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In section 9:1 it is stated plagiarism of this sort, I insist on implementa "economic measures" of the government of that landlords must give at least one month's tion of this 3-step plan: which he is currently a part, is a repugnant and notice in writing prior to any increase m rental mischieveous blend of ignorance and.deceit. charges. With the announcement of increased 1. A public apology on behalf of the stu He displays ignorance of economic conditions rates in the recent City Council Budget, it dents of the English Department. and of the cures for unemployment and infla seems inevitable that rental charges will rise tion; and deceit in his attempt to present the also. Landlords have it all over tenants-as it is, 2. An inquiry mto corruption in the English present government's ideological belligerence as this is one small mesns of recourse. Any com Department, an honest response to economic problems. plications arising out of rental mcreases should be taken to Legal Aid. 3. A Copyright fee to be paid to a well- If Mr Johnson was sincere he would by now known but unnamed Engineer. have made some effort to understand what P.Turner should be done about unemployment and Cyril Endaneer inflation. He would realize, as economists of Infantile jibberish Eng II integrity have known since 1936, that econom Dear Editors, ic recession is the predictable result of dogmatic Unknown artist grabs at publicity refusals throughout the whole post-war era to Steven Skala's infantile jibberisli ("Branding initiate economic planning; tliat government you a nasty revisionist," Semper letters, June in obscure magazine intervention to stimulate demand for socially 17) has rendered continuation of the Middle wortliwhile activities is the only way to get out East discussion in Semper Floreat quite point Dear Editors, of a recession; that inflation is caused primarily less. His refusal to take up the real issues, to by unemployment (and concommitent econom discuss the real nature of Zionism, is inade As the artist currently exhibiting in the ic stagnation) itself; and that budget deficits are obvious by his latest contribution. irrelevant to either inHjiion or to sound Little Toowong Art Gallery, I wish to publicly dissociate myself from any connection with the economic policy. The Socialist Youth Alliance, whose views article publishmg its existence and my show 1 have represented in this discussion, therefore which appeared m the last issue of Semper. Of course it is by no means certain that Mr challenges Steven Skala, or someone of his Johnson and his parliamentary colleagues do choosing, to a public debate of the issue con Feeling the reference to "masterpieces by not value these economic truths. What is likely cerned (namely that Israel is a racist, colonial anybody and nobody" to be on the grotesque, is thai lie is deliberately a part to the effort? to settler state), with Sol Salby, an Israeli bom side of libel, and being insulted by its tone as persuade us that cutbacks in government ex Jew who has played a leading role in the cam anyone else readmg it must also have been,:! penditures (including unemployment benefits, paign in Australia to defend the Palestinian was humiliated to consider myself included in. student allowances and social/community wel people. The SYA has arranged for Sol Salby to fare activities) are purely economic decisions be in Brisbane in the first week of August, it. and will be a contributor to "economic re Both my art and ambitions as a feminist covery." In fact the present Australian govern Peter Annear ment does not have an economic policy but painter diid those of at least one of the students merely an ideological block. Johnson and who operate this gallery are serious and sincere. I/raser et al obviously believe that if public Stolen mottos sector activity can be squeezed at a time when The relevance of that article to my work the complixity of modern society has made Dear Editors, and the operations of this gallery is NIL-the such activity more necessary for human welfare appearance of the article representing nothing than ever, then the chances of any significant As a free service, I wish to inform the more than the juvenile attempts of an artistic social reform in Australia ever again will be readers of Semper (deranged as they may be) and linguistic moron to impress his mates with completely thwarted. that the so-called "English Student's Motto" his tiny achievement. which appeared in the last edition is not in fact The dishonour to the work and sweat put When Mr Johnson stops repeating outmoded the "English Student's Motto". Its history on campus is due primarily to the efforts of one into this all-student- enterprise done by ideological Randisms with which his govern Timothy's article can only be understood when ment is trying to destroy compassion, kindness, weU-known Civil Engmeer (Ilnd Year). This gem, he claims, was carefuUy smuggled out of it is known that one of the painters actually dignity and general prosperity, then perhaps he wrote it. will be able to do the job he is saying he is MINAD (Mines Administration) where he was trying to do. But of course this will.never employed last vacation. Not wishing to reap happen. By now the lies and distortions from fame upon hunsclf, this miotto was kept a In the face of the damage done to what is the present Australian, government have been closely guarded secret, known to but a few. the good work m this gallery, I can only beg accepted by the mmority of Australians; The However, upon its careless scribbling on a that anyone who reads it disrepiH it, and visit damage Fraser and Jphnson set out to per common-room blackboard by a well-known the Little Gallery to see for- ^n^l^^self what an petrate has now been done. As he said: English student friend of the weU-known CivU alternate operation it is. •• -Z ' "Genuine people ha^ve been made to suffer." Engineer, it has been plagiarised and raped by the students of the English Department, who- •,V-.^^BryceCernak seem to have no shame in these matters. • 4: Geoff Dow •I.. Economics and Sociologysf- Pages BICENTENNIAL BULLSHIT arc not really independent of America economi cally or cuUurally. You need Uncle Sam Why have Australians been encouraged to celebrate 200 years of American White history? For some weeks now saturation coverage in this country on television and in the 0""^ dependency on America is even propa- -.. u u^«.. ' t 1 u .• r «•!. * » ix gated m a subtle way by such means as advcrtis- press has been given to celebrations of another country s culture. -^^ ,1^^,^,^ ^g "You need Uncle Sam." It is significant that these celebrations have been initiated and sponsored in Queensland American corporations have a great interest by, amongst others, the-American Chamber of Commerce, the US Consul and local busi in Australia particularly as previously stated, in our mineral wealth. Our vast stores of cheap ness interests, SlstSate high grade uranium are seen by them as neces sary for the expansion of their dangerous plans A group of Queensland citizens who regard Instead they feel that implicit in these cele for nuclear energy development. The American these celebrations within Australia as an insult brations within Australia is the suggestion that government also desires to ensure that Australia to our own uitegrity and independence, have maybe the tired old joke about our country remains agreeable to the establishment and urged the Australian public to protest against having become the 51st state of America, has development of US bases on our land includuig the staging of these events. This group called now become a reality. American corporations Pine Gap. These bases are so militarily and the Campaign against the Bicentennial Brain and other overseas interests in fact do own an strategically important to America that in the wash have stressed that in protesting, they are overwhelming majority of virtually every sig event of a war we would be sure to suffer an not engaging in puerUe anti-Americanism of a nificant industry within Australia. We really early attack (possibly nuclear) for our acqui racjsttype. have assumed branch office status. They also escence in their construction and utilisation by own and mine most of our export mineral US forces. wealth. Is this something to celebrate? Clearly those holding power in America realise that wc Celebrating our own loss of independence Keeping the above facts in mind it should be clear, that the notion of Australia celebrating America's bicentmnial casts us in the role of celebrating our own loss of mdependence which obviously represents a rather twisted scenario. America celebrates Australia's history? . The members of CABB believe that if tradi tionally all countries of the world had celebrat ed the social and cultural advances which have occurred in other countries this could have had the desirable result of promoting an acceptance of the idea of a world community-extreme nationalism could have been broken llown. However this has never been the case, eg we have never seen America celebrating the best Pa'g^6 features of AustraUa's history. FLUSHES • • WN UNDER Thus it is hard not to mterpret the Ameri lations, the brutal overthrow of a democratical can celebrations in this country and elsewhere ly elected government in Chile and finally in the world as an atrocious example of Ameri exposes of large scale American government can arrogance or chauvinism. deceit and and corruption such as the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. If once more we were to examine closely who has been most active m promoting the American multi-national corporations who celebrations viz-American or Australian busi have been successfully exploiting much of the ness and government interests, it is not hard to world for decades are now meeting increasing appreciate that their motivations for so strongly resistance to their activities throughout the pushing the celebrations both in America and worid. The Vietnamese people after much sacri elsewhere are not as puie as they might Uke fice actually defeated a concerted act of aggres to suggest. sion by a combmation ofthe Pentagon, Govern ment and Corporation interests. The world's - America's dirty world image "mightiest nation" had been humbled by the strength of one small country's unwillingness America's world image has become extreme to be dominated. ly dirty in the wake of Vietnam, the CIA reve- movement, the Anti-war movement, the The whitewash .Women's Liberation movement, the American Indian movement, the Consumerist movement; The occurrence of the Bicentenary this year all of whom have been fighting for real human has provided an opportunity for the powerful justice within an often unjust and corrupt in America to conduct a gigantic public rela society. tions exercise (or brainwash) in an attempt to clean up and whitewash the stains on their America celebrate a revolution? characters which have finally come to the surface on TV and in the press. The full title accorded to the celebrations has been-The American Revolution Bicenten During this public relations campaign, we nial Celebrations-which attempts to remind us have heard much said by these interests about of the white American settlers' war of inde America's qualities-its openness, its willmgness pendence with the British. It is a paradox that to be self critical, etc. These are presented as now they celebrate thek overthrow of an ex healthy signs of a strong society. ploitative colonial power 200 years ago, yet since then then government and other interest However, if self criticism has occurred, if . groups have been responsible for the slaughter some secrecy has been eliminated, it has oc of the true Americans-the Indians as well as* curred as the result of the persistent efforts of the oppression of the American Blacks and of sections of the working people of America, not popular revolutionary movements for inde from the efforts of their country's leaders. pendence and freedorn throughout the world. The attempted Nixon cover-up is only one example of their efforts to hinder the building 200 years of white history of an open society. As occurred with the Captain Cook cele Even to this day, the exploitation of other brations in Australia a few'years ago, m which countries' wealth and the callous disregard ibr we celebrated the "discovery" of Australia and human life and suffering practised for a century ignored the Aborigines* genuine history of by the Rockefeller family has never been ownership of this land, so too has American adequately exposed. All we read of is their officialdom decided to ignore the true history benevolence and public spirit in giving a few of their Indians and rather celebrate in racist million tax deductable dollars to public projects fashion the 200 years of white settlement. through their Foundation. /Why should Australians be a party to such America's true strength dishonesty? America does have some great strengths, but CABB gave out leaflets in the city, stating these lie in its activist minorities and other the reasons for their opposition to the celebra sections of its population. If the Bicentennial tions. They have also urged all Queensianders celebrations are to continue why don't we cele an^ students to voice their opposition to the brate all that has been so courageous and good activities by writing letters to the press or by in American society-eg the Civil Rights move telephoning'television and radio stations. ment, the Peace Movement, the Environment B.F. Dicksori I Page 7 It is also your responsibiUty to ensure that you halve a current passport and that you have obtained the necessary visa for the first country you are visiting. Failure to do so, rendering it necessary to cancel a booking, does not exempt you from the relevant canceUaUon fees. Your map is your best friend when you are Where to Stay planning your travel itinery. 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And above aU else, don't Anticipated stocks are: Travel office. forget your student card. Student Guide to Asia $3.00 Whole World Handbook . 4.0Q Wamingl We strongly advise you to book your fligjit Let*i Go Europei . .4.00 now! Students throughout Australia have been Let's Go Biitaiii and Ireland. 3.80 Your AustraUan Student Card must be pro booking fUghts, cruises and tours smce June 1 EunilGuide.. . .> ,.,:.., .4JO duced on chedc-in. Fatture to do so could pre at-our 20 AUS Student Travel Offices. Don't be Pages vent you from traveUing. disappointed; Book now! The Prime Minister, Mr Phraser has made the following referred to as "an emerging giant". This original phrase statement, detailing his recent official visits to Japan and obviously endeared me to the Chinese because they came out China: in their thousands to provide a warm and spontaneous welcome, in contrast to the orchestrated one which greeted I recently had the pleasure of visiting Japan and China, two the former Labor Prime Minister. Chairman Mow could not Asian countries of immense importance in our region. In be at the airport, but this did not matter since all the Chinese Japan, I was amazed at the size of the people: they are really look the same to me. For some reason, the Soviet diplomats quite small. It is amazing that they are so industrious. I met boycotted my arrival, but what could you expect from a with the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. MeKee and had a frank bunch of Russian Commos? No wonder the Chinese hate -exchange of views on a wide variety of matters. I was able to them I inform him that Australians hold the Japanese in the highest esteem and that some RSL clubs now allow Toyotas in their While in Peking, I had several cordial exchanges with the car-parks. I pointed out that Australia was happy to provide Chinese Premier, Mr Hu Kung Fu. I was able to exchange an • Japan with all the minerals it needed. In return for a guarantee orange cordial for a mulberry one. After these formalities, we that Japan would not invade Australia, i assured the Japanese discussed world affairs and both agreed that the Russians were they could have all the minerals they wanted. (In this way i stinking, filthy, imperialist parasites. These talks should pro am able to guarantee a lasting peace, which is more than the vide a basis for peaceful relations in the area. Labor Party could do.) I also took the liberty of assuring the Japanese that they could use any part of Australia for dispos More sightseeing followed the talks and I can recommend ing of nuclear wastes. Personally, I suggested they use the state China to any tourist, although my wife Fanny was disappoint-' .of South Australia: it has a very dangerous socialist govern ed at the apparent shortages of Chiko rolls and dim sims: no ment and would appear to be the most expendable part of the doubt due to market fluctuations. country. On the way back to Australia, I flew low over the Indian I then took the liberty of spending several days sight Ocean and have to confirm that there are in fact schools of seeing and even purchased a book "A Guide to Japanese Communist fish in. that region. That is an important matter Prose": I found this a most stimulating aid in my tour of this and one on which I will report at a later date. great Asian nation. I really have a yen for Japanese life. 