THEAKHSBACE Winner takes all...
Today, the United States military-industrial complex will manufacture three nuclear weapons. They did the same yesterday. TTie day before that. Theyll do it agmn tomorrow, and the day after that Each weapon will range from the small "Alpha" weapon, with an ex plosive power of 500 (onnes of TNT, through "Bravo" (1,000 tonnes), "Echo" (10,000 tonnes) to "Mike" (5,000,000 tonnes)*oand beyond, to 25,000,000 tonnes.-^ < Utey will go to make up the largest nuclear arsend on earth, an estimated 8,000 milUon tonnes of nuclear firepower. The bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 194S, had an explosive power equivalent to 20,000 tonnes of TNT. It destroyed the centre of the city, immediately killed 78,000 people, injured 84,000 and demolished 62,000 buildings. Mixy "Using the Hiroshima analogy," said Ruth Legar Sivard, fcMmer economist of the Arms Contrd and Disarmament Agency, writing in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists atom." each with up to 17 warheads fach having of April 1975, "the nuclear stockpHe of the United States alone translates into a The Stockholm Institute of Peace a yield of 100,000 tonnes of dynamite. potential kill-power 12 tones the present worid population." That's about 615^385 Research, the worid's most prestigious The captain of a Trident submarine will bombs each the yield of the Hiroshima. and respected peace research organisa be the third most powerful person on earth. The submarines will go so deep nuclear scientists from the Harvard-MIT tion, reported last year that about 35 The rest of the worid, the USSR, that it will be almost impossible to contact Arms Control seminar concluded that countries will be able to make atomic Britain, France, India, Israel, probably theni. Trident missiles, currently being nuclear war by the end of the century weapons within nine years. It, like the South Africa and otheis, have about tested off the Califomian coast, will each was no longer possible, but probable. Harvard-MIT group, concluded that nuclear that much nuclear fire power again. have a range of 4,000 kilometres. The This probability was a duect consequence war will be then inevitable. Winston Churchill, on being told the Trident II missile, which will be available of the proliferation of nudear power Bomb grade enriched uranium or potential nuclear fire-power available to by 1980, will have a range of 6,000 kilo and weaponry. The seminar said that the indeed the more fissile plutonium, while NATO, remarked that after the first metres. This is not a defensive system, it more people had nuclear weapons, the not yet widely available, is nevertheless awful strike in a nuclear war, subsequent is a first strike, offensive system, which more probable their use. procurable through' the appropriate strikes would only serve to make the will enable the US to launch a devastating rubble bounce. The' connections between the arms sources. In 1976, a US House of Rep resentatives subcommittee commissioned strike on an enemy at first instance. In our colossal act of mass insanity, race and the development of nuclear Effectively, each TrMent submarine will power are dear, explicit and irrevocable. th* Nudear Regularity Commission to we can make the rubble bounce not survey commercially operated nuclear have the capacity to destroy 408 individual once, nor twice, nor ten times, but a fi^ "A great many countries," Chicago Uni targets using weapons each five times that versity strategist Albert Wohlsetter said mstallations for Material Unaccounted For. twenty-four tunes. In the offices of the (MUFF). The NRC reported that at August of the power of the Hiroshima bomb. BuUethi of Atomic Sciences, the doomsday last year, "as a result of their civilian nuclear energy programmes and the policies hist year, fully 8,000 pounds by fissUe Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit priest and clock has had its minute hand moved to material had gone MUFF. The Nagasaki lune minutes to midnight, the editors of nudear exporteis, can come within anti-war activist was lecturing at a days or hours of assembling nuclear ex bomb used just 16 pounds of plutomum, theological seminary in the US. After his of that prestigious magazine believing and over 40,000 people died. That MUFF that the threat of nuclear war is greater plosives without plainly receiving them. lecture, one student said "This talk about There are not two atoms, one peaceful was legifimately lost duiing processmg, arms race is all very well, but please ex than ever before. through sloppy handling procedures, Last year, at the Cambridge Forum, and one military. They are the same plam to me your conception of God." through souveniring by visitors to the Dan Berrigan fixed the child with a' plants, and by other less savoury events. glare and told this story. 'Rolling Stone' investigative reporter The US missile silos m the Mid-West Howard Khon, in his investigatk>n of the are manned by men trained to kill their strange death . of former Kerr-McGee neighbouis if the launch command comes plutonium worker Karen Silkwood over and their neighbours freeze tip*. They are the last three years has accused Israel of locked in little cubides, and are armed. being involved in the organised diversion Each silo is connected to a central control of fissile and potentially fissile nudear room which monitors a duster of silos material from the US, and last year it with upwards of thirty missiles. On day, was revealed that Israel had hijacked an a supervisor in the control room was entire ship, its cargo of yeUowcake, and fiddling with his terminal and stumbled crew in the Mediterranean Sea. on the launch command for the day. In Eariy last year, Princeton University the silo, when the command arrived, student John PhiUips designed 'a device' the man on duty froze for eight minutes; f^R PLAY which would have resulted in a crude but long enough to countermand the false effective atom bomb had he had access launch order. Dan Berrigan explained to the requisite fissile material. He got that God was the force that stopped that his plans and information from public launch. and campus libraries housmg physics Senator John Pastore, who was chair texts, and declassified US govemment person of the Joint Committee on Atomic TASTE documents. Prior to ireleasing: his work Energy last year, said . in. a debate on to the US government, Phillips, was app arms funding that "Sure this is an ugly roached by French' and Pakistan govern* worid in many respects. Sure we have ment representatives who wanted his bombs up to our necks that can bum this paper for their govemments. Luckily, he worid 20, 30 tiiiies over. .Do you not was altruistic, and refused to supply his think I regret that? But this (di|pli)smg data to foreign agents. the number of nuclear weapons deployed While the US has effectively scrapped and stores) is unilateral disarmament and the development of the B-1 bomber, it this is suidde.. .All the (American people) is progressing vigorously with its Trident want to know is-can we protect theh submarine program, as well as the hard> freedom, can. we keep this country free. ware for Its 'counterforce' strategic That is what.they want to know." planning, strategic nuclear weapons and Senator Mike Gravel, long an opponent delivery systems like the cruise missiles of nuclear power and the arms, replied and the neutron bomb. that "adding ever greater overkill capabi- The Trident submarine is the most lity-the second and the third TNT equiv powerful killing machine ever designed alent ton for every human being on the by man. Each submarine will be, over SSO planet, or the 40th tune, we can evaporate feet long, 200 feet high, cost about $949 every large Soviet city-is not defense: it million each, and will carry 24 multiple is paranoia." warhead independently targetable missiles. -MARK HAYES
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Z SEMPER March 1,1978 Editorial Contents VOLUME 48, NUMBER 2 THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND of making decisions and living within a free and democratic society. The vast.majority of (Queensianders do It is not so much some sort of conspiracy PAGE ARTICLES not control their own Uves. And it takes on their part which keeps the media churning only a relatwely 'mmor' exercising of state out their propoganda and reinforcing the idea that reality is defined by them and power 2 The Arms Race: Winner takes all... police power ( as opposed to the mote should rest with them. . . .rather it is because sensational enforcement of the ban on most of the people working within the media marches) for this fact to become readily do not possess an adequate understanding of the 4 Dispelling the Qld Biishie Image apparent. alternatives themselves. Take the blitz by police on pedestrians DESTROYING MYTHS 5 Fire Hoses to be Used Against Marchers? which occurred some time ago. Uniformed Queenslandeis should work towards asserting police were stationed on every inner-city and strengthening the right to free speech in comer and were booking people who this state. They should also support attempts to 6 Comment: The State of Queensland destroy the myths about our way of living crossed against a 'Don't Walk' sign, even wliich biind us to an undeistandine of the when no traffic was present, or who broader possibilities and stop us from discovering 8 Students In Bondage altematWely placed a foot outside the that alternative solutions to problems do exist. marked lanes. Even the footpaths are If some Queensianders axe not happy with divided by a white line which regulates the direction chosen by left wing movements to end authoritarianism in this state, then the which side you should walk on. time is ripe for them to aeatc other paths, Ludicrous as these actions may be to people as long as the pressure for change is maintained. living in most large cities of the world, they There Is nothing to fear from attempts at 11 Reviews: Film and Food demonstrate a teal need for people to stop change (despite the attacks on such mild innova tolerating such interference in both the public tions as SEMP and MACOS), in fact, change and private areas of their lives and to assert which occurs within a framewoik of maximum 12 Music Reviews their right to manage their lives in an equal (open-minded) debate can only lead to a and responsible manner. healthier and paradoxically a more stable sodety. What we do need to fear is an insistence 15 Service Infonnation FORFEITING OF POWER on the part of those in power that wc all con In hard times, studies have shown that form and cling desperately to those traditional many people become more receptive to values and beliefs which predominantly beneflt 16 The FuU Quid authority ilgures and more amenable to for the greedy few and not the many. feiting any power they might have to in Efforts to enforce such conformity via fluence the course of events in a sociaUy the media or police must be resisted otherwise desirable way. canied, but Alan, on behalf obtuse to get the point. Alan's we will fmd ourselves in a situation not too far of this Union, voted against response simply emphasises the The opposite should be true if their real removed from that which is criticised in Soviet needs are to be satisfied and an understanding them. need for the point to be made Russia. m^ On the second point, i.e. again and again. of the root problem (viz. their lack of sodal/ However if it is to succeed, this resistance political/economic power) is acquired. the tampon earrings, 1 think Anna McCormack must be strongly rooted in the Queensland it's unfortunate that Alan chose community and raise the issues in a manner THE ROLE OF THE MEDL\ AUS Council not to look at why this incident The mass media represent to Joh SjeUce- with which dtizens can leadily identify. Slogan occuned or even try to place University Myths Petersen and those solidly in power the izing is still not good enough - inititiatives such Reply to Beagley it within its context of societal as the CLCC Country tour (See p.4) deserve more attitudes to menstruation and means by which they can keep the public mv There were several points I wish to take issue attention. female sexuality. Women informed about the possiTile alternative ways raised in Alan Beaglcy's article with you on one of your "Hi Jinks at A.UJS. Coundl" readers will be familiar with the hushed tones in which a myths Ul the last issue to give some time to a pursuit that we controlled the old (Semper, No. 1, Februaiy 1978) which require comment. I want mother first tells her daughter of Semper. Myth No. 2 which, although important, can Council without actually about mestruation or 'the "Knowledge is pursued for have its entertaining side. lying and saying so. In fact, to mention just Iwo-l'm sure other people will mention curse.' its own sake". We arc fascinated to leam we were usually outvoted by otheis. Probably, you were taken that we are led by a "motley the combined Left factbns, Should knowledge be Mr. Beagley, our Union aside and told never to mention pursued for its own sake? assortment of N.C.C. sympath and most of the votes we won menstruation in front of your isers. Progress Party supporters, President, attempted to dis Should the community were on the sort of practical father and brothers, and cer and extremely conservative credit feminists at A.U.S. Coun issues in which the more mature tainly never to let your father have to foot the bill while Liberals." In fact, the only cil (January, 1978) because and responsible unaffiliated left- and brothers know when you students sit around and Progress Party supporter in the centre councillors voted with us (1) they wore pro4esbian buttons, and (2) a couple wore were actually mentsruating. chase concepts, to stave off group is Paul Rackemann, who against the various left fanatics. boredom? is not a member of the tampons as earrings. Women's sexuality, our genitals, At one stage we were in the the fact that wc menstruate Why shouldn't we be Executive and who has never hilarious position of having to On the fust point, Alan displayed great reticence about apparently considers that the are taboo as far as topics of accountable to the people help defend the then Acting conveisation go. They aie sup his views. Catholics in the President, Jim Beatson, against oppression suffered by lesbians who pay so great a tax group are not happy about under patriarchal capitalism is posed not to exist. 