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fc » *• < » Hello and welcome to Semper Floreat number six for 1994. With nine m months worth of experience and over 160 conrtributors behind us we here m at Semper like to think that we are pumping out an increasingly Improved V^ product with lotsa meaty articles, solid regular features (Ie. Short Stories, Poetry, Clubs & Socs, Cooking, Fac •fM;! ulty, Colleges, Reviews. QUAFF and m Sport) and even some humour (?!?!).
•'-' -'><«'iiAJ?«*ri This edition features a group of three articles looking at the issue of unem ployment from various angles. Hope fully we can shed some light upon this •^^^ complicated social problem and get i W^ more people motivated and writing let i^yi ters to their local members of parlia m ment (They're in the book. No! Not the Bible, the White Pages!}.
f<»,!,-. Contributors beware! Only two edi .^. • •t^.":^ tions of Semper remain for compila •"^v it<" ^::^rr'('< V? -,Vf> tion in 1994 so If you have been i-'V*^ spending all year meaning to come ' -^ "•*«' :'*^ ij>>_^*i down to our luxuriously appointed of !•*- fices (turn right at the Commonwealth Bank Autoteller, truly a University V3ai,\ icon) but have never gotten around- to-it then ROCK ON DOWN! The remaining deadlines are on Sep tember 9 and October 7. The last contributors meeting will be '^) at 1pm, September 15. If all previous contributors could make a big effort to attend so that we can take the team tv''.-. photo and give out the Temaining cheques it would be much appreci _ ml ated.
Thanks very much to the sub-edito rial team who have made our job so much less impossible.
*• ->':^;i P.S. Hey! Did you know that the Rec Club serves very reasonably priced beer but that the University's nutcase alcohol policy won't let them adver tise their prices. Doesn't that suck? Should check 'em out, yeah!
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Dear Semper Editors In males aged from 17 to 2$i Dear Editorsi ' .Dear Editors'/Vi; • • ••••''/}S^J::?5/^;; • suicide isa larger killer than car I write concerning the ongoing It is vital that I respond!^^4hej It has come to my attention that crashes. In the age of hyper* debate on culls antifot religion recent letter to the editor/ at-;. the nineteen nineties are an cynicism there is nothing left f o that has been a feature of the tributed to one N.P.S. /^ ^ ;/*:' aimless, godieas time when believe in. Letters to the Editor pages in there is no common goal, no N.P.S. states "Language Is Semper this year. More specif!• common idealism and no eom« Can somebody restore my faith merely the method with which cally 1 wish to respond to mon good. It Is a nether-land of in the big picture, without men we communicate our chosen Emmanuel Qoidsteln'a letter (or embarrassing pauses and «pa» tioning Religion, Politics or afctitude. It Is a tool, it gener to whomever hie alter ego may thetic silences. This is no Brave Drugs? ates nothing of itself nor be of the last issue. New World, it isa fearful, impo- YourS'runnlng>a-warm-bath- changes anytiiing of Itseif." tent regurgitation of a distilled and^oised>with-one-hand-h9si- The reductio ad absurdum ap« You're wrong N.P.S. You're so and sterilised old-world, it is a tantly-gripplng-the>razor-biade preach adopted In that letter Is damn wrong. Attitude, from cultureless, emotionless, con a step backwards for the ra Jagger Bonaparth, Child Of The conception to action, Is guided servative period of apathetic in tional atheist position. Christi Times. through the lens of our primary difference. anity does not reduce to a cult verbal code. The form of our however much we may wish to Drowned by a stow of television language affects our attitudes show this to be so. On the other and a barrage of newspapers we Dearest dagger, In innumerable ways; some sub hand, why focus solely on Chris do not have the time or money Stevo: In answer to your question: tle, some direct. tianity when (PC taboos aside) to speak out or act up. What is NO. any religion can and does at The correlation between the sues are left for one who con Davo: Get your shit together tract the same arguments? I dexterity of our language and siders oneself middle of the Jagger! take particular exception to the the technological development road? We cannot see action on Stevo: Get a razor and slit your ristsi suggested response of book of our civilisation is very strong: any issue as our Job, because burning (even if it is the bible) A complex language implies a the 'media' shows us that each Davo; Get a job and a sense of pur and architectural vandalism complex society. A sexist lan possible problem has already pose! (even if it is a cathedral) sug guage implies a sexist society, been assigned to some extrem Stevo: Cut your losses.,, gested by the letter despite any a racist language indicates a ist rampant minority. Eg. We Davo: Cut your hair! attempt to remain at a meta- can't be envrionmentaiiy racist society. Similariy, a pas The Eds: Cut out being such a de phoric level. As a god-fearing minded: that is the role of com sive language ieads to a passive pressing nutter! Englishman once wrote, when munist greenies who chain civilisation. For example, the "being hated (read violence of themselves to trees and starve BeTrobi people were an ex the self-righteous) don't give to death on a diet of lentils and Dear Dave & Steve, tremely passive race, as is re way to hating ... and.... you'll be soya beans. We can't support I was thoroughly impressed by flected by their native language: a Man, my son". Congratula sexual equality because that is your Family Focussed Semper. they devised only one work of tions, Emmanuel on winning the shown as being a role of weight- Congratulations to Stephen strong criticism, which is best Rudyard Kipling award for politi lifting, gun-toting skinheaded Scott for an excellent, heart felt translated as "such a one who, cal correctness defending the dykes who eat their own kids article Queer Families: Family while wearing a copper nose minority of the month - atheism. and guiltlessly cut penises off Queers. Thank«you for express ring, stands in a footbath atop As an atheist I could not have passing males. Such sensation ing my own thoughts and feel Mount Raruaruaha during a hoped for a weaker statement alist classification of protesters ings so eloquently. Family to me heavy thunderstorm and shouts of my own point of view. (and protest in general) does is a group (no matter how small) that Alohura, Goddess of Light nothing but to alienate us from of peopie struggling to live to* ning, has the facial features of However, i did notice the Edi being 'involved*. We do not know gether, (even separately on the a diseased uloruaha root". tors' finely tuned sense of ihe what issues we can speak out planet can be too close) and live ironic shown in the placing on The importance of language and on because we are hidden from by the principles of iove trust the same page as Emmanuel's the specifics of the constructs "issues" by human-interest sto and peaceful harmony. James letter of a letter denouncing the of our language is gigantic. To ries and crappy game shows Breckeli a "Christian Viewpoint recent religious inspired vio quote one Stephen Fry: that clog up the airwaves. of the Family" of course so bound by identifying with a di lence of Middle Eastern terror "Language is a whore, a ists. These acts, including ihe To be middle-of-the-road means minishing patriarchal sense of mistress, a wife, a pen- more recent bombing of the Is to be cynical and apathetic, society attempted to tell me friend, a check-out girl, a raeli embassy in London, under boring and directionless, the how to be fulfilled sexually. To complimentary moist score the fact that our campus current wave of thought-annihi you James I ask firstly where lemon-scented cleansing cults are part of a worldwide lating fear has produced an era you got your "degree" In sexual square or handy freshen- upsurgeance of fundamentalism of stagnancy. It seems as satisfaction for all humanity • up wipette. Language is In all religions. though everything has been probably from your extensive the breath of God, the dew tried and failed. Religions are imagination which also creates But shock, horror - atheists can on a fresh apple, the soft your knowledge of Qod's sex, clearly mind control. Any politi be fundamentalist too. rain of dust that falls into cal system you care to name sexual preference and plan for a shaft of morning sun I detect in Emmanuel's letter has been shown to fail in doz the Universe. How you could when you pull from an old more than a touch of doctrinaire ens of countries. Any revolution possibly try to convey to me bookshelf a forgotten di fervour of the type us atheists that has occurred in the last which gender will offer me ary of erotic memoirs; detest so much in religion. Athe thirty or so years has died out sexual 'fulfilment" is beyond my Language is the faint ism is more than a reheated and been called a mistake or a broad-minded scope of human scent of urine on a pair of hash of arguments set in an failure. Revolutions don't seem talents and I am deeply of boxer shorts, It's a haif re cient history, it is here and now to work. Look at recent history: fended that you would try. How membered childhood approach to life. I can only echc Communist revolution in China would even recognise female birthday party, a creak on Jay Rose's commonts (Letters s first class ticket to massacre. ecstasy sexually • when you are a stair, a spluttering to the Editor. Issue 4) in saying Russian communist revolution = not of my sex • let alone know match held to a frosted atheists have a non-hypocritical social breakdown and dimin that men can do it better then a pane, the warm, wet, morul code which we follow. ished living standards. Nineteen woman • When you haven't tried trusting touch of a leaking This does not extend to the sixties Sexual revolution a lesbianism either Is ridiculous. nappy, the hulk of a bully boy tactics of the funda whole generation of screwed up Thanks for your viewpoint and charred panzer, the under mentalists. By all means rise up adults who are no freer than yet another reason not to Join side of a granite boulder, against the forces of darkness., their forbearers. Nineteen six your views. I love and in a God the first downy growth on but for heaven's sake (sic) don't ties Ecstatic revolution s waves foiled such unconditional iove the upper lip of a Mediter Join them. of new laws against drug use who accepts me wholey be ranean girl, cobwebs long and millions of imprisonments. cause I am a part of her/his crea Yours without faith since overrun by an Id tion. Unlike yourself I don't Wellington boot." The children of the generation claim to know her/his sex or H.Q.H. that supposedly woke up and sexuai preference. Yours with a half.iife of two bil fixed everything are killing Michelle Irving. lion years themselves in record numbers. L.Q.B. 12 QOod Brisbane Driving Schooi DISCOUNTS STUDENT ., CARS MANUAUAUTO la & GIFT VOUCHERS D RATES D DUAL CONTROL ALL CLASSES OF HEAVY INTERNATIONAL LICENCE TESTS la VEHICLE LICENCES * a STUDENTS WELCOME D ARRANGED. , FREE PICK-UP FULL HOUR'S . 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Driving 3chioo IAUSTRALIA' S UNEMPLOYMENT: THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT ^mW I Since the early 70's unemployment in Aus The primary reason for the high level of scale unemployment soon Australia will fective and out of louch with employers. tralia has been steadily increasing to the structural unemployment has been thai be left with two standards of living: one The new white paper on employment and point where approximately 10% of the Aus technological development has been for the workers and one for the unem growth "Working Nation" is all set to throw tralian workforce is unemployed al any one destroying jobs faster than the economy ployed. billions of dollars into yel another retrain time. This tragic state of affairs has crept up ing scheme whereby the unemployed will has been able to replace them. The What has been done? upon us gradually, disguised in a cloak of be sent to a network of JobSkills Brokers advent of computers and mass automa The one thing which we can say about difficult-to-undersland economic jargon, our who will put them through a 26 week tion is bewildering and challenging us the government's attempts to reduce un fears assuaged by claims that it will soon be course after which they will be dumped just as much as the first industrial revo employment so far wilh absolute certainty over, that the welfare system is looking after back upon the dole queue. This expen lution. Science is rapidly delivering the is that they have failed. They have sim the victims and that olher western naliond sive scheme does not even presume to age of leisure. It is now upto govern ply nibbled at the edge of the problem, are suffering from the same disease. We provide jobs but slates that when the jobs ment and business to make the best albeit in a well advertised and expensive now face a situation regarded as intolerable do appear (one day in the future) we will use of Ihis automative revolution insleac manner, f^/licro-economic reform has of only 20 years ago with amazing cairn while be ready. (See I\/lark Ludlow's article for of allowing 10% of the workforce to be ten destroyed more jobs than it has ere Ihe mainstream madia focuses on superfi more on "Working Nation") come dole-dependant statistics while ated, trade promotion has succeeded cial issues such as Republicanism. the olher 90% work harder than ever. mainly in primary industry where few peo What can be done? pie are employed and the youth wage has The Nature of Australia's Unemployment A Daik Future One thing which interested me when I simply taken jobs from older people en The main excuse which the government and Australia, long regarded as an egalitar began researching this topic is that many hanced inequalities. All of these reforms media presented us with for our high unem ian society, has developed an en commentators such as Hugh !\/1cKay have increased efficiency bul not employ ployment rate was that il was lhe resull of a trenched under-class removed from the have pointed out that mass unemploy ment. "recession". That we were temporarily expe mainstream economy and subject to the ment is something that we choose lo have. That there are many solutions riencing negative economic growth {ie. the whims of government welfare policy. The government's main effort has been which the government has simply re economy was going backwards) and that This marks a disturbing change in Aus directed towards retraining. This has fused to explore, Obviously there are the once this situation was brought to an end eve- tralian society the stability of which has seen the unemployed being marched untenable solutions such as reintroduc rything would be roses. However, Australia been underpinned by a reasonable dis Ihrough a series of easy-to-operale, ing compulsory military service or impos came oul of the recession and now has a very tribution of wealth. Some economists short-term courses such as computer ing a heavy jobs levy which would kill satisfactory level of 5% growth, but there are have suggested that such an under skills and bartending for years on end. growth. But if we look overseas or inlo still no new jobs! This is because a large pro class may lurn to cottage industry anc Their hopes are repeatedly raised and our own past we can find several alter- portion of lhe unemployment rate is nol the market gardening. This would widen then dashed. Apprentices are sent to naiive approaches. result of a lack of growth (cyclical unemploy the split in AusUalian cociety and cause employers with a government subsidy for ment) but is an inherent feature of the mod great resentment as the unemployed one year, used as cheap labour and then When Australia was faced with mass ern western economy, ie. the private economy would come lo miss out on more anc sacked. The Department of Employment, unemployment In the Greal Depression has become so efficient that it no longer needs more of the benefits of an affluent and Education and Training (DEET) and the of the 1930's the government acknowl 10% of the workforce to operate effectively technologically advanced society. It is Commonwealth Employment Service edge that the private economy was in no (structural unemployment). clear that if we do not eliminate large-^ (CES) have both been shown to be inef state to provide jobs and so provided ?/: Lher solution which >s^^'"9 ^lon of Sve action t°f'P^ sP^^^'^* '"^'' a . 1 t^me united States .s^^^^^^^^^^^ ,,.V^^^, -^^''tm^^^^'^'^'St^ A
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FULL EMPLOYMENT BmmmmimMs::$<: Unemployment is the fundamental di On the olher hand, there has been in rampant wage-price push inflation. lemma that faces Australia at the end countries characterised by high unem Although inflation will have to be con of the twentieth century The inability of ployment such as Australia, Canada, trolled once full employment is reached liberal democracies to commit them United Kingdom and the United States. it is not a problem if demand is mel by selves to full employment has resulted an increase in production. in massive unemployment throughout The essential difference between these the Western world. two groups is that the first group has This brings up the problem ot the defi an institutionalised commitment to full nition of full employment. Up to the mid- Since the 1970s the majority of OEGD employment. Austria, Norv^ay and Swe 1970s full employment was defined as nations have been characterised by den have achieved full employment being between 0-3% unemployed. It high levels of unemployment (8-10%). through corporafist arrangements. Cor was noted at the time that there would This fact is even more remarkable when poratism involves tripartite arrange be public uproar if the unemployment one considers that most of these coun ments that represent trade unions, busi level exceeded 4%. However, as mon tries had experienced high levels of em ness and government in the decision etarist policies were implemented in the ployment and economic prosperity af making process. These countries have tale 1970s and 1980s, and unemploy ter Ihe Second World War. Economists, a dominant labour movement that pri ment surpassed 10%, the definition of quile incorrectly, have attributed this orities full employment in its political and full employment became even more massive unemployment to the failure of economic agenda. vague. inflationary "Keynesian" policies that were implemented in the post-war pe Japan and Switzerland, on the other Gareth Evans, the IVIinister of Foreign riod, The low unemployment experi hand, do not have dominant labour Affairs and Leader of the Government enced by most Western nations movements and are often referred to in the Senate, recently said that full throughout the 1950s and 1960s was as "corporatism without labour". How employment was anylhing up to 6-7% mostly due lo the general economic ever, the prioritisation of full employ unemployed. He also said that 5% un uo «q activity of post-war reconstruction rather ment is still an essential part of govern employed was the "highest achievable tAp* fU0|)1 than any explicit government policy ment policy The Japanese, in particu level of employmenr. This continually Apart from rhetoric, these nations were lar, are characterised by a paternalistic changing definition of full employment never committed to establishing full em industrial relations system whereby is misleading. Full employment should tmm ployment. workers are linked to a particular firm be seen as between 2-3% unemployed ^t for life. If there are no jobs in a particu and is a realistic and achievable goal. Post-Keynesian economists such as lar area then the workers will be shifted Joan Robinson warned liberal econo to another part of the company where The reluctance of nations such as Aus mists of the consequences of the fail there are jobs available. tralia to focus on this problem should ure to implement Keynesian policies of be no justification to shift the definition .at socialisation of investment and public The second group of nations, that in of full employment to suit their short- sector expansion. These Keynesian clude Australia, United Kingdom, term political aims. Unemployment in ('WAVtM. policies were conducive to low unem Canada and the United Slates, have liberal democracies, such as Australia, ployment but were never properly im chosen the path of monetarist and eco has become an acceptable part of mod PH plemented by liberal democracies. The nomic rationalism that focus on market- ern capitalist societies. The inability of oriented policies of tow inflation and implementation of "Bastardised these nations to commit themselves to P-rrtmr Keynesianism", that consisted merely debt reduction. These nations have the unemployment problem reflects of a rhetorical commitment to full em decided to fight inflation first at the ex their political priorities. pense of full employment policies. ployment and the reassertion of mar Other countries thai have achieved full These monetarist policies benefit the m [•J«ft< ket-oriented policies, would eventually employment (or close to it) demonstrate financial sector which has a strong voice result in the economic deterioration of that the task is not impossible. The Fed in the decision-making process. High the late 1960s and 1970s. eral Government has chosen to ignore I •;!•'•••< unemployment will not be reduced by this massive problem and lo reinforce d^HO There has been a divergence of nations leaving the problem primarily to market their commitment to Ihe financial sec and their economic performance since forces alone. The last twenty years has tor and big business that benefits from the 1970s, On the one hand, there has demonstrated the ineffectiveness of this government policies of low inflation and been those nations with relatively low strategy in reducing unemployment. deficit reduction. unemployment such as Austria, Nor The pursuit of full employment, contrary }L way, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan. to orthodox economists, wilt nol result In times of high unemployment trade 'iV f^^
unions have little leverage for wage increases. It also proposed sale of what remained of allows business to re-affirm their "master-over-worker" Australia's national assets. The attitude while at the same time lo increase their profit federal airports were included in margins. During this period of high unemployment the this proposed massive sell-off that wage disparity between high and low income earners would raise about $2 billion, has increased dramatically. Victorian ALP Left Senator, Kim In the aftermath ofthe 1993 federal election, the KeatingCarr , summed up this proposal by ALP government decided to focus of the problem of slating: "We are sick of the short- unemploymenl. The Green Paper; Restoring Full Em term, quick-fix answers to the ployment was released in December last year and problem of public financing, Whal tended to focus on policies for the long-term unem are wc going to do when we run ployed. Options included: oul of the family silver". - Jobs Compact: a scheme guaranteeing a job for 6-12 This quote highlights the concern months forthe long-term unemployed (18 months or more)overth; e selling of national assets - 5 vear training for school leavers: for government revenue when a tax increase is the more logical so - Jobs Levy: a proposal lo tax wage earner's income to lution. Whal is the point of raising raise funds for the long-term unemployed; private funds to buy assets that al - Youth training wage: a below-award wage for young ready exist? Wouldn't it be more unemployed and school leavers to encourage business practical to spend money on cre to employ them; ating jobs and infra-structure we - Job sharing: a proposal to have a particular job di don't have? vided between a number of workers; Paul Keating hailed the While Pa per as "the most importani govern - Revamp of Commonwealth Employment Service OI (CES): lo increase the efficiency of job-placement. ment document" since Ben Chifely's Wnite Paper in 1946. Af The Prime fvlinister was attacked by the Opposition and ter pjtting aside the rhetoric, il is the business sector for not initiating greater labour easy to note tho deficiencies in this market de-regulation as a solution to unemployment, approach to solving the unemploy l\/1r Keating avoided the Green Paper's lack of initiative ment problem. toward restoring full employment by calling it "not job creation but job-readiness". While the White Paper is a move in the righl direction to solving the These attacks were quite justified as Green Paper fo unemployment problem ils empha cuses on the specific problem of the long-term unem sis on the specific issue of the long- ployed while ignoring the overall causes of unemploy term unemployed neglects the ment. On the olher hand, the solution offered by the overall unemployment problem. Opposition and financial markets of greater labour mar The $6 billion spent in the White ket reform, flexibility and micro-economic reform are Paper (over a period of five years) not necessarily the solu^ons to full employment. is only 0.75% of Australia's GDP. In the months leading up the White Paper, there was If Australia is serious about reduc increasing pressure on the federal government to cut ing it unemployment rale then a the budget deficit. The financial markets and the busi greater commitment is needed by ness community were wondering how the government the Federal GovernmenI to solv was going to pay for the $6 billion White Paper without ing this problem. At the moment, a increasing the deficit. The financial markets argued that 5% unemploymenl rale is seen as there was no need to spend money on programs for the a threat to market-oriented policies unemployed now that Australia was "out of recession"- (of deficit reduction and low inter It seems quite ridiculous lo argue for tess spending on est rates) of the Treasury and fi the unemployed when 10% of the work force are still nancial markets. oul of a job. In facl, it is essential for governments to Alternatives to economic ortho continue lo focus on the unemployment problem even doxy are never offered, let alone after a few years of positive economic growth. Australia mentioned and this is reinforced by may have had the strongest economic grovirth in the the news media. t\/lyths are estab world over the last few years but this doesn't necessar lished such as "wasteful" public ily translate to a reduction in the jobless. A "jobless sector spending, "massive" public growth" is a distinct possibility. Australia would have to debt, fear of trade union wage maintain 4-5% growth for the rest of the century to con rises, and the role of government siderably reduce the unemployment rale. is seen primarily as "removing im It is this attitude, to only focus on the unemployed dur pediments from the market". These ing a "recession", that has been manifested in Australsocial myths hinder any movemenl ian bureaucracy. Government Departments and both toward policies that might solve the political parlies for the last thirty years. problem and also assist the gov ernment in justifying their own The White Paper: Working Nation was released on monetarist policies. May 4,1994. The pressure over the budgel deficit re sulted in a few changes lo the original proposals in the Australia currently has an unem Green Paper, The controversial jobs levy and job shar ployment rale of 10%, one of the ing schemes were scrapped, but the other proposals consistentty highest rates of all remained. OECD nations over the last twenty years. The Federal Government, The pressure of the financial markets contributed to regardless of political philosophy the implementation of the training wage with below- or belief, should concentrate on re award payments for youlhs. This policy was based on ducing this figure before wonder the incorrect assumption that employers would employ ing what would happen once, and more people al a lower wage. II is also directly related if, full employment is established. to the assumption that lower wages would conlribute If Australia does not heed this call to higher unemploymenl, ll is important to note that all she will continue to experience the nations wilh full employment have high wages. ^T poverty, social dislocation and suf The pressure on the Federal Government over how theyferin g that derives from mass un were going lo pay for the While Paper resulted in the employment. Marit Ludlow .^;