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Useful Page 10 M«1t30B3e SEAIPER SLEUTH TOWARDS A JUST & SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY -interview with Charles Birch Professor Charles Birch is the Challis Professor of Biology at Sydney University. A distinguished academic-CSIRO Research Fellow in the UK and America, Visiting Lecturer in Zoology in America and Brazil-and member of a number of prestigious international bodies including the Club of Rome, Professor Birch is also a com mitted Christian . The author of a number of books on relationship of Christianity and Science, he was invited to speak at the World Council of Churches conference in Nairobi in December 1975. His latest book is "Confronting the Future" (Pehcan bers that we have. When you come to think of it, India adds on to its population a total Harmondsworth 1975-reviewed in Semper Floreat V46 No 6 20-5-76 P49). population of Australia every year. That's the problem it has. We just have the problem of In an exclusive interview with Mark Hayes for Semper Floreat Professor Birch maintaining this 14 million people, and it'll discusses his work and writing: get up to about 17 million maybe. But it would involve a new Ufe style, a new attitude on the Professor Birch, I reviewed your book part of AustraUans to the future. But we're That wouldn't be a very acceptable notion going to have that anyway, I mean the world is "Confronting the Future" for Semper Floreat, going to have to have that anyway, if it's going and one of the things that really struck me to say, the people who are interested in devel oping nuclear power, for example? to survive, and it would be good if Australians about it was the idea of a "Sustainable could do tliis considerably and deliberately, Society." What do you actually mean when instead of pursuing the mad race to simply get you talk about a "Sustainable Society." Well, the interesting thing about energy at the moment is that we don't have any sustain more and more which usually means less and less in the end. Well, 1 think the fuU notion now is the so- able source of energy. Because any known calied "Just and Sustainable Society." The form of energy that wc can tap to any extent is word "sustainable" refers to the whole nation going to run out. Nuclear power plants, in thei But that's rather idealistic isn't it. It doesn't of the Earth having a carrying capacity and our present form, are not sustainable because they appear that that sort of "de-development," if selves not overloading the carrying capacity. In use uranium-at a pretty fast rate. With these you like, is likely to occur in Australia in say other words living whhin the sustaining capaci power plants proliferated all the uranium will the forseeable future? ty of the Earth. So, a sustainable society is one Well, I wouldn't be so pessimistic about whose quality of life you can sustain indefinite be gone within a matter of a few decades. The that. One of the movements which is growing ly. At the moment you cannot conceive of the only sustainable sources of energy are either fastest in the United States is the so-called "No present sort of world situation being sustained solar power, which you can't tap in sufficient Growth Movement," it really is growing quite indefinitely, because everything is going up- quantities, the Breeder Reactor, which may fast in the United States. Half a dozen years ago population is bcreasing, resource use is increas indeed be far too dangerous-it's like a con you wouldn't have put any money on that ing, energy use. is increasing. We're running out tained, bomb, and we may not be able to con- movement at all. So that people's attitudes do of thmgs. So it's an unsustainable road we're on tahi it, and thirdly, fusion which doesn't exist change remarkably, particularly when the at the moment, simply because ecologically yet. So energy, there's a real crunch there. We media get on to various ideas. So I'm not too it's unsustainable. So the whole idea is that just don't have a sustainable source of energy pessimistic about the possibility of people these rates of growth, accelerating rates of ^here. The world is up against an energy crisis changing. I think it can happen -whether or growth will have to level out if we're simply for that reason. not people are gomg to do it fast enough, of to inhabit the Earth, with any sort of reason course, is the problem. I don't thmk we have to able standard of living. You said in your book that Australia was in be too pessunistic about that. a unique position with regard to the rest ofthe I think it's important to add the word world because you suggested that Australia Talkmg now about some of the things that "just" as well as sustainable, because you see, could show the way. How exactly do you .see you said at the Nairobi conference. I was en once you introduce the whole notion of there this showing the way occurring? couraged to read your material ^^^ere you being "limits to growth" on the Earth, then it's I said that the liberation of the individual and the the poor who are going to suffer most when It doesn't look very attractive at the mom liberation of the environment are one and the you begin to limit things. So that if you're fac ent. In principle, because, we're a managable same thing. Were you trying to redress some ing a sustainable society of the future, I think population of 13 or 14 million people. We're sort of imbalance that you saw in more evangel you are also going to have to face the fact that the only continent which is governed by one ical, Christian circles? there are some people on (he Earth for whom nation, even North America has half a dozen growth.will have to contmue to be a reality. countries in charge of it. We can level our I thmk there are two problems here. One of I' mean you'll still have to have growth m the population. It looks as though we're on the them concerns these people who are the funda poor countries, because they haven't got road to doing that now. We couid decide what's mentalist type of Christian who regard any con enough food, they haven't got enough shelter a reasonable standard of living and not get any cern about ecology, the environment, plants and so on. We don't need any more of a lot of richer, and then farm our resources m such a ahd animals as a distraction from saving souls. these thmgs. •way as they'd be useful to the rest of the world. That is one element. I think that is an extreme We are a manageable country in terms of quan ly narrow^ mmded approach to the world we So that the sustainable society will be one in tities of people and the amounts of resources live m. The second element, which I thmk is which growth in the rich countries levels off, that we need to use; there are some that we're the much more influential element, is that the whereas it will have to be maintained in the running short of such as oil. Well, let's try and developmg countries fear the whole ecological poorer countries. Paae 11 cope with that situation with the small num movement, they fear the whole idea of "limits to growth" because it looks like the rich world There's no point in saying one or the other. The all the rest of it. sayuig "now look, We've had our share of re whole works hard to be done, and I would sources of the Earth, it's too bad, you've come have thought that the Christian approach would Professor Birch thank you very much. too late, you've got to face up to the fact that be a wholistic one, which applies to the whole there are limits." The poor countries say of nature. That brings one to the whole attitude My pleasure. 'That's all very well for you to say that, but to the world around you, to regard it in terms we're gomg to make our bit of growth while we of people being important entities on the planet [Parts of this mterview have been broadcast can." You'll find the poor countries, I mean, to the birds and the trees, the plants, the ani on 4ZZZ-FM. Mark D. Hayes is the AUS En it's very very common,at mternational meet mals do they have some significance, have they vironment Officer on campus. He is also the ings, the poor countries say "the ecological lives of their own that one has to be concerned Queensland Secretary of the Student Christian issues are not really our concern," and the about also. Movement and a member of the National other thing they will say is that "Liberation is Executive of the Australian SCM.l the important thing-Uberation from political So I think that a proper attitude to the oppression." That's a terribly important thmg world has to embrace all sorts of liberation. in Africa and in most South American coun People get tied up in movements that become tries. My approach is, yeah, we need poUtical very unliberating because they're too narrow. liberation, we need ecological liberation, we Women's Liberation needs to be associated with need individual Uberation-we need all these. men's liberation, with liberation from work and \ Rus Hinze, Queensland's Main Roads road not street One of the targets of the pubUc transport Minister has made several caUs recently for groups is the power of the roads lobby to in more money for freeways. Do you forsee fluence government decisions. Do you think the Petei Morris is from Newcastle. He was changes in the Roads Grants Act, particular relative size of the funding given to roads and ly in respect to the provisions for environment elected member for Shortland in 1974. He was pubUc transport indicate the success of the elected to the^ shadow cabhiet htst December al impact statements which may restart the con roads lobby? struction of freeways? and appointed' shadow transport minister. He was interviewed for Semper Floreat by Andrew Well I'm not m a position to^indicate the Herington. strength of the road lobby . . . with Govern The present Federal Government has al ment. 1 wUl say that I'm concerned that the ready amended the Roads Grants Act in May of this year. The funds that went through with The new Labor Transport Minister in NSW Federal Goverrmient wiU be seeking to abdicate that act removed the requirement that States Mr Peter Cox is introducing a '^commuter coun its responsibilities with respect to public trans get the approval of the Federal Government cil** as part ofthe public transport commission. port, and I think that is much more serious. where Federal Government funds were invol Will you be working towards getting more in ved in the construction of urban arterial roads. volvement of local community groups in plan In the past there has been a tendency for So that now the position is that where a State ning? govemments to try to solve the problem of appearing to do something by putting aU their government wants to construct a freeway it doesn't involve any Federal involvement at I can't give a formal answer on that. I do be eggs in one basket, as it were, and launching very expensive prestige projects which give UtUe aU. It's solely a matter for decision by the State lieve there has to be some sort of mechanism government concerned. that provides an input from the people in com real return to commuters. Examples of this I munities affected and the interests affected. I think are Melbounie*s underground loop, So that provision has been removed already? don't know how you can do that, put that into Sydney's Eastern Suburbs railway and Bris a structure, I've seen that in Blackbutt, the bane's electrification plans. How do you see Yes. great case against freeways in Newcastle which this problem? we've fought for 10 years and eventually won, I think. There should be some exercise or forum WeU I think the tragedy as far as the com The problems of pubUc transport in our where you can have some aiimg of views and muting public is concerned over the past couple urban centres certainly seem to have reached a crisis point. What do you as shadow transport' you can resolve something a bit more amenable. of decades is that projects have been looked at by politicians and governments m isolation one minister see as the future of public transport in Australia? One of the notable achievements of the from the other. Any project relating to trans- former Labor Government was the 1974 Road pott should be looked at as part of the whole Grants BiU. More than anything else this bill and preferably the total system constructed in a The problem is that a lot of people have restrained the Main Roads Department and sub co-ordinated fashion. So that then you have an suddenly realised the crisis exists. In fact the crisis has existed for some time. The position jected freeway proposals to environmental input into the three different types of trans of pubUc transport isn't something that's oc checks. Hie bfll conies up again in 1977. What port whether it be rail, whether it be bus or curred between last year and this year. It's changes do you think tiie Liberals intend to private transport. There has to be a balance and been the result of a long period of incorrect make? there has to be an overaU plan. priorities m the expenditure of pubUc funds in Recently Sydney cut its fares by 20 per the transport system whether it be freeways, I'm fearful looking at past statements by motor cars, raUway systems. It's not a problem the transport Minister Mr Nixon and statements cent and at the same time Victoria put their fares up by 25 per cent. Do you see this as very that is going to be solved m the short term but by the Prime Minister that much of thi funding hopefuUy an upgrading or urban pubUc under the Roads Grants Act will be shifted contradictory and how do you think public transport should be promoted? transport, the purdiase of new equipment when back to the shouldeisof the State governments. they're needed, the operation of services where I think what the Federal Government will be WeU pricing is only part of the solution to they're needed, when they're needed and re- doing is abdicatmg its role of responsibility for Uably wUl do much to attract people back to general road grant funding. the problems of pubUc transport. Firstly pub Uc transport has to be clean. Secondly it has to the service. But the service has got to be a ser vice that people are happy to use. I don't think Hiis years' Budget g^ve $43 million for pub be on time and thirdly and most important it has to run where people want it to run to pro that simply by providmg better public transport lic transport, the same as last year. Roads that people are going to leave their motor spending increased by $40 miUion to $450. Do vide the service in areas where it is needed. Now having said that the next step is the marketing cars and travel in urban transport systems. I you see mudi hope for pubUc transport improv of pubUc transport. I think in Australia there do think there is a great deal of improvement ing while this 10 to 1 unbalance in favour of has been almost a generation who have grown possible. . cars continues? up with little experience of usfag pubUc trans port because of the great love affair with the Well in effect there is no imbalance and the motor car. Now if people are gomg to come tricky ricky makes figures are the same. The $43 nuUion for public back to pubUc transport, first having raised the transport which is the same as last year, this quaUty of pubUc transport the next thing is the year doesn't have an adjustment for uiflation. marketing of it and creating an awareness. himself perfectly The apparent increase of $40 mOllbn in road Lowering fares is just one step in that. The fbnding, and that's how it's been presented by other things are in how the schedules are devis this government, is in fact a misrepresentation. ed, how the message is communicated to the clear The $40 mttUon. apparent increase Is actuaUy commuting pubUc and those who might use $20 miUioh that was deferred from last finan pubUc transport. AU I can say in respect to the The Union is busy. The problems associated cial year to this Hnancial year at the request of Victorian Government is it's a very strange with the inadequacy of TEAS have been thor the Prime Minister at the April Premier's con exercise in a supposedly private enterprise oughly presented to the pubUc and poUticians. ference. The actual figures are that you should economy, I couldn't envisage Myers in Mel (Note the distinction.) The Union Agency no\| take $20 mUUon off this year's proposed expen bourne for instance trying to increase its trade ells records and cassettes, the bike shop, is diture and add it to last year's actual expendi by reducing its stocks and increasing its prices. producing its own brand of bicycle, "Santa ture and you'U fmd there has been no inaease I don't think it would work for them and it Luda," and the shopping arcade ijow houses whatsoever as claimed by the present govern certainly won't work for public transport. a health food shop, "Better Foods." Of course ment. Page 13 the Union Secondhand Book Exchange is back WHAT WE DO KNOW 3, We totaUy reject the idea of a student loans scheme-the government has an obliga more ricky *Tliere has been no commitment to raise tion to educate everyone as far as possible, not the S31.88 maximum TEAS benefit-no other in action for Second Semester. Part-time to put them in debt {the NSW Labor Govern government benefit has remained static for over students can take advantage of the extended ment has promised to remove the teachers' a year. Due to infiation the aUowance is now opening hours of the University Book Shop as "bond"-il can be done!). • arranged by the Union, From July 19 to 23, the worth one-third less than it was 18 months ago. University Book Shop willbe open until 7 pm. Students have a right to a living wage-and it's 4, There should be NO FEES-is educa not that easy any more to get a job to supple tion only for the weahhy? Given the current economic conditions, ment it. Fraser hasn't solved the problem of Union finances and their proper control and unemployment yet.. management are rightly of prunary concern to WHAT WE CAN DO •Fees arc to be reintroduced for students the Union. A tight finance office is essential. Every little bit helps. . . . Write to politi who want to do a second or higher degree Systems changes are being affected, and the cians (lists avaUable from union office), even commercial activities of the Union are being (about S800 if full-time). after the Budget is brought down; ask to see consoUdated and promoted. them etc. If you have been particularly badly *Post graduate awards have been reduced. treated by the Education Department or any As weU as the TEAS campaign^ the Union is government department as a resuh of the •Overseas students have been threatened concentrating on assessing and taking action on restrictions of the TEAS Scheme ti.k. your the University Semester System. It would seem with the introduction of full fees at all levels. story to the press (see us first). that the University is more a factory than ever before. We are anxious bearers of often irrele WHAT WE WANT But most importantly . . . Express your vant and unwanted information, mechanistical dissatisfaction witli the trend to education for We must demand that the coalition govern ly consumed, and barely assimUatcd. Some the elite by publicly protesting-attend the rally times we forget that the quality of our involve ment honour its election education promise planned for King George Square on Tliursday ment is aU-important-the course is covered that they will "ensure means tested aUowances July 29 at 1 pm. Student solidarity is effective! grudgingly-there is no time for, and no effort under the TEAS are maintained at appropriate made for, exU:a curricular activities and the and reaUstic levels." So: experience in toto is negative. Usually the only time we see a satisfied student is when a Pass 1. We demand an increase in TEAS-it yummy tucker Result appears in the Courier-MaU. Some should be indexed on a student-weighted C.P.I, education. and adjusted quarterly. Twenty five "radical vegUarians" recently had a "puke-in" at a McDonald's hamburger But many wiU not have it any other way, 2, The incidentals allowance (now SlOO) store in the USA. They ate McDonald's Mustard having become addicted to this process. In coii- should be raised to at least SI50. The allov/ance junction with the Union elections, the Union is at present barely covers uniob fees let alone etc to mduce nausea and holding a plebiscite on the Semester System textbooks. and its alternatives, notably the former Term System. Conditions were generaUy more toler able in tite FuU Year System, save for the time around November. FoUowing the plebiscite the Union wUl prepare a submission on Semesteri- sation, and work for the implementation of its recommendations m the University. Richard Spencer trials, tribulations and TEAS EDUCATION is one of AUS's highest priorities and foUowmg the election of the Fraser Government your, office bearers have been very active