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THIS ISSUE: The History of tbe Brisbane Music Scene. A LSD: Superman, Petty, comix, SCIENCE FICTION and the FUT URE.
- 1 In a time a_(universal deceit. telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Qelbtllail1? Worlb GEORGE ORWELl For a society based on Human Need not Greed 10,0_,DIE TORTURE INCREASES IN FAMINE
At least 10,000 people are latest reports from the UN AMNESTY believed to have died yest· Food and Agriculture erday in the famine which organization in Rome, a The incidence iof torture throughout the World had has gripped sixty nations total of 460 million people ��•••• increased over the last few years, a spokesperson for of the world. "It is the are now "actually starv Amnesty International said yesterday. worst disaster since yester· ing". During that period military juntas and martial law had_ day," said a U.N. spokes· An estimated third of been imposed on countries like Chile, The Phillipines. man last night. humanity is now m with Argentina and South Korea. According to the chronic hunger. AUSTRALIAN URANIUM The organization's Palace. annual report painted a His killers drove off in cars yesterday with official number plates, Worst disaster since depressing picture of syst unh indered by the squads of FOR PHILLIPINES ematic violation of human However many thousands died in yesterday's police who ringed the mass public The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, rights throughout famine, one fact emerged last night. It need never have the demonstration in the central has announced the signing of an agreement to supply World. square. happened. Experts meeting at the World Food th e Phillipines withuranium. Trade Union organisers are that there is no physical New trends were Conference in Rome agreed being routinely murdered and Theuranium is for a reactor in the Bataan Province. em erging in repression. shortage of food in the world at the moment. tortured. meeting put it, The practiceof labelling· In one week, Pedro Quevado As one observer at the Rome "This The construction of homeless or have been deprived a union ofOclal with the Coca is a crisis of price and distribution. People are starving of their food source. This is dissidents as "psychiatric the reactor has already Cola workers was brutally murd are poor. There is grain available for typical of the type of industrializ· ally ill" was spreading in only because they disrupted the lives of peop ered and the general secretary of at ion being foistered on the Third export in the U.S. and Canada and several other rich· Eastern Europe. the C.N.T. narrowly escaped le living. in the Bataan World by the multinationals with the poorer nations cannot afford to buy the In Latin America and Africa death when his car was machine nations but Province. the aid of local elites." governments were authorizing gunned. grain at commercial prices." Rlcelands have been flooded "Wben President Marcos Impos terrorist actions. a U.N. meeting in Cocoyoc, Mexico, grazing land taken, and Dab ed martial law on tbe Phllliplnes At Kidnapping, torture, and spawning grounds destroyed. seven years ago, be claimed that participants were also blaming "a traditional market killing bad been developed Into a the country's poverty meant that that makes resources avaDable to those who can buy The localfish catch has been systematic method of represalng INSIDE 5 the need for this "development" reduced to )' of the usual opposition. them rather than those who need them." outweighed the need for normal amount. Pa ra miUtary groups were "There need be no shortage," said the final 80-/, democratic freedoms." Fishing used to provide operating as Death Squads In THE MESS AGE a small release from the "now the people are poorer. communique, "it requires only of local income. Argentina, Brazil, ChUe, Guata Tbe elect riel ty from the This type of development does COLIN THE surplus of the rich to meet the entire Asian Shortfall." mala, and Ethiopia. re 01' llJ to wb Manila not satisfy human needs; its sole OFFI CROCODILE 1 to nttat In South Africa there had CE and tbe aeab) Betaan Free I "' th.' been more cases of "death in Fao Director General, Trade Zone. Thl• II a tax &ee "The PhiWplnea has been BANK CARDY police custody". haven for multinationals, with no caught In a c.)'Cle of exploitation, SUPERMAN LEAVE EVERY Aredke Boerma, said yest In Singapore, Malaysia, pollutlo� controls, no free trade rebelllon and repression. erday in Rome. "The Indonesia, and the Phillipines, THE GREAT people have beeh: &!Tested. unions, and verych eap labour. MACHINE market playing freely will st thepractice had developed of OF THING TO US· Multinational companies ores such as the admini ration detaining political prisioners- for BABYLON always feed the rich. You here produce Amco jeans and massive doses of 'truth years before their triaL PETTY Multinationals ca nnot expect trade to Slazenger golf bags for export to that has made vegetables,are comnmon11ia(�e. THE ROAD TO arr ive at a fair distribution the West. The Bataan project wtll cost The spokesperson SYDNEY of goods in the world. about S1.1bUUon. Westinghouse that there was a real d REPRESSION SUBMERINOES "lust leave every Tr ade is to make money." sold It to tbe PhiUiplnes after the nu clear proliferation. There Governments were using thing to us!" an inaugural It was not only at the super 'questionable payment' of civil war in the Phillipines Incidents of terrorism to justify meeting of the recently power level that the wealthy $3Sm1Uionto Mr Dlslnl, a distant many feared that Marcos massive rep ression of civil Ub seemed to be taking precedence relative of tbe PresIdent. determined to develop a formed Friends of the erties. over the needy. In a country where 8million capacity. S685m Multinationals was told In one incident in Argentina, In the Sahel. where drought children suffer severe malnutrit· Mr Anthony said his today. a military pa trol shot dead a and famine have claimed an ion, the government is spending, rnent had received Trade Union speaker at an David Rockerfeller, estimated 100.000 lives in 12 on this one reactor, three times that there was no danger "illegal" strike; all strikes are spent on chairman of the Chase months , thousands of acres of the what it spent on agriculture in nu clearprolifferation. banned in Argentina. • most fertile land, owned by 1975. Perhaps referring to the Manhatten bank adressed Afterwards the army issued a foreig agribusiness companies, One critic of the government of the Opposition, he the meeting. t_� communique that stated that the anns m are betng used to grow cash crops stated: "As a result of this "president Marcos is good Heads of government�, legal forces had to act "to for export, while people are dying pro ject, thousands have become waste disposal." ance experts gua rantee freedom of employ· fin and other multi. of weakness and famine often national leaders applauded rnent" last 24 only fields away. warmly as he declared, "Justgive In areas of South America, profits. We'll TORTURE us our get those carnations were grown for the THIRD WORLD UNEMPLOYED voters back to work." North American market In Oelds hours General Vldela, a spokes· Unrestricted by Big Labour next to starving peasanta. man for the junta that has ruled The bill for yesterday's or Big Government, the Freee The Third World was a net 'DESPARATE' the Argentine since 1976, said; . mllitary spending is now Enterprise system would solve all exporter of protein to the deveJ. "A terrorist Isn't jDit someone expected to top problems and even irrigate the oped world. Observers were quick with a bomb or a gun but 568S Sahara Desert. to point out last night that Unemployment in