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"UNEMPLOYMENT 2000 • RECESSION OR POLICY?" i.-*'r.'--'l*^' ^^v:J ^i;!^ Last year saw the onset of a spate of interest rates into pecuniary fetters of but a lack of il is probably a guarantee of slightly unprofessional open competi grossly unmanageable proportions be unemployment. It is no surprising that other tion between Queensland universities; fore the chance of repayment with a things go neglected. I don't believe student inflamed by Q.U.T's vaunting of its "bestdecen t job - the sort of jobe we've been apathy s the root cause of all evil. Pragma university" status. The gutter-spar con led to believe is our prerogative upon tism rules the day. tinues, with DEET's assertion that Qld graduation. In addition, students since the last 20 or so university graduates have the best em But for students, it seems,., unemploy years have displayed an extraordinary pas ployment prospects in the country; with ment is the Lnmentionable. sivity in the facl of many deliberate attempts 87,3% of recent graduates in 1992/3 to disempower them. For example, modern either in full-time study. 2. The real "winners" in a deregulated labour market. Austudy rules have forced nany people into 87.3% would please anyone if it v/ere a a situation of parental dependence, or have grade on an exam paper. DEET calls Keating's (matrimonial?) pledge lo cor forced them to dissipate tneir energies in this a "positive graduate outcome", so porate Australia is that ultimately, enpart-time work, tn schools and universities, presumably, it's supposed to assuage terprise bargaining deals shall become the potential for extra-curricular polilicai ac our fears about getting a job? Unfortu "fuil substitutes" for awards. Inminent tivity has been severally curtailed by a pro nately, there are problems that take the reality is that in every v/orkplace, while gressive and inordinately heavy assessment gloss away from DEET's report, and blue collar, wages and conditions load. will be negotiated on a one-to-nne ba Ironically, these changes were able lo be im t\l.' (a) The figure disguises the fact that sis. many graduates are moving into further plemented because of students' preoccupa ;« ^flf full-time study as "a reaction lo the dif Effectively, this was the situation in the tion with Tiore pressing concerns, but have -SJ:^^ ficult labour market." According to the early 1960s, v/here employment offers in turn served to entrench the original prob Graduate Careers Council ofAustralia, exceeded the number of applicants, and lem. ^ ^ this number has surged since 1991. nformal deals were struck over and "m*^^ For students in the '90s unemployment ii^^ above awards. The reverse is true to !# (b) Some courses have quite high em day With expanding deregulat on, real is the progenitor of a dormant campus. ployment rates. Medicine has virtually wages grov/lh in recent years has been So whal has been my poinl? I guess I've 100%. Others, like law, pharmacy and negligible. (I'd even say negative, since bean saying that the social tragedy of un dentistry have well over 90%. These I fear my faith in the 0% inflation myth employment means many things to many push up the average. Others, like ar is also minimal.) people. Unfortunately, it's hard to contend chitecture, planning, humanities, lan with the fact that il works lo some people's Obviously, the reason is a reversal of guages, performing arts, social sci advantage, and for the other people, it has relative bargaining strength. The exist ences, psychology, economics, educa ramifications far more detrimental than one ence of a "reserve army" o' unem tion, computer science, maths and sci would imagine at first glance. ence have under 70% employment ployed persons, part-time and casual rales. workers and trainees is proving to be How then, can we reaiiy be sure that full em r/ the decisive factor in all "negotiations". ployment is really a policy goal? Any rea ^ (c) We're not told in what capacity these sonable oerson lias lo rule oul things like '^ For people wilh jobs..., unemployment people are employed. For example, the "jobs compact" and other work-for-lhe- is the tacit threat, apparently 63,3% of initial education dole schemes as serious attempts to solve graduates are employed full-time. The 3. Cheap eradication of oolitlcat dis the problem. (Coercion is no solution; we state government isn't expanding edu sent. may as well introduce compulsory military cation services at a rate that could pos In the course of my compilation of theservice! ) sibly soak up all the newly-trained Queensland University unemployment teachers. When I last heard, there were There is a kind of mystic vagary surround statistics, I overheard an Engneering 10 000 unemployed teachers in the ing the whole issue. Consider, for example, tudent obtaining an application form for state. Where could the education gradu popular journalistic reference lo a "jobs cli ^ employment with industrial giant, ates be working? Serving behind bars? mate"; the raging academic debate over just /'.; Pasminco. what does constitute "full employment" any Not quite so optimistic when you look I think it's fair to assume that his pro way; as well as Keating's canute - like arro at this way, is it? Why then, is the uni spective employment will be contingent gance in saying that a target of 5% by the versity and DEET and the financial, in upon his not raising any objections to year 2000 will be achieved, as long as the dustrial and political interests which dicthe company's shocking social/environ business community "invests". tate their policies interested in perpe mental record. trating the "a degree equals employ It's important to realise, also, that the flid- ment" fallacy? Al the risk of commending an inadvert side of the great unemployment ruse is the ent accomplishment, I must say that incredible facl that solutions lo this macro • .<. The reason is that this is one instance someone has hit upon a most effica economic problem seem lo be counter .,', where it is expeditious to understate the cious method of quelling potential po poised to just about everv other macro eco magnitude of the phenomenon of unlitical dissent. nomic "problem" any self-respecting reporter employment. At other times, however, *; for the Financial Review would care to sput 23^ business and government find that un For a quiet and acquiescent knowledgably about. '^s^ employmenl serves to their advantage citizenry. unemploymenl is relega When this is the case, there is no need tion to the Economic Siberia of ihe Aus Apparently, solutions lo unemploymenl to engage in the sort of half-truth telling tralian dole queues. ccme with the risk of a current account defi cit "blow out", inflation "spirals" or wages displayed above. Consider the follow 4. Damobllisatlon of the student "break outs". Strong language indeed, com ing situations: movement. pared lo the more dry descriptors of unem 1. Justlfii^^finn for the abolition of At the culmination of secondary school ployment. (My favourite is "negative eco free edm^^tlon. education, the media, and our teach nomic growth".) ers attempted lo convince us that a Popular rhetoric is, of course, that we When ycu encounter this kind of bias, il's sharp dichotomy had been effected are a privileged minoriiy who can ex nol hard to see v/here the balance has fallen. peel to step gracefully into the upper behveen those who achieved academi middle class upon graduation. Clearly, cally, and those who missed out on ter Expiation for lhe "recession we had lo have" this isn't the case. The propaganis of tiary admittance. has devolved disproportionately upon our generation. Large-scale unemployment has this myth are under no such illusions Indeed throughout the entire experi been around roughly as long as most of us either (Conside.', for example, the in ence, the fear of missing out on a terti have been alive, so that we almost see it as dignalion of the Tax Office earlier this ary education (and implicitly - though part of life, year when it discovered that around one not necessarily - on a tolerably comfort quarter of all graduates would never able lifestyle) has been inculcated in us Bul this isn't true. I wonder if we wilt display earn enough to pay back their HECS in a manner not dissimilar to the Japa the pathetic complaisance of people in the debts,) nese model, The trend, of course, con 19805 who really believed they were obliged to "lighten their bells" lo recompense for the However, the government has cynically tinues at University. An upsurge in youlh follies of a profligate few? exploited this belief to reintroduce fees suicide is probably attributable to a large through HECS and to reduce expend! extent lo this situation. The first step is lo break oul of the "emper ture on Ausludy Ihrough the Loans Ultimately, despite placatory statements or's new clolhes" trap. It's not a sign of igno Scheme. by the administration, we all know that rance to disregard the economic rhetoric and demand immediate solutions:- unemploy For many of us, these accumulated this is the reality - and education is not menl is a political, not an economic problem. debts will grow with time, inflation and necessarily a guarantee of empoyment.
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11 Is a scary, scary thing. But It con be detected, unUke an anti-social tady wielding a staysharp knife or an evil kid with a mallet made of Duplo approaching your crotch at So fashion equals 5000 miles per hour. (I've said it before, but looking like there's a It just wouldn't be "Semper" without the bed- bog in your pants, flute stuff, would It?) After Jo Bailey's done equals being made- her bit (and if you watch her gestures you'll up to look like an notice that none of them extend up her arms Edwardian bouncer, beyond past the elbow. Hope the cottar- equals looking like bones get better soon, Jo), an ominous voice Deborah Hutton, takes over "Looking Good." Is It Leo McKern? equals being anaemically skinny As all those prlviteged cynfcs out Nope. James Coburn? James Earl Jones? No, none of em. It Is In fact Deborah Hutton, and twanging your there ore aware, in today's Oueen of the Plastic People. And she has a way down a catwalk voice that makes that girl from "4 Non wearing a striking society appearances mean f.y Blondes" sound Uke Angie from "Frente" (who Dior creation made ^v- from bond-aids and everything. Wiiich isn.'t to soy „>. sounds like a Betsy Wetsy doll that's been sucking the gas from helium balloons). Christmas tree lights. they didn't hundreds ofyears Deborah should hove been the girl In "The Each one a Exorcist." she could have done the Devils' Dedicated Follower jn the late I6th century the voice herself. Deborah's hair has apparently Of Fashion, as those Elizabethan satirist ond all-round been sprayed with epoxy resin. It NEVER likeable loons The mea nie John Marston wrote a very moves. When she smiles, it's slightly less Kinks would hove rough-and-ready satire on the fluorescent than Mr Fourex. Her face Isn't so sung. "painted ladies" (le, heavily much made-up as powdercoated. And she On the other hand, nfiade-up) whose "seat of sense Is wouldn't have to use make-up removing maybe looking like a their rebate set" (the gizmo fluid. She probably uses a sandblaser grunge Gumby Is a holding up their very fashionable Instead. Deborah. Ifyou haven't been able good Idea. Maybe ruff). "Nothing but clothes and to tell, Is the epitome of High Fashion. She the clothes DO simpering preclseness" Marston has her own special segment In "Looking maketh the person. adds. Yup, The more things Good" In which a frump like you or me is Maybe It's us and not change the more they stay the 'made over" into another epitome of High the World Of Fashion same. Decorate dolts of both Fashion. On the episode I saw. the makeover who've been soundly sexes have long been foisted on victim was a middle-aged lady ofthe Shirley thrashed with the us homely folk as Very Good Purvis variety. Deborah turned Shirley Purvis dopey stick. I mean, Examples. Even to Patriarchal Into o sort of mid-70s Shirley Strachon before people like Cindy prat such as myself (ifs impossible our very eyes. AU It takes Is several oil Crawford. Naomi to avoid this "All Men Are Bastards" tankers full of make-up. a haircut that made Campbell and the buUshIt when writing about poor Shirl look like Glen Lozarus and finally entire MacPherson something that's even loosely some more Vic Reeves clothes. And aU poor family didn't get connected with the "Beauty DEDICATED Mrs Punrls got for her trouble was a Polaroid where they are just ' Myth"). "Fashion" Is a load'of old photo taken by Deborah Herself. Just when because of what they cobblers. And there's a show on you think you've had enough, along comes look like, did they Channel 9. "Liooking Good." that the only halfway articulate male you're now? That would just proves this fact yet further. Ukely to see on this show, Rennie EUis. be too PhlUstlne for Unfortunatelg Rennle's no substitute for Bob Despite what they sayabout words, wouldn't It? I'll FOILOWEII Ellis, who'd liven this croppy show up no end. -Looking Good" being a proper leave the answer It soys a lot about "Looking Good" that the TV show ifs obvious that Its open But tn case appearance of Rennle Ellis improves the primary function Is as a dumping you're wondering, the tone slightly And he even talked about a ground for ex-game show answer Is most likely topic that's vaguely relevant: how to shave nostesses who just can't smile as a three-letter world properly, i can't remember shaving and not vacantly as tney used to (though beginning with "y" winding up with a neck redder than North Dy normal human standards and ending In "s". Oh, Korea, with thousands of tiny cuts all over they're still vacant in the there's an "e" in tnere extreme) So we get Jo Bailey somewhere too (ex-"Sale Of The Century"). Marcus Salisbury • Deborah "Old Man filver"Hutto n t (ex-some totally forgettable squib with Mike Walsh) and a lo and behold, mostof the ladles fellow called Rennle Ellis who Jo asks to decide on which type my face and generally looking like I've had my noggin slammed m on just might be Victoria NIcholls of undenveor Is sexier go for the Iron maiden. So along comes Rennle who Introduces us to a professional after the operation. So send In modern equivalent of the hair- shaver and a ready-prepared (le, practically embalmed) client In o the<:lones. folks. The first smiley shirt, the boxer shorts. I mean, barber's chair, whom Rennle describes as looking "like Dr Frankenstein face I saw when I tune In to boxer shorts may look better and his r\ext experiment." They actually resemble Jeffrey Dahmer and "Looking Good" was that of Jo (they're certainly more flattering) his next lunch but lets not split hairs. According to the professional shaver, Saltey who was dressed (Very but the overage pair of Reg the best way to shove Is to go with the grain of your stubble then across Fashionably) as Vic Reeves from Grundles are, well, safer. it. So I tried this after the show. And it was amazing. I actually finished "Dizzy". Jo then proceeded to Everything's tucked out of harm's with more stubble than when ! started. And my neck felt like it had been enlighten us on what, to the way. And I bet John Bobbitt was struck by a few of those Shoemaker-Levy fragments. Oh. well. Finally, a Pretty Vacant crowd, must be wearing boxer shorts when his lady whose name escapes me but who looked and sounded (droned, one of the Imperative issues of slightly Irritated (read "psycho") actually) like the poor woman from the Protector Vertical Blinds ad told this decade: whether to wear wife docked his doodle. Jo us oU about American kids' fashion sense or the lack thereof). "American" undies ("briefs," as Jo doesn't mention the day-to-day in this context also means "Australian", as is obvious from all those kiddles unflatterlngly colls them) or safety advantage of "briefs." she with the too-tight back-to-front cops on and bouncing basketballs down boxer shorts. Rather predictably. just trundles out the usual expert the road. (It's a phenomenon kind of like those "Rio" undie ads. you Jo does a vox pop with a couple to give us a horror-story about know, "The north side of LA?" "No. Geebung"). Apparently baggy pants of boofhead male models who willy cancer and all that, And It are "In" and the baggier the better. Which explains why the trendler kids are demonstrating what undies we see look like they've shot themselves, their pants are that baggy, i and boxer shorts look like. And kid you not.
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© COPYRIGHT ew Commitment to South Africa THE FIRST TOO DflYS OF THE NELSON MflNDELfl GOVERNMENT
uring April and May of this year he world's international media fo- and Human Rights Commission, in addition to electrifying j million INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS used upon South Africa's first However, the big changes in South homes over the next five years. South Africa's return to the inter emocratic elections and the aboli- Africa have been in the policy front. HEALTHCARE national community didn't stop ion of apartheid. For days we The A.N.C. in government have with cricket teams and rugby tours. On July I the A.N.C. Government stayed glued to the 6 o'clock news' moved to implement its Reconstruc During the first 100 days of th began offering free medical services account of the election of Nelson tion and Development Program A.N.C. government South Africa ha to children under the age of six and I^andela and the elaborate inaugu (RDP) which endeavours to achieve been readmitted or joined numer providing free ante-natal, delivery ration of the majority led ANC gov a balance between government in ous international organisation and post-natal care. Women wlU ernment. But then suddenly Nel tervention, the private sector and from which it had been banned fo shortly be entitled to six-months son's jovial face disappeared from the participation of civil society. • more than twenty years. The United paid maternity leave with men re our screens and the good ol' Cou The RDP is primarily funded Nations lifted sanctions agains ceiving ten days' paternity leave. rier-Mail leaving Australia wonder through existing State resources South Africa and readmitted it int Furthermore, by 1997 every South ing - what's happened in the New which will be redistributed on a the UN General Assembly durln African must be able to get the mini South Africa? Presumably, apart non racial basis to rectify the re May. South Africa was similarly re mum nutritional requirements heid has been dismantled and re sult of decades of apartheid poli admitted into the Organisation 0 daily. Bread prices will be regulated placed with a democratic political cies. The ANC has already begun African Unity, the Southern African and Value-Added Tax (a type of structure, but have things really moves to implement their policies Development Community and thei G.S.T.) will be lifted on basic food changed? Our intrepid reporters which include: Commonwealth, allowing South Af stuffs. A code of conduct for health examine the winds of change blow rica's participation in theCommon LAND workers is being introduced which ing over the Republic of South Af wealth Games at Victoria, Canada, will promote gender balance among rica. Structures for a land reform pro During June South Africa Joined th health workers. In addition on June gram have already with the White Non-Aligned Movement, The Inter Whilst the international media's at II the Government announced a 350 Paper on Land Reform announced national Labour Organisation and tention has turned to other spots million Rand ($Ai3i.6m) AIDS pro on June lo. Key beneficiaries will became the 130th Member of the* on the globe, the enormous reforms gram to counter the virus' scourge be women and youth in the poor "Group of 77" Third World coun in South Africa have gonel argely over Africa, Sf?-. .. est rural communities. On June 29 . >.-, .^i tries. By Juneio South Africa had unnoticed. The reconciliation proc the Government announced that EDUCATION •'•-••"'•' entered into diplomatic relations ess between black and white has 30% of land in cities.towns and rich As previously mentioned, sanita with 28 states since the election. been initiated by Nelson IMandela farming land - already for sale, be tion, electricity and telephones will South Africa's newly elected Presi longing to the State, or tradition However South Africa's contribu be provided in all schools whilst dent. Nelson Mandela's African Na ally black owned - will be acquired tions backtovhe international com- South Africa's 18 education depart tional Congress or ANC, received a and redistributed through a proc niunlty have already begun. On May ments will be merged to normalise , large majority within the propor ess involving a land claims law. 26 South Africa committed itself to the education system. Already 16 tionally allocated National Assem These processes are similar in na an international role in peace keep-; new primary schools and 19 second bly and Senate. Subsequently the ture to the Commonwealth Govern ing and peace making. South Africa ary schools are planned for next ANC received a similar majority ment's Mabo land distribution to wants to help the world as it had year. Nelson Mandela announced ^;,within the National Unity Cabinet Australia's Aboriginal and Torres helped"South Africa in its hour of on June it that within the ANC gov [Where National Party, Inkatha Free Strait Islanders. need. This may explain why mem dom Party, Freedom Front and ernment's first 100 days it would bers of South Africa's National De- HOUSING AND SERVICES other political groupings received introduce a universal schoo! feed-; . fence Force were assisting humani ministries. Reconciliation has beer> Poor people will be primary ben ing scheme for South Africa's stu tarian operations in Rwanda six stressed throughout the institu eficiaries of an A.N.C. housing pro dents. .weeks before Australia became in- tional arrangements and policies of gram which will build a million low NON RACIAL POLICIES ". volved in the international effort. the first lOO days of the new ANC cost homes by 1999. All legislative Nelson Mandala's first attempt at A series of reforms commenced in Government. obstacles and constraints to hous peacemaking in Africa successfully May and June this year which aimed ing and credit for women will be achieved an agreement between the Already the new Government has to alter the racial imbalance within removed. Furthermore a plan an Angolan and Zairean Governments established a Constitutional Assem the police force, the South African nounced by the National Housing concerning ending Angola's civil bly to investigate rewriting the in- National Defence Force and the Department on May z6 aims for war. termediatory constitution in addi public service. To reduce the level 140,000 people to buy their state- tion to creating a Constitution Court of violence throughout the country, The new A.N.C. government in South owned houses with a book value gun control measures were intro Africa has successfully begun trans discount of 7500 rand ($A 2850). duced on May 24, limiting each adult forming it's nation into a demo WATER AND SANITATION to possession of only one fire arm. cratic egalitarian society. In only 100 days so much has changed in The A.N.C. aims to supply 20-30 li JOBS tres of ciean water a day to every ^ the new South Africa but there's so May 27 saw the implementation of person in South Africa in addition / much work remaining. Only Nelson a National Economic Forum with to refuse collection and odourless ' Mandela and the A.N.C. have the corporatist arrangements,that on-site toilets for all homes by 1997. cpmmittnent to get the job done. would create 95,000 public works ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMU jobs In its first year. July ii's un Jennifer Haynes NICATIONS employment figures Illustrated a Steven Greenway fall of almost half, however! two The New Government has already Gavin Atkinson moved to electrify and provide tel million people are still without jobs ephones to all schools and clinics in South Africa. "•
<'^'-C- - •••• • -.-i.li^f;-: i-.:,.;; ••!; 14 ;';•>;,'Sty .. . • 0, IEl,. I READ A -^ (well three of them actual f' Mad, love-starved, bored to tears, a person with fluff for brains, you say. She read a Mills & Boon??? SHOCK! HORROR! Weil before you become loo upset, I claim mm-^/Z it was in tiic name of research. Right... ••'&. That's wliy she read three, instead of just one. Anyway, let mc jump bacli to the first doesn't wanlc. Do 1 look gullible or somelhing? Boring, ncxl pie .sentence. (Admit it, you had to go and re 'k read it). Call mc mad — I will happily ad Book No 3. The step-brother/stcp-sister romance. It was so nice and sweet, I here to that name (1 study law after all). and you really wished it was true, bul come on this .sort of stuff happens! Love-starved is a definite, since I haven't once in a blue moon. Now before all you stcp-brother/sep-sister couples j had a serious relationship in almost eight put there take offence, let me finish my description of the storyline, ll een months (incidentally, I !HVC being sin 'believe he became her guardian when she was 17 and was so attracted lol novels. If 1 was embarrassed, how must gle with no need to check that the toilet scat her, that he sent her away. Seven years later she returns to announce hcrl those poor buggers feel? k'- is down every lime I make £ trip to the bath engagement. They love each other, but try lo deny it. Eventually she wins I room and with no one to pinch the covers Well, having spared the only thought 1 in- '• < '^'"^ round. OK, nol ,so bad, you s.iy, but wait for the good bil. He says and [ at night — I also enjoy reading and mis tend to spare for the male part oflhe race '^" ^'^^^ ^'^ ex-wife that he hasn't been able lo bonk anyone for seven! quoting Cosmo). Bored to tears — na, 1 for the next fifty odd years (golden wed-.• yearsbecauseof the lu.st and love he feels forhis stcp-.sislcr. Hmm.AguyJ don't think so, it's holidays at the moment; ding anniversary proportions), I shall con-. { ''"1 hasn't bonked for seven years. but on second guess I'd have to answer in linue. Havcn'l 1 been saying that raihcr a.^w^uld you rcally lake him on? Is il really believable? Mosl guys I've mell the affirmative (bit of lawyer language lol? If I don't get on with it, you're going^.if'can't wait two weeks, let alone seven years. Or maybe I've just mel thej there) since I made the mistake of deciding lo slop reading, right?? Fifty minule Icc-Vij^: to visit my parents for the holidays. A per lure blocks do that to your attention .span, ^k son with fluff for brains — yep that's me, Anyway, having found the Romance sec I'm writing for Semper after all. So the de tion, which seems to take up a goodly pro scription was pretty close to reality... But portion ofthe library, I randomly .select and enough ofthe bullshit, read on to find what grab a few books while al! the lime looking K-.'mm:^ .*i DRIVING nasties arc rcally contained within the cov around me to ensure that no one is walch-Mi;if^V''V' ers of that deceptive looking Mills & Boon. ing rae. 1 take my books to the check outivv^*"' • '" SCHOOL counter and blush as the librarian types the •;>, I begin with my trek to find a .Mills & Boon, code number in and turns Ihe books over to the saying they're everywhere, they 're eve look at their covers. "Well, really, thal[ rywhere, happens to be a pretty apt descrip child's tastes musl be in the gutter," her eyes tion in this case. But the price?? Far beyond seem to be saying. I quickly dump the books my Austudy budget means. One book costs in my traditional uni student knapsack and about S4.50. My vivid imagination con lacr lo my sister's car. Onwards, and home Competitive Price - Better lhan most "Specials" structs a far better fantasy for free!! But it wards to engage in some serious reading. is holidays and I am feeling very lazy. So Full hour lessons with free pickup what do I do? I go to the library, you Book No. 1 Dare I tell you the name? NO. dumbfuckers. I quote, with the author's permission of Latest cars - manual and auto - ftill insurance course (bul how are lliey going lo tell which What is a library, you ask? A library is a book I'm referring to anyway when they place full of loads and loads of books and Male and female instructors all say similar things, with similar names snotty librarians who look down their pa i!'^^ etc). trician noses al you when you ask the ques International sludenls welcome tion which has been bugging you for three "Lcc [female] insisted on helping Gail W,'; years. In my case, the library was the with the washing-up, while Lisa put ' Reddrop Municipal Library (name change away wilh Jenny's help. [Do I see a j;' in an attempt to avoid defamation suits — male name in this sentence anywhere? " but the way I skipped that entire topic when Notice it refers to washing-up. The next doing torts, Perhaps that's why I failed?). prick, oops I mean serious love inter Oh, boy. The last li mc I ventured ins idc was est, that enters my life better do the SrUDEIIT hmmm, two years ago I believe. 1 was ask frigging washing up and make the bed ing for a book on contract law. No go, I'm and tidy ihe house and vacuum andjw (OUR NORMAL PRICE IS BETTER THAN ANY "SPECIAL' afraid. I was told by a particularly snotty cook dinner and pay the bills; is there IN THE CURRENT QUEENSLAND DRIVERS GUIDE!!) librarian that it was too specialised for a anything I've missed?] By common general library. So she has a point, but now consent Mrs Broome had been banished .-. l-.5iW you might understand why we law students 10 the sitting room with the men. [Note ?fflfl have our very own library. Inverted snob the .so-called\ memenn —— wouldn'wouldn t't boyboyss bbe g^;; ill^f- ^*.5?
