a result of being a Semper Mark Wolffe aviation safety(circ 90,000). and consumer affairs. We tried to ed? pitch the paper to issues that would What year were you an editor? No, several hours at the RE was Did semper help further your career? interest, educate and inspire. Oh dear - 1977, seems like a century usually enough to make me feel In a round-about way. ago. better. No. What particular issues did you focus Who were you co-eds? How long did it take you to find out on? Semper provides an alternative news Rhada Rouse and Ross Peake, both of what the name Semper Floreat Environment, alternative energy, Joh, source for students. This is a crucial whom left for jobs towards the end of actually meant? uranium, gay rights, womens role as the media loses diversity and I the year leaving me holding the bag Not long, but we thought Always rights,land rights,destructio n of hope Semper does not lose sight of for the last stretch. Flowering was a bit raunchy, so we urban heritage etc. that goal. gave the multi-campus paper the no- Why did you decide to run for nonsense name of Gamut. Do you still read semper? I was not involved in student politics Semper? No. Is there an online version? at UQ. I had been union vice- The money :) No, really to give Joh What do you do now? president at QUT but failed that year. Bjelke Petersen a good bagging. I'm a journalist with a weekly medical What direction would you like to see news magazine and president of the semper head in? Did you ever have any problems with Australasian Medical Writers Online. the UQunion, university Association; I write occasional articles administration, police or government? Rada Rouse for UQ publications. To what extent did you get involved Hmmm. Administration - getting What year were you an editor? in student politics? Did Semper help further your career? money for the last issue after we had 1977. Vol 47 Nos. 1-17 (note I later It was all politics. It was inevitable Well, I was head-hunted for the run out of funds; we ended up asking changed the spelling of my name to that there was pressure from the nascent 4ZZZ-FM newsroom!! caferia suppliers to advertise. Coke Rada Rouse). etc.obliged. Police - covering "right student representative council for content in Semper, and we all What particular issues did you focus to march" marches. Government - Who were you co-eds? competed on? we were visited by some crusty old Mark Wolfe and Ross Peake. buggers in suits who asked for back for our slice of the budget. Life in Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland, gay rights, women's rights, dope issues - we thought they were ASIO Why did you decide to run for smokers rights, the nuclear and were happy to load them up with Semper? disarmament and sustainable energy multiple copies. I was interested in Left politics, had movements, arts and media freedom Ross Peake just finished a degree in journalism What was your highlight/ craziest and it seemed like a good idea to be Do you still read Semper? point of the job? I was editor in 1977 paid to have fun and gain publishing Yikes! There were many. Staying up experience at the same time. No I don't have access to it. for 72 hours straight v/ith a bunch of My co-editors were Rada Rouse and What direction would you like to see drug ruined crazies putting together a Mark Wolfe. Did you ever have any problems with Semper head in? special insert, 'The Cane ToadTimes", the UQ union, university Onwards and upwards. about the nuclear Industry. Facing a 1 became very interested in the paper administration, police or government? couple of thousands police with only in 1976 when I was writing for it. I Most Queenslanders had a problem our student newspaper credentials to wanted to become more involved and with the police and government in To what extent did you get involved protect us. Rada, Aterk and 1 put together a those days; however the union hadn't in student politics? proposal for a multi-campus paper been taken over by the National Party I was already involved as a woman's Do you have any words of wisdom for with the working title Gamut to at that stage. rights organizer and at one point future editors? provide a vehicle for cross-campus Australian Union of Students secretary. But the editor of Semper Get everyone else to do the work for activism and communication. What was your highlight/ craziest had to be Involved in student politics you so that you can devote a little point of the job? to survive! time to your studies. Just the usual fights over a bigger Craziest was probably agreeing to the budget. experiment to produce a multi- Did the experience change your life? campus paper, and highlight was Every experience changes your life. The highlight was always succeeding watching the sun come up over the in getting an edition to print, against university lake every Thursday Have you at any point been in the odds. The lay-out was done by morning after working all night to get therapy as a result of being a semper hand - cut and paste - and the final the thing to the printers on time. ed? version always took longer than we Answering these questions may well anticipated. Pizza and drugs got us Do you have any words of wisdom for send me into therapy. through. A highlight was watching future editors? dawn over the lagoon, after yet Don't preach to the converted. How long did it take you to find out another all-night session. what the name semper floret Did the experience change your life? actually meant? Maintain your rage and Irreverence. Er, no not really. 4Q^O unnecessary - 'There are never good person so I would be definitely How long did it take you to find enough big men to go round" - being going to Nirvana! out what the name Semper one classic line in use at the time.) Floreat actually meant? Do you have any words of wisdom for it still remains a mystery to me Do you still read Semper? future editors? and presumably to all its readers Normally avoid if possible. I find it Have a good time. (former Vice Chancellor Zelman doesn't make for good bed time Cowan possibly knew, but then reading as I really need to sleep. No, Did the experience change your life? again he may never have been a the truth is I don't get to see it any In many ways. I think it contributed reader). Can you help? I more ... what's it on about these significantly to the formation of Cane sometimes suspect it means days? Toad Times which became ToadShow something to the effect of "In God Pty Ltd - my current business. we trust" or "We strive harder" ... What direction would you like to see possibly even "Did your Mum ring Semper head in? Have you at any point been in back". But what 1 do know is that Would a return to left wing extremism therapy as a result of being a Semper if 'Semper Floreat' represents the help boost its readership? If not, it ed? question, the answer is definitely should certainly endeavour to remain No. Maybe I should? "Honi Soit"! (as always) absolutely non-biased. Could Its format also be reduced to How long did it take you to find out What do you do now? that of a 'thumbnail' to facilitate what the name Semper Floreat A total change of pace and something reading on buses and in overcrowded actually Bruce Dickson totally new ... pen pushing. Only now lecture theatres? meant? What year were you an editor? when I cut and paste I no longer t used to be in the mast, I think? Tim 1970, 1978 and 1979, dribble glue on my shirt. To what extent did you get involved Low dropped the "floreat" in 1980. in student politics? Did it come back? Who were you co-eds? Did Semper help further your career? Slightly, but I can't afford to say Mark Plunkett and a wider collective Are you referring to the free around anymore, I suspect this interview is What do you do now? (1978). Rob Cameron (1979). the world trip that Semper led to being tapped. I manage the print department of courtesy of Rupert Murdoch and News ToadShow. This includes writing, Why did you decide to run for Limited? (I am not making this up.) editing and producing a number of Semper? magazines for external clients I should say I don't remember, but What particular issues did you focus including a couple that might expose the fact that I was on? of major trade unions. on campus during the Sixties. The During the seventies we really wanted truthful answer is I don't remember. the paper to irreverently challenge Did Semper help further your career? (Could a more feasible explanation be the prevailing authoritarianism and Yes (see above). 1 joined the Union my development, last winter, of government propaganda and provide then, for a start. seniors syndrome?) alternative political reporting and perspectives. We were also becoming What particular issues did you focus Did you ever have any problems with more astute about political on? the UQ union, university correctness in all its forms and the Bjelke-Petersen was the Premier of administration, police or government? mindless conformity of many social Queensland then. Need I say more? I was always the VC's favoured son. fads of the era. A declared aim was '^•f''''!'^',/-.''.<'.''''' Actually we always tried to have And as I have worked in the media, to contribute towards building and 'V-f^*'.'.A :'.'•% stories from many disciplines and would I lie about such things? With promoting a stronger alternative points-of-view. So there were articles regard to the Union, lots of support cultural life in Brisbane - e.g. with covering (then) cutting-edge present, but sometimes the grand the help of a hawk eyed cab driver developments in science and visions devised for Semper (selling it we were the first to document, technology as well as humanities. off campus in newsagents and the review and often actively support the There were like) could exceed the available quota first wave of cheapie 'ethnic' eating always cartoons and humour pieces. of understanding and patience. places, recently opened pub rock We even used to run a column called venues, and the new wave music Anne Jones "on the right" which was an opinion scene, etc. Matt Mawson's prolific What year were you an editor? piece by a right-winger! What was your highlight/ craziest cartooning was an absolute highlight. point of the job? 1981 There were a lot of other very Do you still read Semper? Not sleeping for days while pulling an talented regular contributors over the issue together with stalwarts like Matt Who were you co-eds? No. I'm never on campus so I don't years. Favourite targets were the Tim Low ever get my hands on a copy. Mawson and the 'near death' Queensland Special Branch (because experiences that followed driving the they made targets of everyone else) finished artwork to the printers on Why did you decide to run for What direction would you like to see and the mass media. One great Semper head in? the Sunshine Coast. You were meant Semper? memory was walking past an It was the best way to get Whatever the editors see fit. to fall asleep reading the edition Auchenflower newsagent and seeing itself ... not at the wheel. professional experience as a writer one of our current Semper posters and editor. To what extent did you get involved stuck in a wire promotional frame in student politics? Do you have any words of wisdom for outside on the footpath. The big bold A lot. I went on to be Part-Time Vice- future editors? Did you ever have any problems with 'news' heading letters read "DON'T President and then Women's Right Yes, why didn't they warn me about the UQ union, university BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ IN THE Vice-President. I became 4ZZZ-FM what I was putting myself in for? administration, police or government? NEWSPAPERS" - referring to a feature I was once censured by the Student Station Coordinator the year after story on the media being published in Semper so staying involved in student Did the experience change your life? Union Council for editing a story to fit that particular edition. (Some politics was crucial. I'm over it now Definitely, since then people tell me I the only available space. (I'm stilled background: Semper was sold for 25 although I can't say the same for a really have the gab of the gift. pissed of!) cents in SE Qld newsagents in 1978 couple of Queensland Democrat and achieved a bit of a following Senators who were lurking around UQ Have you at any point been in What was your highlight/ craziest amongst both the oppressed and point of the job? student politics at the same time. therapy as a result of being a Semper those seeking to escape the Truth.) ed? I was once roundly abused by a I normally arrange to have a doctor fundamentalist christian for running a present when I read any back issues. As a public service, we also ran the vox-pops story on how I lost my (But on the other hand laughter and odd free recruiting advertisement for virginity". A hari krishna arrived as tears are said to be excellent the Queensland Police Force. Any the christian was leaving. 1 was a bit therapy.) cheap attempt at satire was shaken up but he told me I was a Is Australia's offshore program is a fair and equitable way of helping the world's refugees? To make such an assessment, it's necessary to know a few facts and figures. Beyond figures Breakdown of Australia's offshore program though, is it imaginable that our government would lock up hundreds of English men, women ft children in a high security by region of birth prison in the middle of the desert indefinitely? "Some of the measures that the Government has introduced are tough but let me tell you, they are by no means as tough as measures introduced overseas they are tough, but they are fair." Philip Ruddock According to Amnesty International, Australia is the only western country to mandatorily detain asylum seekers who arrive without documentation. "45 most of you would know, I have a longstanding and deep commitment to an immigration program that does not discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, ethnic origin or nationality." ASIA Philip Ruddock 1.51% The accompanying charts show that if you are a European refugee, your chances of being granted asylum in Australia are 14.7 times greater than if you are from the Middle East. AMERICAS Footnote; Breakdown of Australia's offshore program by region of birth: Department of 0.3% Immigration Report "Population Flows: Immigration Aspects 2000 Fdltion" Section •^e migration and humanitarian program" www.immi.gov.au/statistics/publications/popflows/popflows.htm The website is gratefully acknowledged for the information in this article. Breakdown of World Refugee Population by Region of Birth Make UQ a Refugee Safe Haven! Australian big businesses are freely exploiting third world cheap labour and the environment. The Australian government is up to its neck in the genocidal economic blockade of Iraq, which according to the UN is responsible for the death of over 1 million people - mostly children. Australia is prepared to diplomatically support the bloody and unjust war on Afghanistan, which has killed over 5000 people, mostly by aerial bombing civilians. These acts of state terror and exploitation are the causes of refugees, yet Australia, a country that benefits from the inhumane world economic order, refuses to take any responsibility for its own actions. Students can and should play a leadership role in countering the governments violation of human rights and international law with its mandatory detention policy. University refugee rights activists across the ^AMERICA country are agitating for mass meetings and student referendums as part of a campaign to turn universities in 3% to refugee sanctuaries. It is clear that the pro-refugee sentiment exists among young people, however we need to find the ways to turn that sentiment into public defiance of the government. A national wave of campuses declaring themselves as havens for refugees is beginning to gain momentum. This is having a big impact on the refugee rights movement. Campaigning to declare universities refugee safe zones is proving to be just the controversy needed to make the movement grow. That the Union declare the University of Queensland a Refugee Safe Haven which calls on the federal government to end the policy of mandatory This is a campaign of student civil disobedience. Declaring universities as detention of refugees, close all detention centres and stop the deportation of refugees; refugee sanctuanes constitutes a mass symbolic act of defiance towards the government's racist refugee policies. It is a slap In the face of the Howard government who has passed laws that make it illegal even for a truck driver That the Union allocates $10,000 to the University of Queensland Refugee to offer a refugee a lift. 'Bad laws are meant to be broken' - 'when Action Collective. This special funding allocation would be used for the injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty'. production of posters, leaflets, stickers and other campaign material; to fund speaking tours of refugees and refugee rights activists; and to support At the University of Queensland activists are pushing for a student general the underground network to shelter escaped refugees; meeting to determine our stance on the Issue sometime late this term. 1% of the student population needs to sign a petition calling for a student That the Union call on the University to offer scholarships to refugees on general meeting. Once convened, a student general meeting that meets Temporary Protection Visas so that they may be welcomed as part of the requirements (300 students or ^% of the student population) can then direct university community and allowed to study free of charge; and the student union to Implement the student general meeting's decisions. The petion calling for the Student General meeting contains the following... That the University does not in any way assist in the management or provision of educational services to refugee detention centres. Motion: Sam King iq8£ what the name Semper locally based former editors and spent had relevance for students. We Floret actually meant? a couple of months researching covered issues from land rights and At a press conference with thousands of editions. It was marijuana decriminalisation to John Cleese when my fascinating because each era was so interviews with visiting artists such as colleague, Damien Ledwich, reflective of its times and had played Lindsay Kemp, whose performance of identified himself as coming a pivotal role in student life - with Flowers was almost banned in from Semper magazine. varying degrees of irreverence and Queensland due to its male nudity "Semper?" said Cleese. irrelevance. At the same time, we and human rights issues such as the "Always?". "You work for a organised a 50th Anniversary Gala detainment of prisoners of conscience magazine called Always" Dinner and invited all former editors around the world. We always had and contributors. We didn't realise plenty of lifestyle (sex, drugs and What do you do now? what a rich vein of passion (or was it rock 'n' roll) stories. We were Journalist, The Australian. middle aged sentimentality?) we had fortunate to have a really talented tapped into because people travelled pool of contributing writers and, Did Semper help further your career? from all over Australia and even the looking back, they wrote incisive It didn't in a practical sense. But it US to be there on the night. It had a stories covering everything from did help me focus on what news was, real momentum and made me realise police powers, student suicide to Anilrew Fraser what was interesting to people, how that Semper editors never die, they incest - nothing was taboo - and, at to make things interesting to people, just flourish away, some more the other end of the scale, comedy What year were you an editor? how to put out a paper which