the Southern Hemisphere million. . . is someone who spreads Ideas that In the meantime, tt was Europe is now importing over one . . flickering between 25 o/o and 30o/o with an estimated are contrary to Western and As reports of the huge tmperahve that wages should be. third of Africa's protein rich 200million people in Africa, Asia, and South Christian values." spending poured iu, the frozen or held down, he declared. peanut crop. America out of work. Meanwhile a meeting of the "Daily World" staff did Profits should be allowed to rise ------ Catholic bishops of South so private industry co Amer· 1 · that uld A fraction of Swiss economist, Paul some calculations c=+ large the 1ca has condemned the increasing invest and create more jobs. IL Y 0 estroyed Barioch. said this week that Annual cost for making 'real Go spending labour force, according to use ofrepression vernment should bel Th city "unemployment in the 15-24 age Impact' on the development e of Hr·id'A••""' They declar�: "The polltlc. I t. an International Labor cu group is running at wice the crisis. (World Bank Estimate) "We must all tighten ou in Australla was al system of the continent bas r Organization spokesman, national average in most devel S1Sblllion ela and pull togetberl"hesaid. ated two days been Influenced by doctrines of b now lack a source of oping countries.'' Annual cost for Investment In ' national security which by Earlier the meeting had ava 1 anch e 0 f To make matters worse, an m· come both relt'able and giving ;0 . land and water needed for poor rd neo·conservative intelle absolute lm�ortance the hea ct. dmstone. estimated 75,000 people are nations to meet food production b State, have diminished the secor. ual, Alfred E Newman, argue adequate to supply their the rural areas of the The cause of leaving Poor target. (F. A .0. estimate) nothing could be done abo ltyof the Individual." that ut needs and those of their World everyday In a massive shift S4.5blllion in the Third Wo disaster remains unknown. fam ine rld. dependants. to the cities where basic social Money needed now by poor But the cycle of exploitation, Government intervention woul Eye wltnesa reports oes�nlr..t s are lagging far behind. d The service countries to maintain -ntlal I . announcement rebellion and repression contin. only make the problem worse. the city !IS "wallowing In Ita A decline In public order Is quoted one unemployed worke Imports (World Bank estimate) Famine, be argued, could bt ty" shortlybefore r ues th roughout the continent. banali the the fear of many. SS.S blllion In South Asia as saying, "Tell the In the viewed as a n ecelll8ry market hout yesterday In Guatamala, newly Throug , d that the unemployed Calcutta, former Police Cost for 10lving the crlllt of cltlea rne,chanlsm. There was worl are In formed right wing Death Squad, an over. tion grew concerning the ula al want. I have nothing Chief P.K. Sen commented:" and human aettlanentl (Estimate y of Labour throughout re to eat, ESA, is carrying out assasinat suppl the ofthe catastrophe. generation no home, and no clothes." The younger today is by environment expen Barbara w orld. ions in line with a death list it "Perhaps the people discontented and restless. S25billion Potentially the most explos autumn. Ward) Famine actedto readjust the Bri e no - published last sban longer wanted t_ Calcutta's conditions have given S:ZSbiUlon ive factor n the unemployment size of the workforce in accord. J ve, perhaps the fire and The first of tbe condemned; i crisis is that the jobless are rise to a generation of cynical ANNUAL WORLD EXPENDIT ance with the demand for labour s one was merely a Oliverio Castananda Leon, was t singly young, )QUth - ready to resort to URE ON ARMAMENTS (Estim· The meeting adjourned � increa educated for of an unconscious death desparate measuresto fulfill their machine gunned to death only wish." gathered together in ; atebu U.N.) tuous nine course meal. an and th sunfp Italian film director said. desire for a better life." 100 metres from the National cities. SlOObiUlon
,.' 1. Th e· End of the World The message?The Mess Age, a messianic age where an Alien Nation sits around waiting for the End of the World. As unemployment grows 3. The Rise of It is only four years to 1984, there are from 30% in the Eighties to near SO% in the Nineties, Australia's WelfaJe two decades to the millenium, the Sky The Police State State collapses to be replaced by J� Police State. (lab) is falling, and already the Cane Toad us! Times are upon see the demonic forces associated with destruction. As the Police States replaced Welfare The future seems to hold only the as 'atheistic Capitalism'. The Book of States, Monetarism, a new Free Enter· prospect of more crises. Revelations mentions that the number of War in Israel, earthquakes, cxclones, pri�e Economic theory replaced Keynes tidal waves, comets of doom; these groups Iamsm. There will be an environmental crisis. the Beast shall be 666.They point out that the differ in what they see as the agency. · . It was popularised by the multi Every year 2 million tonnes of oil will be Bankcard symbol is three sixes What they agree on is a future of world national companies: inflation was due to taken from the earth's fmite resources devastation wage rises and government spending; the 200 million tons of industrial wastes will wide problem was caused by Big Labour and be poured into the rivers, one million Are these catastrophic expectations Big Government; left to pursue their own tonnes of oil will .be smeared onto the founded on some global death wish !What profit, the Free Enterprise Multinationals oceans, and 6000 new chemicals will be can the normal person do !Wait for Jesus to would solve all!! released. come from the sky'ls our powerlessness Milton Friedman became the guru of According to naturalist, David Fleay, we total': all · may only oe a decade away from a Silent these conservatives who preached Organised groups, isolated individuclls, nineteenth century capitalism as the Spring situation; within ten years1 �he overuse of insecticides may have Killed their numbers will swell as we approach salvation of a crumbling world economic off all bird life. Other experts believe that the millenia; they will be an Alien Nation order. In the long run, says Friedman, Free e sitting, waiting for the end of the World. all the forests of the world will b .gone Enterprise unrestricted by government within twenty years. will will Could this the sign of intervention create full employment There be a mental crisis as well. thr.:: beast as detailed in and rising incomes for all. What has half the hospital beds are Already Revelations? brou&ht Friedman infamy is the 'lab-test' occupied by the mentally ill; the average for his ideas - Chile. BritiSh pers<>n_ has a much greater chance CALIFORNIA FALLS INTO THE SEA! The 'chicago Boys' - economists who of_going mad than of go ins to universitY.. trained under Friedman at the University Even with a media that ts obsessed wtth . The belief in the coming end of the World of Chicago' in the SO's and 60's today trivia, that is little more than a mouth ts not confined t" Christians. run the economy for General Pinochet's P-iece for commercial interests, enough of Occult circles believed that 1975 was this throulili for there to be a filters will going to be THE year; supposedly the widespread belielthat our generation flyi�gs�ucer people were going to make witness the End of the World . tlieu existence known that year by taking over the TV airwaves to broadcast a plan !! for earthly salvation. FORETOLD iN THE BIBLE Now 1982 is supposed to be the Big Year. · A major underlying belief of tne Bible In that year, a rare astronomical event is that there will come a time, the Last will occur.All t�e planets of the olar Days, when the nations of the world will system will be lined up on the same side the sway of demonic be totally under of the sun as us, more famine and or Jess in a straight powers.'there will be war, line. these Last Days the · destruction.In The theory is that the increased to rally tlie forces of Messiah will return gravitational pull of the planets will with the Sons trigger good for the final struggle earthquakes at various fault lines on Uie megeddon. -of Darkness- aNhe-battfe of Ar Earth. like tlie Numerous Christian sects, California will fall into the sea. The San Christadelphians, believe these Last Days since thr i hirties. If unemplovment An�raes Fault is supposed to produce a does in re by LO,OOO per year, the are upon us, maJor earthquake every 60 ears. and there v.ill of our age that y overnment h to find an extra It is some measure hasn't been one since 1906.) sects, like th e 400million e h year ju t to maintain numerous Christian As well as earthquakes, the united gra- Christadelphians, believe that the final the dole: in 5 )ear thl v.ill be an ad
