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THE RISE OF LLEW EDWARDS iiviecting some strength into the loose coalition now opposing the Nationds. So Ihe public standing of Queensland's far, Edwards has had victories over Premier MUSICIANS AT LOGGERHEADS politicians bss never been at a lower ebb, Joh on Queensland accepting medibank so it was a rare publicity coup for tiie and Queendand not accepting Milan WITH THEIR UNION 3 Liberal Party in appointing so called Mr Brych. The latter victory was largdy due Nice Guy, Dr Uew Edwards, as local to the good doctor's medicd knowledge parliamentary leader. tieing superior to Joh's, a not very diffi The small 'T' Liberal, pleasant bedside cult feat. manner image of Dr Edwards is however It is not likdy that a dramatic change in TAX CUTS - A WARNING FROM a disguise, and there is littie reason to the balance of power in Queendand will believe he wHl take on I*remier Joh to the result from the appointment of Edwards, extent the media is hoping for. The Liberals only hope of becoming senior AMERICA 5 Cast back your memory a few years to partner in the codition lies in combining before BiU Knox attained the parliamen with Labor to push through parUament a tary leadership when Knox was Justice fair electoral redistribution. Minister. At that time he also projected a Until people acquire the same vdue for progressive and reformist image, introduc their vote as that gained at present by this BOGGO ROAD WOMEN 7 ing into the parliament several pieces of state's cows and geese, the Liberals' future legidation designed to protect the will remdn gloomy. And it's most doubt consumer. ful that given the past performances of Of course, once Knox became leader he Edwards and liberal Party president COMING OUT IN BRISBANE 15 changed. That's partiy the price to pay for Yvonne McComb such a change will be the closed and secretive responsibility of quickly forthcoming. being leader, and partiy a reflection ofthe ruthless domination of Queendand poU- POLICE RAMPAGE tKS by Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Just a brief mention of a matter which NUCLEAR POWER - THREE Uew Edwards will meet these same should concem each and every Queens problems. As well, he is an individual very lander. much in the same mould as our premier. Latdy a widespread intimidatory PERSPECTIVES ON THE DANGER Despite the well tailored suits, Edwards is nmpage has been undertaken by the police a nott-smokuig, non-drinking conservative force. Patrons of hotels, discos, punk puritan obsessed with hard work and poli dances, and residents of private houses tical power. Familiar? On attitudes towards are increasingly being unnecessarily (Centrespread) "value" poUtics Edwards could be seen in harassed by police. the same regressive vain as Jimmy Carter. We don't know if it's a planned poUcy Although a youthful 43 years now, by the govemment but it's creating a great Llew Edwards will quickly degenerate as deal of paranoia, anger and resentment by he is educated m die worst aspects of Deep the hundreds of Brisbane people having BRISBANE'S LIVING GUIDE 11 North parochialism. dieir Uves ruled by the State police force, Hie future viatallty of the Queensland Uew Edwards so far has said nothing of it and it's doubtful he ever would. Uberals largdy depends on Edwards REVIEW SECTION 19
took his foot off the brake, munity, with caUs for an concerning the coupUng reviewer witii more accurate would clamp down on it would career downhill immediate Investigation to (die Egmont Overture, Op. background materid in offenders, if they don't into the patii of Luc's ensure that the red facts 84). This is a pity, since future. see the sense of doing m^ oncoming vehicle. They are not conceded. die contrast between the MARC PATTERSON something about it for said to David and Ned, We urge tiie NSW Labor early-period symphony East Briibuie. themselves. "who gives a . . if these Govemment not to tolerate (drca 1800) and the middle -J. MERTON .. .die". tills "Cedar Bay" style of period overture (1809) (bet The reviewer says that Taringa MULLUMBIMBY apart from being a very generd SHOOTING When Luc's car finally rdd into NSW. ween the 'Les Adieux' E. ran off the road, he was We ask, when will we flat piano sonata and the look at the record, the review finaUy be allowed to Uve 'Archduke' trio) is very was mainly dmed at discussing Following our brief dragged out and as one HUGH LUNN ON with dignity? ,marked, and might have led some of the issues that classicd story on the "drug nid" offuer hdd a gun to his music is concerned with. JOURNALISM -NORTHERN RIVERS the reviewer to modify his made by Queensland Police head, another repeatedly Breaking new ground is not TEACHING HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION .comments conceming the into NSW in the last issue kicked him in the ribs, die easiest task. He was most CSO's abmty to play of Semper, the editors re shouting "Die you. . ., GROUP apiOTciative of tbese comments Beetiioven. In a recent issue, a ceived a copy of the fol die". Later, after being P.O., Mullumbimby, NSW and it is to be hoped that sudi 3. To which complete lowing letter. treated in hospital, Luc was 2482. discussion wiU continue through Shelton Gunaratne, lecturer set of Beethoven the review pages.-EDITORS. The letter was addressed charged witii drug offences In joiffndtsm In Rocky, and poUce attempted to symphonies conducted by to the Premier- of NSW attadcs one Charles Stokes, force him to handle a CONGRATULATIONS Herbert von Karajan does viAo is also Minister for lecturer in journalism at gun, in order to coUect ON REVIEW the reviewer refer? Karajan DEATH WISH Police. Quemsland UnL using sur- fingerprints from it has recorded the set for CYCLISTS Ibis gun was fust thrown DGG in 1962 and 1977, prisid^y inflammatory Sir, Congratulaticms to at him and then phydcal not to mention earUer mono Last night I nearly kflled language for an 'academic We, as reddents of NSW Semper for induding a are outraged by the indis action was used to get him recordings for EMI (widi a man. dscusdon' as "most "classical" recwd review in criminate action by Qld to touch it. Luc, realising die PhiUiarmonia Orchestra) Yet if I had, hi my insidious propaganda." PoUce in a sensational, near \diat was going on, refused your latest edition (VoL and even back to the days ophdon it would have been The Rocky lecturer is fatal shooting at BiUinudgd, to touch the weapon. AU 48 14 and 15: 26). I fed of 78s. a dear case of that map upset that Stokes suggested Northern NSW on die ight diree, whilst in the poUce sure diat many of your 1 am also a Uttie holding a death widi. &at, in assessing appUcants of August 20th. cdls, were refused medi" leaders would appreciate puzded by the remark that He, like many other for joumalism, teacUng IO* As a result of a "stake- cation and warm dothes. such reviews as a regular "we could do witii another lunatic Brisbane cycUsts was IS years in a senior media out" and "diootup" in David suffers from einlepsy, featiue, particuUriy fai view complete set to give traveUing along a main ro^d podtion be conddered volving unmarked, uncon- Ned was suffering from of didr absoKC from other relativity to tiie widely on a dark night with no equivdent to the Ph.D. ventiond poUce cars, a local haemorrhoids, and Luc was Brisbane newspapors. (I do luiown set made by the head or taU Ught Get done appUcant. StiU wearing his Uood resident, Luc Toumier was not consider that the "re BerUn PhUharmonic under reflector) on his bicycle. Your correspondent says stained T-shirt three days von Karajan." The most Bike riding may be shot in the head and views" ^lAikk appear spora- this arguments shows Stokes wounded. During the later. recent edition of the deservedly increasing its fails to understand the pur' (ficaily in the Tel^raph ate "stakeout" and chase, at Ihe next mcffning, Luc^ Penguin Stereo Record popularity but why must pose and nature of the least three dozen shots were home was ransacked by worthy of consideration). ^uide Usts complete re Brisbane riders be so stupid! doctorate, fired by police, v^ile poUce, armed with pistols Altiiough I found the cordings under Masur, This is about the ddrd time Instead, 1 would suggest, traveUing at hi^ speed and rifles, his wife and a reviewer's comments con Klemperer, Kempe, Haitink I have only just avoided it diows diat Shdtott along one of our busiest neighbour bdng dragged to cerning Beethoven's Second and KubeUk as weU as runrdng someone down Gunaratne faUs to under hi^ways. It is known that the pdice station, charged Symphony interestuig (if Sold and Karajan. Furdier- under those cireumstances. stand die argument Stokes die poUce involved had with minor drug offences, not noticeably orighid), I more, Karl Bohm's In country areas where is not arguing agdnst the earlier been seen drinking ^ile their screaming fed I should take issue 'Beedioven Edition' bUces have always been a Ph.D., or the abflity of and larrikinlsing at a nearby children were left behind. with him on a number of recordhig on DGG widi the traditiond part of town Ufe, diose gafrdng much dis hotd. Whde these people were pohits: Vienna Philharmonic is stiU very few ridera do not tinction. Two other young men, being questioned, odier 1. Unless I am very widdy avaUable, not to spend the extra few ddiars What he is saying is David HaUmark and Neal poUce went back to thefr mudi mistaken, Sdti's meiidon historic recordings to place lamps on thefr that if an appUcant to Hardman were arrested and homes, tearing everything' Beedioven recordings are by Mengdbeig and bUces. Why can't Brisbane teach JoumaUsm has a Ph.D. placed in the back of a apart ahd taking and des released by Decca, not EMI, Toscanini riden do the same? then he almoit cortdnly poUce car. Hiis car was troying^ 'perscmd as suggested by the review Despite these criticisms, I understand that it is has not spent a decade in then placed in such a possesdons, (which quotes the Decca I look forward to further iUegd to travel; in this way a seidor media post Con- podtion, that when the Locd 'dtemative' people catdogue number). dasdcd music revie.ws in and as much as I didike venely, the man who has poUceman, who was have been joined hy a large 2. The review does not die hope that any scholarly many of the activities of spent a decade as news or standhig bedde the vehicle, cross section of the com make any comment at aU advisen wiU provide the die (Ai poUce I widi tiiey (Continued Page 4}
SEMPER October 11,1978 Semper Report On S.D.S. Ban Draws Flak Editor Replies Also, it is a well-known fact that the terrn "TrialUng" can so easily come to meain 'uiterminable hesitation' or 'we don't SOS alarm want to disturb anyone'. THE Journal wishes lo correc! a report In the September 20 Issue of' This problem applies especiaUy to the ttie Queensland IJniverslty student SOS course. The IriaUing' for Grades 11 newspaper. Semper, thai the Stale Government had banned the socia' and 12 (in Grade 11 in six schools) has studies course. Study O been extended. The course for this Grade Society—SOS has passed well and truly beyond tiie The story on page (ive, by Sempei moderation stage; any other social science 'co-editor. Jamie Collins and headlined: "S.O.S. Signals Mayday type courses would have been accepted For Teachers — Yet Another Joyner at a much earlier stage than this. Victory In Cabinet, was based on hearsay, was not checked-out. did not The opinion filtering down through name Its source and was wrong the union that the trid period is being It was probably based upon a extended solely so that the likes of Rona decision by the Board of Secondary School Studies to extend the tri^- Joyner will have no grounds in the future period tor the course by severe: to claim that a particular course was not months. tried out long enough, only shows the J2ie board startedio trial SOS in defensiveness and up-agdnst-the-wall mentality of the very people who should Musicians Union Queensland Tetchrn Journal be out there fighting to protect teachers' The artide in Semper (Issues 14 integrity. & 15) "SOS Ban Signals Mayday For Further, in looking at the Board of Teachers", which claimed the Study of Secondary School Studies, we do not agree In Jam With Musos Society teaching course was to be with the notion that the Board is scrapped, was quick to arouse officid necessarily aware beforehand of aU reaction. decisions. After aU, it was Uie State Botii the Board of Secondary School Cabinet which banned SEMP and MACOS Stalemate Developing Over Wages after tossing out a favourable Studies and the Queensland Teachers recommendation from the Minister for Union denied the story. Two major Education, was it not? Did the Board know ssue And Future Direction Of Industry newspapers made no headway at all when of tiiat decision beforehand; and if it did, they followed up on the article. why wasn't something done about it? The Queensland Teachers Union in an The Board, in fact, seems to be apparent attempt to keep its head buried extremely wary of making moves on any Brisbane's rock music scene looks as if it promoters and agents. in the sand, made a vicious and unjustified socid studies course before finding out may at last be developing a robust existence. "They would be sur attack on the credibiUty of both the author what the Govemment thinks. It is hardly Behind the scenes, however, a very unhealthy prised to know the number and this newsmagazine (see cutting). an encouraging situation. of leading weU-known The intention of such tactics is obvious conflict continues between rock musicians Finally, a couple of minor observations. groups who are still being ly to try and ignore the whole point of the It is ahnost axiomatic that the more and the Brisbane branch of the Musician's union. ripped off by these people," article. pompous the denial from any persons in The Union stands fast on its policy conceming award Mr, Wilkinson said. This refers, of course, to the frightenlng public office, the more Ukdy it is that the wages; the musicians say the union isn't flexible enough Yet, there is a core of ly furtive manner in which thc State story is pretty close to the mark. It's wortti and has not done anythmg to nurture a thriving rock rock musicians and 'alter Govemment and the Department of remembering. music scene. native' promoters who be Education conduct tiieir affairs, and the The reaction (both supportive and lieve that it is the Musicians disturbing submission of the Queensland negative) to the article has been so strong Union which has been a Teachers Union to it all. that we have the distinct impression that it A Special Report by JAMIE COLLINS niiyor stumbUng in the The story was confirmed by at least hit an extiremdy raw nerve in the trouUed setting up of a hedthy two reliable sources and although we educationd body. We would even go so Tbe Union's newsletter minded to work out that music scene in Brisbane. would have preferred more time to expand far as to say that certain people who know of April gave this example an award-breaching Peter WUliamson, pro it, we considered we had enough basis to that SOS is to be banned(wididrawn?) on of award wages: situation exists, on both motions co-ordinator at print it. the order of those in the Govemment 'if a four-piece band die employer and em Radio 4ZZZ-FM, believes The Journal is correct in stating that who use Mrs. Joyner as a front, are trying works from 7.30pm to ployee. diat the union, by insisting sources were not named-but omitted to very hard to smother debate on tiie matter. 10.30pm Monday, "Agents are generdly to solely on its award wages add that it was explained in the article Are they not wilUng to take any initiatives? Tuesday and. Wednesday, be blamed for this, as they policy has not in the past why they were not named: fear of reprisal. This refusal to act seems rooted in a 7.30pm to 1 Ipm on farm tiiese jobs out without channdled its energy to And that, in our opinion, is a very red desUe "not to upset the Govemment", Tliursday and Friday, and any thought or care for wards an exciting and de tiu-eat in tius State. Isn't the puHic defence of teachers more 7.3 Qpm to 11,30pm on the correct procedure that veloping entertdnment It is necessary to reaUse one fun important than giving way to the Saturday, the week's wages should apply. Their only field, damental problem in discussing this issue, intimidatory and intrusive tactics of this should amount to at least concem is their own com "The Musicians Union die tortuous abuse of language by govern State Government? $664.23 on a weekly basis, mission, which incidentdly says that any band playing mental and departmental officials. The We believe that the story will be which then should carry an should be added on to in a pub, for example, Queensland State Govemment is notorious pubUcly confirmed in the near future. At aUowance of holiday pay at award wages. must receive a minimum for its deUberate use of manipulative tills stage it appears Ukely that one the end of the job, assessed "If musicians make labor fee, language in its official statements. justification put forward for scrappmg the at 1/12 of the earnings, available at these prices, "Okay, but through this One recent example of semantic double course will be "teacher dissatisfaction". plus ITA% hoUday loading, diey just play into the poUcy, the union has, talk that comes to mind was a quote in We do acknowledge two factual errors and sick pay entitiements, hands of these unscrupulous directly or indirectiy, main die Sunday Maii (13/8/78) of Mr. Goiding, in the origind article, and one of omission. 'The same job at the people. The employer then tained non-innovative Director of Secondary Education in Qld, The author accepts full responsibility for casual rate, in which the cannot really be blamed bands, what you might caU Referring to the removd of the novel tiiese but we hope it is clear tiiat The hoUday pay and sick,pay is for taking advantage of the "low-Ievd entertainment", Tlie Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith from Queensland Teacher's Journal accusations assessed in the rate, would situation. because these bands are school reading Usts, he sdd: "We haven't are baseless and discreditable, nevertheless. amount to at least $806,10 "The employer says under the wings of say, banned the book. We have just tdd the for the .same four-piece dien, tiiat he is only pre two or three promoters, schools not to use it," band, at the same horus pared to employ a four- who had the whole scene Another example is the comment -JAMIE COLLINS for the six nights work per piece band which is fun tied up. offered to Semper that SOS is not a For the Editorid Board week.' replacement for 'Citizen Education', they damentaUy his right, and "This is changing now, Semper Newsmagazine "If a venue is prepared if eight people tum up what witii the Queens and are offered alongdde each other as later- to pay this amount of for the job, he can't help tiie Exchange Holds, for natives. money, the four players diat. example, but until now in the group are receiving "Muacians who are not son.e great bands, reaUy ftn
4 SEMPER Octoberl 1,1978 W''-.'''.- ' n-, rta"-V.^1 TAX REVOLT - Disturbing Lessons From America Citizens Cut Their Noses To Spite Their Faces
At first thc public witnessed The Australian newspaper's "Join the Tax Revolt" campaign. Then two weeks ago on the night of October Znd, a Kenmore tax revolt meeting was held in the Uniting Church Hall. Guest speaker was Dr Wvlie Gibbs. ^ The inspiration for these "protest" moves originates iiT America. A majority of Califomian dectors voted in favour of a referendum question which souglit massive lax cuts. by BRUCE DICKSON Property taxes and iocd government spending were drasticdiy slashed. now they're taking it away Since the landslide passage of this referendum from them. (Shades of question known as Proposition" 13, the right-wing Australia's funding for initiated tax revolt has become a nationd phenome aboriginal projects.) The non. loss of child care centres will force many women to State and national politicians have mslied to join the cease working and fall back Ffoposition 13 bandwagon. onto the welfare rolls. Meanwhile Howard Jarvis the person who proposed hi the area of education, the tax slashing bill is the man of the moment. Poli- dl school systems will be ticd offidds across the nation are now bowing before confronted with up to 15% dieir new arch-angel of the right. less revenue. Governor Jerry Brown of Cdifomia (who has long These schools in 1979 held a strong reputation as a genuine liberal) had could face 40% to 50% cuts vehemendy opposed Proposition 13 before its passage. in income. He now embraces the essence of Jarvis' phflosophy In Berkeley, all teachers as his own. were informed that they could expect a 20% pay cut. "His behaviour in tiie post-13 poUtical arena has been 52 teachers wiU be Idd off shameless," says Democratic Assemblyman Agnors, and reductions in fringe devdoping slowly being guys marchmg for chQdren's have to set up priorities, "It's one thmg to accept defeat graciously, but another benefits are stUl possible for only in its embryonic stages. services. Suddenly it's like yo" have to say what should to politically prostitiite youisdf with those who have those remaining. New coaUtions have sprung people are waking up and be cut.' But we were aU caused so much damage to the constituency which has Ubrary services in Ala up quickly and spontane redizing that it takes a great working at below minimum been so loyal to your politicd career-Blacks, C^hicanos, meda County are going to ously throughout Cdifomia effort when it comes to before. We have to insist the handicapped, tiie poor," be drastically cut and some and numerous protest achieving genuine socid diat no one gets cut." . Nationdly Senator George McGovern commented that branches closed. demonstrations have already justice within the communi WiU Australia learn from die CaUfornian experience? the so-caUed tax revolt contains "undertones of radsm" Drug rehabiUtation pro- been held involving thou ty." Whilst the Cdifomian smce numerous socid services for national minorities are ^ammcs such as the Los sands of people. Angeles based Positive "What the city, county dectors may have voted in getting the axe. Alternatives (a drug preven "I've never seen so many and state officids want us favour of tax cuts, many of Jerry Brown by becom- ram cuts and an immedi- tion project) vrill soon dis people come out on an to do is fight among our them did not reaUse at the ing Jarvis' best advocate in ate number of local "govern appear. issue, never before," sdd selves over who is to get the time that they were dso Sacramento, in what must ment sackings, the most Sales of drugs are likely one CaUfomian activist, littie they dlot us. At voting in favour of layoffs be the fastest political flip- profound consequences of to increase because of the "It's so inspiring. I've seen every meeting they say *You and socid wdfare cuts. flop in California's history, the bJU will not be felt untQ political economics of drug is aUying himself with a not- die fiscal year 1979. abuse. As one drug centre so-subde racist demogogue. However, the immediate worker stated "dmg users "The Constitution tdks effects are still profound in are going to have to get [ about Life, , Liberty and their consequences. money from somewhere, it's Conservative Influence Property," thunders Jarvis. going to be hard times and "Not Life, Liberty and Wel THE SOCIAL this will feed racism." fare. Not Life, Liberty and EFFECTS OF THE The list of cuts result Food Stamps. Not Life, TAX CUTS ing from Proposition 13 is In Students' Union Wanes Liberty and Dlagal AUens." immense and, its victims' Since the passage on stories go on and on. June 6 of the tax dashing In one Cdifomian MilUons wUl have their lives Sweeping Election Victory For Jarvis-Gann initiative county, 12,000 council disrupted in some way by (Proposition 13) Cdiforni- workers were Idd off, major die biU and the strain on the ans have lived through contracts were temiinated state's sodd fabric wiU be Moderates At Qld University weeks of flux and uncertain and welfare budgets slashed. severe. ty. A locd legd dd service Budget dlocations lost hdf of its staff and as TAX REFORM The moderate Active Student team achieved vutually middle between the left and its administrator comment changed dmost houriy, lay NECESSARY, BUT ... a clean sweep of positions in the annual Unhrersity of die right. off notices were maUed and ed "that means hdf of the Queensland Union elections. Nonetheless it has been then (partidly) rescinded, services we've been able to die conservative anti-AUS, Proposition 13 was the Hie victwy of Eugene O'Sullivan, theur presidentid new locd taxes appeared offer the people of this anti-«ociaUst, pro-life forces result of a right wing appcd hopeful, and his fellow Candidates represents a strong only to vanish ovemi^t. commimity," whose influence had been to popular discontent over Yet amid dl the con Thirty of 40 community ^ blow to the conservative presence on (^d campuses, on die increase up tfll the high taxation and wastage fusion, several predictable based medical clinics have time of these recent dec of pubUc funds. Tax reform results of the Jarvis-Gann been eliminated as a result by MIKE SANDS tions. is necessary, but the most biU were never in doubt. of Proposition 13, and the Persond popularity alone serious wastage occurs in John Heizog regarded as Union loss would have given "Proposition 13 may not remdnder have all been cut does not expldn the swing areas such as defence spend •a staunch right wmger by them nothing to be pleased have brought chaos and back 25%. Yet even before away from the righttoward s ing and in subsidies to his politicd opponents was about either. disaster to CaUfomia," says the cutbacks they were O'SuUivan's Inactive State Assemblyman Art unable to fully serve the private corporations, not in defeated for the position of O'SuUivan defeated tiie areas of socid welfare A.U,S, Secretary by new Student team. It must dso Agnors of San Francisco, needs of dl the people in Webb by 1006 votes to 526 suggest that students have "but it will bring pdn and their neighbourhoods. where the need for funds is comer to Union poUtics, and Active Student candi great. Dave Barbagdlo. This rejected either tiie content suffering to the dderiy, to ChUd care centres have date for Secretary, Annette or style (or both) of those In Cdifomia, a counter happened despite Heraog crippled children, to the been denied further fund Read, defeated her New conservative students active proposd to Proposition 13 having convmcingly won the mentaUy ill-to the poorest ing. In dl, 24 cliUdcare Union rivd Paul Rackemann on tills Campus. of the poor." centres in Oakland alone are advocates that tax relief be position in 1976 and 1977. by 1399 votes to 652. MeanwhUe the first slated to close. introduced for low and Herzog's controversid Even the most politically pubUc meeting proposing a Most of the children are middle-income earners New Union team which ran honest team running for tax revolt in Queensland, Black, Latino and Asian, coupled with the corpora for the election wiUi Peter office this year, the ADVERTISING takes place in Kenmore, one "Proposition 13 is re tions paying a more equit Webb as its presidentid Socialists polled well when IN SEMPER able share; a 90 day freeze of the wedthiest suburbs gression," commented one candidate lost positions it is considered that it is CAN WORK FOR in Brisbane. dn^e Black mo tiler, "It's on cutbacks and layoffs, across the board to Active usudly candidates who hide . Agnors' statement, denying those people a and the establishment of a Student candidates, indicat any strong politicd commit YOU strong as it is, indicates chance who never had a citizens' commission to ing that students were ments who win Union elec phone 3711611 only the Umited effects of chance. It took years to get work on the issues with definitely voting tickets this tions. Traditiondly the Proporition 13, For even the programs and give tiiese govemment. year, moderate Candidates ride to with imminent serious prog- people half a chance and! Thc counter movement is TTie margin of the New victory straight down the. SEMPER October 11,1978 5 witii unbridgeable gaps bet promulgated widely, un- totaUy imposdble by the presenting his superficid society of equds could ween them. Secondly, what scrupuloudy and for a long Second Law, which is a andysis of societal exist? I beUeve this to be about huge pits of anhnd time as fact. Since it is a fundamental law of matter. dynamics, uses some terms a more reasonable ex bones; animals supposedly popular idea that science No-one denies that there pectation than those of from eras separated by very loosely. He states, can prove anytiiing, solve is a variation within a the bourgeois eUte made thousand if not milUon year "ia revolutionary socialist anytiiing or expldn any spedes; this is caused by (From Page 4) apparent in their everyday spans-a// piled togetherVl transformation of society is tiiing supematurd away, mutations. However, there exploitation of the workers. How does evolution explain Utopian." I propose to If you beliefve the ledisa- evolution became is no way in which mysdf, whUe still a student, examuie briefly his usage of mutations can break diat? rion of an anarchist society "scientific". If it is, so is Evolutionists fdtii leaves was faced with an unwanted die temi 'Utopian,' for from of equals to be impossible tiirough the species barrier, die story of Cinderella, reUgious fdth for dead! pregnancy, which, if it had an anarchist's viewpoint, in modem techndogicd yet Darwin imagines waves Evolution is a concoction -DONNA LACEY been continued, would have its usage suggests a number society, whUe an hierar of genes, fossils and old and more waves of mutations coming from necessitated my dropping of assumptions, some of chical system exists based bones, stuck togedier witii my course. somewhere and creating whkh are true, and some on ineffident bureaucracy, Uberal amounts of Tarzan I'd suggest to Joan new spedes. If it were false. then your judgement has ^ue and presented to the ELECTION WARNING Simmons that the issue here unfortunately been shackled pubUc, And so it has sur possible, the mutating force is more than one of "polar Primarily, the term to the 'redities' of present needed to produce a new vived through the decades. Well, the student union isation". The situation is 'Utopian* implies something iniquities. Since U is not posdble spedes would kill any tiring unfeasible, impractical and within who knows how elections are over, the one where anti-feminist In conclusion, should to argue it out fully in one unobtainable. It many miles. women Uke (Mrs.) F. this letter encourage anyone letter, I would like to results are out, and every consequentiy suggests that Hansen, are posing as to begin unshackUng his/ present some arguments and MutatiCHis nowadays ui one is aware of who the any person striving for the feminists in order to attack her sdf from such iniquities, invite comments from man are called "congenitd victors and who the van realisation of a Utopian the very basis of the they might begm by readers. anomalies", hardly anything quished. People are going concept is an idealist pur women's liberation move ignoring the bourgeois Firstiy, evdution is a to be proud about, and around making comments suing a hopeless cause. ment. 'order' that idealism and direct contradiction to the are eitiier useless or harmful The second assumption like: "Isn't it ^eat that FinaUy, Ms Simmons impracticabiUty are in- Second Law of Thermo or potentiaUy so, whUe underiying Utopia is that it Herzog and the speaks of the need for dis- separaUe concepts. If you dynamics, which is totaUy mutated animals in the wild is an improved and better right-wingers are out?" Or cusdon and poUticd activity seek sodal and poUticd urefutable. The Second Law cannot survive. Where are situation, but neverthdess, "Maybe this union has had around femuiist issues. justice, then be proud to states that any system when Darwinian mutations, and impracticd. We have been That's what the Women's be Utopian, and anarchist. left to itsdf will become why aren't there any more its depths of conservatism conditioned to beUeve that Rights Committee is for. -M. RAGUSE simpler i,e. it wUl devdop waves? and now wil become more idealism and impracticala- So if you're not already Salisbury. into a /o wer state of energy. FossUs were used to try progressive." These involved with it, then get bUity are bedfdlows. It has Darwm ignored this and and prove evaluation; these comments, and lots more become dmost an insult involved. I know both the said tiiat variation, if recorded animds in in a dmilar van that I've current W.R, Organiser, in this society to be caUed RONA AND desirable, would be kept by different layers of rock. If heard, are pooriy conceived Erika Schwarz, and the an idealist or Utopian. one imagines evdution of EVOLUTION ntutud sdection. And thus, and badly worked out. They woman who had the job These labels are applied to die whole system, if its own animab, one would reason people who seem other- are based, not in reaUty, before Erika, Anna I was interested to see doing, became more and ably expect to find "hdf- McCormack. I also know wordly or out of contact but in superficid that Mrs, Joyner's activities more complex and one way" anunds. There aren't some of the women who with 'redity'. The most any! What we find is appearance. in the education field have spedes begot another are involved. They're convindng arguments of species and so on. This is perfected kuids of animals (Continued Page 14) friendly, they're supportive, these people can, and are once more attracted the diey welcome constructive often, invalidated by being attention of the ever-vigilant criticism such as yours, labelled as 'ideaUstic'. Semper team. Vigilant, that CaU in and see them. I would suggest that is, in watchmg for the And there's also another anarchist society confirms emergence of any women's group on campus, some of the above outlined opposition to its attitude the Women's Abortion assumptions. For example, towards the education Action Campdgn, which I it is Utopian in that it system and evolution, v^ch advocates a better and im believe is currentiy were made obvious (if not proved dtemative to expanding. Us work is before) in the last edition maiidy activist-oriented, but present sodety. Further I think that they, too, more, it is idealistic in that of the newspaper. Evolution often discuss the problems it is based upon ideals is, of course, anti-God since of the women's movement, such, as freedom, co creation is. its only possible where it's headed, how best operation, democracy, altematWe. to counter-act the right- complete equaUty and the I did not write to tdk wing women, etc. fraternity of the human about education, since a Tbose of us who have 'race. But it is neitiier great controversy erupted left university and are now impracticd nor unobtaiih earlier this year over Semp. working in fairly remote able. However, these outraged areas (I'm currentiy in It seems to me that the teacheis, mentioned in the Proserpine) are grateful for linkuig of ideaUstic, Utopian article on S.O.S. seem to the much-nneded discusdon concepts with inherent im- have convenientiy forgotten through letters, newsletteis practicabiUty is a false that they are there to teach, etc, that these two groups relationship fabricated by not to convert their class provide. the bourgeois mUng eUtes. room into a forum on socid My comments on F. What better way to main issues. Certdnly the Citizen Hansen's letter wiU be brief. tain the present egoistic ship Education course I F. Hansen is a sham. No and competitive sodety took dedt with stmcture woman who opposes free, dian by suggesting that and function of govemment safe contraception, opposes dissent and the promise of on aU levels, finance, women's ri^t to choose better altemative societies banking etc. and had abortion, opposes are but the ramblings of nothing at aU to do with lesbianism as a vaUd Ufe idedists out of contact with the "status quo of style, opposes free 24 hour 'reaUty'? AustraUan Ufe"-whatever chUd care, is a feminist. After aU, those whom that means, or with socid Discard your disguise, F, societd transformation issues, Hansen, Admit to being would benefit most, the Tiiese teachers seem to die right wing Right-to workeis, are bound by the dunk that no course at Life stooge that you are. •reaUty' of competitiveness school could possiUe be As for your daim that and acquisitive gain. Hence, complete without bdng die W.R.C. receives a "large any peison who breaches raveUed up in sodd issues. amount of money", stop these prindples must be Wltii their apparent dis trying to midead readers. dther an impoverished nut enchantment for teaching It's 8 wdl known fact in or a finandaUy immune subjects requiringsom e sdf- die Student Union that the nut. Thus the dite have disdpline from students and W.R.C. is one of the lowest engineered an effective teachers alike, it is not f^ded groups on campus. safety vdve for dissent by surprising that - respondble It gets 1,5% of women assodating Utopian teachers and employeis are students fees (around a concepts with the concemed at the degree of doUar from each woman imposdble and ImpracticaL iUiteracy and defidency in UKKyOMUl PRIZE student). Tlus compares However, I would argue basic mathematics dispalyed with pereentages Uke 40% diat the <»ncept of an by senior high school for tiie Part Time and dite-dominated sodety is a students. Extemd Students Or less feasible one than those It is not these teachers, ganisation. Your "large of anarchist dtemathres. but the students ^ho will amounts of money" tactic For example, what could be bear the consequences in Ht/flRY/V0M^7O is typicd of the ri^t wing. more theoreticaUy the end, and in this time -A. DOBSOfI imposdble than a small of unemployment, a Proserpine group of bourgeoisie defident education is a CAMPUS PHARAAACY hoping, and succeeding so severe handicap, both to far, to dominate and exploit themsdves and the country. It would no doubt have UNION BUILDING PROUD TO BE mUUons of worken? Tliis should be the unobtainable come as a surprise to many UTOPIAN dtuation-yet, it edsts. people to read that evdu- If this present absurd tion is unproven, which is VOW? L0C41 PACIFIC AGENT In Semper, Volume 48, ntuation of dite domina indeed true. This is because ntunbers 14 and 15, L. tion can exist, is it un* it is a theory and only Amos, apart from reasonable to suppose a a theory, which has been