people obviously than others. pieces such as "How to Avoid People 1982 and start of 1983. would read. on Campus" which was followed up by The craziest parts were getting each another writer with 'The Art of Being Who were you co-eds? What particular issues did you focus issue out on time but Andrew and I Paranoid". Our regular contributors Kay Nicol (1982) and Damien Ledwich on? had a fantastic core team - Matt such as Tim Low would write travel (1983). The environment was big at the time, Mawson, who was our ultra talented stories such as getting around in so we did a lot on threatened areas. cover designer, illustrator and Belize and Mark Hayes could always Why did you decide to run for As the Bjelke-Petersen government cartoonist, Jenni Bird, our typesetter be counted on to write cerebral Semper? was at its height, politics played a big and Earth Mother from Heaven and features on anything from student I got press-ganged into it by the part. Damien Ledwich our hip and out-there demonstrations to the Faulkland previous editors. They decided there designer. Island crisis. Andrew Fraser excelled was no one to run, so as a prolific Do you still read Semper? in exposes such as "Invasion of the contributor, I had the arm put on me. When I see it. Do you have any words of wisdom for Orange People". We featured a lot of I also thought it would be interesting future editors? campus stories (car parking problems, and good fun, which it was. What direction would you like to see Get together a great team and make facilities for disabled students, library Semper head in? it happen. lock-outs) and ran poetry and short Did you ever have any problems with It's all about getting a balance stories by emerging writers such as the UQunion, university between what students want and Did the experience change your life? Matthew Condon. We also had an administration, police or government? what they need. You've got to have a It was certainly influential and a army of writers who reviewed places The union used to always heavy you point of view. At all costs avoid being mind-expanding experience. to eat, pubs, books, CDs, theatre and to run their line - but what was it?? dull. Ideally, the magazine should be live music. It was truly an eclectic The administration couldn't, sceptical of everything - from the Have you at any point been in mix in every sense of the word. unfortunately, give a shit. The police Young Liberals through to the Greens therapy as a result of being a Semper were the pits. The houses I used to via the Anarchists. ed? Do you still read Semper? live in would get raided, so you'd No - but I'm sure it would have I haven't been in the right place at wake up occassionally with a vicious To what extent did you get involved helped at the time! the right time! rabid dog loose in your bedroom and a in student politics? gun in your face. On one occassion, Far too much. But 20 years on, I How long did it take you to find out What direction would you like to see they looked into the fridge in the wouldn't have missed it for quids. what the name Semper Floreat Semper head in? share house I lived in at Toowong and actually meant? Like any publication, it has to be declared "well you've just got away It wasn't until I was researching relevant, informative and entertaining with anything that's in there". material for the 50th Anniversary for its readers. Semper has to be edition when a former editor, lively and at least a little What was your highlight/ craziest Kay Nicol Humphrey McQueen, told me. controversial. It has to become a point of the job? must-read for students otherwise it's Driving each issue up to Gympie on What do you do now? not doing Its job. Thursday afternoon when absolutely What year were you an editor? i manage my public relations buggered and then returning to 1982 consultancy, Kay Nicol Media Pty Ltd , To what extent did you get involved Brisbane, escaping both death and which provides marketing in student politics? speeding tickets. Putting out each Who were you co-eds? communications campaigns for I dabbled. It was fascinating and a issue was a highlight, but i pushed on Andrew Fraser national and global corporations. lot of fun and intense at times. A one specific point, i'd say the issue number of student leaders of that we put out when the Commonwealth Why did you decide to run for Did Semper help further your career? period (the early 80's) have gone on Games was in Brisbane. Semper? Yes, definitely. It gave me excellent to become politicians and advisors on Andrew Fraser wouldn't stop twisting practical experience while still a the Queensland and federal scene. Do you have any words of wisdom for my arm. student and also gave me my first job future editors? in the real world. David Franken, a The Fox Fears the Man who Rises Did you ever have any problems with former Semper Editor who was on the Early in the Morning. (I don't know the UQ union, university 50th Anniversary committee and who what it means either, but it sounds administration, police or government? at that time was Assistant Program n<^od.) We had our share of dramas. Our 0- Manager at Channel 7 in Brisbane, Week publication was banned by the offered me a job in the Publicity Did the experience change your life? University for being too sexually Department at Channel 7 and I Yes. explicit but we would have been started there as soon as I finished my disappointed if they hadn't. degree, six months after co-editing Have you at any point been in Semper. therapy as a result of being a Semper What was your highlight/ craziest ed? . point of the job? What particular issues did you focus Not in a formal sense. Organising the 50th Anniversary on? commerative issue with Bruce Dickson We focused on local, national and How long did it take you to find out where we put together a team of international issues of the day that a motorcycle, write simple words and numerous other Control of tasks The trial was prematurely stopped on the 28th of June. Mastering the entire path was his first accomplishment Sliding along between the chain and the cars. Did you see him, on that day of success? Standing at the end of the path with hands swinging back and forth at his sides, a Ficylti lolling head on his shoulders. No, if so, you would surely remember it. Within a month he was able to walk the whole way home and, by waking up half an hour earlier, Excerpt from a journal article appearing in "New could walk to work as well. His ordered life lent itself to American Science", March 1954. Titled "Virtual Image such an experiment, day in day out. the same tasks. After Control by the Cortex of the Human Brain." several weeks of fumbling around, he even got a handle on making meals The cuts on his fingers are proof that They would not be token off until night fall, when the Jhe aim of this experiment is to observe the ability of the there was some trial and error. Perfect peanut butter subject would first close his eyes, then remove the human brain to contort the sensor/ information it triangles weren't that long in coming and toasted apparatus, and fall asleep. Through out the day, the receives. Specificoily, we wiil focus on the processing of sandwiches, which had been his staple diet, stood aside for subject would attempt to conduct a normal life, at no time information provided by the eye. When light travels into feasts of Chicken Tikka Masala. with Naan as a side dish. removing the goggles the eyeball, it is focussed by the tens on the front of the eye, then is projected onto the retina at the back of the On the morning ofthe 28th of June, the subject woke as All this brain slowing had a strange effect Of course his eyeball. In this process though, the image is flipped upside normal ond fitted the goggles to his eyes. The subject vision wasn't shut off completely, but he had trouble down. When the brain receives messages from the retina, stated later that he felt no different on this morning as explaining the result. You might have heard him say, "It's and subsequently, turns them into what we call sight, the opposed to any other, until he opened his eyes. His vision like looking through a veil. No, actually it's more like vision image is upside down. At some stage of our early was normal, with everything up the correct way. The is in a dream, you can tell what's going on, but because development, our brain realises that it is perceiving the subject became quite excited by this, and unfortunately you know it's a dream, the same intensity isn't there". He world the wrong way around, so it promptly flips the before further tests could be done, removed his goggles wasn't a poet, our friend, so you can't really expect him to image, so as to provide a true indication ofthe world that immediately. With his goggles removed the subject explain it any better then that. surrounds us. experienced something quite unexpected though. His vision was now upside down. You could have gone down to that underpass at 5:15 or He worked in the city, and not having a decent job that even maybe 5:20, and watched him. I said earlier that if would grant him a pnvate carparlc, he ran the gauntlet of On this morning he wakes as usual, and prepares for the you had met him before, you wouldn't remember it. I still public transport in the morning, and in an effort to day You weren't there last night for his dinner party, quite think that's true, but if you are sure that you have, then "unwind", would walk home in the afternoon. The only a raucous affair. Everyone got quite drunk, played music the time that you saw him or met him or whatever, must thing that really concerns us now is this walking home. too loud and danced jigs on his old rugs. Lying in bed that have been during one of his slow walks through that The rest of his life is pretty insignificant, and if added to morning he restored to his mind the smell she had last underpass It was the solitary time of his day that he this story would just act as decidedly boring filler. He night, the girl that he had kissed so impatiently. He had shrugged out of his boundless normality, and took some would walk briskly across the Victoria St Bridge, then pass known her a long time. He had never entered her mind till sort of form, even possessing something to remember him under the government's Performing Arts building, on his she saw that he was blind. After that though, she had by. way on to Highgate Hill. made a point of remembering him. He was shocked by these memories of the previous night. Before last night he Vision is a hard thing to shake, he has been using it just as It was never until he got there that he realised he enjoyed had never had a dinner party, and it had been years since long as you have. He made progress though. Each day he it so much. Don't think he planned his whole day around it he last kissed a girl. would achieve a new level of blindness. Of course, it would or anything like that, quite often he would forget it even also take him longer each day to recover, waiting for existed, and walk a completely different way home It minutes (sometimes even ten), before returning from this He can't decide whether to start the day, or stay warm simply grabbed him whenever he arrived. Walking along state for the rest of the walk home. here under this doona with warm thoughts running the path under the performing arts building, there isa set through his mind. His old self isn't dead yet though, see it of tiles that have raised ridges on them. Braille street signs kicking inside him still, and the morning ritual begins. He became obsessed. At home he would shut down his as it where, for the blind to direct themselves by You have eyes because of television commercials and the visits of encountered this before I'm sure, so had he, he wasn't a Setting his brain to s I o w, he lifts the lids off his eyes. No, ugly friends. You might have thought that he was just hermit after all. These were a little less normal though, that wasn't right Trying again; sets brain to s I o w, lifts tired when you went to visit him. but I bet you don't look more memorable as it were. He was transfixed by them. the lids off his eyes. He can see. Colours and shapes hit in the mirror for too long. Soon, he Vios occupying his him like Volkswagens. Trapezoids take him hostage, vision-impaired state all day. Waking in the morning, he Can you see him walking slowly along, each step more polygons break into his mind like prisoners. Yellow stabs would set his brain to s! o w, then go about his day, not concentrated then the previous? him straight in the eye, blue invades him like cancer. turning it on again till he was in bed. This path was thin in width. On one side there was a road At this point the experiment was stopped and the subject that squeezed by; on the other, a chain strung at knee ceased to wear the goggles. Now, without the goggles height. How dangerous this was he thought. The Braille though, he continued to live with upside down vision. No street signs are less then a foot in width, so straying off. further treatment or tasks were set, and the subject You are lost, with a car to hit you on one side, and a chain remained under supen/ision in the hospital. Negligible to trip you on the other. mental anguish was recorded, and what he did suffer was attributed to the forced extended stay, and not to his Imagine him, the most normal of all the people you know. reversed vision. As unexpectedly as before, the subject's But don't think him boring You remember boring people vision righted itself after 11 weeks. After leaving the and avoid them - he is utterly forgettable. Actually, you hospital, the subject returned to his normal life. could have met him, but you just don't remember it. But for these brief moments whe he walked along the Braille He sat on the bed. He started up his brain again, taking it street signs, he stopped being completely normal. He off s 10 w. Dreamlike vision returned to his mind, and all challenged himself. He wouldn't shut his eyes, but he went black. So he left it at that. You know him now. he Within the controlled environment ofthe hospital, the would dim his vision as it were, he would try to slow his might be an interesting man, but still rational. Leaving his subject was given numerous tasks to complete. During the brain, focusing on his other senses, bringing them to the brain on, he got dressed, made peanut butter sandwiches first weeks, basic motor skills were tested. Tests included fore. for his lunch with his now natural blindness, and caught catching balls rolled towards him along a table, pointing the bus to work. at objects in the room and drinking from a glass. By the The experiment was conducted between the Mth of April end of the fourth week, the subject had achieved all of the and the 28th of June 1953, in the New Georgian Hospital goals set him. People couldn't tell you why they started to forget his in Minnesota. The subject was chosen from a group of name, of course they couldn't, they had forgotten him. volunteers; 24 years old, in perfect health, including Surprised ot this early progress, the subject was moved And at the end of a few months he had fully instated the possession of 20-20 vision ond in all respects, o onto a new program consisting solely of basic reading old routine. When he woke up on this, the last day of our completely normal person. Special goggles were tasks During this six-week program, the subject also, story and opened his eyes, his vision had returned to him. constructed, thot, when placed over the eyes, would turn under his own volition, learnt to play snooker. In the last He sat calmly at the edge of his bed and dealt with it. ones vision upside down. Upon waking, the subject would month of the trial, the subject developed the ability to ride place the goggles over their eyes before opening them. a motorcycle, write simple words and numerous other Control of tasks. The trial was prematurely stopped on the 28th of June. Mastering the entire path was his first accomplishment Sliding along between the chain and the cars. Did you see him, on that day of success? Standing at the end of the path with hands swinging back and forth at his sides, a Fic lolling head on his shoulders. No, if so, you would surely remember it. Within a month he was able to walk the whole way home and, by waking up half an hour earlier, IFxcerpf from a journal article appearing in "New could walk to work as well. His ordered life lent itself to American Science", l\/iarch 1954. Titled Virtual Image such an experiment, day in day out, the same tasks. After Control by the Cortex of the Human Brain." several weeks of fumbling around, he even got a handle on making meals. The cuts on h'S fingers are proof that They would not be taken off until night fall, when the The aim of this experiment is to observe the ability of the there was some trial and error. Perfect peanut butter subject would first close his eyes, then remove the human brain to contort the sensory information it triangles weren't that long in coming and toasted apparatus, and fall asleep. Through out the day, the receives. Specifically, we will focus on the processing of sandwiches, which had been his staple diet, stood aside for subject would attempt to conduct a normal life, at no time information provided by the eye. When light travels into feasts of Chicken Tikka Masala. with Naan as a side dish. removing the goggles the eyeball, it is focussed by the lens on the front of the eye, then is projected onto the retina at the bock ofthe On the morning ofthe 28th of June, the subject woke as All this brain slowing had a strange effect. Of course his eyeball. In this process though, the image is flipped upside normal and fitted the goggles to his eyes. The subject vision wasn't shut off completely, but he had trouble down. When the brain receives messages from the retina, stated later that he felt no different on this morning as and subsequently, turns them into what we call sight, the explaining the result You might have heard him say, "It's opposed to any other, until he opened his eyes His vision image is upside down At some stage of our early like looking through a veil. No, actually it's oiore like vision was normal, with everything up the correct way. The development, our brain realises that it is perceiving the is in a dream, you can tell what's going on, but because subject became quite excited by this, and unfortunately world the wrong way around, so it promptly flips the you know it's a dream, the same intensity isn't there". He before further tests could be done, removed his goggles image, so as to provide a true indication of the world that wasn't a poet, our friend, so you can't really expect him to immediately With his goggles removed the subject surrounds us explain it any better then that experienced something quite unexpected though. His vision was now upside down. He worked in the city, and not having a decent job that You could have gone down to that underpass at 5:15 or even maybe 5:20, and watched him. I said earlier that if would grant him a private carpark, he ran the gauntlet of On this morning he wakes as usual, and prepares for the public transport in the morning, and in an effort to you had met him before, you wouldn't remember it, I still think that's true, but if you are sure that you have, then day You weren't there last night ''or his dinner party, quite "unwind", would walk home in the afternoon. The only a raucous affair. Everyone got quite drunk, played music thing that really concerns us .now is this walking home. the time that you saw him or met him or whatever, must have been during one of his slow walks through that too loud and danced jigs on his old rugs Lying in bed that The rest of his life is pretty insignificant, and if sdded to morning he restored to his mind the smell