AUSTUDY 5 easai miSHSIKSIiiSSBBIEBBBSBIiiESIEBBBBIII The Austudy Five: Before I interviewed Jill Sparrow, one of All Cc^nte^tfflntt in The BiritiinghaiM Six they the people arrested, 1 consulted the Vic sure ain't torian Police and The Victorian Office of Public prosecutions as well as reading the tl^e /^|®nk Week The Austudy five are a persecuted group articles in the Australian and the Age. of Sludenls. They were wrongfully ar rested simply because of their beliefs. Ms Sparrow's story is that a group of stu l|®Ve antil They are prepared to give their lives so as dents were unfairly arrested when trying we students can live in peace, ll is their to enter the Viaorian Parliament, and then sacrifice ihat wil! ensure that all siudenis a large group of students surrounded the S^eSJbep ^ to a will be saved. vehicle forcing the police to release the detainees. The police claim that loooo Well O.K. that's not right peopio trying to enter the parliament at l^etent tl|e^B the same time was a bit extreme, and they Oh well, alright its only .mother example would have preferred it if they didn't try of I.S.O. (International Socialist Organisa to enter over the top of them. The van i eVrdeiKje to be tion) Bullshit. was filled with some of the more violent demonstrators, who were released when When asked to interview the "Austudy lhe police feared fortheir safety el^rble fd^\\ i^i li.ls ti.. .'i 111 ngainst police, instead of facing up to tlie cerned, maybe if you want to do some iiiing about polilicai prisoners you could consequences of their acts, they are will • the Left will have been vindicated. If ing lo claim that ihey are political prison star; with the prisoners in Cuba, North Ko [ know you (the Icfi) will be pissed off • that Is whal the Lefi actually wanl ers Jailed purely for their socialist beliefs. rea. China and the rest of your comrades and will come down here and complain, » to have happen. This opinion is nn insult to all the people who are the real criminals. but when you consider that the "Resist- • who For ten days in early August, thou filled out with a sprinkling of new outbalanced by its significant finan sands of eager Brisbane film goers films from across Europe and North cial losses." indulged in the array of cinematic America and retrospectives on The In 1994, to trim costs and en delights that comprised the Bris Western and early Hitchcock clas hance convenience for patrons, the bane Internationa! Film Festival sics. festival was scaled back to the one (BIFF). Located in the impressive A large proportion of films main venue. (In previous years, the Hoyts Regent cinema and the State screened at BIFF each year do not Greater Union and Schonell cinemas Library theatre, the festival have an official rating, such as PG, were joint hosts of BIFF.) Mr Ellis showcased dozens of feature films, M or R, as the costs of having films does have a vision, however, for a short films, animated fifms and classified for a single screening is multi-venue festival in the future, documentaries. Sponsored princi including SBS l^ovie Show guru Mr prohibitive. Special screening laws and, in addition, plans have been pally by the State Government film- David Stratton, and some receive a which cover the festival in this sitti^ developed for the establishment of funding arm. Film Queensland, the special invitation from the festival. ation dictate an unusual ticketing a film market along the lines of the purpose of the festival is to try to The final content of this year's fes arrangement whereby BlFF'caiipnly Cannes Film Festival, which pro provide Brisbane audiences with tival was nutted out by a program sell sets of three,or more tickets to, vides an important international access to the best films, and the best ming panel headed by the State Li each patron. Unfortunately this led! ; forum for the sale and distribution filmmakers, from Australia and brary film historian Anne Demy to some disappointment and loss of of films. around the world. Geroe. based on quality and con revenue, as many people were iri- All this wil! be ahead of Mr While there were a number sistency with the goals of the festi terested in seeing a single movie Ellis, if, as he hopes, he will become of film festivals staged in Brisbane val. A key criteria is whether a film only at the festival. ' .: ', the first persori to occupy the top during the 1960s and 1970s, BIFF as is likely to go into commercial re The permanence of the BIFF job at. BlFF for t>vo years in succes it exists today originated with a lease in Queensland, in which case in its early days has been by no sion. With the strong support of 1990 festival called Queensland Im BIFF has second thoughts about means assured, as the young festi corporatie sponsors, festival volun ages, which was a celebration of screening it. This selection process val strives to find a formula that will teers and a cohesive and profes Queensland on screen and also the resulted in a broad range of films ensure its long term viability.' Prior sional festival staff, Mr Ellis has work of Queensland filmmakers. from arounil the globe, represent to the festival, Semper asked the come up with an administrative ma The success of Queensland Images ing just about every genre imagina general manager, Mr Ellis, about the chine that works, and although fig inspired the rebirth of BIFF in 19921, ble. The Australian content In par criteria on which Its success would ures were unavailable at the time and it has been held annually since ticular was a hfghllghtpEthe festi be judged. ; of writing, Brisbane audiences ap then. val, and the opening night of BIFF, "There are two major ways pear to have responded well to Putting a festival of BIFF'S ; attended by a plethora of political of judging it. Its by. the money we BIFF's diverse programme. What size and scope togetheris a-inajor and local entertainment industry lu make, and'Secohcilj by the critical advice then does Mr Ellis have for operation, thJs.yearentrtJstedinthe minaries, featured the high, profile appraisal that our prps.ramtne. ob aspiring film festival organisers? hands of the y{»tithful andenthusl- Australian film Muriel's Wedding. A^tains", ' hesaid.,;-^"':,vr"'--':'%..;^''^,, j".. "It is very exciting. Its a lot asticgeneralmaiiag^r. Iir Gary Ellis, surprise hit of the festival was the "To be successful we'^etidj ' jOf fun, but it is a lot of hard a fprmerfllnvQuee^^ screening of the Queensl^nd}^ew good mix of bbth.ln year'onei th^t* ' work...You've got to know what you JOtieensfantl Art Caljery^a^nj jnistra- Filmmakers Award winners,'which yvas what happened* the prograrrtme are trying to do, what are your delighted the audience in the yyas .Syellireceive^, antl was' quite goals, what are the objectives of '..; The selection of films for packed State Library theatrette. popular, and I think they turned a having your festival. Get that clear screening at the festival is a com This year's festival also continued very small profit,.,it was break even in your mind, and find the films plex process. While BIFF advertises the focus on the Asia/Pacific region, in reality. Last year it didn't work which best suit that." world-wide for entries, many films with films from Hong Kong. Taiwan, financially...The programme was are "spotted" on the international China, japan and New Zealand. The critically acclaimed but that was Ivan Wells and Kaylene Wigzcl! festival circuit by BIFF's consultants, remainder of the programme was A couple of minutes Inio / Cr.'iduaied!. a curious expedition commences across a Beijing street, into / Graduated! is one of a set of five films an inauspicious shop front, out and along a nnr- Film Review: I Qradaated! promoted at the Brisbane International Film Festi rowatit-y, passing a number of shy. or disinterested, val (BIFF) as lhe "Beijing Underground", which in observers, up a dark stairwell until evcntu.illy a fluthors: Ivan WQIIS and Kaylene Wigzell cludes three feature films and two documentaries. succession cf bookish looking individuals, sdme Each was made withoul script approval or censor Square massacre and its aftermath ihai are most hopes, accompanied by great personal loss and the smoking, dressed in casual but nondescript shirts ship by the mainland Chinese government. With memorable. There are stories that one perhaps prospect of persecution to follow, led many survi and slacks, arc encountered. They arc Beijing Uni the assistance of Bl FF. Semper contacted Hong Kong could anticipate, of ijie death and ternble injuries vors of the massacre to attempt suicide. Students versity students filmmaker and distributor Mr Shu Kei, a supporter of friends caught in the crushing of the demonstra were required to document their own and their of the independent Chinese cinema, who is seek As this amazing 1992 documentary tions, but less predictable are the accounts of the friend's involvement with the democracy move ing a wider international audience for the films, records, makinga home video at Beijing Universily twin traumas ofofficial repression and psychologi ment, and university officials subjected all the stu Mr Shu described the response of the Beijing au IS not an easy task. All of the entrances to the uni cal scarring that lasted for many months after the dent to brainwashing programs Years after the thorities to the release of the films as mixed. Some versity, with the one exception described above, June Fourth Event. One student told of the high massacre, the last of the undergraduates still ex producers have not encountered any official reac arc carefully waichcd by security officers, and peo spirits and optimism of the students as they massed press a mixture of frustralion, depression and lin tion, whereas the producers of Beijing Bastards, a ple wishing to film on campus without a formal in the Square, contemplating only iheir inevitable gering guilt aboui the failures of 1989. "Self-respect feature film shown at the high profile Cannes Film authonsaiion should expect to get no further than triu mph. The sudden vanquishment of these naive is a luxury for us", one says. sccurtiys head office. Yci by running the gauntlet Festival, were the subject ofan edict issued by the of official disapproval, the young filmmakers of the Ministry ofFilm,Televisionand Radio permanently Structure, Wave. Youth and Cinema (SWYC) group banning them from further involvement in the in have produced for posicrity an audiovisual year dustry. book of lhe Class of '92: the last undergraduates to Mr Shu said that in recent years the re have been through the extraordinary and ultimately strictions imposed on the sixteen official film stu tragic experience of the democratic protests in carly dios on the mainland have been as tight as ever, June. 1989. and that the producers in the SWYC group wiiich Filmed entirely on video camera, predomi made / Graduated! were too impatient to use the nantly at Beijing University and Qinghua Univer official channels to put their thoughts into action sity, the documentary consists mostly of interviews At lhe time of making the documentary they did with the final year students, in their dormitories, not contemplate an international audience, but fi nanced and produced the film Independently sim on bakonies, and as they travel to and from classes ply as a means of expressing their creative urges Ihc interviewees are very open in speaking on a range of subjects, including personal relationships, Asked about the prospects for Hong study, their careers and their ambitions, and after Kong's vigorous cinema following the colony's re a while one notices a latent familiarity about many version to China in 1997. Mr Shu was cautiously of the comments For example, one student of the optimistic He believes the institutions of freedom more activist Beijing University derides the 'engi in the Hong Kong industry are too entrenched 10 neer produriion-line" of Qinghua University in a be easily overndden by regulation post-1997. <•>"'' manner reminiscent of ihc mild exchanges between Ihal Hong Kong involvement on the mainland will students of the University of Queensland and OUT eventually havea liberalising effect on Chinese f:l;- However, it is the rwolleciions of the Tiananmen Brisbane International Film Festive! production 18 (lior« revlQWS p^gQ 37) SSfitiei cut OUT AND flUIN Short story competition name Date Student No Contact Phone No Enter as many times as you title of work wish one entry per form Pleose bring w^ork and forms to Activities (near the Commonw^ealth Bank, Union Complex)closing date Tuesday October 4th. Poetry competition nome Dote Student No Contact Phone No Enter as many times as you title of "work wish one entry per form Please bring •worU ond forms to Activities (near the Commonwealth Bonk, Union Complex)closing dote Tuesday October 4th. Visual Art competition Activities is Hosting cm exhibition of studeimt's visual ciirt as port of its Art Festival. A prize is offered in the cataoories of 1.Photography 2. Z dimensional art 3. ScuTptnre nonte Dote Student No Contact Phone No Enter as many times os you title of work wish one entry per form Please bring work and forms to Activities (near the Commonwealth Bonk, Union CompIex)closing dote Tuesday October 4th. FOItAI name Student No Contact Phone No KDMRA RULES 1. 1 BOUT/HEAJ 2. NO CHARACTER PRBFBRENCE5 Please bring forms to Activities (near tlie Commonwealth Bank, Union 3. JUDGES DECISION IS FINAL Complex)closing date MON 5TH. SEPTEMBER 19 SHORT STORIES The hapless, harpless S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G. and hopeless In the year of our Lord, a yeor 1 cannot I saw a head while I was out. The head remember, 1 sailed the seven seas or eight was shopping for a body which was seas, 1 cannot recoil, then conquered curious so 1 watched. He was a black France with more courage than Napoleon head with stubbly grey hair and beard. but I think he was French anyway. Then 1 HE smiled broadly as he tried on his new took to the streets like a leech to blood bodies. Proudly he walked around in and became London's most notorious them. A cowgirl, a business man and the killer, but never actually killed anyone, many others that he tried on. None really but life goes on and I sunk through the suited his face which looked like a jazz drains of the city into the moss singers. But he didn't seem to mind, he underground, the damp grudge just enjoyed the shopping. Eventually I atmosphere, and you know, I felt left to do my own shopping. perfectly at home in my industrial mess of severed emotions and skin, perfect yeah I sow him later and intrigued 1 went up to perfect, perfect like the sight of hate him. He stood alone in the shop In a body compressing into the skull of something like a garden gnome wearing a red pretty, then exploding yeah fucking checked dress. perfect. And 1 treasure that moment we "What are you doing?" 1 asked spent alone, for 1 was alone and you "\ need a body he replied were alone and we were both lonely and That one looks nice" I offered 1 was bored and you were a little bored "For a formula one race car driver?" He too, but 1 was more bored so I killed you. queried "Oh well" 1 said" Any body should do. Be And that was how our beautiful happy you hove found one" friendship began... He shrugged Noctavier S Cameron. I had come down from Mackay to move in didn't even crinkle. Well, she probably didn't with ray friend Michael and two other flat see any reason to answer a comment. In fact I mates, both girls. I'd finished high school thought even more of her for not doing so. A and was still naive enough to believe that direct question was obviously needed. I wasn't the most important person in the "What does this three pronged silvery (pause) world. My girlfriend Kelly stayed In Mackay. thing remind you of?" I asked. She looked at Every time I look at thaf half-a-fucking plastic ACCUI^VCY me as though I'd said something stupid. heart she'd given me I thought of her. I'm sure " A fork" she replied kindly Mary Smitli she treasured the memories I left her in just I was so overwhelmed by hearing her voice that I forgot about not being inexplicable and the same way. Michael was sprawled on the living room floor, started gabbling: dead. "What the fuck happened to him?" I The new house was easy to find. I tried to go yelled at Jenny, "I thought it was kind of like (pause) an anal to the bathroom but someone had left a very "Cantly-Lou sacrificed him" ogy for life or (pause) maybe a watermelon You Gothic girl sitting in the corner. She wasn't bad "Why?" know (pause) an inside skin and flesh and seeds looking If you could see past the cobwebs and "He admitted to owning a Sisters of Mercy al (pause) and the handle and prongs..." I tailed I made a mental note to try and overcome my bum." off. My pauses had been all wrong which I cold chisel obsession or at least keep it secret. "That's all?" I decided to rediscover Cold Chisel hoped wasn't an irreversible mistake. "Well., He also had a Cure t-shirt" "Do you have a speech impediment" Candy-Lou inquired in the same kind and disinterested In the hallway I met Jenny, my other flat mate. In which case 1 couldn't really be sorry for him. way. I asked her about the girl In the bathroom. All afternoon I tried to plan spontaneously evil Feeling embarrassed I tried to explain: "No... "That's Candy-Lou" and meaningful conversation openers to try on er I've just had a long trip.: Candy-Lou. It's very hard to express gothic For the first time she actually looked at me. I I felt Immediate sympathy for someone that had leanings and satanlst tendencies in one line. I thought I could even detect something close to obviously spent most of her life trying not to decided that considering my current image 1 animation under the white powder. live up to her name. Car>dy-Lou was probably couldn't get away with saying anything inex "Really, what kind of trip did you have?" very dysfunctional but then Kelly's wholesome plicable or gothic. That left me with the black 1 was confused over her sudden interest, but ego had always irritated me. magic. In the end I though it best not to say explained as best 1 could. "Well, I was on a anything directly about Satanism either, but to train going fast past sugar cane and stuff... It The kitchen wasn't as dirty as 1 expected. The pause meaningfully after every sixth word. was an interesting trip." benches were spotless except for a circle of six Candy-Lou would definitely appreciate the sub "Do you want to come tripping with me to headless tiny teddies. They were only honey tlety of it. night?" flavoured so I didn't eat one. Jenny came to I'd finally scored! Her double meaning was ob show me the living room and explained that Candy-Lou came down for dinner which Jenny vious. She didn't want to go travelling, but Candy-Lou was also into Satanism. was still cooking "it's been a really nice day meant the same thing that Kelly did when she (pause) today". 1 initiated. Her eye make up asked me round 'to watch videos'. 1 began to 20 know how important I was. ITIGHTEN YOUR BIBLE BELT, SOLDIER This is the Lovers I see red white and Blue [ Department \ "And great gosh almighty God Bless Amerrcal"' Men dying, old men die For you . . "Good morning Ma'am" "Give ear to my proud American voice Oh Lord hear..., ••'• Are you in need of a lover? God Bless America!" Yes this Is the lovers department Poetry Feel free to browse and discover I see red colours on the lips of that fine Americon mom Your ideal lover. thine Kingdom come ihrne will be done I see red blood aflowin' from the disillusioned man Are you out for the short term? God Bless the president God give him a hand. Just dinner dance a One-Nlght-Stand • With a "Wham bam thankya ma'am"? \ I see blue colours of our flag on the ol fine American McSlugg's tpitkalamion Or would you rather, a long term lover? I see blue blood a flowin' from the suffocating man "9 have seen mij head, grown slightli^ Now God you listen here boy 'cos now you work for me Who will bring you roses, J. bald, brought In upon o platter" Or i'll kick your butt to kingdom come And swoon and say "I love you for ever and ever" • 'cos the stronger king is me. Who will go over the moon when you notice His romance, the roses, the records of Mendoza. , I see red lips on that proud American mom 9 I taste red blood in Mothers apple pie. Would you consider (McSluqq) The more aggressive made? . ' 1! f .,^ "-And you will call me 'SIR' oh lord "«»r'. Oh, rm sorry, we're out of stock, , and do you hear my cry?!" Maybe 9'm mot such a boring nerd He was too popular lost decade. ; ;.- So I sit and watch the stealth bombers Or soporific sod You know what I mean. .,-;;- ' A follin' from the sky. Louka L. Or a charmless turd. . Black leather, dark shades, ,. • •• Poised revengefully on a Harley. '• V- '.• iv*" • • Maybe 9'm sexy a real love god Just a tad too bod, ' - « [ Maybe she's truly abiA22 ... Sorry, you'll have to «' Jor my carbi^ncular hod Take a ralncheck and book early. •r-. ./ li Legacy Naah, 9 don't think anyone is, Can you speak the old words to me? • I doubt you'd desire ;,i"',• - r, • My skull is sleek .4^:".^' Hold a torch to the wall [2^M^^^ ? The Macho Man who comes free''.. •' And covered with fuzz '.r^:: Where you found the hieroglyphs? m^'^)^^ '. \ With an Enlarged Ego,. .;i|.J'K In leaden voice will you teli me S'Ji;' f. , j," J ; Or the heartbreaking hunk. .-„;,- ; \.;: .. ShotAM 9 grow my hair this week? ^•^l^-sThe song they sung unto you?,'^-', J^.A/' * - '.„ Who'll melt his way into your heart.';.,. • Do 9 dare to drink a beer ^S^ And shall you ever again whisper your T'.'.. Then explode It and leave a permanent crack, 9 imagine she'll freak vivid recall of the , ^ Allt^ough some people do prefer them. .', Conversation of Plato and Aristotle ;.>''; ' At the reception our guests appear J^^lfMm^' Could you ever hold';.; "if /,/ i^' * • , . Perhaps your tastes ore unlque.> >;::.;'-. • /giggling of our honeymoon - ^ff/r " : The lamp to your own hieroglyphs? Have a peek, at the "Mould Him Yourself Version",!; ' 9s there any snow this year?' " . j< Or let me peek at the scar ..' • * Our newest creation, -.... ^ ,^f^t .; '•' Where they cut out your heart? ;' You con shape him, keep his good points.', , 'J^ Can you leave ME now? .* Pemodelhis bad. • '"" ;^ ^ ,.. (Molly) 1 too must sleep an eternity* But a word of caution ^ . ..' Ihough he's extremely clever and deep This model Is not yet perfection.: .;:.'.. I ie never listens and falls to sleep * ZackMcMack . ';, And is only guaranteed to be perfect and sweet.. Till the wedding feast • ^ The Psychiatrist No 9 said not until we're married * .' • (Extra loving Is required ' No no no and now we are so yes . I saw a man To recharge his tired, but sturdy batteries). yes no 9 do. 911 take him wherever Flash of white life , / J He takes me, 9'd love to have a kid ' Feel free to Inspect criticise and choose, '^ To rear as a Christian on we're so Grumble of days turning ' -; .\ml lhe rain [ioured on doini • , '•'; *' ' : •;'" i' After all. you've nothing to lose. Strong in Qod, strong in the front pe\/i lhe barren fields umhing au ay •>'•,••?.<;:,•;,; ,•,;. ' •'l But please choose your lover '^Che semi anew. Ordoico or viricordo nil the dtisi and ihe sadness and y'^.. ^ „:;|;^' '<• / y!i , ' Before our "TWO For One" offer " Oh that 9rish rag. it's so new. misery and the potatoes or ivbaiirer ^, ' ' V, V/N ;V'-" .• '.;, ' ' Is temporarily over: , So true :. ' started crouino ar,d lhe wife baked ^ ''•.'.' • ;•''•.•'.•;!. •; A • This will enable you to test drive • :.'•'• an apple pie and ibe hids ihreiv the -•> ".t- '•:, \- - r. -, r:, •• •.' ••" \ school oflhe air radio in ibe orerflowiuf, ;'' ,^ > •• i •.; ;•;, vt ', ;;\;. Completely different types, • lei . >•?> ! weila'a '';dam because ihey could afford to^o to r\- V1-5- -.;-';,.• , Before you arrive ••;. la la 'J boarding school and the farmer ' • > _^.' * l^,l, .' At a conclusion ftrashappy ,•"'••/•• ' 9 felt his wallet through his chinos • Er.. will that be cash or cheque? and 9 knew then he was the one and t That wasn't him The man was big and sad ,, * i.iifcV;^ • —%" J Thank you Ma'am, hove a good life! we walked up the hill to college Ke the mark' '>'''. "'"•y-;''. 