The Cane Toad Times interviews
�ustralians prefer their infonn -ation in funny drawings rather than writte n words. 'I
In 1976, Bruce Petty won an good with words. Australians prefer Palistinians weren't getting a 'fair go', know about our moral position with Academy Award for bls short anlmat· their information in funny drawings and that was.regarded as anti-semetic. respect to the rest of the world. ion film "Leisure". For years he has i rather than written words. aon't think tt was, but that's what It's not popular with people, it been recognised as Australia's best This is changing. Nowadays cartoons happened. I thought it was just doesn't sell newspapers. It's a aort of cartoon collection cartoonist. His third are becoming more verbal. Balloons anti-Israel, but it wasn't liked. indulgence for the raper to run it. 'The Petty Age' has just been publish· are bigger, blurbs are bigger. Balloons What about Vietnam? Yet you're interested in making ed by Wild and Woolley. are the literary aspect of cartoons. It's de The same thing. They let thP-m moral statements. It's what distlng· Samuel Joggins interviewed a maturing that has taken some time through but they didn't like it. uishes you as a cartoonist. You have a Petty for the Times, to locate the man in this countrv. Rupert Murdoch thought they were too moral committment that moit cartoon· behind the scribble. In Europe you detect the pendulum emotional and probably badly judged ists don't have. What's the basis of swinging the other way, a trend back politically. that committment? Bruce, you're cartooning style is to the simple evocative drawing, more People were beginning to say that Well if you're going to make most unusual. Who were your major visual impressions, more nuances. It's Vietnam was a mistake from a military statements they may as well have a influences? the same in the New York Times. It viewpoint, though not necessarily from moral dimension. It happened around 1955. I'd be may happen in Australia. a moral or political .viewpoint. The I don't know I do have a religious doing advertising drawings and illus Why do you think that cartoons have management and Rupert could see background, my parents and grand trations for magazines. I had very little got such a bad name? that from a pragmatic paper selling parents were religious, devout. training and we were all trying to do The areas of protest are much more viewpoint that it was good to have both Whether it's a secular extenskn of that very precise, very analytical drawings. accessible in cartoon form. You can be sides. I'm not sure. The old Methodism. I Then people like Ronald Searle and just more visual and blunt. It's harder to So you didn't suffer too much think that in a pragmatic sense it Felix Depolsky, suddenly appeared. sue a cartoon makes sense to get things right, to get Depolsky started scribpling, instead of censorship. And when it's in the form of things fair. doing anatomy he did impressions of No censorship wasn't the problem. cartoons it's more accessible to child Remember, it's a hard time now for anatomy in this loose, febrile scribble. The problem is that, given that ren. The kids can see that things are a Australia is an ultra-conservative moralists. We're all struggling over He and James Thurber were drawing bit suspect, that the old institutions are society, how do you convert world issues that aren't as neat as they were this anti, undrawn material and it falling. Establishment attitudes are politics into hard politics, how do you in the Sixties. Now everything is suddenly became accessible to people threatened. The Oz obscenity Trial was introduce Australians to the notion suspect, the Left is in disarray, the who didn't have skills in anatomy. about corrupting children. that we are ultra-conservative, that we practicing left are discredited. Those of us who were drawing at the are producing an unfair soCiety, that Who are your favourite Australian time began to develop our own style Have you ever suffered any censor· we belong to a power grouping in the cartoonists. and that's how it began. Content ship over your cartoons. George Finey was very good when he became more important than style world that is terribly suspect, that ew papers are a family thing so wields excessive power, is as prone to Of course, they're were people who was covering the Depression. Martin you can't dra"' peni and ·agin s. corruption. that is a sinister as the didn't like the freer style. Sharp was the next one I liked. He and that sort of thing. It's a form of Russians or the Cubans. pushed the whole business along more Cartoons are the OndereDa of the self-censorship. If you want to talk to than any other cartoonists. Even in Arts. Why do you think this is? families you have to accomodate their In some of your cartoons you achieve world terms. I don't know what they Up until recently, cartoons had this sensibilities. this. They're powerful moral and· were doing in America and Europe, image of being cheap information, a On a visual ground, I don't do political statements. Most cartoonists but I don't think there was anything cheap joke at the back of the paper. Steadman like grotesques. I have a won't attempt this will they? like Oz. He's more into paintings now, Cartooning has broken out in mag more slapstick style. It's because it's hard. Australia isn't but he's still exploring cartoon ideas in azines like Private Eye and, of course, On content ground, I found that the place to do it. No one wants to painting. The Cane Toad Times. newspapers don't like anything that attacks the church or is 'anti-semetic'. One thing our history of cartooning i used to try and point out that the suggests is that Australians aren't very