she had last this story would just act as decidedly boring filler. He underpass. It was the solitary time of his day that he shrugged out of his boundless normality, and took some night, the girl that he had kissed so impatiently He had would walk briskly across the Victoria St Briiige, then pass known her a long time. He had never entered her mind till under the government's Performing Arts building, on his sort of form, even possessing something to remember him by she saw that he was blind. After that though, she had way on to Highgate Hill. made a point of remembering him. He was shocked by these memories of the previous night. Before last night he Vision is a hard thing to shake, he has been using it just as It was never until he got there that he realised he enjoyed had never had a dinner party, ana it had been years since long as you have. He made progress though. Each day he it so much. Don't think he planned his whole day around it he last kissed a girl. or anything like that, quite often he would forget it even woi-ld achieve a new level of blindness. Of course, it would existed, and walk a completely different way home It also take him longer each day to recover, waiting for He can't decide whether to start the day, or stay warm simply grabbed him whenever he arrived. Walking along minutes (sometimes even ten), before returning from this here under this doona with warm thoughts running the path under the performing arts building, there is a set state for the rest of the walk home. through his mind. His old self isn't dead yet though, see it of tiles that have raised ridges on them. Braille street signs kicking inside him still, and the morning ritual begins, as it where, for the blind to direct themselves by. You have He became obsessed. At home he would shut down his encountered this before I'm sure, so had he, he wasn't a eyes because of television commercials and the visits of Setting his brain to s I o w, he lifts the lids off his eyes. No, hermit after all. These were a little less normal though, ugly friends. You might have thought that he was just that wasn't right. Trying again; sets brain to s I o w, lifts more memorable as it were. He was transfixed by them. tired when you went to visit him, but I bet you don't look the lids off his eyes. He can see. Colours and shapes hit in the mirror for too long. Soon, he was occupying his him like Volkswagens. Trapezoids take him hostage, vision-impaired state all day Waking in the morning, he Can you see him walking slowly along, each step more polygons break into his mind like prisoners. Yellow stabs would set his brain to s 1 o w, then go about his day, not concentrated then the previojs? him straight in the eye, blue invades him like cancer. turning it on again till he was in bed. This path was thin in width. On one side there was a road At this point the experiment was stopped and the subject that squeezed by; on the other, a chain strung at knee ceased to wear the goggles Now, without the goggles height. How dangerous this was he thought. The Braille though, he continued to live with upside down vision. No street signs are less then a foot in width, so straying off. further treatment or tasks were set, and the subject You are lost, with a car to hit you on one side, and a chain remained under supervision in the hospital Negligible to trip you on the other. mental anguish was recorded, and what he did suffer was attributed to the forced extended stay, and not to his Imagine him, the most normal of all the people you know. reversed vision. As unexpectedly as before, the subject's But don't think him boring You remember boring people vision righted itself after 11 weeks. After leaving the and avoid them - he is utterly forgettable. Actually, you hospital, the subject returned to his normal life. could have met him, but you just don't remember it. But for these brief moments whe he walked along the Braille He sat on the bed. He started up his brain again, taking it street signs, he stopped being completely normal. He off s I 0 w. Dreamlike vision returned to his mind, and all challenged himself. He wouldn't shut his eyes, but he went black. So he left it at that. You know him now, he would dim his vision as it were, he would try to slow his Within the controlled environment ofthe hospital, the might be an interesting man. but still rational. Leaving his brain, focusing on his other senses, bringing them to the subject was given numerous tasks to complete. During the brain on, he got dressed, made peanut butter sandwiches fore. first weeks, basic motor skills were tested Tests included catching balls rolled towards him along a table, pointing for his lunch with his now natural blindness, and caught at objects in the room and drinking from a glass. By the the bus to work. The experiment was conducted between the Mth of April end of the fourth week, the subject had achieved all of the and the 28th of June 1953, in the New Georgian Hospital goals set him. People couldn't tell you why they started to forget his in Minnesota. The subject was chosen from a group of name, of course they couldn't, they had forgotten him. volunteers: 24 years old, in perfect health, including And at the end of a few months he had fully instated the possession of 20-20 vision and in all respects, a Surprised at this early progress, the subject was moved old routine. When he woke up on this, the last day of our completely normal person. Special goggles were onto a new program consisting solely of basic reading story and opened his eyes, his vision had returned to him. constructed, that, when placed over the eyes, would turn tasks. During this six-week program, the subject also, He sat calmly al the edge of his bed and dealt with it. ones vision upside down. Upon waking, the subject would under his own volition, learnt to play snooker In the last place the goggles over their eyes before opening them. month ofthe trial, the subject developed the ability to ride iqe^/ 1^86 sharpened stick. I sort of hung around the old Semper offices on and off for lenore laHer about four or five years, depending on I was Semper editor in 1985. My co- who was editing. I probably filed my editors were Gavin Sawford and Kevin last regular piece in about 91, just Vellnagle. It's a long time ago now, before I drifted off to sydney. but the issues I remember from that year are the Seqeb dispute, the Apparently you ran for Semper in the awarding of an honourary doctorate student elections one year to Joh Bjelke Petersen (many students what happened? weren't that impressed) and the Hawke Government debate about Myself and the lovely Hannah Cutts, introducing what eventually became who owns a nifty design shoppe here HECS. in vegas, teamed up for the big win. I didn't get actively involved in formal But neither of us could be fucked student politics although we attended actually campaigning, because we union meetings - whenever I go back were too lazy and there's no dignity to Brisbane I recognise student in that shit anyway politicians from that era who have become ministers or political What were UQ and Brisbane like in advisors. your day? Editing Semper was a great the local student paper, was a Aaaah. Where to start. Well, Brisbane experience - it was the thing that definite low point. It went something was a stinking cesspit of corruption convinced me to go into journalism like this. and vicious rightwing ratbastardry. rather than academia and it was also The campus was crawling with the fantastic fun. I think it probably University Institute in Florence forrh AW: "Hi, I'm Angela Ward, form the butt ugly, flatheaded progeny of all helped me get my first cadetship on 1991 to 1996. There I ran into University of Queensland student The Canberra Times, which was a Professor Bruce Wester, who was a the mainstream political parties and newspaper". handy springboard into the regular Semper contributor in 1985- they had turned the Student Union pariiamentary press gallery where I 1986. He is now a Professor of into their personal fiefdom. Their Sting: 'That's nice for you". worked for 12 years for The Australian Sociology or Philosophy (I am not sure appaling behaviour sparked a and The Australian Financial Review which) at Princeton. backlash of sorts in 1989/90 and for a AW: "I was wondering jf you had time before I came here to London as the one brief shining moment, the actual for a brief interview while you are Fin Review's European correspondent. Did Semper help further your career? student body regained control of the Good luck with your anniversary here?" It certainly gave me a taste for Union, which was wrenched out of the edition. producing publications, which has hands of the hacks in series of violent Sting: "Look. I've just got off a continued. I write the odd opinion demonstrations and the election at plane". piece for Australian newspapers on the end of 1989. But I guess things I am in touch with Angela Ward, who I human rights issues. I worked as a have gone back to normal since. think was editor the year after me. (The plane had flown from Sydney) journalist for the Sydney Morning She's at the London bar. John Henzell (the year before) was mountain Herald in 1990, before deciding to t Vegas sucked. You couldn't get a drink Sting brushes past, and AW never buys climbing in New Zealand last I heard. go to Europe to pursue a career in on Sundays outside of a couple of another of his records. international human rights law and EU hours when the pubs were allowed to law. open. There was nothing to do, Do you have any words of wisdom for nobody to play with. Everyone left. future editors? What particular issues did you focus That's changing slowly, but too slowly Angela Ward Be as innovative as you can. It's a on? for me. What year were you an editor? fabulous opportunity to run your own A mix of youth culture and 1986 paper, and one which you won't taste Queensland politics. I was editor in What are you doing now? again until much later in a career in the days of the Bjelke Peterson Who were your co-eds? journalism. It's also very important National Party Government. Semper I've got contracts for eight books Howard Stringer, who was removed by for student media to be as cutting was one of the few voices of dissent. (including one sci-fi trilogy). That and the Student Union on a motion of the edge as possible. my two kids take up most of my time. President Jill Anne Farmer. Do you still read Semper? I've got a book called Dopeland, Thereafter I was sole editor. Did the experience change your life? No. travels though Australian Marijuana I wouldn't say so, but it was a Culture I'm trying to finish. If anyone Why did you decide to run for fantastic year. What direction would you like to see has any good dope stories they want Semper? Semper head in? to share they can feel free to email It sounded like fun, and at the time I Have you at any point been in Stick to the formula I have me. I still do a fair bit of journalism, had ambitions for a career in therapy as a result of being a Semper mentioned. The voice of student to keep my hand in. I've taken all the journalism. ed? media is important. games off my laptop because I'm too Never. Anyway therapy wasn't as well easily distracted. Did you ever have any problems with known in 1986 as it is now. Certainly To what extent did you get involved the UQ Union, university didn't feel as if I needed it to get in student politics? Are you still living in a share house? administration, police or government? through the job. Only to the extent of running the UQ Union removed my co-editor (a paper. I was on a management No, I got out of share housing about move which 1 didn't support), so that How iong did it take you to find out committee for a while but was not two years' after Felafel came out. It I had to restructure to work as a sole what the name Semper Floreat active. became too difficult. When normal editor. I can't actually remember actually meant? people figured out who I was they why they removed him. It was I knew before I started. wouldn't want to live with me. When something to do with him actually John Birmingham the freaks and whacRjpbs got wind doing his job as an investigative What do you do now? Wien were you-mainly writing for that I was looking for a'new flatmate journalist. I am a Barrister in London, they'd come a-runnlngV, \ specialising In human rights law and Semper? European Union Law. I am also an What was your highlight/craziest I drifted Into the Semper offices in 85 Do you still read Semper?'..\ point of the job? Associate Professor at Essex University in EU Law, and one of the editors of or six, I think. It was the second •^ Interviewing the Violent Femmes was When I'm on campus I'll always pitk it the Cambridge Yearbook of European Stringer Semper. I had been down a high point, and Hunter's and up. I still think student mags are the Legal Studies. I was a lecturer at much earlier than that, when I Collectors lead singer. Getting most interesting forms of publishing in Cambridge from 1996 to 2000. I did a wanted to be a cartoonist, but the snubbed by Sting at ^ri^bane airport^, then editors drove me off with a this country. when I asked him for an interview for PhD in EU Law at the European Doobie: Wasn't that a Patti Johannes: What about 1930 - Smith song? Me (with wave of hand): The entire Me: So it was, Doobie. So it 1930s have been monopolised by Gary was. What would you Numan. suggest? Doobie: 1981! Doobie: Ummm...l999. s* Johannes: Why not just say, "April 24, Mc:Gary Numan. 1981"? just any number. Oh no. I want a Doobie: Because I thought - year. And not just any year. A very Johannes: Prince. significant year. Four digits. This is Me: It was a Rick Springfield song, our swansong, lads, and I don't Mark: Impaled Nazarene. wanna screw it up. Not like that Doobie. pre-breakup reunion tour we had Doobie: Okay, well, what about 2001? last summer." Doobie: Oh. Me: Two reasons: Snoop Doggy Dog, Me: But you can try another, if you like. "A delightful juxtaposition of ideas, Melissa Etheridge. yes," says Johannes. 'That's sure to Doobie: I'm not sure I want to. get the synapses firing! I can almost Doobie: I'm only trying to help. I sit the boys down. feel my neurons -" Johannes: We know you are, dear boy Me: Go on. "Right, boys," I says to them. "Now that "So like, you mean, a date?" asks Don't fret. Doobie: Okay! 19...1928! you're sat down, I've got this great Doobie. song here that I think we can really Me: Yes, don't worry your pretty little rock out to, but I'm stumped for a title. "Yes. A date. A calendar year. Four digits head about it. Mark: Styx. Have a look over the lyrics and tell me to signify the four of us. And I i Doobie; (blushes) Doobie: Then - what you think. Handily, I've want it to start with one." ^ "Did thCV photocopied my quite elegant scrawl, Mark: Don't say it - so you'll all have one to take a gander "Whyfor?" Johannes: What about at" take 1990? something historical, "Glad you asked, Doobie. like 1849? Doobie: -1958! I pass the sheath of papers around and Because I get first say, and 1992? each of the band members pores over it because 1 was the first Mc: What happened Mark: Styx! Styx! Styx! for a few minutes. band member, and because 19...fucking in 1849? I'm the most important Johannes: Why don't we pool our "You're right, Fred," says Doobie, the part of this group and Johannes: Oh, lots of efforts and locate a suitable title froni bassist "This is a rockin'-soundin' song. therefore am number one." 1995?" things. The Califomian the 1980s? I can feel my digits callousin' up just gold rush. The US imaginin' how much I can really thrash "Why don't you just -" signing a treaty with Me: A fine decade, Johannes. Why don't it to this baby." Hawaii. The first Wesleyan chapel in our you start? I interrupt Mark with a wave of my fair town was constructed, and over 600 immigrants arrived. Ummm - "I tend to bias my opinion towards the hand. Johannes: Very well. 1989. positive assertation on this particular subject, Frederick," says Johannes, the "You'll go outside if you're not careful." ^^^'^' '^ was also a song by Lighthouse. Mark: Less Than Jake. drummer, who I intend to fire, I am Doobie giggles. thinking: you utter wank. Johannes: The Lighthouse Family? Johannes: Ah. "So we're agreed, then, right?" I say, "And what about you, Mark, the lead raising my eyebrows. "The title of this Mark: No, you throbbing dipshit. Mark: As well as Titiyo. guitarist?" I ask Mark. masterpiece will be a year, beginning with one. Any takers?" Me: I believe Mark is referring to the Johannes: It's always the lowest He nods sullenly Canadian rock band of the early common denominator with you, isn't Johannes: 1717. seventies. it? "Good," I say, clapping my hands together. "I'm glad you all like it." Me: A little far back in history, J. And Johannes: How quaint Mark: Fuck is that supposed to mean, also the name of a band, as I recall. So, you pansy-assed buckethead? "What kinda title you wanna go for, for all intents and purposes, taken. Doobie: What about... 1991? Fred?" Johannes: Nothing. Nothing at all. Doobie (giggling): 1969! Johannes: Keith Urban. "You know, Doobie, that's the thing. I Mark: Titiyo happens to be a ven/ was thinking -" Johannes: Don't be such a lout. Not Doobie: You would know, wouldn't talented Swedish pop musician and only is that painfully adolescent and you? what the fuck is that supposed to "Might I posit, Fred," says Johannes, rather cheesy, but both Iggy Pop and mean, you pansy-assed buckethead? "That we approach this matter rather Adam Ant have already utilised said Mark: Black Obelisk took that one too, delicately? It's all very well for us, each year. as well as 1994. Johannes: Let's just move on, shall we? of us, to have our own well-considered, mmm, opinions, yes, but personally -" Mark: 1916. Me: Did they take 1990? 