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Paranoia & Reds under the Bed

Dear People, 1 read with much sadness the some people who are members QiMtnttntO't MtAti-Ctnvut Wt*t*r Nempwtt articles in your/ excellent first of the "organised left" happen Wla|*tf>«^.- •J1*'AMN»r III* J'* fMl edition on AUS (pages 8 and 9). to be involved in anti-uranium Both Mr Herzog and Mr mining groups, it makes the anti- Campbell fall uito the diatribe uranium mining issue an "ex­ of language which only alienates tremist campaign." people. Mr Campbell made some unwarranted assumptions about ANS is the only widely the attitudes of his audience- chculating news service available for example: a pro-homosexual­ to campus based newspapers, INFORMS NEEDED, BUT ity bias, and assumed that stu­ research groups and mterested dents automatically will take a people that presents a different pro-Timor, pro-Thai students, view of issues and events. LAWS GET HARSHER pro-anti uranium mining line. Mr Herzog has cleariy shown This is a mistake common in the how he supports established Why does the law in Queensland remain 100 years behind the rest of Australia? progressive clement in AUS-we media by writing often for the Gamut never ceases to be amazed at the basic lack of citizens' rights here, the so- assume a view of people and the Australian. A narrow view of called "police state." world, and then feel that it is so events and issues as seen from This week Gamut looks at three areas where people have been disadvantaged and obvious that it is assumed of all the establishment point of view. discriminated against by the inadequacy of the law. students. Some students, dare I Mr Herzog assumes that students say most students, just don't -you readers-arc too stupid lo Queensland is lagging other States in reform of laws concerning rape. TJicrc were know all the facts and in such a signs that some of the reforms adopted in South Australia could have been instituted discriminate between propagan­ situation, naturally students ally da and different points of view. here-ifthe Criinina! Law Inquiry had been interested-but it wasn't with the status quo. The differ­ What is Mr Herzog's reality? Public reaction to the disclosure of pack rape in Ingham showed that the greatest ent views arc couched in loaded He claims that the discussions at hurdle may be overcoming the prevailing double standards and mores tlial allow rhetoric which all too often AUS Council were "quite divorc­ people to say that the women somehow deserved to be raped. But at least a change in polarises. ed from reality." Mr Herzog has the laws would allow woinen some redress, eg a woman cannot be raped by her never, ever given us a view into husband because she is slill, in 1977, considered his property. Gaimtt will be following However, it is .Mr Herzog's his perception of reality. the proposed changes to the rape laws here, and pressing for their urgent implementa­ allegations that disturb me most. What is Mr Herzog concerned tion. Mr Herzog is cleariy using the about, really'! Is it that some It is also outrageous to know that prisoners arc caught in u Catch-22 situation that smoke screen technique of his student money goes to causes friends in the veited-intcrest prevents them from obtaining the services of Legal Aid. he and his friends do not sup­ groups of our country. "Rxtrcni- port? Is it that he and his A prisoner m Boggo Road Jail has not the money to pay for a solicitor-a vital ist campaigns" is a very evocat­ prerequisite for obtaming Legal Aid assistance. friends do not like the idea of ive phrase. Reds under the bed, a student money being used for communist conspiracy hatching any political or social causes? Is Queensland poHce already have the power to enter any house on the "reasonable in every AUS office in Australia, it an over-developed conspiracy suspicion" that drugs may be found. But the Criminal Law Inquiry now is considering trained communist operatives complex or a considered and masquerading as AUS officers- dramatically increasing the powers of the police, so that they may detain, for 24 deUberate position, articulated such is the .stuff of paranoia. Mr hours, people suspected of having committed serious crimes. for years by the National Party Herzog makes, it seems to me, a At the same time, Attorney General Ellicott is proposing leglisation to guarantee and the National Civic Council number of unconnected, and and only lately finding articu­ more citizen's rights. grossly distorted assumptions, To "increase police efficiency," Queensland police Commissioner Lewis wants to which I will deal with here: late support on campus? waive the rule requiring police to warn detainees they may remain silent, and to have 0 He seems to make no distinc­ jury decisions by majority, not consensus. tion between an issue and the Finally, one mm or pomt. At While Gamut felt outrage, this caused very little comment in the press. Citizens people who support it. Uranium AUS Council, Mr Herzog gave is an excellent example. Because rights are beuig quickly v^ttled away, and every day is one day closer to 1984, you UQU's speaking rights to Greg know. Abbot from Sydney University when he had to leave Council. The UQU delegation had five or six members, all of whom were quite capable of arguing What k Herzog abouf? the UQU case in Mr Herzog's absence. So why did Mr Herzog The editors, DLP supporter from Sydney give away our speakmg rights to John Herzog ("AUS Debate" University, Tony Abbott, apolo­ one of his NCC friends and not Gamut No 1) fails ui his rcspon- gised to council for Bland- to one of your elected delegates .sibllity as AUS secretary on the thorn's behavior. An executive from this university? Does he University of Queensland statement confirming this was distrust and detest us so much campus to report to the student accepted unanimously by coun­ that he cannot allow us tO' body accurately and fully the cU speak. events and decision of the 1977 A second incident occurred AUS Annual Council. This jaun­ on the same evenmg when Tony' Please answer us, Mr Herzog. diced view of the events at Abbott met with a group of stu­ In the interests of rational council is a deliberate attempt to dents and observers outside the debate. discredit AUS in front of people council chamber. One of these Mark D. Hayes who had no opportunity of people in particular led a barage AUS Environment attendmg council themselves. of verbal abuse directed at Officer, UQU John Herzog has betrayed the Abbott, There was some physi­ mandate given him by his cal contact when ABBott and election ^ AUS secrtary in this this person tried to kick each way. I would like to set the other. Another DLP member, record straight. Anne McCosker, appeared on tion campaign or Black libera­ the scene and tried to interpose speech which councU fuUy John Herzog says that AUS Firstly, if 1977 wiU be tion, as John Herzog would implements and defends.. But- is undemocratic because it does "most remembered for its viol­ herself m this clash. No other wish, then that could only be violence occurred at council. John Heraog would no/ support.' hot involve students on campus ence and confrontation" it will achieved by makmg it less This elementary right when it Ul decision making. He says the only be because the Australian It is clear that these uicidents democratic, that is, less repre­ were provoked by DLP support­ came to the questioh of allowing way to overcome this is through newspaper in collusion with sentative of students generally, the Palestinian people to come "regionalisation." in each case, John Herzog and others who ers at councU, with, I must add, and brought under right wing "Maoist" supporters and dele- to this country and put their notidng could be further from made up the "entrenched NCC- .. . . control by bureaucratic means. case themselves. the truth. Firstly, AUS Annual led right faction" fabricated and gates wilhng respondmg to their. Tj,is jj ^j,at Herzog reaUy wants. Councts is a delegated confer­ distorted the real events (as did provocations. It is interesting to note what He does not think AUS ence so that all students may Herzog in Gamut)., All the ought to oppose the miUtary be represented democraticaliy- incidents he alluded to occurred John Herzog, in true red- j^^n nerzog does and does not baitmg style, pUys heavily upon support from council. For invasion of Timor by the Indo­ how else can it be done? By a on one evening of the 10 day so-callcd "communist" mfluence example, he fmds it "pleasing" nesian generals, despite Austra­ conference of the whole council. They began when a at council-it is a matter of that $22,000 wUl be spent on lia's key role in that operation. 250,000 members? student from one of the Adel­ great, concem to him it seems. "cultural" . activities (ie aide campuses was prompted by Biit what he really regrets is Secondly the practice of entertainment) but questions He does not ihink we ought to Extraordinary' Resolutions takes John Herzog's suspicious be­ that council, as the Union's why the "Union does not support "extremist" organisa­ havior to state to Council that highest decision making body, most most major questions back require every form of control tions Uke the Pacific People's to campus where a// students he considered Herzog an democratically decides to over the $40,000 given to Black Action Front. The PPAF had "agent." There was, as it turned can take part in decision makmg. support many humanitarian and .affaiisin That is the most one activity: it produces a And "regionaUsation" wUl not out, no concrete evidence to progressive causes. The fact is disgusUhg vxhibition of racism newspaper (which is defmitely democratise the Union. AU it suggest that this was true. It that AUS is one of the' most; . I 've seen, for sbme time. not "communist"). John Herzog means is that Queenslaiid virill was, I consider a fooUsh act. In democratic student or poUtical He- laments the ."way in thinks that the CouncU should withdraw from AUS as a whole. the events that followed this, organisations in the country. which studehis were treated for not make decisions about aUoca­ Ehher Oufeensland wiU make de­ when AUS president Tas Ocken­ It is inconceivable that a real the 'crime' of haying opposite tion of the $660,000 budget. cisions on behalf of the whole den sou^t to investipte the right wing student movement viewports- to" that of the en­ Then, who should do it, some national members|hip-a major matter, a crowd gathered and in would produce a left wing trenched Communist-Icd left breach of democracy-or AUS the melee a well known DLP councU. So what Herzog reaUy. factions." In fact every delegate Hnancial administrator or execu­ ' wiU cease to exist as a national activist from La Trobe Univer­ regrets is that the student at councU has equal speakhig tive cUque who can decide for unioii-which is really what sity, called Bland thorn, elbowed rnovement generally is still rights (although. Herzog chose themselves what wiU and, won't Herzog wants. a woman observer. This was radical, as it has been since the not' to speak more than .once [ witnessed by at least three be financed? No! It is done by Peter Annear late 1960s. If councU is not. to for the whole^confercnce). This CouncU because that is the only people. Following this another support issues lUce the.educa- AUS '77 Qld. Is an elementary right of free democratic way to do ft. : '.:. Regional Organiser Published by the University of Queensland Union. Printed by War\vick Daily News.