� � ? The Great Machine of Babylon took thousands of years to build. Countless generations of devoted slaves sweated and gave their lives in its construction. It was completed only in my lifetime. It will be strange for future generations to learn that there were people who opposed it. Neo-Luddites we call them - they worship Ludd, the God of Destruction. It is only with the consecration of the Throne of Ascension and the noble self-sacrifice of Our Lord of Light that this opposition has faded. Their numbers are dwindling rapidly. It is recorded that he who sits on throne of Ascension of the Great Machine of Babylon will know everlasting joy, wlll know everlasting ecstasy, The Great Machine of Babylon wlll is know everlasting peace. For it a cleanser of candestroy the world a thousand times over. souls. Our Lord of Light took all the sins of the world upon his shoulders, went forth to the Throne The Great Machine runs on Coca Cola; of Ascension, and washed them from the world, before returning to the Kingdom of Paradise. It cooks steaks an inch and a half thick, with mushroom sauce! Even today the symbol of that Great Ascension Machine dominates our lives. Churches throughout the land The Great has saved the working class! have stylised images of the Thrones of Ascension of the Great Machine of Babylon upon their rooftops. It fullfills any greed· and before their altars. We wear the sacred effigy on It fullfills every need! necklaces around our throats. and on bracelets around our wrists. And it it ties us all together in a All hail the Great Machine of Babylon!! brotherly bond. It unites us as one. The faithful followers of the Great Machine of Babylon, the Machinists as we are kno"'n. would o,ttmulate the pleao,ure centre\ of the bratn. to !lush "'atertaII. moving faster. a darting and flashing gladly follow in the footsteps of Our Lord of Light om: with a euphoria greater than any drug trip. flight. like being sucked into a whirlpool or being and pass swiftly through the portal of the Throne of greater than any sexual orgasm. greater than any swept round a vortex. The rush starts. Then it . Ascension into the Kingdom of Parariise. But it can earthly religious ecstasy. happens. It's like a sudden fall through a black hole, : never be. For the Throne of Ascensi0n can only serve So it i'> recorded. a leap into space. a blinding light of ecstasy. the faithless, the Neo-Luddites. It is a clean er of This Tripper was a deep!) di tribed )Oung man. Rapture souls, and only the unclean may sit upon it. I he) introduced me to h1m and aid. " Tn pper. He cries: "Oh Lore!" is a voice filled with raw So it is recorded. this is Dr. Bore." He bc�an to laul!h and laugh and emotion. The Neo-Luddites have always opposed mach laugh. ao, though there "'a'> something vaguely I push the Holy Sceptre down further. He ines. They have always opposed progress. Even when amusing about my name! "'rithes in his trance. transfixed. the ultimate machine was finally finished. when it "Look here." I said. "I fail to see what's so "Oh Lord! Take me! Take me!" he exhales could satisfy every physical need, they hated it. It funny! I order you to '>top laughing immediately! " violently. gave them happiness. And like the spoilt children of But this only caused him to laugh even more. I His mind snaps. He loses control of his nervious the rich, they grew tired of physical happiness. They ordered the attendants to strap him into a strait system. He surrenders to an epileptic ecstasy. wanted Transcendance. jacket. but he was so impressed with the straitjacket. collapses white and lifeless. The future must laugh at these men of my days. he wanted to wear it home!! I return the Holy Sceptre to its original position. There were 'saints' who mortified their flesh. who There was only one course open. We dragged Smiling with the glory of another successful slept on beds of nails, and considered that him towards the Throne of Ascension . Ascension. I remove my hood, and clutch the tiny happiness! There have even been rebels who have Once upon the sacred dais. his laughter melted etligy around my throat in quiet contemplation. The sought to launch terrorist attacks upon the Great like the snows in the dying spring. It is recorded that blessed Throne of Ascension has brought joyous Machine of Babylon. Their supreme happines it is the way all subjects. The tirst few minutes are oblivion to yet another troubled soul. seemed to lie in provoking the great Machine and its characterised by loose and unpredictable assoc My breast swells with reverence as I stand before followers to ·destroy them with guns and bombs and . iations. labrinthine patterns of colours and sweet the sacred altar of the Great Machine of Babylon. holy napalm. smells, a withdrawing into the self. deja vu. And I still cannot understand why those poor But things have become more peaceful now I clutch the Holy Sceptre. demented Neo-Luddities insist on defiling its holy since the consecration of the Throne of Ascension. The tempo increase like a river approaching a name by calling it "the electric chair". I am the holyman vested as its keeper. Only this morning another rebel was captured, and made to see the error of his ways. His image is still vividly fresh in my mind. He was scruffy, what some would call a Tripper. It seems to be a fashion amongst this sort never to wash, to let their hair grow straggly and untidy, and to let their minds wander on drugs. Now normally I am tolerant of such unfortunates, but the arrogance of this man, his blind conceit, filled me with rage. As soon as he was dragged in he began shouting at us, saying: "You servants of the Great Machine, you technocrats, are an abomination. You have slept with the Whore of Babylon, and it has stolen your souls. There was a time when the Machine was made of people, of flowers, of dreams, there was a time when the I' Machine was good, but you have perverted it. You have defiled humanity!" Recalling this now arouses me to wry amuse ment. I remember the transformation he was about .. .. to undergo. All his high sounding noble sentiments, all his outrage and hatred of the Great Machine of
Babylon. How they were so quickly to dissolve. \.\I, I ' ' '' ' The Throne of Ascension is designed to ' \ '' What was happening the ntt In ·· of ·, the city? Well there were all these venues.. The Red Orb, Mothers, Top Cats. Adam and Eves. Then the YMCA got ! in to the act. Christian discotheques. Snoopy's, Wizards Cauldron. They took over Adam and Eves and renamed it The Electric Circus.
Some of it was pretty bopperish. Daddy picking up the daughters at 10.30 sorta thing but there were a couple of 'swinging places' for the I 'swingers'. i
Was It mosd�records •. No, no. Bands all the time. Three of I From Foco to the Task For.cefrom 4BC to 4ZZZ; green haired Idiots and the pigs; crazed gate four in a night, no trouble. Records crashers anashlng things; happy students sitting around wafting for the Revolution; Heavy Metal only i.n the breaks. That's what a poseurs pretending they were the Rock Stars of Brisbane; the Brisbane Devotee remembers It all as he. discotheque was. recalls the Life and Times of the Brisbane Music Scene. ·What was the radio scene like 4BC was big. (Sings) "Geoff. Tony That must have brought the place to I When did you first start In the Brls· What was the place like . and Bob." Tony McCarthur was good. ane scene? the notice of the authorities. Well there were movies or theatre to Beatles half hours. Soul and Blues Well the first dance I went to was at Yes well Don Cameron, then the boy warm things up then the band would music. Pretty progessive for the time. "Teen City" in Red Hill. Must have wonder of the Liberal Party ripped into start in another room with soul and Great flashbacks. They also ran things been 63 or 64. They were the days of it. He called it -. Quote: "Australia's blues usually. The Coloured Balls, at Festival Hall like Hoadley's Battle of most evil and repugnant nightspot". In Max Merit and the Meteors some- The Bands and Operation Starlifts. Tony Wolsley and The Stomp. 1 the Sunday papers. All this stuff about times. While this was going on there What was the place like? girls selling their bodies for drugs and would be discussion or poetry in a back Wh1lt was the Battle of the Bands? It was an old picture theatre. Over a traitors with buttons of Mao and room and movies somewhere else. The It was a national contest. Bands thousand people. They called them Vietnamese flags btslde their coats. Multi Media Happening they called from everywhere. Regional contests.