'Down there' burden to support students on his unexpectedly responsible we aie toW, is a 'dirty' 'smelly' being assumed to be N.C.C. administration by his erst quite justified. From conver personally and the mech sations I've had with Alan and area. In particular cultures, New Union supporters, and vre cannot while friends. anism of tertiary education? from the way he voted at women who arc menstruating imagine who among us is an We hope Jim thinks a 1 don't propose that Reply to Oimpbell 1 A.U.S. Council, 1 understand must leave their community "extremely conservative little more kindly of us now. that Alan Beagley believes that and live alone for a few days. students be accountable to We noted with interest the Liberal." Unlike the Left as a all women who refuse to fit It is thought, in such com any bureaucracy like prison Part-Time Vice-President's In fact, the members of group, we do not think it into the traditional nudear munities, that a man who sees ers in a camp, but I do literary effort of the 15th Feb. the New Union group represent is a particularly good idea family scene, the purpose of a woman when she is men consider we are accountable issue qf Semper. Perhaps he is a wide variety of political to slay people with the sort which is to produce labor struating will die. fn a different to the people whose real to be commended for keeping viewpoints. We did not agree of vindictive accusations and power for capital, should be form, tliesc ideas are still to work together so much income is being cut and the political pot bubbling away censure motions that are al victimised, denied jobs, and apparent in our society. because of a unity of views as whose taxes are being in and providing a bit of free- ways being levelled at some continually belittled and de Women's genitals are still con because we shared a hopefully creased. The only way to enterprise competition for our body or other in U.Q.U. and graded. Alan, however, can in sidered shameful and unclean. team. However, we wish he were responsible attitude and a desire A.U.S. We even try to avoid no way be accused of in get away from professional a little less free and enter to keep the Union out of the Alan Beagley quotes the "secondary lines of too hanh a degree of per consistency in tlie holding of tampon eanings to show how prising in altering the facts hands of free-spending radicals these views-he also beUeves defence" is to make app sonal abuse of extreme leftists. 'unreprescntadve' of women to suit his purposes. and the various hate groups that male homosexuals should rentice-professionals acc We often find that increasing were the women who attended The "New Union" ticket that abound on the extreme be subject to the same treat left. The moderation wc cam maturity and experience brings A.Uil. Council were. Nothing ountable to those working did, as he admits, win nearly many of them over to our ment. At A.U.S.Council, there to give them time to all tlie positions contested by paigned for and seek to prac coiild be MORE representative, side. We have hopes for our were at least two motions become familiar with the team, and only the well- tise is a pragmatic moderation which called for A.U.S. to Alan-whether you believe it of action, based on fairness friend Mr. Campbell, although or not, ALL WOMEN MEN couises. known lethargic attitude of he seems to be retrogressing produce and distribute positive and some degree of com STRUATE! If students practised a too many moderate students, at the moment. material on lesbian and male which prevented us from promise. homosexual sexuality. This call The wearing of the tampon sense of responsibility to fielding- a full slate of The Part-Time Students' Alan Beagley, U.Q. U. was based on the recognition earrings was a simple statement wards the people of the President.. candidates allowed a number Vice-President displays his usual that community attitudes of all this, and an attempt, community perhaps as pro John Hmog, AUS Secretary in a llghthearted and amusing of "activist" ticket candidates skilful use of English in his towards homosexuality, lesbian fessionals they would be to slip in unopposed. We John Costanzo, General Vice- way, to challenge people's at comment lhat the New Union ism In particular, arc discrim less insular and reticent deplore this situation and ex people formed "the biggest President inatory and oppressive. The titudes to women's menstrua on community issues. tend a plea for more help bloc" on the old Council. He Paul Rackemann, Union Coun motions were overwhchningly tion. It's unfortunate that Alan from students who are willing manages to Creat the impression cillor. Beagley and others were too P.G. Tomes
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SEMPER March 1. 1978 3 AuitraUan Unk>n of Students. permanent staff was sought Mr. CampbeU refrained from as to the correct procedure. pointing out that the Court This advioe was adhered to judgement was handed down and has not been challenged. well after tbe Union elections To abandon Mr, Camp and that rather dian being bell's negative approach, one planned as a 'put up' job, can see that the "New Union" New Union by myself to extract an air is abandoning past practice fare to Melboume, the proposal in that it is clearly intent on Reply to Campbell 2 for such a meeting emanated fuIfJling election promises. John Campbell's scenario from a politkal opponent, Jim "New Unfon" is carrying (Semper, IS.2.78) of unholy Beatson, who at the time was out its promise to increase political alliances conniving to Acting President. funding to Clubs and Societies abuse union finances for Mr. CampbcD could also and is acting to grant students' dubk)us purposes makes fas have chosen to avoM the mis dubs the fuU budget alloca- cinating copy. It is regrettable representation that I arranged tk>n they have requested. however that to generate such for my "cronfcs (ort the Exec New Unfon has acted interest John found it necessary utive) to use their numbers" towards setting up a Veterinary to dispose of several pcitinent to pay for the air fare. In Science Agriculture Area and facts. fact, at the Excculive meeting has supported the allocatfon The flight to Melbourne there was no dissent by any of much needed finance to enabled me to attend thiee member of Uie Executive these students. Witt Mr. Camp meetings, all germane to student (irrespective of political colour) bell assist "New Unfon" in union affairsj-a meeting of on the matter. carrying oul this election Presidents and Secretaries on For Mr. Campbell's inform- promise? the Qark judgement, an AUS atwn, the anangement con The devefopmcnt of live Natk>nal Executive meeting and cerning pay was that the advice student theatre has also been the Annual Council of the of a senior member of the taken up and New Union is pushing for a large allocation of funds to the Cement Box project. I would strongly urge Mr. CampbeU to support these policies so that this Union FESTIK4L OF can do something for the students who fund it. SaisriBS FiBtinn Andrew Lyons Dispelling The Qld Bushie FsFiias^ Films SUN 12 MARCH SERVICE Image 4pm Tho Time Machine (NRCI 6pm Barbarella(M) Fin. 7.45, It has been said often (and for years by Southerners) that Queenslandeis Bpm SolarhlG) Fin.11pm INFORM. are a crazy bunch of bushies: a troppo reactionary mob who share hardly any of the social or political characteristics of other Australians-Southerners being those sniart or fortunate enough to live south of the Tweed. It Is possible that Joh Bjelke-Peteiseti himself-otie part backwoods evangelist, 3 parts When the RE closes on over-zealoiis miOionaire-had come to believe that characterisation true enough to allow Sunday nights there Is still him to get away with anything he decided to enforce in 'his' state. a place where you can get grog and still have a good However, when Joh banned political landers and country people in particular time. street marches on September 4th last support him and have always done so. Andy Jenner and his Caxton year, he fmally went too fat. After the December 3 rally in Brisbane, pwhAMU^ Doewn Street t^&N Orleans Band thump The CLCC was formed immediately the CLCC set about arranging a series of out jazz every Wednesday and after the march ban was announced to speaking and organising tours through Sunday nights at Baroona Hall fight the ban, and to fight all the other provincial areas to prove him wrong. "Russia's '2001' /SPEOALH. 17 Caxton St. Paddington, Tho action commences at attacks by the Nationals on the right to Since the end of January public meetings -fasdnatingand :|.«^E:J Q pm Wednesday and at 7 pm organise poUtically outside parliament and have been held now in Nambour, Bun- Sundays, and finishes at 11 pm within the trade union movement. Since daberg, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, visually stunning! 4 1972 /. | each night. September a series of the largest marches Bowen, Townsville, Cairns, Innisfail, Ather This can be yours by joining seen in Queensland in the last five years- ton, Mt. Isa, Toowoomba, Warwick, SCIflfVIS either the Caxton Street Jazz apart from those at the time of the sacking Dalby and Roma. Further tours are Club or the Baroona Labor of the Whitlam government-have taken planned of Weipa, Moraqbah, Dysart, SUN 19 MARCH Club. place in Brisbane. Almost 1,000 people Moura, Charleville, Longreach, Blackall, The Labor Club cost you have been arrested, for attempting to Barcaldine, Gympie, Maryborough and the S.1S Login's Run INRC) $5 to join and then $1 for march, to picket, to speak in public South Coast. In every one of the places 7.30 Slaughterhouse 5 (M) each nights admission and the forums. CLCC speakers, have travelled to Civil 9.30 Demon Seed (M) Jazz club costs $4 to join Joh gelke-Petersen has tried-as do all Liberties or Civil Rights Coordinating but it then costs you $2 for Committees have been formed. Each of WEICOMC TOTHE) right wing governments and organisations- each night. to represent these marches as the work of those committees intends not only to Labor club membership will a small bunch of 'atheists, socialists and organise public discussion and action on gWe you concessions to other 23RD CENTURY. communists'. Who else would oppose his the erosion of dvil liberties and the origins club lunctfons. of the attacks on democratic rights'in And I almost forgot, the government? Only the lunatic fringe, the ratbags in Brisbane appose his govern their own areas, but to coordinate action booze flows till 11pm each with each other and with the CLCC in night at very reasonable prices. ment, he says. Normal average Queens- SlAUCIilEHUSEnVE. Brisbane.
Based on the novel by The development of this statewide KURT VONNEGUT. Jr, movement has pernicious and hoary old myths about Queensianders. ONEOAYTt€RE WW^ WILL BE . I 11 1. Queenslandeis are Reactionary ^ATHIN'KING- mMi CHINA TODAY DemDn Bushies. MACHINE WITH ALL v NO ECONOMIC CRISIS — NO UNEMPLOYMENT In fact Queensianders Uve lives very THE INSTINCTS OF MAN OVER 3000 AUSTRALIANS VISITED CHINA IN 1977 similar to other Australians. Most work AND RETURNED ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HOW THIS ONCE POOR for a living, most who do work work for BUT NOW PROSPEROUS LAND OF 800 MILLION PEOPLE IS bosses, most who work for bosses belong SUN 26 MARCH BUILDING A SOLID FUTURE. to trade unions. Married women and kids 5.00 Tomffly IM) Fin. 7.16 Read about (Mna's socialist policies and attitude to world affairs by just out of school find it almost im 7.30 Fant«sticPlantt(Gl subfaibing to— possible to get jobs. 14% not 90% live in 9JOO ftten Who Fall TO Earth (Ml Fln.llM lyr 2yr 3yr strictly rural areas. 44%-the national Peking Review (Airmailed weekly)* average-vote ALP at federal elections. pv^, KIU FIUSSFIL 5 FILM OF /• PoUtical affairs and theory. $3 $4.S0 $6 Unemployment is higher here, the mining China Pictorial (Monthly) companies have a stronger hold in Qld Tommy Large format richly illustrated. $2 S3 $4 than anywhere else except Westem Aust ralia, but it is still the capitalist mode of China Reconstructs (Monthly}. production. Important differences should A totally unique filfn experience. General coverage tlltistrated. $1.80 $2.70 $3.60 not obscure basic structural similarities Chinese Literature (Monthly). and to travel north and west Queensland Magazine of literature and art. $2 $3 $4 and talk to people about their own •isMMii Every subscribw will receive a deluxe calendar posted direct from Peking. histories and the history of their areas is to be reminded that a strong labour IPtAMET'-H movement fought long, vitter and mostly mt NAME victorious battles in the lifetimes of all '- -7MVI5BAWIE ADDRESS.. of us active now in Brisbane. ..POSTCODE.. CHEQUE-POSTAL NOTE ENaOSEO $.. 2. Atheists, socialist and ctMnmunists PLEASE CmCLE KOUtREMENTS AND SEND TO oppose the Nationals. Everyone else ^^^=r INDEPENDENCE BOOKSHOP supports than. 411 GEORGE STREET. BRISBANE 4000. CM070lWTMI Of coune socialists and communists, • * *STLUCIA* * • (continued on page 8) 4 SEMPER March 1.1978 ^» Rre Hoses to be Used Against Marchers? Lewis Now In Control Of Fire Department