•^-»" ews DRASTIC POLICE POWERS

Public versus Poke Rights: Eikotf and Lewis by Julianne Schultz To detain people suspected of committing serious crimes for 24 hours is a draconian way of increasing police efficiency Queensland Council for Civil Liberties solicitor said yesterday. Mr Terry O'Gorman (QCCL) Mr O'Gorman felt that most up by tape recordings or some said "Commissioner Lewis sug­ people were aware of their other verification. gested to the Criminal Law rights and that it was a very rare * Intrusive searches of a Inquiry that suspected criminals person who "clammed up when person's body to be carried out be held for 24 hours without they were told of theh rights. only by a doctor. arrest because it would increase Also most people are under The recommendations were police efficiency. We feel that duress when they are being made by the Australian Law police efficiency would be better questioned by a police officer Reform Commission Report of improved by improving the they say the right answers and 1975. facUities avaUable to poUce offi­ tend to give them."' Mr EUicott is reportedly cers and recruiting more skiUed Both the Bar Association and interested in gettuig the other^ manpower. the PoUce Commissioner have State governments to adopt ihe "The mobile poUcc patrols recommended that the police legislation. based on Petrie Terrace have 200 have the right of detention with­ Gamut contacted Commis­ police officers and only two out arrest. The Queensland sioner Lewis, Mr Newbery and secretarial assistants, so they CouncU for Civil Liberties will the Police Union yesterday, but have to work their eight hour begm presenting their evidence none were wiUing to comment, shifts as weU as fiU numerous today and wU! recommend that on this statement. reports which is virtuaUy im­ police not be given this extra Commissioner Lewis's office possible." power. said that the matter would be At the Crimmal Law Inquiry The QCCL feels that police discussed at a conference of all last week Commissioner Lewis are frustrated because of in­ poUce commissioners in Mel­ suggested that aU police officers efficiencies Ul the force rather bourne in AprU. be given the powers of detention than because of a lack of Mr Newbcry's press officer, without arrest for up to 24 powers. They could see no Mr Ken Crook said that he was hours. He recommended that rationalisation m Commissioner unable to comment as they had such powers be given to police Lewis's submission for detention not yet formaUy been approach­ on "reasonable grounds," with without arrest increasmg the ed by Mr EUicott and that it was the onus on the police officer to efficiency of the police force. impossible to tell how the prove the grounds are reason­ WhUe the Queensland recommendations would be at able. Criminal Law Inquiry is consid­ variance with those of the Mr O'Gorman criticised the ering dramaticaUy increasing the Queensland government untU Police Commissioner Lewis suggestion on the basis that powers of the poUce, Attorney the criminal law inquiry made its there were no guidelines for General Ellicott is introducing report, "reasonable grounds," whether legislation goveming police they were to be subjective or investigation which will have objective criteria. more concern for civU rights. "Any extension of the Health The legislation wiU inltiaUy Act could lead to harassment apply to the Commonwealth Legal Aid for Pfisoners and intimidation of ordinary Police and negotiations are people and would probably under way to extend it to both lower the respect of the poUce the ACT and Northern Territory force," Mr O'Gorman said. pohce. The recommendations Inadequate' Commissioner Lewis also re­ include; commended the elin-ination of i * Limitations on the use of By Mark Wolff the Judges Rules requiring police force in arrest, including the use Prisoners' legal rights are non-exisfanf; they are the onlv minority t do not have access to officers to warn a suspect that of fuearms. they may remain sUent and that * Aborigines and Torres full legal aid. anything they say may be used Strait Islanders to be questioned Earl Ramston, welfare officer in evidence agamst them. He felt in serioiis cases only in the at Brisbane prison ("Boggo that it was wrong that suspect­ presence of a friend or relative. Road") said today "The legal ed persons should be privUeged !* People not fluent in Eng­ aid system apphed to prisoners against self-incrimination, and lish not be questioned without an is inadequate. Prisoners can not that the Rules rarely benefitted intei'preter. get legal advice for criminal the innocent. * Confessions to be backed matters at the magistrate's court from govemment legal aid agencies, and 1 am not permitted • to use the Students Legal Aid Scheme." • The pubUc offenders office does not give legal aid on crimi­ nal matters in the magistrates court unless the proscribed penalty exceeds 14 years. Other­ wise legal assistance is not avaUable untU the defendant is comhiitted to a higher court. Prisoners are appearing two or three times .before a magi­ strate without legal advice. Terry O'Gorman, Queensland CouncU for CivU Liberties spokesperson said "Prisoners can be tried for breach of prison QUAUTY Pacificffi regulations by the visitmg magi­ Bring us youruposed 126,110 or 35 mm Color or Black strate without legal representa­ and White liim lor processing at regular prices. tion unless they have the inoney When you pick op your processed or contacts outside to secure a tilm we will replace It wilh-e- soUcitor. Pacific Color Print liim "Similarly, a prisoner wishing at no extra cost. to make a complaint against a prison officer for breachuig prison regulations has no re­ dress to legal advice. "QCCL late last year re­ ceived information that a prison­ er aware of a feUow prison dyuig from prison administration negU­ gence was. not able to foUow it up-he didn't have access to legal advice. 3' As a woman, ANY woman,YSSi ^^^ ^^^ potential victim of rapists. Give yourself a chance. Be aware of basic self-defence techniques. Develop essential skills. KNOW what your mind and body can do FOR YOU. WOMENS SELF-DEFENCE COURSE

As a woman, any woman, you are the potential victim of rapists. Give yourself a chance. Be aware of basic self-defence techniques. Develop essential skills. Know what your mind and body can do for you. Women's self-defence course begins Tuesday March 8. It runs for 10 weeks, from 2 pm to 3 pm in the Sports Union Building. It will be taken by Graeme Johnson, an Instructor from the Brisbane Tae Kwan Do Club, and will be subsidised by the Women's Rights Committee of the Union. The course will cost you only $5. Registration for the course closes Monday, March 7. For further information, or to register, see Anna McCormack, Organiser of Women's Rights. Anna is based in the Women's Rights room in the Relax Block, or can be contacted through Union Office.

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^oc<5z 'V'S cSSo°° ^ s MHr52c oC, CmSz" ^ Soo°£-< z>«o?:g Z3 39 MS. ZZ c< Zm fl^S i§ o 70 y H oO S S'f^ o So iniews TRIBUNAL INQUIRY NEW TOWN PLAN IS LUDICROUS' Regubtions sef by Ross Peake LimffofFbur The Broadcasting Tribunars inquiry into self-regulation of television is ludicrous, according to the Friends of the ABC (FOABC). Chairpeison of FOABC, Mr Peter Svenson, said it was absurd to allow only two months People per House for submissions to an inquiry that was drafting guidelines for broadcasting to the year 2000. by Mark Wolff The time for submissions was ment, by regulation without any ABC was not popular, and from January 1 to this Friday, parliamentary or public debate." further cut its budget. A sectiotf of the new town plan requires people to register their February 25, He said the ABT inquiry may- "Mr David Jull, the chair­ household as a community dwellmg if they house more than four Before a meeting of the result in self-regulation for com­ person of the media commit­ unrelated people. FOABC last night, Mr Svenson mercial broadcastmg. tee, has 13'A years commercial The new regulations will cover residential areas^^g St Lucia, said he hoped that the public television experience, and he;has Clayfield, some parts of Albion, Kenmore and Brookfield. would respond with a flood of Mr Svenson said that the ABT made no secret of his opposition There have as yet been no letters to have the time for objections put forward and the permanent membership is clearly to the ABC," Mr Svenson costs 01 penalties outlined. The submissions lengthened. limit four was questioned. biased towards commercial tele- . said. senior town planner has stated vision interests. "Mr Jul! appears to lead a that this is "purely a method of strong anti-ABC pressure group monitoring how people are living The senior town planner "We also want a definite 'The Prime Mmister chose toi within the government-can he, in these residential areas and a believes the recommendations undertaking from the govem­ reject two departmental nomina­ or his committee, be seen as way of reducing large communal will be passed before the next ment to guarantee the ABC's tions for an independent ABT anything but a danger to the groups." election. Further public objec­ independence," he said. chairperson, namely Professor freedom of the ABC from poli­ Terry O'Gorman, spokes­ tions must now be made to State "The ABC is still under 'Henry Mayer and Mr Justice tical meddling?" person for the Queensland Coun­ parUament. threat," Mr Svenson said. Else-Mitchell. Mr Svenson said the ABT has cil for Civil Liberties referred to "The threat is m three areas: "Against the advice of the been set up to replace the the proposed regulation as "an economic censoiship, the powers Posts and Telegraphs Minister, Broadcastmg Control Board, and imposition on the civil liberties Seamens Union of the Austrahan Broadcasting Mr Fraser chose Mr Bruce had exactly the same powers. of individuals liring together. Tribunal (ABT), and the work of Gyngell, who made his reputa­ "Therefore the ABT appears They must face the embarrass­ Opposes the Govemment Media Advisory tion solely in commercial tele­ to be a way of removing the ment and rigmarole of gomg to Committee." vision." Labor Govemment appointees tn outside body to ratify their Woodchipping from power. chosen Ufestyle." Mr Svenson said the budget The o'Aer two permanent "The Govemment did not Alderman Ardell (alderman TUES 22-The Seamens approved by the Government for members are vice-chairperson, realise the extent of public responsible for town planning) Union of Queensland today 1976-77 is $9 million less than Mr James Oswin, former general concem over the ABC. After the interprets the new measures voted unanimously to oppose the bare minunum needed to manager of a commercial TV threatened revolt of more than differently. He maintains that the establishment of an extens­ mamtain ABC services. network, and Mrs Janet Strick­ 20 backbenchers in December the council will not "go aroimd ive woodchippuig industry in|^ "We are most worried that land, former deputy film censor. 1975, the number of Commis­ prying into people's bedrooms south east Queensland. j the ABT has the power to set "If we accept that the ABT sioners was not cut to 5, but and would not be aware of .any At a stopwork meetuig held guidelmes for all broadcasting 'as is biased, then the ABC could mcreased to 11. (breach) of this regularion unless today, 250 Seamens UniOn prescribed'-this means that the be forced to vacate prime tune "The position of the staff- there was a complaint raised." members heard Queensland Con­ new authority could be given slots. Then we would have the elected commissioner is still in the original proposition servation Council representatives any powers and functions at all, self-fulfillmg prophesy where the unclear; the government could given to the Brisbane City Coun­ .Greg Roberts and Kerry Davies* at the discretion of the govem­ government could say that the decide to not renew it later." cil there were eight formal 'speak on the proposed industry. LEAKED LEUER Against Aboriginal Development short-term leases only (one expires on ment of Aboriguial Affairs was not It seems the Premier has few friends in (Canberra. A highly emotive 20th January, 1984, the other on 16th sponsoring the Land Council project, I letter he recently wrote to Malcolm Fraser was leaked there and Gamut July, 1985) over land already reserved am informed through Field Officers of received a copy. Careful reading of this letter will show just what the for State Forest purposes and contain no the State Department of Aboriginal and Premier thinks of Aborigines owning land. covenant for renewal. The lease con­ Islanders Advancement that two Officers ditions specifically recognise the primary of the Department of Aboriguial Affairs Special Leases over parts of State Forest use of the land for State Forest purposes. have, m fact, been in contact with various Reserve No. 756, parish of Meunga. 1 The area may be used for grazmg only Aboriginal Communities encouraj^g understand that the freehold portion is, and the leases may be resumed at any pariicipation in the conference but con- in fact, re^stered in the name of the time by the giving of six months notice. cunenUy indicatmg^lhat the Department Commission and transfeis of Special In the event of resumption, the capital of Aboriginal Affairs couid not meet Premier's Leases have been lodged with the Queens­ investment m the purchase would be lost. fares or expenses to Cairns for that land Department of Lands for registra­ Furthermore, the leases are not well pyrpose. However, they have suggested Department tion. Brisbane. Q. 4000 improved and any improvements can only that pubUc and/or Community funds be My Government's policies in regard to be effected subject to Forestry require­ utilised for the purpose and as a result I the care and welfare of its Aboriginal and ments. can only conclude that the Government's 19th January, 1977 Islander population have been made quite In addition to the purchase prices, an views and attitudes are not being dis- clear over a long period and are specifical­ annual rental will be payable to the Land semmated to the Commonwealth Field My dear Prune Minister, ly opposed to the permanent develop­ Department. Officers. You will recall that I wrote to you on ment of areas by Aborigmes or Aboriginal I have dealt m some detail with the Transfers of the Special Lease have not 25th October, 1976, concerning a meet­ groups in isolation. financial aspects of the purchase of the been made to date and I feel that you ing held at Laura m North Queensland on My immediate concern is that the Special Leases as it appears that the would wish to review these two cases 12th, 13 and I4th October in relation to recent land purchases by the Aboriginal Commission could have difficulty in before any further and final steps are "Aboriguial Land Rights." Land Fund Commission are in duect justifying an expenditure of $60,000 on taken. As you indicated ui your reply of 9th conflict with State policies. Of cburec the these types of leases. Furthermore, I I feel too that it would be beneficial December, 1976, the meeting proceeded Commission is quite competent to query whether such expenditure is a both to your Govemment and mine if as a routine one with representatives of purchase and to hold the lands involved. proper use of Commission funds, particu­ the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission Abori&taal Communities. However, a However, f cannot see the need for the larly in the present climate of fmancial were to be invited to consult with my further meetuig was arranged which will quite substantial outlay of public funds stringency. Minister for Aboriguial and islanders proceed m Cau^s over the weekend of on what could be regarded as a duplica- I am seriously concemed at the con- Advancement (the Honourable C.A. 22nd and 23rd January with a view to . tion of fmancial effort. tuiuing policy of the Aboriginal Land Wharton, M.L.A.) in relation to any developing a Land Council. ' In speaking of a substantial flnanclal Fund Commission _ in endeavouring to future land transactions in Queensland I note the assurances given In your involvement, 1 must mention that the gain control of State lands in Queensland before any commitment to purchase is letter of 9th December that your Govern­ total cost of the lands to the Commission by purchase. This action appears to be ui undertaken. 1 am sure that such a step ment will not meet any request from the was $210,000, bemg $150,000 for free­ conflict both with the co-operative would be beneficial to each of us and proposed CouncU for assistance. hold portion 115 and $60,000 for the federalism you have enunciated and also would encourage more harmonious Of mutual mterest and concem, how­ two Special Leases. 1 have no particular with your views on the activities of an working relationships. ever, is a recent purchase by the Abori­ comment to make in respect of the free­ Aboriginal Land Council in North I .look forward to receiving your ginal Land Fund Commission of certain hold purchaseHt is an unrestricted title Queensland. comments on the matters 1 have raised. freehold and leasehold lands m the TuUy/ and there is no restraint upon purchase. I feel too that I should bring to your Yours sincerely, Cardwell region. However, the Special Leases mvolved notice the fact, that contrary to assur­ [signed] Joh Bjelke-Petersen The lands involved are freehold are quite a different proposition-they are ances that the Commonwealth Depart­ PREMIER portion 15, parish of Meunga and two HNtESISIOR THIAXil Proposed woodchipping in Queensland by Mark Hayes

The Queensland State Govem­ ment has given approval to a woodchip industry l^sed in South­ east Queensland. Letters in the hands of Queensland Conservation Council spokesperson Mr Greg Roberts indicate that the Ciovem- ment has decided "to approve the project and allow the export of wood chips through Brisbane."