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Find out more at your Uni's information '1^1 session or Frcccall I 800 630 205 for an information kit, or for iv^ other Telecom Graduate Recruitment information. fTe/ecom ^m AU8THALIA A a s ,11 T .H IS I S «''*••'-*"' M 111 It,kll h 23 Ttie Women's Area has entered semester two with our usual enthusiasm and energy(l). The Layout and Design workshops being Ud STUDENTUNION PH: 377 2200 held in preparation for the production of HER-ETICAL '95 have attracted a large group of women with BIG ideas for how the magazine will look. If you didn't get CATERING NEWS ITEMS around to contributing an article but would like to be involved in the layout process 1. A food fair was held outside Main Refectory and Espresso Bar (happening between August 29 - Septem- on 20th July which was very successful. We received some twr 6), please contact us on 377 2242, or excellent feedback from students who participated in sampling drop in to tet us know. It will be a great oppor the food and drinks on display. tunity to pick up invaluable layout and design 2. The Espresso Bar will be selling a new line of cakes and ga skills, and eat copious amounts of chocolate in very teaux which we hope will be attractive to our customers. good company. 3. The catering department was exceptionally busy during the BLUE STOCKING WEEK AUGUST 22-26 (U.Q. campus) break catering for a number of conferences, dinners, and other University associated functions. As you may already be aware, we have been busily organising a week {actually 10 days) of activities to celebrate Blue Stocking Accolades have been received by the catering department from Week, in conjunction with the Women's Departments at Griffith the organisers of these events. They were impressed with the University and Q.U.T. Blue Stocking Week is held annually to cel food served and the professionalism of our service. ebrate women's achievements in tertiary education (starting with actually being permitted to enter Universities!)., Keep your eyes open for the exceptionally cool GIRLS IN SPACE posters around ARE YOU CONTEMPLATING HONOURS NEXT YEAR? campus which advertise the major events, or drop into the wom ^e> en's area to pick up a copy of the program listing ali the inter There are many things to consider before the start of the Honours year... campus events Here's a brief outline of what's happening: often described as one of the most hectic a student can face. Completing an Honours degree is a big commitment and you should aim, RESOURCES FRIDAY 19 obviously, at doing the best you can. It is already the case that some First Inter campus women's only Pool We are still tryingto establish an alterna Class Honours graduates who go on to be Ph.D candidates cannot get Competition tive to standing in library lines for hours scholarships (due to the number on offer vis ever increasing student Q.U.T. Campus Club 6pm by setting up a resource/article file in the numbers) and this trend wili continue. Women's area. Ifyou have any photocop $2 cover charge BUT it's not all dim and grim.... Honours is a very rewarding course for those Nomination forms available in the ied article, resource lists etc that are tak aspiring to enter the job market or further student - usually a Ph.D program. ing up valuable space in your life, please WEO Office consider donating them temporarily or per You need, starting now, to begin planning for the Honours year. Make sure Schonell Movie - CLEOPATRA JONES manently to the women's area. It doesn't by checking with your departmental and faculty guidelines that you meet (see Activities Area for details) matter what your area of study is, we'll eligibility criterion (G.P.A. etc.) and begin sniffing around the potential de find a use for it. Drop them into the Wom partment for good clues that could make things easier down the track. en's room or office at your convenience. Obtain handouts on assessment, responsibilities, course requirements and a department handbook if you can. Suss out which lecturers teach/ MONDAY 22 WORKSHOPS research/write or sympathise with your area of study because these are Public Forum Look out for the return of the extremely probably your best bet for a supervisor. Too often problems have arisen U.Q. Campus (to be advised) ] popular CAR MAINTENANCE workshops, due to poor lines of communication between supervisor and student - along with our oid favourite SELF DEFENSE often when they could have been alleviated by talking to potential candi and a host of other new varieties. Call on dates and doing a bit of homework. 377 2242 or drop in for further informa TUESDAY 23 It's then a matter of starting the application process and you should only tion. B8Q, stand up comedian and speaker do that with advice from the Department Head or someone in the depart Herston Medical School 1pm CONFERENCE ment like the 'Postgraduate Co-ordinator' or 'Graduate Assistant'. If you hunt around you'll find someone in the know. The NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS WOMEN'S POLICY AND INFORMATION Then it's a dual responsibility once you start the year to meet regularly WEDNESDAY 24 SHARING CONFERENCE is. being heid at with your supervisor and nut out a thesis which, hopefully, makes you U.Q. Market Day Melbourne University on ^he 10th, 11th world famous. Well... almost. Storytellers, performers, mural paint and 12th of September. It will cost $45 Check the University Calendar and Handbook in ing, free bbq which includes free billeted accommoda the Doctor of Philosophy section to see what the 12-2pm tion. A major focus of the conference is supervisor's responsibilities are SISTER MOON ENSEMBLE 1pm to create policy to be taken for discus and remember the onus is also sion to the National N.U.S. conference. »* If you want something special on you to facilitate these respon GRRL POWER DANCE PARTY The conference will include information sibilities. Sybil's Nitectub, City and workshops on a variety of topics such » If you have a function that Cheers and Good Luck! Bpm featuring band ISIS as enterprise bargaining, health and sexu requires catering or need a Women and friends ality, education, voluntary student union venue with/without a license S.P.Wright Free for students, $2 others ism, racism, affirmative action (to name Researcher U.Q. Student Union » Cto you wish to hold a special a few), and provides a great opportunity Phone 377 2234 function? to gain policy writing skills and find out what's happening in other states, if you » Have you thought about THURSDAY S5 are interested in attending or want further birthday parties, Zlst's, Schonell Movie Deal $4 information phone 377 2242. engagements, weddings or any WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING or EVEN MATURE AGE WOMEN'S GROUP other social occasion that Vi (a COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (depends requires arranging? - consider If you would like to get involved for social IA on availability) (time to be advised) contacting the professionals: u activities and support, contact us for the IU (OIL E FRIDAY 26 enext meeting date. University of (Queensland Union m 00 5 LOUD GRRLS BAND & COMEDY (P.S. - women's collective, 1pm, every - Catering & Convention Ceiitre 10 5 (0 M '0 o NIGHT Tuesday, women's room, be ther eor don't who can take the worries and •C U.Q. Rec Club 7pm $3 concession, ra 3 o (0 have a life) effort out of organising your $5 waged 0) 0) UI a. function C .^ W o Women and friends m = (0** a. Featuring Sofia Woods, Gravel Rash, » We are competitively priced. •a The Cement Box is the students' theatre. I S'O e Dream Poppies, PissHag, Kiley Extra special deals for Clubs & «•- It is there for all students to participate in, Gaffney and Larina All ick Societies^n'd all student no (A 9> be it though acting, stage band or in the c Free childcare available for events - •oo •? audience. ihember of UQU. O to book contact Toni or Carolyn on 3772242 The Amardeans are presenting "Witness for the Prosecution" by Agatha Christie. This will be opening on Thursday, 25/8 and running until Saturday, io/9 ci:;»ii:i\TiM>\ In September there is a student production of "Brecht's 3 Penny Opera". This is a great chance to see some live theatre and to support student culture. If this is the only piece of theatre you see this year - see this one. It is an accessible play. 26 Wiih the assistance of the =1 Whitlam institute and the UnioRs IQD/i ENVIRONflENTALLY- Environment Collective the Student Union has adopted a of FRIENDLY .STUDENT UNION using 100% recycled paper. From now on you will notice that all union This means that we are in the position stalls and food available. Keep posted publications photocopies will be on to make price cuts for students. Coffee for more details in the next edition of 100% recycled paper. has been reduced in the coffee shop to Focus/Semper. On July 16, students from $1.60 and in the refecs 60c a cup! Last Paper bins are being introduced to all Functions around Australia attended week we reduced the price of chips to union offices to recycle all of its paper. The Student Union is eager to build up the Campus Activist Forum $1.10 a cup. Slowly but surely there will Biology Refec is trialing the use of the profile of its catering and functions ' at the Sydney University of be more! Having the food outlets in crockery. If successful it will be adopted department. Hopefully this will lead to Technology, One of the key student control means that student in ali refectories to cut back on the more employment for students and areas of discussion was needs are met. This is affordable food, extensive use of disposable plastics. more revenue for the student union to the defence of Student Un longer opening hours for part-time and It will be a viable alternative if it doesn't return to students through better ionism, studious students, wide ranges and services. Please consider having your end up in you kitcnen!! Pilferage is a priority to employing students. j Speakers recognised the problem in the refectories and if it .next function with us and spread the fact that campus students happens to crockery the program will The executive and management of word about the availability of UQU's , have traditionally played an catering and functions service not continue. SO, STOP FLOGGING catering have been successful in I important role in the move- professional and competitive. STUFF,., NAUGHTY NAUGHTY broadeningthe range of foods available I ment for progressive STUDENTS increasing vegetarian lines in particular. New Espr esso Bar Delicatessen! I change in areas like wom- However, if you have any suggestions Last but not least we are looking to Okay all of you olive, cheese and j en's liberation, the environ- please contact the Catering Manager on delicacy lover we have got great news. • ment, lesbian and gay introduce yellow lid recycling v,'heelie bins 377 2205. Further, the executive took for bottles, hard plastic and aluminium The Union's Espresso Bar is about to i rights, anti-racism, interna- a wage reduction to receive meal see the introduction of a delicatessen j tional issues and educa- cans. You can imagine how much waste vouchers to buy food made on the we could cut back on if this is doesn't hosting a variety of breads, meats, ; tion. premises. This ensures the executive cheeses and other fine foods, if you with the co-operation of all eats in union outlets and this is able to I Students at the conference students. There is no excuse. would like a platter prepared especially I also saw the need for monitor service in the catering for your office or home party the staff Unfortunately recycling has been department. This strategy is most greater networking between unsuccessful in the past due to at the Espresso Bar would be only to campuses, and for better successful as students tastes are what happy to help you. contamination by non-recyclable rubbish ultimately counts, and ignorance of co-ordinated action to fight beyond acceptable standard of recycling catering means losses for all students. Due to a lack of seating the Espresso Voluntary Student Union companies. It is important that all I emphasises the exec oavs for their Bar will be extending its premises shortly. ism. The Education Action students take personal responsibility for Network in W.A. and the meal vouchers thr ouah a dir ect Please note that Biology Refector v their rubbish and make an effort to Student Unionism Network wage deduction each week On a now has doner l^ebabs and vegetarian recycle in the proper manner. measly $6 per hour wage cuts are not in Victoria have been falafels available. formed to meet this need. Catering Success • Price Cuts preferred! Meal vouchers are bound to (Cheaper range of food is available from In the past the Unions food outlets have be an election issue as factions There was a unanimous re Espresso Bar after Refecs closing time) made losses and hence have been fabricate dirt on the current executive. jection of Simon Crean's subsidised by your student fee. The Make sure you are informed on the Soon to come: Free Friday Jazz Nights proposed solution to fund Focus executive took the initiative to do FACTS . at the Pizzeria, with steaks and salads student unions with the available plus the normal range of pizza, money they would lose un something about it! Due to the new There wili be a "vegetarian week" soup & lasagnes. Stay tuned. der Voluntary Student Un success of catering this year, we have promotion this semester with al sorts been consistently making a profit. ionism. This would simply of vegetarian cooking workshops; info means that Student Unions v/ould be accountable to the federal government, and there would be the dan »»» Send No Money »»» ger that funds would be »»» Take No Discrimination »»» ; withdrawn if Unions started I campaigning in politically - The Students Guide To Dodgy Employment fids I sensitive areas - like free Looking for work in newspapers, you are often faced with unethical, discriminatory or misleading 1 education! ads. The Employment Office would like to make the sifting through these ads easier for you. Focus will run a series of articles that will help you to identify and avoid dodgy employment ads. Misleading or Deceptive Employment Ads All job descriptions should dearly state the nature of work in the vacant position: 'clerical work", 'labouring', or 'driving' for example. Beware of job descriptions which outline vacancies with vague s t u d e n terminology, such as 'management prospects' or 'job with travel'. The advertisement should cleariy state if there is any on-the job training involved with the position, or expectations that you would complete a training course. The UQ Student Union runs Job advertisements are sometimes misleading because they are placed in inappropriate catego a Legal Service to assist ries. Appropriate categorisations are as follows: Employment - work as an employee for a regular paid salary of wage, students In ajl legal niatters. Sub-Contracting - work done by people with their own tools of trade, such as building tools or courier vans. There is a one off chargie of Commission only Sales - selling goods or services where payment is a percentage of the sales volume achieved. $10 for this service. Business Opportunities • people asked to buy goods or entrance into a business scheme, such as party plans, herbal products or franchises. Employment Services - professional services for the job seeking such as modelling portfolios, If you need help with: employment agencies and resume services. » criminal Training and Tuition - all courses such as TAFE, hairdressing, nanny, Lorraine Martin, computing » personal Injury courses. » motor vehicle and property damage Work under the categories of Employment or Commission only Sales, should desirably contain a »tenancy disputes »traffic offences statement of income, either actual income to be paid, an income or salary to be negotiated, payment » wills on a commission only basis, or payment on a piece-rate basis (e.g. $28 per 1,000 leaflets) » debt Finally, here are a few general items to keep in mind when scrutinising the vacancy section in the » consumer papers. Job advertisements will desirably incli'de a street address forthe business. There should be no outlay of money involved as part of the job application process: the only money you should part with would be for courses and services found under the Employment Services or Training & ^ Call the Tuition categories. If you have any problem obtaining information about the nature, terms or con Student Union Legal Service ditions ofthe position form the people in charge, you should feel a twinge of suspicion, Happy job hunting,., to be continued. on telephone 377 2238 Zoie Sherrin 27 Student Employment Officer J J TIUIN CINEMAS scHonai & PIZZn CRFFE 4 THaRSDflY BARGAIN MflTINEES 12,1:15,2:30,3:15 NOW YOU CAN SEE At a convenient ALL YOUR TIME and an FAVOURITE FILMS AFFORDABLE Price! Current. Soon.... speet) Little Buddha KALIFORMA The Sum of Us Bad Boy Bubby True Lies The Crow CHECK SOffRDS EfiCH WEEK FOR CONFIRMfiTION HELP US TO HELP YOU If any ofthe Please fill in above times fonn below do not suit A PASS and hand in you, let to the Schonel us know which Months! 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It will move audiences from deep seated fear to ironic laughter, under Rol' De Heers brilliant direction, he and his 30 different directors ol photography bring Nick Hopes portrayal to the screen in a film that is stylistic daring and provocative. {R) 1.52. WINNER GRAND JURY SPECIAL PRIZE: VENICE FILM FESTIVAL Bubby ••w;J5^|0| A RARE FILM THAT COMBINES SUSPENSE, PATHOS AND SENSITIVITY Rex Reed New York Obsen/er. The suspensoful film that echoes Peter Weirs WITNESS, is bought lo tho screen by the maker of Cinema Paradiso, FRANCE CRISTADLI, and ils magnificent iensing WJ is in the true tradition of Hitchcock. A young boy witnesses the massacre of two feuding Italian clans, involved in Italy's kidnapping business. Fleeing he survives by his wits to fee across the country where the meditative use of landscape is superbly captured by Raffaele Merles. Like the young stars of C. Paradiso and Stolen Children, Director Carlo Carlei elicits and astonishing performance from Manual Colao. (Subtitlec) •N V-- THRILLING, ELEGANT, PART MYTH, PART HITCHCOCK (Who weekly) AN EXQUISITE STORY OF LOVE AND PAIN, ONE OF THE MOST MOVING PIECES OF FRENCH CINEMA... Margaret Pomeranz***** An envelope of divinely performed music caps this quiet tale of insights of the matters AHedft of the heart A violin makers world (Daniel Auteuil) is disrupted v/hen he meets a young virtuoso (Emmanuelle Beart) a lover of his friend. The stbsequent story of this trio is played out within the confines of v;orkplace, and cafe, with music posited as a kind cf fourth character, which links and comments on drama (SUBTITLED) infinter 1.40 WINNER: 2 FRENCH OSCARS: & MUSIC BY RAVEL. STUNNING! ONE OF THE MOST UVISH CULT MOVIES OF ALL TIME. A FANTASTIC VISUAL TREAT... Peter Thompson lOK AND (FNIN (OtN't The Coen Brothers star Tim Robbins v/ilh Paul Newman in this inspired story in the tradition of the Hollywood greats, Capra, Hawks and Sturges, Set in New York in the late 50's a naive hayseed from the Mid west, becomes an unwitting pawn in a high stakes business scam. It is a wild and wacky fairytale done as only the Coens can do, a romp that will tickle your funnybone and knock your eyes out (PG) 1.51 * (DW»y Of INVINtlflk Iso FUNNY, SO CLEVER, I ADORED IT 5 out of 5 Margaret Pomeran FABULOUS, KOOKY, VIBRANT AND EYEPOPPING: Sydney M.H. A POWDER KEG OF A COMEDY: Rolling Stone Almodovar ALMODOVAR'S black farce marks a return to tie crazy screwball pace of his v/idely 7 loved Women on the Verge. I. His followers will welcome all the usual ingredients, ravishing opening credits, sexual merry-go-rounds, chattering women and costumes to make your eyes pop out. VICTORIA ABRIL stars in this mayhem of multiple murder, voyeurism and rape... The plot offers plenty of opportunities for satire and is colourful, sexy, darkly humorous, desperate and optimistic... yet another imperfect masterpiece from Almodovar (SPANISH: Subtitled) 1.57 (R) • Thi] Killer's Toenails < A SLY RAMBUNCIOUS SATIRE OF A SCREWBALL COMEDY: New York Times. A FAST PACED RAUNCHY THRILLER, WITH A WITTY SCRIPT, AND UCED WITH SNAPPY ONE LINERS, Jan Epstein-The Melbouranian. This is a sexy modern excursion into classic film noir from JOHN DAHL. acclaimed for Red Rock West. LINDA FIORENTINO is a woman who want it alt, and wants it now. She cons her husband to pull off a million dollar drug deal, then skips off alone with the loot to a country town, and is chased by her angry husband and private detectives. It is a fine example of a movie that keeps everybody guessing right to the final reel. A SMART AND WITTY REVISION OF 40'S FILM NOIR/Sunday Age. A TRIUMPHI SEDUCTIVE AND RAVISHING... 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It has been chaptered with many witty one liners and plenty of ABBA songs, as they chart the optimistic story of Muriels quest for self esteem and to find happiness, as she reinvents herself from the oppressive haven of the Gold Coast to a new Walter Mitty life in Sydney. It confidentially shifts tone from a comic boisterous beginning to a more serious look at life. (M) 1.45 A CROWD PLEASER OF IMMENSE CHARM,: Allan Hunter/Cannes STANDS ALONE FOR ITS WARMTH & ORIGINALITY... Peler Castaldi ABC JACK THOMPSON and RUSSELL CROWE star in one of the 'unniest and most touching family dramas yet bought to the screen. The scripl is full of surprises and the insights ofthe highly acclaimed stage play have been retained by David Stevens Sum script. II is not just about Homosexuals, il deals with love and loneliness in all their forms. II steers a deft path between boldness and sentimentality and succeeds (M) THE BEST AUSTRALIAN FILM OF THE YEAR: Evan Williams VOTED BEST FILM; SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 1994 (1.40} A MARVELLOUS SOCIAL COMEDY, A JOY TO BEHOLD KIESLOWSKI IS RIGHT ON FORM, BRILLIANT... Geoff Brown THE TIMES THREE COLOURS The second part of KIESLOWSKI'S trilogy begins in France, but soon embarks on the turmoil of post revolutionary Poland, but with a light heart hearted air. The story of a Paris based emigre (Zbigniew Zamachowski) and his divorce from his wife (Julie Delpy) covering a story of "Equality" wilh humour, and looking at potency business |/and the sex war. White motifs abound and he seems to be saying that equality is elusive, a romantic dream. It is a wicked and cunningly crafted tale ol fiscal and sexual jostling (Subtitled). YOU WOULD BE INSANE TO MISS IT... A HUGELY INTELLIGENT FABLE: N Y Times 29 WINNER: SILVER BEAR, BEST DIRECTOR BERLIN (M) 1.31 H-w^Mjeitid, Utte^uuitix)4^uU 'Cl'^^'/t^ S.W.A.G. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL You too can help - by becoming a member of nam. - 6 p.m. Tho Flame Tiia( Never Dies.,. the campus Amnesty Group. Friday. August igih SWAG is a politically and socially Amnesty International's lifeblood is its volun "I am firmly convinced that peace, democracy, Discussion: "The Mlllenlum's Dawn? Human teers and supporters • It is ihrough such a active committee within the So and human rlijhis cannot be disassociated." Rights in the Year ;ooo". including individu network of members and supporters that dal Work Department, which has -Boutros Boutros Ghali als such as Cheryl Kernot, Terry O'Gorman. Amnesty takes up individual cases, mobilises Kathy Job. Peter Beatiie, Rev. Hollingsworth been given new life by a group of (Secretary General of the United Nations. 