Recent administrative arrangements have raised the possibility that the State Government may be planning to arm police with high pressure fire hoses in forthcoming 'right to march' demonstrations. In the past, more recently during the Springbok touis President of the United tte Fire Department has persistently refused requests Fire Fighters Union and by pohce to make their fire hoses available for crowd State Secretary of the ^^^^^' u 1 u Queensland Branch, Mr. lh)s obstacle has now arrangements which were Roy Higgins, who says he Semesterisation been overcome by trans- gazetted in the Queensland did not fail to have grave fermg not only the Fire government Gazette, No. suspicions about the new Department but also the 72, 1977, largely went un- arrangements. Review State Emergency Service noticed with some political He says that he has a from the Dcpartmenl of j • —, profound sense of fore Commercial and Industrial boding about the impli Nearing G>mpletion Development to Police. cations and has arranged Police Commissioner It is the policy of our for discussions with Trades This year the Tertiary Education Institute of but anxious students sustam Terry Lewis is now the IJnion to point fire and Labor Secretaiy PreA Queensland University (TEDI) will report on its higli anxic(y/(ension levels permanent head for the Whitby, and an urgent Fire Department and the hoses at fires, not most important project to date—a review of the over time during semester people. meeting with the Minister semester system. , with consequent crises at State Emergency Service, on March 8th. a position unique in Aust July '78 marks the completion of the ninth ^^^end. Union leader Higgins said semester since the abolition of the former "three ^" ^iie positive side the ralia and one which makes that if ordered to use the most powerful of the fire hoses at demonstrations terms" system. One feature of the old system was '^"^'"1 counseUors have nation's Police Commission observers whimsically com by the fire chief or the that the same subject was studied over the whole jr/. '\ , "^i^ ers. menling that because (he Police Commissioner that year rather than over half a year as at present °^ the system citing the police was also transfered the membeis of his union n ¥ • il.' r,,T-n> 1 - increased range of choice at the same time to Mining "won't cop it". "Our blokes By July this year TEDI hop^ to report exactly of subjects aiding in move- and Energy Minister Ron risk their lives for the where and how the Univereity's original expecta- ment between courses and Camm that the govemment lives and property of the tions of the semester system have been fulfilled, faculties. was intending to arm the public. It is the policy They will also indicate any ways'in which it has Tliey say the system police with nuclear of our union to point failed to fulfill its initial objectives. gives incoming students an weapons. p^g hoses at fires, not early indication of standards A Premier's Department people", A programmed enquiry intimate contact with required with more feed- spokesperson said that he involving questionnaires and student problems than any back on progress than in was pretty sure that the He said that the last interviews has been under- other on the campus has the year system, need to put greater crowd time fire hoses were ever way for some time and will been forwarded to TEDI. xhe system is also re- controlling resources at the used for this purpose was provide a broad sampUng gg^ded as more responsive disposal of the police is during the war time riots of university opinion on MORE WORK FOR to the needs of part assessed as growing future between Australian andU.S. ^^Jl^^^' FEWER POINTS time students who must civil unrest situation was troops in Brisbane, and that The mam complaint integrate their studies with behind the reason for the request by the police for appeals to be that students The counseUmg service other commitments, have no trnie to involve found inter alia Uiat while gome students graduate POLICE COMMISSIONER LEWIS *^^^.'^^^- ^ , ^ ,. „ ^^^ ^^ °^ Rre hoses atthemselve s in extra-curricula the credit point system -^ ^^ ^^ .^^ Now Pemtanent Head of Fire Dept. rire Chief Dowbng told demonstrations had beenactivities . may give some indicaUon ^^^ ^^^^^ »;^ J^^ ^^ •n,e decision was made ^?'' ^'1 " ,*S^ ^^ ""/^'^ \ ^^' P^^' "^ Some say the semester of expected work loads, j„. ,„ ]oy„,ent. It is ioinUy by the Premier ^ ^°"^*^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^'^ ^^° ''^"^ *'"'' ^^ ^^'^ syste^^^^m was deliberately de- some subjects are widely „„^ ^,^^.^1^ \^ ^^3^^ Johannes Bjelke-Petersen ?Z f /^ J'^". '^''^°"! ff"^ ^f '^ the fire signed to stem the growing perceived to require much ^ ^ ^jj^^jj^j^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ and the Deputy Premier ?"^ f' /,^T"D ? S,^''" ''^T^ ^° ^'' tide of student activism more work than others for 2i4 years. BiU Knox. It was passed that ,f ordered by the Pohce Uien the Pohce on the campuses ex- fewer points. ^n improveme/it has by the Governor in CouncU Commissioner to deploy fire Commissioner would direct perienced in the early The rate of information taken place in academic seventies. is said to be up to the final advisory systems to over- on the 16th December, only hoses for use at demon- the pohce to take control Welcoming this decline week that there is in- come the difficulty in four days after the last ''*"^'°'^' ^^ *°"'^ "^"^ of the equipment. in student protest since the sufficient time lo consoli- choosing from the larger Civil Liberties march in mtroduction ofthe semester date cou«e work, especially range of subjects, 1977. system, our former Vice- when tests are held in the There is some inflex- That march was part of "...fire hoses are capable of blowing out lungs, Chancellor remarked; last week of lectures, and ibiliiy the counselling ser- a campaign which had led rupturing intemal organs, blinding by washing "No doubt the pendulum that new sludents from vice has found in relation to the arrest of over nine out eyes and burstmg ear drums." has swung and students have schools with structured pro- to the incomplete state of hundred people and had a preoccupation with heavy grammes may lack self- semesterisation as not aU caused severe embarrass workloads." (Courier MaU, discipUnary time-manage- subjects have been adapted ment to the govemment 1977). ment skills in assignment to the system; post- by clogging up the court Indeed the Counselling preparation, study, use of graduate courses do not process for at least a year, the order and issue the Notwithstanding the vital service of the university the Ubrary etc. commence at a convenient The prosecutions have also appropriate instructions to concem this issue poses for regards the major negative The counseUing service time for the mid-year been of little deterrent to the rank and file. . the citizens of Brisbane all aspect of the system is reports (ha( the progressive graduates, the campaigners since no Brisbane City CouncQ the heavy workloads and assessment reUeves the end to. the ban on marching NOT CONSULTED spokesperson have refused that "the semester system pressure of the single large Also there is no provision apoears to be under con- to comment although it is leaves no time or energy exam and that two (or for summer schools. This sidferation by the govern- . One maii who was on doubted that (he Labor for the social, cultural and more) examinations give inflexibility may not be ment. annual leave when, the Council would allow the political ingredients of uni- students a better chance of most suitable for older The ominous significance decision was made and not police to use the cities versity Ufe." success than one. shidcnts causing fragment- of the new administrative consulted is the national water mains! A resume of counseUois However the service says ation and discontinuity in However.the modern fire opinions which are in more that same highly-motivated their work. appliance in use by the fire, department can carry it's own water and can pump water up to 20 metres (60 feet) at an ATTENTION average pressure of about ALTERNATIVE BOOK SHOP 700 kilo pascals (120 pounds per square inch). In these circumstances POLICE problems; landlord AU books deposited and monies fire hoses are capable of hassles; is your "friend" being to be collected by students in blowing out lungs, rup defamatory of you; contact First Semester 1977 at the turing internal organs, STUDENTS LEGAL AID, Alternative Bookshop must be 1st fir UQ Union Building. blinding by washing out Open Monday, Friday lOam recovered by April 1st 1978. eyes and bursting ear drums. to 4pm. Ph 371 1611 for The force of water can appointment, ask for Narcllc fire hoses with a 60 foot range which maintain easily knock a penon to the Ward, Admin. Secretary. a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch. ground, breaking limbs. WiUiam Bcattic-Dircctor.
SEMPER March 1. 1978 5 '|i resented in this movement are broadly based, ranging from workers and trade unions to clergy and churches, with strong The State of Queensland COMMENT BY participation by a wide variety of vocations, So the big cracker in the Executive Building bangs on. Zaphir, Utah, and currents of opinion. You need only DAN O'NEILL Macos, Tarong, Semp. It's as if Queenslandeis are being taught some crazy consult the Usts of people arrested to see this. new language in which to mterpret the political surrealism in which they (CLCC MEMBER) Among the prominent activists of now Uve, Where else in Australia has authoritarian power reached Jhe point the campaign so far are many students where a politician can consider it a winning remark to say that "someone notion of organisation, some structured and staff of Universities and other tertiary in the Education Department does not seem to know what the Govemment coUective opposition to government poUcy. institutions. This is to be expected and wants chUdren to be taught."? For six months now there has been a highly welcome as evidence that the Nationals and their backers have not yet The Premier is a millionaire. He's the minority-party govemments movement of protest and resistance to the stifled the spirit of criticism and social political boss. He's the political representative of powerful mining interests Government'* denial of democratic rights. As further over-confident abuses occur awareness that so enrages them in the that really run the state.. the numbers involved in the movement educational programmes that they have Whether to stifle the anti-uranium movement in Queensland at birth or, more wUl surely grow. It is not too soon to recently and arbitarily prohibited. speak of an extraparUamentary opposition genoaUy, to preserve from criticism and strong oppositlott an autocratic regime based "Dangerous Thinkers" on powerful oveneas friewls rather than on solid electoral support, Premier Joh has to the Govemment. In fact that opposition But there arc many students and otheis canied out a whole series of violattons of democracy. is already state-wide. By the thne of the in the tertiary institutions who are not These range from the gerrymander their memben, as in the Utah versus march on March 4th activists of the move yet sufficiently aware of the threat. Em through the high-handed removal of the Seamen case, or charged with bogus ment wUl have spoken in something like boldened by apparent success against ministerial decision making in National criminal "detriments" for carrying out 25 provincial towns, as far north as Cairns Party cubbyholes Uke the Co-ordinator normal trade union organising. and Mt. Isa, as far west as Roma, with a badly scared union of teachers only General's Department and the Priorities So poUtical demonstrations are banned Barcaldine, Blackall and Longreach to precariously employed or actuaUy un Review Committee, and culminates in the by edict. So raUies in the Square arc come. In aU these places there are now employed, BjeUce-Petersen and his sup the denial of any exercise of minority broken up by the seizure of speaking active and miUtant committees, in most porters wiU not stop short at the secondary rights to protest against the continuing equipment. So sUent and peaceful picketers there are raUies planned for March 4th, level. The universities have long been a excesses. are arrested. and in many there wiU be marches to thorn in their side. They are after aU, coincide with the action in Brisbane. So trade unionists are sued in civil And why? Because all of this amounts along with the CAE's, the source of aU actions for normal attempts to safeguard to people attempting to keep aUve some The people ^nd institutions rep- the 'dangerous advanced thinkers' who beUeve in evolution, Ufe after birth, sex before death, flouridation, communication and aU the other pernicious garbage the kids are eventuaUy taught. You can bet your life the universities are marked down somewhere on the amazing Rona Joyner's inteUectual death Ust. AU the more reason for the University and its tertiary feUows to wake up to its JOHN PETER RUSSELL responsibUity before they have to endure the shame of their counterparts who professed a suprious neutraUty and im- partiaUty during the rise of authoritarian ism in Germany in the '3 O's. For it is -AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONIST- not only that here in Queensland, because of the absence of a vigorous pubUc Ufe of professionals, of an urban inteUectual machine,'Such as Sydney and Melbourne ca boast, a heavy burden faUs on the University to articulate commoi; sense, critique of idiocy and worse, and defence of democratic values. That would be enough reason for more mvolvement. But there is more and stronger justifica tion. No Free Flow of Infonnation Ultimately an attack on civU Uberties and democratic rights is an attempt to destroy the free flow of information, the exchange of crirical comment with received or established opinion, and the principle of unfettered and effective dis agreement and discussion on which a healthy climate of public opinion depends. More than that, it is an attempt to take away the prcconditk>ns of inteUectual Ufe itself by injecting the atmosphere with constant force, fear, anxiety, hypo critical double-talk and deceit. Now, aU decent people and institutions in the society need to fight agamst this tendency. But the university and its associated institutions have a more obvious res ponsibUity in this regard than any others. For criticism, oppositional proceducres of dialogue and debate, and the systematic and co-operative questioning of orthodoxy without any inational authoritative pro hibition on the process of resulting dis cussion, these are the very mechanisms by which such places work. They are inteUectual communities. Their work re poses upon certain values which are im- pUcit Ul their functioning; It is these values which are under deU berate and continuous threat from the Queensland Government. KI.JKSiMdSI tJM Vl^('^^ I VA^ UOCW. -X^^S 1 I RI),/^M; 10 JAiNUARY -,-• 12 1 IH^RGARY Hence we argue this: (1) . in defence of the role played in (JMVrRSin ARf VKISI U.\1.