A letter from the Co-ordinator General's Department indicates that sub­ sequent to approval being given by a closed inter-departmental committee appointed to investigate the proposal for a woodchip industry, the Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen wrote to the Federal Government requesting an export license. Wood chips will be stockpiled on a two and a half acre site owned by the The Brisbane export proposal, ap­ commercial logging. The EIS says that "if T^mes article, Craig McGregor described Department of Harbors and Marine near proved by the Queensland Govemment, the sawmiller is producing chips from the Eden mess as having the "razed, the bulk grain depot at Pinkenba. The mvolves local sawmillers in an area sawmill wastes, he will be encouraged lo man-blasted appearance of a Flanders bounded by Maryborough in the north, pile is estimated to have a capacity of take more logs into his sawmill; sawlogs battlefield." Recently, Harris-Diashawa Roma in the west and Casino and Grafton 25,000 tonnes of woodchips each one which do not meet merchantable standard expanded theu- operations into the in the south entering into an agreement uich. may be utilised by the miller.'" beautiful Tanya State forest near Bega with Standard Sawmilling to supply and encountered massive local opposition Proposal approved by government sawmill waste for processmg and export to Japan. to their plans. The Woodchip proposal was submitted Two-thirds of Tasmania for axe by Standard Sawroilling Company Ltd, Events in Tasmania, Victoria and New Total destruction South Wales give Queensland conser^'a- a large sawmilliiig concern based at "Waste" is anighruous In Victoria, sawmill wastes have in­ lionists such as Greg Roberts considerable Murwillumbah ih northern New South Sawmill waste is an ambiguous term cluded trees of over two metres in Wales Ul 1975. It was one of three sub­ and means many different things to :ause for concem. diameter. The Torongo Plateau, once mitted by Australian and Japanese different people. To sawmillers and the In Tasmania, fully two-thirds of the Australia's most productive timber area companies ui 1975. The proposals were forestry department, it means the island has been promised to wbod- has now been totally destroyed. Greg all substantially similar, all claiming to branches and offculs and sawdust left :hippers. On the south coast of New Roberts reports that attempts to repsner- be able to base a profitable woodchip over from milling logs for commercial ate the forests there have failed. export industry on the use of sawmill timber, plus trees damaged by logging. South Wales the Japanese company "Conservationists feel that wood-chip waste culled from local sav/mills ui a wide From the Environmental Impact State­ Harris Dashawa has been involved in industires based on sawmill wastes area inland from the proposed export ment (ElS) submitted by Standard Saw- woodchip operations at Eden. This has represent a thin edge of a commercial ports at Coffs Harbor, Iluka, and Bris­ involved the clearfelling of many hectares wedge which will utlimattly result in bane. milling, sawmill waste may well mean everything left over in the forest after of NSW state forests. In a ncent National massive clearfelling operations as the

h'den: devastation by the^voodchippiiig industry (soil erosion) industry calls for more access to forests to maintain profitability. "Once a basic infrastructure has been created, chippers can proceed to apply for license to totally clearfell State forests in the future," Roberts said. The call for more access to forests could be rationalised on the grounds of creating and continuing employment,, despite the problem that woodchipping is essentially a capital intensive industry which can lead to sawmills chosing because of lack of trees of merchantable quaUty..

Freehold up for grabs In Queensland, as eslewhere, legis­ lature protection and control of forest exploitation extends only to State con­ trolled forests. Considerable stands of usable trees exist on private freehold . land which may be clearfelled for wood­ chipping with no mitigation by the government whatever. Further, the Queensland Department of Forestry said, in a letter dated June 1975, that "an industry based solely on sawmill offcuts would be beyond the control of this department, whose responsibUities primarily relate to forest based opera­ tions." Subsequent to woodchip and forestry operations comes the process of regenera­ tion. Regeneration involves the State department of forestry attempting to grow trees where forests have been destroyed. After even selective logging, where only the best trees are taken out, erosion has set in along the access trails from forestry roads to the trees (snig tracks).

Regeneration a failure In ramforest areas, light penetration and canopy destruction has destroyed the forest. Regeneration invariably involves the ordered replanting of com­ mercial trees which are again harvested after 30 years. Natural forests involve many trees at all stages of growth and which provide nesting places for bkds and animals only afier perhaps one hundred years of growth. Steep slopes, high rainfall and massive canopy damage hi rainforest and thickly forested areas means the destruction of those areas. Erosion also has a massive impact oa rivers and streams and offshore fishmg areas as silt fouled irrigation areas, pollutes rivers and offshore fishing areas. Silt has been sighted over 12 km off Eden in southern New South Wales, caused by erosion from woodchippmg areas.

Wilderness on chopping block The massive area being planned, for the culling of sawmill waste in Queens­ land and New South Wales encompasses some of the most beautiful forest areas in Australia. The Connondale Range, west of Maryborough, the D'Aguiliar Range north of Brisbane, the Taylor Range, of which Mt Coot-tha is a part are all covered by Above: a photograph ofthe remains ofthe Eden Forest in NSW after woodchipping If the proposed wood the woodchippers plans. Parts of this area chipping in S'E' Queensland goes ahead, much of our forests could look like this, are freehold, other parts are impossibly rugged and steep and considerable irre­ the woodchippers taking trees, which parable damage would be caused to these given time, would have produced' areas by woodchippers collecting their marketable timber. wastes. South of Brisbane, the area covers the We're paying for their profits proposed Scenic Run National Park, FORESTS FOR Woodchips from Queensland will be stretching in an unbroken chain of moun­ collected in. Brisbane and shipped to tains from Mt Lindsay east through the Japan to make cardboard and paper Mt Bamey-Mt Maroon National Parks to- products. Through a very inefficient the Lamington National Park and on to process, which rejects up to 70 per cent of Nurimbah and Springbrook. the volume of chips used, cardboard THE AXE! In northern New South Wales, the area and paper is produced and shipped back (Continuedon Page6) covers the Casmo State forestry district to AustraUa to end up on our dumps and which includes the entire Compassion highways as waste and garbage. Further, One of the best alternative sources of pulp for paper manufacture is Mountain (Mt Warning) Caldera. The the tax payer must pay for road upkeep, cannibis sativa, or more popularly, dope. incredibly beautiful Whiam Whiam State rail systems, forest services of all kinds Early papermaking, especiaUy in forest. Nightcap Range, Waingarie State and hi Tasmania, calculations indicate linen manufacture during the first world forest and other areas are all threatened. China during the first century AD utilised war that taxpayers are actuaUy paying $2.50 cannabis, old rags and bark. Papermakuig per tonne for woodchippers to destroy Locals are protesting spread west to India, Arabia and on to Ya can't smoke trees! their forests. Foresters can only guarantee Europe, usuig various substances includ­ In May 1975 I attended a residents By this tune American softwood a profitable woodchip uidu3try m New ing cannabis. protest meeting at the Channon, near South Wales for the next 40 years. interests were a particulariy powerful Nimbin. There, even the local sawmillers lobby in Congress and in 1937 a mari­ "It is unfortunate," said Greg Roberts Benjamin Franklin grew grass juana tax act was passed, which effective­ at Nimbin were worried about the wood- "that some sawmills hi Queensland have chip proposal because it would take trees In Colonial America duruig |hc 16th ly forced commerical cannabis growing apparently over-reacted to the appeal of and 17th centuries, cannabis was widely out of business. Apart from isolated from them that they depended upon for short term royalties which they would their livelihood. The New South Wales used for paper manufacture. Benjamin experiments immediately after world war receive from an integrated operation." Franklm was one of the early paper two, cannabis growth for paper has been forestry department was caught in an When -commercial woodchipping unholy alliance between woodchippers manufacturers who based his business on stopped, largely because cannabis can be operationstomroence near Brisbane soon, cannabis. Historians note intense inter- smoked. and the then Liberal Govemment and we can virtuaUy write off large areas of colony rivalry over who could raise the It is mtercsting to note that Austra­ local residents and sawmillers. our scarce, beautiful forests to short besl cannabis crop for paper. lian paper money is printed on paper The sawmillers' fear In Nimbin is sighted goviemment and commercial echoed by the sawmillers south of It was not untU the eariy 20th cen­ manufactured from cannabis, which is mterests solely interested ui the fast tury that cannabis was con^dcred serious­ treated to remove the active ingredient Sydney m the Eden area. There, some of buck now. them have been forced out of busmess by ly again as a source of fibre for paper and TIIC. .7 -»!55I 1 THE AiA^