6 SEMPER October 11.1978 Tlie problem is exacerbated by total i even notice that the screws dt on different lack of exercise. The daily routuie is eat, types of chairs, and eat different food. The sleep and clean, with no exercise period. degradation is there aU day, from the early The only time these women evey get out in moming cold water wash, to the afternoon die daylight is Saturday aftemocm and seareh, to the sheer inhumanity of not Sunday-and even then you have to sit or being about to touch your own chUd. stand; you can't crouch or Ue on the grass Every hour of every day, every month, because it's not ladylike. spent with the same faces, cleaning the Tlie uniform consists of a fHmsy blue same fioor, duly or not, with absolutely no shift that does not even cover your knees outiets for emotions. (and even widi the jacket it's hardly It's rigid boredom whichever way you adequate winter wear), Bobby socks and look at it and tensions run high. You're sandals don't keep your legs warm but treated like an idiot: aU the responsibUity diey're degrading to the older women. which comes with bdng an adult is taken Indde the jail, it is as cold as outside, with away. only 2 useless heaters in the refectory. In You're dependent to such an extent die dormitory, cold wind blows through that you don't and can't make any the bars and while I was at Boggo Road decisions. You don't decide when to eat, many women were compldning about the sleep or work. Even TV programmes are cold and asking for more blankets. chosen for you. The simple need for more These are only bade needs, but it is the tea or bread requires standing up and dehumanising aspects of the jaU which the asking "Please miss, can I have more tea?" women reaUy find degrading. Every step, every breatii is accompanied It seems that everything m the jail is by an order or permission. If it suits prison dmed at degrading you, at making you less authorities to have a bunch of mindless dian human. The prison regulations put a robots on their hands, it hardly seems good barrier between you and tiie officers by rehabiUtation policy. In fact from aU the not allowing any friendly talk between evidence it seems that the prison officer and prisoner. authorities don't redly care about the There are also the obvious barriers future of these women-they want effident between you and the outside world: dl administration. letters are opened and if necessary Your first instinct is to rebd agdnst censored; even visits are censored in that an this; however, you are in such a dependent officer has to be there to listen to the position that the spirit of rebelUon and 1'HE BOGCO ROAD conveisation. Tlie regulation provides that pride does not last long: dietary no daily news is to be transmitted to the punishment and the sheer loneliness and prisoner, and no details of prison Ufe are to degradation of the cage soon break you. be told by the prisoner. You might need your daily vaUum or two WOMEN However the dehumanising process goes but you conform and that is vs*at they further than the fact that you completely want. •lose your privacy; after a while you don't On March 11th 1978 I attended the International Women's Day rally in Roma Street Little did I know I would be arrested, let alone land in prison. PRISON CASE HISTORIES During my trial (1 was charged with taking part in an illegal procession and dis obeying a police order) I found that in addition to the usual prosecution, 2 other TRACEY: AboriginaL Armed robbery. 7 years. Has wdted for parole for so police prosecutors were sitting in the police gaUery and hdpuig (through notes and long that just before it she had a major nervous breakdown. Parole was put cases) tiie poUceman conduct his case. back. VICKI: Canadian, Came to Australia on a fianceevis a only to find her fiance Now suitably dressed as a "crim" I A personal account to be a homosexud: he, because of discrimination agdnst homosexuals needed could be inb-oduced to the "others". This to be married to furtiier his career, she, after a few months of living with him by ANNE-MARIE MIOCHE was the moment I had been dreading: and his boyfriend, bought a gun to suidde and ended up wounding him. She everyone had been telUng me tdes of rapes, got 3 years-was pregnant (from someone else) when jaUed, could not have an assaults and rough women. My stomach Strangely, I recognised the first one abortion, shreded a blanket to hang herself, ended up ui Wolston Park. She is sank. hoping to be sent back to Canada as soon as she has served her sentence, to be the prosecutcn: of a previous case Much to my reUef,th e first punch was a PAULINE: Drug addict. Had a habit that cost her $800 a week. She had to where I had been acquited, much to his smUe, the first kick a greeting; there were sell. Police busted her and she skipped bail. The first tiling she did was to kick displeasure. The second had been the only about 30 women in the refectory, die habit; she went overseas twice, got married, had a child. She felt she had to prosecutor on the case of the woman most young, many blacks, dl friendly and ffve herself up before the baby got too old. 3 years. I had been arrested with. She had ghren helpful. Some even went tothe warder(aU 16 YEAR OLD: KUled a man whfle on the mn from a kid's home. She was evidence, covering much of my arrest and warders in this section are women) and dmnk and stoned. Spent her 16th birthday in jdl and 4 montiis inthe cages, hi it was clear that a peijury charge was asked if I could sit at theu table. I soon Boggo Road, with it's drudgery and 30 mk of largactii per day, the ri^t place vdiat they were after, became famUiar with the daUy for a 16 year old??? I did not defend the second charge routine-first beU (S,30am), stand at and was fined S20 or five day in jaU for attention; second bell, make bed, get it dressed; third bell, you're out, stand at Looking back, it seems dUficult to attention for roU call. estabUsh exactiy why I went to jail. I Then it's out into the early morning for couldn't reaUy spare $20, and going to jaU die cold water wash of underpants). After 0RIEN1AL for a traffic offence epitomizes the state of breakfast it's the duties: "refectory girls", ADVERTISING IN SEMPER dvU Uberties in Queendand. Most laundry girls and dormitory girls. CAN WORK FOR YOU! BAZAAR important of dl however, I had heard At 12,30 it's lunch and, after that, back Batik. Chinese. Indian Oothtng dreadful stories about the condition of to cleaning untU 3.30 at which time one and Goods women in jaU and wanted to find out if goes back to the dormitory ("bed-tune" they were true. in the mde prison is an hour later). The Phone Rob Cameron (3711611) Happy coals, happy pants, caftans, wraparound slcids. Incense, woks, indian flutes, buddhas Life Inside Brisbane's Maximum lO^r STUDENT DISCOUNT Security Prison ON CLOTHING Pritchards 393 George St. CITY The poUce came for me as soon as the dormitory has a TV which you're aUowed fine was overdue, so I phoned the to watch if you have been good, and in the IndooroopUly station and it was amiaged cells you Usten to 4BK. At 9pm the Ughts diat I would go "in" on Thursday the IStii are turned off. of May. At 8,15 that day I made my way Life in the women's section is spartan: to the station. One of the 2 officeis There are no rehabflitation programmes formaUy anested me and we made our way (the men have two workshops and a to a poUce car, bakery), no exercise (the men do) and for Duiing the trip to Boggo Road the dmg addicts it's cold turkey. The women police (who were quite friendly) were are not bloodthirsty "crims" but more teUing me how hoirible the jaU was: "Not a victims of hardluck stories and sheer nice place that you know.. .1 wouldn't like racism. Seven out of the 28 women in to be gobig there. . .rought women."The Boggo Road in May were aboriguid yet the bare sadness of the jaU with its high Abcffighies represent only 1.7% ofthe totd desolated waUs was only emphasized by Queendand population. the grey day. The diet is extremdy boring witii no I had always seen die jaU from a confor- fresh fruit, and jam, margarine and milk table distance, now I was scared. We drove rationed. The women get die leftovers through a number of bolted re-inforeed from the mde's prison so that the meat is doors, finaUy we stopped before anodier not dways fresh (I recaU one incident in independent jaU: I was surprised to see that particular related to my by a kitchen hand, die women's section was only a smaU vdiere the meat was so bad she refused to wooden buflding vriUch stood in the cook it; after much tiauma, it was shadow of the bigger, more modem mde reinspected and thrown out). - ' complex. As the prinsoners pouit out, if the diet The wardens were poUte but cdd: no is as wdl-bdanced as the auQiorities human sentiments seemed to get past these muntdn, why is it that so many of the 14 CoUingwood Street, Paddington (36 4809) waUs. When the formdities were over I was women fall dck, that thehr skins break out handed my "bundle" (tootiipaste, tootii- and that they put on weight and go flabby BYO. Open every night 6.30pm untfl late brudi, DTT powder, underpants) and (one woman in particular putting on 9.5 kg and I2noon until 2pm Monday to Friday. told to take a shower. (1M stones) in 2 mondis). SEMPER October 11,1978 7 e^or.rrijdoiao n3iM3S a UNION IN JAM "S(Hne publicans' wfll never hear from the Union." And the mudcians them turn a bUnd eye, Musidans "They demand that, WITH MUSOS often take doOT money if Perhaps because a lot of sdves? One said that there fed they can do nothing \diere bands do not have (From Page 3} • die entertainment goes weU the people in these bands were some bands ui about it, otherwise they tiieir own equipment, which and then pay a minimum are not membeis? Brisbane "protected by would lose gigs as a result is true in many cases, they fee only to the band. "In the first place, they their promoters and the As in Queensland, perfor must hire aU this equipment "These new, smdler "Bands are hesitant to probably can't afford union union who play run-of-the- mers far outnumber jobs from these particular com venues say they can't afford claim a rip-off because they membership simply because mUl commercial crap in and everyone is in the panies, in other wc^ds, from to pay minimum fees. They fed they wUl then have they find it so hard to get their usud venues, that is, scramble. the promoters themsdves. were paying out a percen no work niven to them in a break, and secondly, why the ones wrapped up by The report concluded: "This involves a ftirther tage of the doot' take to the future, banas are easfly should they fed obliged to their promoters, "Rock musicians take Uttie cut of the fees. In the the bands. Some bands were exploited. Take, for ex be part of a union which A "When they paly off part in union affdrs. They respect that bands are being even prepared not to take ample, the 'casual' dement appears to guide its sphere their own bat in the newer, find meetings a bore. The ripped off, the union is any fee at dl, just to hdp involved in hiring musos: of influence in any direction more interesting venues, attihide of many appeals correct, but the union the venues, and the music any extras are the cream, but theirs?" he shot back. these bands come out with to be that to work witii hasn't done a thing to stop that came out of them, so to speak, and people The Brisbane branch of some great origind materid union officids is to waste tius dtuation," he sdd. get off the ground," he are that keen they wiU the Musicians Union has which they would never their time." Perhaps members of the sdd, work for much less than close to 1000 members, have the chance to play Mudcians' Union are not Another local musician they should. with at least, according to otherwise. voidng their protest within "The question is, there seemed to confirm Peter the secretary, another 400 "They are forced to the union strongly enough, fore, whetiier Brisbane is "Only a coUectWe re WUUamson's attihide, by as potential members, play aU the otiier stuff or perhaps they just fed getting the music it could. sistance, through the union, claiming that two promoters mostiy from pop and rock sunply to make money. defeated by the suspicion The situation is improving wUl change this dtuation," in particular have spent aU bands. Only 10% to 12% The union has never hdped that the union is interested at long last: the fantastic he sdd, their time and energy in of its members are regulariy them to develop their own only in certain types of response to the 'new set Peter WflUamson, wrapping up the music employed. materid and make a go of music. up at the Queens showed however, remained adamant scene in Brisbane-and not it." However, if the uruon is how long young people in that some pubs just could It does not aUow a only by controlUng bands not particularly mterested, Brisbane had been starved not pay what the union "door take" policy urdess The musicians who fed and their venues, of good, iimovative music, demanded. He cited as an' spedficaUy approved by its this way may have given in the pub rock scene, the rock or otherwise. example one particular committee, which is rare, a nod of recognition to a "They act as agents, public is. At one mid "What we needed to do hotd which is becoming and then only in conjunc report on the plight of certainly, for their 10% to week . audition night was break the cyde of known as an outlet for tion with ttie iiiijumuru fee. their feUow rock musidans 20% cut of the bands' (audition only, mind you) promoter-venue monopoly. 'punk/new . wave'. mudc, Another major factor in NSW, pubUshed earUer fees," he sdd. "But they recentiy in a new venue, Now we can pay muiimum "At weekends, it. can that Mr. Wilkinson sees as this year by The National dso own sound equipment 350 people tumed up to fees, door takes, you name only hold 300 people," he aggravating the situation is Times {Feb.6-U). and production companies, listen and dance-and it-but it took dl tiie effort sdd. "During the week, the the avoidance of tax com The report claimed that as well as Ughting equip appeared . to enjoy them of tiiose fired-up, fmstrated figure hardly ever rises mitments, by aU parties. officials of the NSW branch ment and so on. sdves immensely. bands who were prepared above 100 for any one of They are supposed to be of the Musidans' Union are ' ^ to play for nix to get it tiie nights music is on. taxed by their employer, a long way from the rock aU happening. he sdd, but the musidans world they represent, most "Despite this, we are WANTED "Quite simply, tiiey drew stfll supporting it because it wUl take any work and wUl having been classical or jazz in the thousands of kids is important to feed the take a handout from their mudcians. who we knew to be des mudc scene and hdp it take employer. It went on to diow how perate for off, The tax department's the union stiU recruits rock Second tenor for Barber reasonably-priced, 'get-your- "The Musidans' Union poUcy on payments to mudcians and insists that Shop Quartet. Sij^t rocks-off music venues," has never done anything artists rests on the phrase mudcians appearing on the readers preferred. Peter sdd. for any of these punk "known by employer", re TV show Countdown,. for POLICE problemi; Isndkjid Rehearsds 2 hours per NeU WUkinson claims bands. It looks after' the ferring to the employer's example, have to be paid-up hasikt; Is your "friend" befaig defamatory of you; contKt week preparing for pubUc that the idea that some cabaret-type band, knowledge of how much members (an appearance on performances. Contact each musician gets as to the such a show is considered STUDENTS LEGAL AID, hotds cannot afford generaUy speaking, and tiien lit flr UQ Unkm BdUing. John Fitzgerdd at minimum tees is "mbbish". only when they are already tax required. However, em obligatory for aspuing Open Monday, Friday lOtm 370 1595 or via Univer- He sees this as anotiier weU-pdd and able to expect ployers can get around this hands). to 4pm. Ph 371 1611 for dty of Queendand Music by paying a lump sum. ploy' by employers to rip union support, However, when it comes appohitmnit, ask tor NireUe Department. bff bands, and says' that "Up and commg bands, "The tax department just to making sure the bands Ward, Admin. Seaetary, the mdn problem is trying to broaden the enter doesn't want to know about are properiy pdd at their William Beattie-Director, regulation of payment. tdnment base in Brisbane, it," Mr, Wilkinson sdd. venues, the union seems to EAST BRISBANE ALP Plumber-Crasfitter AT VERY REASONABLE RATES SMORGASBORD DINNER •. renews gas pipes GUEST SPEAKER • imtailt water tytttms X>HN NELIS • npairt roofs 9 Horrocks Street. Toowong. 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8 ." SEMPER'ottiibfevti;id^r The Social Effects Of The Mass Media
.. ."This year, 1974, a very significant generation is reaching the legal age of Australian adulthood. They are the first generation to have had TV throughout their whole life. They have been bred on a secondhand reality, a staple diet of violence and romance, tinsel and hearfbreaR, thrills and spill's, They expect a world in which all conflicts and problems can be solved in an hour, V aiting through a commercial break is the only time they have learnt to delay gratification. Their critical standards have been dulled both culturally and politically. The enormous barrage of sensationalism and speculation, euphemistically called news, gives them no chance for critical reflection. It is the media that decides and defines an issue. The public is passive. It is just litmus paper, turning red or blue, as the media wishes." . . ."The ancient Persians had a custom that when a messenger brought bad news, they used to kill him. We haven't changed very much. V e still blame the messenger for the news he brings. The mass media are everyone's scapegoat. Ve don't have to criticize people anymore-just blame the media. Heme the media because people watch what they want to. Blame the media because people only remember the parts they want to. If the media is so powerful and pernicious, why do most people still vote the way their parents did? The media gives people the opportunity to be better informed than every before don't blame the media if people don't take it. A 1971 American study found that after a televised news program, 51 per cent of people could not recall even one of the 19 stories. N hat a poweiful effect!" What are the effects of the mass media in contemporary society? Oppoate answers • like the imaj^naiy arguments above, are both commonly given. People wotking in the media themselves disagree. The editor of the Wagga Gazette obviously had a high opuuon of his influence when he wrote, after the Russian Revolution of 1917: "Many times this paper has wamed the Czar..." Otheis are perhaps overly modest ui seeing themselves as having no effect at aU, Some people switch ddes when the context changes. For example, a media executive may argue strongly that there are no demons trable effects from T,V. violence and hence no need for pubUc regulations controUmg it; and aigue just as strongly to a potential advertiser about the undoubted effect on sales from advertising, liach side can quote supportive evidence very nature of the media. and plaudble arguments. Those who view One is the new and important massness the media's effect as roinimd argue, for of the media. This does not mean people example, that people only watch by. are puppets or that a whole audience choice and so programs only reinforce has a unifoim response. But it does mean existing predispoations. Also, we have that a few people have power to com seen in the first section of this book the municate instantaneously to an enormous capacity of people to impose their own and varied audience that has no power meanings and interpretations on incoming to answer back, and no opportunity to infonnation. . participate as anything but numbers. On the other isde, some supportive The second thing the media can do evidence in a Umited area can be deduced is largely determine the agenda of from the effectiveness of advertising. concerns. It can decide what stories and Not only the faith of hardheaded execu issues to give prominence to, and that ACKNOWLEDGMENT atui is a highly recommended source of tives who pour mUUons of doUars uito prominence wiU often be taken as sig information on the critical nature of the it but ako some remarkable examples of nifying importance. WhUe various parts Effects of the Mass Media is the final relationslup between the media and the changes ui consumer behaviour that have of the pubUc wiU be either more or less ext met to be reprinted by Semper from state of our social awareness. accompanied some advertidng campaigns. moved, it is the media which is providing Communications and Politics: The recommended retail price of the .Kn example is the advertising of canned the common stimuU to which they may The Press, The Public 8 The Third Work! booklet is 80 cents and it is avaikble from pet foods where consumption rose in make various responses. by Rod Tiffen. This booklet is published some specialty bookshops or direct from . Austrdia from a vdue of $5 miUion ui by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid Actwn for World Development, 1964 to $47 mUlion m 1971. The TYPE OF ISSUE proportion of canned pet food sold, rose It should be clear that the power of from being very small to over 80 per the media wdl vary with the type of issue. cent of the dbg and cat food market. It wiU be minimized when the issues are FoUowing the great pet-food advertising most famiUar to the audience or of which Channeling the breakthrough in 1967, the proportion they have first-hand experience. If, on of "premium" canned foods (as opposed the other hand, it is mediating a world to ordmary quality) rose from 40 per remote from the individual with which PubUc's Perception cent to 80 per cent. he is unfamUiar, the media can define that world for him. An American study in the I950's byJOELSWERDLOW radio. In 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert showed a simUar association between . We might expect that the effect.of Hoover, tbe official designer of radio reguladon, the media content and pubhc behaviour. the media wUl be limited on a matter said that it was "inconceivable that we should The study looked at the rdations over Uke which party to vote for: This is an THE SPDNSOR: Notes on a Modern allow 30 great a possibtUty for service ... to be drowned in advertising chatter." Then he helped time between 1) actud crime rates, 2) issue on which the audience wiU have Potentate. Bv Erik Barnouw. Oxford. 220 preformed and sometimes immovable open the floodgates to commercid exploitation, media coverage of crime and 3) public pp $10 and they have been open ever unce, concem about crime. It found quite a opinions. UsuaUy election campaigns are characterized by a greater than usud Like so many things in Washington, it all juit degree of divergence between (1) and TELEVISION IS ARGUABLY the angle most seemed to happen without anyone ever nodcing. (2) i.e, the media did not nust reflect amount of poUtical discussion, so powerful" force in America today. Watching "The 'American system of broadcasting' was the crime dtuation but rather made its dtemative information sources are, to television, after all, is what Americans do more never really adopted," Barnouw writes. own choices about how to report the some extent, avaUable, Also by the nature than anything else except deep. It is nothing "Neither in 1927 nor in 1934 — when our basic dtUHtion and , what relative prominence of elections, news stories wUl contain short of amazing, therefore, to leam from news broadcasting laws were written — did the accounts that top network executives today to give it at different times. Interestingly different and confUcting views and the people's representatives in Congress assembled audience has a more direct choice of whom believe that their most pressing duty is to give us decide that the air should be a commercial com the study dso suggested that (3) was programs with prettier girls. Of course, the girls more dosely rdated to (2) than to (1) to believe. modity. They seemed, with their emphasis on must also have big breasts to satisfy what car 'the public interest.' to decide just the opposite. i,e. pubUc concem reflected media However on those issues which are our toonist Garry Trudcau calls our "jiggle in But they placed few restraints on future coverage more closdy than it reflected special concern such as underdevelopment, terest." developments. The rest of the story , . . was a the actud crime rate. none of the characteristics applies. The How can this be? The answer is a story lllled Kradual take-over by budness, which was soon ' Both these examples are suggestive of media can call President Suharto an angel with lust, greed, corrupdon, deception and accepted as a fait accompli and dmost a fact of the impact of the mass media, although or a devU and there is no pre-formed banality. And Erik Bamouw has managed to tell nature." It is dways possible that other factois opuuon coming up to meet and interpret it all within the framework of solid, well- First came tentadve "trade name publicity," researched historical andytis. Bamouw, author such u Schrafft's Tearoom Orcheatra and thc uitcrvened, e.g, the advertidng was opening the infonnation. Very few AustraUans ofthe definidve, three-volume History of Broad- a new market by expIoitUig an existing have flrst-hand or detailed knowledge of Wanamaker Organ Concerts. Stay away from lastin); in the United Slates, was recently nameddirec t advertising, a Madison Avenue sage warn but unsatisfied need. Trying to gauge Asia and the stories are not usuaUy of the to head the Library of Congress' new MoUon the effect of the media is an area where ed sponsors in 1927, you do not have "the right type that present debates or contrasting Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound to inflict selling propaganda in the midst of a it Is very hard to disentangle the views within them. On this type of issue Dividon. The tale he tells isn't pretty. broadcasting entertainment any more than an intertwinuig factors. But there are two the effects of the mass media may weU To undentand television, Bamouw points out, agreeable weekend guest may suddenly launch dUnendons which can be argued from the be maximised. you must Hrst lecosniu that it evolved from into an insurance tolicitation at Sunday 9 ukes him one disturbing »tep further. All tele vision, he argues, is'a long, endless commercial. He makes a good case. Another manifestation of sponsor control is revuionism that would make even Stalinist historians blush. The stories are legend. One program portrayed the. Civil War and never mentioned blacks or slavery. Lobbying by florists is notorious for keeping bereaved Channeling the Public's characters everywhere from saying, "Send a charitable contribution instead of flowers." Perhaps the sickest censorship ia discussed at length by Bamouw. In a dramadc representa Perception tion of the Nuremberg trials, sponsored by the natural gas industry, die word "gas" had to be dinner," taken from die script A few "gases" slipped by,; Those days were shorUived, Long before the but the network engineer blipped them out. "Good evening masochists' advent of television, trade name publicity gave Even the "good" is corrupt When ITT was way to hard-sell messages, and discretion yield having image problems, it paid for a wonderful ed to greed. In Hoover's time, broadcasters children's program to be broadcast on fringe, vetoed toothpaste commercials because the sub relatively cheap, time. Then it purchased prime- ject was too persotial. Since then, we've come a time commerdals to announce ita beneficence. long way, baby, u> bad breath and feminine As a result even after Watergate, Chile, overseas protective shields, Reading Bamouw you see bribes and other scandals involving ITT, its that broadcasters and sponsors alike felt little "social responsibility rating" as measured by embarrassed aking the way. The bucks came in Gallup, rose diamaUcally, The example isn't too fast. isolated. Barnouw notes; "Of the 100 top network sponsors of 1975, fli were multinational Thus, television inherited a system whereby corporations." whatever was necessary to maximize profits In the end, Barnouw has the same problem happened, with the federal government's con facing everyone who thinks serioudy about nivance or BcquieKence. A symbiodc, and tune in at the right time. It is here that Bamouw television. The phenomenon is so pervasive, the equally important, pattern was the diffusion of neglects to mention one altemative. Perhaps stakes so high, and die abuses so demonsuably responsibility. At least you could blame programs will become so bad that people will dangerous, that you can't just list agenda for Schrafft's if you didn't like their orchestra. But tum off their sets and spooBora will begin to de reform. He speaks wistfully of technological ad in the early 1950s, still television's infancy, die mand better quality. According to the Nielsens, vances. But real change will occur only if the "magadne concept" took hold. Ever since then, daytime viewing during 1977 dropped by 6,4 frightening truth somehow seeps past the Geritol most sponsors have purchased time-slots on a percent and prime-dme by 3,1 percent, the first commercials and Charlie's Angels into the wide range of programs made available by the such decline ever. national consciousness. It would be nice to networks. Thus, if anyone comes around asking Barnouw is pardcularly effective in explain believe that Barnouw'e book — .an un who ia respondble for program content, sponsors ing what this total sponsor control means. questionably valuable contribution to the and network execuUves keep pointing their "Newsmen" are selected via devices like the literature on television — will help that process. fingers at the next room until the questioner "galvanic skin response testa" to make sure that But this is, after all, only a book. finds himself back out on the sUeet. After all, the audience will like them. "Public service an the sponiors say, they merely purchase those nouncements" must be approved by the Adver fleeting 30 and 60 seconds on programs that tising Council, the very people they're supposed have already been produced. And tbe network, to counterbalance. "The Council seemed intent as budness enterprises acutely attuned to the on redefining 'pollution' as a purely personal JPEL SWERDLOW is coauthor of Remote Con • public's wishes, only invest in programs that will transgression... One spot showed an Indian trill: Television and the Manipulation of be popular. So, if anyone needs a villain, look in with a tear in his eye, observing litter on a American Life, and of a forthcoming novel, Code the mirror. highway. 'It's a crying shame,' was die caption. Z. But Barnouw breaks down this Adolph Nonreturnable botdes and cans went unmen Eichmann vision of causdity to show how tioned." everything, from idea concepUon to the most And the "entertainment" program — indeed, minute dialogue change, is actually catered to the art of drama itself — is designed to make us Channeling the PuUic*s Perception the aponsors' wishes. In the 1950s, there was a more ambiUous consumers. The message in was first published in The Guardian "sponsor's booth" rightther e in the production every episode ia clear: You must be attractive. studio. But that is no longer necessary — Homes should be well furnished. Cars are ex in July 1978. everyone knows what they want anyway. citing. Problems can always be solved. Enjoy. "Civen tiie opportunity I could be To survive in the television world, one simply Feel good about yoursllf and consume. Former anatliema to fust as many people has to follow the proper formula for titilladon, Federal CommuDicat|pna Commissioner as he is." ensuring the maximum number of viewers with Nicholas Johnson oncakwarned that "all the correct demt^aphic characteristics will television is educadonal television." Bamouw L-