(IMVt RSIl Y Ol Qijj I ^SI A'^l); J(>! IHR(JARY - 19 MARCfi any decent democracy by the formation and dialogic declaration of opinion not Viri()RI-\:N() v\ARC-H -h^\.'\\' (2) in defence of its own role in stim NAIIONAI ( ulating critical thought in the society, and •Mv' I ( <\ Ol M W S()(] I 11 WAI I j^_; .J j :V1AY - .Hi jam- (3) in insistence on respect for the values of htteUectual give-and-take on Sponsored by the I/r^//Foundation which they are founded. The universities and other tertiary l'r«'M'ti(('cl liv 6 SEMPER March!. 1978 SEMPER NOTICE TO ALL ADVERTISERS The Trade Practices Act 1974 came into force on October 1,1974; Certain provisions of the Act relating to consumer protection plaice a heavy burden upon advertisers, advertising agents and publishers of advertisements. Section 52 refers to "misleading or deceptive" conduct in trade or $96 commerce. It also Usts a five of $50,000 for corporations and $10,000 for individuals who falsely represent that goods are what they aren't. Also an individual or corporation infrin^g Section 52 or 53 is liable to proceedings for injunction and for damages suffered by an Lost in the Vkjinity injured party. In view of the obvious impossibility of our ensuring that advertise ments submitted for pubUcation' comply with the Act, advertisers of the Students' and advertising agents will appreciate the need themselves to ensure the provisions of the Act, including sections mentioned above, are compUed with strictly. It is suggested in cases of doubt, advertisers and advertising agents Union... seek legal advice. -•\-X: YOUR $96-WHERE DOES the TEAS bureaucrats, or if A further drain on the IT GO? you have a motor accident, Union's resources is our build or if you are charged with ings. One can neither erect nor (perish the thought!) some maintain buildings without It has recently been Clime or misdemeanour. money. We are still paying off aUeged that a substantial The Union also gives fin a sizeable overdraft which was portion of the Student ancial assistance to the incuned in extending the Refec 'Playhouse' child-care centre, tory and kitchens and also in Service Charge which you where student parents can leave erecting the SchoneU Theatre. llagariiiftfa pay is dh«i«ed to various their children while they attend Wc arc cunentiy spending .poUtical causes. lectures or study in the library. $50,000 to stop the buildings The facts are quite othe^ Our ActWities department faUing down. organises concerts and visits wise: your money is used We also contribute a sig by theatre groups and also runs nificant proportion of the to provide services for you, workshops where you can leam running and capital costs of our membeis. a variety of skills, ranging fiom 4ZZZ-FM, which provides an Firstly, the Union does Batik, through Carpentry and alternative broadcasting outlet Flute-playing, to Typing, at not receive the whole of to the staff and students of rates which are specially sub this Univeisity. the S96 which you pay. sidised for students. Funds also go to support $26 goes to the Sports A signigicant portion of our the activities of the External and Physical Recreation income goes in Staff salaries STudents' Part-Time and Post- Association. and fuU-time office-beareis' Graduate Students' Committees, allowances and in general office and to the Women's Rights ()(^ the remainmg $70, expenses, e.g., telephone, Committee, aU of which use the biggest single portion stationary, maintenance of type these funds to cater for the goes to offiet tiie losses writers and duplicating particular interests and prob in the Refectory-losses machines, etc. lems encountered within their whkh we make by keeping Tlie Union also publishes specific areas of operation. 'AmwicalMttim' I repeat, then: your money it open, as far as possible, a newspaper, Semper, which ctatMon attempts to keep you informed is used to provide services for at die tones you want to Thi (KM chaag*; conceming matteis in which it you, our members. Our Con use it, rather than simply is beUeved you would be in stitution prohibhs us from • •'nmolmttmim at the times when it is terested. If you don't Uke it, assisthig political parties. The : ttojMSaatnt'.or^ profitable to do so. Another write to the editors, or submit Univenity Senate has a rep ',:'.tonn' tM>- b#i(.'j an artide expressing your view resentative on our Finance Ad "tfppti'MXindliiWJI factor is that the Refec. : iMngltMMitiiMtiRtol point. visory Committee, and this r.too hot tor Ihi-.'OT' trades to its normal volume person has power to' veto, 'ret«ur*l6NindH£'l . , for 9 montiis of the year, This Union is also affiliated to ensure that our funds are ;' toomad , iMKf •Ml.dMir^l^ with the Australian Union of but has to remain open used only for the purposes r. oaroiit .to.- knoWv'H.^ STudents, the affiliation fee of the Univenity. I • Moaa you got only In^i;; to cater for a small number being $2.50 per head per We, the Officc-bearen of •••'''^m annum. AUS is supposed to ^..JtbtiTinm eamt VmSuAn^i^if^^^ of users for the other 3 this Union have been elected npresent us students, on the ^linmoitp^looSllmn'trMyfbir-^. - r-'. months of each year. by the students of this Uoi- national levcL Now, it may well ''.tho'7o'«neicn«w(o(tl» 21«l Century vcnity. We are responsible to h Mjjih nmot l« about ontortihwnont InvotOgo- Money also goes to the' be' that y'ou beUeve AUS does you. If you do not like what ^ifaro fMOrtint, Bonnioos ptwtogpiphy, woini Mpt, tiuth and dingw HJ{(|ftnnat'to about advantwM Union'i affiliated Gubs and not represent your views; you we do, if you do not like the rvirouna^lhotMWld and insM your mbid About mcktiazz and folKm^ Socktks (now numbering are in very good company. fl'walclwdaaiilddandganwayouplwwlthaduna. ':.•:•' ••: way we spend your money, over 70), which l:ave a total As recently as last year, how •; High Tkrm la about black magk; in Iha WMto HouM and gods wM ll*a In (lo«Mrt. Mgtt Vmn ia «M then teU us. Even if you are membenhip of some 8,000. ever, there was a referendum i-jnogaxina of Hollywood. Camatol and AttantlB. HIgtt TImn goas backatag'a wHh ttiaalara , uridar radar one of the 1?.,000 students ^nataw(lhlhadof>aamugglara,intollwundar«warol na/iSSi'r • „:. ^ • J'•iBPj'-nHE MAGAZINE OF HIGH SOCIETY-. , , , Send your CAf^ur er Monty Onltr to;«,_, (,wuti HEADMASTER IMPORTS "^ HIQH TIMES AUSTRALASIA Addnik.. P.O. BoK 1S2 EdiMUff NJ.W. 2027 (4S H« I HI, om II vwn a aga: Aulhoriiiii« StNX"*...... SEMPER, March 1, 1978 scratch on tbe door here, a discolouration of the waD- landlords and agents when Itice of some landlords and paper there, and so on untQ he pronotmces in his capa acting as judges hi their lagents ^of regarding bond Studente city as judge and trustee of your hard-earned cash you own cause. Some leases money as a bonus or as gave him before you inoved In, that none of It wiB ever purport to appoint the a maintenance diarge on changeover of tenants; and pass back into your hanids t^am. agent as "the final ar In Bondage bitrator" of bond ques- of tenants to regard it as It has been calculated just that. tk>ns. In other cases, the an inbuilt loss in the ren that more than 2.S million The Commission felt that landlord's decision is tal transaction; Australian tenants annually landlords should accept merely; how much should (7) The costs, delays pay an estimated $30 mill greater responsibility for he return of bond money and difficulties of ion in "bonds" to landlords failure to investigate pros already spent? Nevertheless, recovering bond money by and agents and that 40% pective tenants and that some estate agent firms conventional legal actk>n. will never see the full re in many cases of damage handle the deb'cate task of tum of their money again. the landlord had only him arbitration between land Advice Before Vacating The practice of bonds self to blame. lord and tenant with great is said to find its origins But also. Queensianders fairness; Tenants rarely seek, in the bad old '4 O's when are still likely to be cursed (4) Differing standards advice on bonds in advance, a sevae shortage of rented with this thieving practice of cleanliness between ten jbut if they do, several housing created a black for quite some time to ants and landlords or a- precautionary measures will market and exhorbitant pre come. Hence a lirtle ad gents; minimise the risk of loss- miums (key money) were vice may be of assistance, (5) The difficulties of a risk which cannot be' extracted from prospective particidarly for students proving, or disproving, the eliminated entirely, because tentants. who at this time are trad condition of rented in the last resort the super- Even our retrogressive itionally looking for cheap premises. These difficulties cautious tenant will be legislatures deemed it out housing. are aggravated by the of told to "take it or leave' rageous enough to outlaw. Bond problems arise ten thin line between dam it". No single issue gives rise to more conflict between land It is arguable that the from the following causes:- age and fair wear and tear; lord and tenant than that of "bonds". modem tenancy bond is (1) The vagueness of by failure to make pro Action Before Moving In As the most frequent source of contention between merely a more refuied-and express or implied terms per inspection or to keep your good self and that avaricious old pmny pincher who legally respectable version in the tenancy agreement records of the' condition (1) Make a thorough of the former practice. of the rented premises; visits fortnightly to extort the bulk of your meagre tertiary as to the use or hold of inspection of the pre More recently the the bond; and the fact that new mises before signing or education allowance, these "bond" disputes conclude your Poverty Enquiry entertained (2) The poor bargaining tenants will normally paying anjrthing. In part association with the landlord. it's abolition. Ontario and position of the tenant in have moved in by the icular, test appliances and These bitta contests traditionally accompany the British Columbia following sectuing legal conditions time any action to re fixture such as gas, stoves, vacation of premises, where the money hungry old property a recommendation to that that protects his own in cover bond money is owner swoops down as a partuig gesture and conducts effect from Law Reform terests; contemplated; an on the spot infection of your former abode. A little Commission Inquiry did (3) The partiality of (6) The increasing prac- The Bushie Image {from page 41 oppose the Nationals, but only the far- right uses 'Communists' as a term of abuse. It should not be forgotten that atheists, socialists and communists have k«g^ a long and courageous history in the fore front of struggles for democratic rights. Take for example, the French Resistance, which has passed into popular, mythology as the gallant fight of the entire French g^^>* people against Nazi occupation. In fact only a very small proportion of the French population actually resisted, much less actively fought fascism fn France. 60% of those who did were communists and socialists. The re-written history of the allies totally obscures that fact. What worries the Queensland Premier, THE DIFFERENCE IS SUPERIOR SANyO|;LECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY FROM JAPAN if anything really does, is the fact that Christains have spoken out and marched against his govemment, non-communists and noH'^socialists concemed simply to lithium batteries-you'U go for the range of new scientific Sanyo's, to 2,300+ operating hours!) and without the hassles of an adaptor fight the. erosion of civil liberties and democratic rights in this State have marched against liim, 'ordinary' people who have never been actively involved in politics before have decided to do something now to halt what they see as the slide towards incipient fascism. 'Everyone else' is not a monolithic cate gory. 27% of the voting population voted National at the last election. Many of them had no other non-Labor candidate to vote for. The mining companies support the Nationals because the Nationals pro vide them with free port and rail facilities, free exploration leases and minimal royal ties. Utah's profit last year was $157 million. Ariy company which stands to benefit from a trade union movement crushed by civil suits, penal clauses and right to scab legislation and hence can no longer defend the wages and conditions of workers supports the Nationals, or the Liberals who themselves support the Nationals. •j*0ct lean b' calcufallrtf hourt a tvctk. 40 irr€k$ii ycaroutt a ytart . . . tvilhoul rtplutlng or rtchatflng! Havet you o ptckel on batltrici and alt tht hs«l« ufan ttilaoliir In Conclusion CX 8138L:$19-50 CZ8114Li$34-95(e T-, CZ0125Ls$42-95(e tax) The response in the country, the form •Lithium battery/2,300-t- i°* Tax) 1 independent memory. • 1 independent memory • 2 levels of parentheses ation of provincial committees and their operating hours battery-life! 2 levels of parentheses. • All trig & log functions • Power, inverse power, commitment to coordinated statewide • 8-digit display. All trig & log functions. permutation, combination & factorial functions ' activity would not have., come about if Power, inverse power & factorial functions. • Conversion for polar to rectangular anddecimal • Fully addressable memory. that sense of urgency were not both Conversion for decimal degrees/degrees,, degrees/degrees, minutes & seconds, widely felt and based on cold hard reality. • Square root. Percentage key. minutes and seconds. •.Statistical calcuktions—mean,variance and Statistical calculations-mean variance and s^^^ndard deviation (n and n-1 formula), sum and •Separate clear-all/clear-key board key. standard deviation (n and n>l formula), sum of square • Scientific notation • Lithium MT ISA; CLCC speakers were prevented battery/1,200-«- operating hours battery-Hfe! from speakhig to a High School forum; • In handy wallet case. sum and sum of square. Scientific notation • Lithium battery/ • Single key depression evaluates the probability Z prevented from speakhig on jobsites hi All pricn subject to completed 1,200-•- operating hours battery-life! density integral for normalised standard i the mines; prevented from speaking to 60 Sales Tax Exemption Ponn distribution. o kids at a CYS project-the project officers Available fromthe Union Agency Shop »l Univenity of Qld., and Campus Shoppe, Griffith University, the Institute Bookshop; Capricornia University and the were threatened with the sack by the Unk>n Shop at Queensland Inst, of Technology, James Cooke Univeisity, Darling Downt Inst, of Advanced Education and Quee.nsland Agricultural College. CYS committee chalrratain, an alleged NCC ssmipathiser. 