1992? Mark: I'll have you, you mother fuck. 19...fucking 1995? Don't think I won't "Why don't you just shut the fuck up?" Me: An interesting choice, Mark. Why Mark snarls. that year in particular? Mark (rolling eyes and counting off Me: 1987. fingers): Michael W. Smith, Blur, "Boys, come on," I say This is meant to Mark (with a shrug): Motorhead record. Mudhoney 1996. Marilyn Manson. Doobie: That's a Whitesnake album, be a bonding thing. Anyway, since I'm 1997, Hellraiser. Happy? boss. the lead genius of this particular pop Me: And the precise reason we won't be quartet, I get first and final say. and I using that one. What about 1959? ^^'' Yes. Thank you. Me: So it is. 1982. want us to go for a number. And not Mark: (silence) Mark: Ahhhmy grunt Doobie: (silence) Doobie: I think he means Amy Grant Johannes: (silence) Me: Is that what you mean, Mark? Me: Well? Mark: Mmmm. Johannes: It rings a bell. Johannes: 1977 was a fine year. A fine collection of montns, indeed. Twelve in Mark: I'll ring your fucking belL alL Johannes: I believe the title in Doobie: It's an Ash record. Reverse Garbage is one organisation which helps people reduce the impact of question...was... Johannes: And do you own it? their consumption on the environment The West End-based non-profit Me: Was what? cooperative collects all sorts of interesting odds and ends that would normally Doobie: Well, no. be sent to landfill, and then sells them at low cost to the general public. This Johannes: Well, it was a song by Buddy includes theatre props, fabrics, paper, plastics, vinyl, steel, limber, polystyrene, Blackmon and Vip Vipperman. Johannes: I've never heard of such a electronic gizmos...all sorts of weird and wonderful materials at a fraction of thing. their "new" cost Me; Who were they? Me: He's right I've got it Many university students use the raw materials for assignments, including those Johannes: I'm not sure. Johannes: Have you, just? In industrial design, architecture, film and television, interior design, early Doobie: 1984! childhood, primary and high school teaching, and the arts. Me: Yes. Let's move quickly along. Me: David Bowie. The stock changes f-om week to week depending or what companies throw out. Mark: Mmmmineteen seventy sihh. A fresh truckload of clean junk arrives every afternoon and Reverse Garbage Mark: Billy Squier. now saves almost 2 tonnes of materials a week from landfill. Mc: Grand Funk Railroad. Johannes: Eurythmics. They named an entire record after that year, Doobie. It Mark: Ooooh. was the soundtrack to the film Established by Friends of the Earth, Reverse Garbage is a worker-run adaptation of the George Orwell novel Doobie: 1924. cooperative, where staff are members of the co-op, and make decisions using a of the same name, PI.ease try and keep consensus model. As a non-hierarchical organisation, there is no boss or up. Johannes: No. manager all employees have a say in how things are done. Reverse Garbage believes that workplace democracy Is anther part of the 'sustainab'lity picture', Doobie: Sorry. Doobie: Why not? along with being not-for-profit Any excess revenue is donated to environmental organisations to use for their education work. Me: What's left? Johannes: Because, a, the year 1924 was not in the seventies, and because, Johannes: 1985. b, that happens to be the name of a band. Reverse Garbage has helped other local small businesses to get established, such Mark: Archers of Loaf. as the Bicycle Revolution, who sell 'quality recycled bicycles', and EcoGeek, who Me: 1959. build computer systems from secondhand materials, and specialise in 'low Me: What about the seventies? budget to no budget' systems for students and others who want a cheap Johannes: Oh, so that's it is it? Nobody computer. Doobie: What about them? told me - Mark: Does anybody mind if I shoot up? Doobie: 1140 Mississippi. Me: Go ahead, old buddy Why don't we Me: Well done, Doobie. That was a test try the seventies? We were all born you see. Now Johannes, leave Doobie around then. alone. The Reverse Garbage warehouse is locateiJ at 296 Johannes: I wasn't Johannes: If I must What about 1967? Montague Road, West End, and is open from Doobie: 1979. Me: Auteurs. Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm. The Bicycle Johannes:Smashing Pumpkins. Isit Mark: Adrian Belewwhh. possible for you to get any stupider? Revolution and EcoGeek are next door at 294 Me: We're not having a whole lot of Doobie: Well - luc<, are wc? Montague Road. Me: 1974. Johannes: It would appear not Mark: Mmm...ummm...mmm..; Me: Why don't we try colours instead? For more information, contact Reverse Garbage Me: Yes, Mark? Doobie: Pretty! on (07) 3844 9744, or email Mark: Uhhmmmmy... Johannes: How droll. [email protected]. Me: Well? Mark: (passes out) www.reversegarbage.com.au Mark: Uhhhmmmy grunt... [Fade To Bla - aw, shit] Me: I see. WHAT'S NEW IN ov|«o* HEALTHY EATING? Diego's authentic white corn tortillas are the newest Australian white bread to hit the market. 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Totally Bree McKilligan. the cards for a while, including the re-location and renovation of the What direction would you like to see What particular issues did you focus Why did you decide to run for Semper offices and the introduction semper head in? on? Semper? of desktop publishing. I think it has a duty to provide a Sexism, homophobia, and free To promote Semper as an alternative platform for informed debate within education. media outlet. What was your highlight/ craziest the university community, and a fine point of the job? tradition of subversive humour to Do you still read Semper? God, there were so many! I couldn't uphold. I think the worst thing it can Did you ever have any problems with Occasionally possibly list them all - but there was be is bland. A lively letters page is the UQ union, university the time when we had to drive to what the editors should aim for, administration, police or To what extent did you get involved Gympie at 2 o'clock in the morning although actual threats of legal action government? in student politics? with an entire print run in the back of from wannabe politicians are We were elected in 1989, the same the Union van (we had to get them optional. time that the National Party ticket Totally - was always invovled. reprinted after a particularly shonky won every executive position bar job) - and the time when Corina and I To what extent did you get involved one. This executive hired security missed not one, but two consecutive guards to shut down 4ZZZ and kick in student politics? nights sleep in order to complete our it off campus. We had the 0 Week We were all caught up in it final edition (that's not a state of handbook taken off us, and were unavoidably Having editorial control psychosis I would wish on anyone) - threatened with the sack is a powerful thing - i found it almost and of course the whole year was regularly We had significant impossible not to become involved in enlivened by the sordid and endlessly sections of Semper censored by the crazy happenings of the place. fascinating sideshow that is student Victoria Brazil (the Preseidnet) and Aaah ... to be young and idealistic politics. one entire issue she refused to again. endorse and so we put it out on the back of Planet (old name for Do you have any words of wisdom QUT's mag). As Semper editors we for future editors? led the student campaign against You lucky bastards - I'd love to do it all again. the Union Executive, which collected 4000 signatures from students demanding they all Did the experience change your resign. We had weekly rallies life? outside main refect where Not really, but it was lots of fun. hundreds and hundreds of students All that ambition and creativity came each day We kicked the makes for a very addictive work Union Executive out of their environment. Actually, I do have offices and occupied the Union trouble getting things done without building for ten days. You could say, very firm deadlines to work we fought the Executive tooth and towards - maybe I have my time as nail until they were forced to resign Diana Cassidy an editor to thank for that! in July - see that issue of Semper. What year were you an editor? Have you ot any point been in 1990 therapy as a result of being a What was your highlight/ craziest semper ed? point of the job? Who were you co-eds? I probably could have done with Trying to do lay out while smashing a Corina McKay and Nick Douglas some at the time, but not now. security guard's arm in the door to stop him coming in and taking me Why did you decide to run for How long did it take you to find out away Or was it when I went to semper? what the name semper floret actually Dutton Park ferry to go to work and Nick Douglas We thought it would be fun, and I had meant ? found "Jeff is a faggot" written on a keen interest in political issues and I think we already knew - before we the ferry stop on the other side of the What year were you an editor? In writing and design. decided to run for office. river in such large letters that I could 1990 read It from across the river. Luckily I Did you ever have any problems with What do you do now? Who were you co-eds? found "Bree is a big dyke" on the the UQunion, university I work in the library and IT. sector, walls of the office, so It felt less administration, police or government? Diana Cassidy, Corina McKay, and currently at RMIT in Melbourne. My layout artist Peter (Jan-Willem) Rohen personal. That night we added in Things had settled down by the time partner is an orchestral musician and "well-dressed" to mine and "bald" in we took office at the end of 1989. '89 we've had to move around for his Why did you decide to run for Bree's (Sinead O'Connor was bald was a turbulent year on campus - a work. We've got a jolly nine month then tool). med student called Victoria semper? old son who is endless source of Fun, a passion for writing and design, (RESIGNI!) Brazil was Union President wonder for us both. Do you have any words of wisdom foran d she tried to cut funding to all the and a belief in using SF as a tool for traditionally leftist areas of the justice and entertainment. future editors? Did semper help further your career? Student Union, marginalising her Always be more radical and out there I wish I could say it had, but I was too opposition as ratbag pinko commie Did you ever have any problems with than you want to be. Never let your slack to pursue a career in publishing. scum (but hang the UQ union, university expectations of what students will or on, I did ballet! I had I might go back to It though. will not cop, get in the way. a ponyl) Community radio station ZZZ administration, police or government? were shut down in the middle of the Not the police, but the rest a little. What particular issues did you focus night and kicked off campus - the We were mentioned in Parliament as Did the experience change your life? on? station had to broadcast pirate a waste of money, the Union censored Forever. We tried to keep a broad focus • the fashion from their transmitter on Mt us, and the Uni VC was pissed off usual stuff really - politics, the Coot-tha for a while. The sit-ins and when satirically we implied there was How long did it take you to find out environment, education, alcohol, rallies and ugly confrontations went a UQ journalism student trapped What the name Semper Floret drugs - things we thought were on for months, and regularly made inside his bum.Fundo christians actually meant? relevant to students, as well as heaps the evening news. Aaaah ... those graffitied our front door implying we No time at all • see our Semper of dubious stuff our funny friends 1990 were Satanists; the pentagram on the cd-roms. either. office floor may have led to that Did the experience change your life? impression. To what extent did you get involved Yeah it was hilarious, tense and hard What particular issues did you focus in student politics? work. 0/7.'Usually arts and women's What was your highlight J craziest I didn't join any parties, or hold any issues. point of the job? other positions, although I was Have you at any point been in Deadline induced sleep deprivation President of GLOC (Gays and Lesbians therapy as a result of being a semper Do you still read semper? made most of it seem crazy, much On Campus) in 1991, when the Queer ed? I haven't seen a copy for years left best umentioned. The highlights Sexuality Area was just another club. No but the three of us spent a were publishing articles that actually healthly amount of time away from What direction would you like to see made an impact on students. One each other once the year was over. semper head in? fave was 'The Heterosexual That's difficult to say because each Questionnaire" which is rather How long did it take you to find out year is always different with each dated now, but there are heaps what the name semper floret actually editors' agendas/preferences. more. meant Just before we started running for To what extent did you get involved Do you have any words of wisdom election. in student politics? for future editors? Sometimes I think too involved but It Have fun with it, the only limits What do you do now? was a learning curve i'm glad I got. are your imagination, the budget I'm the single mother of two cats. Those who and your concern for the student became junkies for student politics readers. And try and make people Did semper help further your career? ended up joining young laugh. Most media is dull, bland No not really but saying I was a labour/liberal/national blah blah and sad and laughter gets semper editor didn't get me laid blah. messages across better than lectures. Did the experience change your THIS IS ERIC, life? He's a contributor tp Srinper. Twelve months devoted to such a creative project would have to influence me in a pretty damn postive way. Corina McKay What year were you an editor? Have you at any point been in 1990 therapy as a result of being a semper ed? Who were you co-eds? No, but I sure as buggery needed a Diana Cassidy and Nik Douglas. Our good long holiday after. graphic design artist was Peter Rohan. How long did it take you to find out Why did you decide to run for what the name semper floret actually semper? meant Nik asked me and Diana came on You spelt it wrong in the question. board and thought we could have Heh. I knew before I was an editor; some fun and a challenge at the same was a writer for the paper for a few time. years before editing. Did you ever have any problems with What do you do now? the UQ union, university Back studying here. administration, police or government? We had a pretty good union and Did semper help further your career? managed to get motions passed for us Career? Hah! It did expand my graphic to buy a photocopier and new offices design and layout/DTP skills which and eventually computors. However, 1 V paid some bills for a short while and we did recieve solictors letters from helped in activist/volunteering areas. various individuals on student council when we printed something What particular issues did you focus considered libelous.We were on? threatened with legal action by the Bucket loads • gay law reform, college colleges over an article about college abuse of freshers, eating disorders 'culture', but never amounted to and feminist critique of "beauty", anything. Down at Scinprr wt-'ic ju.st one environmental stuff, union intrigues, big happy family ... you know safety on campus, reviews of the What was your highlight/ craziest education the various faculties were point of the job? what. I mean? The r()ntri[)utor.s offering, parking, etc etc. And lots of Fucking printing deadlines, laying out do right by u.s and we do right by cartoons and satire too. and design without computors for the them. We even pay the little bbghters. entire term. The day the printers rang Do you still read semper? to say the pages had gotten mixed up F.ric however, didn't get his story Yes, now, but rarely when I'm not a and what was the correct student. sequence...except i had just rubbed in on time. Poor K.rir. But as the off the white board with the page saving ^oes \Spare the rod and What direction would you like to see layout....things got a bit testy. spoil the (hild'. semper head in? Highlight; seeing the first editon back That's up to the editors and the from print. Having a bar fridge next voting students. Go in every direction to my desk. So now we're one (Oruiibutoi short. you can imagine, that's what gives SF its strength (through diversity) just Do you have any words of wisdom for m don't forget who pays for it. For future editors? •o example a cd based edition is grossly Have a great time, don't get too You. cau ht UD in the DoUtics. -o unfair to students who can't afford o The Gospel according to Brendan: The ongoing Higher Education Review RIP AFFORDABLE EDUCATION Dr Brendan,Nelson, Fedcrni Minster for Education/Science and Training, is currently conducting a ministerial . 'review' into higher educalion. Nelson has made it clear that'thcre won't necessarily be any increase in public funding of universities. It's alarming that increasing public funding is not seen as essential when most responses to the review have called for more funding. Univcrsi,tic;s,will be forced to raise student fees and seek further corporate sponsorship. Even though it's a "review' and it's meant to be about dqnsultc/tion, it's clear t'hal Nelson is not listening tu what students, staff and the university sector is saying. The government has had a particular agenda in this 'review' and it's roughly this: jtUuCntS Will DC expected to essentially pay for their entire education, staff numbers will by further reduced, the range of courses offered at each university will be severely limited and orientated towards profitability and the needs of business. Put simply the federal government plans to create a higher education system that simply churns out thousands of graduates with a narrow range of vocational skills from institutions that resemble big business more and Dctaiicri below arc some of the main changes being proposed by the federal government. Cost of degrees, fee deregulation, loans schemes, supcr-HECS and all that Instead of the funding boost our rundown universities need, the federal governments has proposed further shifting the cost of higher education onto students. A number of 'models' have been proposed in the four review papers - nil of them would have devastating effects on students. - Replacing HECS with a full loans'Schcme [similar tb the new postgraduate education loans scheme (PELS)] that will allow universities to charge full fees or market rates to undergraduates. Put simply, instead of leaving with a HECS debt under $16,000 (91"/o of students have a debt of less than $16,000) student would graduate with a debt that's 3 times bigger, and in many eases, in the 6-figures. - Charging a 'supcr-HECS' on top of existing HECS arrangements [increasing HECS for high demand degrees] - Scrapping the 25% limit on the number of full fee paying domestic undergraduates that universities can enroll. - Charging a commercial rate of interest on HECS and PELS debts [it is estimated that this will increase debt levels by 30%] - Putting a limit on completion time for degrees [failing topics may mean that students who wish to complete their degrees will be forced into paying full market fees rather than HECS for their repeat topics] Under these proposals fees for most students will increase massively. Students at some universities are already paying facing fees of over $100,000 for Uieir inilial degree. Australian students are already making a far bigger contribution to the running of universities than almost anywhere in the developed world, In many European countries students get a free university education. In the USA the students are expected lo contribute about 19% of running costs of public universities. At Canadian universities Ilie rate is 17% Students at Australian universities now contribute 36.2%. a narrow range of vocational skills. The 'review' Student fees, even with a loans scheme, are a major talks about education as a means to advance issue, it affects who gets into university Many knowledge and understanding, enable effective potential students are deterred by the prospect of "If the participation in society and to create "a taking on huge debts. User pays has led to a decline democratic, civilised society". Heartwarming in access by working class, indigenous and rural stuff, really However, if the federal government students. It also has a major impact on what you is successful in implementing their agenda will do after you graduate. Already the typical through this 'review', our education will look graduate faces repaying their study debts until their roughly like this: late thirties and about 1/3 of women will still have a debt at the age of 65. Setting up a government government - higher student fees, with elite institutions loans scheme will create a lifetime of debt for all charging anywhere up to and more than but the very rich. Recent studies of a similar scheme $118,000 [the going rate for a Veterinary in place in New Zealand found that banks take Science degree at Sydney University]; study debts into account when considering graduates' applications for home loans. Not - short, accelerated vocational degrees with surprisingly home ownership among Generation Xers very little flexibility for students to go at their has dropped 10% compared with the previous baby own pace; boomers (who were not hit with study debt). get their - replacement of a lot of facc-to-facc learning Narrowing your choice with distance education and online learning courses; The federal government is arguing that it is inefficient for universities to run the