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WICKETY-WAK (rock) SALLY & THE Music: JINDALEE HOTEL Saturday SKINDIVERS Sinnamon Rd, JJnria/ee CENTENARY POOL $2 cover charge RESTAURANT 14th October Gregory ten-ace. Spring ON JAZZ (ABC televised) Hill Rock, Folk, Jazz MELBOURNE HOTEJ^ BEAGLE BOYS Irock] 2 Browning St, West End HOMESTEAD HOTEL CAXTON ST JAZZ CLUB $2.50 cover charge 114Zillmere Rd.Boondall 17 Caxton St, Petrie Tea. $2 cover charge 7.30pm-11pm. Licensed Country&Blues RECKLESS RHYIHIVI RIDERS & WARRIOR (rack) WICKETY-WAK (rock) QUEENS HOTEL JINDALEE HOTEL Tuesday 2 Creek St. City Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee 17th Octotier $2 cover charge DENIS ROSE MANHATTON TRANSFER CURRY SHOP BUCKSKIN (country) (from USA-blues/cabarat) 409 George St, City BENTLEYS BOOGIE MELBOURNE HOTEL HOMESTEAD HOTEL $1 cover charge Tuesday BAND 2 Browning St, West End 114 Zillmere Rd.Boondall MELBOURNE HOTEL $3 cover charge $2 cover charge 10th October 2 Browning St, West End $2.50 cover charge ANNE KIRKPATRICK WICKETY-WAK (rock) BEAGLE BOYS (rodcl Friday BAND & THE ELKS JINDALEE HOTEL HOMESTEAD HOTEL THE ELKS & SOUNDS (country rock) Sinnamon Rd. Boondall 114Zillmere Rd.Boondall FROM EARTH (rock) 13th October QUEENS HOTEL (in con $2 cover charge $2 cover charge QUEENS HOTEL (in con junction with 4Z77I junction with 4ZZZ) 2 Creek St, City BEAGLE BOYS (rock) WICKETY-WAK (roekl 2 Creek St. City $2.50 & $1.50 for 4ZZZ HOMESTEAD HOTEL Wednesday JINDALEE HOTEL $2.50 & $1.50 42ZZ subscribers Sinnamon Rd, JindaJee subscribers 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall $2 cover charge $2 cover charge 181h October DISPOSABLE FITS & RECKLESS RHYTHM WICKETY-WAK (rock) VINTAGE JAZZ SOCIETY FULLER BANKS ANO RIDERS & GO-BETWEENS BENTLEYS BOOGIE JINDALEE HOTEL OF BRISBANE THE DEBENTURES EXCHANGE HOTEL (in BAND Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee TWELFTH NIGHT EXCHANGE HOTEL conjunction with 4ZZZ) MELBOURNE HOTEL $2 cover charge THEATRE CLUB 131 Edward St, City 131 Edward St, City 2 Browning St, West End (In the basement) Cintra St, $2 cover charge & $1,50 $2&$1.50for4ZZZ$ubs. $2.50 cover charge KEN HERRON JAZZ Bowen Hills. Licensed. 4ZZZ subscribers BAND 8.30pm-midnight. SOUNDS FROM EARTH MANHATTAN TRANSFER MELBOURNE HOTEL RIVERSIDE FOLK CLUB & WHITE LIGHTNfNG (biues/csbarat) 2 Browning St, West End (ADVENTURERS CLUB MOOLOOLABA HOTEL HOMESTEAD HOTEL $2.50 cover charge 1 Annie St, Kangaroo Point (In conjunction with 4ZZ2) 114 Zillmere Rd, Boondall 8pm-11pm. Licensed $2 The Esplanade, Mooloolaba. $2 cover charge member & $3 non-members FELIX & PHOENIX (rockl QUEENS HOTEL Wednesday TEN TO ONE ITS ED WICKETY-WAK (rock) 2 Creek St, City (blues) JINDALEE HOTEL CURRYSHOP Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee FULLER BANKS & THE 409 George St. City $2 cover charge 11th October DEBENTURES $1 cover charge EXCHANGE HOTEL CAPTAIN MATCHBOX & BEAGLE BOYS (rock) Thursday 131 Edward St, City JIMMY & THE BOYS HOMESTEAD HOTEL $2&$1.50for4ZZZsubs. Sunday IIAZillfnerB Rd.Boondall QUEENS HOTEL (In conjunction with 4ZZZ| $2 cover charge 12th October ANNE KIRKPATRICK 15th October 2 Creek St, City BAND & SOUNDS FROM $3 & $2 4ZZ2 subscribera WICKETY-WAK (roekl BEAGLE BOYS (rock) EARTH THESHARKS JINDALEE HOTEL HOMESTEAD HOTEL MOOLOOLABA HOTEL CURRYSHOP RIVERSIDE FOLK CLUB Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee 114 Zillmere Rd. Boondall (in conjunction with 4ZZZ) 409 George St, City ADVENTURERS CLUB $2 cover charge $2 cover charge Tlie Esplanade, Mooloolaba, $1 cover charge 1 Annie St, Kangaroo Point
SEMPER October 11.1978 11 0\Ci ,«( iti;;» >ju' ftj-niijio Ul JIMMY & THE BOYS DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Thursday EXCHANGE HOTEL Friday RECITALS Peter Roennfeldt (piano) Concert 131 Edward St, City I3tfi October Dances $2.50 cover charge The Performance Room, Music 19th October Building, University of Old WOMENS DANCE RECKLESS RHYTHM QUEENSLAND SYMPHON at 1.10pm Bands on Saturday 14th October from BEAGLE BOYS (rock) RIDERS & WHITE ORCHESTRA presents: 7.30pm to 12pm. Relaxation HOMESTEAD HOTEL 4th ABC Gold subscription LIGHTNING Block, University of Old. 114 Zillmere Rd.Boondall Orchestral Concert-conductor KELVIN GROVE COLLEGE MOOLOOLABA HOTEL Singers and live womens' $2 cover charge Vanco Cavdarskiworks by OF ADVANCED EDUCATION (in conjunction with 4ZZZ) band will be playing. Food and Lovelock, Proshev & Busoni RECITALS: licensed. Admission'^is $2. WICKETY-WAK (rock) The Esplanade, Mooloolaba. Conservatorium Auditorium David Leviston (flute) and Sunday JINDALEE HOTEL Gardens Point. George St, Betty Vergara (piano) CAPTAIN MATCHBOX BAKE AND MOONLIGHT Sinnamon Rd, Jindalee Brisbane at 8pm, Music Building, KGCAE, DANCE & BUSHWACKERS Victoria Park. Kelvin Grove $2 coyer charge 8th October on Sunday 15th October at QUEENS HOTEL (In at 1.10pm 8pm. to be held at Marawah ON JAZZ {ABC talawfsd) conjunction with 4ZZZ) MUNICIPAL CONCERT BAND Farm, (off Mt. Cotton Rd, 2 Creek St, City NORTH BRISBANE COLLEGE MELBOURNE HOTEL NEWSTEAD HOUSE Burbank) Bale Em Up Bush $3 & $2 for 4ZZZ subs. Saturday OF ADVANCED EDUCATION 2 Browning St, West End Newstead at 3pm Band will be playing. Starts $3 cover charge presents: TEN TO ONE ITS ED 14th October 8pm. Concert by the Laiton Brass EXCELSIOR BAND SWITCH* METRO TAXI (Uu«) Ensemble BOTANICAL GARDENS (rock) CURRYSHOP MUSICA VIVA AUSTRALIA Room 2.71, N BCAE. Kedron Brisbane at 3pm QUEENS HOTEL 409 George St, City presents: Park Rd. Lutwyche at 8pm 2Creek St.City $1 cover charge Concert by Warsaw Admission $1.50 Philharmonic Chamber SOUTH BRISBANE FEDERAL Orchestra, works by Handel, BAND Mozart, Ligetl & Haydn Saturday NEW FARM PARK Sunday New Farm at 3pm .»•» Mayne Hall. University of Qld. 22nd October St. Lucia at 8,15pm tx)okings 22nd October at Festival Hall (229 4250) Cur^SERVATORIUMOF MUSIC praients: RONNIE REBBIT8( THE Recital by Kerry Smith TOAOETTES (violin), Richard Dedecius CURRYSHOP (cello) & Piers Lane (piano) Sunday 409 George St, City Monday Conservatoirum Auditorium, $1 cover charge Gardens Point, George St, Live Brisbane at 3pm 15th October SALLY & THE 16th October .SKINDIVERS QUtENSLAND SYMPHONY BRISBANE CITIZENS BAND I r|Pil|'t*P CENTENARY POOL CONSERVATORIUM OF ORCHESTRA presents: nnTANICALGARDENBOTANICAL GARDENS M. M.KKftM.t.M. V- RESTAURANT MUSIC presents: 5th Free ABC Orchestral Brisbane at 3pm Gregory Terrace, Spring Student Rectlal by Linda Concert, conductor Vanco Hill Carello (violin) Cavdarski soloist, Paul Neal CITY TEMPLE SALVATION Conservatorium Auditorium (baritone) ARMY BAND Friday CAXTON ST JAZZ CLUB Gardens Point. George St, Botanic Gardens. Brisbane at NEW FARM PARK THE QUEENSLAND 17 Caxton St, Petrie Terrace Brist»ne3t8pm. 7.30pm. New Farnn at Spm Licensed. 7.30pm toll pm. OPERA presents: 20th October Mm MUNICIPAL CONCERT BAND tm mt KING GEORGE SQUARE BEAGLE BOYS (rockl I IMPORTANT NOTJCE Brisbane at 3pm Wed nth & Fri 13th October HOMESTEAD HOTEL TO ALL READERS OF THE PEARL FISHERS by 114Zillmere Rd.Boondall BRISBANE'S LIVING Szet $2 cover charge GUIDE Producer John Milson-with the Queensland Theatre WICKETY-WAK (rock) To the best of our Sunday Orclrestra HOMESTEAD HOTEL Classical Ijiowledge all infomiation Her Majesty's Theatre, Queen 114Zillmere Rd.Boondall contained within the Living St, Brisbane (221 2777) at Spm. $2 cover charge Guide is accurate at the 22nd October time ofgoing to press, TUas 1(tth, Thurs 12 & Sit KEN HERRONJAZZ however it is best to check MUNICIPAL CONCERT BAND 14 October BAND > with the relevant KING GEORGE SQUARE FAUST by Gounod MELBOURNE HOTEL organisation (beforehand) Brisbane at 3nm Producer John Thompson- 2 Browning St, West End to see if any significant with the Queensland Theatre $2.50 cover charge alteration has occurred. EXCELSIOR BAND Orchestra NEW FARM PARK Her Majesty's Theatre, Queen RECKLESS RHYTHM m New Farm at 3pm St, Brisban eat Spm RIDERS & EVEREST tmmt (rock) SOUTH BRISBANE FEDERAL ISth October to 4th Novembtr QUEENS HOTEL ORMISTON HOUSE BAND THE BELLE OF NEW VORK 2 Creek St. City Wednesday RESTORATION BOTANICAL GARDENS Aetistic Director David ASSOCIATION presents: Brisbane at 3pm MacFarlane BUSHWACKERS & WHITE Music Beneath the Stars Her Majesty's Theatre, Queen LIGHTNING (country featuring Tara Strings St, Brisbane (221 2777) at 8pm rock) 18th October conducted by Anthony Doheny MOOLOOLABA HOTEL and other artists (In conjunction with 4ZZZ) Tuesday HAYDN SOCIETY OF Ormiston House. Wellington THE GRIFFITH Tbe Esplanade. Mookiolaba. QUEENSLAND prvsmts: St, Ormiston at 7.30pm PLAYERS presents: An All Haydn Evenlng-wlth 10th October enquiries 371 3245 Ihe Concert Society Orchestra WMI 11th to Sat 14th Oetobmr Theosophical Auditorium. 355 THERE WERE GIANTS IN CONSERVATORIUM OF Wickham Terrace, Brishaie at MUSIC prstmts: Music THOSEDAYSbyStawsJ. 8pm. Enquiries Nont B.-oadfIeld Spevt piano Trio Recital-Anthony (261 1533 a.h.). Tuesday Doheny (violin),Gary Director Peter Mount]oy Williams (cello) and Max CONSERVATORIUM OF News Adults $3 & students $1.50 Olding (piano). MUSIC presents: 24lh October Griffith University Cinema, ConservatoriumAuditorium Song Cycle-Gregory Nathan (for reservations phone Gardens Point, George St. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC 275 7373) Masslngham, Gillian Gilbert 4ZZZ JOINT EFFORT NO 7 Brisbane. Bpm. Sl Hilary Jones RECITALS: On the 27 th October at the Conservatorium Auditorium Student Chamber Music Group DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC The Performance Room, Music (Jnivarsity of Queensland, St. Gardens Point, George St, Luda. Bands playing will be RECITALS pfttants: Brisbane 7.30pm. BuiIding,Unhrersity of Qld Mark Gwizdalla (piano) SL Lucia at 1.10pm Wasted Daze, Fen^ts (to be FM.K works by Chopin and others confirmed), Midnlte Oil and The Performance Room, KELVIN GROVE COLLEGE Fuller Banks and the Musk: Building. University OF ADVANCED EDUCATION Debentures. Admission will of Queensland, St. Lucia at RECITALS be $3 and $2 for 4ZZZ subs. Ipm, Brisbane Wind Ensemble Licensed. Musk: Building, KGCAE, Thursday Victoria Park Rd, Kelvin Grove at 1.10pm Saturday BASEMENT COFFEEHOUSE Wednesday iwio^rober tncorponthtg Freddoi Every Sunday beginning at 21st October BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL 6.30pm with vegetarian food presents: sen/ed followed at 8pm by BEAGLE BOYS (rock) 11th October Musk: at Midday-performances muste and films until 12pm. HOMESTEAD HOTEL by organists, vocalists and Cover charge 50c Musicians CONSERVATORIUM OF BRISBANE ARTS 114ZillmefB Rd.Boondall instrumentalist Ttiursday and poets welcome. $2 cover charge MUSIC pftsants: City Hail, Brisbane at 12.30pm THEATRE presents: Concerto Concert-Graeme Admission free WICKETY-WAK (rock) Denniss (horn), JannI Hiurs 19th October to Sit HOMESTEAD HOTEL Flemmlng (piano), Jenne CONSERVATORIUM OF 26th October CENTENARY POOL IBth Novambar 114Zillmere Rd.Boondall PlonskI (piano) & Ann West MUSIC presents: RESTAURANT THE PRISONER OF SECOND $2 cover charge (clarinet) with tho Con Recital by Una Morgan, Jill BACK SOCIETY OF OLD Every Friday night, John AVENUE by Nell Simon servatorium Orchestra, Atkinson & Mary Doumany AND UNIVERSITY prassnts: Duffy and Mick Walker will Director George Roberts BUCKSKIN (country) conductor Max Olding. (harps) with Jul}ilBte Singers Recital by Robert Boughen be playing, foltovred by John wed to Sat, at 8.1 Spm adu Its MELBOURNE HOTEL Conservatorium Auditorium ConservatoriumAuditorium (organ) Mayne Hall, University Shaw (ex-John and John) on $4, students $3 bookings at 2 Browning St, West End Gardens Point, George St, Gardens Point, George St, City of Queensland at Spm Saturday night commencing theatre (38 2344) $2.50 cover charge Brisbane at 7,30pm. at Bpm, Enquiries 370 9788 at Spm. No cover charge. 210 Petrie Tentice, Brisbane
12 SEMPER October 11,1978 Cf tKtT.fi w.bO iVJ'iy.-iZ m&m THE DANTE ALIGHIERI ST JOHN'S BRISBANE VALLEY TWIN FRENCH SOCIETY preimtt: CATHEDRAL REPERTORY DEPARTMENT Afternoon of Italian Culture THEATRE AT LA Cinema 1-STAR WARS plus SCREENINGS at 68 Heath St, East Brisbane. THE ROCKY HORROR Admission is $1.50. Enquiries Exhibi Exhibition of Tapestries, BOITE presents: PICTURE SHOW (262 5472) Sunday 29th paintings and graphics by John Cobum in atiodation Cinema 2-THANK GOD ITS Mon 23 October at 1pm October at 2pm. with Philip Bacon Gallery Fri 20 October to Sat 18 FRIDAY plus BREAKER- ZAZIE DANS LE METRO November tions Dally, 9am to Spm Sun 1 to BREAKER (1960, L. Malle) Sat 21 October HEARTBREAK HOUSE by 220 Brunswich St, New Farm French films with English 417 Ann St, Brisbane George Bernard Shaw 358 2021 subtitles admission free director Richard Fotheringham Room 81, Forgan Smith Bldg, EKTHESIS-GREEKEXPO Thurs to Sat at Bpm; Fri, at 78 QUEENSLAND ART All prices in City Sessions; University of Qld, St. Lucia ROYAL 6.30pm adults $4 students and Morning/matinee $3.50, Int. official opening, Sunday 22 GALLERY pensioners $3 bookings (36 $3.75, Evening $4. Child/ October at 5.30pm-thereafter QUEENSLAND ART 1622) student discount (if given) QUEENSLAND ART Monday 23 to Wednesday 25 GALLERY 57 Hale St, Milton half price (note: these prices October, 10am to 9.30pm at Genesis of a Gallery, 11 (works could vary). GALLERY FILM the Greek Community Centre, from Australian National SCREENINGS Edmonstone St, South Brisbane. Gallery) Exhibition of selected oii Activities include Greek handi Tues & Thurs to Sat, 10am to and wateroolours by members crafts exhibition, displays of Spm; Wed, 10am to 10pm; Mon 16 to Tues 31 October Wed 11th October at 12,10pm antiquities and Greek culture, Sun 2pm to 5pm. Sun 1 to Monto Fri, 10amto4pm & 1.10 pm live Greek music and Greek Sun 15 October. 419 Upper Edward St, ANTIBESOULAJOIEDE dandng displays by the Hellenic TWELFTH NIGHT 5th Floor, MIM Building, Brisbane THEATRE presents: VI EVE Dancers. Enquiries (229 3222) Ann St, Brisbane. (229 2138) Wad 18th October at 12.10 pm & 1.10pm Mon 2nd to Sat 14th October AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS DRY RUN by John Murray MAJOR INSTITUTE OF Theatrette, Bth floor, MIM Director Bill Redmond Mon to INDEPENDENT MODERN ART Bldg, Ann St, Brisbane QUEENSLAND MUSEUM Sat at 8.15pm, Sat matinee at CINEMAS admission is free. , Cnr Gregory Tee & Bowen 3pm Bridge Road, Fortitude Valley Selection of works from Mon to Thurs $5; Fri & Sat (52 2716) Marquetry display the Canadian Exchanga Ex $6; Matinee $3, student & RIALTO THEATRE by the Brisbane and South- hibition and Art Works and pensioner concessions, bookings SCHONELL .East Queensland Marquetry Book Works Meetings at theatre (52 5889) Society demonstrations. Sat & Tues 10 October to Sat 18 4 Cintra St, Bowen Hills October 10th & 11th o nly Sun, 2pm to 4pm) and an November Wed 11th & Thurs 12th October (not to be missed) exhibition of interesting and Tues to Sat, 10am to 5pm 7% SOLUTION 7.30pm. The Australian Film Institute exotic chess sets and accessolres 24 Market St, Brisbane MARQUISE VON O 9 JOpm presents: Sun 1 to Mon 23 October. (229 5985) Fri 13th October HARLAN COUNTY USA- Admission free-Mon to Sat, MERVEILLEUSEVISITE produced and directed by 10am to 4,55pm; Sun, 2pm to 7.30pm plus MARQUISE VON Barbara Koppis 4.55pm, LATVIAN ARTISTS O 9.30pm plus THE BEAST A breathtaking intimate record GROUP"OCKERS" 11.30pm of the struggle of coal mines ART, CRAFT AND DRAWING Sat 14th October presents: and their wives to win a better WORKSHOPS THE BEAST 5.15pm, deal. The Artists Guild of Australia DR JIM CAIRNS MERVEILLEUSE ViSITE Tickets $2.50 from the Red & (Qld Branch) will conduct Annual Art and Craft will lecture on "Power in 7.30pm plus MARQUISE VON Black Bookshop or at the door. seminars for beginners and Exhibition Contemporary Society" on O 9.30pm Starts 7.45pm. advanced students In Design Official opening, Fri 13 October Tuesday October lOth at 1pm Cinema Sun 15th October in the Relaxation Block, Uni Art, Design Craft and Design at 7.30pm thereafter Sat 14 & MARQUISE VON O 7.30pm Drawing under the direction of Sun 15 October, 10am to Spm. versity of ad. St. Lucia. THE BEAST 9.30pm Lucy Hertz on 22nd October Latvian House, 24 Church Ave, Admission free. CINEMA CITY Mon 16th, Tues 17th & Wed at the Bardon Professional Buranda. 18th October Development Centre, Simpsons BUDOHIMS/Freeclaass MARQUISE VON 0 7.30pm, Rd, Bardon. Full details are Contact Kiaas de Jong P.O. VICES & VIRTUES 9,30pm available from Mrs. S, Coulilng Box 4, North Brisbane, Qid. Fri 20th October LES GALLERIES (2698339). 4000. ALBERTS FCOMME FAIRBANKS du PADDINGTON 7.30pm, VICES a VIRTUES BIKE RALLY FOR ENERGY FELLOWSHIP OF AUST 9.30pm Miscell CONSERVATION Paintings and Gr RALIAN WRITERS present: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Fri 20th October on Saturday 21st October at Lecture/demonstration with NEWSFRONT FCOMME FAIRBANKS 10am In King George Square. Paintings and Graphks by Des Carroll & Ken Albion of HOOPER 7.30pm, VICES & VIRTUES aneous Rally through town followed by Charles BIsckman North Brisbane Collego of 183 Albert St. City 221 5777 9.30pm plus MAN WHO FELL a forum at Roma Street Fri 13 to Sun 29 October Advanced Education, English student discount (only Mon to TO EARTH 11.30pm Organised by Friends of the Tues to Sun, 10am to Bpm Division (including discussion Fri) Sat 21st October Earth. 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PARKER AND THE PRESS ^Participating in an airport press conference is quite an experience. The best laughs 9i\ K< i\iS are usually gained from the ^ V V W ^u„„onj formulated by television reporters. Using the Graham Parker conference as an example- "Why do you wear sun glasses?" or the classic "Why are all punk songs sung one note off key?"
SEMI^ER October 11,1978 13 the Union". Once again a He made it clear that.if greatly enjoy reading the Each of these accusa election campaign. The delusion. It was the present elected he would have new look Semper and I tions has been levelled at group of students I refer to Union President (Alan (amongst other things) used hope it keeps improving me (because I am a woman is the Active Student Team. rs- Beagley) and AUS Sec the paper to comment as along the direction it has who supports life) and I It is a strange irony to retary (John Herzog), both President on topical matters already taken. must say that this is a rather read their candidate for of whom were "New "of concern to students". My feelings must be (From Page 6) unoriginal and hotch potch Treasurer, David Phillips, in Union" candidates in the, He also planned to publish reasonably widely shared selection of lies, perversions, a letter to the Editor in 1977 election, who monthly financial state because I have never seen and distortions. This type Semper (Issues 14 and 15) Certainly, the extreme convinced the Minister for ments. so many staff as well as of propaganda is in poor accuse the rival New Union right, as represented by the Education, Mr, Bird, that I could not imagine students reading the paper taste, and does little other Team of deluding the Herzog-led New Union splitting the U.Q. Union anything more boring! (in common rooms and than to impress readers of stu dent body. Team, has been defeated. was not necessary. When will Union bureau elsewhere) as 1 have seen the childishness of those In that letter he accused But before we become over New Union not only crats (or aspiring Union this year. who perpetuate such non all the New Union executive eat omistic about the state believed in student control bureaucrats) cease assuming --A, MATTHEWS sense. candidates of holding of student politics, let's of student affaiis, it has such a grandiose vision of Znd. Year Science Student I am astonished that "ri^t-wing views". I was look a bit mote closely at actiially defeated the State their own importance. Very these radical type feminists the New Union candidate the team students elected Govemment threat to this few students take them as can have the hide to say for Treasurer and I most IWORMAL VOTING to replace New Union. The principle. seriously as they appear to that they support a certainly do not hold such • ••• '^ Active Student. Team are The lies and distortions take themselves - as is woman's right to control views. Mark Stacey of the the obvious victors of the engaged in by the Active evidenced by the low vote her own body. Although Informal Party has said that imion elections. Active It may be of interest Student Team do nothing at elections. I am in support of this to readers that I am the he was disappointed with Student won all )cey for the respectability and As Irecall, the opening fundamental principle, writer and distributor of the his number of votes, and positions, including virtually credibility of their editorial in Semper this year 'ALP Qub pamphlet "Keep the whole .union executive. the feminists do not practise candidates. We in the New challenged the belief that I gues that's probaUy due Left". I am also the Qld Yet Active Student did what they preach, for any Union believe in "clean students are any different to peoplelike me who liked executive member of the not run as a politically one who genuinely believed elections". It's a pity our from anyone else in their the Infonnai Party, but National Council of ALP progressive team-their that women have the right opponents don't. reading prefer ences within never got around to voting students. I was also the politics, in the main, were to control their own bodies a newspaper. And I for one originator and main or ^OHN DREW forit. wishy>washy and as must include those 50% have enjoyed the break ganiser of E.G. Whitlam's St. Luda. As a result, he plans apolitical as the team of unbom female children from reading about (more TJ. Ryan Lecture and to leave Union politics leaders could make them. in this group. What a truly often than not) puerile dinner. SEMPER'S NEW alone, and not contest any On important issues like the false feminism is practised student politics. by those radical feminists In the heat of the EDITORIAL POLICY more elections. I think this concept of a living wage for In some American cities who would deny unbom election campaign the is a pity, for without the students, women's right to the local campus newspaper women their most basic Active Student Team I viish to comment on Informal Party none of free, safe abortion, the has become the major mass right-tiie right to life. realised how bereft they the claims made by recent my friends wotild have paid banning of uranium mining, circulation 'public' daily were of innovative policies. unsuccessful candidate for any attention to the Union the effective defence of To be a feminist then, and students have only In desperation they pro Qld. University Students' elections at all. imionism from govemment in the true sense of the benefited as a result. attacks (to mention 4) word, the real interests of duced a smear sheet en Union President, Peter I recommend that all Active Student took no all women must be con titled "New Union-What Webb, in his election policy Like anything else, students hsould try to per stand at all! sidered. I am a woman They Really Stand For." statement. campus news should only be suade him to run next year. Write to Mark Stacey, In fact, Active Student for life, and I believe we Some of the gems of Webb claimed that covered if the news is really CO. Graham Nicholson, won the elections on the should strive to help ''delusion" in it were that: "while the move to go 'worm reading . Semper has Emmanuel College. It's free same kind of "moderate" two oppressed groups- (1) our AUS Secretary public has been a successful covered it in this manner, in the intemal maU, and platform that made for women and unbom child candidate John Herzog, is one for Semper magazine, but possibly it could run tell him that you support John Herzog's success the ren. The fate of these two a "former advisor to the the decreasing emphasis on, a few more stories on the the Informal Party. year beforel (minus the are so closely entwined Premier" (he is not). (2) and reporting of, student odd occasion when this is AUS bash). that to help one, must be Our Secretary, Paul union affairs is a cause for warranted. -AMANDA TURNER The only team which to help the other. Abortion Rackemann, supports the concem" Generally speaking I St. Lucia took up issues affecting is not womens liberation. National Front (he does students in any real and It is the failure of society not). (3) Our Treasurer, positive way was the team to strive for any positive myself, supports rape (ob unioncaicujaforshop fielded by the SociaUst solutions. viously I don't, who does?). (4) Our Presidential can Youth Alliance. And the -(Miss) SUSAN PINGEL socialists suffered a not- didate, Peter Webb, has unionicalculatorshoD Medicine 5 unexpected defeat. Active National Party "connec Student is hardly tions" (he does not). (5) a That the New Union Team progressive in outlook. It's 0 ELECTION are a "hopeless bunch of team members won their CAMPAIGN idiots" (we are not!). positions not only through QUESTIONED their attempted expose of In their pah\phlet "In the extremacy of the right- troduction to the Acgive wing New Union Team. In my eleven consecutive Student Team", they say Active Student also years as a Univeraty of that "only the Active indulged itself, to a large Queensland student t have Student Team can rep degree, in red-baiting. When never seen a group of resent the important prin the Socialists took stands students fight such a diity ciple of student control of on issues like uranium mining and woinen's right to abortion, they were 0 condemned by Active t Pw Student as being "grossly COMING SOON!!!! political". C 0 Apart from their Hillsdon Road 0 petsonal vote, Active g Student was elected by the same people who last year elected John Herzog. 3 PRE RECORDED CASSETTES S. And for the same "moderate" reasons. 8" PRE RECORDED CASSETTES C. -D. PEARSALL Salon Education Faculty. FOR COMPLETE PERSONAL A TTENTION -S PRE RECORDED CASSETTES %
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14 SEMPER October 11.1978 The teaching of children is an emotive as STOP, CARE, the Festival of Ught, profession. People, especially parents, and the prominence given them in the are ahnost paranoid about it, always news media, shows that the discretion worrying about the effects on their litUe of most homo-inclined teachers is not darlings minds of the things they are being without formulation. taught. Those things, that is, that in any The attitude of the Queensland Govem way deviate from what the Church (which ment to the outspoken leader of the ever one), the Department, and the Kelvin Grove Teacheis College homo Courier-Mail tell them is good and whole sexual students group, Greg Weir, some. illustrates that point only too wellj'ust Nobody ever complained that we were as it illustrates tlieir hypocrisy, insofar being fed mindless anti-communist propa as they found teaching posts for all those ganda in history classes in the 1950s. other members who did not publicise (Ml well, c'est la guerre, pussy cat. themselves as much as Greg. Tlie hysterical reaction of such groups
This leads us to tixe main point of this article-has the general homo sexual liberation movement been successful? A question which has many answers! The movement can be said to have been a success in that community awareness is much greater, and that there is a much wider, and deeper, understanding of homosexuals and their ilk. There is a greater acceptance too. The discussion in The Australian recently on the tnew homosexualt, various television programmes devoted in some way to a homosexual dieme, and numerous, but by no means numberless cinema films on the subject have all added to this public awareness and acceptance. So too has national monthly Campaign, devoted almost exclusively to homosexual matters, and the various religious groups, such as Acceptance (Roman Catholic) and the metropolitan community Church (MCC), a strange amalgam of denominations, < Why any poofter or dyke would want of the opinion that it is unlikely to be of lo remain a practising Christian, let alone the magnitude envisaged by the "histoiy Out Of The Closet fomi a church of their own, is beyond me_ repeats itself" school (besides which, I'm' not only does the Christian Church in its not convinced of the efficiency of this entirety have a disgusting history of line), And IntoThe Ghetto persecution of homosexuals, not to There has been something ofa backlash, mention many other "deviants", but the it is true, but that is to be expected in the \*ole teaching of that Church is based on more flamboyant areas. The attitudes of The Life of Queensland's and indeed Austmlia's Homosexual population has lies, deliberate misinterpretations and people today are more openly accepting changed drastically in the past few years and in more titan one direction. distortions of fact. However that is another of differences among us all, whether they In the mid 1960s it was still the norm for homosexuals of eiOter sex not to publicly ^^^^^f- be reli^ous, political, philosophical, sexual" announce themselves, althougft attihides had certainly softened from those held a The area of law reform has seen little or whatever, decade earlier. improvement some process in Soutii By the tate 1960s more and more were announcing, either pubUcly, or more Australia, little or none elsewhere (except of tat privately to close friends (although not, perhaps to parents andother family), in Queensland, where tlie law has regressed, that they were homosexual or "ambisexual". The term "bisexual" should be used not progressed). And judging by the beach- GAY LIBERATION only to describe an hermaphrodite, one who has the genitalia of both sexes. side activities of the Victorian Police In 1970 we saw in Australia the founding of the Qimpaign Against Moml Per (surely, if a policeman acts in such a Ti,e people in STOP, the POL and so secution, CAMP, in Sydney. Newspaper and television covemge was reasonable and manner as to incite another man to make on are a tiny minority, pandered to by a sympadietic, espedally the interviews by Mike Mllesee. Brisbane CAMP was formed sexual overtones towards him, then that sensationalizing, frivolozing, unfree press inI97L policeman is guilty of soliciting, not the and electronic news media, but they The early-to-mid-1970s saw a burst of activities and of "coming-out", other) and the buUy-boy tactics of the cannot prevafl forever (one hopes!). that is, of people openly declaring that they were homosexual or ambi NSW police, thew does not appear to be There has been another form of sexual. The CAMP club in George Street became a "raging scene" for much hope for the near future. backladi, however, and that is within many of Brisbane's finest—not merely those whose sexual proclivities were These actions have received little or no (he homosexual movement itself, in for members of their own sex, but for sympathetic "straights", to use condemnation from the Govemments Brisbane at least This has manifested the non-sensical terminology of the camp world. (If as so many homo concemed. It is true that the Premier of itself in a form of a rctum-to-the-ghetto sexuals and others agree, homosexuality and/or ambisexuality is as New SouUi Wales (Mr. Wran) has said that mentaUty, especially in the places of if Labor want to change things then tye entertainment which appear more and "normal" as heterosexuality, then why term heterosexuals "strai^t", must tread softly, and in the light of what more to be catering exclusively for homo- thereby implying that non-htereosexuals are "bent"?) happened in the Federal sphere one cannot sexual tastes. By using the term "sympathetic" I do not mean goody-goody liberals blame them overmuch after all, political n appears to be of little use coming mewling and picking about moral issues, but rather people who could power is not a plaything (or at least, not out of one's "closet" merely to move not give a damn about their friends' (and others') sexual preferences and to those who have it). jn^Q ^ poofter-dyke ghetto. activities. People who enjoyed being with their friends in a warm at Another aspect of the "success" of the Many people say that for homosexual mosphere, drinking, talking, dancing and whatever. movement is the commercialisation of Uberation, in conjunction with other things "camp": "camp" bars, discos and community liberation movements, to be no longer was employed there during this so on, "camp" clothing stores, jeweUery successful, there must be a complete by MICHAEL BEVIS writers time. From observations made by and the like. But surely this merely rein- restructuring of society. other employees, this action was not forces the ghetto-like mentality? Perhaps they ought to say that there The "coming-out" process continues popular with them_they could not see What is the use of calling for a "camp" ought to be a complete restructuring of today, sometimes with happy results, why a man or woman should be dismissed boycott of Qantas (because they were their own thinking first, such as throwing sometimes with unfortunate ones. Tliis because of his/her private affairs. said to be flying Anita Bryant out here), writer was for many years employed in off the political-religious bonds with which Similarly, many people in the State, and at the same time syaing that "camp" they have straightened themselves. a large Queensland engineering firm, Federal, and City Public Service let it be people are no different from others? with branches all over Brisbane, where he And anyway, who are they to say that known, usually discreetly, and "only" Many people fare a "backlash" from had the daily opportunity of meeting eveiy homo/ambisexual man or woman to fellow workers with whom they were the moral ri^t (and Left), although I'm wants a complete restructuring of society? and talking with people in all the branches, friendly, that they were homosexual/ and discovered a large number of male ambisexual, and there was no backlash homosexuals and/or ambisexuals in the against them. organisation, many of wiiom were Nonetheless, the word of Joh, to "Coming Out In The "known homosexuals", to use jargon of misquote horribly, hangs over them_a Seventies" is Part 1 of our erstwhile police. person convictted of a crime cannot be a two part series. In the There did not appear to be any employed in the public service, and male next issue of Semper hostility towards them, from either homosexual activity is a crime on the interviews conducted management or fellow workeis, although statute books (female homosexual activity with Gay men and there was one case years earlier where is not a crime per se, but no doubt is women will address a man had been summarily dismissed adequately covered by other sections of because his boss discovered that he was a statute law). themselves to the same poofter. The main area in which homosexuals/ question. That, however, was in the mid-1960s, ambisexuals did not "come out" was the and thc person responsible for the sacking teaching profession, for good reaslon.