1993.) public opinion, maintains pressure on govern et al, comprising a panel which will be exam inspired University students. Its ments for the release of prisoners of con Throughout the World two out of every three ining the future of human rights in the next science, fair and prompt trials for political seeks to increase student power, people are ruled by governments who torture 5-10 years. orisoners. an end to torture and executions fight for and improve their politi and kilt their own citizens. Every year, many «nd improved international standards for the Brisbane Girls' Grammar School thousands of men, women and children are cal and educational rights, not treatment of prisoners. imprisoned, tonured or killed for what i\\{i'i InfO: 221-0221 only within the curriculum of the believe in, because of their ethnic origin, their At the University of Queensland group, we Mcctin(; of the camnus croup: Monday, August Bachelor of Social Work, but also sex, Iheir colour, or for no apparent reason at have in the past year adopted a prisoner of 22, ip.m. 4ZZZ Room within issues that affect us all as all. conscience and are seeking for his re ileasc This will give members an opportunity to de from an Egyptian goal. This we do by writing university students. SWAG too But there Is hope. velop our campaign on East Timor. Urgent letters to select governments and from draw encourages the development of Actions from India. Myanmar. Burundi, and Within hours of government troops opening ing up petitions outlining the prisoner's con various social functions for mem South Africa will also be addressed. fire on pro-democracy supporters in dition. Unfortunately, there are many more bers and students, such as this T\aryar\mett Sqt;are - Beijing 1989) - Amnesty prisoners like the one we have adopted, and As set down in the United Nations Declara year's Social Work Ball, BBQ's, International had begun mobilising its sup as each day goes by, it is likely that their con tion of Human Rights. porters worldwide, to protest against the kill ditions worsen. That is why it is essential to wine and cheese gatherings and "All human beings are born free and equal in ings and other gross human rights violations. make the responsible governments aware that dignity and rights." social evenings, and, it is now Amnesty Works. the international community disapproves of forming our own football team. their conduce, and why we have picked up (Article 1) "I was put in a small cell, naked for seven days The team spirit of SWAG gives our pens in protest. This Is our goal. without food...But I came from the water strength when encouraging stronger..knowing that there are people, there So join our cause, it is one which loves life For further information, contact: changes within the Uni and it cre and freedom and seeks to abolish inequality are human beings somewhere, people who President - Lynne Summers - 870 -7908 ates fun and wild relationships to love freedom, people who will fight for free and injustice from today's World. dom, for justice...they give us hope to live one Vice President - Rhianon Levien - 870 - 4662 enjoy during social functions. It This Semester the campus Amnesty group calls day more." to your attention the following events; Secretary - Sarah Ekin - 870 - 3228 endeavours to work cohesively with other committees and clubs Maina wa Kinyatti, former Kenyan Prisoner of Aug 8 - tj Burma, Democracy Denied Conscience. to provide support and inform you Fireworks Gallery, isi Floor, 336 George St. on 'what's going on' within you The Golden Key National Honour Courses and Careers Section, Ms Golden Key Society held its second induction Maryanne Whitaker and KPMG Liberal Club Report ceremony on the evening of p^^^ Marwick Partner Mr Geoff National Thursday 28 July in Mayne Hall., vvhite The first major function of the semester is to be held at Fri The Society, open lo students in The evening concluded with a Honour day's Nightclub in the River the top 1 5% of academic achiev light supper that provided mem ers, aims to recognise and pro- bers with the opportunity to ineet Society side Centre on Friday 26th mole academic excellence while with one another, the honourary August, commencing at also utilizing ils members talents members and the Society's execu 7:00pm. Tickets are $20.00 for (he benefit of (he wider com tive. Report munity. and include aT-Bone steak and two hours of free beer and This semester, the Sociely is plan The Sociely welcomed over 500 ning a shadow day, where high wine, and then complimentry new members at the ceremony, school students are invited to admission to the nightclub af inciiiding a number of students spend a day on campus with terwards. Contact Grant on from the University's Gatton Col Golden Key members, and a 365 6575 or 871 9401 for fur lege. Three scholarship awards number of faculty dinners, giving $500 were made to outstanding members (he chance to meet and ther information and tickets. new members of the Sociely who talk wilh faculty staff in a relaxed had achieved not only academi atmosphere. A meeting has also been cally but also in extra-curricular activities. scheduled for Tuesday 23rd New members are very much en August at 1:00pm In the Axon couraged lo get involved in the Golden Key also recognised ils Society In any capacity that they Room. There will be a guest new honourary members at the feel comfortable with. Please speaker and a policy forum. ceremony - Vice-Chancellor Pro contact the Society's President, Light refreshments and drinks fessor Brian Wilson, Pro Vice- Justin Hartley, on 378 5859 or the will be provided. Chancellor Alan Rix, Dean of General Vice-President, Anthony Commerce and Economics Profes Oostenbroek, om 365 4349 for sor Frank Finn, Dean of Medicine further information. Professor Laurie Ceffen, Head of 30 MED REVUE'94 - Social Work Action Group "FROM HERSTON WITH LOVE" University Semper tradlllon dictales that when Court. A capable band provided the the traditional weedy, black-clad, atmosphere with lots of Bond and As a member, you can play a pow pseudo-lnlelleclual Semper editor olher music (Nicole's clarinet stood Clubs and right out!) and a wide range of hu erful part in encouraging and pro receives his (occasionally her) Med Revue tickets he resentfully saun morous songs were also used, in Socs Ball testing for changes which benefit ters in half-way through the show, chorus ("Liver, liver, liver! You don't us as university students while en stays for only half of It and then treat mc no good no more), duel Friday 2nd September joying the social functions that walks out lo write a vicious condem ("You're the Pits") and solo ("Goldscalpel" and lhe SU200 song). you create with the rest of your nation ofall those elitist (intelligent), rich (well-dressed). Jock (physically Congratulations to singers Melinda 7.30pm team. fit) fascist bastards (people who Nolan, Bridgctle Sutton, Greta Horn- make Semper editors feel Inferior). burg and others. Axon Room Membership is S2, which is rela This year a slightly pot-bellied, black clad (just lo fit the part), pseudo- The '94 Med Revaie was highlighted tively cheap for the political and yobbo editor got sent some tickets, by the high energy leam of social power that SWAG can give turned up for the whole deal and Goldscalpel and Tony Barber who you. LOVED IT! overcame the inevitable stuff-ups Only $25!! with style. This pair also learned up with a number of talented writ Come to the next meeting and The show was made un ofa collec For all you can eat tion of skits, film and songs linked ers, Including Steve "Doogle" Bow enjoy being involved; together by the slory of Jane Bond ers (of Qld University Regiment and drink and Free (Ruth Sutherland) as she mixes It fame) and Anders Taylor, to turn out a funny, well-paced revue with a Tues 16th August, 3.00 pm with the evil Dr GoldScalpel (John Bus and entry to Wentworth) and his mentally unsta wide-variety of acts and a large in SWAG room. Hartley Teakle ble accomplice Dr Tony Barber (Alan number of beefy young men with Fridays Building, MiUard). The opening scene was set football socks stuffed down their or contact Social Work Dept. by a hilarious piece of film where speedoes. Jane Bond is pursued by a gang of baddies. Dr Goldscalpel then sets Thanks to Laura MacDonald and Tickets from Clubs and Join nowll about stealing Jeanie Little's larynx Fiona Stanaway (author of "Sex: A so that Chrlstoplier Skase may have Users' Guide") for their interpreta Socs or the Union Shop. Amanda-Jayne Jackson It transplanted into him to make him tive skills. SWAG Secretary. sound even sicker before a Spanish 10% STUDENT DISCOUNT! ^TUNE UPS (4) (6) (8) cyls $30 -(-parts ^GREASE AND OIL CHANGES $20 + oil and filter (if required) ^ WHEEL ALIGNMENTS* *free brakes and front end checks come in for friendly service SoTPH 369 6288 SERVICING THE WESTERN SUBURBS FOR OVER 20 YEARS NOW RELOCATED AT MILTON ON THE WAY TO UN COL PEARSON A UTOMOTIVE 14 Riailwav l\/lilton 31 VEGETABLES Never before have markets offered such a variety in vegetables. Even so, how often do we run out of in teresting sen/ing ideas. Ar.d worse The following hints are aimed at helping you make still, how often do we see the poor the cooking of your vegies easier, and more nutritious. little buggers destroyed by over * Steam your vegies rather than boil them. Bamboo cooking and over-salting. Part of the steamers which cost under $20 make the cooking time problem is thai vegetables are still a hell of a faster (saving $$ in power bills)* When thought of as the side dish, when boiling vegetables, add them to boiling, not cold, wa they can quite easily compete with ter. This allows easier timing in their cooking. * Veg the 'main' through a little imagina- etables cook at different speeds to each other, so don't lion. The time factor involved in add them at the same time.) slil) see people putting ;ooking dressing up three or four vegies is all the vegies in the same pot of cold water - pota also a common turn-off. There are toes, beans, and broccoli etc and cooking the bejesus solutions, however, for turning the out of them, tts no wonder that the people forced to mundane old vegie inlo an exciting eat the resulting slop often hate vegetables. * Uost and attractive part of the meal. vegetables can be pre-cooked lo save time al serv Interestingly, there are almost no ing time. The secrel here is to part cook them, plung Australian native vegetables avail ing them inlo very cold water - stops the cooking proc ess and helps retain the colour in green vegies. Re 3 able to the consumer today. Some restaurants, however, have re heat, and flavour prior to serving, fD cently begun to utilise a variety of Here are a few simple ideas lo brighten up some of Ol wild vegetables, fruits and berries, those boring old vegies. Especially those ones mum rr which may help promote them, and used to serve you, and you swore when you left home perhaps create a market. And the {/I 1 trotter you'd never eat them again. But now you're on vegetables we know today also Austudy they're Ihe only ones you can afford! a bear little resemblance to the c * PUMPKIN; Try sprinkling cinnamon on your baked, plants or ginally used by prehistoric or roast pumpkin. {To roast, see Potatoes) But be man. This is due to their steady warned - it's addictive. improvement through both natural trotter selection and propagation, * BRUSSELLS SPROUTS ; Saute some onion, capsi cum, tomato, chopped ham or bacon in a little butter [Modern plant breeding follows the or oil until soft. Add cooked sprouts and continue to principles discovered in 1865, by saule a fow more minutes. lhe Auguslinian monk, Gregor hock hindquartor Medel, who began observing pea * CABBAGE; Saule sliced cabbage in butter for aboul plants. And the search continues 3 or 4 minutes. Add the same ingredients as for still for wild forms which may help Brussels sprouts, and cook for a further 5 minutes or the plant breeder to provide bettor so. If the vegies begin to slick, add a little water. nutrition, better disease resistance * POTATO ; Rosemary Potato - Peel and slice pota or better yields in the cultivated va- toes, boil until part cooked (Ihey shouldn't fall apart ri eties In use today And what is when pierced with a knife). Cool quickly in cold water a vegetable I hear you ask? Bo and drain. Saule some sliced onion and rosemary tanically any edible part ofa plant leaves until onion begins to brown, then add the po not derived from thejjli^tllflr female tatoes, turning them until they brown. flower. Con|mffl;<^jfM^:te3ally Roast Potato - Peel and cut potato in lo largish chunks. the word refeipiS^ibf0"{^rt Boil until soft, but not falling apart when pierced wilh of any hertwdaQMpltt&j^r a knife. Remove and cool quickly in cold water. Drain. food and thus indudls alueiections Deep-fry in fairly hot oil until golden brown. of plants, rootsiit}u(ti8;|tubers, * BEETROOT; Peel, and cut into smallish chunks. Boil stems, leaves, flowers, as well as or steam until soft (about 15 minutes). Remove and seeds and fruits. : saute in butter. Add some chopped parsley, and a dash Among the ropte/pl^l^iubers of lemon or orange juice. ealen are; beetf^l^Hsi^rs- nips, swede^^ilrti^^ons^arvd Russian Beetroot - prepare and cook as above. Add polatoes. Stems or s^i'bots tlsed'In some sour cream and horseradish (some type of clude; asparag'^sp )eeks> celery, mustard is just as good if you don't have horserad rhubarb, and silver beel. Leaves ish). Top with shallots. include; cabbage, brussel sprouts, * CARROTS; Glazed Carrots - Cook as usual, then melt spinach, lettuce and endive. Flow some butter in a saucepan, stir in a little brown sugar ers include; cauliflower, artichokes, (some ground aniseed or ginger can also be added) and broccoli. Seeds include; green Saute the carrots in the glaze for a minute or two. peas, oorri, broad beans, and dried SPUT-PEA DAHL (FROM SEMPER FIVE) beans: Ifinalty, bruits used as veg- 375gm Yellow Split Peas e^le^.ljicjude; tomatoes, cucum bers-capsicums, eggplant, mar- 2 tspn Cummin 1 rows and pumpkin. 2 Ige Onions, diced COOKING VEGETABLES 2 tspn Coriander Overcooking vegetables not only 2 Ige Potatoes, diced spoils their taste, but also destroys 2 tspn Chilli, crushed, fresh their mine'al and vitamin content, es 1 tbisp Garlic, crushed chopped, or powdered pecially green vegetables which con- Celery, chopped lain e5S«ntaj;mlir» and Vita 1 stick min C^Tltevitamln.te;8feo.,losl if the 1/4 cup Lemon juice, or Vinegar vegetaWes are.bW atfJOiirtale. Cook- 2 tspn Ginger, crushed or 2 tbispns Yellow Mus ing vegetablesMen requires careful tard seeds powdered timing lar^^extr^[rpOM^?°^^oca" 1/4 cup Oil 2 tspn Tumeric have a deirimental effect on the tasle. METHOD; Wash split peas, and cover in a large pot with water. Bring to the boi! and simmer for 30 minutes adding more water as necessary. Put aside, keeping the water. Fry the onions, celery and potato in the oil and lightly brown. Add the ginger, garlic, chilli, mustard seeds and spices. Fry for about 5 minutes and then add the lemon juice/vinegar. Add the split peas, and simmer for a further 30 minutes, keeping the puree to the consistency of Ihin porridge. It can be made smoother, if desired by blending. Sen/e with chapattis, yoghurt and chutney for a snack, and/or boiled rice for hcK:k foriitjuarter a meal. Adjust the chilli factor also as desired. COST Approx S4.00 for 8-12 serves, • 32 FACULTY TROUSERS! EXPLODIIMG THE IMYTHS &/ Kludi! The recent bout of apathy from the stale education authorities applied in the roles of corporate and government train DEET has advised that New Zealand regarding the employment prospects of teaching graduates has ing officers, academia etc. ers studying in Australia are no longer been shown to have little application to graduates of UQ's Di Finally, it is projected that there will soon be a shortage eligible for Medicare benefits. Failure ploma of Education course. Media negativity has resulted in of secondary teachers due to a glut of primary students to arrange aiternalive cover could leave students being turned off the course thinking that it is a one-way soon to arrive in secondary schools, increased inter-state these students liable for substantial ticket to nowhere. migration and the large numbers of teachers who have medical costs, fvlew Zealand students should arrange Overseas Student The reality is that the over-supply of teachers is restricted lo been postponing their resignation/retirement until eco Health Cover (OSHC) Ihrough generalist teachers from four year teaching courses. A huge nomic conditions improve. Medibank Private by taking the follow shortage exists in language teachers where the government The UQ Diploma of Education is a one year poslgradu- ing steps - continues to seek teachers of Japanese, Indonesian, German, ate course for students from virtually any field which can Chinese, French and Italian. Maths, Physics and Chemistry turn what may seem a useless first degree into a fulfill teachers are also being sought. ing and useful career. * make a payment of $231 to the Cash- ier. Level 1, JD Story Building Another importani facl which is being ignored is the amount of Enquiries may be directed to Mrs Sharon Hannah, ph: (Medibank Private requires that the first Dip. Ed. graduates gaining employment in fields other than high 365 6502. school teaching. Skills acquired through the Dip. Ed. are being payment be made via the institution) By Maurita Henley and David Bolton * present the Cashier's receipt to the International Education Office (Level 4, JD Story Builcing) and complete a THE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT Medibank Private registration form which the University will fonward with In the University of Queensland there are many people who reaiiy care for the others around them although finding them is your contribution to Medibank Private not always easy in such a huge institution. Identifying the holes in the system is also difficull so a group based in Chaplaincy services and sponsored by the University set out to discover what the Universily was like for first year students. The report didn't look at special things we do very well, like support students with disabilities, but considered broad issues. The Entitlement for the first year com findings suggest that The University of Queensland has an acceptable human environment - just. I will deal with two of the mences from lhe dale of payment. issues in their report: money, which is a concern lo most students and the problems of science students which epitomised Entitlements for subsequent years may the problems of a large expanding university. be arranged by students directly with Medibank Private. Money Fifty percent of first year sludenls found shortage of money a serious concern. While almost everyone would agree that they could use more money, shortage of money /sa real problem for some students. Austudy is less than the dole, but a student musl not only live, but travel to and from university, buy texts and so on. Money is an issue which it is easy to either dismiss or beat up, so we need solid infor mation on student income, living costs and study costs. Whal can be done when parental finances are such that students cannot gel Austudy, bul get no parental support either? Perhaps we could look at the German system in which parents are levied throughl the lax system lo pay their student children an allov/ance, so that those with lew incomes pay nolhing whereas those with high incomes have no choice, but every student gets an allowance. If we can manage HECS through tax why not Ausludy? A study of student finances could bcov. , the low status of the Union which the report highlighted. Science Students Students are entitled to receive satisfactory service, support and fa cilities. Having taught science students for over 25 years the results of this sun/ey surprised me, for science students were more unhappy than any other group. Only 42% of science students were satisfied with the help they received in subject choice, 47% wifi timetabling, 51% wilh finding seats in a lecture theatre, 29% concerning feed back on work and 49% with tutor competence. Action has been taken to fix some problems: timetabling changes have reduced lecture thea tre crowding, peer tutoring has been introduced in some Biology sub jects, and Chemistry has upgraded tutor training. What else might be done is being considered. Tne level of satisfaction wilh the human environment shown by first year students was generally reassuring, although nol inspiring. The study is a cause for (grim?) satisfaction even if the results are not, for we know whal the problems are and are working on them. By Rod Rodgers, Deputy Dean cf Science 33 iSfltie^ Sepiemb^ir eveniz Ncifioifcif Cciftf pus Bcifidf Compeffffioffl "GRAND FINAL' The Top 7 bands from fhe ffecifs perform Sfarfs 7L30pni .ficencecf ¥REE Friday August 26§h ENTRY mMAIH REFEC/BISTRO AtrSXRALlA'S I^RIElVItER REGCiAH KAlNrt> CALABASH ( PLAY BIOL REFEC WED 31st AUGUST1-2PM ~] FREE CONCERT & FREE BBQ from 12.30pm CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST $IOOCASH ^ Sfuif enf Arts FesfiVaf FREE ENTRY KDMfi•-»« PLAIT IN THIS VIDEO GAiME CHAiMPfONSNIP. HEATS ARE HELD IN THE AaiVimS CENTRE WITH THE SBMIFIHAl AND flHAl BEING HELD ON THE BIG SCREEH. SItort sforjr coffnpe#;f«on "^ phoffograpfiy and art compeffiffion * ENrRYFOR/N AND RULES P4GE19 art exhibffioii-crcf ff virorlrsfiops HEATS TTN 8TH 9TH ISTH I3TH I4TH OFSCPTEiMBER fuftclBfime jgerforttBCiwces. HELD IN THE ACTIVITIES CENTRE BETWECN I AND 2PiM The fuH programme will be lisled in next FINAi AND SEMI f INAL THURSDAY 1STH6.30-9PM monlhs Semper. * Compelifioit enfr/ forms MAIN KEFEC, can be found on page 19 of fhis etfiffion. 34 ICC SPORT MALE / Rugby - Played on Monday and Wednes Onia tke GoUeaeii ICC REPORT day nights on Oval 5. Volley Ball - Played on Sunday nighls in SPR.A, Complex. As the third term of the university year Tennis - Played on Monday nights al Uni is well under way, the inter-college versity tennis courts. council is again busy organising the'run- Soccer- Played on Saturday days andTucs- In (his collcgi- cdilorial wc will be addressing experience is quickly discredited in the 'real ning of the sporting, cultura' and social day nights al Soccer ficld.s. Ihat commonly spread fallacy that college is the world'. Universily sludcnts who arc also colle life of the ten colleges on campus. Apart Snooker and Billiards - Played on Tues all evil of (he world, p,irt icularly here on this cam gians gain a differeni perspective. Nol for a mo from this normal organisational role, day nights at different colleges. pus. This unqualified view hasbeen nurtured by ment is this editorial .suggesting Ihal college is though, ICC is undertaking olher impor several institutions within the university. Firstly, Ihe 'real world', bul that il is a microcosm of tant projects, such as the incorpora the University's Administration seems lo lack the society where comnuinity members are more tion of the Club. Moves are well under ILEMALE lhan just a number. realisation Ihat college exists as a service. The way to ensure that this process is com Netbali - Played on Thursday nighls in cstablishmcni of lhe residential colleges an pleted by the end of 1994. Moreover, SPRA Complex. swered a demand lo hou.sc a growing number of College, being a world of its osvn, has its own Softball - Played on Saturday mornings at non-B.'isbane universily applicants. Conse political, economic and social issues, This envi as reported in the last edition, an in Uni or college courts. quently, the colleges have enabled thousands of ronment is differeni in that sludenls have an op creasingly active relationship between Volley Ball - Played on Sunday nighls in studen'.s to attend ilic Universily of Ouecnsland portunity to make a change and have an impaci. students on the Inter-College Council who would have olherwise, given the lack of More specifically, each ofthe len colleges have and the Heads of Colleges Committee SPRA Complex. space for more housing in the Sdini Lucia/ a sludeni elected executive body. These groups is being promoted in an attempt to re Tennis - Played on Tuesday nights ai Uni Toowong suburbs, gone e Isew here. Today, many are accounlable lo llie members oflheir respec- solve any problems the two bodies versity tennis courts. well esiablisheil and rcsiKClcii! professionals who live Sludeni Clubs, ail of whom coniribuie :o en have with the numerous facets of col ICC CULTURE arc "'old-colleglans" proiull) cile the University sure the coiiiinuance ofa cohesive college unil. lege life. If this association wilh the ofOucinsland as Iheir acad'.'miclraining ground, These Sludeni Clubs arc Ihen responsib.e for ICC Art Show - Scplcmber 1, 2, X 4. Heads of Colleges is successful to the liven so, the Universiiy's Adminislralion fails lo dealing wiih legal, hureaucraiic, financial and ICC Choral Festival • September 4. level that the ICC expects, it is antici welconc college inclusion or discussion in its olher autonomous bodies. Being members of Ihis ICC Public Speaking Competitittn - Sep pated that any problems which may consideration of those fuiurj Universily plans microcosm, each sludeni has lhe opporiunily lo tember 11. which will also have riimificittions for colleges. have an influence and enforce change, ll is an arise in the future, particularly with is This is especially offensive vshen colleges con environment which allows sludenls to gain con sues concerning unacceptable student 'The Duchesne-Leo's Play tinue 10 provide this necessitry service without fidence in Iheir abilily to have an impaci. Whal behaviour, may be more easily ad This year's play will be "How the Olher demanding any financial assistance from the Uni it does is provide people of "text book" instrue dressed and resolved, ll is definitely a Half Love", written bvAlan Ackhurn. It wiK versity. lion will) a furiher educalion aboul group/peo- priority that this association be an ef be performed for the public on October 13, ple./sysiem dynamics which will prove to be ad fective one, and thai il may, where nec vantageous in fuiure years. 