wide range of - academics on contracts instead of tenure, courses currently on offer. The proposal by Nelson facing increased workloads and decreased for 'specialisation' is code language for eliminating research ability; courses and subjects with smaller enrollments. This way will hit many disciplines that may not be the - vast differences in quality from university to flavour ofthe month but have important social university, based on money, rather than a roles like mathematics, philosophy and the universal provision of quality degrees; languages. Specialisation also involves taking resources away from smaller, newer universities and - students working longer hours to survive transferring them to sandstone universities. financially (already students have to work an Students in regional and small universities will not average of 15 hours per week, with 10"/o of higher students missing classes 'frequently' due to have the choice of subjects and courses currently available because these universities will be forced to work) 'specialise! - vastly reduced participation of students from Nelson has been keen to focus debate on courses working class and Indigenous backgrounds. with small numbers because he knows that the reality for most students is that our classes are Australian universities are in the process of going education from a smalt, elite system of education to a mass much too large and overcrowded. Most students report frequent occasions when they are forced to system of education. We have gone from 19 sit on the floor of lecture rooms and tutorials have universities and 46 Colleges of Advanced over 40 people in them This is backed up Education in 1987 to 38 public universities in international studies that show our class sizes are 2002; from 393,734 students in 1987 to close to much bigger than most European and North 700,000 today. If we are committed to a mass American universities. university education system then wc need to as we address issues of commercialisation, student fees, The government is also looking at considerably narrow faddish degrees designed to take narrowing the number of universities engaged in a advantage of students' economic insecurity, and comprehensive range of research and research student living conditions. The problem isn't a training [i.e., postgraduates]. Suburban universities, 'review' per sc. The problem is that this review universities of technology, regional universities and does not support a mass education system - it the newer universities will all face a marked decline wants to sell degrees to those that can afford in the diversity of their research activity Many i Contact your student organisation if you want to Univereities should be more than just degree be involved in campaigning against the 'review' factories churning out thousands of graduates with 1991 Robert Heather What year were you an editor? rr fwi iM 1991 ^ Who were you co-eds? wnwRsnT Mandy Curties, Janie Fitzgerald and Craig McCosker. wnmcE Why did you decide to run for Semper? We had heard that the fundamentalist christians were going to run a team and had a good chance so we got together a team and ran for elaction to keep them out. Jl Did you ever have any problems with hi the UQ union, university nrrmnL administration, police or government? We had huge problems with the right wing student union of young National yuppies who loved censoring every issue. They were closing down everything they could get their BUT / HAV^A iMibe ujfuar/, hands on in the name of 'better management'... they used to get off on their little power trips all the time. your message isn't going to reach What do you do now? and womens issues. What was your highlight/ craziest them. I am now the Director of Artspace point of the job? Mackay, a $3.2 million regional gallery Do you still read Semper? The late night shifts which were Did the experience change your life? being built in Mackay and due to open When I can -1 pick it up when I am on fueled by KFC, pizza and scotch. If we Yes it put me in touch with an in December 2002. campus. missed the courier deadline we then incredible group of talented writers had to make a run to the printing and other crazies who are still out Did Semper help further your career? What direction would you tike to see press in Gympie in an old Falcon there and 1 still stay in touch with Yes - the things like Semper and Semper head in? coupe that belonged to Lindsay (the many of them. Activities which I did at University as I would like it to be the main layout artist). The band scene in 'extra-curricular' activities led to my reference point for student and Brisbane at that time was excellent - Have you at any point been in career more then anything 1 ever popular culture in Brisbane. bands like Custard and Powderfinger therapy as a result of being a Semper studied. would be rehearsing in the bandroom ed? To what extent did you get involved under the Activities Office, Livid was None of us ended up in rehab. What particular issues did you focus in student politics? still a new thing and there was heaps on? I was involved in protests against of fun to be had. How long did it take you to find out We looked at the dismantling of the Victoria Brazil in 1989, was Activities what the name Semper Floret student union by the proto-fascist Vice President in 1990 with the Do you have any words of wisdom for actually right wing team in power, the Reform team and Semper Editor in future editors? meant? treatment of Islamic women, security 1991. Spend more time on the layout - if First year university. on campus and had special issues on people can't read the magazine then the Gulf War, environment, comics War is justified when its against someone with a moustache It was a cool, brisk, end-of-winter morning. The "What if all these new rich-but-dumb students are 7.30am sun was still in the grip of the twilight "You're one smart mother fcker! Let me guess, did ugly with bad acne? Doesn't that mess up your preceding it. He, being the vice-chancellor of the you go to a private school? We've already given this plans?" University of Queensland, and I, just a walking, some though, and decided to only let in customers who have just missed the cut-off for certain courses. talking, government grant. He was on the way to Y'know, the courses that only the best students "Recognize! This here iz the beautiful bit: they live a press conference announcing that a team usually take. That way, we can have our cake, and cat such shallow existences, where appearances are based at the utiiversity had managed to give it it too. Bond Uni has had it too good for too long." everything. If they feel they are that hideous, they'll thousands of dollars of free publicity by creating just 'do a Tori' and get new tits or something." a supersonic contraption out of bits of wire and gaffer tape. I was on my way from the clready- After a moment of hesitation, I blurted out, "What overflowing car park to my lecture theatre when does this have to do with the naked virgins?" "But Tori Spelling looks terrible..." our paths crossed. "Well, we finally figured out how to put the people in "Dude, it's, like, too early to think, man. Ok, here's a Sensing thisonce-in-a-blue-moon opportunity, I the Forgan-Smith building who don't study Law to better example: ever watched the 'Miss World' and thought it wise to express my opinion about the good use. It turns out that most virgins are cither 'Miss Universe' pageants? \'oticc how all tne cuties recent moves by the University Senate to accept the male IT students, or fundie Christians. Besides, peosle arc college educated?" enrolment of domestic up-front full fee-paying who don't give it ip have to find other ways to keep (DUFF) students. up the interest I think the term used to describe that is 'going Greek'. All this time, we've been eating off "Hmmm... clever I've always wondered why Australia Hey John Hay! never did well at these competitions. I "Hay John," I yelled, "thanks for devaluing guess il has something to do with the fact that university admission in many my degree!" countries is based on the ability lo pay more than academic aptitude and To that, the man affectionately known as intelligence." "the VC" stepped in his tracks. "Selec-ta!" "Bro. It's air't like that. We, like, need the bread, man. Ever since that midget turned "Let mc get this straight. The reason you off the morey taps, we've had to get stingy. are introducing ful! fee-paying places for It's getting so bad that I've had to stop domestic students is so that you can later eating my lunches off the bodies of naked hire them to be your personal placcmats, virgins." with a view towards enticing attractive women?" "Naked virgins?" "I see we've done a good job with you. "Word. They kept getting grease burns an' These bitchez aren't dumb tho. After all, cuts an' shit whenever the restaurant they would have managed to get into uni served steak. The surgery alone was costing anyway, and probably would have gotten us a pretty penny, let me tell you. At least it into their original course of choice in second year gave the med students something to do." the bodies of virgins in the mistaken belief that they were pure." anyway" "Hang on... naked virgins?" "That's quite a discovery. Does UniQuest own the "Where does this leave ncn-females then?" rights to that?" "Realize! They're just getting harder to find. As the "Well, in line with university policy, we are "equal supply dries up, the demand forces the prices up. It's "Hell yeah. Oh. and you can't tell anybody about this opportunity' eaters. All we ask is that the dudes have simple market economics, so I'm told. That's the conversation either." He said. "Ya dig? a 'Brazilian' done beforehand. Dang! Now I feel like whole deal with this DUFF thing." "You mentioned Bond Uni earlier..." sushi! And just as I have to face tha dudes with microphones and those things that flash light when they go 'click'." "Oh, I get it You're going to use the Uni's reputation "Have you seen the honeyz there? Man, that's son-e to draw in rich dumb people with lots of money to sweet ass!" make up for the short-fall in federal funding! "I think this is all beginning to ma "boo-yah! With all that" "Bond Uni is full of hott bitchez! Mc and my crew are gunna go around and find people to eat off. With all "Keep it real, wigga! Don't be a stranger. Peace out" the money these honeyz will be paying lo enroll in "Wait a minute... won't the influx of substandard, er, such a top-draw institution such as this, they'll be And with that, he was gone. customers negatively impact on the quality of looking for ways to pay their fees." graduates produced by this establishment?" By Pedro Vaidez predictable and, theoretically, divert the onlyin January and June. Why? Maybe it division from difference of opinion, thus nasty outcome. Given this watchful doesn't matter. But given this hindsight, we don't want change. BJt change is You and continuum on cause and effect, society can let's be creative and stock more toilet paper creative, change is part of evolution, but become quite paranoid about actualities on the shelves in preparation. The Age of hindsight, and sticking to the past is that may never happen and thus prohibit Hindsight is serving us well. stable, secure, based on known entities, the Age of the proliferat'on of the most treasured of a until the shock of the new comes along. human's senses, creativity and freedom, in Next, take a handful of suicidal favour of the 'safe as houses' normality fundamentalists devout to old-world Where does this lead to if you're not afraid we're accustomed to. The Age of Hindsight. beliefs, a cashed-up religious revolutionary of change? Nowhere if you want it It's Hindsight eter/)aliy improved but never perfected, is utilizing the commercial freedom of the easy, in hindsight., to play the apathetic yesterday's friend and tomorrow's enemy new world to put tnem through flyirg pawn in the chess game of life, if you see For you, what day is it today? school, forge a few visas and buy some life as a game and that some greater hand You asked, "So, what's the use of airplane tickets, and what do you have? A - that of a mortal - dictates your fate. But hindsight?" The computing power to send the first terrorist attack and subsequent change of you live in a democracy Aborigines died of rockets into soace are now scaled down P'Otocol for global manipulation because in plague and pellet, ANZACs copped bullets Your Inner God replied, "To better into your palm-pilot Computing power hindsight one player was always open for in the head and Nurses were bayoneted at ourselves." supercedes itself, on a good day, every six attack from the other, and it's not allowed beaches so you can sit in your comfy months. Soon you will be able to single to happen again, h/y mother used to sing a home, pursue a life you choose, but if "But," you squinted on something in the handedly direct a fleet of nuclear missiles njrsery rhyme, 'London Tower is burning you're not keeping you head above the sea distance, "Why bother?" at an incoming meteorite the size of down, burning down, my fair lady' but I'll of bullshit around you, you'll inadvertently Tasmania and save the world. Amazing. be singing to my kids, 'The Twin Towers are fall victim to someone elses branding of "Listen, in hindsight it'll all seem But back to reality Given the Digital burning down, burning down, thanks to hindsight all in the name of furthering worthwhile." Revolution's evolution to record in binary some very naughty and creative Arabs'. their cause. It's a trickier world out there. every electronic detail of our day Hindsight is perception after the event, a hindsight, once the domain of the wistfully Hindsight after the tragic event tells us to Hindsight Your hindsight is your personal wonderful and valued vision derived from observant with an eye for deta I and a pay scrutinizing attention to the elements property If many join their hindsight the merging of experience and observation; mind for memory, has become an industry that led to the outcome, and as some together it becomes a mindset easily two fundamentals enhanced and to factory the continual development of a elements are far beyond the sway of even forgotten (like a rowdy night at the pub supposedly in great abundance thanks to formula to predict for profit and the most mightiest of powers (George with your mates) or perhaps intellectual technology Some can say that this is the sustainability, control and management, double-yah Bush can't rewrite the chapter property [from a think tank group) and this Age of Hindsight, but as nothing is new our futures. in the Old Testament where the two professional insight becomes a commodity, under the sun, it's a quest onable title. brothers split in the desert and formed and as always, a weapon for oppression. However, there is an inescapable weight of At a basic level consultants data-mine their own tribes - one worshipped Yahweh The worst case scenario is that patriotic, information that purports that any event consumer spending habits in the (who become God for Christians), the other religious, political, group, blind and should be foreseen; we now have the supermarket database. For some reason Allah), the only eler^ients that can be righteous hindsight destroys your power, the capabilities, to predict the un toilet paper sales are up on Tuesdays, but swayed are the elements that are the individual freedom. In the same way that easiest to manipulate; spoon-fed the masses in pre-war Germany couldn't ^y information, simple-minded recognize that Hitler and his method of \ reason, front-line logistics, nationalistic salvation was sending them to poor oppressed people and such a miserable fate for such a culturally ^ tactical bombing strategies. advanced country could you recognize the Hindsight as information, adverse results of an attractive hindsight proving what can happen that makes you feel a certain way, thus given the continuum of a directing your destiny? Do you know when scenario, is then misconstrued you're being lied to, not only by a by the forces in power and dominant force, but by smaller, less inadvertently imposes on our conniving, but just as damaging, elements? pre-event freedoms. Draconian measures for national security Just because there is an abundance of are required because hindsight freely available technology and media to has shown that anything can enhance our awareness and construct a be at risk. The actual cause hindsignt ranging from 24/7 to the and extent of the danger, the beginning ofthe universe, doesn't mean it's relevant risk factor verses the value is any greater unless one recognizes hypothetical perceived threat, the source of the many hindsights that will be shown in good time, blended to create yours. Who created them, thanks to the next generation and why? Isn't history written by the of hindsight but not without victor? Who fashions base hindsight into a currently hindering the consumable and digestible format? Who greatest human attributes, cooks it? Who sold it on? Who makes creativity and freedom. Right money from it? Who gains the ego boost? now, is it a crime to think ill- Fabricated hindsight as a means of thoughts of your government thought-control is as old as the hills and even if it's constructive children's taunts of the boogey-man but in criticism? Once the thought the modern day and age, to maintain a becomes action, and if in semblance of balance and freedom, hindsight it was an element dismantle the myriad of sinister facades that caused a nasty effect, probing you with their hindsight into the well...Yes. many facets of the world and see what you have: the truth, your truth. So what was A more pedestrian portrait of ever real? Once you know that, it's the hindsight's oppression is in the perfect raw and volatile hindsight you realm of 'change'. Take an old. should arm yourself with to greet the new close-knit but diversely day All the hindsight in the world can minded. 'Small Town. Input the create barriers to prohibit events or threat of change (e.g. new situations but at the end of the day there fish'n'chips shop, a classier remains one fundamental that dismantles brothel, or that damn dam) all of it: Creativity to ignore or think and hindsight will dig up from around it You'd be surprised what's on the the past factors in the change other side. that will cause division amongst the people of the peaceful Town. We don't want Simon Drake Sat 5th ^AnENTION OVERSEAS STUDENTS^ OKTOktobe r Are you graduating soon? OJII.O Do you want to live and work in Australia? 9pm - Late FEST If you are finishing your course of study soon and $6/4 you would like to make an application for permanent residency In Australia, then contact us for a free assessment of your eliglblity. 