Often it requires only one semester of who has a genuine desire to try any of study' At a university before students those progressive courses which somehow realise that many of the descriptions of have survjived these processes? course content provided in' official NormaUy she or he after some costly faculty and departmental handbooks can trial and error, learns that, lacking any be quite misleading. trusted advice from older students who For example, many politically aware have pursued similar interests, s/he must students after perusuig these handbooks ultimately choose courses according to an enrol m what may appear to be a poten­ acquired knowledge of the~ lecturer's tially stimulating and rewarding subject personal, social, poUtical and educational .^B£eN£0(X«1feP>MOU) only to discover later that theu' lecturer's beUefs rather than on the basis of any approach to the course content was either supposed course content. boring, authoritarian, superficial or con­ This year, for the first time, a panel of servative. students met together to determine which Small "I" liberals subjects withm the arts faculty they felt One reason for this unfortunate out­ satisfied most of the above mentioned- come is that many "liberal" mmded staff criteria for a progressively oriented sub- members in the Arts Faculty like to iect. maintain the pretense that their couises are genuinely progressive-even when tlis small "1" Uberal consciousness which Content depends on lecturer they may have possessed in their eariy PubUshed below is their final Ust of yeiffs of teaching has long since cmmbled recommended subjects at UQ. The panel away. felt that each subject, besides' bemg -\(L\ As weU, many of these same staff taught by a conscientious staff member, can be found among those actively also reflected the forward thinking of resisting the introduction of new courses the particular staff member in its actual which hope to explore in a rigorous content. (This was virtually inevitable manner radicaUy new and excitmg fields since in the panel's opmion "the content Sociology: • Philosophy: ' of studies, such as women's studies or is only as good as the lecturer's ap­ AS 113. An Enquiry into the Nature of PD2I4 Social Philosophy HA-Peter poUtical economy courses. proach.") Women-Qaire Williams Wertheim. Proposals torpedoed No doubt some subjects deservuig of AS 277 The Sociology of Crime and PD2I7 Philosophy of the Social Deviance-M. Emmison These courses are usuaUy initiated by a mention have been omitted because of Sciences- Gary Malinas AS 314 Critical Urban Sodology-Pat mere handful of the staff at UQ for the limits to the range of subjects under­ Mullins example, and they tend to become "fuUy taken by the panel of students, and Psychology: Gamut would welcome further corres­ PY319 Psychology and Social Issues- accepted" only when either the large EngUsh: enrolments or great support they achieve pondence on this matter. In particular John Damm (and associated, sub- any intending correspondents should EN 219 English Prose B-Dan O'NeiU subjects by same lecturer) from students ultimately force most of EN 231 Twentieth Century Literature the departmental opponents to abandon provide detaUs about the criteria used to and Society-Carole Ferrier their resistance. (However it is important evaluate the subjects and within which History: EN 232 Women's Studies. Carole Ferrier to reaUse thkt some proposals for new departments, and institutions they are Subjects undertaken by Roy Evans i EN 302 Contemporary Poetry A-Carole courses are still torpedoed long before the based. Ferrier opportunity to prove their worth is ever As will be obvious from reading the Social Work: • provided.) - Ust in this issue, only Queensland Uni­ Subjects mvolvuig Dr Sugata Dasgupta, versity courses have been canvassed so far External Studies (Suice this course is former Director of the Ghandian Inst'i- Opposition to progressive courses and Gamut would certamly like to offered only in the Department of ' tute of Studies. doesn't necessarily have to stop there, publish a similar Ust of radical subjects External Studies [though it counts as a since it is still possible for new subjects government credit], intenial students offered at other mstitutions. Looking at Departments in general to be coH3pted-one favorite technique must apply to the Director of External terms, those recommended as providing a ^ beuig to have them taught by other staff Studies for special permission to enrol.) range of open minded and interesting members (who can be new or old EX 202 The PoUtics of. Bureaucratic couises, are P'hilosophy, Anthropology appointments) whose basic philosophies . Organisation*Paul Boreham (Gov­ ' and Sociology, and External Studies. ,and sympathies often run counter to the emment unit) University of Queensland students are original educational objectives of the EX 203 PoUtics of Nonviolence-Ralph reminded that it is possible to change an new courses. Summy (government unit) enrolment up to one week after semester How to decide? Education: commences. (In fact a longer period is Where does this now leave the student Courses mvolving Ted D'Urso often allowed unofficiaUy.)

The petition will call on the Aus­ Uranium tralian Government to have full 2)aac][i^Ci] Q3(^[Las(i\^[i^c] public discussion on uraniuni min­ mg and is a part of the national the people^s right to decide! debate proposed by the Fox report. Tht final dtdiloa M> tii« mlntiii tad ciport of uianlHin mint ml with UM AuitrallMi p«aplt, afltr • full public Gamut was able to obtain an iflKinilon. Moratorium Tbc Fat Rtpoit polstcd out ihc BMn; din|m, huardt md pnblemt •uocliicd with nudMr Mwtr. TbcK early copy of the petition, which is tadwfcj— "^. printed below. Further copies are 1. ibeincreased risk'of nuclear war; 2. the real prospect of nuclear iheft.jabwaijeand blackmail: and available from Gamut office or Bob J. the lack of any safe means for permanently disposing of high lesel radioactive wastes from nuclear power Phelps (221 0188 y. plants. Campaign Tlie Foi Report abo pointed oul that urwilum mining would create terj few jcba and make reij Ultlt contribution The campaign at University of l« MikDal tncoas*. Moreover, b Auitralla uranium mining would hate harmful effecU on Aboriginal land CUIIUR •nd tht natural envlroaratnt. Queensland will be kicked off by a Boeauae of Ibne and oUitr probkma, we dtc undtnlgncd, call on the Australian Gortmmtnt to i— The Uranium Moratorium will meeting on March 2 featuring I, Agree to a S year moraiorium on the minin)! and export of Uranium: Deputy Leader of the Federal I. Promote fuU publw divcussion of aU tht ijutsiion'i taistd by th* mining and export of uranium, leading to launch a campaign next Tuesday a decision by all the Australian peupte; and March 1 to collect.a miUlon signa­ Opposition, Tom Uren, in the J. Develop a national energy policy which concentrates on energy conservation and the research and development of safer energy siiurves. tures. Abel Smith lecture theatre at 1pm. NAME (print) AUDKHSS (print) SIGNATURE

IIXillUTT Ttw n«M and hsppMingi on Oi47 c«lkct ilgiiataiti M dilt affidal decUniioB fofln. YOun Kwwt - show htt, fHim, n*aM »ead tU* dcdandM aod rcqiMtU far adAttoaal copin tai frw Mfe...«M'M fot it lUI • HMI krtsnwniM.. URANIUM MORATORIUM P.O. Box 238, -—-^^ CAMPAIGN PUBLtftHINQ Pty. Ud. P.O. Box North Quay, Brisbane. 4000 J41. BRICKFIELD HILL, Sydniy. N.S.W.. 2000. 10 moothi.StO* S montht, |5. • SimpI* $1.80 ll£nnRNNOTLATERTUANMAYlS,l»77 *-'-^'T•-^'•-V •^i... ifi«UHii.iiit«l^—liii l'riBtcdb;nuMPiri)lhkb|,MDon«ttSt,ya%, BiUMSt 8 4^ .-^v POUTICIANS AS nxn POOPERS This article and others to be penned in the future stemmed from the writers of 4ZZZ FM's "Radio with Subtities"-Sean Mee, Tony Longland and David Pyle; the latter two perpetrating this particular epic.

precis, for to include the entire reasoning Independants' Party the umpredict- in aU major bleach companies, but could So you want to .be a poUtician. If so and justiflcation behind any political abiUty of these make them unsuitable to StiU leam from the Liberals about white­ you're certainly living in the right State, party's actions would require more have around children, however with washing. for Queensland is a land rich in promise space than the editors of this rag are proper training they have their uses. for the young politettc. Have you already prepared to pve us. Leader Pat Field was noted in the Senate Radio With Subtitles poUticaUy insane. made up your mind to become a poll- Queensland Debiting Union see RWS. ALP of Uttle consequence. State as being the only man able to whistle tician and are determined to become Woolworths usuaUy cheapest with leader Tom Bums enjoys leftovers, stewSj through the gap in his front teeth. Enjoys a success, willing to sacrifice all in pursuit some occasionaUy interesting specials. beer and a French dring-L'agneau qui eating Humble Pie. of your career? If so this job is not for Queensland Railways always late: A aime un camion rouge. AUS Without a doubt one of the most you. straight down the Une party. Considered Liberal Party of Uttle consequence. •sincere and dedicated organisations ever by some to be a sleeper on the Queens­ What makes a politician? Is it the' State leader Bill Knox prefers right- to grace the AustraUan political scene. toothless smile, the vacuous gaze or the Formed from a grass-roots movement, land poUtical scene it certainly has no overs, prawns, beer, rough red wine and electrifying poUcies, but wait for its next open fly? More likely it is a combination AUS is united in its efforts to make Papal bulls-eyes in tomato sauce. batch of promises, diesel kiU you if you of all these three. Or none of them. AustraUa a better place for aU. It is National Party of Uttle consequence. can foUow their train of thought. Whatever, the secret is kept hidden in a The leader Mr Joh Bjelke-Petersen does admired by every other party in Aus­ Water Supply and Sewrage a bunch of secret jam tin under a bed in the Bellc- not eat or drink but enjoys walking on traUa. Forever demonstrating warmth and vue Hotel, and another copy is in Mr humanity, a universal love and under­ drips. Some of the biggest shits in water. Queensland pass through here. Bjelke-Petersen's shoe which is why he Workers Party difficult to find as they standing that is an inspiration to aU. King George Square Carpark basicaUy always looks uncomfortable. are aU at work. This party's leader has Favorite food-hash cookies. For those still'interested in a political Campaign Against Rising Prices an underground party, unique in its never made a pubUc appearance, let alone organisation structure which aUows career we give a guide to the m^or poli­ a pubUc convenience. (CARP) something fishy about this tical forces operating in both the State group. Avoid at aU costs as they tend to members to start at the top and work Communist Party the most hated and their way down before coming up again. and Federal spheres. be weU out of the main stream. feared yet respected and despised party ui Membership is free but there is an exit Each party or lobby is described Campaign Against Moral Persecution AustraUa. They are all housetrained and charge which various with term of office. under two sections, thes are: 1. The make wonderful traveUing companions (CAMP) see CARP South-East Freeway poUticaUy naive, ftame-this is what the party is called, or because they always carry cards with Campaign Against Regressive Educa­ known as; 2. The creed-this is what the tion (CARE); Society to Outlaw Pornog­ this party has a large turnover in member­ them. ship but manages to survive despite a party or lobby is about, what it believes Australia Party these make wonderful raphy (STOP); Patents of Tertiary Stu­ in or says it believes in. Wherever possible dents (PTS)-three splinter groups from spUt which has resulted in two parts pets. You may weU have heard the working in opposite directions. Doesn't favorite recipes of the party leaders have the now defunct Knees Together Mother expression "Every dog has his day." cross its bridges until it comes to them. been included. WeU AustraUa Day was speciaUy founded Brown Society. PhilosophicaUy indi­ Police very aggressive, should go The Ust is not exhaustive, nor is the for this party. Fun to be in but the stinguishable from each other and intel­ places. description of poUcies and phUosophies cleaning up afterwards may not be' to lectuaUy undistinguished these groups intended to be anything more than a everyone's taste. of oxymorons have controUing interests