14 and 15. The University Adminislralion is nol alone in the essary, provide a means by which the practice of Ihis ami-college agenda. Over the past perception of Colleges by the general two academic years colleges have been the vic- There are ihose more commonly advertised fac community be elevated. The Womens-Johns and Union Plays oc linis of unju.siificd discrimination from a left- ets of communiiy life which arc also prevalent curred in early August. Stay tuned for rave wing Siudcni Union. This is essentially because al college. These include Ihe sound principles of reviews. colleges are generally acknowledged for support generosity, selilessness and loyally. Social ex ing more righl wing views. .Manoeuvres of po perts ciic the family as the primary source for litical expediency evidence this point: Ihc 1993 learning such value.s. It is reassuring, therefore, abolition of polling booths at colleges and the when young adults leave ihcir family domains 1994 rcslriciion of postal voles for sludcnts. for tertiary educalion that there are those places like college which demand adherence lo these *> The other body which wields considerable in Chrislian-like values. Furthermore, it could be fluence in this university is our last example - argued that Ihe reinforcement of such principles SPRA Colleges have frequently been attributed is more cffeciive coming from one's peers, par Generous blame for the damage or dcprcciaijon of SPRA ticularly given the age oflhe avefagc undergradu maintained equipmcni/faciliiies. For such areas ate student. of complaint, college is an easy target and an at- iraciivc scapcgoal. Such bodies as SPRA lake Probably Ihe most misunderstood area of college Scholarships! full advantage of ihe yearly changes in sludeni is ils social life. College life is the socialite's representation at college. Obviously, a cohesive heaven, providing a limetable ihal is second lo Australian Graduate and lightly organised college group is difficult none. However, it is interesting to note ihose criti School of Management to foster with conlinually changing leadership. cisms of college social events such as complaints We're offering ... This has been unfairly capilali.sed on. As full fee of a pack mcntaliiy and of an incestuous isola- The University o f Now South Wales • highly paid career prtispects pjiying sludcnts. ihrough Siudeni Service charges ijonisl atmosphere. One can appreciate Ihis con bi-annually, college sludcnts have every right to ception as many college functions often apj>ear • a waiting; list o: juKs artiund the world use SPRA facililies. l-uriherniorc. SPRA should off-puiling for outsiders, ll should be asked • ijencrous scholarships be reminded Ihal lhe college rnarkel remains their ihough, why is that Ihe case?Thiscdilorial would mosl consistent customer for other revenue niak- argue that college social functions demonslraie • support ot a wcll-cndowcd Graduate School ing areas, for example the Rec Club. an atmosphere which symbolises ihose very [losi- live allribules associated with healthy commu The feeding of ihis unqualified pciison has cre nity living. College parlies illusiraie a tremen We're looking for ... ated a widely spread perception of college which dous level of unity, which becomes second na lacks any appreciaiion for ils many worthy fea ture 10 mosl collegians. There arc not many fo Top students wlio are: tures. These positive facets are numerous, bul lo rums in which pariicipanis can become so rapt • interested in research and problem solvini,; attempt coverage of ihem all is beyond lhe scope up and feel so comfortable wilh Iheir surround of this editorial. Instead elaboration on a few will ings as happens al college. And so as much as • Koing to make their mark have to suffice. on-lookers may feel intimidated hy lhe extreme self-eonlainmeni of college funciions. Ihey • keen to work with a world-class faculty. All university studcnis arc recipients of a sys should alsoobser\'e Ihat it evidences the sirengih The Australian Graduate School of Management of lhe en\ ironntent and the subsequent accept temic education Ihat provides academic instruc (AGSM), Australia's most prestigious management ance of indivjdualiiy which thai communiiy re tion which ofien addresses socieial problems. sciiooi, wants to talk to you about doinij a doctorate. Beingsludenis, there is little one can do to affecl spects. or change these areas of coacern. The only ex We're interested in students from all undeiKraduatc ception to this would be mass collective action, At this point it is worth noting iliai college is noi disciplines, including political science, p.sycholoKy, which has not been successfal at ihjs instiiulion totally inlroveried, bui makes an efforl in the as- pure maths, ancient history, law, engineering ... for msny years. And so wli.ii this system aclu sisiing of people less fortunate. Many organisa ally does is produce gratluates \\\\o depart Ihe tions such as the Red Cross. Lifeline. World Vi sion. Rosies and Sainl Vincent dc Paul utilise year university either cynical aboul ever being able I TO; Professor Boris Kalxinoff, Director, PhH ProKraivi. in and year oul very responsive college groups. to make a change, or, determined lo "show lhe I Australian Gr.uliiate School of Manageniem, world" and being aimed wiih purely 'lexl-book' These praciices sene as a reminder lo college sludenls thai universily and college life isa privi I Tlu- University of New Souih Wales, SYDNHY, NSW 2052. lege which is nol granted lo all people. Colle ror in:ormation on the I Please semi me furdier intormaiion on tbe AGSM's gians ihercfore have a responsibility nol only lo AtiSM'srhnPruuram acknowledge iheir good fortunes bul a responsi I PhD Pri\urani. coiuacl Painel.) IVass, bllily 10 relieve the underprivileged. .Admissions Ollicer, Nume: Ihis college ediioriiil has rcnecled quile deeply. phone (02) 951 9220 or j , ,, Nevertheless, ihe message is simple. College is fax (02) 662 1695 or | nol Ihe place of grea; eviliiess as a widely spread .Fax; unqualified view will suggest. The universily in complete the coupon. I Telephone the form of its inslitulions and its population must come irt apiireciiiie the symbiosis that exists be tween il and college. 35 m R /n^e^ {yf^^a/ "There is a legend ihai when a soul can't rest, a avenge the death of his fiancee, Shelly and all The Client ciTiw can bring that soul bacic fro.Ti the dead, to through the movie we see flash backs oflheir lives seek justice and make ihe wrong things righl." be.''ore they died. Joel Schumacher's The Client Is the Seems ironic, don't you ihink? A young man in recent offering In the filmic adapta I loved this movie and I'd recommend it to any the prime of his life, escr\thing lo live for. noth one with a pulse and if that doesn'i apply to you, tions of John Crtsham novels. Unlike ing to lose, il seems ironic because ihis young man then you're in big trouble and you should "GET A the previous two novels-turned-into died f^vicc, boih in fiction and in real life. Allow LIFE". I mentioned before that i thought it was films, the action of TTie C//enf cen mcio sel lhe scene..,. ironic. 1 thought this because it seems coinciden tres around eleven year old Mark Il's devil's night in the inner city, a fiet)' eve of tal and almost spooky to me in a way that the laie Sway (Brad Renfro) who knows There are absolute thrilling moments decadence and dcbaurher>'. A young rocker, Eric Brandon Lee died while making a movie about more than he realty needs to. Mark's Dravin (Lcc) and his fiancee are slaughtered bnj- dying and coming back to fix things up. So, small in this film, an occasional reminder unfortunate chance encounter with tally by the local ihugs, monkey hoys. Exactly one coincidence or will be we seeing Brandon Lee of Sarandon from Thelma and Louise, a suicidal lawyer throws him in the year later Eric i.s risenb y some sirangc power and again? comic relief, and nail biting sus returns lo the riiy of his demise lo exact his re middle of an FBI Investigation con This movie is a credit to Brandon l-ee and siands pense. As a fan of Grisham novels I venge. Basically he goes on a revenge kick and cerning the whereabouts ofa miss as a superb tribute and memorial to both the man say read the book because like all goes after the losers that killed him and his girl ing Senator's body. Mark just hap and the acior. Although ;here were many things friend, llcisproiecied byihcspiriiofacrowwho films they change the story around. ihai stuck about this movie, there was one thing pens to know who the killer is and is con.sianily by his side, However, as a fan of thriller films, I ihat real!)'got me, I'll leave you with that and hope where the missing body happens to also say see the film. Susan Sarandon Any ft'ay 1 tiioughi ihis movie was the greatest. that your common sense wil! kick but and make be buried, The Mafia wants to silence is superb and Tommy Lee Jones, you "The Crow" nas an exiraordinar>'casi with extraor you go and see ihis movie, even ifyou don'l iil;e him while 'Reverend' Roy Foltrigg Imow, as always is brilliant, it is the dinary' performances from Brandon Lee (surprise, Brandon Lee (yeah right) I guarantee vou'll like (Tommy Lee Jones) a high-powered casting of unknown Brad Renfro that surprise). Krnic lludMni. and David Patrick Kelly. •TIIECROr. .And ifyoj don'l, gei help. And federal prosecutor wants ro know unlil then remember... is exciting to watch. As far as thrill I was loiallv sokl hy liiis film and ii is my opinion what Mark knows. Torn in a hope ers go, this is good. Schumakersays ihai villi Wli! be UKI This;.!(nr:!r. Imrror", I sup less situation, Mark goes out and get of his film "The story of 'The Client' pose vou cojiil tall il, IS a superb fihii and not jusi BUimiNGS himself a lawyer Reggie Love (Susan because the ven' fine i ami MTV dead) lirandon Lee 's so human. It's funny and thrilling BURN Sarandon). Together they embark on ;s lhe star eiiiier. m ^^^^^^1 but deeply, deeply moving at the a unique friendship as well as unique PEOPLE DIE same time, it works on so many lev "lie Crowolfcrs vinif i;rt'.ii s|iei i;i:etfecis. as Lee mission of justice. •ee> lite i\>:r li inruji;-, w.c <:\M\ y> f.ls crow. The BLTTRLE els, and I think the story is affecting •et IS greal, ihe vnici.a- is belter ,iiicl Uranclon's to all kinds of people". lookmn prei:vsiuiily llK) I might J(i(i. ik'sidcs th.it, .0\TiUVESON ^B ^^^'v '. .^^^^^H there .ire some cussic one iincrs. Vep I'd say this Liz Georgiades movie IS ar. tu'eiler.i ,iil rcuiuler. .ir.ci in a way il's FORI^R, ;i ;iu Olawarpitiimeslor^, 1 kno*, 1 know,thai MiiinCs weird, hut ii is. All Krir wants to do is y.'RITAlIKMiT dow to the past and it iS here that we iire given a visual feast of vibrant colours, exotic jewellery, rich textiles, grandiose architecture and spectacular scenery. The film, therefore, is able to skip from M 0 VIE AT BIRCH CARROLL & COYLE .he present to the past by the simple opening of a cl lilds story book. SA^^ERS INDOOROOPILLY 8 Keanu Reeves- plays Prince Siddhartha, the young prince who had formerly led j On presentation of this voucher J j On presentation of this voucher ' a sheltered life, but upon seeing the re I SEE ANY MOVIE H SEE ANY MOVIE ality of death and tfie suffering of his people he sets out to solve these prob I ANY SESSION ANY DAY | j ANY SESSION ANY DAY lems. It is his life that is depicted through Jesse's book. These flashbacks to Prince Siddhartha's world are almost dreamlike I INDOOROOPILLY 8,!! INDOOROOPILLY 8, in that they depict a tine and culture . Sycstfield ShoppijijTtoum, Indooroopilly j j Westfield Shoppin 38 ...and more Book Reviews The Art of Erotic Massage Republics Barbarism to by Nitya Lacroix & Edited by George Papaellln Verdict: Sex Life A History of the by Dorothy Einon and Mike Potegal *''**"*• »s ^3"';«*y ; Common Law by Justin Fleming. I don't believe this shit, If you get lots of people with no clothes on, encourage As Mr. Horace Rurnpole, Old Bailey them to climb all over eacfi other while Hack and Defender of the Faith of the you lake photos and then publish the BBC, would be wanl lo do, I choose to photos in "Norks" magazine as "Robert S yfh s s A G E1 open with an quotation, and a Dicken- and Jenny, the super-bonkers" or "Eric sianoneofthat: and July, the bored married couple" then n.,. <') • Lf. »i|i >-n you're a disgusting pervert who ought "The law is a ass, a idiot (sic)... the law's lo have his nuls crushed by a "Reclaim a oachelor, and I vi^ish that his eye may The Night" parade. Hear hear, say 1. !Re Publica be opened by experience." But if you get the aforementioned Such is the label with which the com starkers folk, photograph them in posi mon law has been saddled ever since. tions Ihat'd make a Brilishi MP wince, But perhaps the term may convey that, then publish the pictures in a "tasteful" like the ass, the law is a beast of bur book about "what people feel," albeit still den, a carrier of customs, justly enno in chapters about "super-bonkers" and bled by its humhlo service to humanity warn, caring sub-sections like "ihere's This is v^hat Justin Fleming, barrister always the deodorant bottle" (! didn't S;MV I ard playwright, v/a'its his readership invent this stuff, I'm just quoting it!) and (admittedly more likely to comprise law uses lots of cliche sex phrases like "he with sex, are somewhat more solitary yers than engineers) to think anyway. entered her" (as a Quick Pick?) then lhan plain old ssxual intercourse. From Harper Collins Publishers comes Through being as eclectic as a writer of a biannual digest of fictio'i, non-fiction the law in history ca^^ be, Fleming calls you're a respected sex therapist who It's all a bit too ambiguous for me. Well, and poetry of the cutting edge of con or films, theatre, painting, fiction, and has an intimate understanding of the hu maybe the books are useful to people temporary life. Under the banner of "all some extraordinary lega! decisions to man body. Yeah, sure. And Richard who've spent so long putte.'ing a'ong the same as family in a big house", plead this informative, convincing, and Gere sat on that gerbil by accident, Information SLperhighway that they RePublica, works as a creative frame thoroughly entertaining case (most un didn't he? need an instruction manual for even the of reference. Included in this anthology like the texts in this area), pointing out most basic human acts. If you're not one In my admittedly limited experience, is a diversity of subjects from film, mu landmarks in the development of per of these poor sausages, don't bother books like these two stinkers on How sic, the visual arts, poetry and creative haps the most intricate and beautiful reading these dreadful books. 1 didn't. 1 To Do The Dirty Deed are apparently writing. Infacl, I would go as far lo say legal system in the world. (No, I'm not just looked at the piccies instead. designed for a very specific market; The that this anthology is a testament of our biased). Brotherhood Of The Rustling Raincoat, Marcus Salisbury multicultural society and the fusion of i just can'l imagine a happy couple stop- cultures which can be realised lo cre The produce is really the sort of thing ping in mid-bonk (or mid- ate a distinct Australianness. The com that our politicians ought to be reading "OOOOOOOOOOOOOH" or whatever) pilation of this journal has ir no way any in order to enhance their understand to slip open their copy of "Erotic Mas connection with a politica republican ing of the system in which they work. sage" or "Sex Life" to find out what their movement; il is a forum of artistic ex Fleming goes as far to add that written imaginations would probably tell them Delusions pression. constitutions are a symptom of socie without having to seaxh the index of ties which don't quite trust each other, and want evenythinc put down in black an awful book. Pretty daft, eh? Publication August 1994 of Grandma and white. Interesting point for the re ARP$ 16.95 I can, however, imagine a Beetlejuice publicans. clone reading "Sex Life" (in which draw by Carrie Fisher Imprint Angus & Robertson and avail ings of people have it off, much as they able Ihrough all good bookstores. Even more enlightening is that which makes menlion of Ihe jury syslem. It do on the walls of any municipal toilet Delusions of Grandma' is Carrie Fish seems that when society wishes any you could name) and "Erotic Massage," er's recent novel which focuses on Elizabeth G. thing done which is really serious, it for reasons which, while still connected motherhood. But don't be put off. It is collects hvelve of the ordinary members generally about Cora, a pregnant ofthe community The same thing was screenv^^riter who has taken to writing done, strangely enough, by the founder letters to her unborn child because she of Christianity, thinks she is going to die. Ii is also aboul relationship and the importance of Indeed, whereas statute law is the re Kiwi's (you'll have to read it to fnd out sull of abstract thought, common law what that is). .As always Carrie Fisher is the law of flesh and, perhaps too of writes with a sense of humour which few ten, b'ood. The evolution is documented writers can claim to do. While 1 am here as the emergence of the common law 1 aiso recommend you read Surrender from the mists that covered England the Pink as weli as Postcards from the after the Romans departed, Ihrough the Edge. Fisher writes with warmth, excru cruelties of trial by ordeal, to the slow ciating honesty and accuracy about the gestation of Ihe jury system. female heart and the choices she All tilings being exposed, our pride in makes. Fisher also has a very observ our lega! system must necessarily be ant eye and a way wilh words that al increased, along with our determination lows her to share her social commen not to let it be chipped away, enfeebled, tary with us. Thank You, Carrie Fisher. or watered down. Justin Fleming has To buy your copy of Delusion of given us the weapon - one which should Grandma head down to the University not be overlooked by anyone interested Bookshop, printed by Simon. & in'irst semester LA104. Schuster, il is a fabulous $12.95. Rachel Cobcroft 39 Mention a "poiilicai play" and the snoresj. er£ seemii g u lable to t emselv you. Mosl of us have seen too many sloj f in spues even emotion querading as art: flat, dismal, and terrifying^'anjesa- He gloats overThe widows and orphanSTIffTias left al Corioli, brick walls in their intellectual blankness. Shake he demands that the common people should wash their faces speare, however, knew how to write a political play, and brush their teeth before he speaks lo them, yet we grudg and Fractal Theatre Company - fast becoming a ingly respect the stubborn bull-male who calls a spade a spade. presence to be reckoned with - certainly knows how While cn character condemns him as "viper That would de to stage one. populate the city and Be every man himself, another defends Most noteworthy about Fractal's production of him: 'There have been many great men that have flattered Conolanus'\s ils wonderful theatricality. When I first the people, who ne'er loved them; and there be many that they have loved, they know not wherefore: so that if they love heard Coriolanus would feature rope-climbing, tum they know not why, they hate upon no better a ground. There bling, dance, mask, chanting and who-knew-what, fore, for Coriolanus neilher to care whether they love or hate it sounded like one of those projects which sacri him manifests the true knowledge he has in their disposition; fice script for style and intention for innovation. and oul of his noble carelessness lets them plainly seeT. Thankfully, it is not so. The interpretive choices have Coriolanus is no soft-spoken, baby-kissing politician with an been made, and the show designed, to n/isenl a oily smile and an eye lo the main chance - his brutal honesty valid and coherent vision of emotional, sroc al and clangsjike abell in his own SQCJ«tvt«and the reverberations political forces in conflict. The set andniqhmq^e 3 O ^1 chjiiFa rlpeeno^gh note i stark, blacks and greys, wilh dramati! dvf35nes forthe many scenes of blood and fury. T le c eneral Peter] LarrU) gives an int/en^ely focu^se^ performance as note of post-apocalyptic brooding is ren inis :ent of Coriopu i which is nothi/g al^ort of flioemCT-izing. Irena Haze Sfaderunner and The Crow, perhaps he Sothic is povjerfi I as his mothej ruyilessiy riding down his scruples touch carries over from Fractal's recent c fferi ig The when the' stand in the waAof her ambitions for him. Like Fall of the House of Usher. Lady i/lac Deth, she is anVextraDrdinary w6rian who pits her The Romans are at war with the Volscei^ ansJ^r will ag ainj t a self-willed man, anlMerlSener or worse - wins greatest warrior-hero is Caius Marcius, duuiaftied eviem oaiMnaght engagemeht.Appr5PiTOely enough, the play Coriolanus. Impatient of strategy, he fights like a features several fine "voices"; the vocals performances of n Larisa Chen as Sicinius, Eugene Gilfedder as Aufidius and legendary Beserker; raw courage, physical strength, Leah Puree!! as his Lieutenant are particularly strong. To some and refusal lo give up are his best weapons, and extenl the production sl3rifices clarity of language for he glories in Ihe moment-to-momenl risks and tri umphs of baltle. Afterwards, he is embarrassed smooi ily flowing Qotion and liuGtaiQ^d high energy; we do not when others insist on praising him and offering re- heart le dialogue with precision and ss some subtleties, in favouf en getting ' the gii pame h broad, sweeping -n ards; he says his only desire is to serve Rome, ut perhaps his real motivation is simpler and more brush iirokes. On the wholfe this appri h works, despite a selfish lhan that - he just loves fighting. few small blotches in the point whsjff e e rather distracting, n The final moment, as the dust settle hd a mother and son Meanwhile the hungry citizens of Rome, convinced are left to try to make sense of fate, has a peculiar touching the city officials are hoarding grain, have rioted. grace. Among the concessions won is the appointment of r five tribunes as iheir advocates. City officials want Fractal Theatre's Coriolanus is at The Princess Theatre, lo award Coriolanus the honour of consulship, but Annerley Road, Woolloongabba, until 6th August. • r custom requires the people to ratify the^poirj ment. Campaigning for the people's f^vctrnspi^fwl; repugnant to the blunt soldier, bul heJuiallv/tSows to the entreaties of those he loves and ind( rtakes he task wilh ill grace. Initially, despite his Ihinly- eiled sarcasm as he begs for their "v Dice 3", the people give him their support in gratit ide for his services in battle, However, two of the r tribunes, jealous of Coriolanus and maddened b t hisWle persuade the people to change their nine s gered at what they now perceive as his noc (ery of them, the citizens lake up arms an 1 di mand Coriolanus' death. J V The play addresses age-old questions about the distribution of wealth and power. Coriolanus slates that giving the people handouts of corn they have done nothing to earn saps their motivation to work, fight, or perform any olher service for the general community. The people argue that tho gods pro vide food for everyone, and it should therefore be Scared off already? Yes, the title is spot on. Stephen Sewell is a playwright distributed to all who need it. The self-same argu with a very dark vision of human nature, and his avowed intention is to ment over allowances and benefits is one of the make people recognize their own capacity for brutality, on the grounds that liveliest issues in Australia today. There is also the forewarned is forearmed. This is the World Premiere of this play - actually a question of how much power should reside in the triology of one-act plays; Nil, Cal, and Buried- and it is savage. In Nil, Barbara hands of elected or appointed individuals of dem Lowing portrays '1he ugliness of passion" in her role as the Other Woman, onstrated merit, and how much say "the people" trying to explain - lo herself, and to the "lover" who is now leaving her - the should have in policy decisions which aHect their 1 nature of their relationship. The second monologue represents the lives. Obviously this issue lies near the heart of the ching of a redneck loner, Cat, a terrifying-because-familiar char- present republican debate. d wilh great control and understanding by Sam McCormick. The ~U ost galvanizing is Buried, in which a man and a woman, running Fractal's production never lets us forget that politi , play oul a sick downward spiral of power in a rotting farmhouse, cal ideas cannot be divorced from people, and we and James Kable create utter belief In these appalling charac- are allowed no easy judgements. We feel for the ters and their desperate situation. It is harrowing to be locked up in a small poor, who confront us as soon as we enter the thea room with this production: the potential for catharsis is a tribute to the play tre - ragged, hungry, moving slowly as if in physical n wright, the cast, and director Peta Downes. 