SEMPER October 11,1978 15 .-. i'lY; t.' NUCLEAR POWER THE GROWING MENACE OF A POLICE STATE
Civil Liberties Severely Eroded As A Result Of Corporate Profit Making
In the so-called debate on the mining and export of uranium, one Dr. Suter was discussing the social or to admit that they have made a question often overlooked is the type of sodety engendered by the use ramifications of the arms race, and in mistake." particular the effect that the supply of Two further major issues hinging on of nuclear power. The prospect is a fri^tening one, and along with the Australian uranium would have. the mining of uranium are the use of critical problems of safety, waste disposal and the arms build-up, makes "Mr. Justice Fox has a remarkable troops, and the use of D-noUces (classi a powerful argument against the use of nuclear energy. chapter in the first volume of his report fication of certain information by the RADA ROUSE mterviewed KEITH SUTER, a well-known v^ere he lists all the dangers arising out media). commentator on problems of international law and civil liberties on this of the proliferation of nuclear weapons "I think the experience in Britain and through the sale of uranium overseas, Ireland has shown that as soon as you question. . . and I think the arguments there are all get the troths out on one project you very conclusive against the sale of very soon become accustomed tp it and The development of nuclear power In Australia will inevitably lead to Australian uranium. you begin the long slide down the road die creation of a police state, according to a senior tutor in "Although the Govemment has to the erosion of dvil liberties but it would Internationa] Law at the UniveRity of NSW. developed an 11-point guide line policy, be no good at all in terms of stopping it would be quite easy for a govemment so-called terrorist activities. Dr. Kddi Suter said that the 1953 Atomic Energy Act, under vdiich all projects to ignore them-buy Australian uranium "The use of troops at Bowral after the covered by that Act including now the mining of uranium, would be regarded as for supposedly peaceful purposes but as Hilton Hotd bombing was a dangerous defence projects. The 1953 Act opiates in conjunction with legislation passed in soon as they get hold of it, they can use precedent. I'm very concemed about the 1947 which outlawed any strikes or any activity which would hinder the development it for military purposes. USB of troops not only because of the ofa defence project. "This has already been done before, erosion of civil liberties but it would have "Just to speak against a defence project day. of course. India did precisely this with been no good at all in terms of stopping makes a person liable to a $10,000 fine "Perhaps the Govemment feels this Canada in the late 1960s and eariy 1970s. terrorist activities. or one year imprisonment or both. In would be a good way of dealing with what They told the Canadians all the way along "I have friends who live in the area and the second bolume of his report on the they regard as a union menace. Of course, that it was for peaceful purposes and then they said they could continue with their mining of uranium, Mr. Justice Fox re it's quite clear that the present scared hell out of the worid in May 1974 farming activities completely undisturbed commends against uranium mining under Govemment is determined upon an action by exploding a nuclear device," by the army, who weren't about to go the 1953 legation, because there is a confrontation with the labour movement. Dr. Suter feels that commercial profit around sorting through a bed of fertilister serious threat to civil liberties. "This legislation gives them sufficient is the only reason that proposed uranium looking for bombos. So it would have been "The Federal Govemment has ignored powers to deal with opponents in the mining companies are still so keen to go very easy to have left some bomb-laden that recommendation. Govemment spokes labour movement, so they can always ahead. "I think companies, which are fertiliser near where the leadeis were persons have gone to great lengths to count on having a very docile labour directly involved in the industiy now have playing golf, for example. explain why they have followed the Fox movement. 1 think the Government's too much money to lose by not going "The soldiers weren't doing much of a recommendations in most cases but on concerned that in a few years' time it wSl ahead. But the worid market for uranium job protecting anyone, tastead, it was this point they have not tried to explain not have the general public on its side. is now declining and there are more the Govemment feeling obliged to take why they're ignoring it. The 1947 legislation enables the Govem cancellations of contracts than there are emergency action and being seen as taking "My guess is that they want tohave ment to elevate any form of action against contracts being entered into. a very strong line m bringing out the tiiose powers up their sleeve just in case uranium mining to a threat to national "There is now no economic argument troops. they do want to use it. You can never security. in favour of the mining and sale of "It was a deliberate overreaction and it be sure that they won't, cither. For "A good many people, while they may uranium. 1 suppose that certain people came at a very good time for ASIO because example, if someone said on November have doubts about uranium mining, would basically don't want to admit that they're in NSW there was going to be a govemment 10th 1975 that the Governor-General has not want to do anything which could wrong-just like Vietnam all over again. inquiry into ASIO's relationship with the reserve powen which could be used to sack be construed as undermining national "They make a tenible blunder and leader of the liberal opposition there. All an dected govemment, that person could security-so this is a very useful they someohow bdieve it will work out hi that has been squared now because have been regarded as being a bit propaganda weapon which the Government the end. Of courae, it doesn't but it takes a Premier Wran has advised that it was a eccentric-yet it happened the following can use against trade unionists." good deal of suffering for people to realise bad time to start critidsng ASIO. ASIO
16 SEMPER October 11,1978 has done very well out of the explosion regulations so I wrote to the Pentagon, Semper The Campaign For Nuclear Dis should have continued dong with the rest and the Federal (jovernment has also done who sent them to me for princdy cost of armament in the 1960s has been an in of us to abolish dl nuclear tests, get rid quite well out of it. Scents a page for photocopying. spiration for many of us. What do you of nuclear weapons. "Doing some researcy for a book, I "So, ironically, we are able to get more think is the most important lesson to be This is the lesson-you don't stop came across an article in a newspaper information from the US than we are here. learned from that campaign? after the first victory but you keep on referring to a new set of draft regulations The D-notice system is much more rigorous Oakes: In 1963, wheii nuclear weapons and on until you have it all. which have been issued for the Australian here than in many other countries." testing in the atmosphere were abokSied, (The National Peace Council in Britain army on how the army can be used for The future? "You will find tiiat in the i lot of people said, "we've won". Of represents over six mfllion people through dvilian purposes-as we've seen in Bowral. 1980s nobody will be interested in buying course, that was only the first step. They its 75 af faiated organisations). I wrote to the Australian Department of the uranium, so providing we can hold Defence and asked for a copy of those out for the next few years we can be sure Australian regulations. that Australian uranium won't be "They refused, saying that the exported. I'm quite optimistic that the documents are classifled. I had noticed way opinion is moving we will be able to in the article that the Australian prevent the export of Australian uranium." UNCONTROLLABLE legulations were based on American DEEP WATER LIFTING OF ARSENALS NOW NUCLEAR THE NEW HORROR INFORMATION We Enter The Age Of BAN OUR "Mutually Assured Destruction" One of the best-kept secrets today must be what happens when a nuclear weapon is dropped on a city. It is not a secret only because the ONLY HOPE information is classified and buried in some Govemment vault where only a small number of officials may see it. It is a secret because most people do not want to know. It is easy to see vAty. If a 20-megaton bomb was dropped on Brisbane in a nuclear war, it would probably blow a hole in the centre of the city a kilometi-e or so wide and about as ddep as a 20 storey building. Maybe deeper, because these figures assume the bomb was to be dropped on solid rock. The entire dty centre wenhl be instantly destroyed with temperatures close to the centre of the Mast as hot is tbe surface of tbe sun. Metals would run like water, vefaictes wuM be tossed about in superheated winds hundreds of kilometres in vdodty, and death would be a blessed mercy for those whom it ciaims. The winds would howl out of the centre of the blast for many kilometres, By MARK HAYES searing all in their path. As the fire storm at the centre of the blast grows and It makes good strate^c sense when we consumes all the available oxygen, a come to consider some of the new vacuum would be created and the sur- generation of weapons the United States roimding air for many kflometres would and the USSR are preparing for the next be sucked back to fan the growing decades. The USA is already wdl on the conglagration. Scientists who have way and the Soviet Union lags five years studied this firestorm effect call these behind the US, largely because it lacks winds 'tiie breatii of hell' or 'the devil's tiie technicd sophistication of the USA. wind'. Central to these new developments are Ten or more kilometres away from the tiie dual concepts of MIRV and MARV. blast, buildings and people would ignite MIRV stands for Multiple Independ- and bum. Well over fifty kilometi-es away, entiy Taigetablc ReEntry Vehicle. those unfortunate enought to be looking Through developments in warhead mini- at the blast would be blind as their eyes turisation and greater efficiency in ex suffered irreparable damage. The infamous plosive yeild, nuclear weapons are now mushroom cloud would rise above the smaller. Thus more warheads can be fitted seething hell bdow to many kilometres in int he nose cone of each missile. The Public Ignorance Will Continue height, a monument to the death below. warheads are mounted on a launching' President John F. Kennedy once said that platform called a BUS which, after the To Remain The Real Killer in the aftermath of such a nuclear ex missile is launched, separates off the missile plosion, the living would come to envy the and Ifies over the Earth in suborbit. Each dead. warhead can be launched independentiy the National Peace Council of Britain, Strategic planners are now arguing that and can fall to a separate target. Thus, SHEILA OAKES, General Secretary of for arguments sake, one missile could People's Disarmament Conference, spoke not one bomb will be dropped, but a ^0 was here recently for the Australian pattern of three smaller bombs. These launch a clutch of warheads which could cunrent anti-nuclear programme in Britam. briefly to Semper's SUE BISSET about the bombs will fall in a triangular pattern, fly over tiie Queensland coast, destroying Semper: Britons were being told in 1970 get away with lies under those circum .compounding the devil's wind effect and Brisbane, Rockhampton, Mackay and that the technological advances to make stances. They do sometimes but it's very increasing the radioactive fallout from the Caims in one big hit. nuclear power safe were just around the difficult. triple blast. It makes good strategic sense. (Continued over page) comer. That's what we're being told in Semper: Would you say, technically Australia now to justify the government's speaking, that a lot of people involved export of uranium. How are people in with anti-nuclear groups are breaking Britain reacting to such claims? the law under the Official Secrets Act Oakes: Real information began to trickle but that it's not being enforced? out because a number of people who are Oakes: The law under the Official Secrets physicists, enpneers, etc. realised that Act has not been broken, in rdation to ordinary people didn't know, politicians, nuclear energy. The law stipulates that if councillois, academics, the media didn't you have a secret and you .tell it to really know that the hazards were there. someone else, then you could be fined They were challenged immediatdy by or imprisoned. If you are on the receiving the industry and public debate got under end of the secret, you can be fined or way. imprisoned. Once the information reached ordinary The useful tiling for all of us is that people, they began to get worried. The in America, if you are on the receiving result is a grass roots movement, which end of a secret, it's yours and you can has arisen simply because of the supply spill it. That is the reason we have so of information. much information throughout tiie worid Semper; Govemment departments try to on the hazards of nuclear energy. It's actually due to the American situation, prevent groups which are concerned about not the British one. the danger of nuclear energy from obtaining information. How do you Semper: Countries don't need to test combat that? weapons. Do you think it is possible for Oakes: Britain has an Official Secrets Act governments to have nuclear weapons and tills is very difficult to get around. without any other governments knowing NeverUieless, tiiere is so much concem about it? now that information is simply put out. Oakes: Absolutdy. It was only by diligent You can demand information in Britain inquiry tiiat Israel's possession of nudear through questions in Parliament, and it weapons was discovered. Israel has not is extraordinarily difficult for Ministers to made any nuclear weapons tests. SEMPER October,! 1,1,978 17 after the US and Soviet leaders. invested to creat jobs in a time of high UNCONTROLLABLE DEEP WATER The Russians are following the US unemployment, the second worst place witii MIRV and they arc designing an to invest it would be in military ex answer to Trident. The French, the only penditure. The worst place to invest $1 ARSENALS NOW nation left which still tests nuclear billion to create jobs is in the aero-space weapons outside its own borders, are industiy, hardly a growtii area. THE NEW HORROR testing warheads for their own MIRV In San -Francisco, a group of engineers, programme in the Pacific now. economists and factwy workers designed (From previous page) Conservative figures indicate that up to a corporate plan for the Lockheed plant 100 million Americans and at least as at Santa Clara which would have created many Russians will die in what Scientific more jobs, and converted the plant from But even with MIRV, missiles can be It is cheap, at about $500,000 each, and American cdled a 'limited nuclear War' manufacturing missiles to manufacturing destroyed by enemy anti-missile missiles. can fly low, hugging the terrain and in which both sides fired off a few missiles peaceful and sodally useful items like To reduce this possibility, MARV was avoiding radar to strike its target with and then ceased firing. There can be no tractors and trucks. They submitted the developed-Manbuvcring ReEntry devastating accuracy. The US argues that effective civil defence to such attack. plan to Lockheed who agreed that the Vehicle. Each warhead of a MIRV can the cruise missile is a tactical weapon, Trident is an affront to dl people who plan was good, and quite workable. They have MARV capacity, which means that and is thus outside the scope of the affirm Ufe. rejected the plan, however, on the p-ounds each warhead can steer itsdf to its target Strategic Arms Limitation Talks currentiy The finandd arguments against Oiat arms manufacture provided a par and evade missiles sent to stop it. Indeed, deadlocked in Geneva. The USSR dis Trident are compdling. If $1' billion was ticularly good profit return, close to 19%. the US military called the first stage of agrees, and argues that the cruise missile thc MARV programme 'Evader' for this is a strategic weapon. very reason. MARVing a MIRV, so the The land leg of the strategic triad is jargon goes, also increases the accuracy based on the MX missile. This 95-tonne NOTICE available from a missile. US military gjant will effectively defeat SALT com designers are now boasting of a 30 to 300 pletely because it it is deployed, the The Women's Rights Committee The Lettuce Leaf metre error margin for a missile launched satellite verification process which is key is disturbed at the number of attacks 4000 nautical miles away. to the success of SALT will completely made on it in the last year. The main These technical developments have break down. Parties to SALT each have tiieme seems to be that the Committee changed drasUcall t: liklihood of nuclear powerful satellites in orbit which can is not. representative of all women on war. They have j changed the style detect what the other side is doing. The campus. To achieve this end tiie Doner Kebabs that such a nuclcj ,/ar would take. Pentagon is planning to deploy MX in Committee will be circulating a survey long tunnds beneath the South-Westem Until the early 1970s the US and Russia in the next few weeks. WE ALSO OFFER US deserts. MC will trundle up and down smoothies worked under the appropraite strategic The survey will be on the Women's doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction. these tunnels on specid trolleys and when fresh fruit and vege juices table in the Forum Area, and libraries Under MAD, each side knew that the other the launch command arrives, the lid ofthe wholesome ^ads could destroy its cities and industry if it trench will lift, and the missile will be etc. roast pork with apple sauce launched a nuclear attack. Missiles were launched. The USSR will thus know tiiat All women are asked to put their lentil and soyburgers nutritkius casseroles s thus targeted for cities and were in a MX is beneath the trenches but will never comments on the survey, whether sandwiches, jaffles, humus second, retaliatory strike posture. know precisely where MX is dong the they have an interest in women's thick homemade soups Early in Uie 1970s, US officials began projected 25 kilometre length of each ri^ts or not. tunneL wholemed goodies for dessert to say that a strategic doctrine based on When the results of the survey are the possibility c slaughtering millions of The most powerful leg of the Counter- known, women from tiie committee iirthe SHERWOOD HOUSE ARCADE force strategic triad will cruise deep dvilians Jn_ rei •liarion was not good and others interested wili make plans 39 SHERWOOD RD, TOOWONG beneath the Pacific, Indian and Atiantic enough for a civilised nation. The phrase for next year. 'counterforce' was being heard in the oceans. It is the Trident submarine, which Pentagon, and in 1974, US missiles were the Pentagon described this year as the quietiy retargeted for Soviet missile silos most expensive and most destructive and military bases. The missiles were weapons system ever designed by the MIRVed and MARVed, and the USA human race. The figures for Trident assumed an offensive, first strike posture. defy the mind. It is hard to imagine a WK GO BLTWIXNS There is no point developing sophisticated submarine which is the length of two hardware with precise accuracy unless it football fields and the height of a four is to be used, and there is no point in storey building. Trident will cruise faster targeting a missile to hit a silo if that silo than a World War Two cruiser and deeper is empty witii its missile in the air. than the present classes of submarines. SING The former infrastructure for MAD Each submarine in the porjected 30 still exists. It is based on a strategic triad submarine fleet will cost in excess of with the land leg consisting of the ICBM $1.2 billion, and that figure is rising all Minuteman III, tiie air leg consisting of the time. The first Trident submarine, the aging B52 strategic bc«nber, and the tiie USS Ohio, will be complete in 1981 sea leg consisting of the Polaris and and is currently under construction just Posddon submarines, This sb'ategic triad soutii of New York on the US East has sustained the balance of terror on Coast. which we have lived for the last twenty- The nuclear fire power of Trident five yeais. Under MAD, the US has is the.most chilling of all. Each Trident manufactiired enough nudear explosive submarine will carry 24 missiles, and power to kill everybody on Earth twdve each missile will have 17 MIRV warheads. times over. The USSR has stockpiled Each warhead will have an explosive enough nuclear weaponry to kill us all power three to ten times the power of about ten times over, and tiie other the Hiroshima bomb. The Hiroshima nuclear powers can collectively destroy bomb was a modest littie 25-kilo tonne us twice. It is called Overkill 24. effort, and yet close to 80,000 people New developments under the new were killed instantiy. doctrine of Counterforce will push that Each Trident submarine willy carry figure into Overkill 100 and beyond. 408 nuclear warheads, and, via tiie Trident The new strategic triad has as its II missile which will be deployed in 1982, air leg the cruise missile. The cruise will be able to ddiver those warheads to missile, depending on whether it is the within 30 to 300 meties of error over a Navy, Air Force or Army veision, will distance of 6,000 nautical miles. A Trident have a range of up to 3,000 nauticazl commander has been described as being miles and can deliver a nuclear weapon. the third most powerful person on Earth,
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18 •:<' SEMPER 06t6b^r f\'f'^^f&- (whilst the beast is assault condemned by some critics examinations of any politi HARLAN COUNTY ing her) the camera assumes for his handling of A Clock cal question, a film must VSA: Ria/to Theme, Lucy's own perspective of work Orange, a more recent first and foremost exhibit the woodland scene lying production. (It was felt it creative genius in its own West End, Tuesday Oc immediately in front of her. promoted violence and the right before it can ever hope tober 10 and Wednes it sways back and forth, fascist mentality rather than to achieve its desired politi day October 11. $2.50 back and forth, which condemning it.) cal ends. Proceeds to Friends of results in a lot of "know In Barry Lyndon (an Sacco and Vanzetti were die Eardi and The Red ing" laughter. even newer production by falsely accused of murder SPthe end of the film Kubrick), he once more by American authorities & Black Bookshop. when tile Cardinal who was sought a startiing change in who were seeking to tum supposed to oversee the style, yet in the process public opinion agdnst dl Harlan County USA was marriage of Lucy to seemed to confirm that his radical activists at that time. produced and directed by Mathurin (the beast) arrives reputation was not as (Is it that different now?) BOROWCZYKS to find Mathurin naked and soundly based as it had Barbara Koppley and is a This conspiracy resulted remarkable documentary dead, all the earlier content been. in their being sent to the" account of a lengthy coal is immediately reduced to Yet 2001 carries on re dectric chair despite over WE V something explainable. gardless. If you haven't seen whelming evidence that miners strike in America. His comments reduce it tiiis movie, see it. Try tiiey were "not guilty". It is a documentary with to the all too familiar sitting down towards the Only recentiy were they a difference because in a concepts of good and evil, front. I peisonaliy prefer officidly pardoned (post- similar vein to the dramat MAST black and white and it is no being overwhelmed by the ised series Days of Hope it humoudy) and their longer horrifying in any screen imagery rather than relatives officially apologis attempts to give a rare THE BEAST: Directed by Walerian Borowczyk, sense-If only life were this diowing my perspective to ed to(!). understanding of the deeper SchoneU Theatre, St Lucia. simple. too closely approximate Yet despite the outrage politicd issues and ideas Overall 1 haven't expand that supplied by a television ous/infamous circumstances involved in such situations. The Beast is exacUy what it daims to be, an erotic ed on too much of the plot set. (Once you get over the surrounding their trial, the For example, the atti fable. (such as it was) because initid strangeness, it could film's makers did not tude of the miners' wives If it is looked upon in this liglit and seen only as a The Beast is another become a firm viewing succumb to the temptation and their increasingly mili rich, over-indulgent fantasy (or fairy tale), then any example of a film which habit.) to bludgeon their audience tant role in the whole strug potential intellectual conflict over the nature of its con should be seen, not tdked Responsibility for trans over tiie head witii the gle are brought out. The cameras capture every tent can be resolved. about. forming the basic script^ message that tiiey got a raw thing. The Beast does not allow you to very readily bring In fact after it was over I ideas into redity lay with a deal. walked out wondering what recognised wizard in this They allowed the story Four Comers broadcast together all those thoughts and responses which im rationdisations had been area-Douglas Trumbull. He to unfold very naturally, a substantid piece of the mediately arise upon seeing it. put forward by other re has since made another very logically, . . , very film earlier this year because One of the reasons for this is when you do make an viewers who saw the same space film of his own called powerfully. they felt it was such a effort to inteDectualise about it, difficulties arise over film. Silent Running. When it turns up again- dgnificant documentary. the fact that no matter on what level you may be I have dways felt that So close were simulated go out of your way to Tickets wUI be on sale responding to it, you are already well and truly caught there are certain films which conditions in 2001 to red catch it. at the door on the night. up in the sheer sexuality of its content. when reviewed end up say conditions in space that The show starts at 7.4Spm. ing more about the reviewer Thus most of the reac- Yet it is still fun and NASA scientists could only tiian tile film itsdf-this is tions from the audience contains some amazingly fault it in one place-when one of them. were personal reactions to erotic scenes such as that in the liquid food in a straw Despite some of its its sexud imagery. which the vii^ind Lucy flowed back down into the excesses and weakensses f container following a suck I feel it is safe to claim Broadhurst mashirbates would definitely recommend by a space traveller. tiiat we don't dways deeply witii the aid of some rose seeing this film before its Kubrick chose the music understand our own sexud- petals, season ends. and as always in his films it ity (whether male or Visually created sexud -BRUCE DICKSON plays a significant part in female), which can explain innuendos sprinkled the success of the produc tiie problems associated in throughout tiie film hdp to tion. diagnosing The Beast. keep a sexual undercurrent 2001 is an indisputably A feminist perspective flowing between the more powerful film. (I vividly could condemn the film be- overt scenes, utili'iJm remember the ape smashing cause of the central femde Amongst other things, the bone up and down in characters obsessive dream- we are treated to live snails, dow motion)-don't miss it. ing about the beast with its bed knobs, a priest giving 2001: A SPACE final sexual assault on her sweets to his alter boys, and ODYSSEY (the excesses of which, blood red chops being Cinema George, City significantiy, cause its cleavered by a cook, deatii). Chauffeuis, butiers and SACCO&« DIE MARQUISE VON 0: However setting down servants are shown satirising If I found myself slight Schonell Theatre, St Lucia. Currently showing. any "correct line" on all of tiieir aristocratic employers slightly bored during my \AN2ETTI Check with Theatre for times. our sexual responses is a and some scenes such as Close Encounters of the challenging if not impos- when the priest accidenly SACCO & VANZETTI Third Kuid with Starwars, Every so often, along comes a film that, as far as my able business. Particularly sits down on the piano that old masterpiece 2001 is Schonell Theatre, St when it comes to the very keyboard, verge on outright attitude to critics is concemed,seems to separate the StiU laigely to blame. complex and individualistic slapstick, Lucia sheep from the goats. nature of our dreams. Thus The close-up camera A sleeper movie Qiov/ After viewing Die Marquise Von O, I no longer have definitive conclusions about work such as that used many films keep beuig given Saw the equally brilUant a scrap of faith in the Grand Jury at the Cannes Festival. this particular film are also when Lucy is wearing a a new release every four film Sacco and Vanzetti at They awarded fhis film their "esteemed" prize in 1976. difficult. To some extent sheer lace gown was de- years or so) which is even the Schonell recentiy. Marquise D'O in my amongst others managed to any intellectualised conclu- signed to deny us a ready now gaining broad new It only turns up once a opinion contains a totally mdntdn their credibility sions about The Beast run context and and succeeded audiences, A Space Odyssey year and unfortunately I the risk of stating something very well, contains a subtlety, an intel frivolous plot. The film left for so long. was unable to warn of its me looking for an excuse, unnecessary, since the film Even in its worst lectual input which belittles Eric Rohmer's Marquise coming in the last issue be not for the movie itself, but D'O dthough subtie in its does operate on a rather moments and there are a the efforts of most of tiiese sublimind level. few. The Beast exhibits a cause I didnt know it for why at the end 1 was humour on the odd occa newer cinematic produc would be screened myself. still sitting in the theatre sion, really displays no The opening scenes of rather llghthearted air-most tions. S3 year old Borowczyk's of the material in the Based on the famous (not having walked out redeemable qualities at all. production involving a second half is quite laugh- Yet if something pro 1920's trid of two anarch earlier). The plot is thin. During a stallion mating with a mare, able-a deliberate ploy on found enters your mind ists in America, this Itdian I can only conclude that battle in Northern Italy are sensationally well the director's port, upon viewing the film it is production is dmost the tiie Cannes Juiy is full of a during the 18th Century, an filmed. Don't walk in late! And the audience, on the more than likdy the out ultimate in politicd film bunch of eggheads who only aristocratic Russian officer From that point up to night I went, were aL laugh- come of an ingenious making. It rates with Harlan respond to the most (Bruno Ganz) saves the about midway through the ing hysterically in the amalgamation of ideas and County USA, LF. Stone's obscure, esoteric nonsense. Marquise (Edith Qever) film, The Beast manages to "right" places. (However effects witiiin the film Weekly, Battle of Algiers Notiiing beats a bunch of from pack rape by soldiers. maintdn an enjoyable since then some of my rather than any one great and a handful of other idiot film buffs out on the The Marquise's own hus-" European "art movie" feel, friends have had their insight offered by its European films as one of loose. band is dead yet severd but this suddedy dissolves opinion of the film strongly makers. the greatest films of this European film circles montiis ^er, despite with the appearance of a flavoured by the presence of 2001 in its find form type. apparentiy are dominated leading a cl.^^te existence, ludicrous looking (but long a rain coat brigade at the actually surpasses the talent What they all hold in by this art film mentality, she finds that she is awdted) Beast. From this screenings they attended.) of its director Stanley common is an understand otherwise why have such pregnant. dream sequence on.the tone Much of the audience Kubrick. Kubrick has been ing that given the often pretentious bourgcoisc Because of her abstin- changes from believable to amusement is derived from praised for his early work misplaced prejudice many directors as Godard, ancc slie is convinced that satined overkill. scenes such as that in which on Doctor Strangelove and people feel towards deep Visconti, Bergman, JanscO' this possibility Is "imposs- ^^lyiPER .Octo.bpr rU<'1978>. 19»<- SSMiPSii WimwEmm^B