8 SEMPER March 1.. 1978 windows, etc., and look any work claimed against owner or agent wittdn a of notice from the rent measures may be required. would not th'en be .fa for leaks. If other tenants bond money. week of moving in. If there period-for example; over- In such a case it may be arrears. are about, ask their opinion Because of the tenant's is a letfse, the checklist holding clauses in many advisable for the tenant To protect himself of the landlord and agent; weak bargaining position, should be incorporated into leases -proyide for fort "to withhold from the last against possible, retaliation, (2) Try to define the not many landlords will it. This will provide a nightly notice. few weeks rent an amount the tenant should notify conditions of the bond agree to all of the above record of the condition (2) Before leaving, pro equal to the bond. This the landlord in writing of as clearly as possible in terms. However, if they of the premises and if per notice in writing should is a practical remedy and his intentions two weeks writing. If you can, get the do, we have provided a the agent does not (Chall be given and a duplicate one which may be amply before vacathig-any longer landlord or agent to agree- bond clause which incor enge it, (it is unlikely kept. The same Ierter should justified, given the expenses period may enable the (3)that bond money will porates all the above terms that he will be bothered) he request that an mspection and difficulty of recovery. landlord to issue legal pro- be held in trust for the for inclusion in the lease. may be taken to have acc of the piemises be made in It has the effect of throwing ceedings.-The tenant should tenant; The clause is printed here epted it should later dis the tenant's presence on the onus of proving damage state that he foregoes all (b)that bond money will after. At the very least, pute arise. If the owner the day of vacation. where it should be-on the rights to the bond and only be used for the pur the tenant should insist or agent agrees before the (3) The. premises should landlord. permits the ~ landlord io poses specified, such as on the trust requhement tenancy to make any re be left clean or at least The legal position of retain it as rent; that the damage or unpaid rent. and try to ensure that the pairs, these should be noted as clean aswhen the tenant such self-help action, like premises will be left in The worst risks here are receipt for bond money down in writing on the moved in. A friend should most aspects of bond a clean condition and usually unspecified charges, is on a trust-account form. checklist or the lease. be present at the inspection arrangements, is somewhat arrange a tune for such as shampooing car (3) If the tenant de and the conditions marked obscure. In many tenancies, inspection when he moves pets or general cleaning; cides to rent the premises, Actk>n Before Moving Out off on the checklist. where it is agreed that out. A copy of this letter should beheld. (c)that if the tenant com a detailed checklist of the (1) The tenant should rent should be paid in ad plies with the tenancy ag condition of the premises know exactly how much Danger Signs vance, withholding rent to In practice the risk of reement, bond money will should be drawn up in notice he must give. Nor If despite all these pre cover bond money will retaliation by the landlord be paid within 14 days duplicate-if possible before mally, the notice will cor cautions the tenant still amount to a breach of is slight, especially if the of termination; paying the bond. Items respond with the period has reason to believe that the agreement. On the other tenant has otherwise been (d)that the bond money will such as cracks, stains and of rent payment, i.e. a the bond money will not hand, the vagueness of most satisfactory and in view of be' invested and interest general cleanliness should month's notice for a be returned, (e.g. if the bond agreements is such the limited time available. paid to the tenant. This be carefully noted. Make month's tenancy. But some other outgoing tenants that the tenant might be If the landlord does issue may be greeted with sur your own checklist. leases have hidden clauses have been unable to re entitled to unilaterally fore a summons for rent, the prise, but it is an entirely Tenants should have the requiring a month's notice cover their bond, or if go his 'right of reversion' tenant would be entitled reasonable request; checklist witnessed and sig even when there is a fixed the owner or agent has and authorise the use ot" immediately the tenancy (e)that receipts and quota ned by a friend and should term of say a year, or failed to make reason bond money as a set-off is terminated to issue a tions will be supplied for give a duplicate to the provide a different period able repairs), stronger against rent, so that rent cross-summons claiming Sample Agreement AGREEMENT: BOND/SECURITY DEPOSIT The parties herein agraa to be bound by the following conditions with respect to the sum of $ bond or securHy deposit (herein after called 'the bond') paid by the Tenant. In the event that no agent is employed by the Landlord, the term 'the Landlord's agent' here under shall be taken to mean and to be synono- mous with 'the Landlord'. (1| The said bond is paid on trust to the Ljindlord's agent and is to be held in a trust account until paid out pursuant to the terms hereunder, (2) Within three days of vacation of the premises by the tenant, but In any event before the premUes are re-let, the Landlord's agent wilt inspect thd premises. (3) Within seven days of the said vacation, tha Landlord's agent sbatt- (o) refund to the Tenant the full amount of the bond together with interest at tho rate of B% per annum, or (b) remit to the Tenant the balance of the bond plus interest remaining after deduction of items claimed under Clause 4 hereof together with a written Notice specifying in detail every Item to claimed, the cost thereof, whether repairs have ectuatly been carried out with respect to each item claimed, and the name and address of the person who either carried out or will carry out las the case may be) such hems of work. Copies of quotattont ar receipt for such work or Stems shall be supplied to the Tenant within 7 days of the said vacation. (4) The Landlord's agent shall be entitled upon tha sakl vacation to deduct from the bond the following items only: (a) the cost of any keys not returned by the Tenant (b) any rent owed by the Tenant to the Landlord at the date of the said vaeatk>n. (c) any rent actually and reasonably lost as a result of the tenant's failure to give the required notice of termination, and in refation •lALL AfTHgcHSA^FeSTTOCeb R?g>6tftLg P} to such rent tha Agent agrees that every effort wili be made to re-let the premises immediately > upon receipt of Notice by the Tenant; (d) damages to the premises caused by the Tenant for which the tettant is responsible IP at Common Law. In relatton to such damages it is agreed that the Tenant's obligatkin will be to leave the premises in the same condition, fair wear and tear excepted, as at the time his tenancy commenced and that ih no event will S)o^(o) AM ID tha Tenant be liable for cleaning repain or renovatkins of any kind other than those necenary as a consequence of the Tenant's breach of this obligation. IS) In the event of disagreement between |)og®AM TO the parties as to the amount to ba deducted from the bond, the parties agree that wjthin 3 weeks of vacation they wilf submit their dispute to and be bound by the deciikin of a mutually agreed arb'rtrotor and, failing such mutual agreement to an Arbitrator appointed puftuant to the Arbitration Act. SIGN ED J\gent/Land lord „.„...;.,. .Tenant(t) DATED this deyot 19 SEMPER March 1, 1978 9 amount recovered, and be money has been recovered instances but are .jife in the were unearthed. SERVICE INFORMATION cause of the delays, pro partly or in full. However, Department! of Sodal Work, At to why tpedfle people cedural difficulties and in it is financially worthwhile Sociology, Piychtdogy and were not named or detailed An orchHecturt graduato it Bondage Economies'* and test that net mMketing esdbofrd drawen trinsic evidentiary problems for the tenant only in ittformatton not gtren, may HW has not grabbed tufdcient fish for itiniMitt Md other nonwdc. K From Page Nine} associated with bond claims. a minority of cases, ^d quote ftom Issue I something "su^cti that they are pro very relevant to this poM and There aro two s)zes-175x The cheapest form of the reluctance of mainy bably more proliiic in the 350x500 mm deep and a bond. something whidi seem to have action in a Magistrates tenants to sue is under Science departments which have been overlooked by thou who cube she 350 mm each side. Court wHl be a summons. standable. much greater research monies were disturbed by the article. The rectangular ones come in Actfon After Vacating In many cases, the mere The question of bond at their disposal". "Explanations as to why lots of four to make a filing Recovery By Legal Actkin- issue of proceeding may money, and indeed the These are serious auctions Research Assistants (^w them' cabinet and cost $3 per set. In bis Ierter of demandfor have the desired effect. whole field of landlord indeed, and if founded in fact selves to be exploited tn this They will fit fooscap foklers. recovery of bond money, However, if the claim pro-- and tenant law, is one must be cause for grave concern. fashion are not hard to find. The cubes come in lots of the tenant is entitled to which more appropriately It would, of course, be remark Many ere ptat-paduate six for $4.50 a set and are ceeds to a hearing, it must able if in an institution of kleal for records. Both types require receipts and details be properly prepared and belongs to the realm of students in vulnerable positions this size there were not on to complain as the offending are very strong and one ar of all items claimed against substantial evidence (expert modem consumer law. At occasion matteis of. disputed chitect has replaced his whole this money. If a letter of academic is also their super if necessary) obtained of present, the main percept authorship and cases of conflict visor or examiner." filing system with this card demand is unsuccessful, the the condition of the rented ible rationale of landlord between research students and board wonder. tenant faces very real prob premises. For example, the and tenant law-the archaic supervisors. Compromise for the sake of Proceeds go to the Queens lems as to legal action lor agent should be subpoenaed notfon of tenancy as a The quoted articles by Peter their fobs is common among land Sub-Normal ChiWran's academics particulariy those recovery. on the question of previous feudal estate in land-is not Giapman and Ron Witton were Association. Contact Rick on published in 1974 and 1973 who seek promotkm or are 391 1787 Ihe is willing to In Queensland the logical inspection and records of only uruealistic, but unimt. StUl awaiting tenure, to why the condition of the respecthrely, leaving the dear consider quantity discounts). court for hearing bond impllcadon that tlds problem should a refusal to talk open premises. The landlord claims would be the Small has been with us for some time. ly on the part of the research For Screen printing T ..10 .«SEMPER.March1,1978 hispiratlon in this regard. was one recent Australian becoming caught in a trap, have managed so far, if it It is sad that even the film which in its efforts only this time with her boy is to acquire a genuine sense limited amount of time a to provoke more thought friend. The two begm to of excellence. person with her energies about the social circum meet and discuss past ex Tt must also do so in can devote to the pro stances of women in this periences and reveal their a way which doesn't leave country could have achieved jects she has already under attitudes towards love re members of the audience much more in a modem lationships. with the feeling that they taken at Moongabba, will settmg. Briefly my overall im have been making specif now apparently be eaten Fortunately both Teralba pressions of the film were allowances because it is not further by the urgent need Road and The Sbiger and that its problem was not a feature film or because for a public campaign to The Dancer are set in rel necessarily the one raised it was adoptmg a slightly stop a bridge being built atively recent times. earlier when I quoted a lyrical approach to its sub from the mainland to Strad Teralba Road examines statement by Gill Arms ject matter. broke Island. the maze of often socially trong, but rather that like Woody Allen after years If constructed this bridge complex emotional res most Australian fihns it of fihns which showed could lead to the ponses which can come into {Still lacks real guts and moments of great humour destruction of ail that is play in intimate relation fails to confront head on and promise has finaUy ships between two people- the multitude of complex still beautiful on Stradbroke put it all together m Annie in tHIs case between Bar social factors at work in Hall, a film which raises as well as the rare solitude bara and Len, who live this country. vhtually no reservations in and tranquiUty that Kath in a Newcastle suburb. Any film which attempts my mind. Walker has souglit and been Barbara is on the re to examine underlying Let's hope that such able lo find there on her ceiving end of a drunken themes of human existence, developments will occur ancestral land. beating by Len and leaves must do so in a more sub soon with the efforts of Bruce Dickson him to live in Sydney. stantial manner than Gill Australian fUmmakejs too. We then observe Len's Armstrong's productions Bruce Dickson attempts by letter to get her re-established in their relationship