1 hesitate to recommend it to pain and mental despair. Siobhan Lawless gives a any but the pure in heart; bul since the playwright believes there are non taut performance as a wild-eyed citizen trying to such, I recommend it to the honest and the thoughtful. incite the others to further violent protest, in the face of caln\ paternal smiles from the well-fed Menenius. PostModern Productions present Frightened Heart, Fallen Sou/at the Semi I At the same time, however, it is easy to understand nar Studio, Metro Arts, 109 Edward St., until 27th Aug. $10 concession, $15 ::^ Coriolanus' conlempt when we see how the citi full. Bookings 856^697. • zens are swayed back and forth by persuasive Andrea Dnldwin- r 40 v_ r 5 Dog inside the machine Dogmachlne founder and sole-per- For recording antj live shows,'Kralg has 16 with Lemon Avenue (Sydney), Qstia ;..fwmer, Kralg, Is the complete opposite recruited a new guitarist and percussion (Brisbane) and the Blood Party (Brisbane). i'of his music Dogmachlne's chaotic aiid ist but the music remains the same. violent combination of gothic howls and So what can people expect fi-om the live screams with experimental Industrial Dogmachlne will appear on a "Left As In show? 0 Sinister" compilation CD in September sounds Is In stark contrast to the quietly "We try to make It as much of a perform- with their new single "Head Wound". c spoken and shy fi-ont-man. ance as possible with visual displays to ic Dogmachlne are a rare breed on the Bris Dogmachlne have been labelled eveiy complement the music." thing from "gothlc-lndustria!" to "hard bane music scene. You could honestly At previous gigs, you were irito beating o core" but Kralg says "Dogmachlne's mu say that there Is no other band in Bris pieces of metal on stage with the sparks ti sic can't be labelled or put neatly Into a bane that explores the extremely fine line flying Into the audience. Do you inten particular category". E between music and deafening noise as tionally go out to shock people? closely as Dogmachlne. How strong Is the gothic influence? 0) "The music is always the most Important When you think of gothic music it con Dogmachlne formed In iate 1992 as a part of the show but a live performance 0 jures up Images of Sisters of /V\ercy or two-piece and released an 8-track cas should also be visually Important." The Mission. Is this similar to your style o sette E.P in May, 1993. They also re of music? "Bands who stand In one place and stare leased their debut single "The Room / at the floor are too self-absorbed. This Why Do They Saeam" on 7 Inch purple The bad thing about being labelled as a tends to separate the audience from the vinyl late last year. The lack ofa percus "gothic' band Is that you only tend to band. We'll fc>eusin g Interesting light sionist and other standard band mem please a particular secdon of the crowd ing effects, smoke and stuff like that." bers shaped their particular type of mu and they keep expecting you to release sic. gothlc-type music." At the moment Kralg is "happy" with his own one-man line-up and hopes to keep "Since there were only two of us to start "1 like to play music that I like myself. experimenting with his own music and off with, we spent a lot of time experi There are some gothic elements in our pushing it to the extremes of noise (and menting with drum machines, music but I tfi to steer clear of the "in- taste) in the future. synthesisers and sequencers. This re dustrial-gothlc' pigeon hole." flects a lot in the sound of our music", Dogmachlne don't pretend to appeal to /P.eno/f*- 0) Dogmachlne will be touring Sydney in everyones musical tastes. However, if Kralg explains. August for the first time and are trying you like extremely loud, distorted, dark to find a recording company to help fi After the only other band member left, and sinister music that exposes the other nance an EP CD for early next year. Kralg was left to continue his side of the Brisbane live scene, them c Dogmachlne experiment by himself This Dogmachlne will also be playing at the check them out. < year he has been playing a lot of live gigs University of Queensland on September at fVtetropolIs, The Zoo and Dominion. Mark Ludlow Bmsi«n»sniBiBiiaBim !mmiBBIBH8SBISaiBSBa£gQ{jSESEBBBBZai PERHidPS L^ BOITE'S 3EST e^ER In the early 70s, playwright Louis Nowra calm and positive iike a new teacher with the fine performances, for me the show was asked to help some psychiatric pa a mob of Year Nines. Karen Crone is com was stolen by Kevin Mines as the unfor tients stage a play, to "bring them out of pletely believable as the rough and cheery gettable Roy. Never before in a iheatre themselves". Loosely based on this expe Cherry, with her sandwiches, her flick- Renoir, from impressionist to master have I experienced such a sudden sense rience is his own play Cosi. current at La knife and her mood-swings. Gael of shared humanity, perfect communica Tlie opening of Ilenoir .\l;i.ster Impression Boite Theatre. Ballantyne gives a delicate performance tion of everything, than in the final daz ist at the Queensland .\n Gallery brought as Ruth, repressed and anxious, troubled about an 'unprecedented' media presence Enter earnest young Lewis, fresh from zling smile before Roy's exit. The world by semantics and always panicking on the to an exhibition opening. The exhibition university where he's done a bit of aa- was old and new-born, armies clashed, edge of losing meaning. Rebecca Riggs comprises of 51 painting.s from major gal- ing, With him is friend Nick, a more expe children ran and the wind whispered over plays both Lucy, energetically living her lerie.s, muscuin.s and private collection.s rienced direaor who is going to "give him the Serengeti in that tragic beaming smile. from .Australia, USA, Canada, France, Ja a hand" in exchange for his help with two young life within rigia ideological bounda The cast researched the play thoroughly pan. Norway, Spain, I:K. 'That .so many projects nearer Nick's heart" staging ries, and heroin-addict Julie who needs international galleries were prepared to by visiting various institutions and talk Brecht's Gallileo, and stopping the Viet the drug to put colour into her world. Paul lend their im|X3rtant works, reflects the high ing with patients and health-workers, and nam War. Lewis' girlfriend Lucy has given Bishop Is brisk as angry young man Nick regard with which this exhibition is being their own learning experience comes them a lift to this burnt-out theatre be and riveting as the gleeful pyromaniac viewed" .says Queensland An Galler>' Di through strongly in the performances. rector Doug Hall. "It i.s al.so ie.stimony to side the hospital. Groping in the dark - Doug. Lewis Jones withdraws into the Thee has been much debate over whether the internutional respect uecorded 10 Aus- not for the last time - the trio enter Roy, character of Henry, a failed lawyer whose or not some of the gags come uncomfort iralian galleries and the eniliiisia.stic pub the charismatic patient most enthused convictions eventually drive him to over ably close to laughing at the characters, lic respoase to such exhibitions". about the theatre project. come his inarticulate pain; and Martin Odger is still going from strength to but long before the end we have lost any The collection pre.sents a wide range of Lewis has some idea of staging a nice sim strength, this time doubling as a nerdy notion that these are "funny loonies" in Renoir's activiiy a.s a painter and includes ple bit of Brecht; alienation effects, after social worker and a manic-depressive the realization of common humanity. It is his major themes - ponraits. female nudes, all, will probably go down well in a psy musician. But despite the undeniable en one of the greatest achievements of the land.scapc.s and siill life, lhe Queensland .An Gallerj' is presenting the exhibition from chiatric institution. But it is Roy's dream semble atmosphere of the piece and all play and tlie production at this realiza to stage his favourite opera, Mozart's Cosi tion is achieved without sentimentality, .Saturday July 30 to Sunday September 11 before heading down to ihe national Gal- Fan Tutte - even though none of the case without the romanticizing and trivializing ler\' of Victoria and 'llie An Galler\' of New can sing and nobody speaks Italian. Even of mental illness that is rampant in mod South Wiiles. There are special \'iewing worse, in the eyes of Nick and Lucy, op ern film, and without sacrificing reality - packages which offer l^reakfa.st, lunch and era is decadent, bourgeois entertainment, we see positive effects of the "drama dinner and a guide, There arc also the and this particular story about the possi therapy", but there are no miracle cures. Renoir Recitals performetl hy the Queen.s- bility of women's fidelity is at bes't politi Full marks and standing ovations to the land Fliilharmonic Orchestra and Fractal cally irrelevant and at worst offensive to director, NIDA graduate David Fenton, the Theatre. For tickets call 8 id 4646. women and the working class. Not one of playwright and the talented cast. This is a Renoir's vLsion of the world and people these arguments so much as scratches beautiful piece of theatre - go and see it! he painted conies tlirough the landscipes, Roy's determination: his ill-assorted cast images and tlie depth and inten.sity in tlie Cos/is now playing an extended season at is assembled, and Cosi Fan Tutte it is go i^yiin of the people in his work. He simply La Boite. until 20th August. La Boite did ing to bel |X)nrays a beautiful yet elusive world which an excellent thing, by the way, putting on lea\'e.s you in pain because of its beauty What follows Is a deeply funny, deeply sad a free performance for the unwaged on and ius eliisiveness, It's almost iiiipo.ssible play about people; their ideals, their 2oth July - it would be nice to see rnore to have a particular favourite from this col dreams, their failures, their pain, and the companies following suit. Session times lection, ihcy are all e.\c|uisite. Renoir Mas myriad ways in which they communicate Tues-Thurs 8pin. Fri 6.30pm, Sat 2pm G ter Impressionist is more than ju.st food for the .soul and deser\es more lhan one view and fail to communicate with each other. 8pm. Concession $16, full $23, group {min ing, Andrew Buchanan is the well-mcanins but 12) $18. Bookings 369 1622. inexperienced Lewis, doing his best to stay l:lizalx.*ili Georgiades Andrea Baldwin CU11:IU*A^^-^^ ^^ ^— Andrea uamvvin 1^^ 41 THE VERY BEST OF "SONOS FROM THE TEE-p" ! MARVIN GAVE A "ONE-LITTLE INDIAN" by Paul Ewing COMPILATION Bjork ^^ Malcolm McLaren Once again, you the consumer has This Is not a CD full of siiar or chanting, Richard Pleasance "Viol^lj appy the mirthful task of deciding whether "Paris" bul instead is full of songs compiled by "Love Is AH" or not you need another collection (Vogue) 'One-Little Indian" records of London, to (BMG) of songs from the Motown label. celcbraietheir deal with Polydor Australia .Malcolm McLaren describes his As usual, Bjork's sensual- They are all there (so long as all you "Love Is All" beings interestingly latest musical venture "Paris" as It opens up with a B^ork double. 'Human and unorthodox vocal technique is wam is Marvin Gayc). All those hits enough, with merging sitars and a colleaion of songs attempting Behaviour' at one, and foltowed up two smooth vocal harmonies, but once the .strength of "Violently Happy', the from the fabulous sixties like "heard tracks lalcr wiih her first band the it through the Grapevine" and to inscrilxi a map of feelings over you hear the approaching drove of newest single from her solo LP, The Sugarcubes and 'Hit". Directly after is "Mercy Mercy Me". "this jazz-drenched ciiy". I feel a Hammond organ, you just know music simply idles along to provide more inclined to describe this al 'L.S.I." (Love, sex, intelligence) from you're being drawn into a an unimpressive trance techno ac For a greatest hits collection how bum as a jazz cliche-drenched Shamen, but ihere ends the run of songs "Badloves" type Australian rock ever, very few songs come from companiment to her vocal prcience, foray into extremities of listener most people wouW have heard before. ballad. Before long, however, the Marvin Gaye's later work, it's all irritation. McLaren credits liim- L'nfortuna:ely, the song seemingly very early sixties Motown stuff The rest of the CD (ii trades in total) has breaks for an orchestral interlude self on the album as being re followed by a unique sitar-organ fails to deliver the same sense of in (which was all written by Motown's sponsible for tile lyrics, vocals perhaps one ordinary trade bul several solo. "IJDVC Is All" essentially dis fectiousness the earlier singles man writers), and as co-writer of the music great ones including "Breathing fear" - by Kitchens of Distlnciion; "Love Your Money plays all the characteristics of a aged to provide with ease. The But the seventies, as the slick politely among a plethora of musicians convincing ballad, honest, down- and producers. What he is cer ' • by Daisy Chainsaw: "Feeling" - by pop rhythm barely reaches a danceable mentions, was the time Marvin was lo-carth lyrics, strong rhythm, and tainly responsible for on this al injays and my favourite 'Call ii whatyou "expcrimenling" and "exploring" elcctriu guitar. The B-side, "Cold level, and leaves you feeling as though bum is monotone, dragging and want' - by Credit to ihe nation, which in and basically becoming a loony. Change" is actually morc unique you'd just listened to a 3'/2 minute sometimes offending vocals that cludes Nirvana and Public-Enemy sam Nevertheless, this album has some in tenms of structure and mood. stain the music it accompanies. introduction to a potential groover. great songs (particulady Ihe ones he ples. This melancholy instrumental .McLaren tells stories of his ex The single also includes acoustic ver wrote himself) such as "Got to Give perience of Paris, occasionally at Most tracks are shortish (one over 4 min) softly glides along in an impres il Up" and "When did You Slop Lov sions of three other songs from the tempting to sing. He would have and all havo a "pop" (for want of a much sively brooding fashion, with an ing Me" that will make you wish his album, recorded on Spanish televi produced a finer album had he better world) feel ll is a great Utile com atmosphere that inspires reflection. father hadn't blown him away with sion before a small audience. Bjork kept this mouth shut and let tbe pilation from 'onc-litle Indian' records. If You've heard "Love Is All" and a shotgun in 1984. Good talent is so music speak. Tlie songs in which Several record stores were giving il away were not impressed, I can guaran sings beautifully (asakvays), but is ac hard to come by these days. tee that it's companion track will \v: Mcl.aren is less prominent, no ^vilh the new "Chumsawamba", 'Credit to companied by what sounds like a syn- impress. Go out and buy it now. In Al 22 tracks, it certainly is value for tably "I^iris fans" (which features the Nation" and 'Compulsion" singles, bui ihesi/ed harpsichord. I just wish the money, although a final word of cau fact, go out and buy a dozen cop Catherine Deneuve), are the that's probably all over now. A CD to pui Sugarcubes were still together' tion however: there are far Kx) many ies, it's Australian music! stronger, more listenable tracks on nnd leave on unnl it finishes duels wilh Diana Ross and Tammi on the album. Unless you are a n Andrew Burton Andrew Hunon Tercll on this album for my liking. McLaren fan. I ad\'ise you to tn lioben Bell Buyer beware!! avoid this one. i . '^^-ftliWAROPUEASAHCE • r. ] r .?^>^-k lOVEISAU. - s. - I ^•N I'O ; I I ^ n- fc 3ii. Crystal Waters •CCSP-JWlr/w- i/^ Powderfinger Salt-N-Pepa SIX-TRACK SAM- WEEZER Crystal Waters "Parables for Wooden Ears" "Heaven 'N Hell" PLER by Paul Ewing "100% Pure Love" (Polydor) Their latest musical endeavour, Blue Million Miles (Phonogram) What can you say about an al My first memories of Powderfinger Heaven 'N Hell journeys into lhe bum that on the slick makes you It is strange that the only inter Upon hearing "100% Pure are sitting by the st<\ge at the Ori world of reality whh a strong dose an offer you couldn't refuse - You esting track on this CD is the sev Love", I am reminded otthe first ent Hotel amongst a crowd of 40- of morality aimed at all Ilicir young can send away for the lyrics!!! listeners. Although keeping with enth one. which thoy haven't time I heard it. I was being 50. Powderfinger were the last Perhaps Ihey didn't expecl great group on the bill, and as it was their traditional rap and funk style even bothered listing The other driven through the city in a car Salt-N-Pepa seem to hit hard in their success outside the U.S. since you with a thumping stereo tuned 2:00am, it was clearer that the six tracks arc completely ignor- have to send a S.A.E. to Califor aowd were waiting for them to new CD. "Heaven 'N Hell", the title to B105. I also recall being able. and so 1 shall completely nia, and this is a pity 1 v/antcd to grace the stage. This was three track to this CD is, 1 feci, an acquired dragged to three clubs - The ignore ilteni; pausing only to say make sure that these guys were years ago, and admirably, taste, but Ihat is only mc. Number that each track begins with prom actually singing, "You take your Gig, Transformers and CoCo's Powderfinger are commanding a two, "Lets Talk About Aids" Sound ise, but proceeds to go nowhere car to work, I'll take my board." (Bart!), all of which reliably much greater solid base of fans familiar? Right! This song is basi V played the same song. Excuse cally rip off of "Lets Talk About and endsup repeating itself The Listening to this album il all now. "Parable for Wooden Ears" Is my cynicism, but it has been their long-awaited debut album, Sex", need I say more? The title seventh track is a very moody sounds familiar; piss-weak guilar played lo death, and its suc thanks to Interest from record gi speaks for itself. This one hits pretty non-rhythmic swirl of discordant work, dull lyrics and sterile melo dies, but the album seemed to get cess in the charts is a strong ant, Polydor. Their music delivers hard with a message that is pretty hot sound biles, which leaves a far belter as it wenl along. indication of that. Ifyou haven't affecdng lyrics with emotional con in today's society, AIDS! It touches greater impression than the first viction, which permeate a mb< of on ignorance, prevention, accept By Iheend ofthe album, I tried to heard "mnning back to the mid six in combination, Blue Million enveloping guitar textures to gen ance, pretty much all they could fil think of the best tracks from this dle and around again, i'm erate a sound that is powerful, yet into the few minutes Ihcy had. It's a Miles give no indication of their album and three from this ten- gonna be there till the end, not overloaded. Powderfinger's big topic that scares a lol of us and origins, but if they managed to track album were okay wilh "Say 100% pure lurve" at least a music has many facets, ranging Ihey packaged it in an easy to un implement the creativity inher it ain't so" possibly indicating dozen timessinc e it's release, derstand groovy dance track, so if these guys are musicians and not from the speed of the first single ent in the unnamed track into you must have been on Jupi you're the illiterate type 'hat doesn't just technicians. Tall" to moodier, acoustical pieces their othor songs then perhaps ter. All the same, when I heard such as "Sink Low" and like to read about it, listen to this they could go somewhere. Per Three singles from this album is the song all those times on that "Namaste". The album moves song and you won't soon forget it. haps they could even be interest probably a long-shot, but for night, I di^ dance, which is what through a spectmm of sounds diat, those of you who don't care much I found this CD to be entertaining ing. As it slands, they are not. good dance music is made tor despite similarities with a particu for music and gel a kick out of so I'll give il the big thumbs up. 