THE ULTIMATE MAL-STRUCTURE

Bruce Gyngell and the Corrtmercial Lobby shut down the Airwaves

But you don't need to be a clairvoyant In Canberra, a former CSIRO scientist The future prospects for AustraUan broadcasting are too horrific to and new arrival to the PM's Department to predict that we'U take the Une adopted hunched gloomUy over a copy of the fox contemplate, according to EUie Valier. She believes that Bruce GyngeU, by the commercials in their submission report. chairperson of the Broadcasting Tribunal, may allow the commercial to the Green Inquiry. In Melbourne, a. phlegmatic by-prod­ lobby to establish a stranglehold over what Australians niay see and hear According to the commercials, of uct of AustraUan free enterprise gazed on the airwaves. course, there should be pubUc broad­ out over the La Trobe Uni campus. casters. But no specific programming In Sydney, a one time ABC copy boy Now, he is more frequently tagged GyngeU has not hesitated to expound' areas should be defined for what the draped his macrobloticaUy fed form over "Australia's new broadcasting boss." The his simpUstic views on what should commercials termed "special interest" a Vaucluse Terrace and prepared to commercial suc<;ess is now the Fraser happen to Australian broadcasting since broadcasters. dazzle yet another member of a syco­ made industry supremo. his ABT appointment. He has gone so The Une was that the commercials phantic press. The new ABT chairman may have far as to prejudge, pubUcly, the outcome also should be free to program for So began the 1977 broadcasting year. undoubted talent in his field. Above aU, of the present program standards inquiry, "special interest" groups. In the Ught of which, those of you he has never swerved in his determina­ with his outspoken comments on self In other words, the commercials who beUeve Australia's airwaves should tion to be top dog. And he has never regidation and simUar issues. should be given a clear nin in profitable cater for a wide diversity of opinions hesitated to change his mind, or the He beUeves in "free enterprise" of mass audience areas. But that shouldn't and interests had better brace yourselves. provides or his pay packet, to achieve course. For the commercial broadcasters stop them from being free to diversify. For you, the outlook for boradcasting that end. anyway. But when it comes to oUgbpoUs- You just never know when one of this year has about as much appeal as Gyngell-delusions of grandeur tic ownership of air media by newspaper those pubUc broadcasters might latch marriage for a misogynist. interests, GyngeU has said he is not in onto a good thing-come up with some To draw freely on his own statements special interest programming approach At the start of 1977, the three over the past two years or so, GyngeU the least concerned. indhdduals above,-Dr Geoff Evans, John What about the media and pubUc that might attract a profitable, signifi­ has "delusions of grandeur," and is cant minority audience (a la 2JJ). In Davey Norgard, and Bruce GyngeU "essentiaUy a salesman." He beUeves involvement? Chairman Bruce beUeves rcspectively-embody the outlook for that television is too "important to be­ which case your good old free enterprise that the buld of AustraUan broadcasting media manics would want to move in on individual sectors of AustraUan broad­ consumers are a humdrum bunch of come a debating issue." After aU, the casting, possible to the year 2000. it. unhappUy married escapists who should commercials know what's best for aU In Canberra, Geoff Evans' contribu­ be offered no better view of broadcast­ those mindless morons in free enterprise Horrific prospects for broadcasting tion to broadcasting has faUen foul of suburbia. ing than the "imitarive mediocrity" (to So there you have it. The broadcast­ Fraser's razor, after a lot of pressure from use the supremo's own words) of the ing outlook for 1977. the commercial lobby. Evans played a commercials. GyngeU's stance seems to be: the major role in opening Australia's Evans gets the sharp end of Fraser's He is in favor of "self regulation" simpleton consumers wUl damn weU have airwaves, firstly as . secretary to the broadcasting razor. The pubUc broad­ (whatever that means) and a restriction of what they're givcn-by the commercials. Senate Standing Committee on Educa­ casters are already under pressure—with the ABC to a minority programmmg So don't let the ABC get any big ideas recent departmental threatening letters to tion, Science and the Arts inquiring into about Reithian concepts of upUfting aU aspects of broadcasting, and later as a role. 2XX Canberra and 4ZZZ Brisbane. (The pubUc taste by programming for wider fuU-time commissioner with the Aus­ FinaUy, just for the record, GyngeU latter, dated December 30, demanded audience appeal. traUan Broadcasting Control Board. also opines that broadcasting inquiries program guidelines two weeks in ad­ "achieve nothing." His attitudes The pubUc broadcasters-that's one of vance among other ultimata. The From metrics to the ABC remarkably paraUel the views of com­ the few areas on which Chairman Bruce option? Licence cancellation.) His progressive influence was summari­ mercial broadcasters. has remained uncharacteristicaUy silent. Norgard gets to head the ABC. And ly severed with the ABCB disbandment. the ABC may well find itself substitutmg If the govemment had been serious the so caUed subversion of 2JJ and Late­ about structuring broadcasting, it should Une for non offensive, non questionin g have found a permanent spot for evans self embalment. on the new AustraUan Boradcasting Syngell gets the top broadcasting job. Tribunal. Instead, Evans is now on the So he's in a strong position to control PubUc Service unattached list. His future AustraUan broadcasting single handed, is at best uncertain. Rather like the out­ with a Uttle jielp from his commercial look for pubUc broadcasteis whose cause friends. he championed tirelessly over the past Admittedly, he does have one ob­ few years. stacle to overcome first: an imminent In Melboume, John Davey Norgard power struggle between the two big has taken over chairmanship of the ABC. Gs-ABT's Gyngell (Fraser's free- He is the man who supervised the transi­ enterprise-rewarded showpiece) and P tion to metric conversion in AustraUa. and T's Green (a sometimes naive broad­ Norgard is now vice-chanceUor of La casting novitiate, but nonetheless weU Trobe Uni. meaning bureaucrat).' His direction of the ABC is, Uke the The odds have to be very much in latter's future, entirely a matter for con­ GyngeU's favor. He is, after aU, Fraser's jecture. It is Ukely to be Ukc Norgard choice for the ABT in the face of minis­ himself: safe, stoUd, and non9committal. terial (Robinson) and departmental In contrast with his predecessor, (Green) advocacy for a neutral nominee Bland, Norgard is unUkely to stir con- for the unprecedentedly powerful chair­ frontation with or within the national man's job. service. He is equaUy unUkely to defend- If GyngeU puUs it off, the future let alone argu strongly for-the need for. prospects for Australian broadcasting are the ABC to extend and innovate its too horrific to contemplate. Certainly> broadcasting services as did .Bland's a GyngeU win wiU Enable the commercial predecessor, Prof Downing. lobby to estabUsh a stranglehold over Downing, for example, strongly de­ what AustraUans may see or hear on the fended Sydney rocker 2J} behind the airwaves-^and on a level unequaUed any­ scenes just as deliberately as Bland where else in the world. attacked the station in the open. That wiU mean shutting down the Under Norgard's stewardship, chances airwaves just as tightly as the commercial are you vdU see no identifiable reaction "free enterprisers" wish. or regression, but no identifiable pro­ The ultimate Mai-structure, you might gress cither. say. A clear run for Gyngell Despite the efforts of the few pro­ gressive elements stUl left with aiuity, the ABC is Ukely to caccoon itself, by self embalment, against govemment attacks and commercial pressure. Which leaves a clear run for Bruce GyngeU in Sydney. Actmg between 9 and S as the new ABT chautnan, GyngeU is operating from a typical pubUc servant environment in the Postal and Tele­ communications offices in Walker Street North Sydney. Chairman Bruce has been variously described in AustraUan media as "The TV Whizz Did," "Golden Boy of the com­ mercial networks," and the commercial 'TV Repair Man." 12 INGHAM RAPE REPORT: Girls in our Town just Haven^t a Cliance

. Women and gbls have been raped Heather Ross and Julianne Schultz were chiefly responsible for bringing age of 18 and have Uttle. idea of what regulariy in the north Queensland cane legal options are open to them. They are farming town of Ingham for the last four to public notice the pack rapes in Ingham. Here Julianne assesses media treatment and public reaction to the disclosure of "training." often unable to approach their parents years, sometimes by up to 32 men. because of guUt and shame and fear of People throughout the social hierarchy rejection. Rejection and wrath is a real of the town were quoted as being aware Trains are a form of pack rape peculiar to the north Queensland town oflngham. possibUity with Italian families. Ingham of the activity but feeling poweriess to There for the last four years women and girls as young as 12 have been brutally pack has a predominantly Italian population. stop it because ofthe violence of some of raped and conned into believing it's their role. "The competitive nature of the role of the men involved. Occurring as often as four times a week and involnng up to 32 men, the women are women in a country town such as Ingham made to fed that they have no right to control their own sexuality-and tliat being means that they cannot seek help and The cover-up begins sexually used by the men is a form of social acceptance by their male peers. support from other women. "The inflexible attitude to women's The poUce said that they were aware Others are threatened with "more of the same" if they go to the police, and so of the activity but felt unable either to sexuality there means that women have the women don't report it in many instances. the choice of two categories-of being prevent it or' to stop it. Inspector Gordon Many of the girls are very young and feel guilty about whay has happened-often Grant (Ingham CIB) said that girls are labeUed as a virgin or a whore. Once blaming themselves. Hence they are unwilling to tell their family or friends. physicaUy intimidated and threatened raped a woman falls into the second with more of the same if they go to the Such social pressure cuts both ways of course and many young men in the town category. In this category she is subject poUce. "We're in the invidious position of feel obUged to participate in the rapes. For those who don't there is the threat of to degradation not only by men and the knowing that rape is going on and not homosexual rape and associated violence (especially if the man is "keeping a woman to friends of the men who have raped her, being able to do anything about it." himself ie not sharing her with "his mates") and social ostracism. but by the women as weU." In December 1976 the National Times made this situatwn pubUc with a long However when the article appeared Bill Lickiss is very busy the coverup began. article entitled "The Boys in our Town." Unfortunately it was written in a manner WhUe the town's elite was denying the Two days after the article appeared I suggestlo^that Qiifrn^land wn% strangrbut nnrfh Qiii-<.ndanH ^ even stranger, refusing situation, several governmental was preparing a program on the Ingham to analyse the atuatton in any bro^^^ Aiisti;^^ Qt social perspective. rape sUuation for 4ZZZ and interviewed approaches were made to endeavor to Inspector Grant by phone from Brisbane. change the situation. It has been brought In that interview Inspector Grant denied to our attention that Justice Minister aU his previous statements saymg that Bill Lickiss had received proposals from he didn't know of any rapes which took the Queensland Law Reform Commission place in the town, that in the preceding recommending changes in the Queensland 12 months up lintil June 30 1976 no rape laws. I phoned his press relations rapes or attempted rapes had been re­ officer Des Davies several times a week ported in Ingham. He felt that if any for about six weeks to find out what was rapes were taking place it must have happening with the proposed changes but been "before I became head of the was continually fobbed off with repUes Ingham PoUce District eariier in 1976, such as "Mr Lickiss is a very busy man, he nothing has taken place since I've been hasn't had the time to read the docu- here." meiil," despite the fact it had been waiting for him to read for the past two When I asked him the reaction of the or three months. people in the town to the publication of Earlier this week Mr Davies told me the article in the National Times has that Mr Lickiss has now read the docu­ response was that "The people in this ment and has forwarded il to his crown town can't wait to get their hands on law advisers for drafting changes to the them (the National Times journalists) criminal code concerning rape. "But I again" was revealing. can't teU you what the changes will be or when it will be going before the house, Ingham: tidiest town it could be within six months and it could As soon as the NT article appeared a be longer." concerted plan by the town's elite to We also approached the Criminal Law ignore the issue swung into action. The Inquiry through Civil Liberties soliciter editor of the local newspaper, Mr Bob Tery O'Gorman as the Ingharti- situation Shepherd, ran front page editorials deny­ lions. Several of his coirfnieiiBsuggested seemed to fit well into the terms of ing the claims and endeavoring to restore iind will reach that if a wonymVas n/A a /rgin she had reference of that inquiry, especially the town's civic pride (after all it did win (•(lurloiiMiiichT. no right to "cty r; As nothing has"Xai»ened lo.^op the whether poUce powers of investigation, the tidiest town in Queensland award in interrogation, search, seizure and arrest These commen1fsmi

My involvement in getting the Ingham defamatory way. which made the people The Australian who had. a journalist in coders ll i( wasn( spent belore.tlic end story pubUshed and trying to get some­ she was hoping to influence tiucstion her north Queensland at the time that a of the 1976 year) wc approached them thing done about it in the town has been credibility. foUow-up would have been desirable for financial support to go to Ingham. a bitteriy disUiusioning experience. The National Titiici treatment of the decided not to send hmi to Ingham b'e- However Ihcy decided that it was reaUy When Heather Ross first told Bruqc story was not of the standard we had cau.sc "it is a Fairfax story." Gavin the responsibility of Ihe Townsville Stannard of the National Times the story expected from Australia's foremost news­ Souter from the Sydney Morning Herald feminist movement, not Brisbane, and it of Ingham as she knew it, he was quite, paper. .^ did go to Inghatn bxit his article refused was fell that Heather Ross and I were not shaken and saw U as a "good story" for Now the National Times journaUsts to look at the problem and concentrated "ideologically pure" enough.to be invol­ his newspaper, but it was a matter of involved arc writing a book about the on the strangeness of north Queensland. ved in helping other women. proving it to his editors. To this end pccularities of Ingham without bothering So much for investigative journalism in Heather and I worked on the story for to visit the town again. Although the this country. three mon(hs later llie rapes arc stiU several months to convince the National refusal by the town's people to come to We hoped to gain the support of a taking place, and nothing seems likely (o Times to go ahead with it. This was done terms with the situation probably says as feminist group to go to Ingham to set up change. because of a personal commitment to much about the issue as the actual community and rape crisis counselling righting the injustice which existed. occurrence of the rapes. centres. When il came to our alien!ion And people woudcr why I'lu pissed However when the story appeared we When the story finally appeared we that the University of Queensland received neither, acknowledgement or endeavored to ensure that other news Women's RigliLs Group had a consider­ off. payment for the work we had done, organisations followed it up. They did able amount nf their budget unspent lieallicr claims she was misquolt'd in a "so only in Ihc most cursory manner. (which woiili! ho returned to (lie Union Julianne Schult? —-^13 By Radha Rouse "An opportunity to emphasise the importance of the essential contribution that women make to society and an outlet for women's creativity in a mean­ ingful and relaxing atmosphere"'-that is how the Women's Creative Arts Centre sees itself.