and the res ultant conflicts this creates within Barbara's mind. The film has fairly successfully created a feel for the social context working people find them selves in, whilst most of the personal conflicts are of a YUET WAH RESTAURANT: 175 Moggill Road, type likely to be found at sometime in the experiences Taringa Shopping Centre (371 5731), BYO, All three of (he Australian films reviewed in this isue will of a great many Australians. Cantonese/Chinese meals. Hours 12 noon to 9 be screened once more duiing April at the SchoneU Theatie. The film's plot seems to pm daily except Monday. Take Away Food and Iftey wUl most likely be shown duiing the day but exact LOVE LETTERS leave you with a feeling special catering provided for. detailc wHI be available from the Theatre itsdf. FROM TERALBA that what you have seen Brisbane has never Table service which ROAD (M): by Stephen is only a gUmpse of some suffered from a shortage of closes at 8.15 p.m. is SHADOW SISTER: Produced and directed by Wallace, SchoneU thing which should have been crystallised a little city and suburban Chinese 10 cents a head with a Frank Heimans, photographed by Geoff Burton. Theatre. faster and placed within Restaurants. In fact these minunum charge of $2.50 Schonell Theatre, St. Lucia. iftiititiftfii'tt'Ci a broader framework (such restaurants have offered, for per head, THE SINGER AND as an examination of the as long as I can remember, However ~ if this deeper social and political one of the few opportuni- restaurant is so similar to Shadow Sister is a fihn biography of Aboriginal poet THE DANCER(M): by factions which have led to ties an Australian could many other Qiinese places Kath Walker and much of it is filmed at her home on Gill Armstrong. Stradbroke bland. wife beating being so pre grasp to push aside the which are able to set equal SchoneU Theatre, St. valent and love relation I enjoyed tliis short feature fihn very much, lai^y lamb chops, beans and standards, why pinpofait it Luda. ships being so often the potato and try an alter- for a review? because of the reireshing way in which the life of Kath cause of insecwity and so native national dish. The reason is that on Walker and all that she has stood for as poet and chil much anguish). Nonetheless rights actinst were handled by the film's makers. Both of these fifans are keepmg in mind this pre And what an altemative, each day it is open the Australian productions and cautionary note, the fihn high quality Chmese food Yuet Wah provides an It is so common in. that Stradbroke Island is represent two of the more deserves a viewing. can offer! incredibly good value take- Australia to find aboriginal able to provide her. widely seen short feature However for the most away mini-meal service perspectives on life in this films which are starting to part Chinese Restaurants a- between 12 and 2 p.m. In other words the film Gill Armstrong has said countiy being 'expounded' trickle into cmemas ia this round town whilst on the Mini meals is a mis- stresses the positive efforts of her film The Singer and country. one hand always offering nomer, they are m fact by white speakers rather she has made for so many the Dancer that "A lot of than by the black people years to work with and Lx)ve Letters from Ter- women didn't like it — they a relatively inexpensive quite large meab packed themselves. During tius ex help her people-at Moon- alba Road was the more didn't want to be confront meal, have varied in the in plastic cartoia and at cellently photographed film, gabba (her home on Strad interesting of tbe two fihns ed with women who are quality of their meals from a cost of only $1.20. just Kath Walker alone, via broke), she receives guests even though the Singer and trapped and domg nothing low quality to mediocre the personally delivered both black and white who The Dancer which was pro with their own lives." and excellent. words of her now famous are given the opportunity duced on only a $20,000 The fihn attempts, The Yuet Wah is a ^'^S^5 poems, presents the narra to discover under relaxed budget won a fair d^ee through a rather lyrical restaurant which is fairly approach to the photo tive side of the film. The circumstances a more en of acclaim and awards foll typical of those establish remaining spoken content owing its release. graphy and plot Ime, to ex lightened realisation of so plore several integrated ments which could be is contained in documentary many unportant aspects of My main criticism of themes. lumped on the average to style footage of Kath aboriginal history and cul Australian dnema lat. the One is the attempt by an good side with regard to mixing with friends (such, tural inheritance. moment is that it lacks older woman (Ruth loca] Chinese cooking. as Judith Wright) or inter The film also discloses guts hi its content as well Cracknell) to escape from As with so many other ^^^ acting with others she often details of times of personal as the sort of scriptwriting the suffocatmg personality small suburban restaurants works with. anguish for Kath, of the whlc^ can produce this. of her stepdaughter. To ach it is located behind Thus undue interference resistance and apathy she No longer should ieve some freedom and con large glass shop front On many occasions they trol over her own life the by the fihnmakers seem to has often met in attempts audiences be expected to windows and provides a have helped my stomadi marvel solely at the fact woman feigns simplemind- be kept to a minimum and to realise her plans (a small edness and with the aid of a low capacity box shaped make an excellent recovery Kath Walker is able to example is the faUure to that a local fihn was com syrnpatheiic doctor pre room in which ons can from the effects of a bad give an honest and educa receive funds for an abori petently photographed or tends to regularly journey eat. drinking binge the night tive statement about the ginal museum on the is technkaUy wdl produced. for treatment each day The decor is quite before, discriminatory conditions land). There is a preoccupation when in fact she escapes in pleasant however and most There are fifteen dishes under which her race live However the overall with setting the location to the peace of the su^ dishes contained withui the to choose from and these in this country. stress in the fihn is a posi for these films well into rounding countryside generally predictable menu cover the standard fried the past as well, when from This statement is made tive one, the need for a where she can smoke and from which you make your rice, sweet and sour dishes a social perspective (one listen to the races. by having the audience new social awareness on all which 1 feel would build The plot also sees this selections are competently (pork, fish, prawns and join Kath as she puisues our parts becomes apparent audience Interest as well) older woman striking up an prepared. The average price chicken), chow-mcin dishes, her day to day interests and Kath Walker's own contemporary conditions acquaintance with a young of dishes eaten there is curried foods, and finally and as she enjoys the humanitarianism and are what need to be tackled. er woman (Liz Crosby) who around the three to four tomato and rice dishes with many moments of peace personal energy provides an Journey Among Women is also finding herself dollar mark. steak, chicken or prawns. SEMPER . March. 1 > .1978 , 11 together at a suitable point of silence. Further discovery of this album's idiosyncraUc Uttle bits ahd pieces should, 1 feel, be left to the listener. On the whole, a different albiim, both for Jackson Browne and for the mauistreun of live collections. I thmk that, in a way, this album will eventually be seen as a comma in his musical life. I look forward to hearmg the The steak, tomato and on the basis of the cuny dishes I songs that time and living bring to him on his next albuni. rice has now achieved equal had served to me and I gave my honest opinion of these. Well, should 1 buy it? That, of course depends on what status whh Dexsal for me However I have made an you're looking fcr. As Ihave said before, this alburn is very on the odd Saturday and effort to try some of the much hke a documentary - if you come looking for some Sunday morning. remaining dishes since then thing else you may be disappointed. As Browne himself Bruce Dkkson. and 1 did enjoy the Chinese meals and the Lamb Curry. states - "It's a rock and roll band or a movie - you can ASIAN KITCHEN Possibly on the earlier take your pick." One oi the stated object occasions I struck an off night, ives of Semper this year is however the basis of a food Sandy Pollard to encourage any worthwhile review is that you review what attempts at providing the public you ate & this I did. with allemattvc venues for Other readers of Semper eating, drinking, listening to have told me they fmd the PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE described as a mere 'athletic music etc. prices at Asian Kitchen a Dennis Wilson (CBS DL pretty boy drummer' and Since writing the food little high, so to resolve all who was reputedly only 3003) review on the Asian Kitchen these differences of opinion allowed into the Beach last issue, some people told I would suggest readers find Boys by Brian Wilson at mc that they thought the out for themselves. If you I've tried very hard to article placed insurficicnt stress like the place as many people do their mother's behest, is on the rood selections they have then let us know and we will listen to this album without responsible for a good deal always enjoyed, but which I had attempt to keep the record thmkmg too much about more of that band's sound not yet tried. straight. the Beach Boys. There is than is generally thought. 1 reviewed the restaurant B.D. not one other Beach Boy As for specifics. Pacific playuig or singing on it, Ocean Blue is very like and, Ul addition, there is a the Beach Boys Holland in feel with a polished, suignlar lack of Beach Boy big sound, dominated sound trademarks such as JACKSON BROWNE-RUNNING ON EMPTY (overiy at times) by syn raunchy Fender guitar and thesiser and other uitricate melody harmonies. keyboards all played, sur 1977 saw the release of two major albums prisingly, by Wilson him Yet m many ways, the concemed with travel and life on the highway- self. All of the songs were ideas and overall sounds Joni Mitchell's excellent "Hejira" and Jackson written by Wilson with on Pacific Ocean Blue are various collaborators Browne's live compilation "Running On Empty", pure Beach Boys. both on the Asylum label. While the former is It would be difficult, including his wife, Karen a highly introspective and poetical response to after all, to play in the Lamm. The session the theme, Browne's album is designed to present same band (with your own musicians are some of L.A.'s a more general viewpoint-that of the touring bloody family for Christ's finest with particulariy good sake!) for 17 years, and brass phrasing and musician. not absorb similar m- drumming. Massive choral While most live albums tend to restrict them fluences and develop similar backing is used effectively selves to tracks culled from on-stage performances, views on vocal and in on- such songs as 'River strumental arrangements, Song' (one of the best MY FAT FRIEND: by Charles Laurence, Directed "Running On Empty" assumes a documentary production techniques, etc. on the album) and 'Fare by Christopher Brown, Her Majesty's Theatre, flavour by including songs recorded in motel In fact, for such a band well My Friend'. Wilson's 8.15 pm, February 14th to March 4th. Wednesdays rooms, rehearsal centres and even in one instance, to even stay together, much own voice is a bit growly and Saturdays at 2 pm. on a tour bus. less have the tremendous and not very strong-sug commercial successes which gesting a cross between The other musicians are David Lindley (lap steel and they have had, the Beach Randy Newman and Bruce One hoped the play would be fat with humour, mdeed fiddle) who has been with Brownesince his '73 "For Every Boys as an entity must Springsteen. The first side so much so that the pubikity blurb suggested critics were man" album, smgers Doug Haywood and Rosemary Butler, have had a certain solidarity really contains the more popping theh buttons over it. To be honest, my hip-pocket and American West Coast veterans Russ Kunkel (drums), which necessarily precluded outstanding tracks-'River button was donig an Irish jig at the thought of so many Leland Sklar (bass), Craig Doerge (key-boards) and Danny any individual projects. Song', 'Moonshme', 'Friday cherished ddlats gouig west for so little in retum. The Kortchmar (guitars). These gentlemen have recorded with Certam incidents, how Night' and 'Dreamer', with play was about as funny as an 'Ernie Sigley Show' minus many notable artists who base themselves in LA. studios, ever, such as a massive Side Two tenduig toward the savuig professkinalism of the ads. includmg James Taylor and Crosby and Nash. They also quarrel-primarily Dennis the bland (though 'You run an independent band called "The Section". and Carl Wilson versus Mike And r is good). In sum Paula Wilcox proved quite characters is not a great Pacific Ocean Blue has a popular Ul the TV series, hassle, but when so Uttle The quality of sound production on the album is good, Love and Al Jardme-after their Central Park show in fairly uniform, almost smug "Man About The House", effort is required to especially considering the adveise conditions that must New York late last year, feel and yet is a reasonably but to give her star billing have been encountered in places like buses and motel "localise" it, 1 feel it would demonstrate some cracks pleasant album with some rooms. My one gripe is with the oh-stagt dnim sound. in this production is to be worthwhile. in the fraternal, corporate strong moments. It will be denegrate the concept of Tlie layout of the set Kunkel appeais (from the photographs) to be using 'North' unage of the Beach Boys. interestmg to see the effect the word. The opening was imaginative but pooriy drums, a new design which features elongated curved Pacific Ocean Blue is a it and Dennis Wilson's scene required Paula to play executed. A little more shells on some ofthe