in lobbying MPs, making sub missions to the government to counter theur education cuts, etc. The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, and the rest of the govern ment have refused to say exactly what wUl happen to TEAS (Tertiary Education Assis tance Scheme) in the August Budget. Page 14 The bemused ABC reporter couldn't quite figure out why these overseas experts in economics couldn't come up with an adequate solution to inflation in Australia that would fit into a PM spot of one minute. '*The Fhst AustraUan PoUtical Economy Conference was conceived of six months ^o. It comes at a time when the AustraUan econo political my is racked with traditional economic prob lems such as mflation and unemployment. It also comes at a time when numerous govern ment reports show that the economy is ui a worse state than people had talked about in economv the 'fifties and the 'sixties," said MUce Brezniac, one of the organisers of the Political Economy Conference held at Sydney University during our exam period. conference "This conference, which is organised by people in universities who chaUenge the tradi tional approach to economic analysis, comes at precisely the time when we arc becoming aware Naturally, the Doyen of AustraUan PoUti of the problems that the Australian economy is cal Economists, professor Ted Wheelwright, facing," Mike continued. appeared, and told a capacity audience just where "Correct" economic ideas came from. The organisers expected only 400 people to His thesis was quite simple: "With poUtical attend the conference. By mid-May, over 1000 economy, the more thmgs change, the more people had registered from all over AustraUa they remain the same." The Neo-classical and StiU more people wanted to come. They school of orthodox economists arose largely as stopped seUmg tickets at 1500 but fmaUy economic apologists for the Hapsburg empire and their transnational deaUngs. Ted conclud aUowed more than 1700 people to hear over and simUar tactics of conventional economics as seas speakers Uke Sam Bowles, Herb Gintis and ed: "So aU you need do is change a few names and places to be right up to date." mept and even said that the internal contra Edward NeU from the US and Ian Gough from dictions within these poUcies rendered them as England. . useless. One wit, as he was mtroducing one of the Subsequent to the conference, Sydney Uni overseas speakers, said that PoUtical Econom ists could almost measure theh status by the "For mstance, when there is poverty: In versity has been spUt over the teachmg of poU the United States, they're always trymg to re tical economy. Students and staff have gone on number of institutions from which they had been fired. Almost aU the overseas visitors had duce poverty by mcreasing the skUls ui educa strike over the refusal of the Admmistration to tion that the poor have, and it is not reaUsed, introduce third year PoUtical Economy sub been dismissed from their jobs or been refused tenure at least once. and what is obvious is that when someone gets jects so as to enable second year students to a job, they're takmg a job away from someone complete their course. else. The nature of the inequaUty is determmed The PM reporter asked Herb Gintis, from by the economy-who gets where is a different Sarn Bowles, from the Union of Radical the University of Massachusetts, what were the question. What we're saying is that there must PoUtical Economists" and the University of right sort of questions, if conventional econ be a change m the nature of the mequaUty as Massachusets suggested why this polarisation omists were on the wrong track: weU as the process whereby people get posit- occurred: tions in the economy." "The main question is how do you change the main mstitutions of society so as to solve "I think that some of the sources of opposi "Wages poUcy as weU as prices poUcy, I tion to PoUtical Economy come, in the long the main social questions that people are ask mg. Questions of unemployment, questions of regard as a direct attack on the workmg class." run, from the very poUtical and class nature of The PM reporter couldn't quite handle that. the theoretical dispiltes that take place among inequality, questions of inflation, questions of economists. It seems quite unbelievable that quality of life. Instead of asking how these institutions may be changed, tradUional econo Though there were a number of. major some of the advanced discussions that take lectures going on all the time, conference parti place among the economics profession have any mics takes these instUutions as given, and tries to manipulate around the edges. For instance, cipants also organised spontaneous workshops ' ' connection to the real world at aU. In fact they on issues that they regarded as important. One do." talking about inflation, there is a' trade off between mflation and unemployment. Now, of these workshops, on the PoUtical Economy this tradeoff is treated as something that is of Nuclear Power, proved worthwhUe, as two "I think that the clash of ideas in the class Atomic Energy Commission heavies turned rooms of tiie University of Sydney, here, are of part of the nature, it is not investigated to up, together with some Friends of the Earth, find out what the trade off is, and find a pomt course, riothmg but a reflection ofthe academic and John Baker, former Federal Secretary of on it. The PoUtical Economist says that there is world of concrete poUtical fightstha t go on in the- Telephonists and Telegraphists Union. ' a reason for this. BasicaUy, when there is a workplaces, in, offices, and in communities. John is an expert on the activities of the CIA tight labor market and when there is not a And it is not surprising at aU that the social m Australia and provided many useful points of high level of unemployment, workers are eUte of. Australia finds itself squarely on the coUaboration to clarify the discussion; strong, and they make strong side of conventional, economics, whUe trade gains. When there unionists-and other progressive groups are com is unemployment, they do not make strong The First Political Economy Conference was ing to th? aid of the PoUtical Economy move gains. It is the struggle between capital and an unmense success: It is hoped that it becomes ment." Sam said. He presented a paper on labor that determines these tradeoffs." Herb an annual event, and which is not to be missed. "The PoUtical. Economy of Education and Ghitis later presented a paper on "Work and Social Inequality.*?. AUenation." Herb dismissed monetary poUcy Page 15 hotft going to happen to womens house ? In November of 1973 a group of women met to discuss the feasabUity of setting "P „. , research into the needs of women in Brisbane and fulfilling the objective of operating a Slielta multipurpose centre for women. I„ May 1975 Shelta commenced operation offering temporary accommodation for women These women were drawn together with a common purpose. This common purpose is with chUdren escapmg from intolerable domest- succinctly outlined in two of the aims of the groups: , . ic situations. TTie response was so overwheUning that had fundmg not been received ti would . ^ . .,,./. Uave closed. 1) To work for the hberation of women. Sheha is part of the muUi-purpose centre 2) To expose and combat the lunitation of culturally defined attitudes and roles at aU estabUshed by the Women's Community Aid levels, particularly where they are oppressive to women. This aim includes a revaluing of Association to provide information and support female traits as positive attributes which women can use creatively in their development as ^°' ^°"'®" ^ ^^ "^ ^^^ "^^*^''- autonomous people. The plight of women residing in mtolerable, This group took the name The Women's very often violent domestic situations, is the Community Aid Association to incorporate the The Rape Crisis Centre has performed an prime reason for Shelta's existence. concept of women as a community within the educative function by maintaining media com larger community of both sexes. ment on rape ahd speaking pubUcly to a diverse The phUosophy of SheUa and aU radical range of pubUc groups. femiriist refuges is to provide an environment Rape Crisis Centre where homeless women and chUdren can be At a legislative level, the AustraUan Women given the information they need to take inde The Rape Crisis Centre was estabUshed in Against Rape group (AWAR) has taken up the pendent action. This information is legal, April 1975 to provide an alternative source for issue of the position of rape victims in the legal •welfare benefits, medical, social, housing etc women who either do not or have not reported system. This is an issue which is being discussed and is needed by women to take action for to the police and for women who need support* intemationaUy as many countries come to themselves and theu: chUdren wUh the support, m reporting the offence and enduruig the ex terms with the need to brmg tiie legal require both material and psychological of the femin perience of a rape trial. (The Rape Crisis Centre ments surroundhig rapie mto line with the ists involved with Shelta, to carry through de has never received fundmg.) changing society. cisions made. This process is crucial if the woman is to survive the stress and demands of becoming houseless and. a smgle parent with Rape is the ultimate act of sexual oppres The Rape Crisis Centre has never sought to sanity and self-respect. sion in this society. Rape is an area of crucial compete with the poUce. The phUosophy hi all importance to a feminist organisation. The areas of Women's House is to aUow the indivi Rape Crisis Centre has operated in a voluntary dual woman to choose. But we believe that she Facts about the women's health capacity sfaice AprU 1975, should make her choice on the basis of informa centre tion about the consequences of aU the alter In the six months shice January 1 this year, natives avaUable to her. Choice made on this In June 1975 Federal Government Funding 159 women have visited Women's House for basis aUows the woman some measure of dig was granted to operate a women's Shelta and a information and support as a result of havmg nity and control. It is CHOICE not involvement Women's Healtii Centre. been raped-either recentiy oi in the past. by default., *No woman who has ever used the services .Statistics for the 6 month period January provided has been subjected td'poUtical propa -June 30,1976. ganda. She may have been confronted with the Number of visits to the centre 908 reaUty of her situation and with herself and she Number of women 434 may not yet have come back because of the (average visits, 2; range 1-15) chaUenge of such controntation. Primary medical 345 Women with chUdren 169 *The value of Women's House is based in (range 1-16) this element of confrontation which is to ask CounselUng 418 her as a person to make decisions about herself Housing problems 112 without leaning on other people. Legal Advice 87 Financial Assistance 53 *We know from this 12 months' experience Direct support, that some women go away from Women's visit to home or to other 212 House and do not return for three, four to eight Depressic^n 77 months but when they come back it is because Sexual problems 148 they have decided to try to be independent and Menopause 35 cope. Alcoholic 34 M^M^ we argue most strongly against the notion Isolation 39 that this kind of work can be done by women Ages: workmg on a voluntary basis for the following 10-15 years-17, 16-20 years-79 reasons: It is because of the muhi-faceted nature of 21-25 years-120, 26-35 years-134 women's oppression that Women's House has 3645 years-40, 46 years and over-44. *Tlus concept of "voluntarism" denies the operated as a muUi-purpose centre. value of the contribution of women to society. • Other activities at Women's IHouse For instance, of the total number of woinen *It also denies the right of women to econo coming to the centre for primary medical care, The Women's Community Aid Association mic independence m'tiie field of work they it was found that 98 per cent of these women operates in many areas other than those receiv choose. responded to the facUities of the multi-purpose ing funds. UlNttTta >0K HltlTM centre and spoke of their needs in such women f •"Groups also meet around such issues as: Caklv« Ma (_M 4K1I,1 Oat tta HMMi'a CaHall, Ut These women actively sou^t out the "todatto (DaaoataaaM;) Ualtol tat D^ VKM', *aattt*, to aat Women's Health Centre for these problems be the legal rights of women, twtu Ma, tto f •a Ask for payment for radio and TV appearances (even If you If you are approached to appear: are lnvi;ted to participate in an audience). Your cause needs the *they are probably looking for material to fit In with their money and they can afford it. Usually though, they will be own preconceived ideas. reluctant to pay you for your appearance, unless you are a Big *try to find out who else is appearing on the programme. Name or have a story they really want. Don't let your Insist ence on this point jeopardise getting your view across. What to do in interviews: *l *Ask how many people are appearing and bow long the *Pester the people who made the Item (researcher, report programme/item is. The fewer there are and the longer the er). Also protest to the programme's producer whose name is item the more chance you have to put your point. Work out in the TV/Radio Times. Probably your most effective weapon what you want to say and prepare answers to possible ques is simply to be a bloody nuisance. You won't get anywhere tions. but it may stop it happening again. *Who is chairing the discussion? This is crucial. If you don't *Write to the executives responsible for the programme. like them then don't appear. Make detailed and precise criticism. *Usually you will not be considered "weighty enough" to *Picket,the building. appear in your own right. You will be asked to be part of an *Get in touch with the TV union. Ask for name and tele audience. The producer will probably see your job as produc phone number of the shop steward in the building where the ing a colourful bit of "agro" during the programme. programme was produced. Have a word with him. (f you are in the audience you will have to be very forceful DEALING WITH RADIO to make your point. Tell the researcher of the interviewer exactly what you want to say before you go into the studio. Remember the immediacy of the .media-you dpn't get a *Take your friends with you to back you up. Say that they chance to see the final production before broadcast. are your public relations advisors. *Don't be afraid to walk out. Ring up news desk if you want coverage. *lf the chairman is asking a question.you don't like say so. ^Steer it back to what you want to talk about with lines like, Try to hang your point on a human interest story. "That's an interesting point, but first I'd like to say . . .") *lf the chairman is wrong challenge him firmly and persis PUBLICITY TACTICS tently but politely. Harness your campaign to events in the outside world. If you are misrepresented (This is difficult but try the Stage your protest where the media will be-eg opening of following): GIna FrMclM Page 19 public buildings, conferences, sports events. B. Quality magazines and periodicals Give TV and press something worth photograp'^lng- Some suitable topics for this kind of media are: masks, costumes, placards, props and gestures. *Damage to historical or architectural monuments or places with historical associations. Adjust your presentation to the emphasis of the media at * Loss of wilderness areas. hand. •Pollution, chemical or biological damage to environment danger from fumes, effluent and Industrial waste. A. Popular Press (afternoon papers, eg Telegraph) •Ecology, upsetting the balance of nature, danger to wild life. The little old lady syndrome. The plucky 80-year-old •Councillors motivated by base desires for increased ratt widow who is going to be forced to leave her home after 60 Income of building work for their firm. years. Human pathos, loneliness, vulnerability, dignity, power iessness. C. Television Official suppression. Important facts, documents and re ports concealed by ministry to town hall because they would Television is Interested In directly covering real life stories look silly, or be exposed as incompetent, if they were pub in order to vary the somewhat monotonous texture of their lished. (This goes down well with quality papers as well.) studio programmes dominated by predictably agreeable articu late, conventionally dressed middle class men (and a few Ruggedly independent citizen's stubborn single-handed de women). fiance of officialdom. The farmer who gets the ministry men off his land with a shotgun, the pensioner who surrounds his Therefore, they are well disposed towards such things as: house with barbed wire and puts a Crimean War cannon in the •situations which develop In front of the camera, unre front garden. hearsed happenings where no one knows what is going to happen, interesting contests or trials of strength or attempts to Mothers with small children besiege town hall. set up new records: these have much more appeal than the routine marches vvith banners. Celebrities. Use well knowri figures whenever possible who •Wrinkled old faces, especially If they talk vyell. support your issue. •Eccentrics, in behaviour or dress or both. •Confrontations, eg between the citizen and authority. •Anyone who can talk with real passion and feeling. Enter prising children, especially the younger ones, and especially If they are showing creative skills. PRESS RELEASES Writing the story Don't forget that your story is only one of the many that cross the editor's desk. Make your release easy to read witha bright opening that spells out the basic facts. If you can get the editor or reporter to read the first 50 words, then they are almost certainly "hooked.".. Write short "active" sentences, eg 'The dog vlt the man" NOT'The man was •>'**?n by the dog," Don't use cliches, eg "At this point In time." "Now" is much more positive. It's also shorter. Always "sub edit" your drafts before you type the final verslori. Cut as many words as you can without losing the meaning. Make sure your facts are right. It In doubt, LEAVE ITOUT. Page 20 /MEDM If you are expressing an opinion, put that in quotes, eg Use one or two people as the regular spokespersons as far 'The end of the world will happen next Tuesday," Joe Blow as possible. said. Write your story as an observer. Talk about "the Com mittee" not "we," "our." 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ABQ 2 371 3722 Distribution of releases BTQ7 360111 QTQ 9 36 0088 Find out where the newspaper office is. TVQ 0 221 6688 What's their deadline? Have they got an after hours mailbox? Radio stations-ask for news editor. Give it to all papers at the same time. Don't play favorites. 4QR,.4QG 371 3722 Ring and check that they got your release. 4KQ 52 7555 4BC 31 1311 How to get a story used 4IP 229 3333 4BK 31 1381 Try and form good pelationships with editors or reporters. 