Cross section of community Arts Centre sees itself. In fact the women who attend classes In the two years of its operation since and work in the centre are not main­ receiving a smaU grant from International stream women's movement people. 'This Women's Year in 1975, the Centre has is a multi-purpose centre and a liberation established itself as an important gather­ centre. There are different layers of ing point for women in the suburb of women who attend-some women come Norman Park. just for the classes and some like.to help Unfortunately at the moment al­ in the administration of the centre. We though there is enthusiasm for the various also have discussion groups around the handcraft classes and discussion groups women's movernent and ideology. provided by the Centre, It is grave finan­ "We generally find that different cial difficulties. women attend the different types of classes although I try and encourage all In debt women to go to our women's movement One of the driving forces behind the discussions." operation is Ms Norma Nord. She said "We've got so many women we can't cope~we had to knock a wall down to make room. But we are in debt at the moment and I can't pay the rent. We have Lonely womon tots of costs for paper and ink that are The Centre has become an important hard to meet. I bought a gestetner myself social place for many lonely wohten in as the centre can't afford it." the community. One of the aims of the women who run it is to relieve the The 60 women who are regular users boredom and depression of suburban of the centre-a cross-section of the women and to provide understanding and Norman Park Community-have support for them. organised rotating luncheons at each And this of course apart from the arts other's houses in ortler to raise money and crafts activities: there are day and and keep their centre viable. evening classes in drawing and painting, Volunteers and donations macrame and stitchery, weaving, silk screen printing, pottery, bottle painting 'The women themselves have suggest­ and yoga. ed donations and four women have volunteered to be on roster regularly. There is a permanent display of arts Tutors of some of the classes have been and crafts and all women artists and donating their time-and all tutors are craft_workers may use the centre to sell qualified in their field" said Ms Nord. their works. The Centre will be applying to the The Women's Creative Arts centre State Government for funding and they Is at 101 Wynnum Road, Norman Park hope to receive a smalt amount. 'The {Busstop no 18 on Wynnum Road). The State Government's got $2 million to Centre is open Wednesday to Friday, hand out but they probably think we're 11 am to 4.30 pm and Saturday 9 am to too radical to fund," was Ms Word's 1 pm. Phone 399 5554 or 399 3593. wry comment.

'i."!*Shj^i: • WE ONLY SCREEN IHE BEST ^ WEDHESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY >a MARCH m\ FEBRUARY S 26j 1.30pm Finally GONE WJTH THE WIND NRC. aT Epm Kirov Bstlet Co. 5.1 Bpm Harold Pinter's 1pm Franeescb Roil'i ,-- ' Fin 5,45 SWAN LAKE G, THE HOMECOMING M. CADAVER! ECCELLENTI NRC, 6.15pm CADAVERI ECCELLENTI 7.30pm FELLINI'S ROIWA M. .' 7.30pm Dylan Thomas' NRC Politteal drama Fin 7,16 The Fall of the Roman Empire FontByn, Nursyev Fin7J)0 Fin 3.00 1931-1972 7.30pm Marlene Dietrich iii - UNDER MILKWOOD M. 7.30pm GONE WITH THE WIND DESTRY RIDES AGA!N G. Burton, TBvloriOToote NRC 9.30pm CADAVER! ECCELLENTI 7.30pnt Clark Gable, VIVIBO Lolflh. with Jamei Stewart 9.30(im THE HOMECOMING M. 11.30pm Buster Crabbe ^"*^' Fin 11.45 Ljitlle Hovwrd.GllviB de Aavilland 9.30pm Mel Brooki' comedy (S«e doitble festurs at 6.15 or GONE WITH THE WIND NRC. FLASH GORDON G. 1936 ART GALLERY Our art gBllary 1am FLESH GORDON R. reopen J on Saturday 26th February .THE PRODUCERS G. •7.30) Fin 11.45 Fin 11,30 Fin 3am urtder the direction of David Vowlst Zero Mottel, Gene Wilder {phone 44 42481 Bnd the opening Fin 11.00 exhjbltton wiil be paintinQS by Wendy ••• 14' • • Carnakft Wendy Clancy; AR-CONOmONH) • 3711879 • •k FREE CAR PARK ^ highway interests acquired the local or moreover local clinics everywhere transit companies, scrapped their pollu­ rather than huge centralised hospitals? tion-free electric trains, tore down their The choices wc do have left amount to Right rroth power transmission lines, ripped up their the color of a car if we can afford one." tracks.. . . Largely as a result, this city is The book was edited by Andrew today an ecological wasteland: the palm Herrington for the National Action for trees are dying of petrochemical smog; Public Transport campaign. the orange groves have been paved over Addresses of headquarters in each by 300 miles of freeways." (p 68) State are given inside the back cover. Getting On The Right Track- waste of resources, the cost of maintain­ The book discusses alternatives to the The public transport crisis in ing police and hospitals to deal with the car-based system, from bicycles to the injured, the cost to private motorists and Japanese bullet trains which can travel at Australia the deaths in motor accidents. 260 km per hour maximum. National Action for Public The role of the Roads Lobby in The conclusion is not, however, that Transport influencing public decisions is illustrated more technological innovations are Patchwork Press, 1976, $ 1.20 by articles about the Australian situation, needed. There are many ways of revers­ where the motor industry can put press­ ing the current trend using existing Getting On The Right Track is a ure on governments by means such as technology, feeder buses, better trains source book, containing articles, facts and threatening to lay off thousands of and car pools for example. These changes flgures, and illustrated with photographs workers (as happened in 1974, for will not be implemented until the people and cartoons. example). who need public transport demand them; It shows how public transport has An article on the American Snell there must be great* decentralisation been allowed to run down in Australia report describes how Los Angeles became and public participation in planning. while govemments have emphasised a city of freeways: "In Inala, a suburb of Brisbane, the building roads and freeways. "Thirty-five years ago Los Angeles was nearest hospital is nearly two hours away The book details the effects of relying a beautiful city of lush palm trees, by public transport while a bus service on the private motor car: the urban fragrant orange groves and ocean-clean along a direct route would cut this to sprawl and destruction of inner suburbs air. It- was served then by the world's half an hour. Residents are pushing for "Ct:,>r.^t\ your car pool is here.' caused by freeways, the noise, pollution largest electric railway network. In the such a service. But with a population of and ill-health caused by emmissions, the late 1930s General Motors and allied 60,000 why isn't there a local hospital-

Theatre BuHshot Crummond when our suspended disbelief is thrown and a very goodactor, and he could be Rod Whistler's production of Bullshot the lights and her costume exceptionally great, but isn't. In Bullshot he has lots Crummond opened to a full house at La well and in some of her postures she is back in our faces. and lots of business to do and has to Boite theatre last Friday night. But/shot stunningly the summation of all she The faults in this production are when work ever so much harder than the is a serious send up of a popular '20s represents, hauntingly beautiful. Penny those moments of studied absurdity are others. He is a big man, with a big voice novel hero. Bulldog Drummond and the Whistler, as Miss Fenton the daughter of fouled by the actors fumbling in the and a big personal character and I have play is just jam full of laugh situations. the captured professor, is a delightfully tight situations and acting space. It is often though that he is not subtle enough However a lot of the cause for comedy in insipid upper middle class English annoying for the audience to sit and in his interpretation of the sensitivities this play comes from the way the actors maiden. She plays the role with just the recognise what it was you were supposed of the roles he plays. Maybe he just needs physically handle the endless preposter­ right amount of lurid doubie-entende. to laugh at but have that gut reaction someone to sit on him more heavily and ous situations that occur. And, as there is Some of the most effective funny gauffar robbed of you and reduced to an he has to work lots harder. The painful a limited acting space at La Boite the parts in the production come the sound, appreciative titter. thing in Bullshot is that you can see what production needs to be very severely lights, and props. In fact it is the props Richard Michael who plays the sundry he is on about, and often he gets it such choreographed. It wasn't. Yet, for the that give the clue to the type of humor. roles from old professor to fop to as the car chase/crash scene, but too most part, the actors do manage to latch The thin tvw dimensional smiling ducks debonair waiter to mad killer, is the best often he misses it such as the final shoot­ onto and fill out the personality of their wiggle diagonally across the acting area barrel of laughs in the show. But his out. roles. but are seriously pursued by Crummond. various roles can be and are played for It is a good production and we have a He fires at them and successfully prompts laughs. He is an actor whose personal To this end the two ladies in the cast good giggle at a lot of the business and the appearance of a stuffed suggestion of style can be two dimensional and this succeed very well. Lenya (Marina Bossov) occasionally there was even cause for a a game bird. "Well done Crummond," suits this production very well. is in alliance with Herr Otto von Bruno, good belly laugh. The production suffer­ says the fop Algenon. "Shot right As the evil hun Stewart Machett is the bad hun who is after the secret ed from being under-rehearsed but that between the eyes. I bet that's why they good, yet his is a function role rather formula for the manufacture of syn­ fault should pick up in a week or so. call you Bullshot eh?" The sequence is so than one that can be played straight for thetic diamonds. Lenya is dedicated Soon La Boite will be the fullest laughing painfuUy bad that the paradox happens laughs. He has one segment where he passionately to the misery and utter house in Brisbane. unhappiness that Otto's plans, if success­ and it is uproariously funny. And so on. simultaneously plays a double role and We find ourselves accepting the absurd that in itself is terrific. ful, will bring to the world. However she Edwin Relf also has a passionate love^ate desire for two dimensional characters, props, situa­ And this brings us to Eroll O'Neill who .Bullshot. Marina manages to play with tions as reall. We tumble into laughter plays the title role. He is a very popular AUTUMNAL CHICKEN and shake it like mad. It should go all I thought of this one on a Sunday milky. Have a taste and if it's OK stick morning when the season should have it up in the fridge. been winter going on spring. But, a winter Next thing is to chop up a large onion in Brisbane never seems to eventuate-not . and let that simmer over low heat in two much more than a mild autumn, even by (2) oz of butter until it begins to go southern Australian standards (I'm not transparent. Add a table spoon of plain knocking our weather; I just love our flour and smooth to a paste. At this warm winters and swimming pool stage stand by with your salad dressing summers). and two (2) tablespoons of tomato paste Anyhow, as I was lying in bed reflect­ smoothed out a bit with a dash of Woster- ing on our summer/winter type spring, I shire sauce and a smaller dash of soy had a longing for a nice salad with a good sauce and a bit of warm water. Pour that gariic dressing wrapped around it. But we and the salad dressing into a saucepan didn't have a lettuce in the fridge, just a with the onion and stir slowly until you fruzzed chicken waiting to be done to a have a slightly thick very aromatic liquid. turn for our household's Sunday roast. Take off heat. (In our share-house we generally indulge From here on it's easy. Stuff a small in a Sunday roast with lots of veges, onion or two up the chookie's bum. Add why not? It's good fun.) a little bit of salt. Spoon in a couple of So that chicken needed doing and I ' desertspoons of the sauce and tum the wanted a ^lic salad dressing and, I chook around a bit to make sure that the thought, why ^qot stick 'em together. sauce moves around a bit. Wack in a But salad dressing,-if it was to be used as slice of wholemeal bread to hold it all a sauce, needed something to fill it out a in together. Sprinkle a bit of salt over the bit and as there is alwayi^^ood oie tomato paste in our cupboard, weHj, it was just ..xtipok. Place it in your uncovered baking natural enough to add that.. So this ^•^Fsh on top of some thick slices of whole­ is what I got together for a really-super meal bread. Spoon some of the sauce all filling Sunday dinner. over the chook and then put it into your pre-heated moderate (350*^ gas) oven, Make up a salad dressing in any old ^ok it for about an hour and a half, or jam jar that has a lid handy, using two ^2) 25 minutes per pound basting it with the Iparts VKhite vinegar to one (1) part of veg prepared'sauce every 20 minutes or so. oil, crush into it a couple of cloves of gariic to taste, (I like lots), sprinkle in Serve it up with the usual greens and some !4T/spoon) sesame seeds and some roast spuds etcetera and chunks of the ground pepper. Don't forget to add bread that have soaked up the juices. It's %T/spoon of salt and two* (2) T/spoons red and yummy and a dry white wine of sugar. Screw the lid on the jar tightly goes well with it.