clusions, it seemed fairly must be shown for the ducted by Pruc Gibbs, more dways bas a veiy strong safe to assume that there actors, whom one can only than any other dement of presence but bofli seemed would be some tenuous charitably hope knew tiie play tiiat caijured to struggle with a lack of connection drawn between precious little about the red Coleridge's vidon, Prue used subjective unity within the the contentsof the fdm and philosopher bdng misrep a wonderful combination of play's structure. the philosopher in question. resented in this travesty. At harp, organ, bassoon, Despite these Right? Wrong! If you are least as littie as Ms Cavani, double bass flute and reservations, the play has ible": Her parents are not has revived he tells the planning to view this film at any rate. clarinet to explore thc some exquidte dimendons convinced and throw her priest who only "believes for any Uttie rays of cel To interpret one of the mystique at the core of such as tiie dance of the out. what he doesn't see" that he luloid light it may project most far-reaching and in- Coleridge's poetry. The dbatioss by Janet She findly recognises the is an angel. on the life and works of fluentid philosophies to songs also amplified the Goldsmitii, the phydcd reality ofher condition, and Only a couple of the Nietzsche, don't botiier. have snaped this century- atmosphere dthough the realisation of the sailois' takes the step of advertising locd residents believe his The degenerate, drug- as "radicd and caustic" an approach of one singer was (especially Bemie Lewis), for the father ofthe child to claim and his ignorance of soaked, disease-ridden, self- attack on the bourgeois unnecessarily operatic. and Rick Billinghursts present himsdf. life in the village as well as pitying desperado you may christian mordity of the Altiiough the beauty of lifting whidiplayed around The ody possible answer his wasted efforts to "do be unfortunate to glimpse modem State as that of tiie cathedrd sustdned the the catehdrd's pillars and to this mystery is confirmed good" result' in his being between lingering close-ups Karl Marx-to interpret this aura of the production, arches. These were a delight when the Russian officer driven out of town. of Dominique Sanda's complex philosophicd the space worked both for Peter Jordan has shown who since the war has been The visitor's innocence wooden expression (even framework in terms of bare and agdnst it. It swells considerable skill in seeking to marry her, admits of our earthly sodal redity god-knows how many bottoms, bordellos and the liturgicd and ritualists conceptud design but next that he had raped her while creates the opportunity for changes of costume cannot painfully contrived belle aspects of the play but time I would ask for some she was in a drugged sleep much of our daily hypoc disguise the fact that there eopchery is a frightful in poses critical sight line and tiung a littie less rarefied. immediately after his risy to be exposed. is less to Ms Sanda than suit, both to the ideas of acoustic proUems. -D!_PRIEST "heroic" intervention. The film is amusing in meets the eye), whoever he Nietzsche and the in Occasionally we lose may be, is not Nietzsche. The greatest moments in parts, verging on the surred. telligence of the generd voice articdation in the Editors Note: For those the film occur whenever any However it is by no means a The most profound and public, a gratifying cathedral's reverence, and who may recall having seen titie cards (which suffer great film. Maybe if you moving reference to philo proportion of which voted action at the rear of the The French Revolution per greatly in tiie German to enjoyed Jonathon Living sophy in the film has this with its feet during the catiiedral is often obscured. formed in a Qxarlotte St. English translation) appear. ston Seagull (or you regular imposter expounding his screening I attended. No These distracting factors Church some time ago, the For example, "The next day ly listen to Neil Diamond's "theories" to a hoise, whom doubt as a perceptive, need more attention. Director responsible for that was the dreaded day of the music) it will offer you a he believes to be Wagner. logical extension of the Frank Gallacher as the production was also Peter 3rd." good time, but one film I, in the other hand, be true premise: "This film is Mariner handles the veise Jordan (with the music dead." Otherwise the fdm is about heavenly seagulls is lieved it to be Dominique with lyrical facility and again directed by Prue empty, pdnfully slow, woe enough for me. Sanda, but immediately One good exchange in Victoria Autiior as Gibbs). fully long, and dmost as redised my mistake. The the film: Gerddine, the narrator, as boring as Visconti's most horse acted too welL In "What do you believe praised film The Damned. fact it seemed positively in?" All the way through the engaging in comparison with "Notiiing redly." ALLEGRO NON most of the other charac "Are you a nihilist?" show, 1 couldn't help asking THE CHERRY ORCHARD: TROPPO: ters. "No, just disgusted." myself whetiier the plot was Anton Chekhov, SGIO Theatre, September ever going to get underway. Schonell Theatre Dominique Sanda apart, So was 1. Maybe the film is a gross however, some compassion -KATEMACCHERONI 20fh-October 7th. Germanic hoax. Yet I'm not This brilliant animated so sure-even as satire it satire of Fantasia produced Oiekhov worte The Cherry Orchard' circa 1903, fdls. in Italy will be showing in a period in Russia when the inequities and At times the audience an extended season at the discontents suffered by the mass of people augered a seemed to eiyoy themselves Schonell during January social upheaval. so maybe it was my taste next year. 'Cherry Orchard' Is a statement about the increasing versus tiie rest. It was fully reviewed in ly frivolous and decadent lives led by the wealthy as However I still feel con ihe last issue of Semper. fident that you would be well as the growng materialism on the part of the floundering around in the -BRUCE DICKSDM burgeoning middle classes. dark in any attempt to find After years of absence, him of even the capacity something good within the the Ran evsky family to love. Film. Marquise D'O is not an assemble on their estate. Although there is some BEYOND GOOD AND uplifting viev^ing experience Despite their attachment fine acting from Edward of any kind. EVIL: to and love of their home, Howell, Pat Bishop, Kate I hope Ron Wakenshaw, Directed by Liliana careless squandering has Shid and Monica Mauglui, the Schonell Manager caused large debts to accrue a real credibility is never doesn't include too many Cavani, starring Erland which means not only the estabUshed. The direction non-entertdning, wankish Josephoun, Robert loss of their home but of hovers somehwere between films of this type in his new Powell and Dominkiue the cherished cherry tragedy and comedy and is programme line-up. If the Sanda. Srhonell orchard. It is to be hewn occasiond German film is of never really resolved. Theatre, St. Lucia (371 down to make way for Theinterior sets are too interest to patrons, then summer villas, an event let's try some of tiie Herzog 1379). huge and empty and the that is symbolic of gross cherry orchard looked as if films which have been re 2nd Review. negligence by both new and it had been constructed for ceived so well down south. old owners. -BRUCE DICKSON There may indeed be a children's pantomime. The statement is incisive However Derek Campbell's very littie that Nietzsche enough but Oiekhov's sym moody dawn Ughting added couldn't teach you-about pathies rather ambiguously the kind of resonance that lean towards ^ the morality, reli^n, other facets of the dispossessed family. It is as nationalism, not to mention production lacked. THE ANCIENT MARINER: if he responds more to the raising of a recondite -Dl PRIEST wrist-but it's even money Directed by Peter Jordan, St. Johns Cathedral, thier 'dvilised dignity' than to the politicd necessities he wouldn't have a due September 28th-14th October, 8.15 pm (Tues- of change. Here and tiiere it what this particular piece of Saturday). is evoked. Old First who dnematographk preten rejected his freedom to tiousness is all about. The Peter Jordan has once agam chosen a gothic environ remdn in (he service of the lij^tning response, cunning ment for his second Festival of the Arts production Ranevskys is constantly and insis^tful as it may be, The Ancient Mariner. mocked by Yasha the young FILMMAKING manservant for adhering to that "S'art, innit?", just Peter welded together the 'Marinor' from three of WORKSHOPS his place and station it* hfe. doesn't work with this film Cbleridge's poems-'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Others circle around the either, because what we are 'Christabd' and 'Geraldine'. For me the flow of meaning Ranevskys providing a tex dealing widi here are was not always clear nor the connections between the questicHis which transcend tured canvas of Chckovian Would anyone interested characteis. characters. Petya, a former injoiningasuperSmm all the low-order stuff about The only thing that acteves real focus is the Mariner's life and art. tutor philosophises vacation please contact LA MERVEILLEUSE act of desecratk>n-the killing of the albatross, a futile ferventiy about tiie great What we are talking Bruce Dickscm at Semper VISITE: and seemingly gratuituous temptation of bte iot which possibilities of life. Epihodv, about is something far more he must suffer hideously. a cleark on the estate lives OfBce 37116U. Schonell Theatre, St important; the Trade Prac With this emphasis the production takes on the a blighted existence for no Lucia. Now showing. tices Act. To wit: it may discernable reason. not have escaped the quality of a morality play especially when the visuals touch on Christian symbolism-one of the sailmii dies Charlotta Ivonovna, a gover Screening witii Die audience that the titie of ness without any roots in tills film by Ms Cavani is slumped in the position of crudfixtkm in the rigging. Marquise Von 0 is this the world still lives with a dso the titie of a book. The Mariner was ad- tempest on botii spiritud kind of passion. Varya, the cinematic adaption of H.G. We know who wrote that vertised as a spectacle but and phydcd levels. I felt adopted daughter seeks Wells work, directed by book. And, it just so 1 do not think this this production was pitched solace in rdigion, Leonid French veteran Marcel Caine happens that one of the production achieved the. in mood to the holy and (of Les Enfiats Du Paiadis characters in the film goes the uncle in romantic spectacular. A spectacle the sombre, rather than to etheria and billiards. fame). by tiie name of Fritz, alias needs a tiiousand dynamics, the peculiar visionary tenor Frederich Nietzsche. The figure that Basically the plot In the case of the of Coleridge's poetry which oppresdvdy dominates the ' concerns the discovery of an For those of us whose Mariner we needed bigger entiualls and bewitches, play however is the ac- unconscious young man on only form of exercise is eruptions before the calm- ' I tiiought it was the quidtive merchant Lopahin a beach by a priest. Once he leaping to obvious con crescendoes leading 'to mudc, composed and con whose materialism deprives 20 SEMPER October 11,1978 gSBI^SlI MmWtMWB
But its the songs like Surrender (" Mummy's d- riglit, Daddy's drtgiit they just seem a Uttie weird" - 1 ask you?) that start the senses activating. Could Qieap Trick be more than just another yank hype AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATRE band'' Schonell Theatre, St Lucia A glance at the thoughtfully endosed lyric sheet quickly solved the problem. This is satire. (Season now over) Its not very good satire but its an attempt and in my book that scores a few points for artistic integrity. There is a case foraiguing that the lousy approach to Cheap Trick may be just a poor person's Tubes but they die presentation of Shakespeare at schools has put are sufficientiy eccentric to carry it off. many Austrdians off going to live theatre. Many of tiie songs on Heaven Tonight are just random And there is an equdJy stong case for saying that ly constructed montages of tiirow-away diches and high brow presentations of some classical ballet produc there's an occasiond cockeyed mord comment tiirown tions have more than Ukely given the majority of the in for the hell of it, public a badly stereotyped perspective of what consti I screw you, you screw me, they screw us. Here tutes trained dancing. we go again". (Stiff Competition) Yet modem dance theatre deserves better than this. or how about, It can be moving, exciting, humorous, sad, as well as Bye Bye, so long, farewdl see you lafer emotionally drdning. It can dso be chdlenging, suicide" (Auf Wiedersehen) even overtly intellectual. Tliere's even tiie odd allusion to a famous song Companies such as the Wings did it even look Uke (in jest of course). I'm sure Dylan would love, National Dance Theatre of achieving this yet the There are many here among us England, the (nude) Nether choreography in this piece Who fed tiieir lives are a joke" (Auf Wiedersehen) lands troupe, and other was not particulariy good As a piece of music, Heaven Tonight is not unpleasant. major groups in America either. • Its nothing particularly out of tiie ordinaiy but it is wdl have injected life into dance The company seems to executed. It deserves a listen. theatre and lifted its image have an obsession with big accordingly. production numbers-every- HEAVEN TONIGHT; -VIOLA SHARP However every time I go one on stage at once, Cheap Trick (CBS) to sec an Austrdian com constantiy ninning back and pany, such as the state one forth from behind dde or on this occasion the curtains. Weird stuff this. Initially I was quite hostile to Heaven Tonight (their third album) thinkuig it was just Interested in Filmmaking Workshops AustraUan Dance Theatre I The content was out- over the holidays? invariably come away dis righUy frivolous and yet anotiier Mand soft-rock commerdal hype offering from appointed. (I gather that couldn't even inspire on die US. Contact ^ce Dickson at Semper fortunately this is not true But after stewing on it for a vtliQe I became com tiiat lowest of levels. One or 371 1611 for aU state companies or two of the dancers stood pletely confused. Listening to Top ofthe World or for aU productions put on.) out but the rest barely California Man it could just as easily be Foreigner or The recent programme of managed to carry off their any one of hundreds of sound-alike bands. dance at the Schonell parts (not that they were Theatre was not imagina unduly challenging). tive. It was not challenging. The sets were unimagina And above dl it was not tive too. I have seen sets deeply innovative or adven used in London which were turous in the way these quite simple yet most other oveiseas companies effective. have attempted to be. One of these London sets Maybe the programme was composed of a doping they undertook was chosen ramp with curved side waUs because the organisers had a which via both the Ughting BRISBANE'S FIRST FESTIVAL OF AUSTRALIAN low opinion of Queendand and choreography were WOMEN'S FILMS & VIDEOS audiences-who knows. carefuUy integrated into the However despite the movements. superfidd humour and The pace was dso a Uttie entertainment vdue con slower, the dancing more tained in the opening intimate and powerful. sequence "Tis Goodly When can we hope to see Sport", only the find such productions locaUy sequence "Wings" made any produced-I hope it will attempt to break from the jiappen soon-otherwise our use of traditiond sounding understanding of how music and presentation. brilUant this form of dance The choreogiaphy was can be, wUl be grossly not particularly inspiring. It distorted. lacked intimacy-only in -BRUCE DICKSON
CAROLINA CHISEL SHOW DON'T BE TOO POLFTE GIRLS "COMMENT": by Barbara Bowers, QTQ9, NOT TAKE IT ANYMORE following the 6pm News. ELSIE From pro-South Vietnam supporter during the HELLO Ms BLUESTOCKING Sixties to right wing television commentator in the DAPHNEANDME Seventies. How does she do it? SEEING RED, FEELING BLUE WE AIM TO PLEASE The answer Ues in the left. FILM FOR DISCUSSION fact that her own views are Barbara Bowers can with SECRETSTORM poker faced expression teU not that far removed from ME & MY LITTLE GIRLIE tiiose who presentiy control us that the Freedom From tiic Australian media and Hunger Campdgn by giving WHA TSTHEMA TTER SALL Y after aU-she was dso the Australian Land Rights obvioudy sent through an Council $5,000 has become and many others docution coutse by her notiung more than a "poli mum, whUst a child. ticd lobby group" and that Add to that her experi we should "think" about ence in debating-debating where our donations are octoBcrn for its own sake that is- going. who gives a fuck about the Yes, why not ignore the REPEAT PROGS.^fl actual content of the denial of basic human rights debates. to AustraUa's aborigind Given the traditiond population-it's at least con DISCUSSION & conservative emphasis ofthe sistent with her attitude VIDEOS 22 commercial media in this towards the majority of the countru, it is only typicd Vietnamese peasant popula that we as viewers receive tion who were for so long controveisial comment from exploited by their land atX30pn^ icavin fifove ^ A e Uie right but never contro lords. versial comment from the -MORTON REEVESBY SEMPER October 11,1978 21
•'.".".'i-j / flS-^MOC cs: 8]^i^@ii phrases together into a Jackson Browne's words, syntiietic whole. The unique "To find a soul who looks interplay of their voices into your own. . ." is re makes it difficult for other affirmed in refreshingly artists to mterpret their positive and uncomprom songs. Despite the emotive ising tones. power of Linda Ronstadt's The album dso confirms STILETTO : torchy voice, her version of tiie supportive nature of (^eens HoteL Brisbane ^^1^ ^-*"/" -f"^ "Heart Like a Whed" (tiie women's relationships with most widely known and one anotiier as botii an Brisbane really seems to be coming up in the world. acclaimed baUad by Anna emotiond refuge and as (I even notked tiiat electriflcation of thc rafl system McGarrigle) lacked the a source of strength. This sustained melody and multi- dbum has an immediacy had begun. . .). Six months ago a gig could hardy be layered texture of the and freshness which Isn't found in this fair city, but now it's almost bursting at origind. as evident in their second the seams widi an (over?) abundance of woric, Brisbane ^ . ,' X •%^;'- • ^ The predominant theme dbum. Dancer with Bruised had always been something of a stalemate-bands never ^ of tiie dbum is expressed Knees which employs a came here to play because there was nowhere to play, in songs Uke "Heart Like more sophisticated and and there vras novviiere to phy because (there was no a Whed", "Go Leave", stylised treatment. So I need because) no-one came here to play. So I suppose "Jigsaw Puzzle of Life" would recommend that you it's only local impetus tiiat can be thanked for brealdng where the search for love, buy this one first. fi^e of such a vicious drcle. commitment and, in -LINDY RAINE There was dways Not long into tiieir set \ stalwart occasions Uke they started hauUng out 4ZZZ Joint Efforts and the old blues standards and i Sunday nights at the Curry R&B chestnuts, Uke LICENCE TO RAGE: Shop, but these were hardly "Down the Road Apiece", StUetto, Oz Records (EMI) OZS .1009. enough to make an inter which drummer Eddie Van state band's visit viable, Roosendael sang. The crowd Stiletto's first recorded material was on the Oz nor support what Uttie locd went mad for a workout on Records compUation dbum of late last year. The talent there was. It's only "Crossroads", which Chris been the inception of pub Worrel lead, and were just LIVE TIME: Anyway, for interest Debutantes. I don't know how much Red tymons had venues Uke the Exchange as receptive to "Littie Daryl Hall and John sake the songs included on to do with Licence to Rage, Stiletto's flrst fuUy- Livetime are Rich Girl, The and the Queens that has Queenie" cr "Carol", I Oates (RCA) fledged album, for he's only mentioned in passing on reaUy brought Brisbane into can't remember which it Emptyncss, Do What You the liner notes, but there is definitely a resemUance Want, But Be What You its own, and ot a nationd was. At one stage, Jane Are, I'm Just a Kid (Don't in sound to the early Sl^hooks. status. Whereas bands once CUfton even took on It is really be^nning to make me feel Like A Man), scoffed at the idea of playing guitar, for what show just how much some Sara Smile, Abandoned This is helped along • -The songs which faU in bothering to tour reason I don't know. muskians rdy on modem Luncheonette, and Room to by Jane Clifton, the lead between the two extremes Queensland, now they're However, the result was technokigy. Breathe. There's not one vocalist, whose voice is lack bite and it seems to more than anxious. a bore. Given a dngle 40 'This new live album from tiiat I wouldn't rather here remarkably Uke Shirley's. me to be mdnly a short Recent weeks has seen minute set, say, StUetto Hall and Oates is certainly a done in the studio. Now whether you think coming in the recording tiie Ukes of Jo Jo Zep, cut through it with razor case in point. They have -VIOLA SHARP these comparisons are com- (the studio, the en^neering, Sidewinder, the Auto sharpness, but a gig Uke drifters and the Skyhooks this only reveds their reached the point where pUments or otherwise, the equipment or even the Licence to Rage shows pressing) which has caused here, and Stiletto have just limitations. diey cannot possibly hope StUetto to be a tight band some thinness of sound, completed theu* second It's difficult to categorise to recreate the sounds they fuU of energy and ideas especiaUy with the guitais tour. One weekend found StUetto; and I wouldn't achieve in the studio, on them playing at the 4ZZZ KATE AND ANNA with cleverly written and on "Public Enemy 1" and dare hy. Simply, they're stage. arranged songs. "Licence to Rage". Joint Effort on Friday a veiy competent, but McGARRIGLE: They're not the firstt o The musicians-Qiris Still, as evidenced by m"ght, and the Queens Hotel never, I bdieve, outstanding have this problem. The Warner Brothers, BS WorraU (bass & vocds), tiieir live performances, on Saturday night (and the or extraordinary, rock 'n' Beach Boys (no, reaUy) feU 2862. E. van Roosendael (drums StUetto do have power and Easts FootbaU Club on roU band, who are true to into the trap a couple of & vocals). Celeste Howden exciting presence-they just Sunday nijjit, but we'U tiieir roofs-which is years ago. just ignore that, okay?). Cariton, and dl that that This is the first album (guitar and vocals), Andrew haven't totally succeeded in They had been doing a Bell (keyboards, guitar & The Queens was impUes. (The Skyhooks of the Canadian McGarrigle getting it down on record lot of recording and no vocds), and Jane Clifton yet. packed; quite obvioudy comparis S ti\§FW^.9oo9Stpb«rdli]l»J878 iSBEll!Sll'llSf¥lSWlS respects. recorded materid, some of The materid is a sort of If mediocre bands Uke which has already been Top 10 of what used to die Numbers and Razar (privately) rdeased. But the be caUed "new wave", can gig regularly now, tiien question is: where do they though the titie is hardly tiie future is an open book. go from there? appropriate now. This music I'd love to see the mag AH we've got to do now -Blondie, XTC, Graham nificent Leftovers, who is wdt for the Qld recording Parker, Tdking Heads, Ian were once treated Uke industry to catch up. And Dury- is an institiition lepers, getting the recog for starters it can stop now, if only a minor one. nition, and gigs, they SUMMER OF '78 wasting time with crap Shark's dso do tight, deserved aU along. And the Uke MoonUght (as it has taut origind material, and Go-Betweens too. done in the past)... The Sform Thaf Followe(d The Calm imaginatively rearranged It might be ironic tiiat -CEE WALKER Bealles-I Am The Walrus, aU these bands have The Summer of 77 in Brisbane saw thc rise of a number of new and I Saw Her Standing There, exciting bands whose one comnjon ambirion was to purge the town of Back in the U.S.S.R, disco muck and the hippie armchair disease. The sound should blow you away-cool dectric Naturally it didn't come off—the corporate muscle behind the Top 40 piano, electric vioUn is such that any opposition is necessarily limited to those who have access (sounds Uke brass), rush to altemative music. bass, and guitar playing that Fortunately Radio 4ZZZ-FM was able to promote real alternative music tdls you this boy's been at it since the nursery. In fact and anyone with any sense knew that this audience wanted live and living eveiy member of this band music—not the pulp that the regular promoters had been force-feeding us. seems to have the Confi dence to KUl-you may have Thus, The Survivors, Rayar, Same 13, X-Men, Tlic out of key, or the guitar to cash in your debentures. Disposable Fits, The Numbers, The Lefloveis and in a was out of tune. -PETER WALSH sli^tiy more insipid way Fuller Banks and the [)eben- When 1 heard BUl Riner tures. of 4ZZZ-FM tdking about .4&THE DECIMALS The Survivors split at the riglit time they were this band with its brass Just because it's a new tired of the material and so were we. The Fits split section and organ, and plans band doesn't mean it's new before their time was up due to the familiar organisa- for Tom Petty material I material. To anyone who was redly excited. Instead tiond and gig problems. Anyway, these bands were the was impressed by the music tiiey come on like a locd pioneers the firstwave . of the early-mid 70s, laid- an aesthetic-you know back, lacklustre, and Now, Summer is upon us agdn and the same thing where you are, what's going laxative as it was, this band happens. New bands are springing up all over the place on, but are totally is for you. The Supports, The Go Betweens, Free Cigarette, The unmoved. I can't understand it-it's Sharks, Sally and the Scubadivers, V2 and the Hiltons, 1 don't like their materid too early for a revivd and the Patients, Point 4 and tiie Decimals, The Wreckless and what's worse they do it its too late to be con-, Rhythm Riders, The Other Voice, Fdony.Zero. PARTI by ERIC CUMMINGS Again it's largely due to with a fuU blooded wanker 4ZZZ-FM that the audience singer. The guitarist, whom is tfiere now, so only the I suspect writes the venues are needed. With the material, oought to do him STEPHANE GRAPPELLI: Mayne Hall, Exchange, the Queens, the sdf a favour. Sack the Mooloolaba Hotel, the singer, give tiie dmmmer a Brisbane Cutry Shop, and various hit of speed and toss away What a great concert!! And only Stephane GrappdU Univeisity functions (Grif tiie group overaUs. oould manage to attract such a diversified audience. fith and Queendand) plus . This materid has the *-fH£ uCCD5t.- OWfc or TKC H4«y His music has been enjoyed for so many yeats I^ so the Caxton Street HaU potentid, if sung well and many different generations and there they were- (deplorable acoustics), the fiUed..out by another guitar tuming out in force to take in the sheer pleasure of musicians are emerging from ist, to come close to the anodier of his concerts. the shadows. sound that Steve Jones of Semper, in this and the tiie Sex Pistds was able to However if tiiey thought many years to come, next issue, wUl take a brief make of Glerl' Mattock's badly. Unless they improve, temporary and you'd redly that his magicd violin play Stephane will still be taking look at these'bands so you rocksdid mdodies;' miss tiiem wherever you have to be out of your tree ing was going to be the mdn his audiences down the road know what to expect Maybe the singer ^can can. to dance to it. focus of attention they were to Gundagd as joyfuUy as' By the way, the sing, but if faecan' t be heard ~ER 10 CUMMINGS hi any case, if you Uke most definitely wrong. he did tiiat night Exchange Hotel is now what's the point? He's got this music, they perform it GrappeUi in typical modest being touted as a new wave tiic presence of Liberace, SHARKS competently so check them form withdrew from centre By the way the support venue. It can't be. The witii epUepsy and needless The Sharks made their out. stage to aUow the audience act for GrappeUi on the accepted pubUc image of to say, it's been done before debut in that weU-known -PETER WALSH to take in some absolutely night was Aincrican singer, "new wave" music seems to better. Reconstituted this acoustic heU-hole, the teUUant lead guitar playing composer, pianist Blossom be anything that you can band could make Rayar Caxton Street HaU. by John Etheridge of the Dearie. pogo, headbang or smash lose some of their smug^ tMz Disley Trio and some A jazz performer whose glasses to, ^ong with 90 ness. Otiierwise, a dead equaUy briUiant doutde bass name fits her style of sing mUe an hour buzzsaw guitar loss. ing, she exhibited- a rather playing by American Brian -and there just aren't -EftlCCUMMINa$ Torff. bizarre sense of humour and enough Brisbane bands play Mi QUAtiiy 29 year old English bom a unique chUd-Uke singing ing Uke that. RECKLESS RHYTHM acoustic guitarist, Etheridge voice. The Exchange can only RIDERS bas toured extensively with PersonaUy I could only he a "new music" pub- The only reckless act, this GrappdU since 1976 and handle ber in smaU doses, because the materid that band commits is having tbe (shades df Django Rein but she obviously was a hit new bands are producing audacity to play The hardt) his occasiond witii many at the concert. now is no longer limited to Queens. tAlN?iNc>.fc^6ll?^l;KT mudcd duals with Stephane As Roger Whitaker once imitations of EngUsh punk. Apart from being out of betniy his genuine admira sdd in the New Yorker, So watch it-have no expec^ tune and out of key, -baby tion for the old master. "her range roves from thc taUons. baby baby they're out of There was a red warmth meticulous to the sublime." time. One of the guitarists, up on the stage tiiat night THE GO BETWEENS formeriy of White Li^t- amm-tt. -BRUCE OICKSON (which is typical of a A group of three (guitar, ning, thinks that if he says Grappdii concert) and bass, drums) pro dudng aU "let's rock" some speU is PLU/ naturaUy it infected the origind materid made for cast and we'U rock, even whole audience. though the music we're sup IF VOUVE GOT listening. This is not a dance No pretense, no star band~and deliberately so. posed to rock to is off the jJieTORcYca tripping, just non stop, SOMETHING TO The sound is thin, bloody waU. sensationd music. SAY watery, and melodic. The The attempt at Chuck TdVII?lK|OECiUIP?^&KT GrappdU is so unassum AND WANT VALUE lyrics arc quirky, interest Berry, always a good stand ing. At seventy years of age FOR MONEY ing, sometimes cynicd by, was lamentably awful. AND GeweRAL ACCe//ORIE/ ' he is stUl as good as ever gentie. It is concept music Do tiiey have monitois? I and he knows this is the AOVERTtSING but fits within the verse/ doubt if Bob Marley's song MclNROy/I?ARIN&A case. Consequentiy he feels IN SEMPER chorus format with "No Woman No Cry" should make them easy no impulse to flaunt him CAN WORK FOR occasional touches of chaos. PHONE 3102^33 sdf, rather he just lets you A spare, cabaret sound. targets for a defamation suit fully enjoy his playing and YOU Listen to them. from Maricy-it began with MOVING 20"* OCTOKR TO ' that of his fdlow muddans phone 3711611 PETER WALSH a bit of 5 E-Z Lessons organ -in the most relaxed that might have embarrassed '4ibOUGU//T. HllTOH • manner possible. FREE CIGARETTE a four-year old. The lead mm] Di/couNX/. -•' 1 can only hope that for Utteriy drab, predictable break was either totaUy SEMPER Octobern-. 