4BH 2210111 Find out what their pet likes or dislikes are. 4ZZZ 371 1459 Macquarie Broadcasting 221 0111 Get group members to write "Letters to the Editor.'- Newspapers-ask for the news desk, / Telegraph, Courier-Mail, Sunday Mail, ; Put as much as possible of your story in quotes from a Australian Associated Press 52 6011 spokesperson. Sunday Sun, Australian 52 8050 Semper Floreat 371 1611 . DONT GIVE UP. If your first few releases don't get a Nation Review (02) 9081794 run, keep trying. You get experience and the medja know you are serious. Make sure you will be available on your "further details" phone number. Editors may want to make sure it's not a hoax. Keep your releases short. You can fiJI in details by phone, if necessary. Ken'Ct kuCTi • • Editors and reporters are extremely cynical people worried about libel laws. Your story is always more Important to you than it is to them. Make sure the rest of the group (or at least those people the media might contact) know the release has gone out. . Page 21 EDUCMiON I End- Education Mmister Carrick must have been WhUe there was no reference to tertiary The student demonstrators sensing a chance pleased with his Hrst visit to the haUowed aUowances, funding for tertiary institutions did to iUuminate their point about the inadequacy Queensland University campus. The weather get a mention. of tertiary aUowances, had taped a note to the was quite nice and those rather distasteful stu stone which read "$31 is not enough." To dent demonstrators had almost aU stayed away. Carrick promised a 2 per cent increase in which the Senator repUed with great sympathy, (The 10 that turned up hardly ruffled the good fundmg for the next financial year and perhaps "I agree." Senator's feathers. In fact he seemed to enjoy a Uttle more in the foUowing year. The crowd the diversion.) was not awe-struck by such extravagance, but *With the official ceremonies over, the seemed satisfied the government was doing its assembled masses were free to partake of morn- Carrick's mission w^s indeed a novel one-to best m "difficult tunes." mg tea in the winter sunshme. open a new university buUding: THE NEW $1.3 mUlion ARCHITECTURE AND MUSIC Carrick ended his remarks on tertiary fund Carrick was m an obUging mood and gave an BUILDING to be precise. ing by ticking off that dangerous optimist, interview which foUows.... Zelmo, for his eaiUer remarks about "a bit of A weU scrubbed crowd of about 150 (in fruit on the side" (meaning a bit of extra Q. The maximum tertiary allowance is $31 a cluding Zehno and CoUn Hannah, nunus top pocket money from Malcolm). hat today) was on hand to hear Carrick make week while the poverty line is estimated at the official Opening speech. about $47a,week. How do you expect students "One should always watch what one says," to live on such low allowances? said Carrick (especially when one is talking He began by taUcmg about "osmotic press about money from the Fraser Government). ures," (clearly an attempt for the biology vote). A. Well it's not I that expect it. It's the former government that expects it. The former The rest of the speech was simUarly vagjue, with The speechmakmg over, we aU toddled occasional gems Uke, "the real chaUenge Ues in government did not make any increases in the downstairs for the Official UnveUing of the August Budget. Now I just say this to you. An developing human bemgs" (at $31 a week Foundation Stone. presumably) thrown in to add weight. imijortant thing to understand about the le opening of the Architecture, Musit and Planning Building were Professor Sir Zelman Cowen (left), Senator Carrick (stand ing), ^ir Alan Mansfield, and Professor B.S.Saini {right}. Pag,e22 « PROTEST AGAINST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EDUCATION CUTS DEMAND ^ BETTER TERTIARY EDUCATION ASSISTANCE SCHEME (T.E.A.S.)! STUDENT STRIKE! THURS 29 JULY 10am-3pm ASSEMBLE FORUM AREA 11 am MARCH INTOTOWN. RALLY CITY SQUARE 1 pm AN.AUS EDUCATION CAMPAIGf\' tertiary allowances is that they were meant to and unemployment has meant they can't get talking about the 16,000 second degree stu he supplementary^ They were meant to be jobs. Our task is to do two things, to reduce dents. What about the 8,300 students who supplemented by the ability of students to get inflation and to restore full employment so wanted to get into tertiary institutions this year part time work at Christmas and other times. that value will be put back into the allowances. and couldn't. Haven't they got a case for the money to be saved and used for them. Q. Can students expect an increase in their Q, Well since inflation is likely to continue allowances in the August Budget? for another few years at least do you think it Senator Carrick later met a deputation pf would be wise to index allowances. students led by union president Richard A. I-will make submissions to the federal Spencer. But he was not about to give anything cabinet in the weeks ahead drawing attention A. Viat's something for the future. But I'm away. The general drtft of the conversatioa was, to the disabilities in the allowances, but of hopeful you know that we will be able to bring I sympathise with your position but timps are course I can't foreshadow what cabinet's inflation under control and indexation will be tough and everyone, has to make sacrifices. decision will be. come unnecessary. After all indexation simply perpetuates an inflationary scale. Carrick was reluctant to discuss the specific Qt Are you hopeful that they will be in problems faced by students, preferring to creased? Q. But inflation erodes the real value of all launch into diatribes on the economic prbbleins wages and fixed incomes. So wouldn't it be ofthe nation. , .•'>'• V A lam sympathetic to the problems of stu realistic to preserve their real value through dents but make no predictions on these indexation? He also seemed to be peddling the view that matters at all. increased spending on education and specifical A. The realistic thing to do is to beat the ly increased student aUowances would mean Q. Basically you see the tertiary allowance inflation and to beat the unemployment and to further unemployment. Nonsense of course; as only a supplement and not a student's sole hope in the meantime that we may be able to but an attempt at pacification by outUning the income? make some modification of these in the budget dire consequences of granting sutdents' re ahead. quests. Carrick's statements give students little A It's not as I see it. It was designed as a hope for the future. He doesn't seem to be able supplementary allowance. It was never designed Q. You have reintroduced fees for a second to grasp the problems facing education general to entirely support a student J degree. Why have you made the move and will ly and students in particular. it be extended further? Q. In view of that then would you expect As well he gives the unpression that Fraser that unemployment benefits would be payable A. It certainly will not be extended. Many and Lynch have a mortgage on economic if students cannot get employment? of the second degree students are part time and thought withm cabmet, and he's basicaUy pre almost certainly have jobs. They are people pared to go along with what they say. So A. I fully sympathise with^ them that infla whose industries or governments ought to be tighten belts one notch further. tion has eroded the value of their allowances able to assist them in paying fees. You're just Stephen Velm Page 23 'FRIENDS OF THE FOETUS' ARE ENEMIES OF from properly performed abortion is ahnost zero, but the more repressive the law is, the . higher the percentage of deaths. "In Czechoslovakia, where abortion is'avaU- able on request, the mortaUty rate is between 1 to 4 per 100,000. In Scandmavia where, untU recently, the laws were more restrictive, the mortaUty rate was between 24 and 40 per 100,000. In the USA which generaUy has re strictive legislation (Supreme Court decision 1973 aUeviated this situation) the mortaUty rises to 100 * per 100,000. In Chile, which coinpletely prohibits abortion, the highest mortaUty rate for women of chUd-bearlng age is from Ulegal abortion." (Dr Wainer 1972 figures.) History shows that whenever people are not granted rights by their rulers-they eventuaUy just take them. Women have always found ways to procure abortiohs-and stUl do, despUe the risk and the admonitions from poU ticians and churchmen. The fact that 5000 Queensland women each year have to fly south to have a simple operation means that the law is not granting the rights of women demanded by them. The law is not meeting the needs of the community: the ChUdren by Choice association which provides a counseUing and referral service for women wishing to have an abortion is used by social workers, doctors, academics doing research-and 70 women a week. Yet the law refuses to recognise that women want abortions and wiU get them. Behind the law The law is made by men: poUticians heavily influenced by the church hierarchies. When one talks of the Roman CathoUc Church being opposed to abortion, one is taUcing about the present hierarchy which, in its attempts to con- soUdate its power over Uie reUgious Uves of its foUowers is unfortunately being unable to con trol their private sex and famUy Ufe. Dr Bertram Wainer estimates that CathoUc women, denied access to modern contraception are the largest smgle group seeking abortion. In Queensland it is an "offence against The only contraception the CathoUc Church moraUty" for a woman to have an abortion: U aUows is the one that doesn't work: the is punishable by seven years penal servitude "rhythm method." So, many practising Cathol with hard labour for a woman to choose that ics have large famiUes: but by the fifth or sixth she wiU not bear a chUd, and 14 years for the chUd, CathoUc women, understandably, have abortionist. ThiS'law is supposedly based on the had enough. Aftet aU, it is the 20th century, "sancity of Ufe," yet it creates psychological and science makes it possible for most chUdren suffering, fmancial hardship and DEATH to.8urvive-how many faraiUes, even in The wherever it is stricUy enforced. Queensland Lucky Country, caii afford to rear sbc chUdren women are relatively lucky-if they can afford in comfort? to go to Sydney they may be able to termmate their pregnancy in relatively clean, safe condi> The "Right to Life" 'f- tions and bUl it to Medibank. The mortaUty The CathoUc Cliurch's position on abortion Page24 has fluctuated over the centuries; from saying by Radha Rouse WOMEN & CHILDREN in 1140 that U is okay before the soul enters Change a free and pluraUstic society; every person must the body, to 1588 when Pope Sbctus V announ be free to make this private decision." ced that aU abortion was murder, to 1591 when The demands for women to have control Pope Gregory XVI reversed this, to 1869 when over their own bodies are being taken up aU The right to choose Pope Pius IX decreed for the first time that the over the world-the fight for abortion on foetus is human from the moment of concep demand*, has exploded within the laity of the And that is how people are increasingly be tion. Pope Paul VI declared in 1972 that every CathoUc faith. CochaUperson of a coition of ginning to see the issue of abortion: not as pregnancy must be brought to term even when Catholic women's organisations, Patricia Brown something which every woman must have, to U is known in advance that a bkth wiU cost a said in 1972, "The bishops are undefestimatmg quaUfy as a "women's Ubber" (which is how woman her Ufe. the intensity of CathoUc women.s feeUng be the Right to Life present feminist viewpoints) cause they regard women as a threat. The nor as somethmg that a minority of rich and This 20th century barbarism was declared in authorUy ofthe Church rests on an anti-woman powerful churchmen can prevent aU women the name of the sanctity of life! Are we to • basis...." from havmg whatever their reU^on, but as a assume that the CathoUc Church respects the fundamental DEMOCRATIC right of choice. potential Ufe of a thimbleful of tissue more A nationwide group m the USA caUed Not everyone favours abortion but most people than the actual Ufe of a fuUy grown woman "Roman CathoUcs for the Right to Choose" favour reUgious freedom. People who don't with a famUy, a history, responsibUities etc? Of have stated, "our church should not attempt to share the CathoUc beUef that the conceptus is course the Church insists on calUng the foetus use civU law to hnpose its moral phUosophy the same as a chUd should not be forced by law at any stage an "unborn child" despite the upon our non-CathoUc neighbors. We beUeve in to obey someone else's reUgion. expression's scientific inaccuracy. hi that case, there are an awful lot of "deaths": approximately one in two pregnan 1/ MVs-ELF cies resiUt in spontaneous abortions (miscar riages). "According to CathoUc dogma, souls which are not baptised do not go to heaven but to limbo, CJod would appear to have a fahly cavaUer attitude to the souls who have spon taneously aborted. It is also fascinating to HAVe: m speculate on the sequence of events with uni ovular twms. Do they receive two souls at the time of conception-or is an exception made here and another soul infused after the chance SpUtting of ceU mto separate entUies? Or per haps there is room in heaven for half souls. The absurdity becomes more apparent when this is extended to identical quins and the possi- bUity of a person with' one-fifth of a soul or one ceU having to bear the over-population of five souls at the time of conception." (Bertram Warner "It Ish't Nice") The politics of abortion The point is that the CathoUc Church de cides when a foetus has a soul and changes its mind when it wants to; scientists generaUy talk about a foetus bemg a potential human being when it is "viable" ie can survive outside the mother's womb (about eight months); poU ticians change their opinions depending on which electorate they're speaking in-ui fact everyone "decides" when abortion is a good thing except the woman herself. And tiiis is understandable given the power base whiph is held by men m this society-the right to abortion docs lead to further Uberation for women. Obviously once women can control their biology, their own bodies, they can parti cipate equdly with men in aU fields. Men naturaUy feel threatened by gains made by women in increashig thek power-even if it is Page 25 only over their own bodies. rough beast extracts The final part of a three part story. The first two extracts appeared in previous issues of Semper. The place the Undergraduate Library. The players Clausewitz is the narrator's friend and work- mate, Tinkerbelle Is his superior-unwitting target of his ambitions and desire. Little Dove is his and Clausewitz's assistant- her innocence is questioned, if not question able. The plot a cry In the dark, which is the individual's attempt to forget his own mortality, the search for maturity in a society which values John Woodbury only adolescence. We betray ourselves daily. Clausewitz doesn't love Miss A, but his body needs her; the tangled web of desire and defeat has already made him wonder about a way out. No wonder his 11 kidneys are crumbling. Novv..he'll have to accept her excuses through me, and take the humiliation out later with flagon red. The long dark night ticked into echoing spaces. The sad cavern of the ground floor, like a deserted railway station, col My name appears suddenly In the air like molten lead. lected dust motes on the varnished catalogue and scuffed Little Dove has called, about a problem. She looks up from her shelving. The rustle of cards was unnaturally loud as Little work with a changed awareness, realising for the first time that DoVe sorted and filed. With the'other three at tea we were her small, tight dress has cpated us man and woman. alone together, carefully avoiding each other's eyes. Mmm yes, what is It? The phone rang, splashing a cold bucketful of sound. Look at these two running numbers. And the card here-the Hello: Undergraduate Library. call number. . . I can't see them. Leaning over her shoulder, Oh, hello. It is you! Look, about tomorrow- my eyes have been trapped between her breasts, overcome by the lungs that move them. I'm unaware of the alien voice No it's not me. Or at least, it is me but he's not here. Gone tinkling like ize over the precipice of knowledge. The wind in lonely trees, crackle of snow underfoot-l tremble, knowing to tea. Back in, oh, ten minutes. Can I take— ? that to touch would be fatal. ph it's alright. Will you just tell him,. , I scribbled on the Suddenly I was sick of it all. Of my desires that let me message pad, barely conscious of the worn pathetic excuses; down, of my lust that leads me on, of my work and ambition thinking more of the way his face vrauld collapse. The sudden and cynicism. Can we none of us live in peace? Why do we pain inside, the mechanical smite, the same-old-woman-trouble willingly surrender to poor brutish motives? joke which tried hard to paper over the cracks. I love you, it hurts me to see you hit like this, can't you do something? His lips will tremble with a wry grin. My eyes will fall In useless apology, and I will have to end the silence sornehow. Okay, will do. Thanks, Goodnight. No point In innuendo, the world is rotten and pfbmise'dust. Even if he. screwed her, even if Little Dove kissed me, if Goodbye clunk. Her big brown eyes had already inspected Tinker-belle shattered and I took her away~it would only last me, assessed the strength of our friendship, and set up their a day and a night. Then we'd have to go-through It all over defences. I didn't try to hide the hostility in my voice, pagg 25 again. Oh Christ! What did they see? 12 That's far enough, I thought. I spoke her name, very softly, as I had on that night. It stopped her dead. By then Aunt Effie was beginning to let me down, I wasn't sure I could handle the I arrived at work cold, brilliant and scintillating; ephedrlne high-pressure stuff much longer. Besides, my brain was ragged being a really crisp scene. She'd beaten me to the draw, and and raw-edged, and I was afraid. Atone, down, sore-blooded, I was already shuffling pencils with machismo. Jacques Louissier might fall back into love: and that wasn't on the programme, beat a riffle in my blood, and I countered by being epigram •- ' • I 1 * matic and cool. He who waits longest laughs last. Powerbaby couldn't beat about the desk for ever, she hadn't trained for it. I parried a few questions about the exit- control roster, and needled her by blaming God for the short fall In xerox production. Her simplistic answer was to jet out of the office and strafe the Rude Young Man for a minor balls- up in the procedure of opening up the library. She couldn't, come back to the office because she'd just screwed herself: the procedure had been unofficially modified because the paper version wouldn't work. Brute shop-floor experience Ha ha! Oh baby, little ripper! Shit, you should have been versus professional management training. there. While she was upstairs cooling off in the quartos I photo Mm, what? The hell are you talklng- copied her notes for the senior staff meeting