CADAVARIECCELENTI Francisco Rosi Schonell Thurs - Sat (see programme p. 14 for times) They vvant popular feeling to rise In Francisco Rosi's political thriller against the communists, and the sacrafice Cadavari Eccelenti, an unpopular chief of a few judges, mostlof them unfashion- prosecutor, is shot with a bullet hole in ably extremeist in theirconservatism, is cheap at the price. . SECONDHAND TEXTS BOUGHT AND SOLD his head. •'•:•: Left-wing dissiaents are blamed, it's a complex and timelyfilm its not unreasonably in the circumstances, ground well prepared by Watergate. ALL DISCOUNT TO ALL STUDENTS ON ALL NEW EiOOKS since several gather at his funeral to THE PRESIDENT'S MEN HSd journalists heckle the orators, and Lipo Ventura, who were interested only in the truth. as the grave and incorruptible Inspector CADAVARI ECCELENTI has journalists AN EXTENSIVE SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION Rogas, Is called in to do his best. But who look beyond the truth at the conseq­ before he can do much at all, a judge is uences. Rogas' friend, a communist killed, then another. Inspector Rogas reporter wants-to expose the conspir­ A WIDE RANGE IN ALTERNATE LIFESTYLES comes unider pressure from the potice acy the policennan has uncovered and his chief, who u under pressure from the boss says no, that such a revelation Minister for Justice. But it soon becom­ would disturb the people even more "and that is what they want. The truth is not •STATIONERY AND BULK PAPER es dear to Rogas that (tis superiors want the tnunderer ratjhM- )ess than they want "always revolutionary." He, Is right Ijut a political solutfpn to the case. its not much of an answer. FLAVOURED AND EXOTIC TEAS

- "••—~ mtuaaia CHINESE GOOKNG FRENCH COOKING EVENING AND DAY GLASSES Level 2 - Union Complex Uii. of QW. - 3711510 - Sam - 9p.m. SHWWOOO HOOil. W iHttiwboO l»b.,irOO)W!io WuJTO -J6 taspired by Exhibitioi n Toowong

A two woman exhibition of 40 paintings on Brisbane, Toowong and Tahiti opens at the Schonell Theatre on February 28. Wendy Bryce Cernak and Whendy T. Clancy are having their first combined showing of Brisbane & paintlngs-probably the first two woman exhibition in Brisbane. The paintings represent the beginning of a new school in Brisbane of tropical on the loss and bastardisation of the painting. The artists say that the color unique folk architecture and suburban Inhiti... and subject matter of both their works is scape typical to Brisbane and especially a deep response from their experiences in Toowong. cold temperate climates. "Heimweg" "We are concerned about the way (homesick) for Toowong, is how Cernak, people are restoring old houses," said who has studied in Vienna, puts it. Cernak. 'They paint beautiful old wood Cernak is commencing a Masters instead of stripping it down, and they Degree in town planning at the University replace old windows with modern alu- of Queensland and is researching a book minium sliding windows which complete­ on Australian women painters. Her ly destroy the character of a place." paintings are "an effort to continue the The artists are also concerned about style of painting of Paul Gauguin." the position of women as artists in Aus­ Whendy Clancy, a former staff mem tralian society, and see it as their respon- ber of the University of Queensland sibility to try to upgrade this position library is studying interior design and "It is hoped that the exhibition will architecture at RMIT in Melbourne. All act as a catalyst for other female artists the work in this exposition transpired td take their work and themselves serious- as a result of thesis research Whendy is ly enough to overcome the difficulties currently doing on sources of influence in making the transition from private in Brisbane houses and the various styles professionalism to public professional- involved. ism. Both painters have a concern for the Two WomanExhibition, Schonell "corruption and disappearance" of folk Theatre Gallery-theatre hours Wednes art and architecture in Brisbane. They day to Sunday 5-9 pm from February see this exhibition as a personal statement 28.

ARE YOU A WOMAN? ARE YOU AWARE THAT, on ww« BECAUSE YOU'RE A WOMAN, YOU ARE a niglKt DISCRIMINATED AGAINST? $10 is all you'll pay TOGETHER i we can That's every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings fcr a 3 course develop an understanding, meai| booze ind. all the champers and a means to you can drink a^d an outrageous new show ($12.80 Friday and Sat­ combat our oppression, urday). See how Susan and Harry helped Charles discover himself. Hilarious! A zany spoof on a now COME to a time situation. feminist meeting for discussion and support.

The Feminist Group meets CNR. CAXTON ST RESERVATIONS every Monday, at 1 p.m., In the PHONE 3610555 & PETRIE TCE Green Room (beneath Schonell)

.iL •^«* ©cmpusfkA^ - QID UNI NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN FOR UNION COUNCIL NON-VOTING POSITIONS

Notice is hereby given of the First Doctor of Philosophy in an Educational Ordinary Meeting of the 66th Union field other than Physical Education or Union office alterations Council to be held on Thursday March 3, for a certificate or Diploma in the Many students may have noticed the 1977 in the Creperie (downstairs from Faculty of Education other than the alterations presently taking place in the Budget. the Holt Room) commencing at 7 pm. Diploma in Physical Education. Union administration buUding. Unfor­ tunately, they will cause us problems for This time is different from the previously 26. Board of the Faculty of Science- another week before all is completed, Session advertised time of 6.30, due to the Five (5) Representatives of Undergradu­ but they are intended to enlarge Financet Creperie tihietable. ate Science Students Office, which was contravening various Notice is hereby given of the Budget The foUowing non-voting positions 27. Board of Studies in Asian Studies laws relating to minimum size of office Session of the Second Ordinary Meeting wUI be filled at this meeting: -(a) One (1) Undergraduate Representa­ space, and will also provide one extra of the 66th Council to be held on Satur­ 1. Assistant Union Secretary tive meeting room, and new space for Family day March 5 at 10 am in the Creperie. 2. Finance Secretary 28. Electoral Officer Day Care, Women's Rights, the Other If any students have bothered to read 3. Social Action Standing Committee 29. Two (2) Assistant Electoral Services Manager, and the Services Vice this they may be beginning to understand (a) No more than three (3) members of Officers President. the complexities involved in running a the Union 30. Abschol Director Please put up with the inconvenience students union. There are literally hun­ 4. Accommodation and Housing Com­ for a short while longer, tiien put us on dreds of different ways to become mittee-la) No more than four (4) Nominations close at the commence­ trial. involved. members of the Union ment of this meeting. Nomination forms John Henderson Lorraine Mellifont Perhaps the first step would be attend­ 5. Union Health Officer are available at Union Office. All officers Union Secretary Administrative ing either of these meetings, and speaking 6. Public Rights Standing Committee appointed at this meeting shall take office Secretary your mind. -(a) No more than one (1) member of immediately. the Union 7. Drafting Secretary 8. Library Liaison Officer 9. Activities Director (a full time paid position) 10. Union Nights Convenor 11. Concerts arid Recitals Convenor It's your union - get involved! 12. Incoming Delegations Officer 13. One (1) student on the Senate Improvements Commiltce 14. Hospital Area Committee-One (I) Therapy Representative 15. Theatre Committee-(a) Convenor (b) No more than six (6) members of the Union 16. Clubs and Societies Standing Committee-(a) Convenor; (b) Finance Officer; (c) No more than five (5) Liaison Officers who must be members of the Union 17. Education Standing Committee— (a) No more than five (5) members appointed by Council, subject to regula­ tion 4.4.1(d); (b) Education Resource Officer 18. Women's Rights Standing Com- mittee-(a) Convenor; (b) One (1) female voting member of Council; (c) No more than six (6) female members of the Union 19. Child Care Standing Committec- (a) One (I) representative of epch child care scheme existing within the Union; (b) One (1) parent from each scheme existing within the Union 20. AUS Standing Committ^e- (a) No more than three (3) members of the Council 2\. Legal Standing Committee-(a) Convenor; (b) No more than two (2) members of the Union who must be Law Students; (c) No more than three (3) other members of the Union STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES ON FACULTY BOARDS FOR 1977 22. Board of the Faculty of Archi- tecture-(8) Two (2) Undergraduate Architecture Representatives; (b) One (1) Regional and Town Planning Represen­ tative; (c) One (1) Post Graduate Repre­ sentative 23. Board of the Faculty of Arts- (a) Two (2) Undergraduate Representa­ tives; (b) Three (3) Post-Graduate Repre­ sentatives 24. Board of Faculty of Commerce and Economics-(a) One (1) Undergradu­ ate Representative 25. Boardof Faculty of Education- Three (3) Student Representatives enroll­ ed for the degree of Bachelor of Educa­ tional' Studies, Master of Education, Master of Educational Administration, lis. Oampusflfews - Q'LD UNI

College students' lobby UQSPRA joins sporting body Recreotbn The Inter-CoUege Council (commonly referred to as ICC), which is the administrating body over the inter-coUege activities on Uni campus, may soon be known as the "University of Queensland Inter-College Sporting Club." and George Perry (ICC president in 76) 'was style. Johns and Women's Colleges seem largely responsible last year for ICC intent on continuing such a trend, the improvmg its status as a significant stu­ emphasis being on self-recognition of the dent community on campus, a communi­ power such a student body could com­ ty numbering 1800 which is already an mand (conceivably with 1800 members Sporting affiliate of Clubs and Societies, and which ICC could elect one of its number to the is presently seeking affiliation with the position of union president),. and of University of Queensland Sports and Phy­ generally expanding the horizons of sical Recreation Association (UQSPRA). college life on campus. The proposed affiliation would require In the past the college student has ICC to officiaUy change to suit UQSPRA been guilty of stumbling through univer­ Program regulation requirements, among other sity life offering little in the way of required constitutional amendments to contributing to general student affairs the ICC constitution. outside coUege-oriented horizons. How­ The ICC has for many years provided a ever, it is important that college members sporting, and to a lesser extent, social show more concern in union affairs, if Extended outlet for many of its 1800 members, and only for the fact that they need to safe­ at last would seem to have realised that guard their own interests. In this way not only does its cause deserve financial UQSPRA affiliation will assist in guaran­ assistance, but that its function in the teeing ICC's survival and the realisation future will be an ever-expanding one. that ICC represents a most vital medium Increased participation by college stu­ in projecting the college viewpoint on Tlie staff of the Sports Association would like to welcome the "old" dents in union elections, intentions to wider student issues. and new students to the University with the hope that 1977 will be both widen inter-college relations on a social The moves to affiliate with UQSPRA mentally and physically productive. and cultural level, increased status given therefore should not be seen as an un­ to ICC sporting teams (by virtue of warranted intrusion by a body seemingly This year, under our new director of whose time commitments don't allow competition with dther representative content with a closed-community life­ Sport and Recreation David Williams, we them to participate at the club level a sides) and the affiliation plans are all style, but as a venture designed to give are going to extend and upgrade our chance to enjoy an or^nised ijacreation evidence that ICC has examined its ICC the assistance it is entitled to in the recreation program. Eighteen recreational activity. We sincerely hope that students purpose, that it does have a role to play exercise of its constantly expanding and sporting activities, ranging from jazz and associate members will take advant­ in the genera] life of the university, and ballet to snorkling/scuba diving and even age of these classes and take this oppoi that it is concemed with adequately function. Not only will ICC's financial popular Ladies and Mens fitness and tunity to learn new skills, meet other students, and perhaps find a recreation reflecting the-considerable student voice f "=.t'°" "e assisted through affiUation weight training, have been offered. Pro­ viding we get sufficient numbers of activity with which to eiyoy theii leisure. tha1V-*t i;*t represents„ X.. ^1Th. e misconceptio.- *: n of< • out m a very real sense ICC as a body will students enrolling in each of the classes, We propose to start classes the ICC being a totaUy sport-oriented body see itself having a much more responsible we shall run aU 18. The cost of hiring second week in March. Details and has reinforced the image of the colleges position in general univeisity life. well qualified instructors to teach in such registration forms can be obtained from comprising a very- closed and secluded Meanwhile, on a less serious note, ICC an extensive.program is large, as such a the Sports Association Offices, the community lacking any interest ui union goes on, with hopes for yet another excit­ nominal charge (to be announced) will Indoor Sports Pavilion or by contacting affairs. To a very large extent such an ing inter-college sporting competition in be made for the classes upon registration., David WiUiams c/- the Indoor Gymnasi image has sadly been an accurate one, '77, and an equally successful social calendar beginning with 0-Week activities aass activities will cater for both the um. We would appreciate an early although last year a progressive Inter­ response as we need to confirm classes as and an ICC dance at the refec on Friday, beginner and the experienced person, and national House administration rekindled early as possible. February 25. in some instances will give those persons concern for the future of the college life- ..