------·----· I "Sound lounges". Record Hop sort of state finals, and national finals. Pretty , thing with bands playing sometimes. good prizes - sound equipment, trucks, . Sorta like Discoes, I suppose. Really "Then they chased Whltlam down Queen Street, hitting Gra nd Prize of a trip to London to do loud. Crowded. People Stomping: It's his arse with a placard." a record. Hundreds of bands would
a roller skate rink now. compete. 1 Some southern band would usually I That must have boostedmembership win the final. Doug Parkinson In Did Cameron close Foco Ofcourse but it bought the heat and Focus or the Masters Apprentices or it was all garbage. At the time there No it lasted for a year or so after Then what happened. someone. were mumblings about plots. See on that shit. No the Labour Party closed Well that was the "Surfie' period. the Sunday night after the papers came Who were the promoters running Bleached blond hair, surfie shorts. out the club had put all its money into things around 68? Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. Then bringing The Wild Cherries from there were Mods and Rockers, Beatie In Brisbane it was John Hannay Melbourne and they had to mostly. He had the Sound Machine Haircuts, wide ties, bell bottoms, A where Pipps is now. It had fluorescent leather Jackets. The venues were pretty good night. Some said that red and black decor, tele- packed. Huge numbers of teenagers Lameron smeared it posters, then. And they were all pretty united. to wipe it out by phones on the table so you could ring Common interests. All they'd argue blowing the money. 1 other tables. It was OK. Best bands. over was whether the Beatles were Authorities work like Always written up in Go Set, which better than the Stones. that. was the paper then. Though some of the bands didn't get paid. But Hannay I Were there many venues at that was the man. He booked all the I time? YMCA things and had venues in! Toowoomba, Maryborough and Yeah, well by 68 there were quite a I few. A dozen or so plus regular ·Ipswich suburban hall dances. See at that time Booked for the radio stations there were may be 5 or 6 professional Most things. Managed solo singers. ! bands in Brisbane. You know blond haired pretty boys in:I Professional like in that was all they three piece suits. John Blanchfield.: did. Plus there were other bands that Chris Kite. The hoppers loved 'em. : worked in regular jobs and maybe He went broke putting on the Bishop ; played three times a week as well. The. Island Pilgrimage. All these bands on ' Coloured Balls were like that and they this island in Moreton Bay. Jeff St: were one of the best bands to come our it. John and Copperwine, Doug Parkin- : of Brisbane See on son, Chain, Lobby Lloyd. Hardly any i Mayday of them turned up. Wanted to get paid suppose 69 the Rads I . Beside it poured rain all . What sort of music did they play sort of wreck- weekend. So he had to get going. One I Well maybe by this time the scene ed the March. of his nightclubs burnt down then. 1 had split a bit. The professional bands Chanting slogans. Luckily it was insured or he would l played top 40 stuff, but at this time Sitting'on the road. have been bankrupt. � that was Stones, Manfred Mann, they chased Whit- Kinks, Small Faces etc which was OK. lam down Queen Street, Wh at was happening around the The Coloured Balls were Soul and hitting his arse with a plac- nlverslty? Blues. Otis Redding, Four Tops, Blues ard U i The Un wasn't big at all i dassics. But it was never a case of So anyway Egerton closed it : � , ? 68. r Students dtdn t h ve much cl ss tn the never the twain shall meet. Soul and Said it was patronised by Comms � � town So ta w de eyed tnnocents ! Blues were more an acquired taste. and enemies of Labor. It went on a · . � . t slum mg tt. Ltke most people at Foco 1 , bit longer in South Brisbane, but � weren t students. The were peop e The Coloured Balls -that was·it. _Y. � i of j back from Czech uprtstngs or Parts • "One the. best groups Brisbane produced" · 1be Coloured Balls played at Foco ·riots. Not just uni students. (Spits) �AZARAZARAZARAZAAAZ.O RAZARAZARAZARAZARAZARAZARA. They started out having Orientation didn't they? Did you ever go there? .t-.ZARAZARAZARAZARAZA A A Yeah quite a few times. It used to be R Z R RAZARAZARAZARAZARAZARAZARA Dances that were OK at the beginning. i on Sunday nights. Union nights had an interesting : Rerelease single Task Force/Stamp out Disco beginning though. "These berks rant and stamp in a sub-cortinas mess about how they want to havP. Could you tell us about It? See prior to 67 there was this thing a fight and watch punk rock bands. The chorus is a chant of "Disco Shit" which I It was in Trades Hall. The Rads called window shopping that the suppose is meant to be some sort of rallying cry for slogan craving rrorons locked hangout. Foco was Spanish for guerilla students did during Commem Week. 1 in a musical South Africa and resorting to mindless whining against people who Like the night before . the Commem 'I! camp. See in 1968 it looked like it was actually get on with the art of living."- 'Disco Shit' Ed Baker, NME. March gross thing 1 all over. Black Panthers. Paris riots, which was a pretty j' Vietnam:-tlie Rads were just hanging where people threw flour and water "Der boys have da finger on da pulse"- RAM round waiting for the Revolution. bombs and handed out smutty papers Here is the from floats.Anywa y Window Shopping l EP release sooR Money Never Enough/Self Destruct/Shutdown Countdown/' News ·Continued over page · ·- South. It was'dreadful but worse it got a lot But in the Sixties the local of the bands off side with · halls what bands all had their fan and with the pensioner five streets away clubs shit. And Southern who couldn't hear her husband snoring bands were "also" big. complaining. Were there any good bands at the So what were the people doing at time? ' this time. The bands at this time were on the I They were being Hippies, man. Or professional music trip. You know, A I Counterculturalists it was by then. See Man and His Music. Getting it I 1 1973 was Nimbin. From 1970 on it had together in the 'far out' jam. There's been drugs. Grass and acid and speed no denying their competence, gee, the , for the weirdos. Like it was big and it audience just sat there admiring them. ! ------I , 1 "They'd get on stage and swish their hair about and tWirl their arms down on the guitar playing riffs."
was a big deal to be "doing" dope. It Carol Lloyd and Railroad Gin you wasn't at every Liberal Party BBQ. · could dance to, but other ones like Like later the breed apart existed· Silas Farm you just sat and listened to then. The Alternatives. You were and tried to throw in "Wow! Far out!" either straight or crooked. In the scene or just got bombed and watched the Jr out of it (or rather not out of it.) light show. Not much social ·milieu in THE GO RETWEENS : "She's from Ireland, She's very beautiful/ I come from Brisbane that. and I'm ouite plain!/ She's from the mountains so close to hea ven/ Stars on her shoes, You've obviously seen the full clot!ds on her breasts!/ And Iyi Yiyi Yi love Lee Remick! Where was this drug scene happen development of the Brisbane scene. ing. was the night before when there were What about the bands at �hat time. How do you see that it could become The University had the entertain- all these parties and boat trips and good again and start moving. . Early 70.' ·bands? (Laughs uproar- ment I guess, but there was a lot of things that got you drunk or whatever. � Look the Sixties won't come again. tously).. Th�p Thurn� Thump wang hanging round in the city. Willi's Then all the happy students went into at 120 dectbels. See m the 70 s t�e Ever hear of the Baby Boom? All those . Bazzar where the strip club in Petrie town and started lighting fires in were soldiers coming home from the war Dtscoes mostly closed. A few m Bight now is was big. Just a late night rubbish bins and kicking in windows and having a good time. 1945 - 1956. pubs. All the others w.ent to night cofee shop wher.: all these people sat til the main attraction of the beating of The Baby Boom kiddies were all clu�s. Heavy Metal Mustc was on the with one cup of coffee between them. the pigs started. It was pretty wild but bram. teenagers in between '64and '70. . Stretched out. Playing mind games. there was nothing political about it, so See there was thts character cal�ed That was the most number of . Looking to score. Hanging round. when the cops banned Window Shop John Hem who started managmg teenagers as a proportion of the . Course later there were tourists and ping, Union Nights started to keep the bands or rather manufactur g population that there will probably m them. plain clothes · students off the streets. All his bands played Black Sabbath ever be. Do you know what it was like Of course there wasn't anything in to have that number power and to be the city like this. Town venues didn't part of the Youth Revolution. "Then all these happy students went into town and began lighting encourage to sit around going "far Swarms of teenagers all dancing to fires in rubbish bins and smashing windows·, tUI the main out". The city was just discovering the same beat. Looking for a good attractionof the beating of the Pigs started." discos in the mid 70's. I remember time. Listen, in the '60's it was nothing when the first one opened. Waves it to have a thousand people at some ------was called at the majestic Hotel. thing. No trouble at all. Parties. Two and stuffat volumes that didn't matter It wasn't till 1970 that the Uni The explanation they gave us was or three hundred people could go to if you missed a chord or even if you started to get OK. The Rads started to widen the audience's 'musical one in a night. couldn't play. organising happenings with bands like appreciation'. You know; hear the Don't believe me? Listen they had But Hein got them work. He'd haye Shepherd and McKenzies Theory. latest overseas bands, be knowledge this thing called the Treasury Step 5 of them on at a suburban dance or HARPO How About Resisting able at parties, impress your friends Mob. One or two hundred people shove them on at a free concert in the Powerful Organisations was the group with your record collection. sitting on the Treasury Steps in Queen Square. They'd get on the stage and that did dances at the Uni in the early Course it caught on. The Hierarchy. Street, waiting to be told about parties. swish their hair about and twirl their 70's. When they started they were just Overseas is better than Australian is Any parties. arms down on the guitar playing riffs· this group who couldn't stand the better than Brisbane. Course the local You'd go to 5 or 6 parties in a night. and lead breaks or whatever and student union Brass Union Nights. bands deserved it. No-one got any Just cruise. Eat the food, drink grog pretend that they were the Rock Stars on. Really poppy garbage with hay rides where in Brisbane let alone down and move Course you bought your of Brisbane. and things. So Harpo started doing all these dances and organised lectures by Ginsberg and Phil Ochs. The Revolut ion had been delayed but was on the way, so we hung round watching the pretty lights and the talented bands which was better than being in the city.