and gave them to Clausewitz. The senior staff meeting, better known as Kung-Fu for the Under-Fives, Zap, pow, wallop Ferdy! The phone had a sudden fit (by now I was feeling a bit machismo myself, and my blood was rioting in the streets) so You Schlegelled her? I picked it up and answered in pure crypto-fascist tones. Oh man, right between the legs! From now on, lover, hands Undergraduate Library. off the other groups. Got any lists for me to do, ha ha? Hullo, Is that-uh, can I speak to the Readers' Adviser who Shit, fair dinkum? Oh, you beauty, I never thought he'd get handles my subjects (1 recognised his voice at once)? It across, but It's obviously to the death-must've really laid it on the line. Poor little rosebud! Hey, here she comes, you I'm afraid she's not available at the moment, it's her assist better shoot through. See ya. ant speaking. Can I help you, or do you want... He was gone before she noticed, and I moled into a heap of No, no, it's only a little thing-look, what I wanted to ask new restriction cards. My heart exploded every second, is. . . So I did what he asked, told him the right answers, echoing the waves detonating on the black reef. I was drench promised the miaterial, and he nearly blew his brain In grati ed with salt spray. tude. I mean, last time he rang up he had to listen to thirty minutes of the Mark I Speech on the loan system. She was suddenly THERE, a harsh cruel rough and gleam ing lump of anthracite-rock, immutable, hard, powerful, Tinker-belle returned to the runway trailing smoke, barely afire, bitter, angry . . . wilting, defenceless, a woman, a girt, above stalling speed. So I knocked her out ofthe sky with the unhappy, lost, alone. In pain. She's dead and we've killed her,- phone story, ignored the critical diatribe and Informed her I've killed her; necrophillad. The final victim of her own blast that death begins at birth. She would have liked to skin me off, down like the stick. alive, but settled Instead for stifled tears. It nearly worked, too. Behind those mist-grey eyes tears brimmed, the words jammed In my throat, I couldn't fire, l grabbed the first list I You weren't so dogmatic last Saturday night. (I had to get could reach, took a pen, fled from the office and flogged my back somehow) shame among the xerox shelves. Zap pow wallop. . What? . . . She whirled round in her chair, rage mounting in When I came back I was harsh, rock-wilting. She had 'her face, and realised we could not be overheard. That - I - recovered and her desk was tidy. The curve of her back betray you planned it alt... ed her-the clean cold despairing curve of an empty seashell. I couldn't hold back, though it meant admitting my complicity. I did nothing of the sort I You were a willing accomplice, all said and done, and you were less drunk than anyone else. Coming to tea? She must know anyway, but vkrfiat can she do. No tears now: dry-eyed hatred or cool fatalism? l-er-we shouldn't allow personal feelings to interfere with our work. I suppose we both knew- Sure. Okay. Never more graceful in every gesture! . I don't hold anything against you (would she fall for that?) The others had already gone across, and we had a table to and there's no blame attached. Nobody here has mentioned it. ourselves. Her reputation splintered, her power base evaporat- ed, her position weakening-transfer in three months. Victory. It was hard work all the way: we hated ourselves for this need, and took ail night to find each other. I remember her You must ... Um ... I suppose the grapevine told you calling out. what happened at- Help me, I'm lost, frightened, don't leave me! - * Yes, Our voices low, the others leaving-a corner table for two, I couldn't understand the gentleness in my voice. Had f I won't leave you, darling. Here, come close, I'm with you. spared her before? Never entered my head. Yes. I'm-look, I'm Just relax, I won't go, I couldn't leave you-oh my love, don't not sorry-l did tell you. What if our group had been cry I Hold me, hold me tight! that's it, dear sweet flesh... poached-would you have stood for It? Her waist slid inside my embrace and gave pardon, and it No, No, probably not. Oh Christ, don't cry, please, not hurt the more that I was not crucified. here, officially. Her thin smile stabbed deep. Look, I .. . darling. Please-I found my hand had reached She had failed in defence against us, and I, cruellest of all, and taken hiers, and it stopped me dead. Heart, breath, brain, had dragged her behind my chariot in chains of double speech. Our eyes... j )^[ - ^\ j [ entendre; now we were each other, and I knew it all. What time is it? Five (she should have died hereafter! Time after truth and purgatory, when heaven and hell are revealed as one; time when God and Devil prove two fists aiming a single blow. Time after body, when only tears can speak and our lips have but one word) thirty. I love you. Don't cry any more. I love you, John. Come closer... tn the liquid light of the early morning, each tiny shape 15 took on a clear volume-like grains of gravel in a goldfish bowl. The third CorxcierXo Grosso cracked in by blood like a whip, Each rumple of sheet as tangible as marble, and the grew dawn tumbling in mad laughter through the spaces of my mind. The glowing like vibrant water on her tiny smiling lips. Oh Christ back of her head sent the glorious chords echoing afresh, like , what have we done? cool clear mountain water singing on worn grey stones. I • looked at the cards in front of me again, but they made no Her eyes opened, sky-grey and sleepy. sense. What time is it? I'm going upstairs. Not a hint in the words, but her eyes gave me understanding. The fourth floor, (her voice a whisper) ... Five thirty. I took her in my arms, put her head against my heart. Suddenly we were both crying, the pain just too Yes, great to bear. I let It drain. Then I kissed., away the tears as they ran down her cheeks. That was, if you like, a gesture of As she left, Clausewitz rolled In, his eyes alight. my humiliation. Hey buddy, heard the drum? I made coffee and put on the sixth Brandenburg. The sun came, filling the room with a light tike the inside of a pink No mate, what gives in the backwaters? Not that I can't rose and Bach shot the air with a gentle irony I'd riever heard guess... before. I took her In my arms again, and we kissed life into the day like guiltless newlyweds, First her sheets, then her arms, You're the chicken's liver, no mistake. That's It-the word then anywhere-desperate to alloy our loneliness in that act is, she's out. It's over. Do you read me? which, always the same, is ever new. Yeah, it's coot. It's-um, hard to believe. I, er... oh shit. It wasn't a iime for words; there were smiles enough, but something other than free happiness. No frowsy domestic You what? screw in an empty college room-cigarette ash, dirty washing, sticky glasses of an uneasy privacy; more complicated, I mean, not with a bang but a whimper. Oh fuck, it's all frightened, desperate, alone, denied arid tortured-self aban -so antlclimactic. Right. Back to real work, eh? I screwed up a doned to the naked truth of need. Page 28 smile; apparently it worked, because he smiled back. Cont obO SPORT the great Olympic con According to the myths, the Olympics are supposed to take place in a small the 1936 Olympics did enhance Hitler's image. world of their own, above the nationalism and racism of the world at large and completely divorced from poUtics. The Olympics are supposed to be a place where Playthings of government athletes from around the globe come together to promote international peace and The Olympics went on bemg used for reac understanding. tionary political purposes. But their whole history and the events around the 1976 Olympics tell a different The 1952 Olympics were used by the story. The Olympic games throughout their history have been rocked and shaped United States to extend the "cold war" against by world poUtics, and have reflected the corruption, racism, sexism, and national the Soviet Union into sports. In the 1960 Rome ism of capitaUst society. Olympics, the People's RepubUc of China had to march under the flag of Taiwan because of an International Olympic committee rulmg. Transcendental sports? Just before reachmg the reviewing stand the leader of the delegation whipped out a placard The modern Olympics were founded by saying'*Under Protest!" Baron de Couihetin. Despite his pacUist cant, the Baron's original purpose was to prepare In 1968 the International Olympic Commit French youth for the next war against Ger tee (IOC) reinstated South Africa. Only after a many. He saw international sports as a way to storm of protest and when 40 countries threat- reinyigorate young Frenchmen by shaming enet to boycott the Olympics did the IOC them with the spectacle of superior athletes reverse its decision. from other countries. Their increased athletic abiUties couJd then be put to good mUitary use. At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics some Black American athletes wore black socks to The 1908 Olympics at Shepherd's Bush in protest racist discrimination in the United London became known as the "Battle of States. Two of them, John Carlos and Tommie Shepherd's Bush" because of the deluge of pro Smith, gave the clenched fist salute as they tests from foreign competUors. The national received their medals and refused to look at the oppression of the Finns by the Russians and the flag when the Star Spangled Banner was played. Irish by Britain was endorsed by the Olympic They were suspended from the team by the US organising committee. Olympic committee. The Finns were ordered to carry the Russian The Olympics also have a history of sexism flag or none at aU. DespUe their protests, Irish as weU as racism. Of course in the ancient athletes were told to compete under the British Olympics women were banned altogether. banner. Thus, Irish victories would bolster the Times have changed somewhat-women now athletic prestige of Britain, which ruled Ireland participate in the events. But discrimination as a colony. continues. In the 1968 Olympics, there were 4362 officials in sports Uke swimming and But the worst example of the Olympics gymnastics. Only 125 were women. fostering racism and national chauvinism was But the utter falsity of that was revealed in the 1936 BerUn Olympics. In his book, The the 1936 Olympics, Adolf Hitler was instaUed Olympic athletes have become playthmgs Nazi Olympics, Richard D. MandeU wrote that as the "patron" ofthe games! for governments and big business. Blacks in US "the intention of the Olympic festival's direct teams have been used to camouflage America's racism at home. Other countries have sacri ors had been to convince the critics of the On the first day, Hitler congratulated Olym* National SociaUsts [Nazis] that the new ficed athletes on the altar of national chauvin pic victors. But when Cornelius Johnson, a ism. Hungarian and Polish coaches fed male Germans were working hard, playing hard, and Black American, won the high jump. Hitler were wholeheartedly devoted to peace." • hormones to young women to give them the hastily left the stadium. The official explana- smews for victory. In the 1960 Olympics, the Uon was that it was late and looked like rain. The American Federation of Labor, Cathol Danish cycUsts were given drugs to intensify But to avoid pubUc embarrassment, Hitler blood circulation. Two coUapsed and another ic and Protestant churches, and many leading received athletes m private after that. newspapers demanded the withdrawal of the died. US Olympic Committee and the Amateur Wlien the famous Black athlete Jesse Owens Athletic Union from the 1936 games to protest stepped forward to receive his third medal and Corporations have bribed athletes to use Nazi persecution of the Jews. But by backing the crowd gave him a standing ovation, Hitler their equipment. In the 1968 Olympics, a mem the executive, the president ofthe US Olympics had to flee the stadium once more. Owens's ber of the US Olympics committee leaked the committee, Avery Brundage, pushed through a feats were a stunning refutation of the Nazis' news that some American athletes were bemg* motion supporting the BerUn Olympics. He racist theories. investigated for acceptmg money from equip claimed that "sport transcends aU poUtical and ment manufacturers to use their products. Two racial situations." Nevertheless, the victories by German of them reportedly received $7,500 each, whUe athletes and the huge Nazi propaganda job at Page 29 (Continued on Page 30) SPORT the physical organism for play, in relief, in joy Continued from page 29 ful activity without object. Jn the light of what |^'il^ anolher had $1,400 deposUed in the Olympic'^as happened to organised sport m the middle ' - ViUage bank. Among the athletes were gold decades of the 20th century, these philosophi medal winners. cal declarations of sports' purposelessness of the pleasures given to its participants become The whole distinction made by the Olym subjects for mocking bitter laughter." pics between amateurs and professionals is a fraud. Many of those entermg are, in fact, full- To purge the Olympics of some of its Ume"atSs,"sub7dTseTb7goVri;.^^^^^^^^^ Zfu't''' ^f^^^'T^'!u ^^'' ^"P^V'?'' the rich who ' can afford not to work wlto enter rites be removed, and that the victory cclcbra the Olympics. nationations, lwit anthemsh theh, beinappropriat eliminated, e clanging o , Other talented athletes may face huge finan "Anthems, flags, point systems, ranked cial obstacles. Holding a regular job would rule victory platforms i medals (and especiaUy them out of competition through lack of train- national totals) have played roles that are more mg time. dangerous than irrelant. The world would be better off-if Olympics centred on the athletes Dangerous and irrelevant and the sportmg contests rather than on collec tives that have only the weakest ties with MandeU's concluding comments m r/ie A'ffz/ sport's outstandmg personages and teams." Olympics arc a filling statement on the state of Olympic sports. But to create Olympic games devoid of na- j^ tional chauvinism, sexism, corruption, and •The deep thinkers about the nature of racism is impossible as long as society fosters sport have seen its uUimate basis in the need of such evUs. For even sports inevitably reflect the values and orientation of the society that spon sors them. ,, .. y-, x- Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Olympic games in Katie Curtin Germany. Nazi government used games to Reprinted from Young SociaUst buUd presige among its critics. ROUGH BEAST Continued from page 28 Yeah. See you at tea. The way he eased out; that too was wrecking your make-up. 0 love, my love. Will they give you an anticlimax, as If surprise had silenced his triumph. I picked leave? up the pile of restriction cards and slipped quietly out to the stairs. Yes, Two weeks. After that-l don't know; I suppose-oh hold me, hold me! Her voice shook, but her courage hid the I reached the fourth floor like the peak of a trip, heart tears, and kept the cracks from showing. Oh John, what have thudding; deserted desks were crowded with the shouting we done? So many mQnths without knowing-and then, that silence. The music was bubbling in my veins, I was beginning it should end like this! to get the bends. Alright. Do I not bleed? You^feel it now, and strongest. She was waiting by the windows, in a little corner screened But the rest of us, though it doesn't show, the seed is there, from the rest of the floor. Her back!it hair floated in the sun; the knowledge of it. as she turned to face me, it flew out in a tracery of fire. Oh darling! Her hands reached out. No more. Stop. She placed her finger on my lips, and I kissed them. A token of understanding. This must be- BuJ Coretll-I could hardly hear her voice, the chords rained brilliantly about my shoulders. Hush now, don't say it. Let Barabbas speak the word he must. And the word is. goodbye. Damn Corelli! And no further speech, our lips locked silent, sealed by tears; our bodies clung blindly together. She was so Her eyes raked my face, but her tongue was still. tiny in my arms. I'll never ask forgiveness-it's enough that we know and Love, listen to me. You know l~her voice caught, and understand. Now I was having trouble controlling my voice. plunged on-l was over at Central this morning. Darling, one last time. I know, I know, hush darling . .. what it's all about. What And It seemed like forever, that crush of emotion. The you're going to say. world was still, the music silent, the sun warm upon bare skin. He said .;. he wants ... Goodbuy, love. Shall we go down now? And It was hard, I They'll accept your application for a transfer and give it tell you, for us to stop reaching out to hold hands, as bur immediate consideration-l know. My sweet one, don't-it's dragging feet descended one by one the steps into the pit. fiscate land fron^ the Palestinians. While ,. South Africa denies Blacks Israel has set up a system of "qualified eligi bility," which leaves most Israeli Arabs in limbo as non-citizens. While South Africa restricts the rights'of Blacks to travel and to hold meetings, Israel has a series of similar regulations directed at the Arabs. The "military and Emergency Laws," for example, severely restrict the rights of Israeli Arabs to freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of travel, and the right to own land. « mar^^^.