toms, to increase their volume. These, physical manifestatran of overcdl solo career have on the question of life ever- a really bitchy, grumpy role fiair and attention to detail in my ophiion, have not recorded veiy well, coming over this and an obviously very lastuig for the All-American but she proved totally un could brighten up a dull a little too 'toppy' for my taste. I also feel that Sklar's public statement of Dennis bass has been mixed at too low a level in some places.. Wilson's strong desire to Brotherhood of surf and convincing, setting the play background for an already rock & roll (who, by the off on the jarring note flat play. An incident where Nitpicking aside, overall sound and playing is tight, apt make it on his own, outside the confines of his brotherly way, will be in Brisbane on that was to continue almost a bowl of sugar is spilled and well controlled with some good solos from Kortchmar organisation. This album, 3 and 4 March). during a tug-of-war, comes and Doerge. A highlight of the heavier numbers is always without let-up. though, makes me realise It seems to indicate that really unstuck a couple of David Lind ley's distinctive lap steel (a short slide guitar that Denrus, who was once Chris Andeison she was chosen to lure scenes, and many hours played horizontally on the knees). On the quieter songs audiences in on tlie basis later, where the actors are he switches to fiddle. Australian audiences should remember his musicianship as part of the band Browne of her TV popularity. The still crunching on the brought over in his tour of eariy 77. play would not survive on crystab every time they honest critiques of its move. The songs themselves represent a break in precedent quality. In fact, the quaint setting from Browne's previous four albums, as they include of Her Majesty's Theatre numbers penned by other people and co-written numbeis, Fat Friend was rescued provided me with the high as well as the more usual solo Jackson Browne credits. from hell by Bill Fariey light ofthe evening. For me, The main strength of the material lies hi its consistency (what you miglit call the there was greater humour in with the overall theme-there are not as many of the male lead) but remains con watching the "sophisti dream-capturing gems that 1 have come to expect from demned to Purgatory.. .not cated" patrons in the boxes this artist. My favourite from this collection is 'The guilty of a heinous crime constantly and desperately Road", a song written, strangely enough, by someone but quite definitely not up shuffling chairs and craning else. It is credited 'to Danny O'Keefc (a name unfamiliar PARADISE: Eagles, Burrito Brothers, to scratch. The humour was necks to alter their inability to me) and deals with the things that niusicians-"gamblers Stare (Festival) The Band and even non-existent in the first two to see at least naif of the in the neon, clinging to guitars"-encounter on tour-the (perhaps) the Ozark scenes and fitful in the play. girls, the drugs, the feelings of impermanence as one town A competent and bright Mountain Daredevils. rest. It also irks mc that a P.S. Those damned slides into the next, with endless houis spent in motel first album from this fairly The instrumental work is well handled with most of play which is set in England, cordials served during inter rooms and travellmg, which cause Browne to later observe new Australian band that the attention being focussed but which is in no way "the only time that seems too short is the time we get falls largely uito the local mission at every entertain on guitarists Andy Durant dependent on being so. ment place in Australia give to play". A feature of "The Road" is that the first two version of ia countiy rock verses are recorded in "room 301 at the Cross Keys Inn, and Malcolm Eastlck. The should be foisted on the a true indication of how style as peddled by Little rhythm section of ex. Australian public without flat and unimaginative the Maryland" with only Browne and Lindley playing, and River Band and others. L.R.B. bass player Roger a few alterations. Mentions play Is. the last verse is recorded live on stugc with the full band Overseas influences are also McLachlan ahd drummer of unknown stores and local David RusseU in New Jersey! The two sections urc skilfully married apparent, particulariy Glyn Dowding do their liz SEMPER March 1,1978 ssaiPSHiisTXEWs LIFE ON THE LINE: And as it's turned out, and the music busmess. of a piano agahist a series Eddie and the Hot Rods 'Do Anything You Wanna Side B is devoted mainly of gradually ascending Do' remains the best, if to uistrumental pieces, chords on a string syn (Island) not only good song on while Side A concentrates thesiser, with bits ol 'Life On The Line'. on songs. This strikes a recorded ocean rumbling; Way back hi 1975, Yeah, tbe Hot Rods necessary balance, the songs and thunder thrown in. before the new vrave was have been drawn right into derive more strength from The title captures the effect. invented, Eddie and the the mainstream-this is pre theh lyrics and rhythm than "Moss Garden" follows, Hot Rods were the future dictable, bland, ultimately from their harmonic paintmg a picture of a of rock'n'roll. I wasn't too boring rock-like they once structure, while the in secret inviolate place hidden unpressed, but 1 listened rebelled against. Of course, strumental side relies on from the aerial danger to 'em 'cos there was the addition of a second interweavmg musical and which pans menacingly guitarist has bolstered their harmonic textures. The nothing else. Admittedly, from left to right over sound, and given them room album was conceived and head (works well in head they had theh moments- to move, but all they can recorded in Berh'n and beais phones). This track has a few good song;;, even a do is cornball guitar-hero the heavy stamp of the Bowie playuig the koto classic EP (Live at Mar routines. city's mfluence. The best (Japanese stringed ui- quee). The purveying theme of song is the ritle track (and strument). "Newkoln" BUT, then along came 'Life On The Line' 'is single) and 'ts Bowie's res evokes the memory of the the Sex Pistols, and every basically 'watch4t-kid- ponse to a couple he second world war bombing one forgot about Eddie you're-gett mg-screwed-so- noticed who chose the of Cologne. Bowie's free and the... .who? Do-Anythmg-You-Wanna- Berlin wall as a meeting form saxaphone sobs and They kept plugging, how Do', but the medium is place-"Heroes" in the face wails over a theme which ever, and produced some so weak the message is of one of the world's most parodies continental cafe forgettable singles. Until ineffectual. obvious symbols of the dark music. The album closes *Do Anything You Wanna Considermg it's suffi mental aridity possessed of with a song, the enigmatic Do'. The single from the ciently watered-down, thus the powered classes. "Secret Life of Arabia". then imminent albiun,'Life "Though nothing will/Drive job well without shining. eleven minute track harmless, 'Life On The Mention should be made on the Line', it was a them away/We can beat My main complaint about recorded live which closes Line' will probably make of contributing musicians mini-epic, almost Spring- them/Just for one day. . ." this album (and similar the album. The latter the Hot Rods huge in Eno and Robert Fripp. steenesque number, and Australian ventures) is the features clever interplay America. They might even The instrumental side is The former collaborated pointed to a new direction lack of depth in the songs between vocalist Mick get onto Countdown.' prefaced by an up-tempo with Bowie on the music for the Hot Rods, 12- themselves. Only three or Pealing and one of the track "V-2 Schneider" of some of the numbers. string guitar an' all. Closer four on the album are at guitarists, using the talkmg Cee Walker which features Bowie riffing Overall, a worthwhile albuni to the mainstream, but OK. all memorable-the rest are guitar effect popularised by away on saxaphone. This I think, particularly for certainly there while the Beck and Frampton. fades into "sense of doubt," the instrumental side. Avail record is playing, but seem The album was recorded a slow piece that juxtaposes able on RCA records. a sonorous four note motif to disappear when the at Armstrongs, with pro HEROES: David Bowie needle lifts. duction by Rick Formosa album succeeds, despite played as the bass notes Sandy Pollard (RCA) The best tracks are (rather colouriess but in Bowie's statements that it "Back Again" which starts offensive) and is released on may alienate some of his the set, "Jupiter Creek" the Mushroom label through This is the album that followers. It is a personal a 'Band' style nanative Festival. Possibly a reason Bowie claims heralds his work, with less posturing TAKIN' THE STAGE: The pioneets of this genre about early Australian gold able party record at high playing of a role new to and fantasy than his Pure Prairie League are by now probably minmg, "West Is The Way" volume. hun-hnnself. It comes after earlier efforts, and (RCAVictor) cpl22404 familiar to a larger audience •a gentler number closing a lengthy struggle with alternates between being a than was the case in those side 2, and the rhythm the dual traps of drugs and black indictment of the Somewhere in the late eariy days. Musicians like and Blues compendium Sandy Pollard identity confusion that are •sons of the silent age' Gram Parsons, Kris Kris- "Rocky Mountain Way" an sixties, a fusion of musical becoming prevalent on more and Bowie's own relief ui forms occurred to form a tofferson, Willie Nelson and planes than we care to havuig made it through blend which came to be Waylon Jennings have all think about these days. The the pressures of stardom known as country rock. added new dimensions to books? ^*"'""wanted STUDENJ, ^.^^M^* SECOND HAND l^^'^S OPEN 9An-8PM SEMPER March 1, 1978 13 SSMFSli liS¥ISW8 to Face", by the use of rock music in the process rhythm section and imagui- NEW WAVE ROCK NIGHT of shakuig NashvUee dom- ative keyboard playing. minor modes expresses a melancholy and personal with uiated country and westem They were one of the few Neon Steal, formerly The Grudge country rock bands to be message. The short out of its directionless arul praised by the Rolling Stone McLaughlin solo is one of torpor. Tha Survivors critics. After the release of the most melodic and Boz Scaggs Gives Brisbane a Shot of Rhythm & By the time the eariy four excellent studio LP's, emotive to be heard. seventies rolled around, Blues Qd IM Refec. the PPL took the mobile "Come on dance with country rock had assumed a recorders on tour with them me" a Shankar composition Boz Scaggs whizzed into Brisbane last week with three dominating role in the Ticketiot: last summer. A two record is in the strict saga tradi sound of the music coming tremendously entertainhig and solidly professional shows live set "Takin' the Stage" tion with the addition of out of Los Angeles, a at Festival Hall. For the Saturday night show whkh I saw, Forum Area and Door — $3XH) is the result. For committed the guitar sharing the city which was quickly Boz was backed by an eight-piece band (drums, bass, fans it will not be a dis phrases in unison with Sphits, XXXX becoming the major re percussion, guitar, two keyboardists, and two brass players) appointment and for those violin. Zakh Hussain dis cording centre of the U.S. unfamiliar with their work plays his incredible tech plus two women smgers. He got through over twenty songs Friday, March 10,7.30 p.m. Some would argue that the it is an excellent intro nique on the tablas. hi the 90 mmutes of the show, with ahnost half of the Eagles concept album iftr-itifCi-itit duction. Side 2 starts with a songs fram his most popular album, Silk Degrees and Desperado represented a A brief summary of the crazy blend of mdian and about five from his latest, Down Two, Then Left. With zenith in LA country rock. latin american rhythms in a INAIDOF But there were things hap record would have to note some pointed remarks about havuig indeed done a few concert favourites such as llghthearted piece called albums before these two, Boz also did several good songs St. John's Cathedral Garden pening elsewhere which in "Happiness is being fused country rock with "Kansas City Soutjjern", from My Time, Boz Scaggs &. Band, and Slow Dancer. Fund "I'll Fix Your Flat Tire; together" complete with its necessary lifeblood, once cha-cha ending. This is the Once he got cranked up, Boz was obviously dis the LA cowboys had sucked Merle", "Pickin' To Beat Boz showed himself to be pleased with the acoustics The Devil", all executed only .track with vocal har it dry. Austin in Texas monies. a stronger singer than is (or lack of) in Festival with flair and great energy. evident on his records, with THE FIFTH JAZZ became a centre for the "Get down and Sruti" Hall and said so-though A good balance is struck a surprisingly wide tonal AND JUG new style; as did other is a percussive jam featuring the band itself was very between tempo and the range. And, though he is traditional areas like the tabla solos and solos by weU balanced. He also said March 12, 1978hlam-5pm ballad. "Out In The Street" known as only a singer to Deep South. From the mid Vinayakaram playing the he had very much enjoyed at REFECTORY shows what can happen most people, he played west came bands like Pure ghatara (clay pot) which playing in AustraUa and University of Queensland, when a casually thrown some very good guitar on Prairie League and the ends in a voice and drum would most certainly re lassoo ropes in some many of the songs (parti St. Lucia Ozark Mountain Daredevils. duel. As the title suggests turn. I know of at least western swuig, puts it in a cularly the solo in "Whatcha Formed by a musician this must be what's being 15,000 people who hope he rock steady corral before Gonna Tell Your Man" Hamburgers and xxxx availabfe called Craig Fuller (who played in the Delhi discos- doe?. L^ts of great bands including opening the gate again. and an incredible rocker, later became a member of an offshoot of John's leg As for the support act. 