How were ' things in the city at this time? Terrible. The early 70's were really a state of decline. See the whole music scene became fucked world wide. It just fragmented. Before the whole age group 14 - 24 were pretty much all into the same type of music. · In the 70's this changed into bubble gum music for the youngsters, heavy metal Led Zepplin stuff for the 18 year olds, and Glen Campbell shit for the mature audiences. This all came down on the local scene and messed it up.
How? Well for example take radio. The early 70's saw the rise of wonder 4IP. 4BC was still plugging along after Tony Me Carthur left in 68. They brought in Mike Ahern. They'd have Festival Hall things where they'd have hundreds chanting "I shall have no leader but my leader Mike Ahern!" Weird. Still 4IP went straight for the hoppers. Bubble Gum Music, squeaky clean DJ's in uniform disc jockey got report the dance as a "trouble spot" t? . he�dquarters and then hang around tl_ll tt the door at punk dances. They're not and sueked offin the Electric Circus? 13 hot nites in a cops drive past fimshes for a few more arrests and a brt there to stop swearing etc like you're they move slow/ A million people staying Or about the person the cops first more overtime. arrested for, it can only be to harrass this low/ with mangoes ripe who needs to know suspected had firebombed The Whisky Beats tryinB to do something socially new movement, to nip in the bud this new I dont want to let down/ my hopes for this Au Go Go, where all those people got useful like prcking up drunken real estate "sickness·:. town/ its so hard to get around/ lots of cars killed, who the cops described as a salesmen. I don't think it's working. Punk is pick ing up more people in Brisbane every but not much sound. a e th always harasse .. SHOP 13 CITY ARCADE 52 QUEEN STREET SHOP 3 ELIZABETH ARCADE CITY . ,.. . PHONE 221 2713 ·. 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Fuiji Angels and Zero with a mot ey ere i � There's nothing like it in Sydney or Mel crew of Pinkos, Bex Crystals and Hard bourne. A string of venues, band manage Ons. ment, tour organisation and general con On the fringes of this there is the resp tact point. They've pretty well swamped ectable Humans, the up and coming Brisbane with Live Music and done it Scrap Metal, the reforming for a month more or less alone. Fuller Banks and Bruce Anton with a Commerc�al radio was pushed into the new b DANCE �d called The Bees- Chris Logan's _ · Support Disco camp. Disco isn't going not mtt. to wipeout live music. No one is out The John Hein musicians of such ' there dreaming of being in a band with notables as Touch or Pheonix, the tired lemming s Donna Summer. Rock is based on a kid caberet of Wickety Wak and Seasons of BRISBANE BANDS with a guitar playing House of the Rising the Witch are finis. 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Money had been banned by the government, who had made every attempt to wipe all memories of notes and coins from the minds of the people If the police caught mother and father with money thay could be jailed for life, condemned to work in a prison factory making plastic credit cards to the end of their days. BAnkcardy's parents made a pact with him. They would teach him the pleasures of money if he promised never to tell a soul about the dark family secret. Just as he was about to give up, he opened the It didn't take Bankcardy long to become a bottom drawer of his father's duchess B ankcard Matthews was ten years old monkey Once you're introduced to the root of all It was the strangest sight he had ever seen. when he crept into his parent's bedroom and evil, there is no turning back Tucked mto the corner of the drawer was a discovered something that was to change his plastic bag contamrng twenty small Circular pieces life. of metal That was years ago, back in the year 25 2000. Some were srlver, some brown Although his credit rating was excellent, little When he entered high school, he was surprised One of the silver preces had a prcture of a lady's Bancardy, as his. mother called him, seldom slept to find there were four other monkeys in the class head on one s1de Clrclmg the head were the well. They became his closest friends. In the final mscnptrons "Eirzabeth II" and Australia 1973. strange jingling sound which came from his year at school, the five formed a rock group which A On the other Srde was an echidna which parent's bedroom often kept him awake until rhe they called "The Monkeys" appeared to be makmg a futile attempt to hide early hours of the morning. Every Saturday night they played ·at a secret behrnd the number frvs The jingling was often accompanred by low, underground club in Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace. Bankcilrdy had le;=Jrnt about echidnas at school. ecstatic groans. They sang and made music by shaking tin He had never :;een a real one He never would. What weird ritual were his parents indulgmg 1n commonwealth bank piggy banks - relics of a ' Lrke most Australran animals, echrdnas were every night? Bankcardy had pondered this question bygone era. extmct for years. It became an obsession with him Their favorite songs were ancient roc�>.. classics Next to the plastic bag he found some As much as he yearned to know the answer, like Give Me Money and I Want Your Money, thing even more mysterious. Bankcardy never dared to ask his parents what rt Honey. was that obviously gave them so much pleasure But the biggest show stopper of them all was It was a brown and whrte prece of paper On He knew there were things th but lH!y t!lllt'� lilt! Jdt·.JsLnes money can bring, 1 thr.y do11'1 Will II IIH'Ir children to be monkeys. .md Th<�t's wily they had their bedroom sr proof(�d wlwn therr first son was born last year. This year marks some important milestones in the long and illustrious career of Superman. He is celebrating around about his 75th birthday, although he still doesn't look a day over 35. Rumour has it that after a courtship of some 40 years, the Man of Steel is about to tum to jelly and propose to Lois Lane. This year he also suffered his first major defeat at the hands of none other than Muhammed Ali. He is also starring with Marlon Brando in an ambitious .$33 million movie screen ing everywhere but Krypton. In association with the movie he is also to be the focus of a mass ive merchandising promotion which admen are already confident wiD outstrip that of Star Wars I the promoters have even formulated Kryptonite!! And to cap it aU, the caped crusader is even featured in a new Brisbane musical, • Man of Steel' written by Simon Denver and composed by Y eronga State High School music master, Ian Dorricot. Seven Brisbane schools have already grabbed the play, published by Playlab Press, for coming productions. Superman remains the most successful science fiction comic book superhero of aU time. In this age of superlatives, .. Super" is no longer a sufficient prefix to apply to the fortunes of the Man of · Steel. Perhaps we could more appropriately rename him ...... In Hollywood on the morning of outfits. and visitors from other worlds, signed over copyright on the Man of recent episode in her own comic titled June 17. 1959, happy families sat down "Slave of the Super Serum". Super and detectives. and crusading news Steel for $130 plus $15 a week each to before their bowls of cornflakes at their man faced one of his most demanding paper reporters. But neve.r before had produce the cartoon series. Ten years breakfast tables, opened their news tasks in fighting off the advances of the all of these been rolled into one later they tried to get the copyright papers, and read the bold. black character. back. but only ended up getting sacked Superfemme hell-bent on matrimony. healdlines: SUPERMAN COMMITS for their efforts. Despite continual But somehow he managed to cope with SUICIDE." The original Superman could "leap appeals. it wasn't until Christmas Eve. the tricky situation . . . and that's I Hours earlier. 