^. Israeli settlement of occupied lands Since the 1967 war of expansion, Israel has established 68 settlements ui the occupied tcrrhories-the Golan Heights, the West Bank and the Sinai-Oaza Strip area. Immediately . • South African^ after the 1967 war, Israel told the world that it IPrime Minister John would maintain the territories as buffer zones IVortter sits down with^ SPrime Minister Yitzhaji against Arab attack. On AprU 19 and 20 this 'Rabin before the at year, 20,000 Zionists demonstrated to demand of their woriting June the annexation of the West Bank. But Premier Vorster's visit con* alter relatione between^ Rabin convinced the demonstrators that the the two netlons have best way to proceed was to establish settle been strengthened in TffiS SEEN recent years, as the ments under government control, at least for nations became in the immediate future. creasingly isolated In Internationai potiiics. (UPl The May 9 meeting of the Israeli cabinet ITH STH indicated that the settlements in these areas, which include 1.1 mUlion Palestinians, would "range from small agricultural vUlages to industrial towns." The May 10 issue of AFRICA? an Israeli daUy, quoted an address by Moshc JERUSALEM. (UW): SOUIJ AlrioM PgWlfti^tor John Dayan to Haifa High School seniors as follows: Vontw. who was itrtwned dMtm World War tf%r •xprMS- Ing pro-German aympatWM, on FrWay vWted the Yad "The establishment of Israel was funda s^ltmn memorial to^MlHion Jews slain by the Nazi re- mentally at the expense of the Arabs. There is no escaping fhis fact. In most instances Jewish settlers replaced Arab settlers. At time we bought lands; we acquired a lot more as a result THE APARTHEID ofthe 1948 war." It aU fits the same pattern of conquest. It is against this that Palestinians on the West Bank protested with the March 30 general CONNECTION strike. Dr Israel Shahak, chairman of the Israel League for Human and CivU Rights, has Be uprising of Africans which began at Scweto in South Africa on June 16, and explained the origm of the strike. the general strike of Palestinians and other Arabs in the West Bank region of occupied Palestine in May are directly parallel. Wliai each event represents is the "Certain events acted as a catalyst, but what reaUy brought the situation to boUing pomt was struggle of people similarly oppressed by racist colonial settler regimes, to end that a growing perception of the nature of permen- oppression. Tlie reason that Israel supports the South ant Jewish colonisation, of the fact that Israel African regime with such warmth is that it intends to keep the West Bank forever. The •Those who still make excuses lor tlie savage operates a simUar system of apartheid within its continuing occupation has destroyed more than minority rule of the wliitc population in South own borders, excluding the native Palestinian the nature of Palestinian society m the oc Africa, and its constitutional Apartheid, are population still resident there from all basic cupied territory. It has proletarianised the few and isolated. Even the l)SA through Henry civil rights. • Palestinian people-it is changing them more Kissinger has indicated that it cannot cover up and more mto a society that is akin to slave much longer for the racist Pretoria regime WhUe South Africa segregated Blacks into society, without national character and with headed by John Vorster. One of those isolated the poverty stricken Bantu states, Israel drove out even a human character, bound m permen- few, however who do still support Vorster, is mUlions of Palestinians into refugee camps m ant oppression. WeU, any people would revolt . Viezhuk Rabin, on behalf of the Israeli Govern Jordan, Leljanon and Syria. Other Palestinians agamst this." ment. This, is .what lies behind Prime Minister live segregated witliin ihc ghettos m Israel. Vorster's "red carpet" official visit to Israel in April this year. While South Africa forbids Blacks to own land, Israel used the "absentee, laws" to con Page 31 (Continued on Page 33) Araad safety course designed to hap get you throu^ to sraouation. Unfortunately, tertiary education If you would like more information does not grant you immunity from road about the Queensland Road Safety accidents. However, we can offer you Council's 1976 Road Skfety Courses, To:-The Secretary, . 'cram courses' to help keep you and your mail the coupon or phone us on 52 8411. Queensland Road Safety Council, car In one piece... at least until P.O. Box 817, graduation. "I strongly urge alt Brisbane 0. 4001. 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COUNQL I976ROAD SAFETYCOURSES THE DEFENSIVE THE LEARNER page32D|uy|||GCOURSE DRIVERCQURSE Pasadonna STH. AFRICA & ISRAEL cont'd The reaction of the Israeli regime was ment. This military aid has assisted the Vorster murderous. A May 3 demonstration against the regime in its attacks on the Black liberation West Bank settlements was banned. The con Coffee frontation around these activities resulted in movement. the death of a number of Palestinians. Among those killed by Israeli soldiers were Zayid Taher The lessons of Soweto and the West Bank Lounge Ajba, a 55-year-o2d amputee who got about on are dear and similar: the oppressed people will crutches and had poor eyesight; Jamil Arafat no longer tolerate the persecution of racist in Hanis el-Joum, 6 years old, deliberately shot; colonial powers. The tables have turned for INDOOftdOlftLY Lena Hassan Nablus, a 17-year-old woman both South Africa and Israel. Both have lost S AND COLD shot dead while entering a friend's second floor credibility in the eyes of the world. The Apart apartment half an hour after a May 16 demon heid connection has been cemented by their DRINKS. SNAOCI common demise. fit LIGHT MGKU stration had ended; Mahmoud Kurd in Jerusal em who got three bullets in the head for throw ing stones. There are more such cases. Since 1967 Mideast war Israel has set up 68 rtffu ^% "The solution is," said Menachem Begin, an Israeli politician, "our soldiers should not be settlements (shown by dots) in occupied stoned." territories. Rabin regime has now given go- Opiii6iil|^i«Mik ahead for "several dozen" more. The Seweto massacre (CLOSED TUESDAY) Yediot Aharanot is one of Israel's leading On June 16, more than 10,000 Black students dailies. Its November 14, 1975 issue carried an and youth from Soweto demonstrated in sup article by Aharon Shamir^ on the United port of a student strike in one school district Nations vote to describe Zionism as a form of toowong which was protesting the policy of imposing racism. the Africaans language in Black schools. Afri- Speaking of those who "slander Zionism," caans is the language of the colonial Dutch Shamir said: "They have no reason to be coin-op settler population. But it was really just the ashamed of the fact that they have come down spark that lit the resentment building up among' from the trees. On the contrary. But nations, Black people. like individuals, begin their development in. the laundrette kindergarten, then in school and university. The Vorster regime killed 100 of the pro Just as it would be scandalous for the rector of 8 Sherwood Road testers, injured 1,000 and subsequently arrested a university to be appointed from among recent (Next Goodes Cakes) 1,300 Black activists. Why? Because they, like kindergarten graduates, it is even more scandal their Palestinian counterparts had chosen to ous when nations which have only just come * Self Service or Bag Wash done throw stones at the advancing racist army. down froni the' trees regard themselves as leaders of the world." * Concession Rate to Students While South Africa's ruling racists claim that oii Service Wash Soweto and the other townships circling According to Shamir, *'Those who raised Johannesburg are showcases of how good things * Dry Qeaning/Shoe Repair their hands [in favor of the UN resolution] - are for Black South Africans, even US Assistant especially the African states-have shown their * Mending & Ironing Service Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, stupidity, .. ." The vote, he argues, must have H.R. Crawford, has called them "modified been "the result of pressure from tHe Muslim * Open 7 day^ a week concentration camps." Arab states. For have primitives a mind of their Attendant present own?" As Prime Minister John Vorster has said: Sam- 12.30pm Mon-Frj "We view Israel's position and problems with Shamir concludes that Israel lost the UN understanding and sympathy." And his govern vote on Zionism because "poor Israel tried to ment has :hown its sympathy in material terms. give the primitive Africans something better RECORDS, CASETTES During each of Israel's wars of expansion- than money; help in acquiring knowledge so as 1948, 1967 and 1973-the South African to bring them nearer, if possible, to the civilised and regime has provided Israel with valuable mili and progressive worid." BARGAIN OFFERS tary aid. In 1948 South Africa provided planes and sent pilots to serve with the Israeli airforce. This ultra-right bigot even had a theory of Next to the USA, South Africa provided the the master race. "The blow we received in the Israeli anny with its largest contingent of UN should not make us think again about our volunteers. Jewish-Zionist essence. It should only increase direct from the U.K. by efficient . our national pride and our absolute determina mail order service. Wide repertoire, In 1967 South Africa rushed volunteers to tion to establish our rule in our fatherland; It Israel who served in both civilian and military should also persuade us again that we are not all outstanding value. Send for FREE capacities. In the October 1973 war, South 40 page catalogue, now. similar to others and this is why our image Africa supplied Israel with tanks for use against suffers more than that of others." the Arabs. Jo Jo*s Records Of course, Yitzhak Rabin and the other 60 Adams Street Israel has also helped to strengthen South leaders of the Zionist state would never openly Africa's military Arsenal. Tliey have sent miU- make such racist declarations. They only role Bintungham B7 4AG taiy experts to train South African troops in Ens^d out the red carpet for the world's most notori counter-insurgency techniques. They have pro- ous white racist. vided South Africa with modem airforce equip Page 33 »*«t« Ann«ar IMAGINATION SHOWS HOW • / The transport problems at Queensland University are getting beyond a joke. areas of Toowong beyond Mogill Road, At present these areas are only served by irregular Every morning Schonell Drive is one long faltering stream of cars. A third of the buses to town. Initially this bus would have to campus is taken up with car parks, everywhere one goes there are cars, cars and be introduced off peak due to the shortage of more cars. Yet there are no effective jdternatives provided. The bus service is buses. This route should be introduced on the irregular and doesn*t serve the areas where people live. Ferries involve a longish same "subsidy against loss" basis that Griffith University and the shoppingtowns get their Walk both ends and hitching can be slow. cross country buses. In fact the committee believes that well advertised this service should Despite the fact that the university land The Union Transport Committee has pre be profitable from the outset. scape master plan adopts the concept of a "car pared a plan for solvmg these problems. By tak free campus" plans for a new multistory car ing a look at how other universities cope the *A free circulating minibus service. The 620. park behind the sports union are well advanced. committee has come up with a series of propos acre site of the St Lucia campus has a daily This car park wil cost over $1.8 million but als that are both relatively low cost and easy to population of 20,000 and is effectively a small will only fit 400 cars which means 600 people implement. Included amongst the proposals township. Due to the way facilities are distri out of 13,000 will benefit. Furthermore, it will are: buted and the distances involved there is a need be built on Oval No 4 thereby reducing the for an internal public transport system. ANU in small amount of recreation space available at *The introduction of a new bus service Canberra and many overseas campuses have uni. Other car parks are planned throughout the serving the areas where niost students live, already introduced free mini buses to serve green belt. Swann Road, Indooroopilly, Taringa and the this role. The route advocated by the transport Wccffail Page 34 committee is a figure eight connecting the ^Introduction of a preferential parking sys campus, the two ferries, St Lucia Village and tem for cars with more than two occupants. the car parks in Schonell Drive. Hb Pw I ^ forGIBLS! *A co-ordinated car pooling scheme. Providing a free bus from the car parks up to the Union and academic areas will make it •Measures to encourage hitchhiking and reasonable to park in Schonell Drive and ride make it safer. the rest of the way. At the moment hundreds THE POURR of cars are illegally parked on campus whilst •Abolition of the SI fare for bicycles on the more distant car parks are only half full. trains. TOOWOW A demonstration run of the bus will take An important overall finding was that there place on Friday July 30, When you see it feel is a definite need for a proper study to be made free to jump aboard, of how to integrate all these proposals to fill TWEEDS '""UYs the needs of the future. The only transport THE FASHION CENTRE OF TOOWOMG •The development of facilities for cycling, study done for the campus was the 1971 Wilbur SHERWOOD HOUSE ARCADE safe parking, bikepaths both on campus and to Smith Traffic Circulation study. Wilbur Smith the city. CycUng is the most efficient form of are world famous as freeway planners (the word 39 SHERWOOD ROAO transport and one of the most satisfying. At a should be notorious) and all they did was TOOWONG place like the University bicycles can have an choose six sites for multistory car parks. A new important role to play in filling people's trans study could put each of the modes of transport port needs. in the proper place and then perhaps we might get something like what is envisaged m the land Other proposals by the transport committee scape masterplan "a pleasant environment free FOR ALL include operating a second ferry at Dutton Park of cars." to ease congestion and extending the hours of ^Q STUDENTS ferry operation. Andrew Herington '•— «*Vr, *mtttm> mw'.-j^JLm. The Union Transport Committee will be holding a trial demonstration of its proposed free mini bus service It will be operating from 11 am on Thursday August 5, it wUI be operating on the figure eight route connecting the Union, academic areas, the two ferries and St Lucia Village. All students are invited to make use of it. The bus will stop whenever it is hailed from the kerb. The more people who use it, the more likely it is that the administration will introduce a mini bus permanently. Page 35 ALE SALE SALES A SON Y-BELOW COST!! Cassette/am, fm radio CF130 $60.00 casette/am.sw radio CFI 50 $80.00 stereo cassette deck and speakers in case TCI 26CS $190.00 stereo cassette deck and speakers TCI 33CS $190.00 portable cassette player fc 115 $60.00 AWA car radio $33,00 Transistor radio $15.00 National AM/FM transistor $20.00 GOOD SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROIVI AT BELOW NORMAL RETAIL PRICE IF THE RECORD IS NOT IN STOCK, WE WILL ENDEAVOUR TO ORDER IT FOR YOU. UNION AGENCY [TiSKsssaBcsaB^ w&m^EamiMn^:^f_u STATE POLITICS LABOR TRIES AGAIN Mr Kinnane has> had 25 statements or How do you organise an election campaign? advertisements published in the "Village News" since about June 1975. The most recent issue Well, the Labor Party sure knows how! It might not win too many elections, but carries another statement on the front page. it can run one heck of a campaign. - It would appear that the State Labor Party is as prepared now as it was for the Federal Already, with about \2 months to go until the next State Election is due, the election of 1972. candidates have been endorsed, the campaign committee office bearers have been elected, appointed or otherwise presented with their robes of office, and the "The party has suffered two dramatic set machinery is crunching into gear. backs in the last couple of years. The only way livc. and Director of the Labor College, He is up, and maybe if we put enough effort into recently retired iis State President of Young it we might just have the momentum to go over Most committees have already had their Labor. the top and into Government," said Mr North. first one or two meetings. They have planned the course of the campaign right up to \\\v 1 a.vkcd him what can be done with such a With the unexpected success in New South election-night celebrations. The budgets have paltry budget. Wales, the party machine has adopted the style been estimated (hiost of which will resemble and approach of that campaign. the final figures only in that they arc small by The campaign committee, he said, had American standards).. They will probably be already letter-dropped the entire electorate The glossy magazine produced for the cam either dramatically reduced or increased dc- with letters of introduction. This is being paign committees in NSW has been reproduced pending on the vitality of the election itself, followed up with a personal letter to all resi for the Queensianders. The magazine provides dents in the Chelmer area whose homes were oodles of good advice for each and every The Labor candidate for Sherwood, Mi inundated -with flood-waters (To cut costs, member of the committee, from the Publicity Mike Kinnane, is hoping to finance a year's all these will be hand delivered.) Officer ("The most important thing to remem campaign on SI000. He said: "I disagree with ber about publicity is to publicize everything. expensive campaigns when it is possible to get Introduction cards, similar to business cards If you are planning a public meeting, publicize your message across more effectively by person have been printed. Car stickers have been its initial planning, publicize it when it happens, al contact and hard work in your electorate, ordered ('Kinnane's No Chicken'), A campaign and publicize its results after it is over.") slogan has been decided upon and this will through the Campaign Manager, the Candidate, "It is easy to believe that your publicity soon be seen in advertisements in the local the Financial Advisor to the Research Officer, machin e will work for you and all you liave is newspaper, the "Village News." ("Look at your branch members and find to smile prettily into the right cameras at the someone with analytical ability, methodical in right times. But it has been proved time and Campaign manager and Queensland Univer his approach and plenty of available time-he again that money alone is not gomg to guaran sity Econ/Law. student David North said that will be your best bet.") tee you a victory." he believed costs could be kept low if the % campaign concentrated on particular issues m With the campaign only just beginning, I Mr Kinnans is president of the local branch particular regions in the electorate. He said the wonder how much of that $1,000 is left? of the ALP In Sherwood, Young Labor dele personal approach gained more response from gate to the Party's Queensland Central Execu- the people and "at least they know you are Bruce L. Wooley working for their vote. Hong Kong Students' Association 2nd National QUSUSt Second Hand HCMDSEXIAL Bookshop CO^JFERENCE open 1 month Hours festival Information from: Expo Unl-Saturday August 7 Sydney Homosexual Conference Mon-Fri 9-5,00 7.30 pm.. Collective Tues 9-7.00 Box 5, Wentworth Building University of Sydney, (As of July 26-20% commission) Union Refectory Sydney 2006 $3.50 Dress casual .OCATED-Nextto Games Room Fbqd, Moon Cakes, XXXX, Door-prizes Page 37 STUFF THE REVOLUTION, Three teachers at Charter Towers, a place west of Towns ville, were sacked last week for possessing marijuanha. They weren't just sacked, they were barred from..teaching for life THIS YEARS and run out of town. This is a very severe punishment. My high school english teacher used to ajourn with a select few of The whole book, which is printed on cheap newsprint, has his students to the park at the bottom of the road and get stoned with us about twice a week. We used to score deals for no new information so It's just not on as a purchase. The fact him. He'd never been tripping; we scored him some acid, that the cover is cheap nev/sprint means that it will yellow times are changin', but maybe west of Townsville it still Isn't and disintegrate in your book rack, so my advice is not to buy as cool as my old suburb. Cool Is something you either have or it. don't have, like boogie. OK, so dope is a very nice drug, but to have a book like this on your coffee table means a bust or at least a search where Well, at the momer\t there is a dope drought In Brisbane, furniture stands a chance of getting broken. There are lots of times are hard. People are selling ounces which weigh only clever fury freak brothers comix it] this book, and some other three quarters of an ounce and even then are mainly stalk. clever cartoons, but it only just makes it as a book, and to Who gives a fuck about the revolution, what ever happened to be kind, It needs another staple. this year's crop? All those busts you read about up on the Atherton Tablelands, all those super efficient drug squad raids have finally caught up with us, the dope has all but run out.