1978 23 ssMPsn ms^fisws SUPPORTS ing plenty of parties they Do you wanna dance? have moved themselves into The Supports certdnly scenes such as the want you to. Exchange, the Curry Shop They're looking for a and the Bruce dance. "good fun" response to a Audience response is PARKERILLA repertoire influenced by getting more favourable as Eddie and the Hot Rods. the rhythm becomes tighter Besides having fun they're and the vocds .more involved in satisfying them meaningful. Leigh's vocds sdves musicaUy. have potentid. Not long ago Jeffrey (drums) and Rob she threw away every line in (bass) provide a neat beat. an expressionless unsus tain Rdph and Peter (guitais) ed monotone. But now she overlay this with a tight, is using her technicaUy com hoUow almost scmhacoustic petent voice to make more type of sound. A consistent and more phrases in her time and pace is maintained hingh range. She is just by the four boys and it is teginning to explore her good to see the develop voice-a voice definitely ment of such a closely worth aU the experimenting woven rhythm section. On , and effort she can give it. top of aU this is Leigh, the Anyway, the Supports lovely lady with the micro want your eais and your phone. pissed bouncing bodies. And Back in May at Kennedy with a manager Uke V2 Tee saw their "beginning of what further recommenda tiie end". Also appearing at tion do you need? So -"why that party were the then dontcha" go see the newly re-imaged Numbers. Supports. Since tiien whUst stUl play -DUANE HALL triggers. They make you bnnections GRAHAM PARKER INTERVIEW: feel good, certain words just together and you know By ALAN DAVIES Graham P&rker in Brisbane!. No doubt the concert impressed, but they mean something. what were his impressions of us? You don't even know ENVIRONJVIENT Semper sent BRUCE DICKSON and 4ZZZ's MICHAEL FINUCAN what half the tune. ASBESTOS FINUCAN: What about in ABOLITION along to the Parker press conference to find out. Though Queensland was tha cluding social or political Having atx>lished the en fkst ttate to introduce asbestos comment in the lyrics of vironmental control section of lagisfation (19711, tha require OICKSON: I thought we that there's something on this matter, but is there your songs. the Premier's Department, Joh ments are limited, tt does not might start by getting some drasticaUy wrong. any direction you feel your ANDREWS: You write Is keeping to his goal of eventual Ht specific asbestos ahist or of your impressions of Ihe polke have been music may take' you in lyrics Uke that and you abolition of the Qld environ fitore lavalt (despite the fact Australia and Australian very active over the last futiue. . jiway from what hear the song two years ment He refuses to cooperate that adwstosHnduced diseases musiclaiu. you have done already. with tha federal govemment on few weeks against a lot later and you get real are dosa^raiatad) at do tha SA Leaving the Sports out No, I can't pin it down thc administration of the and NSW standards. In NSW, of the .rock venues and embanassed. Commoovwalth Environment it it required tliat there be no of it, I gather that you're dances. you see. It's just more PARKER: Yeah, lyrics Uke (Impact of Proposals) Act and more than an average of two fairly famOiar with RoU We're going to be care son^, more playing, and tiiat you know they're dan has repeatedly attacked the ariMttoa filoret per cubic canti- Hairb' music. (Laughter). ful, you know. I mean \diatever happens. gerous from a number of dsciston to ban sand mining metre of air. The NSW Has he ever inspired you we're not going to cause I just think they're points of view. on Fraser (stand. Tha Qld standerd also oUigat employea to include a wobble board any riots if we con help different aU the time. New FINUCAN: WeD vriiat about Oean Air Council has ot>- to heve thtir workers medicaify in your act? it. songs always strike' me as tained a^mlnute number of examined every three VMra end tiie good they mi^t d|o^ PARKER: No, they're too ActuaUy Festival Hall a revelation. I don't know die change that may come convictions and the WSter to keep medical records for hard to record. . .wobble how I've written them so Gkiality Council has never 40 yeart after emplyees resign where you're playbg, is from the awareness you iBunched a proRecution. even or retire. boards, you can't get a good usually left alone and is • thdie they ate. create? - though the Port of Brisbane sound on them at aU. . . good venue with no great What do you think of PARKER: General laughter. Ttie OLD requirements terrible. Devo'a music. Authority has 45 successful moftfy concem proper ventila proUcms. Things Uke that don't do prosecutions over the last A tion, pratactive screening and You havent been . WeU if the people take I Uke them. . .yeah. I any good, they can't change years to Its credit! lefpiratory equipment i.e. bricks tempted to try* to get out over the gig, then it's aU Uke Devo. I don't think anything iiki that, not with and mortar rather then evalua- to Ayers Rock and places right.. The gig is between they're great, I think they lyrics. SENSELESS CENSUS tive or performance oriented like that, so as to take in us and the people-not just had a few clever ideas. DICKSON: WeU looking at Iht abuirdity of Fraiar't standards. the real Australia a lot of In terms of bands Uke dalay In proeessing tha 1976 die bounceis or the police die specific case of the people seek? or anybody else. Tom Robinson, your own camut Mwlt* is bogjnning to CYCLE SILLINESS Tom -Robinson Band agaia tall. Tha fadanil Oaughter) The sat of Ihat's my feeling about band and say the Sex Do you think fans of punk intardapertmantal cofflmittaa it aboriginal .feeling. . .is that it and as long as the people Pistcds, how important do and new wave have been assaising ttia implications of what people go for? are aware of that they can you think lyrics bave been reaUy taking what they tachnological dianga on tha We have poets come out do. exactly what they Uke in your songs? write seriously? workforem, and it hamttrung here and just sit on top as long as they aU do it Ahh. . .weU, I fed PARKER: Ah. I don't by ttie lack of currant'data of it so that they can together. differently about different know. I can't sort of define on which to maka projections. attempt to take in the Festival HaU only holds artists so 1 can't on the Chairpanon Dartiam of tha other people's tastes reaUy. 'dreamtune*. vihcie reaUy say. I think National Training Council tsys More than 320,000 bicycles a few thousand people. Do I'm just talking aboit the avaifibfa • ttatiitics ara were sold fn Austrafia in 1976/ I'd Uke to do tiiat. If you find that when you're how people can sort of way I see it, you know. r had the chance I'd do inadaquata for ttudiat of ttia 77. Though sales tend to give a performing you get a better believe any of • Tom i just Uke certain things it. 1 would go and sit out social and aconomic grossly exaggerated vievv of feedback from an audience Robinson's lyrics is beyond and other things I don't with the. real native Aust- implicationt of eomputar age .actual «;$e, it Is clear there hos if you're . in that smidler me. . . .1 ilnd it hard to believe tadinolofly. Analysis of forward been a significant increase. In ialians and see what they're venue or does the large I think they're total some people like things demand lor housing is tavaraly the number of cydists since up to. open arena appeal to you? gibberish, appaUing piffle hampered, with consequent 1970/71, when ' 132fl00 tiiat I don't Uke, but that's AUen Ginsberg once did • About two, three .. .you know. probably just an ego thing uncertainly about employmant bicycles were sold Most cycling that-sat on. top of Ayers is. done by children, or. for thousand I think is a great 1 mean people seem to reaUy. You know. I'm just in the industry, as the Housing. Rock and then started Industry Anodafion has recreation purposes by adults number to play to. . Just think they're really im the same as anyone' else. writing some poems. pointed out. Frasars job, (hardly anybody rides to work, right. . .even a thousand is portant. To me it just sort Do you especiaUy ei\j6y Oh yeah, he would do, naturally, will not ba affected except in some specific loca good." of proves that there is touring.. .do you get some- tions), and the major problem he would. . .um, weU if by automation Ithough his You know that one claim still a load of people who thigoutofit? tenure of it certainly mii^tl) Is safety. I could get scx-t of coffee to fame that Brisbane has can't Oiink for themselves Yeah', you meet a lot A U.K. styd found that on and things lUce that out got musically (besides the . . .can't use their jma- of people and. . .the audi DOLE OR DEATH the basis of distance travelled, there, I'd go. fact that the Bee Gees once ^nation. ences really make it worth While tho Victorian branch bicycles are four times more Now that you're in Ihred here) is that 77ie But. there are others while. Otherwise it's a of the Miscellaneous Workers likely to be' involved in an Brisbane, I don't know how . . .Uke Johnny Rotten, Union is seeking compensation accident than ears. 81 cyclists Saints originated here. They bore. aware you are of the politics some of those lyrics I from James Hardie Ltd for were killed ond 2,390 Injured sent a demo record over Were you siirpiised at in this place, but the police think are the greatest. I workers suffering Ill-health from In Australia In 1975 (mostly to Enghind and managed to how mudi uiterest there is ire being pretty heavy on think they're reaUy great. asbestos, the spectre of children) and estimates Indicate get out an album or two. Ul your music over here? unemployment Has created a only 1 In 10 casualty accidents the rock scene at the If you were to give a Have you ever heard aiiy Yeah, extremdy, yeah. different situation In NSW. are reported! IDesptte this moment. They're even oc- personal summary of the of their material? 1 mean I realise now why 430 sstKstos mining workers appalling safety record, govern casionaUy battling with sort of things you most The Saints? I heard them it's Uke that. at the Woods Reef mine, ments In Australia have barely peoi^e in the disco scene sing "I'm Stranded" or Uke writing about ht your BarratM, have joined with their, lifted a finger to Improve as weU. Were you iware lyrics. What's the mahi WeD, could you go empbyer to seek an extension sdety or assist cyclists. something. . .was it that? of thiis before you inived? emphasis as you see it? furtiier into what you mean of the time allowed for purchase . . abominable noise I by tint. lam, yeah. thought. Ahh; . there's no main, of nsw dust control equipment EARNINGS WeU, because there's not How much have you I don't know, just. .umm. What -an unenviable choice- During this press con-' much else rcaUy. . .because the dole or the deathbed! For wtiat ift worth, average heard about what goes on ference you've, been making Are there any themes (tf the fact that most people TtiB case Illustrates the com vveeUy aamingt In Auttralia in Queensland? • you deliberately dioose to are pretentty about $220 par a point of not defining come here ii^en they're on. plexities of vrall Intended regu- . Yeah, I've heard a bit, your music In response to go into? die way out instead ot on ( lations. • I've heard enought to know the standard press questions No,.they're just khid bf| die way up or whatever; W^ <^SEMP6R^^O«bb*ir.'"m78 issEPsic m^tiswi FOUR CORNERS: whde on that point, so too (Continued from the last do those in Fraser's govern SOCIAL ALTBRNATIVIS ment. A NEW INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE, issue of Semper). hi what must have been an aU time low for the Focusing on Soclai Change and Alternalipe Strategies show, Four Comers in their STOP PRESS: Four latest programme ran a EOironiAL BOARD Comere or die commercial 'special report' on the Bruce Dickson, Bruce McKinlay. Mtrgtrat Smilh, Ralph Sunmy networks wiU gain the rights education at tertiary level to a television series ISSUE 1: Includes Lawrence Jones on Nonviolent Defence, of AustraUa's Army, Navy Ted VJheelwffght on A New Economic Order, Margaret Smith recendy made in Russia and Airforce officer cadets. & Afinc Maclean on Homelea People, Nadina Hood on A****- which exposes the horror It was pure propaganda Family Structures, lan Lowe on energy Options, Peter Koepp of the treatment of ing on Carlos Castaneda, J.P. Naravan's Prison Diary and a of a kind'wortiiy'of armed . poom by Kaih Walker. Russians and Poles by the forces recruitment Tdms. National SociaUsts during Absolutely no critical ISSUE 2: Includes Ivan lllidi on Alternative Health-care, Worid War II. Pam Gorring on Self-help and Drugs, Meg Smith on Women's perspective of the type of Health Centres, Sugata Oasgupla on No Poverty Third World, It is easy to forget education the army gives its Richard Folherinc^ani on Alternative Theatre, Maria, A that there were virtually officeis was aUowed, par Migrant bv Joan Knowles, Beyond the Mechanical Mind as many of these people ticularly from a genuinely reviewed by Laurence Browne, Thomas Shapcott ()oeiti. kUled in German concen independent source. drawings and artwork by Brenda Lewis and Matt Mawson. tration camps as there Surely this is the least ISSUE 3: Includes Bobbie Galloway - Uranium and the were Jews. you could expect from the Media, Romesh Thapar - ^nted: A New Information Order, I doubt however that ABC's top current affaiis articles by Sally Stockbridoc and Peter Weir on Australian we wiU get to see a follow- show. I'm still not sure Films, Frank Moorhouse The ConfererKe as Communication, up series from the Soviet Rita Cruise O'Brien Media'Imperialisrn in the Third World, diat the footage for this Peter Jackson The Economic Cuts and the Alternatives. Union which examines segment wasn't suppUed by David Crossley on Lifestyles and the Environment, Dennis StaUn's labor camps. die Armed Forces them Altman on Social Science Versus Imagination, R.D. Laing on Russia's rulets know only selves. Birth, Eva Cox on Beware the Call of Nature, twcins by Maureen Watson and Graham Rowlands. too weU what should get to ^ANESTONE air and what shouldn't and. SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES - ORDER FORM STREET POETS: AU coiicipondencc conccininj; cunlnbud'ons oi subsciiplioiu Tom the Poet: Swanston Street, Melboume (S8.00 pci uinum) thoukl be addressed to: -pic Editon, SA, Depl. of Exlcinal Sludici, Univrrsity of Qld. 4067. Oral poetry? Sounds line an extrad from the Joys of. Sex ot something Rona Joyner would place at (he AMrm top of her death list. iuit — ^'rodt Coimtry --. However in Melboume where oral poetry Is puUic, kdMdMk: Mfotlyoi SUfatlynn it is not even beuig prosecuted by tht poUce. I wish to begjn with issui MUlOnria: inlvlytm SUIuirt'^ (1) (21 (31 , (pleasa circia no. dewly). It all began witii Tom group. Sli^Cspin: SISO the Poet and his merry This inte gration of SmbtaifHiOM Ul M M tMfifUi bull ud rovn thr CUM ot turftcf nuiUnf ot fou bMri. band. Seems Tom (alias poetry and musical soimds Michad KeUy a former has been so successful with OMqim Hd Bomy ordrit lliMid U nadt poribk lo SOCIAL ylLTERKATIVES. . itor of Semper) one day the pubUc and the media decided to take, poetry tiiat Tom die Poet is now TniL back to the people-hence virtuaUy a household word 'ilk ate.rfii iprcui :l.i>Ii ulngn HKJ tl; »w.iy. -ii-y i.0 ih-i.l. cheat Hicy're like outteiille*. a world first-5freef Poetry. down south-possibly even (•••rj,)* yr'ir v«iTr a'.r.i', Since having made this more famous than Tom the ixu uarnoc tack thiiii djvm co set iwc liiey *>. decision, KeUy has reason Cheap (the cut price Srt chc'D fly'. to beUeve that poetry is grocer). rhe gllver-wioged rleie, wlage coming back. . ."a new KeUy has been joined In your ovn ttlnd. poetry about what is going fll»» off, i«»v«» -..u irsndlng thrte ' by dozens of other poets" •)ueitlo.i Btfcfct In your lieod. down now." as well as the odd poUtician To be consistent with his in Ills street readings. Who view that "the human voice knows, one day we may For the Festival of Arts has got to come back into even see Joh himself giving fashion" Tom the Poet has an oral reading of "The held regular readings in Good Ship Venus" on the the crowded streets of Mel steps of Comalco House. boume backed by a musical A BIG COUNTRY: ican joumaUst l.F. Stone. But George also came ABQ 2 across as a "fair dinkum" Australasian with a sense of A Big Country is a bril- humour and appreciation of EancySIante Itandy produced show life similar to Stone's. v^ich never Ms to sur Now in his eighties I I Complete range of medicind, prise with its content. Finey who left Smith's culiiusry &fragmnt herbs. H Ihelr recent programme Weeklyland dty living)many E Pots & indoor pUints E on the life of artist George years ago in order to reside in the Blue Mountains, Fmey is a good example. StUl continues to pursue R R Bom in New Zealand, his artistic interests in a TUES - SAT George shifted to Australia down to earth fashion, and B B IN and gave up wotkii% as a with a down to earth .ST .;OHNS S CATHEDRAL joumaUst to become a perspective. (He is a great 135 Waterworks Rd S poUtical cartoonist for demystifierof art). ASHGROVE Smidi's Weekly. Although often invited on tours oveiseas to practice THE His cartoons besides ex hibiting great personal style and exhibit his varied work, were very incisive and in George has been content ANCIENT to help stimulte interest in evitably led to George being art amongst local school- branded a "Bolshie". kids. MARINER He occasionaUy invites A MUSIC THEATRE SPECTACLE A sample of his work friends to his home to showed that he had a see a showing of his more Directed by Peter Jordan Music Prue Gibbs concem for ecology long recent creations including witli Frank Gallacher & Victoria Arthur before it achieved its his range of three dimen Adults $6.50 Students $3.50 present popidarity. He also wmm sional "junk" creations of Groups of 20 or more $3.50 predicted (Uke many others people such as Beethoven's Indian presumably) the coming of mother. Why his mother? Curry i Worid War II. ' Because witiiout her, ^ Restaurant there would have been no ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL Beetiioven. . .so that was By interviewing George 227 GIVEN TCE , PADDINGTON. PH: 36 3483 ANN ST. and tradng his past, it George Finey, a great soon becomes clear that as human being Uie Ukes of someone said of him "he which we rarely get to A delightful choice of appetizing Indian has been a man ahead of hear of. EspeciaUy in a dishes served in the traditional Indian 8.15pm his time". Finey is a great country which gives recog manner in an authentic atmosphere. Prices September 28-October 14 character, with a great nition more often than not, heart. only to those people are reasonable, and our service attentive Bookings 229 3805 He reminded me because exhibiting "qualities" that to help you make the most of a truly of his radical style and We should by rightsdespise . enjoyable meal. outlook of the great Amer -MORTON REEVESBY L»\t^^WppR3,J3f3e^enbl«^92' 8 2^s defend himself physically the prisoner had seemed might be feigning Ulness! In 1971, psychologist when he had to. weak. Nevertheless, they Ronald Conway published By the time Steve was Under cross-examination, wanted to transfer Biko to his cynical study of the arrested and kiUed last year, Dr. Lang said possible head hospital for further obser AustraUan way ofUfecaUed he had already been baneed injury had occurred to him vation but "The security The. Great Australian for four years-restricted to but he could not explain poUce would not aUow us Stupor It was a withering a certain area, not aUowed why he did not ask relevant to transfer him to a analysis of Australian to talk to more than one questions about it. He did hospital. We had no option society at that time, only person at a time, not per not recommend that leg but to go along with them." tempered by the very real mitted to publish anything irons should not be replaced Dr, Lang admitted in possibUity, realised the next or to be quoted by others, on the swollen ankles, but court, "If he had been any year, that AustraUans would and so on. However, this "in retrospect would have other prisoner we would try a different style of wasn't enough to stop him recommended it". have sent liim to a pro administration to that under having a marked influence The following day the vincial hospital." which they had languished on the development of chief district surgeon. Dr. And so on and so on. for 23 years. programme on black health, Tucker, also saw Biko. By Steve Biko showed clear That experiment was education, poverty and this time he was incoherent evidence of brain injury doomed from the start, poUtical consciousness- and Uttle contact could be yet he was kept in a ceU, for uiternal and extemal raising. made with him. He had chained by the leg, naked, reasons, and in late 1975, not visited the toUet for 'covered in a urine-soaked as if we needed to be re For aU the claims by 24 hours and his blankets blanket. When he finaUy minded, AustraUa returned Prime Minister Vorster and were soaked in urine (and went to hospital, it was to to a safer, more secure way his Ministers that they be were left there). travel naked in a Landrover of Ufe. However, that way lieve in separate develop for 600 miles. of Ufe, King convincingly ment of the different races, When asked why he What more needs to be argues, is based on material they counter this by picking didn't get up to go to the said about this horror story? ism. off and getting rid of any toUet, Biko revealed that he I was told in South His outrage at the state Black person who could couldn't get up. He also V€T AwrfHe^ TRAGIC SMKIDI Africa that the inquest of affairs fairly drips off bring it about for lus own complained of pains in the made a lot of white poeple every page. He delves into people BUco was much too head. think more about what history to Ulustrate how successful. He had to go. On examination, Dr. BIKO: Tucker found a "possible "justice" means in South AustraUa could not develop When he was arrested on extensor plantar reflex" as Africa, but that it wiU in any other way than the by Don Woods. Paddington Press Ltd, NY and August 18, the crime he was did specialist Dr. Hersch make no difference to the way it has because it started London charged with was that he the foUowing day. This is a security poUce and the rest out as a human refuse tip was outside his area, there symptom of brain injury, of The System. for the British jaUs, and fore breaking the banning Steve Biko was murdered by South African security as is schoIaUa, also noticed A word about the later a Ukely place of en order. police on September 12,1977. He was the 4Sth South by Hersch. author. Formerly editor of richment by the petit bour The first response of African known to have died in the hands of the Al this stage the police the Daily Despatch, he was geoisie from Britain, Europe PoUce Minister Kruger to Nationalst Govemment's security police. All were were arguing that Biko was changed through his friend and America. Biko's death was "Biko's imprisoned without trail, charge, prosecution or shamming illness. The ship with Biko and the The paraUels between death leaves me cold". He doctors, in spite of the circumstances of his death, Stupor and Waltzing evidence. Causes of death alleged by the security police went on to say that the evidence, did not dispute from a concerned liberal to Materialism are quite pro were such things as "fell seven floors during death was self-infUcted by this. They admitted it is an angry, more radical nounced, and I reread the interrogation", "sufcide by hanging", "slipped in hunger-strike. Later the impossible to sham an ex thinker. He himself became fonner book agam just to shower", "fell six floors during interrogation", "fell poUce advanced the theory tensor plantar reflex. subject to a banning order.' make sure before I reviewed down stairs", ^'leapt from tenth floor wmdow during that he had drowned him A lumbar puncture was Towards the end of 1977 the latter work. Both look interroagtion", "fell against chair during scuffle", "fell self in the bath. At another his S year old daughter very carefuUy at many as stage the station-chief, carried out, and this down stairwell", "natural causes". In 14 cases, no details indicated a significant was sent an acid^ pects of AustraUan society, of death have been published. Colonel Goosen, suggested impregnated T-shirt by taking up prevalent myths that the prisoner had hyper- number of red blood ceUs- The most devastating part of the book is the verbatim another symptom of brain security poUce (names and beliefs and exariiining ventUated himself to death. given) and shots were fired them against the evidence account of parts of the inquest. Thb shows that several FinaUy, aU these were injury, which again cannot doctors consulted about Biko's condition were liars, be shammed. at his house by security for or against their basis dropped in favour of the poUce (names given), so in fact. incompetent, or perhaps just as much part of The self-infUcted bang on the The doctors still though he left the country. For example, we cUng System as the security police themselves. head by waU. that because "the whole picture presented such a to the beUef that as a Steve Biko was arrested He argued that violence At the inquest, the bizarre appearance" he -HARRY THROSSELL society we are fairly healthy on August 18, 1977. He would not overcome the security poUce could be and fit. A visit to one of was kept in a cell, naked oppression blacks had relied on to Ue to protect the free beaches in more and in chains until he died always suffered at the hands the fact that one or more civUised southern states three weeks later. During of white rulers. He wnated of them (named by Woods) show;; this up for anant die days September 6/7/8 blacks to become conscious kiUed Biko, so what was nonsense,, with a quiver of he was under interrogation. of what had happened to more reveaUng was the red, puffy pot beUys and' According to the police he them historicaUy, to gain doctors' evidence. overweight thighs. attacked his questioners and pride in theii own personal Dir. Ivor Lang, a POrt King goes into some in the ensuing scuffle he and cultural identity, and EUxabeth district surgeon, statistics on health and accidentally banged his head to develop separately ss the was caUed to see Biko on disease which make the against a wall. Ke seemed route to an ultimately September 7 because picture look even bleaker. to be ill; doctors were multi-racial society. Goosen though he might Qose to half of us wOl called, but they assumed he According to Don have had a stroke. He first die from some form of was feigning illness so he Woods' description, Biko siad he saw him at 12 pm heart disease, and almost remained in_ chains and was a man of immense but later changed it to a quarter of us wiU die naked. Eventually, fof talent: inteUectuaUy; in his 9.30am. First he said he from cancer. The figures further examination he was capacity to get to the could find no evidence of are rising, as he Ulustrates driven (still naked; m the core of a problem abnormaUty or pathology, by comparing figures from back of a Landrover the sensitively and quickly; with but later said he had seen the early 1950s and 1960s. 600 miles from Port a great sens of humour; laceration to the Up and a Between 1955 and 1967, Elizabeth to Pretoria. loved by many because of bruise over the breast-bone there was a 700% increase At no time were his his own great fund of af "at the 2nd vertebra" (later in drug suicides amongst family or colleagues fection for others; a man changed to "second rib"). men and a 400% increase informed of his condition. who found it difficult to He also mentioned in iater amongst women. The autopsy report hate others in spite of repaorst that he had noticed stated categoricaUy that his own suffering; and yet a marks and sweUings around Our average Ufe Biko had died of "extensive big, strong man who would wrists and ankles, and that expectancy is lower than brain injury".The inquest other comparable countries, fmding by Magistrate Prins being just under 68 years', was (1) that death was due WALTZING MATERIALISM: as opposed to Japan (68.8 yeais), New Zealand (68.2) to brain uyury, (2) 22nd S African Jonathan King. Harper and Row. S3.95 sustained on Sept. 7 in a and Sweden (71.8). scuffle in security police OUr diet has tumed us offices in Port Elizabeth, detainee dies Materialism is a loathsome affliction that into a nation with about but (3) the death could grips Australia with a vehemence second only 20% obesity, and our con not be attributed to any CAPE TOWN, Tuesday.—A black detainee to heroin addiction and which costs our society sumption of jimk foods is increasmg rapidly. We peison. fell several floors to his death at thc Port dearly in monetary and social terms which will Elizabeth security headquarters yesterday. regard eating as something The System had worked never be measured. If you accept my personal perfecdy. akin to going to the toUet, The police chief. Colonel Marcus van.de Metwe, stress on intentional simplicity of lifestyle, and a rather unpleasant exercise Steve Biko was a briUiant said the man's death was being investigated. charismatic leader who was Thc detainee was the 22nd person lo die in my predilection to critiques of Australian which has to be done as only 30 when he was kUlcd. South Africun police custody in the past two years. society, you will understand why I really like quickly as possible. Hence Police refused to release his name because re He was a medical student this book. the rise in the availabiUty latives had not ttcen informed. of junk foods, King citing when he flrst got into The South African Commissioner of Police, Gen After 8 quick initial reading, I decided that if there politics through the aU- eral Mike Geldenhuys, said the man had commit a figure of 500 varieties was one book that I would recommend to a visitor from black South African ted suicide. of T.V. snacks on the Students' Organisation and It was the xame police headquarters to which oveiseas which would give them a quick, succinct and market as iUiistrative of black activist Mr Steve Biko was taken after his candid mtroduction to the social fabric of Australia, "this gulp on the run then; the Black People's J- arrest nearly a year ago, Convention. He dropped Mr Biko died later o( brain injuries. Waltzing Materialism would be it. I have shice read attitude towards eating". out of his medical studies An inquest decided it could find no evidence to the book thoroughly a couple of tim.es and have not He makes the pungent apportion binme. > to become a fuU-time or- changed my opinion at all. point that "it takes only ganiser. 2^sSW6fRrPfi^/diflJ^i?fe2 ., *. _ *.* SSMPSH ^S ^ISWS a handful of sUm body and who are trying to forge I cannot recommend this aU Usten very closely to beautifuls to foot the a new future outside of the book too highly from its what he has to tell us pubUc mind into thinking major social institutions of excellent research to its about outselves. It may not it possesses a firm physique party, union or boardroom. consistent responsible and be pleasant to hear, but I itseif, just as it takes only He calls for repentance, completely ethically and submit that we cannot a few sporting heroes to something which is very, morally consistent stance. afford not to hear such convince the crowd that very rare in our poUtical King has done us all a prophets. its members are fit, when behaviour where people great service and we should they are in fact pre never admU mistakes. "As -MARK D. HAYES dominantly spectators." thc problem is largely one This is typical of the of attUudes, it is up to style of the book, very each AustraUan to admit reminiscent of Stupor. to the iess laudable traits But the simUarities end he has inherited and work towards the end of this to eradicate them in future book. Where Conway could generations," he says, and express some hope about goes on to cite Charles the future, for the election Birch, who very of a Labor Govemment convincingly caUed for seemed at least possible in intentional constraints on mid-1971. King sees only materiaUsm and resource another two decades under use. cautious, conservative and In the face of the gross- stUted Liberal-National ness and decadence that Party rule. But he is not AustraUans affirmed they fatalistic, and makes some wanted in December 1977 very fascinating points in as a national aspiration, the closing pages. Kmg caUs for those con He places the future of cerned to become even AustraUa not in the hands more radical, to work for of poUticians, unionists or intentional dematerialis- industry, but in the hands ation, to divest our Uves of a smaU number of of the baggage of material people who have taken the ism and to Uve freer and future in our own hands more Uberated Uves. Man and his Symbols projects is designed to war and war preparedness facturing and packaging, tities through the false was written by Jung and develop viable strategies was instead moved into and asks the question 'Why beUef that their abundance four coUa bora ton whom he for converting factories peace initiatives, then some not?' is perpetual. selected not only because thing Uke a war-effort Recycling is an exer He makes a most im and indeed whole in-* of their skiU and experience against waste of resources cise in peace conversion. portant point when hej but because he trusted them dustry sectors from and manufactured goods The author's thrust is to argues that the solution to to work unselfishly to his wasteful and destructive would move to replace the critique waste disposal and the waste problem com MAN AND HIS instructions as members of manufacturing to almost overwhelming will over-consumption of re mences with the consumer. SYMBOLS: a team. His personal res to death which oppresses creative and peaceful sources, and to point the Therefore, disposable Conceived and edited ponsibUity was to plan the 50 much of our industry way to creative alternatives packing of aU kinds should activities. by Carl Jung. A Picador structure of the whole and creative capacity in through the avenue of re become off-Umits to aU book,to supervise and direct One group, the mid- industry. cycUng. edition published by concemed consumers, and the work of his Peninsular Conversion Pro Peace conversion ef In the face of such convenience throwaways Pan Books Ltd^ $5.25; collaborators and himself ject which operates in the fectively presents viable, wastefulness of resources, should be left on the super to write the key chapter Bay area of San Francisco reasonable alternatives to Pausacker virtuaUy argues market shelves. "Approaching the Un and which is part of the current practice before prac for the moral equivalent Through nothing more Jung once dreamed that, conscious" which he com American Friends Service titioners of the con of war against wastage of than a total boycott on pleted ten days before his instead of sittuig m his Committee, did a major temporary immoral ac materials which are reaUy disposable packing and final iUness. tivity, in whatever area be very precious and which we study and talkuig to great research project into the once-only use of packets it warmongering, or manu waste in enormous quan and bottles, economic pres- doctors and psychiatrists The book is written massive Lockheed Aero- simply and is very readable. who used to caU on him ^ace plant in the nearby Here is an example from Santa Clara county. They from all over the worid, the concludmg paragraphs he was standing in a pubUc of Jung's chapter: examined every aspect of place and addressing a 1 have spent more than half the plant and its operations, multitude of people who a century in investigating and finally presented the were listening to him with natural symbols, and I have plant management with a come to thc conclusion that complete plan wliich would rapt attention and under dreams and their symbols arc standing what he said. Man not stupid and meaningless. have converted that plant totd his Symbols designed On thc contrary dreams pro from one which made death for and addressed to the vide the most interesting in in the form of missiles to formation for those who take general reader owes its one which made life the trouble to understand their through farm machinery existence entirely to this symbols. . .It seems .