45-year-old George /8 of a mile; hurdle a 20 storey 1975 when Detective Comics' parent largely been the reason for Superman's Reeves. a veteran of 104 TV episodes building; raise tremendous weights; company. National Periodicals. finally success over the years. of Superman. had retired quietly to run faster than an express train; and relented and agreed to honour Super Superman has always been able to bed in his Benedict Canyon home. nothing less than a bursting shell could man's creators. They called a press adapt to changing times. During the pulled out a German Luger from his penetrate his skin". but as his conference. and announced they would early thirties when the economic desk drawer. and blown his brains out. popularity grew his powers increased give the ncar destitute 56-year-old pair depression and political corruptness Indignant parents were faced with the accordingly (in the coming movie. he's $20.000 a year each for the rest of their were in the headlines. Superman was unsettling task of breaking the bizarre "faster than the Concorde" and can tly lives. as well as public acknowledge saving suburban housewives from wife 90 news to their youngsters. and in the around the world in second� ment for creating Superman. (The year beatings. and helping to expose Sen wake of controversy that followed. carrying Lois Lane). Superman quickly before the company had sold the ators on the take. During World War Superman comic sales slumped drast ·became entrenched as an imperishable screen rights to the adventures of II Superman fought against the Japs ically. part of American Society folklore. and Superman for $3 million.) Superman and Crouts. and was branded a But you can't keep a good Man of spawnL'(\ a host of cop_v·cat superheroes wa� reunited with hi� "family" at last. "Jewmonger" by Nazi Propaganda Steel down. and within months his 61/2 Minister Joseph Goebbels.After the "'"'"�ESN'r million devoted followers had forgotten ·--;:>EQ'\1-l"- ".l. :;t··.-., .� war he quickly regained his popularity all about the death of a mere mortal -,...J�:;,...,_...., . ..,.-::.r.;:: r in Germany and Jaoan. the adventures "'--.._ �· .l. -- .. A f'("""' . ' 1 - " also becoming the No actor. and returned to their real comic ·-- -> 8EA7/ . -·------' -- ..------�------·------1J/If\Of4J) fo SYbNf'/IS PAVID WrrH �D IN\IlNfiONS ... Pt.Rt'£(.1' J'I\AS'fEI{ s 0 F "fH£ SvRft.E.FILISfl( tON ,. �· . r.; • • .. . .:. t? . . 'J'' . � . . · . '·�.:::�:· ��, :r·� . . . • •• •• . \...... 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But are these just scapegoater of 'poms' and 'abos'. JOkes? British elections on to support Margaret (ITT) , was an easy victory for the multi fhe prospect of an anti communist Thatcher (he argued that Trade Unions national. The multinationals have success N?, argues Deane Wells, a philosopher, totalitarian regime in Australia will de�nd the . were too powerful e fully campaignedto cut back the size of m his book 'The Deep Nortli'. There are on the perceived threat of 'communism'. and were turning th in UKinto ) governments and trade unions; they have three beliefs common to totalitarians; a What are the prospects of Communisn a state akin to Hitler's Germany totalitarian believes state as Australia? successfully instigated programs that in the the has been on loan from Britain as Malcolm prim� political unit, not the citizen, that Most of the communist groupings in Fraser's specialsecurity adviser. re-distribute wealth from the poor to them, the citizens are there to serve the state; ' · Australia would probably agree w1th the they have facilitated the rise of Police State a totalitarianbelieves that there is no limit type of socialism being popularised by the Some civil liberties will disappear, but to· .. ·the areas.of people's lives in which A there will be new freedoms. There wiD be The present economic climate, inflation, :M.W.U. in their publications 'Australia unemployment has resulted in State can intervene; a totalitarian RiPped Off :�nd 'Australia Uprooted': · the freedom not to join Trade Unions, wo,fd-wide believes that the various instruments of nal job auction with govern they propose abolishing Tax on wage· there will be the freedom not to strike, an internatio the police, the public service to outbid each other in grant government. earners and re lacing it with a Wealth Tax ments trying and so on, are merely the instruments of f th ere will be the freedom to walk down l incentives to corporate invest on all persona wealth in excess of · ing financia �he will of a political party, and ultimately, the road without being confrontedby $100,000.; they point out that the · .. ment. 1ts leader, the Fuhrer Principal. the scruffy unemployed, there will be the Recently, the state of Ohio and the wealthiest 1% of population owns 22% of By using the police and the State a1 an not �xes. provinr" of Quebec held such a bidding the total wealth and that the top 5% own fr�Nfom of companies to pay instrument of 1mpersonal will ,Job has 46% of total wealth; they suggest nation· contest to attract a new Ford assembly How do we fight the Police State? It's demonstrated his belief in the Fuhrer alised development of Australia's mineral plant. Ontario 'won' the contest, but the wr�ng to _PUt your faith in the Labor Party Principle. wealth with earnings being re-invested in �e� winn_er was Ford, picking up $68M which rehes on conventions and legalisms. Australian manufacturing; they propose a m mcenttve grants. In t�e light of November 1975, D H Dep Planning that these ENVIRONMENTALISM MEANS EAT ! artment of Economic legaltsms mean The most extraordinary concessions are would have powers like being able to order nothing the Free Trade Zones that exist in Malaysia, the merg�n_g of 'inefficient' smaller indust· Real social power lies at the point of . produ and the Phillipines, South Korea and Taiwan. Joh Bjelke Petersen has social power nes into larger units; they point out that ction, in the mines and factories because he is a representative for the the Australian taxpayer as a result of offices. When the people take them over Free Trade Zones are a country within a dominant mining industry; another various �centives to mining companies, and run them for ourselves, the Police country, cut off by barbed wire and 'Zone influenti�f spokesmanfor this gro�p, �!lOg $'i'im State Police: they are enclaves either totally or �tually pays the_l!rlning companiP.s will fall. ; Hancock, has recently published hts VISion to exploit our minerals. partiauy exempt from the laws of the host a Perhaps we're being ot pessimistic about of our future, in book called Wake Up Th�se yiews h�ve been opularised by country; they are zones where multination Australia. p the future. al investors are invited to operate their the dtstnbution of 250 ;000 copies of It is wise to remember that Lang Hancock 400 million peopl�: are starving and we are manufacturing plants. 