^ Well, that's the story everyone who used to call themselves dealers are laying on us, bummer. It's rather distressing havmg a dope drought on, but there is In the midst of this gloom Wild and Wooley, an alternative lots of good dope about ot) the Gold Coast, if you know some press in the Glebe have reissued AH About Grass, "a bit of surfs, and probably tons on the North coast too. Will Neville communal writing." It's a nice piece of drug subculture Wran legalise dope, that's the big question of the moment. I ephemera, nothing particularly out of the ordinary. At one mean, can't you just imagine the effects of having a dope dollar fifty a copy it can only be described as a rip off, espe cially as a photocopy would only be one dollar twenty five. It's just another attempt by counterculture people to get more money out of their om, you can bet your bottom dollar fifty (and that's Inflation) that not many non-drug using people will buy it. Counter-culture is a wonderful product-buy some records, buy some drugs, buy some books on drugs, buy some tickets to a rock concert, buy some hippie clothes. Counter-culture Is bullshit, the revolution sells well, It's a big product, that's what It IS. Probably expecting a favourable review from us Wild & 8 - I SUN - THURS Wooley quote a review from a back issue of Semper Floreat, well thanks people but we don't care, or at least not much. Editors come and go. Matter of fact, they must have t)een hard up to quote us, we're big believers in self criticism. 8-3 FRI & SAT. LOUNGE If yo.u want a dated dope vocabulary.read this book; the vernacular was very cool back In 1971. Perhaps they Want to up the price, so they mention that a deal is "from $30 to $50 i/THCpkiCttlo an ounce." I don't know anyone who has ever paid moretharr OPPOSITE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL HOTEL $30 an ounce. There's a chapter headed "Dealing with the CNR WELLINGTON AND STANLEY STREETS j pusher" vvhich must be an in jolce or something, 'coz I always EAST BRISBANE thought pusher was a pseudonym for baby carriages. Big advice is not to buy on the street, good advice that, but then there aren't many street dealers it) Brisbane. p^g^ gg TO ? but they're also a certain bust, as is any other smoking Imple PTiAST VB F^-O cmHk RB&UJED. COR. ment. 1 mean, smoking dope Is an illegal activity which can TBAW «i acbfHsTS HAS WVHD TUftr A land you in jail and which will get you a three hundred dollar OieWiO^C &fSt^ ki (km l£^es TMrtrT fine on'a first offence, provided it's less than one ounce. The iam=x& KWiCA6 Tfui! tsAne WAY iWfrnE prospects of jail are very heavy. Ali About Grass Is a nice laugh £^ wiseq MAIU7CANA AFiernb but we at Semper wish to bring you the harsh vibes of reality. Now, we're prepared to listen to people telling us that reality is relative and all that jive, but we know It's only relative until police arrive. Then It's concrete, concrete walls and bars. So, stay high by all means kids, 'coz life is hard and It helps to be stoned, it really does. But for your own sake be careful. the shop-a government controlled dope shop-in Tweed Heads, then you'll find out why it's got Heads in its name. Personally, I think it'd be cheaper to grow your own, but the curry penalties are too steep and even if they do legalise it, It'll be like tobacco and private growing will be prohibited. All About Grass has a few chapters on the science of dope investigation. It's very simple really. A group of anti-drug shop people hand out bulk money to scientists on condition that their research is anti-dope, it's like paying a researcher to do research in your field. If the emphasis and the money were to go In favour of dope the research might turn out a whole bunch of amazing pro-dope information. "Last time I was at If you really want a neat dope book. Straight Arrow the CURRY SHOP, Publications put one out about two years ago. It costs more, it was hot!!!!" but it's printed on good quality paper and won't disintegrate on your book shelf, or go yellow. It's a ritzy publication, SCHOIMELL DRIVE which All About Grass is not. Then again, that advice Is only ST. LUCIA to be taken if you're feeling trendy this week, 'coz dope is definitely an In cause. So, if you need some arguments for Beef, vegetable, prawn, dope, and that rather presumes an academic Interest, go and chicken curries, to eat spend your money on this All About Grass rag. If nothing else in or take away. it's probably good to read when you're stoned, one dollar fifty Take away curries: worth of laughs. $2.00 Otherwise $2.60 The point of the whole book and the consciousness it seeks to popularise is to legalise dope. But sale of this book to a bunch of dope freaks won't do that. These people even have ^. 5:30 on the audacity to tell you how you should decorate your house and what music you should listen to. Well I hate Led Zepplln ,sp there! There is talk about smoking paraphenalia and what's weii»5un best to use. Bamboo water pipes are probably easiest to make Page39 •-• •_ s: JICCQJM^ ^bM BRB THE GRATEFUL DEAD Jt Blues For Allah.11' United Artists Label L 35697 "Blues For Allah" behind conventionally llliPlll!Jjl'j(l«i!5({|>Sllii|||(l|||{l!|tiliif3i!lil/i/^^^ enough with "Help On The Way", an accessible song with the usual highly melodic, understat ed, almoit insipid musicianship decorated with Jerry Carda's feeble but effectwe voice. It flows directly into "Slipknot", the first of several instrumentals, with Garcia and Bob Weir trading flued tasteful guitar lines. Again this leads straight into "Franklin's Tower" before one is aware of it. Tlien come two connected instrumentals, "King Solomon's Marbles", a short percussive piece, and the strange "Stronger Than Dirt Or MiUdn' The Turkey", which has some good moments but is for the most part inconsequen tial. Side one ends with Weir and Donna Godchaux singing an up-tempo 'The Music Never Stopped", most of the pace and tough ness coming from Steve Schuster*s. sax. Garcia returns to vocal duties on side two witii "Crazy Fingers" which has a definite Caribbean feel. It is not quite reggae, using only some of the more recognizable elements. "Sage And Spirit", n \ basically a harmony of guitar, piano and flute, is an insubstantial though pleasant improvised NEILYOUNG As part of his less fraught stance, Young unleashes some intuitive fiery guitar runs and, filler, but it serves to introduce the album's '7uma" with Crazy Horse ably supporting him, most most obscure and interesting part. Warner Bros Records MS 2242 of the nine tracks are steaming rockers, peaking Comprismg "Blues hor Allah", "Sand with the ferocious "Drive Back". Only on two Castles and Glass Camels" and "Unusual tracks ate Crazy Horse not present-the mellow Occurences In The Desert", it is actually a On his last few albums, Young maintained acoustic "Pardon My Heart" and 'TTirough My segmented suite. The Dead regard it with his uncompiomising integrity at the expense of Sails" with Crosby, Stills and Nash. The sufficient importance to enclose. English, commercialiim. His work liad become too album's centrepiece is. the long "Cortez the Hebrew, Arabic and Persian lyrics. The piece intense, ragged and depressing for many of Killer" which unwinds as an epic narrative begins darkly, with distant primithre drums those who revelled in the sensitivities of poem. The harnessed vitality ofthe song marks supporting a droning chant. Part two-consists "Harvest". After this period of bleakness, those it as one of his m^lor works. Also significant is of random erratic guitars mixed with cricket people will welcome the relathv lightness and "Bar Stool Blues" in which he acknowledges sounds. The third part is a continually growing contrpl of ••Zuma*'. TWS is not to say that the the changes in his attitude. ^ structure based on the interminable repetition guilt and bitterness have healed or are absent "Zama" is rated by many as Young's finest of the refrain "Under Eternity". from this album-^tather they adopt a more album since "Harvest". I do not downgrade There are inconsistencies in this set but the accessible pose. Now he is consdou^y working "Tonight's The Night" 6i ^'On the Beach", but Dead establish beyond doubt that they are to shake off the raging melancholia which con I wholeheartedly agree that this less obsessed more than mere survivors of hippiedom. Their sumed him for lo long after the deaths of album is brilliant. Young's new foray into com* continued involvement In numerous solo pro Danny Whitten and Bruce Berry. mercialism provides more reason to respect jects has hi no way hindered their development Page40 him. as a hind. And for that Dead fans can rejoice. Wil. Ml i*ftT: '•WfWJ MMMji*WiU sati »iiiiMiiii«i»ti««liMii iMiitt heavy emphasis on "shooting holes in your LITTLE FEAT rock & roll balloons". So they have evolved THE RENEE GEYER BAND 'The Last Record Album" from cheerful pop to chearful X-rated satire. "Ready to Deal" Warner Bros Records BS 2884 If you have heard Zappa's "Live At Fillmore RCA Label VPL1-0105 East" or "Just Another Band From L.A," then you know what to expect from this part Despite acknowledgements from the Stones live/part studio set. The even revamp Frank's With the boom in blue-eyed soul, one can and others, Little Feat have been consistently "Eddie Are You Kidding". no longer argue that soul is the exclusive do ignored by all except a hard core of fans. With main of the Afro-American. Bands like the the fourth album, "Feats Don't Fail Me Now", There are some (almost) straight songs such Average White. Band have effectively broken and an astounding European tour, it seemed at as "Rebecca", "Let Me Make Love To You" down the black/white dichotomy. Renee long last their time had come. Hopefully this and their manifesto, the title track. Although Gayer, who regularly amazes people with her new record will not delay this growing accep these are lightweight and unimpressive, it is "black" voice, is the best known local funk tance. Not that it is a bad album, far from it. the comedy that most people will be concerned exponent, It is only that it is a less exuberant more re with. Ranging from sniggermg schoolyard laxed work which impatient people may treat humour to lovely rock parodies, the sketches "Ready To Deal" sees a greater emphasis brusquely. Yet, if given a chance, it will reveal are aimed to shock more than injure. Note on her band, a highly experienced unit includ a goldmine of delights that expands with each worthy are "The Tibetan Memory Trick", 'The ing Mai Logaii and Barry Sullivan. Several play. Pop Star Massage Unit" and the spoofs on tracks such as "If Loving You Is Wrong" and George Harrison, Jone Mhchell, Marc Bolan "Heading. In The Right Direction" work The focus of the band is guitarist Lowell and Cari Douglas. tremendously and have been aired frequently George, who conceived it, shaped its direction on radio and T.V. But such successes gloss and wrote its most memorable songs. Here he over the imperfections. The main offenders is content to ease his grip, writing only three of are "Spilt Milk", "I Really Love You" and the eight tracks. Of these, "Long Distance Love" lacklustre instrumental "Whoop". Eitlier and "Down Below The Borderline" are the through the overextension of one idea or album's best, and perhaps among his fmest. colourless production, they have little flair. However, his faith in the others has been, with pianist Bill Payne and guitarist Paul Barrere On the brighter side, the album in general . Writmg great songs like "AU That You Dream" augurs well for the band's crack at America. and "One Love Stand". Prospects in that soul-saturated place are con jectural, but if talent were enough, we can Although from L.A., the band's ethos is expect some favourable reports in no time at steeped in Southern fried rock. With strong aU. guitar/keyboards interplay, they create crisp streamlined chunks of rock that leave ordinary BOB DYLAN boogie merchants for dead. The timing is pre "Desire" cise, the music is tasty. That such a band should CBS Records SBP 234778 contmue to be so underrated ought to be a matter of genuine concern. Dylan has been rock's untouchable master ful fugitive, a figure of reverence who almost FLO 8i EDDIE single handedly gave rock a (iterate face. Mushroom "Desire", his 20th official release, has been a resounding victory for him, with sales of over Records L35801 one million in the U.S. Yet it is a paradoxical album, with great contrasts encompassing some Flo and Eddie paid their dues with the. highly potent statements and some limp exer Turtles and Frank Zappa. After loitering cises. around L.A. radio stations.and doing other Page 41 rock related things, they started touring with ki-'-AV^^iXfeiS "Hurricane" clocking in at BY* minutes. Here late positively to his frank openness. But taken Dylan unleashes .(mages that are chilllingly objectively, ^ it borders on the artless. This Contrary to early reports leaked from the effective t>oth as narrative and propaganda. In would norrhally be discomforting when the recording sessions, the instrumentation is re his hands, music ts once again a devastating man's reputation is based on lyricism. However duced to subsistence level. These unadorned political weapon with his righteousoppositio n the song survives purely on Dylan's intent and raw-edged results replaced those chaotic ses to Rubin Carter's imprisonment being being his vocal presence. In fact, I doubt whether he sions, reputedly including Clapton, Dave the mainspring In the granting of a retrial. He has sung better than on this record. Mason, Kokomo and dozens more. Most domi tries a similar approach in "Joey", a sympath nant is Scarlet Rivera's plaintive violin. Emmy- etic study of "Crazy Joe" Gallo, a mafia boss It is the high points ("Hurricane", the sur lou Harris guests on vocals while the rhythm murdered by the family. It does not work be section comprises Rob Stoner on bass and cause the subject is less Immaculate, less be real "Isis" and "Black Diamond Bay") that Howard Wyeth on drums. Also worth noting is lievable as a hero/victim. Dylan inexplicably finally pull this album through. The highs are Jacques Levy who must have some kind of re dawdles for 11 minutes here. such that the more indiscreet or hesitant mom cord for co-writing seven songs with Dylan. ents can be by-passed. And even there, Dylan's voice (and his sheer will) carry the day. "Sara" has been hailed as one of his most "Desire" opens with the widely acclaimed significant songs, probably because people re Bill Holdsworth 9SK ^^HM ii^iiiiiii^iitiiJI/iiiiiiiii^iiiiii *tm tmt* DREAMTIME ONLY YESTERDAY Brisbane Film Festival goers were pleasantly shocked on Sunday night to dis- stage and tried to point out that some aspects cover that Queensland Aborigines have reaJly nothing to complain about. They are of South African culture were being ignored. living in Idyllic conditions, vyorking in interesting well paid jobs and controlling He was immediately dragged off by four police theu own lives through local councils while stiU retaining their cultural heritage men, so the audience didn't get a chance to find out what these were. The Director, Brian Benson, says that the rUm is "a reaUstic view ofthe Aborigine today. Not all Aborigines live on reserves, however. Two others were also 'arrested when they It shows life and work in the communities and Some live in the towns. The audience was protested outside the theatre. the way in which the Aborigine is adjusting to shown one family that had made the grade, a modern life style, and emphasises the special with a neat suburban house, a green Falcon, John Webb & Pic Mattick efforts that are being made to assist them with above ground swimming pool, and three kids self determination." complete with plastic toys. Of course there are problems m making this transition from settle As you might well imagine, the fihn was ment to suburbia. To cope with the hygiene produced by the Queensland Government, and problem, the State Government runs'a mobUe sponsored by the Department of Aboriginal health and welfare education clinic, showing and Islanders Advancement. Aborigines how to be "UP AND ABOUT" instead of "DOWN AND OUT." A highlight from the film was Weipa, where bauxite mining is opening up m'arvellous pros Aboriginal children often perform poorly at' pects for Aborigines to be trained as bulldozer- school, and in an effort to overcome this, the drivers, clearing their own land-a job with a Queensland Government has developed some future. brilliant new teaching methods which closely There are ample opportunities for Abori relate school leariiing to cultural heritage. One gines in Queensland to niake it to the top, and example was pikelet making, with children the film showed one such person. He was a repeating after the teacher "This is a bottle of foreman at the Mount Isa smelting works. milk." Women, too, can fmd satisfying employment sewing t6y koala bears. The film closed with the camera drawmg away from a tranqufl beach scene, with Abori Aborigines remaining in their tribal areas gines sitting contentedly on the sand, the peace can feed caged crocodiles and perform spon only being broken by the booing and hissing taneous corroborees for fat white tourists, for from the audience. as the nim stated they are anxious to share . their heritage with us. • Their living, conditions are so good that tourists visitmg one Aboriginal settlement on Earlier, oh Wednesday night, the Film the coast were surprised to find that houses Festival screened a South African Tourist were very much like their own. Fihn, "A World In One Country," supposedly for the astonishing use of a helicopter-bome The fUm showed that Pahn Island, another camera. The only disturbing incident,marring Aboriginal reserve, has considerable potential as an appreciation of magnificent South' African a tourist resort, without mentioning its reputa- scenery and prosperous white life style was tk)n for riots and drunken brawls. when a lone demonstrator jumped up on the Page 42 wmmvum HOW CONSERVATIVES THINK So I guess 1 had better have a look at this THE GREEN FOOL short book (185 pages) and see what con Patrick Kavanayh Edited and introduced by Phillip W. servatives are on about. Buck My fiist reaction upon reading the opening As 1 read on 1 found that conservatives were pages of this book, was that I'd been saddled Pelican Hammandsworth