-ibnost dream. incredible that though we and peaceful machinery for It was the last piece receive signals from it (the civilian use. of work undertaken by psyche) every night, deciphering these communications seems The Lockheed Jung before his death in too tedious for any but a very management rejected the 1961 and is his only few people to be bothered proposal out of hand, saying attempt to explain to the with it. Man's greatest in that there was not enough lay reader his theory of strument, his psyche, is little profit in peace conversion the significance of symbol thought of, and it is often to make it a viable pro ism in dreams and art. directly mistrusted and des position. The plan was con hi the fust chapter he pised. servatively developed, and examines the fuU world of The book was first pub thoroughly researched by the unconscious, whose lished by Aldus Books Ltd Quaker experts in language he beUeved to be in 1964 and is avaUable economics and engineering, the symbols constantly re again in a Picador soft and was coupled with a vealed in dreams. He was cover. most generous timetable for convinced that dreams offer -JILLMARGO the conversion project. practical advice. The logic behuid such Many of us are unaware peace conversion inidatives of the extent to which is that is so much time, Jung's thinking has pene RECYCLING. IS IT human energy and money trated our everyday lan was transferred from guage. FamUiar terms such THE SOLUTION FOR making preparations for war as "extrovert", "introvert", AUSTRALIA?: to working in practical ways and "archetype" are aU for peace, then genuine dis by Ian Pausacker, SEE SEMPER'S LIVING GUIDE Jun^an concepts. Penguin books, $3.25. armament and peace ini tiatives would foUow vety (Page ll) for details of forthcoming quickly. bands at The Queens. In tlie USA, en- Peace conversion puts vironhientalist and before warmongers viable peace groups spend and reasonably profitable some of their time plans for working towards working on what they what some commentators have caUed the moral equi- call "peace conveision" valent of war.' If aU the research projects. The human effort - which is THE QUEENS HOTEL. CNR CREEK & CHARLOTTE STS. CITY major focus of these currenUy channeUed into SfiliiP^B' O't^btibi'iijUW^ 2/ ssxism ms¥isw8 To quote the cover blurb need not occur under Clava group at Balnuarin, He works through some "For years travel books strange circumstances, but had passage graves aligning evidence on the have described Brisbane as may come upon one in precisely with the solstitial phenomenon of dowsing, easygoing and sleepy, and the most mutidane of si sunset. that abUUy some people The mathematics of the have to divine water and tourists have passed through tuations. placement of these sites is find lost objects using green without so much as a On the surface, this quite remarkable in itself, sticks or focusing devices second glance, book is a reworking of as has been demonstrated for some power within "Around Brisbane dispels subject matter which has by Professor Alexander their consciousness, and this myfh and shows what recently come to popular Thorn, late of Oxford Uni on the connections between they have been missing." ity with an audience seeking versity. However, many sites dowsing and magnetism. According to author almost desperately for new are also Unked with various Dowsers say that sometimes Sallyanne Atkinson the myths as old myths are psychic mainfestations and they can get strange feeUngs sophisticated tourists should replaced by rationalistic superstitions such as healing from sacred sUes, and stay and be impressed by science devoid of trans powers, and sensations of Hitching cites experiemts wonderful sights including cendental meaning. The evil or good as perceived which have measured ab "the country's most famous broad field has to do with by sensitive people. normal magnetism City Hall", "the most rediscovering 'ancient wis Local folklore emanating from standing beautiful university site", dom', and includes such stones in the sites. and wait for it, , ,the Story populist nonsense as the von surrounding the sites some Bridge, which "is longer Daniken cult, and its many times encouraged young Over a period of thou than the Sydney Harbour derivatives, and various ap women to sUde naked down sands of years and through Bridge." proaches to the Atlantis- certain stones to encourage a process of trial and fertUity, or suggested that error, he argues, ancient ..'^ Atkinson deduces that Lemuria-Mu lost continent Brisbane has passed the mythology which even fas lovers copulate close to the peoples came to see that "tme test of civilisation" cinated ancient scholars Uke stones to encourage strong by placing stones in certain with the contruction of Plato. One of the older chUdren. arrangmeents at certain the Queensland cultural forms of this sort of Hitching draws from places on the surface of centre at South Brisbane, mystery-seeking is the many sources as he weaves the planet, this power can sures would buUd to ef or attractive goods, even The centre, which will science of geomancy. a complex tale to explain be enhanced. Coupled with fectively force manu though the latter are include a concert haU, a Geomancy is basically why these sites are so im this was the fascination the facturers and governments cheaper. lyric theatre, and an art tied up with the fact, quite portant. He is never sen ancients had wUh the move to reconsider recycUng in •take your own reusable gallery and a museum, is undisputed in archcological sationalist, as many less ment of the heavens during more realistic terms than containers to the store to be buUt on riverside land literature, that ancient reputable writers in this the year, and thus they the token efforts which are rather than accept which has been severely Celtic and Druid sacred sites areaarewho claim, for sought to combine the chronicled in this book. packaging. flooded at least four times in France and Britain quite example, that the sites were knowledge of earth mag There is hardly one •use handkerchiefs, not since the eighteen nineUes. often Une up in precise landing grounds for UFOs netism with their astrono area in the b^ok that docs paper tissues. The Queensland Govern paths over many miles of or were part of a global mical observations. not receive attention: re •takfr your own lunch ment, which forgot about countryside, and that their power and navigation grid Hitching is very careful cycling of old tyres, steel from home, rather than buy this little problem when placement is designed to set up by ancient astro not to speculate as to the and aluminium cans, waste processed foods in throw the land was acquired at aUgn with certain configu nauts for their own pur intentions of this activity, water, plastics and many away cartons. tremendous cost, decided rations of the stare, the poses and which were ap making only the most other areas are systema- •buy foods in bulk in afterwards to buUd the planets and the sun at propriated by the primitive guarded comments in this ticaUy considered and ana recycled containers. whole structure on stills, certain times of the year. locals in dumb imitation direction. His writing, lysed with a wealth of •refuse packaging, and Still, it wUI be a lovely For example, during the of their cosmic patrons. though restrained, is utteriy statistical information to return it when it is offered place. The Queensland elite 1920s, Admiral Boyle Hitching is more mundane pleasing md carries with it reinforce the arguments in in the store. arriving from Kenmore and SomervUle conducted with his theory, and it is an air very reminiscent of the text. •recycle paper where Hamilton in Uieir Holden ninety surveys with this firm grounding on the Tolkien and Lewis. Alternatives to present possible; reuse envelopes. Statesmans and bright Scottish metalithic sites and surface of this planet which ptactice are considered with This review was initially orange BMWs, wUl be within found that one site, the makes his ideas so worth theu varied arguments as typed on computer paper, sight of Oie broken down adjoining circles of the whUe. -MARK D. HAYES sessed systematically and recycled. South Brisbane hotels where thoroughly. For example, -MARK D. HAYES the local police regularly the recycUng of rags and beat the aboriginal 20% OFF waste clothing and tex- population. MANUF. ST(X:K tUes is an area not often That regular atrraction WITH THIS AD. considered worthy of didn't make SaUyanne serious attention. Rag re Atkinson's little book, I'm cycUng nets the Melbourne- AROUND BRISBANE:, afraid. The ever present based charity the Brother by Sallyane Atkinson. police torce, creepin;; hood of St. Laurence close Published by the Uni around Brisbane streets in to $300,000 per year, and versity of (^eensland their blue Falcons, checking SLEEPING BAGS, RUCKSACKS, out strangeis through Uieir rags are exported oveiseas Press. RAINWEAR to some Third Worid reflector sunglasses, didn't • • nations. get much of a mention at SPEaALISTS in ROCK CUMBING, Let's face it. Brisbane aU. Much more can be done, CA VING, MOUNTAINEERING. argues Pausacker, and he like most of the people -J. SIMMONS LIGHTWEIGHT CAMPING d calls on authorities to re who live in Queensland, BUSHWALKING EQUIPMENT duce freight rates for rag is basicaUy dull and • • exporters, and legislate to encourage rag recycling ugly. An honest travel SLEEPING BAGS (Mconds) through charity organisa book about fhe city and EARTH MAGIC: upto $50 off •• , ||\ 6:30 to 1 Ipn (closed Mondty ni^t) tions. its environs wouldn't be by Francis Hitching. li^''\ His final chapters on the likely to attract what 224 BARRY PDE. VALLEY Picador. S2.7S |rfi. 528804 or 528894 role of industry and govern (Queensianders touching ment in recycling, and the ly call "interstate" or role of the individual are I recall reading in Ml MMM most incisive. We are being "overseas" tourists. a book by CS. Lewis made to look Uke fools, So University of Qld that he once had an TO^STUDENT DISCOUNT Specialising in European he argues, as we fall for press, ever alert to the experience where bikes 8c parts the slick slogans of industry possibUity of making a suddenly he came to very aware of the need to quick ddlar, has produced SPARE PARTS & ACCESSORIES see the whole universe look Uke it is doing some a particularly dishonest thing creative. Govemment little book called: "Around and his place in it is simUariy guUty of gross Brisbane, Including Gold quite differently from negUgence in the task of usual. He speaks of recyclmg. Coast, Sunshine Coast and The role of the con Toowoomba." riding in the open upper cerned individual is thus story of a London most important in the double decker bus as struggle for peace the bus was going up a conversion for more rational hill, and as he reached use of resources. He quotes the summit, he was from a Uttle booklet pro duced by thc 'SmaUtema overwhelmed by an ex tives' people in Brisbane perience of cosmic con in 1976 to illustrate what sciousness. you can do yourself to For a moment, a sense reduce your consumption of of oneness and wonder wasteful, disposable pack takes the individual, absorbs aging and materials. Some examples: them completely and sud> denly passes as quickly as •share newspapers. it came, leaving that petson •boycott ovcrpackaged unalterably changed. The products. story by Lewis illustrates •buy durable, weU-made products rather than fancy weU that such an experience 28 SEMPER October 11,19/ti SSM^SH WiMWJ^WB PIECES FOR A GLASS The satire is not dismissive. way, even though it has aU He's consciously trying to variety of poets. Then there Didier Coste is a French It is, rather, a flatting the appearances of a faUed change the language. We PIANO: is another eruption. From poet who has spent some gUmpse behind Lee's various experiment. I guess that have difficulty keeping up. the back of the haU Nigel time in Australia, and in by Gerard Lee (Brisbane masks, with always that shows guts. Language is the name of Roberts, leaning against the this book appear some of University of Qld Press, assured polish that marks a The third section is set in the game, Anna Couani counter where he's been the responses he has had to 1978) $3,50 & $5.95. real craftsman. Asia, and here Thompson plays U weU in Italy. She ravmg with a few friends, this 'new world'. It is his BIG BOYS: Sometimes the writing comes into his own. Perhaps does a pretty good job in throws a poem into the eighth book, and his first it's because here he is truly by Phillip Edmonds looks too easy, but a flow the inner Sydney suburbs audience. It wasn't this one, break with thc French Uke that is not easUy at an alien, looking at a setting as weU. Her prose is loose, but it could have been: language. The poems here (Sydney: Second Back tained, and far less easUy he doesn't fuUy understand, and has an easy fiow about maybe/yr on sabbatlcti were first written in French, Row Press, 1978) $3.50 sustained through some and StumbUng through it U, She has an eye for maybe yr In the dunny/ and then translated into reading yr reviews NEON LINE: hundred and seventy five with a touch of culture detaU, minutiae. She deals maybe yr In ttta Pacific/on EngUsh by the poet. by Tom Thompson odd pages. Lee doesn't shock. in the primary colours, and a Women's Weekly Cruise They are of interest leaves the dubious shades & maybe (Sydney: Second Back often sUp up. Many of In the other pieces, yr preparing a statement because here a foreigner these pieces have a very where he tried to make of meaning to others. for the six o'clock news looks on AustraUa with Row Press, 1978) $3.50 definite stoiy Une, but it is the famiUar seem novel, the Meaning as such has Uttle that perhaps you were trapped In a sk) different eyes, but more so ITALY: fed to the reader in faUure is partly caused by relevance to the game. hutA>y an avalanche because he also displays a by Anna Couani (Mel snatches. the reader's preconditioned Italy is fully of cUpped of Betty Hutton fresh approach to the bourne: Rigmarole of He doesn't shy away responses. Here, both the sentences, but the syntax (from Reward/for a missing EngUsh language which a the Hours," 1977) from the 'modem' tech reader and Thompson must is seldom tortured Uke it is deity) native speaker can never niques displayed in day, discover a different reality, by Thompson. Couani is $3.00 Nigel's been around for a fuUy have. It is unfortunate Anna Couani's work, but and Thompson is more suc serious, but doesn't get long time, and those who that I don't read French, he uses them effectively cessful. carried away by it, '.She remember him as editor of and therefore can't fuUy The owl rests on to further his pieces. Lee is The discussion around walks across the court Free Poetry' wUl know that enjoy the dual text, for the table. It's becoming in constant coUusion with the table is becoming yard in deep shadow in the he was instrumental in the the approaches shown in an illustration on a tea- his readers. We share his heated. Tlie flagon is nearly late aftemoon. The sound Uberation of poetry in the the EngUsh versions make secret insights. And we empty. The first Ught of of a piano being played'. me want to read more of towel, keeping the dust sixties. Ten years went by can't put the book down dawn is sneaking in the She has taken prose a step before he published a book. Coste's work. off my typewriter while untU we've read every word. window. The owl is eagerly further than Lee, but lacks In Casablanca for the Waters Fictitiously enthusiastic as it isn't in use. Thc light And so, stiU smUing awaiting the time when it his brilliant humour. Her is that book, and its pages a Saturday—half begun—can be. plays on the Moselle. in our inmost soul at the can settle back on its perch prose takes shape through are fiUed with everything The foul smell of the lawn Long-stemmed wine folly of Lee's characters, over the typewriter. suggestion rather than that liappencd to poetry could fool us with Its we turn to what, in com narration. The minute de natural air glass. There's a group Thompson won't Ue during the period. There are And the friendly sterling parison, must be seen as a down either. We know he's tails become significant, dopesmokeis, pacifists, mornlnghood of a long, hot of writers around thc vivid strokes on a wide summer; very serious book indeed, having a good run, with a poets, fucks and movie The azalea leaf rushes pro- table, disguised like Thc drama teacher hangs finger in most Uterary pies. canvas. heroes,. There is even 'The peller-IIke around Itself himself in the bathroom, -CORNELIS VLEESKENS quote from Auden'. On a negligible gust that no volumes of prose. We flower In Its right mind Hft off the covers, drain another character shoots Botii Nigel Roberts and could understand, himself with a .22 rifle. IIO., produce poetry which Parallel to the roots of the glasses, refill. speed weaving along their Very serious stuff mdeed. is primarily in the oral gleaming stream; A yeUow hat breezes What is most serious, tradUion. To hear them read Gone Is the picturesque, into the room, masquer the globues of high rise though, about PhiUip is as important as to read living ading as Anna Couani, Edmonds' Big Boys is its it on the printed page. Twist and twirl through lack of finesse. His stories This leads to the problem transparent stairwells like a Gerard Lee is tinkering on giaddle a glass piano, devouring are peopled with half- of how they should present Displayed on the kitchen drawn characters, and theu work. It is obvious table.,. sundry vegetarians and n.O, REVISTED; gazing out the window at through a repeated use of that conventional (from Tomorrow begins the same names, one begins by n.O. (Sydney, Wild and Woolley, 1976) the Distant Mountains, Tom punctuation can't cope with Today) to beUeve they might be $3.95 it, and both Roberts and Thompson chops the drawn from real Ufe, Tlieir IN CASABLANCA FOR THE WATERS: n.0. have devised (or capitals, enters like a lower roles change, however, and by Nigel Roberts (Sydney, Wild and Woliey, adapted) systems of visual case, chewing unpolished we do not have any con presentation which reflect rice and spitting bits of tinuity between the pieces, 1977) S3.95. and convey their voice BLACK BAGATELLES Asia into a saucer. The giving a broader look at VITA AUSTRALIS: accurately. by Rodney Hall. Uni Big Boys are sitting at the each of these characters. by Didier Coste, English and French vetsions Roberts' visual presen versity of Qld Press. comer table, sipping tea Instead, they remain names, (Sydney, Wild and Woolley, 1977) S2.95. tation goes beyond what is H/c S5.95, s/c $3.50. with PhU Edmonds' aunt, often not appearing in a commonly found, it is not story untU an accidental I feel the urgent need for just his sytem of Une- entry near the end. Step back a few years. The scene: a readmg Rodney Hall's tenth another glass of white wine. breaks and ampersands and in Sydney's Central Street Gallery. U.O. slanting Unes, but it includes book of poetry, Black Baga The red upsets my tender And they're always so serious. They take them swaggers onto the floor, looking like a pug graphics and photographs telles, is not as slight as the stomachthcse days. Must be selves seriously, so that nacious kid from the slums of Melboume, up In part to entice the prmt tide mi^t seem to imply. a symptom of incipient old when Edmonds says of one for the weekend to teach Sydney a few lessons weary but also because they There is an abimdance of age. of them that 'at home in Kulchur. push the poem forward humour of these addresses People don't write short they make him breakfast so •. . .are part of the matrix to 'Death', but somehow wet horses, wet horses stories these days, at least he can distribute leaflets of the poem'. In Casablanca the final impression of the not the conventional kind. about himself we suspect i/ came/ to a city of wet horses. for the Waters approachep^ stamping on leaves, they cannot read book is one of severity. They write prose pieces. that he, too, is aware of as near as a book can the This is probably a resuh of That's a wonderful trampling in gutters, making them bleed 'Total Sensory Experience.' this fault so many of his the subject matter: any invention, the prose piece: characters share. It is un wUd horses, wUd horses A pubUsher who takes contempbtion on death, and like they say in the fortunate that Edmonds i/ came/ to a city of wUd horses. on these books has to be cUches, it covers a mul faUed to realise that the breaking through wires, sending off speech seen as rather adventurous. sustained for 85 pages, titude of sins. There is same does apply to.him. rioting against bodies, touching in streets And it is in this same spirit must seem a bit like a art, these days, in ob The book is not without wooden horses, tiiat WUd and WooUey have, morbid obsession. scurity, in the obUque redeeming features, though. i/ came/ to a city of wooden horses. . . in conjunction with Fata HaU distances him statement. It is not always A number of the stories (from supermarket) Morgana, pubUshed Vita self and the reader from easy to find. are quite clever, but there Australis. this close contact with his The four writers here is also the tendency for The delivery had the urgency of a pile driver. Like discussed succeed to varying them to appear as drafts a stampede of wUd horses he ripped tlurough the degrees. By far the best rather than finished pro Sydney .poetry scene. The audience was divided. So is Gerard Lee, His style ducts. . much energy. Some preferred a more staid poetty. is crisp, tongue m cheek Another writer wh«t Eo. doesn't compromise." humour, and in most of seems content with the un the stories in Pieces for a finished look is Tom He has a contempt for free, dependmg on how Glass Piano he manages to Thompson. His Neon Line the 'estabUshed' poetry RO.'s finances stood. He capture his subjects pre is roughly divided into three scene, yet in his book edited the roneoed Fitzrot cisely. sections, each of five or six Ho. Revisited he presents and earned himself the as having meUowed a Uttle. reputation of a poet you TTiere is obviously a lot pieces. The first is an un The energy is stUl there, didn't invite around uiUess of care behind the writuig, satisfactory sequence about as are the preoccupations you had an extensive and if results in a poUshed what is, in the end, an un satisfactory love affaU. The with 'low Ufe' and the damages cover, surface rarely found in the radical poUtics of the It is almost surprising others. Perhaps it's his ir second contains an uneven mixture of stories set in the underdog, but his most to find an underlying reverence that is at first outrageous exploits are tenderness m a number of most appealing, but before city' which m places forces the language mto missing. the poems: long the reader is drawn It is, in a way, a selected ' He on tho couch, miio into his worids, feels along unpalatable contortions (the demented dog) also poems volume, drawing with him, and, even if he such as 'Tow trucks un needs love, i(& puts Its announced sUp vultures, from earUer hand-produced paw on mine) has totaUy different values books as well as presenting —no ona has ever heard sUent tyres over wet road her bark from that of the persona, some previously is forced to concede the lumuiosity'. . she just wants affection j don't mind people unpublished work. The on end— A I, points made. earUer volumes were of sort of understand,' & pat Gerard Lee uses his experimenting with new tho I hate dogs, & make It Umited 'underground' cir brief (tho I persona . effectively . to styles of writing, but some also need love, how I feel Thompson culation, and usuaUy carried when ^ affecUon Is brief), satuise the Ufe-styles of the a statement Uke 'steal this' (from Fukforthenite) .-people' he moves amongst, doesn't quite obtain the results he'-s. after. Yet, he's book'. They sold for a few Back at tiie readuig. An but'ofte^' the ;telUng leads bob or were given away interiude peopled by a to'a greater tinderstanding. wiUing to pubUsh it this SEMPER October 11,1978 29 sssii^sii Rsnsws nasty subject, through his tightrope HaU places himself Brisbane 1961. Most ofher Ives Tangery, and also Paui wit, but, as the tiUe shows, on. With less skUl, one creative years was spent Klee's drawing "The Twit any humour connected with mi^t have expected a Dear Bruct, painting in Paris where she tering Machine". death tends to be somewhat disaster. vras the contemporary of Apart from these in You've gotta Ise jokin* 'black'. HaU's control stops hun such people as Matisse, fiuences, Bmce states Uiat Just left Mano'5 nearly dioldn', Picasso etc. his influences come ftom You ara mine, dear death, slipping, though. And part Thought this time you might be right, and personal unable to separate However, her work is not the country environment, In time of this control is the unity go wandered down to waste a night. and not like this for of Black Bagatelles. It is a aU adventurous unUke that and the unagination. anybody else or how could progression of poems Now we're no fools at the restaurant game, was happening around her The largest painting I be Joking with you here? "Flying Machine Witii I know yoif-havlng set your grouped under what could we know their Mousakka's not in the art world. limits at youll know me when appear as ten chapter thc same Her work is quite Storm Approachmg" rep you've set mine as the stuff they make at Colloseo academic-as a woman artist resents a strange world, the last laugh alas will have headings. A look at some to pass without an audience. .. of these will serve as an or any cheap Italian place you know of her time, she took no barren dreamlike, inhabited indication of the scope of and ai fur the duck major risks. by occasional little creatures HaU has written several the book, and show Hall's we curse fhe day that leave a long shadow music-dramas for radio, and we ever listened to what bl those years it was humourous approach to his on the ground. Most of his it is to music that we must you say. considered extraordinary subject: paintings were small, some tum for the most applicable enough for a woman to A reflection on your taste, be painting and earning a even as smaU as 2 inches definition of a bagateUe: a UUIe reminders that Death square. is still around Next time well jump with much less haste, living as an artist. 'short, unpretentious piece'. you think their food b bloody good tucka, Apart from the paintings Most of these poems are, Intimations that Death Is So Bessie Gibson's work trying to make contact Stuyvesant folks lookin' oh so pucka, is quiet, reflective, there were smaU box con indeed, short, and they do Seeing Death is the mur and wc eat the duck a structions containing not claim to be anything derous look of an unknown waste of time intimate-portraits of a black man whom I admire woman gazing into a mirror, fragments of objects, bones, great. Perhaps they are & deducing from this certain Thank BYO we chose thc wine. featiieis, butterfly wmgs, proprietorial privileges portraits of a giri reading. seUing Uiemselves short: a photograph of a face, Death turns nasty: that is, Holdli>9 our stomachs, Her water colours are truly they are self-consciously personal birds claws all skUfiilly unpretentious. beautiful. For anyone who is familiar with the medium assem Ued and contained in When so much wit and But there is more than Val Carter and Peter Bycroft. colourful boxes. humour in this book. It is Cl-12 Exeter Street, West End, 4101. and can appreciate the diffi self-awareness are displayed Bruce Parker's work a penetrating look into the culties, Bessie Gibson shows openly in public there is quietiy has an effect on self, and an attempt to remarkable skUl in this area. always the danger that it you, tempting you to take understand one of the 'great And yet a third will be mistaken fot pre er, even one "duck" can be another look, to travel into mysteries'. As the final MANO REVISITED exhibition definitely worth tension. The closing line of vasUy superior to another; the miniature world con the above poem "it's for section says: mentioning is Bruce Porter's I'm surprised that it has my judgement can fluctuate exhibition at the SchoneU tained by the canvas and me the blowfUes and Uie The search for identity Is a taken this long to gam a for many reasons or just box constructions. ocean sing", with its echoes search for Death... Theatre. sharp response to one of my outrightiy differ from So whether you beUeve of Eliot, shows tiie deUcate This young Brisbane -CORNELIS VLEESKENS food reviews given the yours. artist is a second year art in art and can appreciate subjectivhy of everyone's In addition I have never student. It's refreshing to the beauty of painting taste. had much time for the idea see his work at the SchoneU colour, or you don't beUeve However a^ the above of seeing cptics as "experts" Foyer GaUery, taking in in art as a framed, object poem indicates, my review largely because 1 haven't this artists work work that hangs on the waU the of Mano's at Paddington got much time for experts. before a movie. Brisbane art scene has been was not very weU received So what this all boils Bruce Parker's painting able to cater for aU tastes by at least two people and a down to is that as long as shows obvious influence by over the last few weeks. few others as well. (I did we must include a review such surrealist artists as S-ELENI RIVERS receive one good report section I am quite pleased diough.) to be able to pass on some I can't really go back on one else's differing response SEMPER STAFF VOL. 48, NO. 16. THE SINGAPORE RESTAURANT:Brookside what f said because unlike to any restaurant review I EDTTORIAL BOARD: Bruce Dickson, many of the places I review, have personaUy written. Shopping Centre, Osborne Rd, Mitchelton, Jamie CoUins, Marie Blanch, Sally-Ann Uiis one was completely In any case if you no Tennent, I^ob Cameron. (355 7547), B.Y.O., Malayan, Indian, Australian new to me and a generalised longer trust in my judge TYrESETTEI: Muie Blutdu and Chinese meals, open Monday to Saturday review based on a couple of ment you are stUl left with BUSINESS MANAGER: Rob Cameron. 