'Australia Ripped Off through the unions, expected Hancock is no crazy fresh from a loony bin to believe that they are starving the Labor Party and the newsagents. because bin; he is the wealthiest man in Australia, of scarcity. because there isn't As unemployment grows, as the number enough food. a man who had a plan drawn up detailing of Australians living oelow the povertr, lin. . Scarcity is just a. m can how he could buy the National Party in e mcreases, th e question of why on y t.h·, the world produce enough t oo 1 -:J or everyone. The Western Australia for a mere $200,000·, the Few benefit from our wealth will. reason why people are starving is that they Lang Hancock believes we have a choice become more important; in defending between Capitalism, which represents ife, are t?o poor to .be a�le to afford the food. L themselves, will the Few adopt the and Environmentalism, which represents that IS there. Ftelds m South America Will environ- Death extreme views of the Right? grow carnations for the American market He believes that the Soviet Union is mentalism mean Death? Who will end up while a few yards away people are starving. Local elites and foreign turning the building the East-West railway? agribusiness Indian Ocean into a Russian _ trms ha d�ri:..:.v.::.. en:.:.....::;th�e�pe�o�p�l!:.e�o�ff� t� h�e!!ir_ La�e; we must either �---��------=fi.:: .:: .:: �.:: :..:.v.::..e,;: . develop the North or die "A qstralla Is a Welfare State In transition to a Pollee State" !'fe sees the best way of doiJlg this is with lands. In countries With nuclear J?OWerand Free Enterprise. like Guatamala, 2% of the population own 80% We sh<;mld b.Ulld dams with nuclear bombs of the land. Oftensmall farms and mme !lllnera�s with nuclear bombs; we are more efficient than large ones. Crop rotation, sh.ould, bUI�d a rrulway from the iron ore labour intensive rearing of mmes m Pilbara to the coal fields of livestock and crops in Queensland. the same area, the mixing of different crops on the same land allmake OJ?posing all these sane policies is small farming more efficient. �nYI�onmentalism which he calls "an In Ini:lia, output is one third higher on As the host countries offer mstdious sabotage of our nation" incentives. the smaller farms; even in the U.S.A. to provide raw material, power and water Free Enterprise must be attracted to the the income per acre has usually been and tax laws are waived; North by declaring a Free Trade Zone bigger import duties on the small family farms. social stability and cheap labour are there; ultimately Australia shoul become So that's Australi 's future: the Wit and reform and a decentralised guaranteed. part of a Gre'lter South East Asia Free disappearance of ufacturing jobs to �/ comm nal struc�ure, China doubled the host country gets desparatv· Trade Zone.l grain In return the Free Trade Zones of Ast·a, automatt'on ororluction in 15 years. needed foreign exchange and It is easy to understand the attraction of desparately replacing clerical, banking �d insurance employment. Centuries of colonial..ll� su�h an �conomic unit to an empire . There is no problem of human need that butlder hke Lang Hancock; wo kers, unemployment chmbmg to an cannot plollation have left the economies of Third its land area ! be solved; it's only the vested wo.uld be)arger than the World countries ruined. Unemployment is Greater German estimated 30% of the workforce in the interests, the greed of the Few that stand �etch �t 1ts .fieight; it would close to 30%; 400 million are actually have more .Eighties and an estimated 50% in the Nine- ilJ the way. mdustnal power; it would have more · a starving; 100 million are homeless. ties, falling real wages, rising company pro The en�rg� crisis !s only �roblem for pe(,lple; it would have more · Most western 'aid' has been in the form political ...... the multmat10nal oll compames; solar pmoners profi 1ts, mul�matl�n�l mmmg compames of loans that need to be repaid;foreign . power is a readily available, renewable, The. death of J oh will in no way wtll be runmng/rummg the country, the exchange is necessary. Many Third World stop aiternative energy source. Even for a liquid the dnft of Queensland towards a Police · countries find that their futures are dole will be reduced almost to nothing; fuel to power cars, the sun can be used to His successor probably will be Russ morga&ed. Indonesia's debt is so great that . there will be a huge gap between the Poor grow crops like sugar cane, sugar beet, Hinze, a man whose outlook is as fun it plans to borrow this �ssava and so on that can be converted of tlie $24billion damentally totalitarian as Job's. and the. ? rich resulting social instability. anc will be left once . ' mto alcohol. And cars can run as well on year, only $130milhon As well, Hinze has an obsession with groWing an�l�terronst. legtslatlOn the previovs bills are paid. alcohol as on petrol. The oil companies 'punishment'. He has spoken in The trans1t10n from a Welfare State to a the . By 1980,25% of the Third World's e favour just exploit 'crisis' of the for executions· he Economic efficiency for the Few is export earnings will be used to service something that concentrates wealth; small overseas loans. Total Third World debt is $180billion and rising. Save The Toad farms are more productive, but they don't like bxxon, General Motors. concentrate wealth. Coml!anies What a wonderful little magazine The And that's the 'problem' with solar General Electric, all have annual sales Toad Times is!! Not only do we give power. So the oil companies are investing greaterthan the entire national p,r. oduct of nuclear power, and you have a big econ a country like the Phillipines;when West the best magazine this side of the m omic push behind it. inghouse were awarded the contract to stump but we give it away at such a Solar research is starved of funds. In the build a nuclear power station near the run price that we've into debt! U.S. the Department of Energy, Bataan Free Trade Zone. they allegedly And when we decide to rectify thii spends eight times as much on nuclear paid a $35m bribe; they recovered this 'regretllble situation, what do we do'M'e research as solar power; even the breeder when tne reactor was bought for a few Carter hundred million dollars more than normal. offer you the greatest opportunity of your reactor, a program that President has repudiated because of its nuclear life! You send us $3 and we send you one proliferation implications, receives more This type of development doesn't help of our fabUlous Save The Toad posters! money. the people; its aim i� to concentrate wealth That's right!! You give us three of those And the bias towards large scale projects and power. The people are useful only as badly designed, poorly printed, over valued distorts the development of solar power; the solar projects funded, cheap labour. When the Bataan reactor was pieces of (tiny) paper, and we give you that get like the "power tower" a nuge field of optically being bu ilt, fishing grounds were destroy ed one of our giant-sized, colorful, funny, optica!lyperfect mirrors' that boils water to and people were driven from their land. -pieces of paper. _)ust send generate elictricity, aim to produce large · amounts of centralised electricity that The government offers the people as $3 to the Save The Toad Campaign, cto cheap labour; a cycle of development, can only be used by the big utility compan· Post Office, Kenmore q4068. ies. rebellion and repression begins. profit from the Save The Toad Large scale capital intensive projects are wasteful of resm• ·s and they destroy It is no accident that the countries which campaign will go towards the jobs. have introduced Free Trade Zones, South of our ultimate Korea, the Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia wellnon. the Tabloid Bomb. are gross violators of human rights, con deJll!led in numerous reports by groups . fo,.. rangmg from Amnesty to the U'S' State Cq"C. DeJ?artment. The mutinationals have multi _n.atwnalised_terror and torture. -=-�� -r..c;.t. However the multinationals, the Nat ional Party, The Australian, Malcolm T�; Fraser don't regard these countries as �t·bO Police States, thev regard them as · "economic miissSr" The omy sourl:e ur wealth is poor people; the �nly source of power is powerlessness. Cap1�al1sm create affluence m the West by creatmg poverty in the 3rd world.