a pretty reasonable lot. The book commences with reviewing an autobiography which was an 1975 $2.55 with a fairly short introduction by Professor Irish version of 'How Green Was My Valley'. Buck which serves as a brief overview of the Given the fact that I have the tendency to conservative tradition and elucidates the basic Conservatism has unfortunately attracted elements of conservatism. throw up after reading moving tales of simple contemporary usage concomitant with reaction, rustic communities being destroyed by the ogre resistance to change and similar pajorative of technology I was considerably reluctant to These are presented concisely and clearly; expressions. In a world in which progress, fore- very useful for the student of ideology studying continue reading what was apparently yet ano wardness and speed has become lo be desirable ther exercise in cloying sentimentality. for an exam (as 1 was when 1 read it). Actually, at the expense of responsibility and order more this book should appear on subject lists soon. useful and civilised and arguably more humane, Excellent value for ideologues-in-training. However, as I progressed I found that the ])iiman activity, Conscrvytism unfortunately book was not really as bad as I had feared it has been cast aside to the tip upon which "un- might be. It was only the rather simplistic progressive" ideas end up. Then follows the basis ofthe book: Twenty style of writing that made the book difficult five extracts from the work of twenty five con reading. For while his poetry is undoubtably servatives, most of whom were active politi first class, Kavanagh has a rather wooden prose. How cians. Eafh extract is prefaced by a short bio After a while though it seems to bring the Irish @ graphical sketch of the writer and then follows in you out and your appreciation of the book Conservatives an edited key passage or passages from an im increases correspondingly. In fact it's a good portant speech or writing. Very valuable short idea when you've finished to go back and read Think introduction to conservatives. the earlier parts again to get their full value. Edited and Introduced by Philip W. Buck 1 said that conservatives were a fairly reason My only other complaint is that his reminis able lot. Let mc qualify that. They were elitists cence's tend to wander about a bit, jumping insofar as they felt that only certain types of from one time to another, but this is something people could participate in politics. They were which is found to a degree in every autobio also pessijnists with an arguably cynical view of graphy. Aside from these complaints I found history. They saw it as the sum of human the book to be extremely entertaining. The pic misery, and thus saw present society as based ture he paints of rural Ireland around the Great upon the best aspects of human institutions; War are both amusing and at times a little sad. the worst aspects having been abandoned over The people retain the down to earth attitudes time. Politics was seen as a rather tiresome busi of pre-industrlal times but it is these very atti ness that was best left to those who were fit tudes, simplistic and materialist, that leads to for it, thus allowing the rest of us to do more the destruction of their heritage. When a local useful things. They saw that social position and manor's land goes up for sale in small lots, all wealth carried with it responsibility and the the trees are cut down by the small farmers for onus of service-very Christian concepts. Angli wood, with no thought for their conservation. can theology infuses conservatism very deeply. Kavanagh lives in a time when the woods are tfcing chopped down and the peasant custom are being lost. Nonetheless it is still his home Well, conservatism seems to have a lot to and, after wandering all over Ireland and living recommend it. Unfortunately, people never In England for awhile in search of fame and for behave as they should and those with power tune, he returns eventually to work his fathers and privilege, even in the heyday of conservat farm. . ism during the,latter half of the last century, are more prone to take steps to preserve their position and increase their wealth than serve, A very enjoyable book it is made even more and call what they do "service." so by various snippets of Kavanaghs poetry I am not a conservative and personally have being scattered throughout. little sympathy at all with conservativeness in However, one may still dream, in the still And though her passing was forme general and the present Federal and State quiet spaces of one's mind. The death of something sweet governments in particular but 1 am a radical; Her name's in every prayer, her charm a fcrret-like creature with a desire to get to the Professor Buck's book is an asset and I tn every face I meet. bottom of things. 1 am also a believer in the old recommend it to all interested in the study of In fact it probably would have improved the notion that people's ideas deserve some respect, modern political thought. book a great deal to have included more of his even if one violently disagrees with them funda work. mentally. Mark D. Hayes Guy McGfiie Page 43 VERY GOOD, JEEVES! • Hamsun has his protagonist"escape from an P. G. Wodehouse, Intolerable situation by Impulsively signing onto a Russian ship bound for Leeds. The book' Penyuin Books Ltd; has a universal relevance for it expresses dis- Harmondsworth, 1975. , affection and isolation from the mainstream of society. Such feelings do not belong only to the Here Is another Wodehouse book on your poor, the sensitive and the creative Individuals favourite know-all butler, Jeeves. You Would of our modern world. They have been with us need to be a real Jeeves fan to enioy the book. always. It contains 11 chapters, each with a different Jeeves yarn. In each chapter Jeeves carries out a V. Ailsa Redman clever plan to save the Young Master, Bertie Wooster, irom a terrible fate, usually without BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW bis permission or encouragement. Readings in Political Economy Vol I, Characters are stereotyped, Bertie and his ed E.L Wheelwright and Frank J. B. Stilwell, mates are the young toffs about town, usually ANZ Book Company.. sporting monocles or moustaches. Women are Human Geography: Evolution or Revolu either formidable, like Aunt Agatha the Old tion? Michael Chisholm, Pelican. Relative, who would have Bertie in the employ Retarded Australians. Cliff Judge, Mel of puritanical cabinet ministers; jolly like Aunt bourne University Press. Dahlia or dopey like Rosie M, Banks who Awakenings. Oliver W. Sacks. Pelican. "writes heart-throb fiction for the masses". Children and Race. David Milner, Penguin Books. There must be people who actually like Three into Two Won't Go. Andrea Newman. reading about the doings of the British upper Penguin Books. classes. Wodehouse churns out the stuff for The Blood of Others. Simone De Beauvoir. them. Nothing too awful happens, the tone is Penguin Books. light-hearted and jolly hockey sticks. Sheer Rembrandt's Hat. Bernard Malamud. escapism for people who want to see only the surface of the pond and are afraid to stir up the Penguin Books. muck on the bottom. Alexa. Andrea Newman. Penguin Books. The Edge of Darkness. John Prebble. V. Aitsa Redman Penguin Books. HUNGER Time Without Clocks. Joan Lindsay. Pen Knut Hamsun guin Books. ' Over the High Side. Nicolas FreeUng. Penguin Crime. "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun was written in Recollections of Virginia Woolf. Ed Joan 1890. It has been retranslated by Robert Bly RusseE Noble. Penguin Books. and Issued in a new edition by Pan Books Ltd The New Guard. Amos. Melbourne Uni (London, 1967). versity Press. The Rallying Point. Campbell. Melbourne Knut Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in 1920 University Press. after having a number of books and plays published. He remarked, on hearing of his prize, that he would use the money to Improve his flower garden. ' This book tells of the adventures of a name less young man in a Norwegian city. He Is not very successful and goes through the torture of days of starvation described at great length and Casual taxi drivers, with. attention to every detail - physical and mental. , weekend and night wort help to get licence. It is an uncomfortable book and should only be read with a full stomach or the graphic depiction of hunger will send you .scurrying Operating from St Lucia, 7 night for the kitchen. More disturbing are the psycho logical effects of the hero's starvation: halluci per week available. nations, fantasising, even the belief that he js Phone Ken or call at Ampol station going mad. He wanders the streets talking to himself or passersby; sleeps on park benches; at end of Sir Fred Schonell Drive torments strolling ladles and has the inevitable runins with the law. I here seems to be ho reason why the fellow 45% OF TAKE cannot get a job but he is driven by the desire to write. Although he has occasional pieces in the newspaper, the pay is nrwagre and he must pawn his clothes In order to eat. Landladies throw him out because he cannot pay the rent. He is owed money by acquaintances all over town but Is too shy to ask for It. >> / 7^ THE WIIMSLOW BOY The story of a young Osborne (Royal Naval tional and remains virtually unchanged througn- the belief of his son's innocence. College) cadet, espelled for allegedly stealing out the entire performance. Director Jeremy and cashing a five shilling postal order forms Muir-Smith must also be congratulated for his Pamela Norman as Violet the untrained the basis of THE WINSLOW BOY. Sounds dull? part in presenting this entertaining perform parlor maid, who is forever "letting the cat out However the play is lively and humorous and ance. of the bag," deserves special mention. As does performed with a high degree of professional- Reg Gillam (Sir Robert Morton, the sombre/ • ism by the Twelfth Night Company. All actors/resses are worthy of mention for soft lawyer, politician), Robyn Gurney (Grace their high standard of performance. While it is Winslow, the suffragette daughter), and Hazel The events portrayed by playwright Terence difficult to find fault with the overall presenta Phillips (Ronnie's mother). Rattigan actually occurred in 1908. In the up tion, occasional fumbliiig of lines marred some dated version the action in the play takes place occasions. Also the interval between scene William Campbell as Ronnie was not out in the two years preceding World War 1. The changes seemed to be over-long. standing but gave a creditable performance. case of Ronnie Winslow, the dishonoured cadet, Ronnie's case is translated, by his father into is taken by Sir Robert Morton, who after a long Ronnie's father, Arthur Winslow, who was the catch-cry "Let Right be done." struggle succeeds in having the original verdict often referred to as a feared man, also deliver of guilty reversed. ed many a humorous Une appreciated by the The company have done "Right" to the audience. Raymond Murray as the father play which is enjoyable and refreshingly of a The set designed by Brian Nickless is func never faultered in his fine performance or in high standard for Twelfth Night Theatre. Page AS SAVAGES The Queensland Theatre Company produc tion of SAVAGES is impressive. The set is the feature which strengthens this opinion. Designed by Peter Cooke, who is also re sponsible for the costumes, the set is starkly bare and functional. It serves equally well as a British diplomat's home, millionary compound or Indian ceremonial ground. The large masks, on either side of the stage and the totem poles are continual reminders of a dying Indian culture. The set also has its little surprises. In various scenes a record player, fridge and Yamaha organ are revealed from their hiding places in the bench seats used for different scenes. The most stunning execution of set design occurs in the closing scene, and to reveal it would spoil its impact. , Direction was by Murray Foy who succeed ed in presenthig an imaginative production. While all the characters in the play are ficti tious, the events are real. Harshly real in regard Kate Wilson as Mrs West makes only a few wo the Indians, who are being exterminated. brief appearances but successfully conveys the lack of jset in her marriage, and her contempt The play is set in Brazil in 1970-71, yet the for the Indians. events portrayed are still with us today. The in Jhe adequacy of the Government, the Indian Por- peter Kowitz is the terrorist who trades tection Service, missionary, terrorist, anthro platitudes with West and perforins the un- pologist and Diplomat to help the Indians preventable task at the end. Other company survive is blatant. CoUection of Indian legedsn members who gave creditable performances fiollopinS before all the Indians are killed is the only were Joe James as the Rev Elmer Penn,,Reg' measure which is taken. Cameron as Major Brigg and the Indians. The hopelessness of the situation is labour The Indian funeral ritual, the Quarup ceremony, was- interspersed throughout the Shittoii ed by the playwright Christopher Hampton, and despite frequent scene changes the pla/ play. Bev Nevin is responsible for the chore take away curry does become tedious. ography of these sequences.'At these scene.' the lights were dulled, but they were notice- 34 Station Road Indooroopilly However the cast's performance cannot be ably brighter at the scene containing Gaye Poole. fatilted. Alan Edwards, in his first appearance open Tuesday to Saturday this < year, is masterful in his portrayal of the somewhat bored British diplomat, Alan West The QTC production is lavish and doe; 12-9 p.m. who is captured by terrorists. His interest in justice to SAVAGES, which although it wor Sunday: 12-8 p.m. the extermiaation of the Indians extends only the "Best Play Of The Year" aware in 1973 is overrated. as far as collecting their legends before they are take away authentic curries' all wiped out. Sue Denni5 (if VOU like home cooking ~ eat at home) SPAGAUNI PIZZA SPAGS 3702640 SPECIALISES IN B lasagna Y mr spagalini ALSO pizza PREPARES ALL OF HIS 0 DELICIOUS MEALS TO GO salads & G 406 Milton Rd spagetti We Knead Your Dough Auchenf lower Page 46 SUPPOSE JUST ABOUT EVERYONE HAS NOTICED BY NOW . . . At present here in Brisbane we are being subjected to the "French Bistro" period of our cultural Adolescence. Every time I open the entertainment pages ofthe local rags and ART lajPC6K/T£6 I am confronted by another new arriveal on the cultural scene. Last year is was bistros, this year it's French restaurants. . - I • • Anyway enough of this bitching. The place picture framing Last year you couldn't buy a snail at a res isn't licensed so bring along your own flagon taurant anywhere in Brisbane, this year the and look intelligent when the staff make any remarks. Another help is an English French , Last year you couldn't buy a snail at a res- dictionary if your French is of my standard. It art materials ,tauraht anywhere in Brisbane, this year the means you don't wind up with snails instead 9fo5 9-/2 • rubbery little bastards are crawling over every of oysters. WfEKOAr menu in town. And right now, if the fdes of prints used snail shells behind most of these cultural Anyway I decided to start with an entree.. rip offs are to be believed this french slug is A little unusual for me as 1 don't usually feel an endangered species. And while I have heard that hungry but 1 think it may have been over- no reports of toad legs being substituted for exuberence because of the day. Had a crack at the real thing, if I were you I would check any the Salmon fume which is smoked salmon to warts closely. all youse cultural cretins. Served on a limp HERWOOD , . » piece of lettuce with a sprinkling of ground Brisbane has now passed through the sophi pepper and a few assorted cold salad attach SHOPPING sticated restaurant stage, demolished the bistro ments. Not bad, but had obviously been done era nad is well-advanced on the French provin some time before and left in the frige so that CENTRE cial thing. Right now I am predicting the emer the salmon had dried out a little. StUl for three Ph. C'sU. «^f> »;:>i-k- l^> gence of the Middle East restaurant stage, com dollars a serving it was not bad and after all it HtLU . plete I trust with scanty clad herem girls to was July 14. Most of the starters were over 379-6985 feel during the meal. Already 1 have eaten three dollars in cost which was a littie steep. Lebanese bread ,. . here in Brisbane ... that's But there was soup on the go for a dollar right . . .only a few blocks from where the forty if you were after a cheap night. X peanut farmer lives. All main courses were about the five dollar However enough of this cultural arrogance. .mark except for the lobster which ran out at an It was more than time the French made an ap- amazing $8.50. Apart from that the rest ofthe pearence and introduced an incredulous public main courses are quite reasonable in price ... to the wonders of pate. up to the usual Brisbane standard. So with some foreboding 1 asked for fillett de Boeuf en But my visit to a French restaurant was less groute, which is a fillet steak with a tangy white than eventful. 1 made the mistake of going on wine sapce. Words cannot describe the taste Bastile Day, which for those unused to the but it is not too bad. Anyway anyone who Pharmerls French is celebrated on July 14. If the restaur arrives at a French restaurant after nine o'clock ant I visited is any indication, every French at night on Bastille day deserves what he gets. person in the world must get pissed out of his We only^ got one serving of vegetables, which head and spend the day singing the Marlasese.. was zucchenis done in a bitter sauce. They were all day. So it was probably not a good idea to cold but not bad for flavour... however I have hapuesb turn up at La Grande Bouffe in Brunswick St tasted much better. Finished off with cambert U-«l on the French national day. and the old coffee. For two we walked out just over twenty dollars lighter. As I entered I was treated to a scene some what like the movie of the same name. Most of As my knowledge of this rash of French the party I was with had arrived some hours restaurants in Brisbane is slight 1 x;an't really Tues August 1 p 7.30 pm before and were well oii the way to getting compare how it goes but from my experience . pissed m the old Australian tradition of cultur at vother ones around I would say it was a little MOOMBA al arrogance. Being a French restaurant the below standard and a littie overpriced. Still if 406 Ipswich Road menu wias on the wall, written up with chalk. you want to eat yourself, to death just like the And the waiteris were genuine French. All I movie, then take a thick wallet, a French Annerley can think'is that the French must train these dictionary arid best of luck; • waiters then export them to the worid, some $20 double what like the Japanese do with their motor Sam Whittenbar cycles. Anyway enough of this bitchhig. Page 47 ..•^(( •!'"' -j-.':'*•' •y''^:.''i;- i-^--^;yc;'-'^i T^iViTi^