'Moreton Bay Jazz Band Three romantic songs were "Full-lock Power SUde"~ American Flyer), Pure endary "Bombay Boogie". Dragon, I have nothing to •"Shiraz" sUpped in amongst the the best I've heard Boz Prairie League developed say except that apparently *Phll. Makepeace BBIKI higher decibels, "Sun Shone "Peace Of Mind" the since the Steve Miller days). theh own style, *The Hansson's Lightly", "Heart of Her closmg track is a McLaugh He then switched to electric they have learned very Uttle characterised by tight har lin composition of serene from theh tour experience •Soma of Vtntaga Jazz Socretv Own", and "Arnie". piano for "Georgia" and 'Bentley's Boogie Band monies, and soaring pedal beauty. A duet for guitar "It's Over". Scagg's tribute with Boz Scaggs and his 'The Ken Herron Jazz Band steel, buttressed by solid Max Hughes and violin laden with to B.B. Kuig. "Runnm' band. If Dragon are the 'Other pick up group* dreamy images leaving the Blue", was as fine as usual- most popular group in listener in a lasting state even if he seemed too tired Australia at the moment, of rest (hope you've got to play the fast guitar then we aU better drag out an automatic turntable). our Max Merritt, Spectrum SHAKTI-NATURAL cause of the urge to grow runs and sing at the same RAIN OR SHINE and Daddy Cool records. ELEMENTS: John and develop. Blaise Bleen time. "Slow Dancer" and Admission $2.50 Side I opens with a "Harbour Lights" also de McLaughlin-recorded Chris Andeison Students $2.00 McLaughlin composition serve special mention Switzerland, July '77 "Mmd Ecology" introduced because they are such diffi (CBS). cult songs to perform Uve by the unusual sound of fiV/ftr the moorsing (jmce harp?). and were done so well man •itfui BEACH BOYS BRISBANE 'Tfc iftrxrmt McLaughlin's music has Added to this arc galloping with especiaUy good playing wu.* If fr. always been closely assoc four-four (4/4) rhythms CONCERTS by the synthesizer man, iated with his peisonal de- from the tablas and sparse the drummer and the rhythm guitarist. The whole vslopment: Part of the exotic sounding chordal tex The Beach Boys are tures from the 12 string currentiy on tour in Aust band, in fact, appeared to youthful experimental jazz eryoy themselves im guitar-providing a bed over ralia and wiil be under element ui Europe hi the which Shankar and Mc- mensely. It was so pleasmg, takmg five concerts m Bris mid-sixties; involved in the LaughUn can develop theh too, to see ui Boz an enter cnuenfM ._. bane at Festh^al Hall. The historic American contemp tainer as opposed to the ticioxo unison obligatos and fuH- .roiwwijM orary jazz movement fiight solos. first is tiib Friday, 3rd pint ego-pop star turds UWISUJCU centring around Miles Davis This is the kmd of March at Spm and the that so often grace the in the late sixties; the pattern adopted for several rest are scheduled for Sat stages of the rock world. devotee period and the cuts of the album yet urday 4th March at 3pm Mahavishnu orchestra in the every track retams its in- and Spm, and Sunday Sth early seventies. Each time dividuaUty through the con March at 3pm and Spm. tmuous experimentation new goals were set and With tiie exception of the with Indian classical and new spaces explored be 3pm concert on Saturday american jazz toality and all the cotKerts are sold rhythm. out. The price of the "Around Brisbane", by Sallyanne Atkinson, While "Ecology" bounds tickets is $11.50. University of Queensland Press, $4.95. with joy and elarion "Face University of Queensland Press has just published tiie first comprehensive guide book to Brisbane and the surroundhig areas. The book. Around Bris bane, has been written by SEMPER'S FOOD REVIEWS Brisbane freelance journalist The criterion used' In and researcher Sallyanne Sempar's food reviews Is pri- Atkinson. rDarily value for money al Its 160 pages teU visitors though other factors are also , taken. Into account. We hope about place's to eat (over throughout 1978 to progress- 100), places to stay, where ively cover most of the Interest the theatres and art gaUaries ing new wave of chesple res are, what views to look taurants (and takoBways- as at, what historical houses well as the old reliables. to visit. There are suggest If you know of 3 place you feel Is deserving of a re- ions for a dozen things Iview according to the above to do in a day, what to do criteria then let us know at if you only have one day 371 1611. Also if you feel Ul Brisbane, where to take our reviews are Iriconwt or what was once true for a the chUdren, babysittmg restaurant ts no longer true faciUties, bus trips, and then again get in touch with boat trips. There's a chapter us. As we all know sometimes each on Toowoomba, the success goes to the heeds of Gold Coast, and Sunshine restaurant owners and prices can qukkly rise while quality drops. - Coast, and day trips out In the public Interest, of town. Stmper th|« year wbhes to It wUl not only be a actively promote any low cost/ handbook for tourists and 90od quality alternative venues you many know of whether visitors to Brisbane, but they be eating places or pub also a reference book for 'scones etc. people who Uve here. Eds. 14 SEMPER March.1,1978 The clsses are ail conducted on nrarine algae. struggle for women's liberation? by professional coaches or Apart from his involvement What Is the relation between teachers and cater for beginners In ecology. Or. Dahl fs also a women students and women and intermediates. We are only. member of the Bahai work! worken? able to cater for a limited faith. In fact, Dr. Dahl rep Wednesday, 12th April. number of people In each resented the international Ba HAVING CHILDREN, What recreation class. ONce the quota hai community in 1972 at the are the effects on women has been filled no further U.N. Conference on the Human of liaving children? Why do registrations will be accepted.- Environment at Stockholm, women have children? Why do Intra Murals have been ex Sweden. women want chikjren? Do wo panded this year end offer Bahai principles such as the need chikiren? the social sportsman and woman oneness of mankind, the har For further information, the opportunity to get to mony of science and religion, contact the Women's Rights gether with friends or a de unity in divenity, moderation Room. partmental team during ths In the material development of lunch hours (1-2 pm) for team civilisation, and universal edu games. This semester's sports cation, give Dr, Dahl a unique include Touch Football for men perspective on the environ Tht Education Standing (A & B Division), Mixed Bas mental future. Committtt is undtrtaking:- (II t survty on tht crtdit ketball, Mixed Volleyball and Dr, Dahl's public address will point had par subiect and Mixed Squash. Referees and commence at 7.30 pm, in <2) atttmpting to buiM up umpires are provided by^ the Physiol. Lecture theatre 2, on a subjtct rtftrtnct ctntrt. _ Sports Association. March 5th. Man students have com Details of recreation classes plained of the low weighting and Intra Murals and enrol of subjects especially PRAC- ments can ba obtained at the TICALS, while it is felt that Indoor Sports Pavilion. Rur- Tht Womtn'i Rights Lib in other areas courses are over ther inquiries can be directed rary, funded from a small weighted. Many departments to David Williams, Director ptrcentagt of women studtnts' are long due for a re-exam- of Sports and Recreation, union ftti, is availabit for inatlon of their credit point Ph. 3663 I Internal), 371 4564 anyont to use, Tht library loading. For this survey to (External). contains a wide range of books be a success a wide cross- on tht srtuatioa of womtn section of people\and opinions under patriarchal capitalism, e.g. are necessary, e.gy as well as women's position in tht homt, students, tutors and lecturers. in tfit work-force, at students. OVERSEAS STUDENT if you feel d^tlsfied with SERVICE It also contains cassettes the credit point loading of including feminist music, and your subjects let us know Notice of second ordinary we subscribe to several feminist either through the Education matting. Tuasday, 7th March, periodicals. As well, an up Offkie or the Union Office. 1978. to date flie of newspaper Another task being under Martin Hall, International clippings is heki, and these taken is the creating of a may be used In the W.R. Room. House. SUBJECT REFERENCE All Welcomed. If you have not used the CENTRE. A file on each suk>- library before, you will need ject containing the outline of to have some identification to the course, forms of assess t>orrow. Material may be ment and other useful hints YOGA borrowed for three weeks- is proposed. The idea behind Yoga datses conducted by iplease do not keep It out this being, to ease the burden traintd and qualified taachen (longer than this because other of choosing your subjects. In ara avallible through the •people may need it. The Lib that students will have a better Queensiand Univenity Yoga rary is housed In the Women's understanding exactly what Is wsmmmmmmm Rights Room, upstairs in the Society. Invoh/ed. We are calling on Union Building. The course runs for fourteen YOUR help so that effective T1)i Woman's RiQbt* Room, The films to be shown are: a Moreton Istand Public Action weeks In 1st semester beginning action in this area will be upttaln in tha Union Buihting, "Film For Discussion". This Group will ba held at Mt. on the 8th March. Cost of tha undertaken. All students other il opan for woman itudtnta is a drama/documentary In Coot-tha Botanic Qtrdtns course Is $20.00. The Woman's Rights than first years ore asked to avtry Wadnatday night from which a group of vwmen, and Thattratte on Thunday. March Classes are heW on Wednes Committtt hat planntd i strits contribute to this file. days for 1 hour at 11 am, of discuarion on particulir Spm until Bpm. some men, re-enact some sit 9ct7pm. As soon as possible-before 12 noon or 1 pm. Other topics for tht ntxt ftw wttks. This gives part-timers an uations at work and in personal A GECO film "Brisbane the pressures of your workload activities of the Society In Tht ditcusiions wili b* open opportunity to use the library, relationships which they felt Needs Moreton" will be shown, are too immense, produce your clude lectures, symposia and to all woman on campus, and which includes books, cassette has strongly affected them. and .refreshments will be on findings to the EDUCATION weekend camps. For enquiries will bt h*M on Wtdnosdays tapes ond periodicals. You can The film shows Jeni In her sale. OFFICE OR THE UNION and enrolments contact the at 1 pm in tht Formal Room, also catch up on the free pam office, talking about marriage Enquiries can be directed OFFICE. with her girlfriend as they put Yoga Society Referral Room, Tha programme 'ts as phlets we issue, which cover to Queensland Conservation Petrina Quinn, Education on their make-up, shopping in Top Floor, Relaxation Block. follows: a wkio range of issues from Council, phone 221 0188. VicfrPresident. women's sexuality and con a large department stores, trying 10 am to 2 pm dally. Wednesday, 15th March- traception to feminist vic to discuss things with her SEXISM. What is sexism? Are A Down to Earth alterncthrt timisation on campus. boyfriend, enduring a family all men sexist? Cen a woman dinner, and finally reaching a LECTURE ON THE be sexist? What Is tho patriar Iffastyles marfctt dty wiU bt If part-timers want to have point of crisis. Black and white. SPORTS ASSOCIATION NEWS ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURE chy? How does the patriarchy htM all day at Oriaigh Park. regular women's meetings, tho 24 minutes. relate to capitalism? What is a West End, on Saturday, March room may also be used for Following Ust year's luecaii IJnder tht atgis of tht feminist? 11. this. If you vyouW like to form "I Happened To Be A Girl" with our recreation classes, wa Bahai locitty on ampui, tht Wednesday, 22nd March. A market day will be heM a part-time women's group, Portraits of four women friends hay* expanded tha ranga and tmintnt Ecologist Dr. Arthur RAPE. Are ali men complicit on the second Saturday of contact Madonna Olm, Women's and their attempts to combine number of clMsai for students L. Dahl is to dtlivtr a public in the act of rape? Can changes each month. Rights Vice President, or Anna relationships with men, and sportr> ttsociatton memben. McCormac, Women's Rights children, other women, work Itcturt tHM "Tht Environ- in the law eliminate repe? You can expect to see Organiser. and society. The women-a The 1st semester's pro- mtntal Futurt". Wednesday, 29th March. displays of alternative energy Journalist, a teacher, sn un gramnpewill include Badminton, Dr. Dahl at present Is the POETRY READING. This is and construction, pottery and married mother and a fabric Canoeing, Modern Dance/ regional Ecological adviser to for women to come and read other arts and crafts, organic Tha Woman'f Right! designer, discuss philosophical Creative MOvement, Golf 12 the South Pacific Commission. either their own poetry or gardening, sprouting, natural Commtttaa it holding a film and emotional questions as classes), Jazz Ballet (3 classes), In this capacity Dr. Dahl advises other people's, and to discuss health (health foods will be night for woman on Tuesday, well as the practical ones. Ladles Fitness (2 classes), Self all tfie Pacific Island Govern the content. Any woman is on sale), yoga and meditation, 2trt Mirdi, at 6 pm in tha These questions are considered Defence, Squash (4 classes), ments with environmental pro welcome to come and read, natural healing, children's Formal Room. The showing rather than resolved by the Snorkling/Scuba, Tennis (8 grammes and planning. Wednesday, Sth April. creative fun centra, and music, of tha fibna wiil bt followed women. Colour. 23 minutes. classes). Weight Training/Circuit Dr. DAhl spent 5 years SEXISM AT UNIVERSITY. singing and dancing. by ditcunioR of thair content. Training (2 classes). Yoga (2 at the Smithsonian Institute What specific forms does it For further information All woman ara walcomt to classes), and Tal Chi (chinese In Washington D.C. as a coral take? Can sexism at University contact Len on 371 5839 or com*. A public matting to form martiel ard. reef ecologist and a specialist be combatted outside of a total Oik on 345 2186. ALL VOUB. BUIfK. tUPPUEb OP M0MeV.OIUfe FtjqO(2.,Q4T6,EEAj4gT »^^ yyr^MiMS,HEAm*'e 16 SEMPER March 1.1978-.