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Sexiness isn't something thot occurs noturotty (that is a myth that men ere fed} • it is a com any problems therapy as a result of being a Semper ptetely manufactured state of movie. I mean mind. It is a concentration, a rationale, something that needs tc with the UQ ed? be wofked ot and constantly l/nproved. Now If you fail this quiz, don't get oil depressed, develop an eating dis union, university Nope. order and t)uy a one woy ticket to Cleo - look up ttie rlgtit answers, study them and learn how to be sexy. administration, police or How long did it toke you to find out government? what the name Semper Floreat No. We were actually meant? blessed to be I think it came up in conversation at editors at a time one point, but I don't really when there was a remember. more Left-leaning free-speechifying What do you do now? Union in charge. Magazine art director in New York The only people we ever had Did Semper help further your career? problems with Absolutely. was the Church of Scientology, after What particular issues did you focus we included them on? in an article we I think we alternately charmed and ran on cults on pissed off nearly everyone on campus campus. at one point. Which is fine. Deputy Editor Black+White magazine. Nicl< Dent Arts, politics, sex = bliss. What was your highlight/ craziest Do you still read Semper? point of the job? Bit difficult to get over here. But I What year were you an editor? Finding out that the Scientologists may stop by the office next time I'm 1993 Did Semper help further your career? Learned lots. had written to the Chancellor in Australia. demanding my removal was a little Who were your co-eds? What particular issues did you focus weird. (The Chancellor ignored them, What direction would you like to see Katy Wild and Andrew Horton. on? and his office forwarded all the Semper head in? Scientologist mail to me). Highlight? As long as it's still going and is Why did you decide to run for Treasury casino. Queer stuff. Making fun of right-wing political hacks. Oh, every single late night putting out actively seeking out stories on topics Semper? Having a good time. the issue. that UQ people SHOULD know about As an excuse to stay at uni for their University, I'm happy. another year and avoid the real Do you still read Semper? Do you have any words of wisdom for world. No. Sah-ree. future editors? To what extent did you get involved Annoy all the right people. And write in student politics? Did you ever have any problems with about Scientologists, they love the Tried to keep out of it and give all the UQ union, university What direction would you like to see Semper head in? attention. sides a forum in Semper. This administration, police or government? pretense at fairness didn't really work We were lucky. We had a sympathetic Semper must fight tirelessly for free Did the experience change your life? out, though. Young Liberals are a union. We ruffled a few feathers -the education and for the freedom of I suppose so; I wouldn't be working loathsome bunch. Courier-Mail, the Scientologists - but asylum seekers. But it must also aim where I am now if it hadn't been for the cops left us alone. And the for a high standard of writing and Semper. government ignored us completely - graphic design. surprise, surprise. To what extent did What was your highlight/ craziest you get involved in ARE YOU A YOUNG LIBERAL? student politics? point of the job? B. A worn, but much loved power should be shared equitably, Not much in that ly now, y(»L'll have a-iid 3 num- Being accused of shoddy journalism by ibcr of aiticlts, interviews and It ike/bike. 1 wouldn't be richer than everyone Helen Darville (Demidenko). Then it year. Paid my dues 'reports coiuernin^ the Voutig C. A brand spanking new, but else then, wouldn't I? B: much loved child sized motorized turned out she plagiarised her Miles fighting Victoria Libefal's continuinR strugRle for Brazil in 89. Went to rftoRnitiuri, rights artil their very BMW/Volvo svith a six cylinder 6. Adolf Hltl«r was- Franklfn-winnlng noveL Honour was engine, cruise control, central lock council meetings uwn "place in the sun" (one away A. A right wmg Nazi leader. satisfied. from all those disgusting poor peo ing, sunroof, air conditioning, and B. A fucking dangerous right wing though. ple, that is). At this point you arc a 12 stack CD stereo system Nazi leader. mounted in the boot. Do you have any words of wisdom for no doubt asking yourself a very C. largely misunderstood. important question; 'Could I too future editors? Irt one of these marginalised, mis 3. As an adult, your drink of cbot(» 7. Ronald Reagan MaS' Try and be professional and Andrev^ understood people? Could I too be is- A. A president of the United States. entertaining. Nobody likes a whiner a loud-mouthed selfish prick? A. Anything reasonably affordable. R. A fucking dangerous president who can't write. Bitter pills need Could I too be a Young Liberal?" B. Anything within reach. of the United States. Horton Well, if you are unafraid of taking a C. Anything expensive enough to C. Urgely misunderstood. sugar coatings. Achieve revolutionary good, hard look at yourself, then What year were you buy a small third world nation things from the inside. you should take this quiz as soon as wth. 8. Tbe enormeas foreign detil prob* an editor? possible. By answering various lent In Mexico is* questions regarding your child Did the experience change your life? Ummm...1993. I 4. The environment should !»• A. A damned side worse than the hood, personal tastes, political think. A. Carefully managed, with an eye foreign debt Australia has. It gave me a fall-back career when beliefs, and other topics, you'll towards developing alternative B. An economic nightmare created the rock star thing didn't pan out. ioon discover if you have wha( It resources. by juch capitalistic powers as the Who were you co takes to be a Young Libt-ral, II. Protected at all costs. World Bank. Have you at any point been in eds? C. Carefully damaged for maxi C. Their own fault. They really therapy as a result of being a Semper Nick Dent & Katy 1. You were coBcdvel K- mum produitivity. After all, it's shouldn't have gone ahead and A. A product of your parent's love. bought and paid for, isn't it.' ed? Wild borrowed so much In the first place, B. A product of four cartons of should they? No, but I learned the true meaning of beer, a sp;i[e bed, and a lack uf 5. Sociallsls- Why did you decide the word "underpaid". birth control measures. A. Arc well meaning, but slightly 9. On yon think this quiz Is- C. A tax dodge for yout parcr^t's to run for Semper? confused. A. A rather predictable attempt at inultlnattnnal corporation. How long did it take you to find out Friends of ours had B. Are right. humour. been editors the C. Should be put up against the B. Well Intcntioncd, but )ust short what the name Semper Floreat 2. As a chtid, your favoivite toy vras- wall and shot. 1 mean, what a year before and of the mark. actually meant? A. A worn, but much loved smurf. ridiculous Idea • that »vcalth and C. Vtobibly the most insulting About 5 seconds. frankly, as Arts thing you've ever read, and in the students, we had morning you'll get mumsy and time on our hands. dadsy to get the writer responsible What do you do now? thrown out of Unl. Brisbane's Dirty Past 1953 The 70's A CLEAN FACE FOR THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY 1964 CAPITALISTS' CONSPIRE Fl research is advocated by US President JECFI IS FORMED Transnational companies and Eisenhowser, in his 'Atoms for Peace' program, The International Atomic Energy Association the WTO make 'links' with behind which the dirty nuclear weapons industry (IAEA), UN's Food ahd Agricultural Organisation JECFI, along with nuclear/ (FAO) and World Health Organisation (WHO) form atomic energy institutes, could continue -^ the Joint Expert Committee on Fl (JECFI): governments, radioactive designed to regulate, develop and promote Fl product companies and 1986 military establishments MORE IRRADIATION IN OUR NATION 1985 Irradiation plant at Wetherill Park (NSW) is built Fl PLANT DOWN THE ROAD...? without government regulation; Ansell-Steritech «r- 1972 West is back, proposing a Fl 4^ becomes Steritech. Fl IN AUSTRALIA? plant at Rocklea (QLD) , close to the George West first proposes Fl for Australia; state's fruit & veg wholesale markets Dandenong (VIC) hosts the world's first l huge public opposition fully commercial irradiation plant 1990 "Fl ROCKLEA" IS HALTEDI The 90's Due to strong 'WE'RE GOING DOWN: Fl iS GREAT' campaigning, a Steritech experiences a severe decline in ^ moratorium on Fl is set - demand for irradiation of medical ie. a Federal ban equipment, "consequently we had to find other things to irradiate" (West, 1998): Steritech launches into slick Fl promotion 1999 & political lobbying STERITECH IS BACK IN QLD Federal Government quietly lifts its moratorium as State Development Minister Jim ^ Elder invites Steritech to Qld, where they apply (pressure?) to Caboolture Shire Council to riero's rezone its Nuclear Free Zone r'i •• •[ •^ '^onnnnnjcy .,iat-i 1 •. I of nineteen years - 2002 application approved and THIS YEAR SO FAR community is outraged; While Steritech have commenced campaigning begins. construction at Narangba, the [creative grafitti on a sign for a movement against Fl is growing ever [development near the Fl site stronger: successful community T action, picketing and campaigning 2000 have resulted in stalling work on site HERBS, SPICES AND NUTS - Statham Constructions and Group 2001 Four Security are the contractors - Local resident loses appeal against CSC MORE APPROVALS decisionin court; application by Steritech to which began on June 14th. A Minister for Environment Robert Hill approves protest camp opposite the site forms Australia and New Zealand Food Authority Steritech's preliminary proposal of plant - no (ANZFA) for a license to irradiate herbs, spices, both a colorful symbol and a broader implications assessed; ANZFA (includes functional focus point for the herbal teas, peanuts, cashews, almonds and Qld Minister for Health Wendy Edmond) -^ campaign, providing vital pistachio nuts; In their Nuclear Free Party approves A413 - irradiation of herbs, spices and Platform, Qld Labor states they "will prohibit ^ information and a meeting point for herbal teas; Steritech 'acquires' State land at curious, concerned and active the establishment of., nuclear irradiation Narangba; growing community concern of plants., in Qld" community members alike. Despite radiological risks following US terrorist attacks re-ratifying their Nuclear Free Party Platform and receiving over WOO The possibility of food irradiation (Fl) In Australia has whetted the appetite of our Government: here is an signatures opposing the opportunity to increase our playing hand In the nuclear industry, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and many development, the Qld and Federal . trans-national corporations. Most genuine research Into F) ceased in the 60's, after a decade of findings Governments continue to support concluded irradiation to be an unsuitable food technology. The nuclear lobby refused to lose this 'clean face' Steritech and Fl - bigger hidden of their nuclear arms research and development, so they proceeded to falsify research and reviews, using agendas are afoot. Queensland bribes - oops, 'grants' - until a wealth of evidence surrounding the safety and feasibilty of Fl existed. These Council of Unions (QCU) recently selected research papers have been buying irradiation companies (often subsiduaries of nuclear weapons passed a motion of opposition to Fl companies) the support needed to promote and practice the enterprise of Fl. They all win: the nuclear lobby and its development in Australia; has their clean face, Governments have their weight in world trade and nuclear issues, armies have their CEPU-plumbers, ETU, TWU and QUT weapons and the irradiation companies have their profits. student guild are also onside. A loophole has been discovered in the But it is not too latel It was done before and it can be done again. Twelve years ago in Rocklea the voice of Therapeutic Goods Act that herbal the people overpowered Steritech Pty. Ltd. (our offensive local irradiation company) and MADE the teas can be irradiated without Goyemment.take positive action. It is time to clear our throats and speak up against this notion of food labeling requirements... avoid the irradiation again. If enough people do something then Australia will remain free of irradiated food. You can "Hilde-Heming" brand. Surebeam is • write letters of concern or protest to any of the above-mentioned politicians and decision-making bodies, sign a North Qld irradiation company • a petition, wear a political t-shirt (for sale or make your ownl), and learn more by visiting a stall or the Camp (subsiduary of US nuclear weapons . at-14 Potassium St, Narangba • there are regular gatherings including Friday night BBQs. The Stop Food company, Titan) awaiting approval : Irradiation Alliance (SFIA) holds a weekly Wednesday 7pm meeting at the Grass Roots Centre, 237 Boundary St, from ANZFA to irradiate tropical West End: get the tatest info Including upcoming action details... all are welcome. To get Involved in the fruits; a decision is expected at the I campaign contact 0411 118737 or email stopfialllance® yahoo.com.au. Websites with more info: end of this year. ^foej)r1sbane,or^.au: brisbaneindymedia.org.au vCitizen.org . purefood.org stopfoodirradiation.comi • IIS^^%l0?iS^#J?;"^^i'>^H^^^^^ ' \ ::-v. „;•;•:..;.,.:.TALI SHELLEY?--;. 1998 future editors? she went over to England to teach) Margaret Look around you at the unl, at what's What particular issues did you focus being studied, what the students are on? Lieszel Darcy - not sure exactly what Smithhurst interested in in the academic sense. Well, pretty much everything, she's been up to - she teaches And find out how you can transmit Themed issues were our thing, from aerobics at UQ Sport and I think she that. And really, it's the writing that cartoons to conflict. works at Women's House (she used to What year were you an editor? matters. To find these people, good work there). 1998 writers, you have to care about and Do you still read Semper? know about what that is. And being Nope We met at NOWSA in June 98 and Who were your coeds? funny is hard, but vital. Find books on decided to get a team together For most of the year, Jane Daniels. how to do It if you have to. What directionw ould you like to see Joe and Sara Synnot for first edition. Semper head in? Why did you decide to run for Did the experience change your life? Pull the intelligence back in again - Semper? Why did you decide to run for Yup. Didn't take any nonsense for really search for your writers and I was interested in the student union Semper? about 6 months, there was that much topics. Don't presume that your and alternative media and in 1998 Was offered chance by Sara Synnot, buzz still going. But that drizzles out, politics are everyone's, and keep an there had been a bad situation with and ran with it. She pulled me in, but and unless you keep the ball rolling ear down there for what's moving. the women's edition (decisions were we parted rather early on. and stay out there, you may lose the Talk to the stranger people on made at organising collectives and Differences of editorial opinion, I buzz and start having to take the campus, they often have the goods. then the editors did different stuff) so suppose. It was either divide the proverbial. And I'm teaching English Your cool is often more limited than we decided that we really wanted a magazine entirely or "I'm gonna sit team that was really open to women here and hold my breath until one of being involved and getting published. us falls over" sort of thing. One of us thought that sort of thing childish and Did you ever have any problems with left. the UQ union, university administration, police or government? Did you ever have any problems with The president (Matt Carter) had to the UQ Union, university sign a couple of indemnity forms administration, police or government? before the printers would print a And Yes, we had problems. Don't couple of issues because of some stuff know if you guys are part of this we had about the word 'Cunt'. section of the union, but if you are, you should allow for impartiality and What was your highlight/ craziest print what I'm about to say. The point of the job? Womens'Collective were our problem, It wasn't that crazy, but our cunt and ultimately, the rest of the union poem and article in the following were our allies. edition about the word's history created quite a bit of debate. Of the Problem was the Womens'Edition. As teams that ran for Semper in the 99 two female editors - first time, I elections, only one failed to mention believe, though I may be wrong, we cunts/vaginas in their advertising thought that with our editorial rights, material. In fact one team (the team we could decide the edition as we that got elected), promised to have saw it. And intended to fight the "less bad poetry about vaginas, lin traditional coverage for another fact fewer vaginas altogether". This perspective on the ideas: something actually upset a lot of women I knew, as simple as having articles about law, because they saw it as a bit of a engineering, medicine, scientific backlash (whether or not it was development and them all written by meant as such). Also, the Gravity women in those fields. Simple, subtle, editors (at Griffith Uni) actually and so we thought, effective. But published a centrofold photo of a cunt tradition, according to the women we that year! met in the collective, is there to remain. And the fighting hindered and Do you have any words of wisdom for altered entirely the result - which we future editors? all agreed was rather poor. Semper has a long history of being radical which I think is good, but you This set off a raging war on their side also need substance - that is, articles and ultimately, around midnight at a in Berlin now, which in a career you realise. based on reliable facts/information. union meeting, a sly call was made sense, is taking the proverbial. That way people may not agree with against us and we, the editors, were To what extent did you get involved you but you at least have some ousted on a technicality. But we Have you at any point been in in student politics? integrity when you're pushing the pleaded against the decision, the therapy as a result of being a SemperNo t in the slightest bit Interested in boundaries at what is, let's face it, a union took our side, and we retained ed? it. It simply spoils the fun. People very conservative campus. Also, like our rights, and salaries... All rather No. I went to confession, it's faster. were nice though, and didn't try to all the positions in the union, you're interesting, but frustrating. interfere with the paper, which is as being paid (although not very much) How long did it take you to find out it should be. to represent and serve the student What was the highlight/craziest point what the name Semper Floreat body. Sometimes, I think people in of the job? actually meant? the student union can forget that! Highlights were everywhere. Running Didn't bother, we just used Semper. Carnnen Seaby around Brisvegas soliciting stuff from Did the experience change your life? local stars, allowing ourselves to ride What do you do now? What year were you an editor? it made me want to study journalism the little bit of cred that you get Mentioned it before: living it up in 1999 (that's right -1 had not studied any from the job, just being silly buggers Berlin and spreading the English word, journalism or media studies before basically, and trying to get the laughs while dabbling in other stuff that Who were you co-eds? running for and doing the job. and the decent content from where might come in useful one day. Sam Ailwood • now working for an Needless to say, I would probably do we could. English-language magazine in China some things differently now that I'm When it works, and people say they Did Semper help further your career? older and wiser). (ike it, the buzz is petrol. Not yet, but I used it alot in the Ellen Browning • currently traveling trying. Distance helps when you around Europe in a comby van (but Have you at any point been in Do you have any words of wisdom forexaggerate . therapy as a result of being a Semper 1999 ed? Sam Ailwood, Carmen Seaby and cause offence, but It became a way Europe during the summer. I am No, it wasn't that bad. But I did tend Lieszel D'arcy of showing people that language like typing these answers in an internet to drop out of activism and generally that can be reclaimed and used in cafe in