10.30am to 3pm, and Monday to Sunday, 5pm dishes always runs the risk tiie dilemma I have always of not being entirely faced myself-namely AbDRESS FOR CORKESTONDENCE: til last customer leaves. accurate. having to try a place at least cl- Univenity of Qld Union, St. Lucia. The cook can have an on once just to discover an QM. 4067. (371 1^11 A.H. 371 1821)1 Kept getting calls in the office saying why don't you or off night, one dish can "answer" for youiself. LAYOUT: Jamie Collins, Bmce Dkkson, come out and review the Singapore Restaurant at be vasUy superior to anoth -BRUCE DICKSON Sally Tennent, Rob Cimeroh. Mitchelton-Iet us know which ni^t you're coming. COVERS AND GRAPHICS: Matt Mawson, So thought I would check out why they were so eager rilNTER: Sttsifaijie Govt Nemptper to be reviewed as well as their claims that the restaurant Coopaay, AerodnrnM Road, Maroocby- serves interesting food. doi*. I meant to go on a Fri Of aU of these the The contents of Semper are copyri^t day or Saturday night when Chicken and Mee Haun were they have a band playing the nicest. Most of theu but this wasn't possible. The dishes do not Uve up to restaurant itself is very large their claims as being the TIMOTHY TYNDALL'S SHOOTING HARVEST (capacity about 80) and is greatest, but the standard is run by a fast talking former quite acceptaUe for the GALLERY: Singapore businessman who price range this restaurant CityHaD isn't frightened to tell you Ues in. BESSIE GIBSON: that the problem today is Incidentiy, contrary to Queensland University Art Museum that people don't work hard the impression that a few enough. Semper readers have some BRUCE PARKER: But on to the menu-and how gained, food reviews Schonell Foyer Gallery. and what an extensive menu are never undertaken with itis. the prior knowledge of the WeU, Brizzy has certainly been a buzz these last few Of the dishes we had, the restaurants concemed, and weeks. Even m the art scene a few exciting events have chicken and beef kebabs aU meals are personaUy paid been happening like lunotiiy lyndall's Shooting Gallery with satay sauce were the for by the reviewer. If my which 1 ventured along to, one aftemoon, sitiiated in most enjoyable (and these reviews often seem favour we had as an entree). able it is because I prefer a coeraer of the Gty HaU. I particulariy Uked the finding a place 1 can say is You may Uiink that your mark on the spiral satay sauce itself. worth a visit. this looks Uke an ordinary, has significance as Tim wiU The "homemade" spring After aU what point is amusement park side-show- prove to you. roUs were incredibly rich there in telUng readeis that aUey type Shooting GaUery, Apparentiy my aim gave and not reaUy superior in a restaurant is not worth but there js more than me the score of Significant any way to the Royal RoUs eating at, when a better meets the eye to this work Meaning, my friend's score at Viet's or those served at place exists elsewhere. of art. . .a cultural was Ritual Significance and Leon Restaurant. -BRUCE DICKSON experience, an Art other scores were Token With regard to the main Happening with' audience Significance, Adjectival counes I tried the Peking participation in mind. Significance, Random Chicken (a SS Nonya The idea of the Shooting Significance, Virtual Sig Malocca dish comprising a GaUery, is that you take nificance. . .aU very sig half chicken glazed with IF YOU'VE GOT aim. . .fire. . then Timothy nificant, don't you think. honey and seasoned with SOMETHING TO TyndaU wiU proceed to Anotiier exhibition that Chinese spices and pine SAY inform you on your score. impressed me this week, apple sauce), Beef Konna AND WANT VALUE Tun says he finds it way way the oUier end of Cuny (J5) the Crab Meat FOR MONEY interesting to observe how the scale with regard to Egg Fuyong (finely grated seriously men take the TlmoUiy TyndaU's Shooting whde game when it reaUy GaUery, was Bessie Gibson's BAKERY vegetables sauted with egg, PHONE STONEGROUND WHULKMEAL prawn and crab) at $4.50, doesn't matter because retrospective exhibition at AOBCAMERON BREADS No preservitives added and the Mee Houn (a laigely there is no ultimate point of tite Qld Uni. GaUery. vegetable and noodle dish) 3711611 achievement. Bessie was bom in 133 Waterworks Rd costing $4.50. Ahywhere you leave Ipswich 1868 and died in ASHGROVE 30 SEMPER October 11,1978 t il Masturbation in China Conditioning (by parents and teachers) helps mould a personality Young people who are growing up because it overexcites our nervous system structure which accepts authority and is incapable of independent must absolutely not let their sexual and also debilitates it. . . Sometimes if thmking and living. Repressive attitudes to childhood sexuality are an system function too much in fact die you wear clothes which are too warm or mtegral part of this process of conditioning. sexual system is under thc control ofthe blankets that arc too heavy or wear How different are things in 'revolutionary' C3iina in this respect? We whole brain: If we put all our energies trousers that are too tiglit, that wiU give here publish extracts from a book on Adolescence and Hygien e by into working, studying and cultural and you an erection. Our sexual system T^ai Pak Chung (Pekmg's People's Publishing House, Catalogue No. sports activities, the sexual system will be excited. As an effect of tiiis will be in a state of being under control. excitement the centre of erection will be 14071.6, Second Edition Feb. 1975. Price 0.25 renminbi, pp. 93-96). It won't function too much. burdened. It will become debiUtated, so The extremely mechanistic concepb of how the human nervous that whet) you marry you migfit be systen-i functions, the generally Victorian attitudes to sex and the Harmful Effects impotent. The centre of erection will also embarrassed Silence concerning female masturbation give us real insights Masturbation harms our bodies, affect the centre of sperm emission, into their thinkmg. making it function abnormally, so after Masturbation can be done by hand you marry you might ejaculate too soon. or with other instruments. Both sexes can masturbate, women usually less If a girl does it, her menstruations than men because of the physical I TflOUSfIT might be irregular or painful. differences. It is very common in puber ty- Both for men and wonien, How do we define the sexual system? masturbation will affect thc brain and The sexual organ has many functions. wUl continually cxtena the excitement, For example sexual activities are con individuals wUl tliink about their sexual trolled by the nerves and by the brain. wanking needs all thc time. Ttiis wUI cause Sexual intercourse between men and excessive nocturnal err.issions. In Uic women is normal. Otherwise there are WAS A TOWN daytime the centre of erection wiU also problems. Masturbation is one of these be affected and slippery sperm will problems. happen involuntarily (i.e. they will How do the nerves and the brain IN wet tiieir trousers with sperm). Ire- control these things? They control these quent masturbation will put the brain things completely. Inside our brain there CHINA... into a condition of high excitement. As a is a special administrative office for these result thc brain will get tired and tilings. We call this Uie 'sexual centre', debilitated. People will get nervous when it is affected the excitement wiU depressions and the memory will worsen. spread and wiU transmit orders through Tliey wUI feel dizzy, wUl get insomnia, the spinal cord. Tliis, for males, wiU and their work and studies wiU suffer. have two centres. One of them is the centre of erection. The other is the centre What Is To Be Done? of sperm emission. Females also have two Masturbation will harm thc bod> centres. It's very simple. and affect your revolutionary will too, so The centre of erecUon responds it is necessary to control it. First we have faster and earlier than the sperm emission to buUd the worldview of the proletariat centre. So the penis becomes swollen and study hard Marxism-Lcninism-M^c with blood, and hardens. The sperm tse tung thought. If you have already emission centre is then affected. It too is built the world-view of the proletariat, if you have a correct uhderstar.ding, you can excited, so that the muscles of the stop all these bad habits. You can build urinary passage contract and the sperm a basis for your thouglits. erupts from it. Frequent masturbators should Under certain conditions the participate in gymnastics. Before you go excitement starts in the penis because thc to bed lake an hour or half-an-hour doing penis also has sensory nerves. The long runs. Tliat way you will go lo sleep erection centre of the spinal cord is at once. Tliis is very necessary. When you therefore affected, so erection takes wake up in Uic morning, as soon as your place. Many males, when they wake up in eyes are open, don't stay in bed. Don't the morning, have an erection-because •think about sleeping any longer. Tliis too tile kidneys affect the nerves. If the is very important. Don't sleep on your excitement continues and reaches tJie side, and don'l use a blanket that is loo bram then the sexual systems will be thick or heavy. Don't wear underwear affected. Girls may also have the same that is too tiglit. Keep your penis clean. physical activities. Clean it often with warm water and dry it with a warm towel. Clean your foreskin, All nerves have a limited capacity. if it's too long ask a doctor to cut il. They work and they rest too. In this way Women with menstri;ations siiould be the nervous sytem wUl be healthy. If tiie clean. nerves are working, we say they are 'excited'. If they are in repose, we say You can cure masturbation or fliey are 'under control'. 'Ekcitement' excessive nocturnal emissions, or other and 'control' must be balanced. If there is problems, with Tai-Chi exercises. With too much of one, we wiU have problems.. acupuncture ycu'll also gel results. Thti article WB sent to tlia Editon of Semper by an Anarch Itt Organisation Who otitairwe It from England. They daim its Chinese tource it genuine (see article). However upon contact "As an effect it will become debilitated, so that when you ing the Chinese Embassy in Australia Semper was informed that no such Chinese publication mists. Obviously someone is lying. The editors would appreciate help from anyone who can marry you might be impotent." clear the matter up one way or the other. ers-: lications and their sup groups. Usually doctois make up a small percen working woman's life. courage and awareness. porting groups have prefer not to give girls under tage of abortees). To con 3. TTie sti^ucture of our Abortion should be the Tltere has been much alienated much support 17 or 18 the pill as it might stantiy push the view that society has changed greatly last resort in contraception. discussion lately on the from the moderates who, effect their immature hor men are our enemies, this century and women There is plenty of oppor degree of control women as in any community, tend monal systems, but other furtiier alienates the can now lead a wholly tunity for applying safer have over their bodies and to make the my'ority. forms or combinations of majority. independent life; free to and less expensive methods the ui:gent need for more forms are available. It de Men and Women are work, enjoy or avoid parent before getting into bed- and pregnancy. extensive availability of safe SOME FACTS TO CON pends on whetiier the girl/ natural complements. hood and free to hold woman has the courage and Making love (not having a public oftice ietc. Abortion should then be abortions. Ihis argument SIDER: 1. Wc already have com self-consideration to screw) is nature's sedative Attitudes still need seen as part of the normal has been pu^ed with much organise her protection and a playing/playful ex changing. We already community health system ferocity all year and I'd plete control over our re productive system. The ef before she needs it. perience for the body and possess the ability to gain which may or may not be be the last to deny that fectiveness of that control 2. Most normal regular the imagination. When she's complete self-respect as free. there wiD always be cir depends on when it. is women want to make love done a day's work, looked women, humans and If we deny men the cumstances where such applied i.e. before you get to their men and want to after the family and citizens. We don't have to basic humanity and respect services will be quickly and into bed or when the child enjoy the experience. There Switched off the boob tube, bow to anybody or any we wish for, then we deny safely needed. is on the way (or in the is no other way women a piay with her own man thing or give an inch of our own hope of attaining in her own bed can restore what we have gained. Those it. However, by taking such works). are going to get themselves in a position to need an harmony and some degree who do sell themselves out -P.G. TOMES a constanUy extreme pose Forms of contraception abortion, (rape victims of sanity to an average do so through lack of ArtsII the various women's pub are available for all age SEMPER October 11. 1978 31 SSM^SH USTX^WIi nasty subject, through his tightrope Hall places himself Brisbane 1961. Most ofher Ives Tangery, and also Paul wit, but, as the titie shows, on. With less skill, one creative years was spent Klee's drawing "The Twit any humour connected witii might have expected a Dear Bruce, painting in Paris where she tering Machine". deaUi tends to be somewhat disaster. was the contemporary of Apart from these in 'black'. • HaU's control stops him You've gotUi be jokin' such people as Matisse, fluences, Bruce states that Just left Mano's neatly choUn', Vou are mine, dur death, slipping, though. And part Picasso etc. his influences come from and personal unable to separate Hiought this time you might be righl« mtlme of this contiol is the unity so wandered down to waste a nij^t. However, her work is not the country environment, and not Uke tftis for of Black Bagatelles. It is a all adventurous unlike that and the imagination. anybody else or how could progression of poems The largest painting I be Joking with you here? Now we're no fools at the testaurant game, was happening around her I know you—having set your grouped under what could we know their Mousakka's not in the art world. "Flying Machine Witii limits as you'll know me whon appear as ten chapter the same Her work is quite Storm Approaching" rep you've set mine as the stuff (hey make at (JOIIOSCO the last Jaugh aUs will have headings. A look at some academic-as a woman artist resents a strange world, to pass without an audience. .. of these will serve as an or any cheap ItaUan place you know of her time, she took no barren dreamlike, inhabited indication of the scope of and as for the duck Hall has written several major risks. by occasional littie creatures the book, and show Hall's we curse the day tiiat leave a long shadow music-dramas for radio, and we ever listened to what In those years it was humourous approach to his it is to music that we must you say. considered extraordinary on the ground. Most of his subject: tum for the most applicable enough for a woman to paintings were small, some definition of a bagatelle: a A rcflectiono n your taste, be painting and earning a even as small as 2 inches Little reminders that Death square. 'short, unpretentious piece'. is still around Next time well jump with much less haste, living as an artist. you think their food is bloody good tucka, Most of these poems are, Intimations that Death Is So Bessie Gibson's work Apart from the paintings trying to make contact Stuyvesant folks lookin* oh so pucka, there were small box con indeed, short, and they do Seeing Death Is the mur and we eat the duck a is quiet, reflective, not claim to be anything derous look ol an unknown intimate-portraits of a structions containing black man whom | admire waste of time fragments of objects, bones, great. Perhaps they are & deducing trom this certain Thank BYO wc chose the wine. woman gazing into a mirror, selling themselves short: proprietorial privileges portraits of a giri reading. feaUieis, butterfly wings, Death turns nasty: that Is, a photograph of a face, they are self-consciously personal Holding our stomachs, Her water colours are truly unpretentious. beautiful. For anyone who birds claws all skilfiiUy assembled and contained in When so much wit and But there is more than Val Carter and Peter Bycroft, is familiar with the medium self-awareness are displayed humour in this book. It is C/-12 Exeter Street, West End, 4101. and can appreciate the diffi colourful boxes. openly in public there is a penetrating look into the culties, Bessie Gibson shows Bruce Parker's work always the danger that it self, and an attempt to remarkable skill in this area. quietiy has an effect on will be mistaken for pre understand one of the 'great And yet a third you, tempting you to take er, even one "duck" can be tension. The closing line of mysteries'. As the final MANO REVISITED exhibition definitely worth another look, to travel into vastly superior to another; tile above poem "it's for section says: mentioning is Bruce Porter's the miniature world con I'm surprised tbal it has my judgement can fluctuate me the blowflies and the The search for Identity Is a exhibition at the Schonell tained by the canvas and taken this long to gain a for many reasons or just ocean sing", wiUi its echoes search for Death... Theatre, box constructions. sharp response to one of my outrightiy differ from of Eliot, shows the delicate This young Brisbane So whether you believe -CORNELIS VLEESKENS food reviews given (he yours. artist is a second year art in art and can appreciate subjectivity of everyone's In addition I have never the beauty of painting taste. student. It's refreshing to had much time for the idea see his work at the Schonell colour, or you don't believe However as the above of seeing cptics as "experts" Foyer Gallery, taking in in art as a framed, object poem indicates, my review largely because 1 haven't Uiis artists work work that hangs on the wall the of Mano's at Paddington got much time for experts. before a movie, Brisbane art scene has been was not very well received So what this all boils Bruce Parker's painting able to cater for all tastes by at least two people and a down to is that as long as shows obvious influence by over the last few weeks, few others as well. (I did we must include a review such surrealist artists as c-ELENI RIVERS receive one good report section 1 am quite pleased though.) to be able to pass on some I can't really go back on one else's differing response SEMPER STAFF VOL. 48, NO. 16. THE SINGAPORE RESTAURANT:Brookside what I said because unlike to any restaurant review I EDrrORIAL BOARD: Bruce Dickson, many of the places I review, have personally written. Shopping Centre, Osborne Rd, Mitchelton, Jamie Collins, Marie Blanch, Sally-Ann this one was completely In any case if you no (355 7547), B.V.O., Malayan, Indian, Australian new to me and a generalised longer trust in my judge Tennent, Rob Cameron. and Chinese meals, open Monday to Saturday leview based on a couple of ment you are still left with TYr£SETTER: Marie BUnch. 10.30am to Spm, and Monday to Sunday, 5pm dishes always mns the risk the dilemma I have always BUSINESS MANAGER: Rob Cameron. dl last customer leaves. of not being entirely faced myself-namely AbDRESS FOI COMESrONDENCE: accurate. having to try a place at least ef- Univenity of QM Union, St. Lucia. Hie cook can have an on once just to discover an Old. 4067. (371 1^11 A.H. 371 182IX Kept gettuig calls in the office sayuig why don't you or off night, one dish can "answer" for yourself. LAYOUT: Jamie CoUins, Bruce Dkkson. come out and review the Singapore Restaurant at be vastiy superior to anoth -BRUCE DtCKSON Mitcbelton-let us know which night you're coming. Sally Tennent, Rob Cameron. So thought I would check out why they were so eager COVERS AND GRAPHICS: Matt Mawson, to be reviewed as well as their claims that the restaurant PRJNTER: Sttaduae CoMt Ncwsptpcr serves interesting food Cimpaiy, AflroditMM Rotd, Maraochy. dote. I meant to go on a Fri Of all of these the The contents of Semper are copyright day or Saturday night when Chicken and Mee Haun were they have a band playing die nicest. Most of their but this wasn't possible. The dishes do not live up to restaurant itself is very large their claims as being the TIMOTHY TYNDALL'S SHOOTING HARVEST (capacity about 80) and is greatest, but the standard is run by a fast talking former quite acceptaUe for the GALLERY: Singapore businessman who price range this restaurant City HaD isn't frightened to tell you lies in. BESSIE GIBSON: tiiat the problem today is Incidentiy, contrary to Queensland University Art Museum that people don't work hard the impression that a few enough. Semper readers have some BRUCE PARKER: But on to the menu-and how gained, food reviews Schonell Foyer Gallery. and what an extensive menu are never undertaken witii itis. tiie prior knowledge of the Well, Briz^ has certainly been a buzz these last few Of the dishes we had, the restaurants concemed, and weeks. Even ui the art scene a few exciting events have chicken and beef kebabs all meals are personally paid been happening like Tunothy Tyndall's Shooting Gallery with satay sauce were the for by the reviewer. If my vhkh I ventured along to, one afternoon, situated in must enjoyable (and these reviews often seem favour we had as an entree). able it is because T prefer a coemer of the Gty Hall. I particulariy liked the finding a place I can say is You may tiunk that your mark on the spiral satay sauce itself. worth a visit. this looks like an ordinary, has significance as Tim will The "homemade" spring After all what point is amusement park side-show- prove to you. rolls were incredibly rich tiiere in telling teaders that alley type Shooting Gallery, Apparentiy my aim gave and not really superior in a restaurant is not worth but there js more than me the score of Significant any way to tiie Royal Rolls eating at, when a better meets the eye to this work Meaning, my friend's score at Viet's or those served at place exists elsewhere. of art. . .a cultural was Ritual Significance and Leon Restaurant. -BRUCE DICKSON experience, an Art other scores were Token With regard to the main Happening witii audience Significance, Adjectival counes I tried the Peking participation in mind. Significance, Random <3iickcn (a $5 Nonya Hie idea of the Shooting Significance, Virtual Sig Malocca dish comprising a Gallery, is that you take IF YOU'VE GOT nificance. . .all very sig. half chicken glazed witii aim. . .fire. . then TimoUiy nificant, don't you think. honey and seasoned witii SOMETHING TO TyndaU will proceed to Another exhibition that Chinese spices and pine SAY inform you on your score, impressed me this week, apple sauce). Beef Konna AND WANT VALUE Tim says he finds it way way the other end of Curry ($5) the Crab Meat FOR MONEY interesting to observe how the scale with regard to EBg Fuyong (findy grated seriously men take the Tlmotiiy Tyndall's Shooting vegetables sauted witii egg, PHONE whde game when it really Gallery, was Bessie Gibson's BAKERY prawn and crab) at $4.50, AOB CAMERON doesn't matter because retrospective exhibition at STONEGROUND WHOLEMEAL and the Mee Houn (a largely 3711611 there is no ultimate point of the Qld Uni. Gallery. BREADS^ No preservitives added vegetable and noodle dish) achievement. Bessie was bom in 133 Waterworks Rd costing $4.50. Ahywhere you leave Ipswich 1868 and died in ASHGROVE 30 SEMPER October 11,1978 r? <'VtV fi-J'>'l/.Vi l\ Masturbation in China Conditioning (by parents and teachers) helps mould a peisonality Young people who are growing up because it overexcites our nervous system sttticture which accepts authority and is incapable of independent musl absolutely not let their sexual and also debilitates it. , . Sometimes if thinkmg and living. Repressive attitudes to childhood sexuality are an system function too much in fact the you wear clothes which are too wami or integral part of this process of conditioning. sexual system is under thc control of the blankets that are too heavy or wear How different are things in 'revolutionary' China in this respect? We whole brain: If wc put all our ener^es trousers that are loo tight, that will give here publish extracts from a book on Adolescence and Hygien e by into working, studying and cultural and you an erection. Our sexual system Tsai Pak Chung (Peking's People's Publishing House, Catalogue No. sports activiiics, the sexual system will be excited. As an effect of tiiis will be in a state of being under control. 14071.6, Second Edition Feb. 1975. Price 0.25 renminbi, pp. 93-96). excitement the centic of erection will be It won't function too much. burdened. It will become debilitated, so The extremely mechanistic concepts of how the human nervous that when you marry you might be system functions, the generally Victorian attitudes to sex and the Harmful Effects impotent. The centre of erection will also embarrassed silence concerning female masturbation give us real insights Masturbation harms our bodies, affect the centre of sperm emission, into their thinking. making it function abnormally, so after Masturbation can be done by hand you marry you might ejaculate too soon. or wilh other instruments. Both sexes can masturbate, women usually less If a giri does it, her menstruations than men because of the physical I TfiOUGfIT miglit be irregular or painful. differences. It is very common in puber ty- Both for men and women, How do we define the sexual system? masturbation wil) affect the brain and The sexual organ has many functions. will continually extena the excitement. For enample sexual activities are con Individuals will think about their sexual trolled by the nerves and by the brain. wanking needs all the lime. This will cause Sexual intercourse between men and excessive nocturnal emissions. In thc women is normal. Otherwise there are WAS A TOWN daytime the centre of erection will also problems. Masturbation is one of these be affected and slippery sperm will problems. happen involuntarily (i.e. they will How do the nerves and thc brain IN wel tiieir trousers with sperm), l-rc- control tiiese tilings? They control these quent masturbation will put the brain things completely. Inside our brain there CHINA... into a condition of high excitement. As a is a special administrative office for these result the brain will get tired and things. Wc call this the 'sexual centre', debilitated. People wil! get nervous when it is affected the excitement will depressions and the memory will worsen. spread and will transmit orders through They will feel dizzy, will get insomnia, the spinal cord. Tliis, for males, will and their work and studies will suffer. have two centres. One of them is tiie centre of erection. The other is the centre What Is To Be Done? of spenn emission. Females also have two Masturbation wiil hami the bod> centres. It's very simple. and affect your revolutionary will too, so The centre of erection responds it is necessary to control il. First we have faster and eariier than the sperm emission to build the worldview of the proletariat centre. So the penis becomes swollen and study hard Marxism-Leninism-MSc with blood, and hardens. The sperm tse tung thought. If you have already . emission centre is then affected. It tools built the world-view of the proletariat, if excited, so that tiie muscles of the you have a correct understar.ding, you can urinary passage contract and the spemi stop all these bad habits. You can build erupts from if. a basis for your thougli ts. Frequent masturbators should Under certain conditions the participate in g>'innastics. Before you go excitement starts in the penis because the to bed take an hour or lialf-an-hour doing penis also has sensory nerves. Thc long runs. Tliat way you will go lo sleep erection centre of the spinal cord is al once. Tliis is very necessary. When you tiierefore affected, so erection takes wake up in tiie morning, as soon as your place. Many males, when they wake up in eyes are open, don't stay in bed. Don't the morning, have an erection-because •think about sleeping any longer. This too tiie kidneys affect the nerves. If the is very important. Don't sleep on your excitement continues and reaches the side, and don't use a blanket that is too brain then the sexual systems wilt be thick or heavy. Don't wear underwear affected. Girls may also have the same that is too tight. Keep yout penis clean. physical activities. Clean it often wiih warm water and dry it with a warm towel. Clean your foreskin, All nerves have a limited capacity. if it's too long ask a doctor to cul it. They work and they rest loo. In tinswa y Women with menstruations should be the nervous sytem will be healthy. If the clean. nerves are working, we say tlicy are 'excited'. If they are in repose, we say You can cure masturbation or tiiey are 'under control'. 'Excitement' excessive nocturnal emissions, or other and 'control' must be balanced. If there is problems, with Tai-Chi exercises. With too much of one, we will have problems.. acupuncture ycu'll also get results. Thlf artjda was lant to the Editon of Sampar by an Anarch ift Organisation who otitained it from England. Ttiey claim ttt Chinese source b genuine (tee article). However upon contact "As an effect.... it will become debilitated, so that when you ing the Chinete Embassy in Australia Semper was Informed that no tuch Chinese publication exists. Obviously someone is lying. The editors woutd appreciate help from anyone who can marry you might be impotent." clear tha matter up one way or the other. lications and their sup groups. Usually doctors make up a small percen working woman's life. courage and awareness. porting groups have prefer not to give girls under tage of abortees). To con 3. The stiucture of our Abortion should be the Ihere has been much alienated much support 17 or 18 the pill as it might stantiy push thc view that society has changed greatly last resort in contracepti'on. discussion lately on the from the moderates who, effect their immature hor men are our enemies, this century and women TTiere is plenty of oppor degree of control women as in any community, tend monal systems, but other furtiier alienates the can now lead a wholly tunity for applying safer have over their bodies and to make the majority. forms or combinations of majority. independent life; free to and less expensive methods the urgent need for more forms ate available. It de Men and Women are work, enjoy or avoid patent- before getti'ng into bed- and pregnancy. ditensWe availability of safe SOME FACTS TO CON pends on whetiier the girl/ natural complements. hood and free to hold woman has the courage and public office ietc. Abortion should then be aborti SEMPER October 11.1978 31 « DESERT EARTH Recent meetmg of the Intemitiontl Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources at Ashidiabad revealed some startling facta. Tropical forests on Earth are disappearing at a tate of 20 hectares a minute: South Eiust Asia's Lowland Forests "are believed unlikely to survive beyond the tum of flie century," and the world wiU lose about one- third of its araUe iand to desert between now and Uie end of the century. BATTLE OF BRISBANE SEES V2 SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH FLYER Brisbane's own y2 met hitt match at the recent Graham Parker concert as the foDowing exchange of ffre clearly dtows. V2: Why doncha play some decent music? Ooudland. G.P.: Wise guy eh? (To Westem suburbs dog Most recent report con He was taken from the audience) Familiar type owners beware! Some de cerning police action schooldance to the watch- down the front 'ere- ranged person has been against Brisbane youth house and later accused of HtM QHCtUhl having a good time. responsible for the poison concerns the beating up of being drunk, which he A classic exchange from (Walks to centre stage ing of at least fifteen a G.P.S. schoolboy at wasn't a great Norman Gunston and points to V2) helpless pets belonging to programme . seen on You're at the wrong local residents. SEMPER BEER drinking contest has been Brisbane Television concert buddy. One bait which caused CONTEST POSTPONED postponed until Wednes recentiy: the agonising death of a day 25th October at 1pm NORMAN: You gradu Semper staff member's In the forum area outside ated as one of the most BETTER LATE THAN own dog (it died in our the Union complex. Of the 715 complaints promising actresses of the NEVER offices) contained so much Men and women ate received by the Advertis year? strychnine that it could welcome to enter ri^t up ing Standaids Coundl SUSANNAH YORK: Hie good news for the have killed a small chUd. till ten minutes before since its inauguration 17 Yes. local culture scene is that starting tune. mondis ago, the foUowing NORMAN: What sort despite long delays on the Any contestant who was the best: of things did you have to completion of these HAIL CREAM MARY* breaks the world record by A genuine complaint promise? downing the contents of firom Queensland was projects, both the Cement iHe^nimtA Box Theatre on the Uni WeU, It fbiaUy happen die 52 ounce vessel in less levelled at a Bacardi com BLOWTHE versity of Queensland ed. Queendand's fhst than 7.9 sees wiU win a mercial showing passengers campus and the federally successful poUtical pie As a result of the beer stereo or color TV to the jumphig off a plane when WHISTLE FOR funded Brisbane Commu throw. strike, Semper's beer value of $500. told that there was no THE FULL QUID nity Arts Centre (formeriy Charles Porter may Bacardi on board. CoronaticHi House in have missed out on the Ihe complainant felt if you have, aiiy' Edwards St, City) may be sure this would not be ^mbdic bauxite and pubSe interest .in open for use early in the allowed by the airline Uood mbc, but Mary. formation suitable fbr new yeir. Whitehouse ... well what companies and thought pubSaattm inTheFfM There has been sus can we say. the ad was, therefore, picion that the federal There was poor old shipid. Qnld then send It to goveiniqent has been de Mary at the City HaU juat Semper, C/- UniPersity liberately delaying in dohig her best to support ofQldVaion,St.Liieki any attempt to spoB any POLICE pfoMMM: kndloid 4067 t)r tdephone giving the green,li^t for httik*; is your "fiicad" bdpf l^ds for the completion hm in onr Ihtes when In a Mamatory of yos; contact S7I 16II (ext. 26) of tbe exciting Coronation in^jor reversal of form she STODENTS LEGAL AID. during worUng hams, House project, however •ctuaUy became ttie. cause t« fb. UQ UniMi BuiHiRi 371 1821 lifter hom, advise from tbe Dept of of some. Open Monday, Priday 10am All: information re Environment, Housing and to 4pffl. fh 371 1611 f«f No doubt a cup of tea ceived, wUl-be treated Community. Development was boilbtg for her sonte- i^>paiiitiiKiil. aik fot NanAe suggests that a 5250,000 yitsi,' Admin. Secretary. h) fullconfidehcehoW'. »4iere In the wings iMit tbe WifiinBeatlk-Director. aUocation may finally have buns and cream pies were ever we seek factual bora fruit served flnt reports not rumours. REQISTEREO FOR M>STINO AS A PUBLICATION tlATEQORY B 32 • SEMPER October 11,1978