-#- Kim DORY PREVIN MEETS ANDY WARHOL Bullwinkle Michael McDougall

Herston Beneath the plastic sheets, Executive where Joe Dattesandro steeps in a perpetual fuck, the juicy wet subsides into a pool of Holy white. Here, where 42nd Street meets 41st, the leather boys come to drmk artd bathe. Member Inside Carnegie Hall, a lovely lady sits solemnly upon her throne of red. Somewhere on the East Side a car pulls out. This is an executive position of the full range of medically related text Soon the Apocalypse. union representing the 800-odd cUnical books plus some of the equipment Here we sit in our vinyls, stoned and wounded by her words, students from the Medical Faculty, needed by clinical students at prices wishing to God we could sing like that. participating in the medicine and physics, which students can afford. This store In the Village, International Velvet begins to plat her hair. occupations' and speech therapy couises. runs; on a non-profit basis and has con­ Ingred and Gerard look on, fascinated by the boredom of it all. These studei..8 are mainly situated at the sequently saved students many thousands yi/hat well trained little i/Varhols. of dollars since its establishment. various public hospitals around the Bris­ The beautiful Mr. Dallesandro stirs In his fuck like sleep. • Being a full-time sixth year medical bane area and at the Herston Medical Reaching down, he gropes the mound of flesh and feels it rise. School. student my time available to contribute Secure In the knowledge that it hasn't fallen off, AU these students pay the full F/T to Union activities is not as. great as other he returns to his plastic dreams. student union fee but are rarely if ever on. St Lucia executive members but, during St Lucia campus to make use of the my term of office, I will continue to Meanwhile, back in Carnegie Hall, a reporter from the Village . union facilities provided there. So, the ensure that clinical students are represent-' Voice sits puzzled. Is that Andy Warhol who has just come in? HAC VP presides over a separate com- ed in union affairs and that the faciUties Aha, he thinks, here Is a story. liiittee-the Hospitals Area Committee, provided by ihfTlAC are maintained and ... '"Dory Previn Meets Andy Warhol"... consisting mainly of clinical students improved where' possible. Anyone But no. He has missed his chance. Warhol gets out his movie which provides and maintains refectory interested in contacting me about camera (16mm.) and starts filming. Deciding to risk his and common-room facilities at Herston anything related to my field of respon­ non reputation, Warhol is to make an underground film sibility , feel free to contact me via the and the public hospitals. if a Dory Previn Concert, (with opening titles featuring the Herston bookshop, Herston Medical In recent years, this^ committee has sperm of Joe Dallesandro.) also "provided the funds to establish a School Herston 4006, or at 52 7377 Click. bookstore at Herston, which supplies a ext 46.

=19 Ford Thinking The memoirs of Gerald Ford are being offered to publishers as a package deal with those of Betty Ford, the two selling for one price. The reason for the unusual offer: Betty's book will evidently- bring a much higher price than her husband's. This way the former President will be Masochist saved embarrassment. Good on Marvel The bbnic In a fit of masochism last Xmas, Sleuth went shopping for yaMal' the younger generation. After roach The Prime Minister, Mr discarding several replicas of the Malcolm Eraser yesterday dull adult world, eg toy stoves A race of supercockroaches is promised to look personally mto and brushes and pan sets, breeding in Sydney. she found the very thing: a The small German varieties of any cases where poverty had true-tolife model of a Kentucky cockroaches found in restaurants prevented attending tertiary Fried Chicken edifice-complete have become resistant to all schools this year. with moronic looking diners and commonly used insecticides, and His offer of help came at a the ubiquitous Col Sanders. And were even showing resistance to meeting with 600 Mslboume only S30t It was, said the label, the new insecticides. Teachers College students who a CHILD GUIDANCE toy. Rentokiirs technical chief in continuously criticised the Sydney, Mr Peter Meadows, Government's tertiary education confirmed that the super-roaches What's it assistance scheme, saying it was Move over were very hard to control and impossible to live on. have a tremendously high Mr Fraser said: "There breeding rate. mean ? doesn't seem to be much Coca Cob Wong poverty in this room." But he In Sydney Catherine added that there was a great poverty of wit and repeatedly "A drink of cold Pepsi-Cola Edmunds, the barmaid on whose Wite or Nove\ sketchy autobiography the complained about the quality of will create a good mood and will Richard Nixon's handwriting movie Caddie was sketchily interjections. refresh you." is just terrible, and so was JFK's. based, was given a service by her (February 22 Australian) That slogan would not fly on The penmanship of most Approach de facto husband of 17 yeais,. Madison ^.vcnue, but it is Americans is not much better. Harry Elliott. He told the Sun proving persuasive enough in An item from San Diego that he remembered her as "a According to the Writing reveals some of the strange ideas CLASSIFIEDS Pepsi-Cola's newest market: the Instrument . Manufacturers bom liar, unfaithful and at times Soviet Union. Since 1974, when (straight) people have about wicked ... a big woman who Association, many thousands of cases of Pepsi began roUing out basic sexual techniques. For would never have been attractive' federal tax returns are held up FOR SALE of a new plant in the Black example, Maira Jellorelli of ... an affectionate woman butX'-350 Honda, perfect corKiition, each year because the IRS Sea port city of Novorossisk, Alliance described fellatio as not a verv flood woman ""•*! ^^P ""*• ""9» •"*' ***'* 500 cannot make out the sales have grown to 50 million pasta her mother made in the ^ J • K, V r r: ., , I J '""•^ *90- ^»»"l Pipe. «700 O.N.O. bottles in 1976 and may clunb pigeon-track figures on the tax Old Country but for which the And m New York, Federal Judge see S. Murray 2nd year Engineering another 20 per cent this year. form. Illegible handwriting, recipe has been lost. Stanley Charles Brieant, though«"" ""f'-Vii^To n^rrtti st Toowoom- Pepsi's venture has set a pattern claims WIMA, is responsible Dunnohowski of Cleveland upholding a $125,000 libel"'"" "• for future deals in the just for annual US busine^ losses of thought KY was "one of them award in favor of Ernest Harjey-oavidson ssaso, i974,$600. stirring market for Western more that SlOO million in sexy bathposters." (One of our HcmiiHTWavV friend and hi.^"*"*' <5T250, ig75, $600. Qllera consumer goods in Russia. Hemingway s inena ana Di-go, $150 ONO. Peu^eot 403 »250. tabled records, billing .mistakes editors thought it was an ographer, A.E. Hotchner, passed ooug Frater, AUS office UQU. and unreadable bookkeeping interesting sexual ,of . f the lat. e author. , love,1 r and,.... .tana^ an-nnd Olafsem...^n Beocentre« ^ . -^^r., 300 entries. position — heterosexual, I big-game hunter as a nch^mp, tuner AM/FM,"cajiette40 rms. beUeve.) When questioned as to libertine and destroyer of'"J™«"'»'f condition. $350 CMH- what he thou^t of 69, Joe Wildlifc." 64Sanfordst,StUuci8. To killbr not Farmer of Elipera commented Onkyo 34n-ona Stareo/FM Riidlo 12 months old, as new $200 ono. Con­ "Matadors seek licence to kill "Not as good as'72." tact Ross at Qainut on 371 1611. bulls"-(Times, February 8) (from Campaign) ACCOMMODATION ' Lisbon Feb 7-Portuguese Female required to share house with bullfighters today asked the 2 other people, $15 pw. l Lands- Government to let-them kill the borough Tea, Toowong, call after 6. bulls, a privilege denied for the WANTED past 200 years. Book—"Assmebly Language' Hand­ book" printed by Digital Computer The National Union . of Corp, phone 371 3661 any time Portuguese BuUfighten said in a . after 6 pm. 12 page report that it could see one double mauress-cheap. Also no moral objection to killing in one smallish desk. Phone 370 6997, the ring. Introduction of the ask for Sue T. Spanish-style "corrida" would increase attendances and would SUNDRY • : ." vVould any students withing to fly to be more noble, both for matador Sydney for $64.80 return please ^con­ and bull, than the present tact tha .Union Secretary, Union Big, University of. Qld Union. The trip practice oif taking the animal is being arranged to visit ttie Chinese exhtbition» to be held in Sydney from March 25 to.May 8. This fare is a composite of ;15* off-peak dis­ count, ahd the "nguiar student dis­ count. UQU is trying to organise a whole planeioad tor a ipeclai visit to alive from the arena and killing . the exhibition. it later at an abbatoir, it said.

Movement' meeting. Relax Thursday February 24-9.30- Friday February 25, 7.30pm- Tuesdays, WedneJsdays, 1pm; Block, UQU. Ring 370 9158 11 am, "Monty Python and 4ZZZ Joint Effort vrith Mar­ > The Mature Women Students or 371 3548 for more In*. the Holy Grail", Cinema. garet Roadknight, Bentley's Group meets weekly in the_ Green room (under Schonell).' • formation. ' •.; • 11 am-12 noon,' Uranium , Blue Band, Biggies and other, Coming meetings are on Wed Friday March 8, 7.30pm; Ariel, Debate, Undercroft.. folk artists. Free films. $2 a March 2, TueisMarch 8,.Wef and Moonlight. $2 a head. Mt 12-lpm, Concern "Berley head-food and grog on sale. March 16.: ' •-, Gravatt CAE. (BYOG) :• & Rye", Refec Saturday February 26, 7.30 ptm:. A Uni-Revue Is going to happen this Wednesday March 2,1 prii;Tom 7.30pm onwards, "Wood­ Daiice wjth Quasarj Berlie. & Mondays, 1 pm. UQ Feipihist yearl Actors^ script writers, ihusos, Uren speaking on Uranium' backstage : people are NEEDED, if stock and-Rocky Horror Rye, and other folk perform­ Group meets every Monday interested, please don't'hesitate to debate, UQ Abej Smith Lec- Picture Show", Cinema. ers, and two plays by the in the Green room (under conuet EDWIN, JANET, PHILiPPA •: turc Theatre. ,, ' or MARGARET, in the Activities Popular Theatre Troupe.- Schonell). All; women stu- Community Arts. Centre (UQ Union $1.50 in Refec. i pm; Political Economy; 20 dentsiwelcome.. • Buiidlng)-pli 371 1611.-'