Florence! avoid the student union in the Why did you decide to run for positive ways. Finishing our term as Did Semper help further your career? ; following years, Semper? editors was a great highlight for me, It gave me an insight into the Our team ran under the name 'forum' but at the same time, I loved my workings of media which is helpful for : How long did it take you to find out because wereally wanted to bring term and the best thing about it was my English teaching. what the name Semper Floreat Semper Floreat back from the hands the cameraderie we developed as a Any particular issues we focussed on? actually meant? of what seemed like afew people into team. Women's space, the use of language the domain of the student body - we and ATSl issues. We really wanted Semper Floreat means something thought Semper should be a forum for Do you have any words of wisdom forSempe r to be called by its proper along the lines of forever flourishing the views, ideas, experiments... of its future editors? name, as we believed in the spirit and we looked it up really early on in readers. We thought that this was No. behind those words. We gave every the piece (before the first edition - the reason that Semper was born and edition a SEMPER FLOREAT masthead. we featured an extract from the the reason for its existence. We Did the experience change your life? university anthem in the first edition. believed that editors should be Spending a year as a Semper editor Do you still read Semper? It's quite strange. It goes something editors. changed my life because it made me It's a bit difficult to pick it up in like this Joyful alv/ays let us be/ feel able and confident and proud of London, or Florence for that matter. youth and pleasure mating). Did you ever have any problems with something. It was also an opportunity the UQ union, university to be exposed to lots of different What direction would you like to see What do you do now? Semper head in? I'm in my final semester of dual I haven't seen Semper for a couple of Journalism/Arts degrees. years now, but I have seen it too often exist as a platform for people's Did Semper help further your career? egos so that they can show off how Well, I'm about to find out now that smart and funky and cool they think I'm applying for jobs. I had a job they are. I don't think that it should interview the other day and I took be like that at all. The direction I along the bound volume of sempers would like to see it move is so that it and when my prospective employer gets to the point where there is so looked through it she found an article much coming in from students that by one of her cousins! the editors are there to kind of direct and arrange it and THAT would really What particular issues did you focus be the 'Floreat' • a flourishing or on? flowering display of the potential that We were very focussed on being so many students have, but hide alternative, so we wanted to raise away. They might feel that there is issues not generally covered In no avenue or arena in which they can mainstream media but we definitely express themselves, that they aren't had more opinion pieces than actual 'cool' enough to be in Semper. journalistic pieces which, looking back now, I'd do differently To what extent did you get involved in student politics? 00 you still read Semper? Not hugely I met my co-editors at a Because I've been studying here for NOWSA (Network of Women Students three years after finishing semper I in Australia) conference and that still pick it up occassionally It's been conference really showed me an ugly interesting to see how different it is underbelly of student politics. I got each year with the different editors. behind the issues I felt strongly I've liked some years better than about, but I've never had any others. ambition to get 'up there' in political games of any kind. What direction would you like to see Semper head in? Because there are cheaper ways to See above "words of wisdom". nip & tuck than with plastic surgery... Sam Aliwood To what extent did you get involved What year were you an editor? in student politics? 1999?? I think. Seems like so long ago! 1 got involved with student politics administration, police or government? student and other alternative media through the women's area (I love that I think that we were perceived by the which opened my mind and enhanced Who were you co-eds? area and have seen heaps of amazing, union exec as 'the women's area my creativity Three of the coolest chix I know: wonderful women go to the women's team' which didn't cause any major Carmen Doofgirl Seaby, Elly Belly room, hang out, get involved, feel problems, but sometimes I felt a bit Have you at any point been in Browning, and Liesel Darcy. I still love empowered and become politically catergorised and patronised by some therapy as a result of being a SemperCarme n and Ellen to death active). I've been an Arts rep on people for that reason. Overall, ed? eventhough we are scattered all over council (they were abolished in about though, the union exec were behind No but I think I need some therapy to the globe. 1999 I think). I did go to the NUS us and supported lots of ideas we had overcome my coke addiction that I conference In 1998 and hated It! It that could have caused problems. developed in the office (that's the Why did you decide to run for was pretty horrible. I've thought Although we were ali women and we drink). were involved in the women's area, Semper? : about getting involved again but I'd The girls and I met at a NOWSA that did not form our pretext for How long did it take you to find out really like to graduate and get out of conference In Sydney and it being editors. what the name Semper Floreat here! snowballed from there. actually meant? What was your highlight/ craziest I knew In first year, and anyway, who Did you ever have any problems with would run to be editor of something Ellen Browning point of the job? the UQ union, university they don't know the name of? I still think the highlight of our year administration, police or government? as What year were you an editor? We ran independently but the union Semper editors was when we What do you do now? • 1999 of our year was a nice left wing published a poem called 'cunt'. Lots Teaching English and World Religions bunch. However, we had a shit fight of people did not like that at all to high school students in the U.K. I Who were you co-eds? with the Semper editors that we were because they thought the word would during winter and travelling through taking over from, I still regret it. Our yours into a stealth graduate weapon entertainment magazine styled on Each new year, a new team with new inside back cover Cunt Poem with of editorial ego. Donft let any Time Out in London. I'm now based in ideas. You don't need some jaded old suggestive artworkji caused a stir. college-boy snots stop you from Bejing and am the Planning Manager bag telling you where it's at! Just Some boring woman from a coffee putting out thought provoking stories of that's Magazine a national edition don't let any right wing tosspots shop threatened to sue if we put our but at the same time let them write of our Guangzhou, Shanghai and waste a whole year of Semper- still filthy magazine in her shop again. We the occasional piece "C itj's their Bejing city magazines that is re assuming you guys are lefties or at ran a story about a PhD student and magazine too and their arguments worked for distribution all over China. least on the fence? tutor with the philosophy department, never hold anyway Hey you arenj't I'm also the Restaurants Editor of our Patricia Peterson, with unusual college boy snots are you? Bejing City Edition because I love To what extent did you get involved theories about sex. It was written by noshing on Beijing's mix of food from in student politics? some of her Did the expenence change your life? all over China. Xinjiang and Sichuan Have you ever been to a student colleagues in response to her teaching Absolutely It gave me confidence I are home to the Gods of the Kitchen. council meeting? Yawn! I could never methods and theory. She threatened never knew I had. Also, Ifd probably However, all that will end soon sit through those things, I left the to sue us but she didn't have a leg to have made it into the Darwin awards because my latest thing is to study bureaucratic bollocks to Carmen. But stand on. Its still my favourite article. for being crushed by a pile of books Putonghua (Mandarin) seriouslyj- that just BEING the editor of a student researching for my PhD with the means writing it and not just magazine is being Involved in student What was your highlight/ craziest English department. Same town. Same struggling with taxi Chinese. politics. I've always believed that my point of the job? campus. Bored. politics is fluid and changing, towing We experimented with green meanies Did Semper help further your career? the party line never worked for me. and wore the usual subvert the Have you at any point been in See above! I was employed solely on Now that I'm living and working in dominant paradigm shirts but as far as therapy as a result of being a Semper the basis that I could be trained after China, my politics have been shaped really whacky tales go, I'm afraid I'll ed? a year of experience in student and moulded even further. I'm be a disappointment especially if you I got enough on-the-job therapy from media. It worked after a steep learning new stuff every day You just spoke to Greg and those guys who my co-editors Ellen and Carmen and learning curve in journalistic writing can't imagine how things work here, did the super funky 95 [check with also Maria Armstrong screenprinter from my that's Editor, Kath Cummins. after almost two years I still feel Carmen if I have the right year here] extraordinaire and Andrew Silcox, the dazed and confused by this Women's Edition of Semper. graphic designer with a fan club. We were known as the femonazi team labyrinthine, secret system. Every Does that make me uncool? Maybe so I suppose it seemed like we were time a bullet is fired here, I am taking photos of a certain person How long did it take you to find out focusing on feminist issues. I always reminded that despite our good pubic hair for the Inside back cover what the name Semper Floreat thought the title was a compliment, intentions, we were all naive at the was a bit raunchy? My German actually meant? by the way. union. But I'm not ashamed of that. boyfriend thinks it's a bit tame cause I failed Latin in my first year How could we know any better? That pussies are always in the spotlight (seriously) but I learnt enough to Do you still read Semper? said, I still think a minority of the over there. figure the name out pretty quick! Occasionally Carmen sends me a copy students I worked with at the union but that's pretty rare. Want to put me were self-righteous little shits. Do you have any words of wisdom for What do you do now? on your mailing list? future editors? I live in China and spent the past year Media is a world of clashing egos and and a half as the Features Editor of What direction would you like to see Semper is just the place to develop that's Shanghai magazine, an English Semper head in? As many people will know by now, there is going to be a meeting of the WTO trade ministers in Sydney on the 14th and 15th Stop the iiiiinifn!i^'):nT^j!in)t^:!i7?!V!n of November. As the organisation which promotes privatisation, degregulation and all things neo-liberal, it is in the interests of us all to question and resist. ^ This is a call to action for an Education Bloc to mobilise around issues surrounding our education, including the current orlc ake v/ver Review into Higher Education and the liifeoliwiiiQ General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) - which is administered by the WTO. Rather than being co-ordinated by one central organising committee, it is education fsoLD envisaged that this bloc will be a coming >The Nelson review will mean together of students, teachers, lecturers $!{)0,()00 Lini degrees and community members with a diverse range of perspectives and tactics in mind who will converge before the WTO prisons meeting. At the convergence we can discuss possibilities for the days: where ^ACM pay.s refugees $2 consensus can be found we can act a clay for 16 hours work. ISOLD together, otherwise a diversity of activity is encouraged! communication Please distribute this call as widely as > lelsira drastically cut possible: discuss it with your friends, your "iinprolilable" rural coverage. campus collectives and campaign groups; publicise the WTO meeting and this bloc and most importantly start organising an health Usts] affintiy group to come along to convergences of this bloc and the protests >If you get sick, you pay! in November! **turning resistance into A '; ^ water fsoLol rebellion** >The EU wants to see rivers and lakes **our education is not for sale** privatised under the GATS agreement. Crippling study fees, budget cuts, life II2E2 deregulation, privatisation, no student >The WTO wants to see input, education for vocational purposes only.. In Australia and across the globe all aspects of life under education is changing rapidly We desire a corporate control complete rethinking of education policy We reject the neo-liberal changes to education that are being advanced by both the Federal Government and World croNf r^ACTTS Trade Organisation [WTO]. For cheap bus tickets from NO W [<): now 10"' livls.ciii.oi AITINl-T: uu\\,;iriiiK'i.i)i!:.;ii The current assault on education is global. 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We come together as people who will fight the concerted assault of the As the global assault on education increases and intensifies so too does our global elite to rob us of a decent publicly funded education, to introduce resistance: We have sprayed the 'University of Nike' crudely over the full fee student loans, make degrees purely vocational, turn our universities entrance to a university in France with a sign next to it pointing to the 'Bill into factories of the mind where students are churned out to work as Gates' building. We have disrupted a senate meeting in Italy. We have taken obedient automatons in the 'dark satanic mills' of the future. to the streets In Spain with mass student rallies. We were pepper sprayed at demonstrations against the review In Perth, and hundreds of students In Our action will be one of many actions and protests that are planned for the sleepy town of Adelalde hurled placards at John Howard. 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PA D 3 i?^'",!': .•"•;<;. ••:-<: W-. i3i 'J! 2000 multimedia edition of an laughing). fuck Australian student newspaper. about What particular issues did you focus students' Craziest point: Having to hack the on? rights, password on our own computers, or We tried to take a more in-depth social perhaps flying the Semper computers approach to Semper, developing a justice, to Newcastle to work on the CD-ROM team of outstanding contributors and and so on, while we attended the National commissioning longer and more and ^jtttiif.iL Student Media Conference thoughtful articles. We also tried to Semper is experiment with the medium of the an Do you have any words of wisdom for paper, doing an edition in 4 separate integral future editors? parts (a total disaster) part of Look after your contributors. Avoid and of course the CD-ROM (a great this. refec food. Get a sofa bed for the success). It was 2000, so PS>My office. Remember that the AM reconciliation was a biggie. all-time Ben Eltham recommends no more than 8 cups of favourite coffee in any 24 hour period. Do you still read Semper? year of What year were you an editor? Yes, totally. 1 like that David 2000 Did the experience change your life? Campbell guy, he does good It made me unemployable for a whole cartoons. Who were you co-eds? range of media positions. Mark Fallu, David Campbell, Thorun What direction would you like to Oddsson, and unofficially Susan Have you at any point been in see Semper head in? Kukucka. therapy as a result of being a Semper I would like Semper to: ed? * continue to find and develop Why did you decide to run for My sleep-wake cycles were talented young Queensland Semper? completely dysregulated by almost writers, especially in non-fiction I'd wanted to do it since about 1995, three months of 2-3 hours sleep a * continue to commit to covering and had written for it for many years. night while programming the CD-ROM, issues that the mainstream media Hell, I'm still writing for it. and have never fuly recovered. won't * never under-estimate the Did you ever have any problems with How long did it take you to find out intelligence of student readers the UQ union, university what the name Semper floreat * foster deeper links with the administration, police or government? actually meant? Brisbane and Australian arts and Hah hah hah. Let's see. """^^^ Actually, I took latin at high school. literary communities changed the locks on the door to our * maintain constant vigilance storeroom, and then didn't give us a What do you do now? against attacks from both the key for 5 months, mimm^ installed I help organise arts festivals, write Right and the Union itself passwords preventing us from using arts reviews for Murdoch, work as a * stay relevant our computers and then refused to let freelance web designer (like every * never stop trying to be funny us use them until we agreed that the other white guy in their late 20's, department didn't have to fulfill their apparently), and I rap in a small-time To what extent did you get job descriptions in relation to Semper. hip-hop band. involved in student politics? ••" refused to sell advertising for us. Heavily. 1 wasted a lot of time but PLEASE PRINT THIS INFORMATION!!! Did Semper help further your career? made some fantastic friends, and But we never got sued! Not directly. Student Media is still a had the pleasure of meeting quality Semper is 1987, edited by Howard dirty word in the mainstream people (ike Katie Connolly, Bede Stringer and Karen Fletcher. What was your highlight/ craziest "professional" media. On the other Nicholson, Juliana Virine, Liz Ahern, point of the job? hand, I learnt some vital skills that Matt Carter, Dave Copeman, the list goes on. Student politics is pretty in order: have stood me in good stead for my nasty and frivolous but there are still Highlight: Releasing the first ever current jobs, like how to churn out tight, clean copy to a deadline (stop a lot of people who actually give a I do much unless you shake it limitfd intelligence and ability^ c could noi run the country succt ic talks a lot about nothing in would not be Prime Minisl; cannot think indcpcndcj; cannotjl ie enjoys around it. I-urbics have no diwernible understanding of .Ahorigmai reconciliation. and Furhips never, ever say 'Sorr}''. \>- * rj U ^ I rest my casef There is nothing more to say. AFURBY JOHN HOWARD ComplalnU. tips, bytches, any reason to say Bite Me! write In and 1 will respond to your letter? or emails, but only if Ihey arc interesting. Otherwise Bite Alarmln^y. those strange Uttle furry toys people love to hate bear an Mel uncaany resemblance to our very own Prime Minister John Howard. Youis in haish realities. From Initial appearances, John Howard looks not unlike a Purble: short »iuat, and kind of dumb. Tljough it U true that Furbie models with a The Masked Avenger. bald patch. *ff'f*« •"<* t«rtfg 'V ' ri • " bltemeptease4yxipUp.coai EXEC KE Ckris Vernon Presidenl Lisa Cheslera 1. since I came to UQ in 1999. Secretary 2.1 think that the Union Executive could have done a lot more to ensure that 1. Roughly 3 years and 2 months all Officers do the jobs they've been elected to do. I would like to have seen more work from some Officers in the Student Representation area in 2. My biggest regret is that I did not particular. Intervene more In the student represenatlon area ofthe Union. The Union's 3.1 didn't get pocket money. representation on a number of 1, Mow muny ytars hm^ faculty boards has been poor because of the 4. The Red Room, of course... yoy btefini 5ri)¥©!vtiil with lack of commitment from a number of the office bearers In that area. 5. AAaybe. the un}m? 6. Comatose 3. When I was 9 I use to receive ^5 per week. I was ^encouraged' to save that money. 1, Whiit*s Y^m blggtst 4. Getting lost at the corner bar, Jnslin McManon ana ref rtt fer the ytur? valley CnrisUna Tellefsen 5. Who Is nick earls? NRAVS faculty .fficers 6. It depends on so many factors 1. C & J: We have been working in the union 3, HOW mum p)@cj since the beginning of 2003^ but rmonty did y©y get as i were active last year during the "save the vet school campaign" helping the child! and whut 4M yoa previous NRAVs faculty officer. spe^nd St Mali Kearney 2. C: Missing my best friend's bltth- giving birth that is? BACS Facully Officer J: Not spending New Years up here 3. C: I got 50 NOK (^10 for those that don't 1. I'm only a 2nd year student and my 1st spend every moment tracing the 4, What's yciyr favourite Birthday is fast currency market) and spent It all on my horse Brisbane haynt? approaching with the Union and I plan to J: Variable, bought lollies have a few more yet 4, C: Mt. Cootha, Brizzie river, 3 Monkeys and 2. I don't have any regrets about my job as The Family Tom and I have represented students views J: Pavillion, home, Wellington Point i^ick iaris: Yts or No? and needs at every possible meeting in BACS. What I do regret is the lack of 5. C: Absolutely yes, ZlgZag street is in my leadership 'from above' and the frequent suburb, and I recall being close disregard for the needs of all students. Our to wetting my pants reading It. Union wastes much of its resources. Why J: Who Is he? (Ignorant, sorry) 6, What's yoyr favoyrite can't our Union be about students and not position? unrealistic political desires? Why would 6. C: In the centre always our current Union support the spending of J: Goalie students money to send protestors to Woomera? 3. $5.. but it took a few years to build up to this. Most of the time it was spent buying red frogs from the local shops. Bek Inomson 4. The Regatta or the old Holland Park Hotel (or affectionately known as the Queer Female Sexualiij Ofpcer HP)are good for a drink or two. 5. Not yet but that hasn't stopped a 1. 2 years certain someone from trying 2. That I haven't spent as much time with my partner, family and friends as I would have liked. 6. Not sure yet, I think if you're in any position you should make the most of it! 3. I didn't get pocket money, I worked in my dads bike shop from the time I was old enough to walk. 4. i like the venue and music at the gabba and the comfort at the cage. 5. Hell yes I Zig Zag Street Is one of my favourite books. 6. Frortt rower fe^^^^MAAM Selyin Kwong Edmee Leroy SBS Vacuity Officer Sinaenl Represenlalion Officer 1. Just this year - have been on a sharp 1. Since 2000, that officially makes me a masochist! (exciting!) learning curve. 2. The general lack of participation and Initiative from most ofthe executive 2. Always have a lingering sadness that more when It came to projects other than their own... except for the Clubs and Socs, could have been done around Women's, Arts, Social and Behavioural Sciences and Postgrad Officers, here! who were a great help! 3. Ifs hard to say after currency exchange from 3. None, but If I ever got any money, I would when I was In Hong Kong, but It wasn't huge n, S^ow many years have spend it on food...fatty! and I financed It very well around crisps, lollies and new toys (little Hello Kitty type stufO. yo^ been involved with 4. The Beat...downtairs (upstairs occasionally). 4. The Dutton Park cemeteries I walk past dally. the ynlon? 5. Nah, jocks suck! 5. Probably no, I enjoy and relate to female 6. The more the merrier! narratives much better, unless he was insanely sexist or feminist, but 1, What% yoajr i])]gges•1. i t something about men narrating in first person with a 'normal'gender status quo really bores regret for the year? me. Peier Fenlon 6. Inside my skin. Clubs ana Societies Officer I» How mych pocket 1. I got involved with the student Union in money dW yoy get as a 1998 by becoming an active Sacna Eenlon \4 m^4 what dW yoy member of the student club High Society. In 20001 became a club president Arb FacuUy Officer spend it ofthe club 1 started, Vanguard the publishing collective. Then last year I ran on? for clubs and socs. 1.(am but a baby in politics so it been 2. The lack of leadership shown by the 1002 barely a year. president and the secretary this year on human resource development 2. My biggest regret is the lack of leadership ^, *$ yoyr te and on the fees Issue. and community vnthin the union this year. Brisbane haynt? 3.1 bought lots of lego, which I still have. 3.1 got $5 a week and I probably spent it on 4.1 always like going to the 'ether' on sweetz but it was so long Wednesday nights at the Zoo in ago. S. Hick Earls: Yes or No? the Valley. I always had a good time with all my friends from the old Rec 4. The Art Gallery. Club. 5. He is inconsequential. 6. What*s yoyr favoyrlte 5.1 like John Birmingham better. 6. With a whip in my hand. position? 6. Under the covers when lunch time comes around. Simon Ross DOORS STOLEN AFTER LAST COUNCIL MEETING: PoslgraJuaie Officer At the last Council Meeting an argument erupted over the issue of an open-door policy in the Union building. 1. Your number is one The next morning staff discovered the door to the shared faculty office bearer's office had been 2. There are times in a year, good semper, when you can feel like a bit of a puppet. removed. The antics of the Union never fail to I choose one of those times. amuse. Ordinary students: you don't know what you're missing out oni Every student has the right to 3. Pocket money? You get pocket money when you're a child... attend council and ask union office bearers questions goddamn I wonder if I can get back pay. about their actions, priorities, budgetary spending etc. This is how we keep our officer bearers accountable. 4. Most of my old regular haunts have changed man... they used to be so cool. I still get So come along to the next council meeting...it's like a a kick out of trip to the zoo. Students screaming insults at each drifting round the valley and surrounds on random haunting days. other, jeering and booing...its better than a football game! Next Council meeting: last Wednesday of the 5. Judging books by covers., not likely month, 6pm, Heath Room (above Red Room, which is a good thing, seeing as everyone can de-stress at the 6. Curly bar in between throwing tantrums on Council floor). By Ahura Mazda Revered, feared, forbidden, or eaten, animals While many animals today are kept in servitude to human have had a special place in religion. An animal that beings, it's easy to forget that animals once held mystical powers over humans, who worshiped and revered them. One is worshipped and loved in one part of the world ancient society in which this happened was in ancient Egypt, may be hated or feared in another part of the egyp'tian ethno-zo-ol-O'gy world. (http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/cultural/ethnoarchaeoiogy/ethn ozoology/egyptian.htmI) provides a quick rundown of the Some faiths make give a central role to animals, such as the animals of significance to ancient Egyptians, not only in terms gods of Hinduism. Some give animals token roles as of religion, but also as food, pets, and service. One can visit representations of abstract conceptual entities, such as the this site to find out more about ethno-zo-ol-o-gy religion of the ancient Egyptians. And some just relegate (http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/cultural/ethnoarchaeology/ethn animals to the status of nutritional supplement. ozoology/). CyberSects on the web - http://cybersects.n3.net/ Regardless of the status of the religion, or the status of the While many religions focus on how to treat animals well, animal, the two are linked together in strange, weird, and some also use animals to carry out sacrifices. Just as the tasty ways. The ways in which animals are treated are as Aztecs different and as numerous as the various belief systems (http://linux1 .tlc.north.denver.k12.co.us/~gmoreno/gmoren themselves. At first glance, the only thing in common o/Aztec_Religion.html) were the masters of human sacrifice, between the prescribed treatment of animals is that there is the ancient Greeks were the masters of animal sacrifice. nothing in common. Religion - Rituals: Sacrifices (http://www.ancientgr.com/archaeonia/religion/rituals/sacri fices.htm) outlines some of the sacrificial practices used by Religious Thought about Animals the ancient Greeks to appease their gods. It even provides (http://online.sfsu.edu/-rone/Religion/religionanimals.html) examples. gives a full listing of sites and other references that discuss the treatment of animals according to various major religions. However, the Greeks did not have a monopoly on animal The only commonly practiced religions that are not sacrifice. Ancient Civilizations: Religion : Sacrifices represented are 'Jedi', and Satanism. (http://library.thinkquest,org/C004203/religion/reHgion03.h tm) outlines the sacrificial practices of other ancient religions For people looking to study the relationship between religion and societies. and animals, one university offers related courses rooted in two different academic traditions. At Tufts University, one can And finally, a common problem amongst the study how religion relates to ethics in a medical and public many religions that practice animal sacrifice is what to do health setting as well as a philosophical setting with the with the sacrificed animal afterwards. Let this question baffle author of Tufts Journal: Op Ed: Religion and animals you no longer! Just visit Life-study of 1 Corinthians radio (http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/archive/2001/november/oped programs: Listen online (http://www.lsm.org/(iving-stream- /index.shtml). In fact, you can even do a Master of Science in ministry-radio/audio/1 corinthians.html) to listen to Animals and Public Policy recordings on 'Dealing with Eating of Sacrifices to Idols 1-3". (http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/tutoriats/index.html). Now, that's what I call sacrilicious. 2002 Adding shredded paper to cup of soups Why did you decide to run for Semper? What particular issues did you focus on? does not add taste or nutrition, not even Renee approached me to do it - I hadn't Student activism covers so many bases at three in the morning. It does, however, seen her for a year or so. I felt like we today. I would like to think we've played a tide you over until the scent of greasy had vagjely stayed in contact for a reason role in critiquing America's imperialism and refec croissants wafts through the window and I decided Semper must be it. Holly warmongering. Also, someone said to me a at approximately 6.05am. and I met through Renee, we got silly few weeks back that Semper this year had drunk and that was it. been criticised as being a Dyke Mag. Did the experience change your life? So YIPEE!!! far, yes, absolutely, I'm convinced that I Did you ever have any problems with the have now lost all long-distance vision due UQ union, university administration, police Do you still read Semper? to 48 hour layout stints. or government? Yeah. It's crap. Only with the Union who, ironically, Have you at any point been in therapy as a endorsed us in the elections as their What direction would you Uke to see result of being a Sempered? I'm scheduled preferred team. But since we started we Holly Zwalf Semper head in? in for the end of the year. have had conflicts almost every edition More out there. I don't think we've been over certain articles that they have What year were you an editor? as radical, blunt and brutal as I would have How long did it take you to find out what deemed sexist. Puzzling really. 2002 liked. the name Semper Floret actually meant? 1st year, you spelt florat wrong Hannah. What was your highlight/ craziest point of Who were you co-eds? To what extent did you get involved in the job? Angelina Jolie (Renee) and Hannah Banana student politics? What do you do now? Over the Easter break when no-one was on I became involved in 2000 when I suddenly Obviously still an editor. Next year tho, campus and the Union had lent us a Why did you decide to run for Semper? I found myself occupying the Senate to will be drooling and rocking while massive maintenance van that we could was drunk and it seemed like a good idea. protest against the Arts restructure. It's repeating in crazed senility, "No, Holly, you barely drive. We seriously considered I vaguely remember thinking that through an addictive game to play, and too many can't smoke that, it's still moving and I driving to Womera in it but ended up Semper I could change the world forever.... activists get embroiled in the beaurocracy. think someone important owns it" locking ourselves in the office eating Even on the final day of voting week, when Student politics is infested with careerists. tomato soup for days and days. Beautiful I was drunk under our table with Marty Remember that when you vote this year. Did Semper help further your career? Sort sunrises on our illegal balcony wrapped in from "Eat More Cheese", I still hadn't They're easy to spot. They own cars (rich of. I think now I have developed skills sleeping bags - basically just digging our sobered up enough to fully consider what parents), they wear "funky" clothes, and such as forming coherent words after being job and the fact that we had no idea what consequences that decision might have.... they're inherently boring. awake for 52.3 hours straight and being we were doing. It was a naVve time - able to pick up the subtle tonal differences before we got hardened. Did you ever have any problems with the PS The police are bad, but never forget between someone who says "I'll have it in UQ union, university administration, police the government is badder, and cap'talism is tomorrow" and means next Thursday and The best moment was when we discovered or government? the baddest of all. someone who says "I'll have it in that the record player in the office Exec members of the UQ union were tomorrow" and means in three months actually worked. horrible to me from the moment I wrote an time. Also realising that someone who article criticising their faction ("National says "I'll have it in tomorrrow" NEVER Do you have any words of wisdom for Organisation of Leftie Sell-outs", edition means tomorrow. future editors? one). Immaturity led to the censoring of Don't try to do full-time uni at the same articles that merely needed a sense of What particular issues did you focus on? time as Semper. Rinse your dishes. humour to understand that they were Refugees, Brendan Remember that co-operation is the name tongue-in-cheek. Humour can be scarse in Nelson's fucked up higher education of the game. certain ends of the union building. review, Globalisation. Did the experience change your life? What was your highlight/ craziest point of Do you still read Semper? Yes. I treasure my trips to the the job? Not anymore, no. I flipped through the Laundromat. Sex in the office!I! And the time first issue. SOMEONE got drunk and grafittied the ' Have you at any point been in therapy as a walls. Reclaim student's space! What direction would you like to see result of being a Semper ed? Semper head in? Wine and Champion Ruby are my therapy Do you have any words of wisdom for Always forward. I think our mistake was and my vices. I love you both. future editors? being star struck by Semper's history and Be radical. Make up your own rules, enjoy thinking we had to live up to it. Not that How long did it take you to find out what the lack of censorship. Don't censor it wasn't absolutely incredible, but times the name Semper Floreat actually meant? yourself. BE RADICAL! If they give you are only going to get more amazing and I Holly - our source of all Union/Uni ruled paper, write the other way. And Renee Dodds think we should have had more faith in knowledge knew but apparently only always, always, FUCK SHIT UP. What year were you an editor? ourselves. because she had read it on the back of our 2002 opposition's t-shits during the elections. Did the experience change your life? To what extent did you get involved in Premature aging. Destroyed relationships. Who were you co-eds? student politics? What do you do now? Inability to spell my own name. And Hannah Brooks and Holly Zwalf Is there anything more fun than student I edit Semper, study full-time, try and thanks to a deadline, missing out on at politics? I wilt be running for SBS Faculty sleep a little here and there. LEAST two hours of the two-4-ones at the Why did you decide to run for Semper? Officer with the Rage team in the RG one Thursday. I'm scarred for life. Had developed a crush on a previous upcoming election. Did Semper help further your career? Semper editor and decided I'd try to meet Hmm...what career? Have you at any point been in therapy as a him by running for his old job. result of being a semper ed? BRING ON What particular issues did you focus on? THE MEN IN WHITE JACKETS!!! Did you ever have any problems with the Refuges, the war on terror, up front fees, UQunion, university administration, police Brisbane. Somehow we've had a lot of How long did it take you to find out what or government? people contributing fiction this year. the name semper floret actually meant? Only with the union in terms of censorship, Always flourishing. Its so wanky. Three not the police or government Do you still read Semper? cheers to the Big Smooth, our opposition in unfortunately, but then... the year is still Often we go to print without reading last year's elections, for actually writing young. certain things...like articles that come in at the meaning on their shirts... the last minute. I did read the first issue What was your highlight/ craziest point of but since then - no. What do you do now? the job? Rage against the machine. Plan my holiday Waking up on the Semper couch from an What direction would you like to see in Vietnam, and when I get bored of that I all-nighter and finding the office covered Semper head in? plan the revolution. Cry because I'll miss in pink toiletpaper with a pavlova V/herever students want to take it. Semper so much. Cry because I can't wait breakfast brought in for me by life-size for it to be over. Cry because I'm tired grasshoppers. Come to think of it, that To what extent did you get involved in and this deadline is like a rainbow that I'll was probably a hallucination. I'll be student politics? never reach. honest tho and say... probably just getting Hannah Brooks I avoid as much as possible. I have been that first issue back from the printers... What year were you an editor? treated better in clothing stores I have Did Semper help further your career? It's there's nothing like that feeling of holding Right now • 2002 worked in than by certain people in the made me realise that I want to continue your own creation for the first time. Union. Council is interesting though - it working in independent media. The truth Who were vou co-eds? would make a good documentary because IC nrih fhpr«i aniH I » "anf tri ho nno nf tho Hey Joh Give us back our Doctoratel Joh Bjelke-Petersen was bestowed an honorary doctorate of I >— In 109c h\/ Th«» 11ni '*»rsr^ nf niippn<['>nH «.— ..:. 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