'Nuff Said, methinks. {though it may have been the lar Seattle band, displays Impres Good job girls. what could be described as sive individuality. Well done, boys. David Jeffery minimalist guitar work, then this alcohol). Maurita Henley album is for you. Others: look out Andrew Burton 42 if "Say it ain't so" is released. Andrew Burton NURSERY CRIMES BLUR: Parkiife "What do you know (EMI) (Anyway)" Tony Toni Tone TONY TONI TON This British group's ascent to fame I'a-s Hell, wtiat do wc have here. Finally almost been like a blur, ;it least in this Oh, yes. Deja bloody vu. This a CD ihal is not full of techno country'. Sure iho.sc in the know, knew. CD contains about a dozen BULL CRAP!! Here we have a "Eiiceinfthmci And those in England (who also .seem songs, and they're all variations classic example of just the right 10 know) knew, but with "Parkiife" 13lur on the theme of "Territorial blend of swing, hip hop, and soul. arc no longer :he next big thing - they arc the big thi:iK- Pissings." You know, the drum This CD is ni>t sajipy but al the mer hits things a lot, the gui same time it does not leave you in 'Take That'? Take what?! This a mess" and "yeah oh baby l^lur are no overnight success. A listen tarist decides to be really origi tears of boredom. Il consists of CD is less confronting than hmm, hmm oh girl, oh". The to their back catalogue (the albums four songs, the first, "leavin" has nal and use... a distortion pedal Kate Moss on sedatives, and most artistic thing on this al "Leisure" and ".Mcxlern IJfe is RubbisI'.") ("Satisfaction" was recorded a great groove that will have you is morc redundant than a Milli bum is their spelling of will reveal quite a high proponion of thirty years ago no. Think about swinging to the beat in no time. brilliani pop gems such as "There's No it) and the vocals (complete The second is just an album ver V'anilli singing lesson. "Whoah". Other Way", "Chemical Vt'odd" and with predictable lyrics) sound sion ofthe same and follows with Why did they bother record- There is a fantastic reference "Sunday Sunday" to name but three. much the same style as its pred Not only is theirsong writing prowess, like Ihey're being sung by a •ng this crap? Were the cries to stalking some poor girl man with his mouth fuil of mar ecessor, so where does that leave of their audience of twelve ("You've maybe seen me walk to be admired but also their product V- us? Number three, my fav, "(Lay ity, with "Parkiife" being their third al bles. Of the bass, there is little year old girls too compelling? behind you, I follow you jusf Your Head on my) Pillow". This bum in four years, and their second in that I remember. Surely they couldn't be in it everywhere you go") and song shows potential. It has a nice 12 months. Parkiife builds upon and > Actually, "Nursery Crimes" and slow feel, with an easy beat. for the money? They're artists, Take That are true masters of succeeds both these previous albums, strike me as an OK live act. I This tunc follows more ofa ballad aren't they?! the mundane ("i am just one both in quantity and quality. man with just one pair of eyes, mean, in a pub they'd play loud approach but still with tact. The CD called "Everything At a hefty 16 i.-acks in length, Parkiife I dress in normal clothes"). enough to ensure the patrons Last bul absolutely not least, the Changes" is a combinatioit of is an eclectic mix of styles and influ didn't fall to sleep and spill their ever popular "If 1 Had No Ltiot". thirteen pop/dance/love This is a shitty, shitty CD from ences, ranging from the Euro-disco of beer down their shirts. And they This song offers a good .sound and "Boys and Girls", to the lush strings of songs which could churn the a tragic little group of shirt '•^_y havo a lot of energy live, but it one hell of a good beat, though nol "To the End", which in turn contrasts stomach of the most cliche- less fuckwits. It's only value doesn't quite come together in all that fast it can still keep up with / \ with the frcneiic punk of "Bank 1 loli- enduring listener. There are is as an object of ridicule. Dc / V a recording studio. Sorry, I just the best of them. Ail round I'd say day". If Blur keep on producing albums track titles like "Love Ain't not buy it. Rent it only if you don't go for this sort of noise.. this CD is pretty cool and if your ofthis quality, ihcy will rightly claim the Ihc sort of person who appreciates Here Anymore", ".Another want lo torture someone with throne, left by the Smiths (and new I can't help remembering nice slow easy listening dance Crack in my Heart" and if. Ifs the ultimate S&M acces Suede), as the best British pop group. what my pre-school teacher ^:- used to tell me about empty tracks with no techno garbage then •'Babe". Also we have such sory. Caleb Rudd '.yrical gems as "I'm so cold vessels. I onlv have two words for vou, By Larina ,Mick '•Get IT". and all alone", "my life is such Marcus Salisbury MAURITA HENLEY POP WILL EAT ITSELF THE SMITHEREENS STAY (I MISSED YOU) Buzzcocks Anyway, this 22 track CD is a combi Ich Bin Ein Auslander Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories "Another Music In A Dif' nation of two early Buzzcocks albums .^, "A Date With The Smithereens" - "Another Music In A Different (FESTIVAL) ferent Kitchen/Love The Smithereens have been No doubt by the time this review Kitchen and Love Bites". Both are Following or from the heavy, in around since the mid-1980s re reaches your eager little hands, Bites" great albums in their own right and leasing pretty average rock songs. dustrial, buzz-saw pop of "RSVP" this song will be climbing the This re-retease of iwo old Buzzcocks contain most of the old Buzzrork fa They seem to release a few albums nr comes another barrage of heavy, vourites. u that are hardly worth noticing and charts in a similar manner to the albums Is a timely and welcome re industrial buzz-saw pop, but this then suddenly re-appear with a previous "Reality Bites" release, lief from the mediocre new leases "I Don't Mind". "Autonomy", "Just time the BPM (Beats Per Minute) great song such as "Drown In My 'Baby 1 Love Your Way'. Of course ihal have been coming into the Lust". "Ever Fallen In Love". "Love Is r\\ rate has slowed down quite a bit Own Tears". it will be successful - after all "Re Semper offices of late. They also pro Lies" nnd "ESP." arc all here as well and the lyrics are both serious and Well, unfortunately, "A Date ality Bites" contains THE WORD, vide an opportunity to witness the as some other greal album tracks that original masters of the three minine •s.- inteliigible. "Auslander" is a col with...." is one of those albums and holds all that is Good and Vir didni make the "Singles Going that sounds great, has no real pop gem and see how ihcy have in laboration between the Poppies tuous. OOD (aka Holy Hollywood) Steady" compilalion. weak tracks but then again never fluenced most indie bands since the and Prop-gani and Black-d of Fun- hath revealed himself to the The Buzzcocks had an enormous in reaches any high points. early 1980s. Da-Mental (from England also, la blashphemous X-Gencration, and fluence on the post-punk indie scene J L The Smithereens brand of indie The Buzzcocks emerged in the late in the UK and Australia. This is evi belled the Asian Public Enemy) and rock, in the same tradition as REM through his Son, Ben Stiller, has H)70S during the lieyd,iy ofthe Brit is a soaring attack on the Nco-Facist but not in the same league, has passed THE WORD amongst unbe dent in the number of songs in this ish punk lovoluiiion. However, the right wing movement in Europe earned them a decent living, lievers everywhere. "Reality Bites" collection that have been covered by Buzzcocks differed from the other other bands since. and elsewhere. While not as catchy There are some quite decent and its creed have become a reli punk outfits such The Sex Pistols, as "RSVP", the sampled guitar from tracks such as "Everything I Have gion worshipping angst. The Buzzcocks have re-formed a few Is Blue", "Miles to Nowhere" and The Clash, The Slranglers and The Led Zepplin's "Kashmir" combine limes nnd recently loured the coun Well, perhaps I shouldn't be such Damned. These bands were full of "Life is Beautiful." All the tracks try a few months ago, Their latest with (he usual football hooligan sort of sound the same and I guess angsc and spent ihcir lime attacking a cynical bastard. The song, like the release "Trade Test Transmission" vocals CO produce an almost hyp that is why there are not outstand the British cstnblishmeni and calling movie, is a careful, clever targeting doesn't have the same power as the notic anthem. Just where ihe hell ing tracks. for the abolition of ihe monarchy. of the supposedly 'untargetable' early stuff. Neverilieless. if you want is the album though? Tiie Smithereens latest release is These sentiments were epitomised in youth market. It is simple, catchy to delve into some older material full nothing earth-shattering but just the songs "Anarchy in the U.K." and and uninvolving. Lisa Locb's voice of great songs from the punk era (Oh, and by the way, the title is a sub-standard rock album. "God Save the Queen" (The Pistols)., drifts ovor simple acoustic guitars, then this CD should be in your col German for "I am a Foreigner", but Maybe in a few years they will and "London Burning" and "White you probably already knew that, write another song that is worth and wavers emotionally in all the lection. listening to. I think we can all wait Rioi" (The Clash). well all you German students right places. It really isn't bad, but till then. The Buzzcocks, while possessing the Mark Ludlow would have, at least). not worth biting nt. Mark Ludlow same chaotic power driven music David Jeffery and dislike of the establishment, were more content writing the sim ro» vnu, «MT fnwLP ple pop soni;. As a result, their songs ihni were characiertsed by caichy melodies and honest lyrics have stood the lesi of time while oilier "^ @^P^^MJI!UU.@ punk ouiriis now seem less relevant in the apathetic'yos The Sex Pistols now seem like ilu' "boring old hip pie farts • that ihey were trying 10 sing off an rebel nijainsi in the first place. v_- 43 •Roy-HG*Roy-HQ"Roy-HQ"Roy"H Semper writer Gerard Paynter old fashioned positioning of where Semper: I can't let you go without Review spoke to Roy Slaven about the people sit has got a lot to do with it, asking what your tip is for the final To describe a night at the Queens upcoming show at the Concert hall so we will be buggering around in five of the league. land Philharmonic Orchestra (Q.RO), on August 13 accompanied by the this way to get a new sound from It is probably best to refer to Bob Queensland Philharmonic Orches the Q.P.O. And I don't think that it'll Roy: Oh, the final five. Let me think. Haw/ke's bcxDk os told by Roy, tra. be bloody hard to do. You'd have to say probably Canter I "I loved the Queensland Philhar bury. Canberra huh North Sydney, D monic if was my Idea, I contacted Semper; Performing with an or- Semper.-Wifl you be loobing up any Brisbane Broncos, Manly. That'll Neville Mariner and Vi/orked as hard IL chestra appears to be different to of your old friends ? when you're have to be the final five. as I could to make the Q.P.O a Suc your usual topic of sport? up in QLD? cess, That Bastard Keating, however, Semper: Excellent. hated the Idea from the start, he said Roy: Loob. I t^now superficially it Roy: Not really. Y'know there's usu that Neville Marriner wos a Joke and D does, but sport and music go hand ally a small coterie of people that 1 Roy: Unfortunately, 1 can't see did everything he couid to prevent in hand, that music, to perform weli can't avoid but see when 1 bob into Parramata getting there, I have an the Q.P.O coming into existence," you do need sporting attributes Brisbane, Gene Miles for example emotional investment in Parramatta such as fitness, imaging, arousal etc rn be making up a pairing with but look 1 think they're gone. I know Tfiis summed up Ihe night full of irony and .some of the great writers in the Gene, probably Kerry Boostead, il's early but 1 just can't see them , satire and excellent music. I haven't past have been to people who have Chris "'Choppy" Close, I'm hoping getting there. 1 was out there watch got the space to do the concert jus just as besoden with sport as any Greg Oliphant, The 'Turtle' Greg ing training last night (3.8.94) and gee tice exempt simply to state that I now body else. Ifyou lool? at the tremen Conescu and maybe "Dish Head" they're siill enthusiastic and "Dunny" understand why rugby league is dous work even of Tina Turner, the Dowling will be able to join us as if siiil for mine a lour bolter but gee I aboirt sex, opera is about sex, violins NSW Rugby League would have well. And I'm certainly hoping Wally just can't see them getting there. are about sex, conductors battons had no chance of completely domi Fullerton Smith and Brian Neebling are about sex, and bass drums are nating QLD, the way it does with can join us. So it'll be just thai small about sex. The ope'o that was Semper: So you can't see the par adopted from the Marriage of Vigero, out Tina's involvement. Tina was a group with probably "Rocket" e rot (Alan Jones) having as fairly tail the marriage of dishead Dowling symbol of unification, really of lhe Ready with the Belcha (Gary run with Souths. where dishead marries Lisa Curry country, under the banner, the one Belcher) thrown in. If the king Kenny, Denver Beanland marries banner of The NSW Rugby League. comes, well the king comes, we're Roy: No no no way hell Souths are Hayley Lewis and Gene Miles Marries Many thought this was impossible not putting any pressure on him. going backwards if the Parrot hadnt Warwick Capper (Played by a 01 course. But its happened, its re but sometime he's bored, he just gone to Souths they would be top women for effect) was also a high ality happened, its wiih us and we're logs in as well. So it'll be a very very of the premiership by now. with light Tc conclude I hope the Queens all much the belter off. And you quiet night, we'll be having with out doubt. The Parrot can be an in land Philharmonic make this a regu can't listen lo the thrusting base line those few Queensland mates, we'd credible Millstone around some lar event for not only was it extremely of Simply the Best without thinli- go to Rosies, see if we can bugger one's neck and il will be down hill funny but it also it brought classical ing, firstly Rugby League and then up lhe toilets there, rearrange the from now on lets face it 1 "jnder- music to the masses, sex. Whereas in days gone by, it pot plants and move on from there. stand they have signed the Parrot would have been sex first and then A very quile night of course they'll for another five years and lets make a. possibly rugby league a distant all be Iheir on the night Y'Know. a bold prediction here and say that 'OI third, a distant third with a hell of a "'Choppy" Close, for instance is a Souths will be last for three of those E lot daylight in between. Bringing great fan of bagio, he just loves that five years. aboul that enormous turnaround is bagio from Spartacus. I know ""Dish o a testament to the power of music Head" Dowling is a very big Rosieni and the power of sport fused. fan. So they'll be there of course to avoid disappointment. Radio FMB105 Semper: Certainly. Do you have 25,26 any innovations for the orchestra Semper: Do you have any impres presents & 27 caper that you are proposing? sion of students as a whole? August Tickets Roy: Well, y'bnow. I've always pre Roy: Students? Well. I gee, students STAND UP at from ferred the timpani up front and I think are demonstrations of a disa Ticket your woodwind up front and your greeing with society, of challenging The Rialto World strings righl up the bloody back.' the precepts of society has, of be 131 931 Y"bnow this has been an obsession ing angry, of being anarchic, Mind of mine. I did discuss it with Peter you students these days probably Theatre Sculthorp many years ago and he aren't like that anymore. But in my thought it was a tremendous idea. day, being a student was a badge Sol wouldn"! mind getting that tim you wore with pride, being a stu pani right up front, whether 1 can dent meanithat you challenged au convince tho [powers that be at the thority, you challenged what had Queensland Philharmonic that this come before, you pushed the en will happen. Alan Cutlom, for ex velope as wide as you could in ample we'll have a lot of difficulty every direction, you looked for a with, even though the bloke's a per little elasticity in every discipline cussionist himself, but that's some and gave it a nudge, you challenged thing we might try. Or Alan the idea that the physics depart Gregory, ol course lhe closet mas ment could have nothing to do with ter there, I wouldn't mind to see the linguistics department. You how they'd go without him. sit him challenged the idea that education out for a little while. My feeling is was something separate from maih- he's been holding them back, the ematics, or drama. So you wanted string section would really power if to fuse all these together. We were they didn't have him there sitting simple renaissance people looking there looking over their shoulder all to unite knowledge under one sin the time. There are a couple of gle banner of knowledge, bugger things we want to try within the en ing off this compartmentalising of semble of the Philharmonic cause 1 knowledge into separate desperate feel, y'know and 1 agree with Sir disciplines. That's what we were Neville Mariner really that the Phil about, and I think that there's still a harmonic is a tremendous idea that bit of room for that sort of thinking FROM THE LATE SHOW is yet to be realised. And 1 think the within students. with Darren Casey 44 k0n ©fflSijf Jf: at ler Mm^tf^l Any review of this pub should be redundant - its existence is a fact of life any DOUGY: Aaah. So you've thought real (ie poor) student should have been weened upon. Why snouid this be so? about this then have you? Aesthetically, it has the appeal of a full body cavity search performed by an (whattawanker) Any idea whal he said arthritic with something to prove. Small, crowded, seedy, dingy - just about any Mick? adjective that can be successfully applied to Union College is most likely all too MICK: He said life is basically worth apt. But like that college, many a cheap student will often loudly, drunkenly and less and we are all so many Jacaranda somewhat embarrassingly proclaim il home. blossoms on an Autumn St Lucia Location-wise it lies in the heart of ttie CBD and thus out of the way for a casual breeze, to live so briefly in beauty, then drink for most St Lucia goers. Hence the average H.M. drinker is not out for said to rot beneath a callous undergrad's ,,..,.- casual drink bul to have the piss-tp that ends in a fool; and there unworthy to deaden the •. ;„,_, u spate of seemingly good ideas, like walking that hventy footfalls of they whom love graces. Oh kilometres home, and stealing some initially amusing Christine, Christine how could you leave but ultimately predictable flashing city council traffic me? Triple v;ord score for 'intrinsically I ghls. It's the drinking session that starts with you polarised' ihough. •^ Nt vomiting and then proceeds to get really serious about DOUGY: Aaah Interesting paraphras iWir\. ils drinking. ing style. Excuse me, I think 1 see some Vyhy then are we saying Her Majesty's is so popular? one who isn't fucking weird. Hey carlin', It's not because of the fact that it occasionally adver ever seen the moon rise over my tises in Semper. Or not jusi. No, it's due to the cheapness of the house? My house in Beverly Hilis of drinks. To the ov;ner of a studenl card a jug al Her Majesty's is an afford course... able luxury any night of the week. Added to this are the attractions of whichever DAVO: The place reeks of prurient in ovil band are playing blandly by the door, some truly frightening clientele and terests and the billowing cigarette two pool tables and you have a winner of a pub whatever ycur criteria. smoke gives it that recently napalmed We join Davo, Dougy and Mick as Ihey prepare for the night's onslaught. look. Reminds me of 'Nam. 1 like il. Quile Davo is recalling with little fondness the last time he was he-e and his pivotal the essence of Australian pub culture, role in the quelling of the great Queens Street Mall pub riot of '93 ("Help! thus very worthwhile if only from an an Help! Police... No, not Ihe face! Ouch .. shit! I'm v/arning you, I'm nol afraid thropological poinl of view. I dig il. lo hit a woman!) Dougy is feeling frisky, and keen to exact revenge upon MICK: Yeah. Even wilhin this morose woman-kind for various imagined wrongs done to him in the womb by inflict and angst ridden shell 1 reside in 1 can ing his company upon one or more of them for the evening, or if especially see it has its attractions. Nol bac. unlucky, forever. Mick is feeling melancholy, hence is being a downer, and hence won't feature inuch in this month's contrived witticisms. DOUGY: [v^iping blood away from his nose] Why do they always go for the places everyone can see? Why don't DOUGY: Hey baby, you v/ant lo be on they hit me some place thai isn't obvi TV? I direct Paradise Beach, 1 can get ous? Just once I'd like to be hil in the you on, not a problerr.. groin, And Power's Big Red is too me Qtuh time off tallic and bitter. Not acceptable lager al WOfvlAN: Get lost loser. all. DOUGY; Oh, so you've seen Paradise Beach. How about Hey Dad? DAVO: Righl, that's that then. By the JJlJro-Qarih way, you're doing it all wrong. Women DOUGY: [returns to Ihe lable clutching these days are loo sophisticated for that PRESENTS a bleeding lip] Women, hey Davo? approach. They can see righl Ihrough A CELEBRATION OF WORLD MUSIC DAVO: Yeah, v/omen. They seem to you. It's high culture and art that attracts have added 'unsleazy' to their criteria in the nineties. [Walks up to the bar] Hi IN THE SPIRIT OF WARANA for desirable men. Don't worry about it Ihere, did you see lhe final Melrose? FEATURING FROM BENIN W. AFRICA Dougy, not all the women in the world WOMAN OF REFINEMENT AND can have taste and be intelligent. You'll TASTE WHO PARADOXICALLY find one of Ihem some day. V^/ATCHES MELROSE: No, whal hap ANGELIQUE KID JO MICK: Yeah, women. I've just written a pened to Allison and... poem on that subject, 1 think il's pretty The Post Mortem: Her Majesty's is not good... the place you spend the nighl, il's lhe ANGEUQUE WILL 1 am so alone halhvay house between sobriety and other, more pleasant surroundings. It APPEAR AT BISAGOMA Why can't I... BROADWAY ON THE serves ils purpose v/ell though, and any DOUGY: [hurriedly] Thanks Mick, bul 1 pub with reasonable beer prices is to MALL I.OOpm - 2.00pm think our glorious leader is about to be applauded. 3 and a half jugs out of speak. Davo? Dave, please say some five. NEW CD AYE OUT NOW thing. Anything quickly, Power's Big Red is another matter. The DAVO: Her Majesty's is a Rubix Cube taste hovers somewhere between rust GUEST:- KUBATA of a pub, a many-sided and faceted sub and Power's Bitter, which is hardly a ./S' terranean affair which defies categori compliment unless your preferences FRI. SEPT. 23 1994 sation by the intnnsically polarised na are oxidised melals or undrinkable ture of its purpose, location and clien beers. 2 jugs out of five. tele, a difference working logether to CITY HALL - ANN ST CITY promote a cohesive bourgeois sense of SEE CALABASH ON AUG. 201994 values, th work ethic and paradoxically an acceptance and in'.egration of while FULLY LICENCED FROM collar ideals within a contrived sense of 7.00pm TILL LATE 'Australianness' or 'mateship'. The re TICKETS: $26.00 STANDING pressed class tension may erupl in a display of excessive tolerance and overt $30.00 SITTING masculine affection, or in violence that AVAIL:- TICKET WORLD ON 2252133 sca's, emotionally and physically many a gorgeous and handsome young man BISAGOMA AT BROADWAY ON THE MALL like me forever. Alcohol imbibed works ROCKING HORSE RECORDS - CITY as differentially permeable membrane to arrest the flow of normal class based HARLEQUIN MUSIC - INDOOROOPILLY ideologies but can be ruptured by the AFRICA ESCAPE - GOLD COAST reprehensible oedipa nature of... >33SS3: "^ •>.-^ "^-v'^ 'w^^ 45 WAKE ME UP IN 1998 A PosKMortem on the World Cup If you have counted on Providence to THE HOLY GRAIL OF Brazil was lorn for weeks by lhe de was Bulgaria. The team thai surprised help you in your exams, you must have WORLD SOCCER bate whether players should be allowed everyone by even qualifying, and started realized by now thai he didn't hear you. T H E HOLY to have sex during the tournament. Il badly, by losing to Nigeria, wenl to kick He was watching the World Cup. GRAIL O F was finally decided that they can be ac some ball, trashing the past two Cup You sec, God Ls a soccer fan. WORLD SOCCER companied to Ihc Uniied Stales by their winners Argentina and Germany. His Don't take this with a negative conno T H E •HOLY wives and girlfriends. Research came tory however, tends to repeat itself and tation; the team he backed in Ihc Prom GRAIL OF 'WORLD loo lale from Israel which suggests the valiant Bulgarians' luck ran out just ised Land Cup final.s lo.st, ihat's true, SOCCER THE HOLY strikers should abstain for 6 lo 8 days, like that other Eastern European team's but this had nothing to do with what he GRAIL OF IW O R L D while defenders and lhe goalkeeper for (Poland) 12 years earlier, at the same did to Sodom and Gommorah ( on the SOCCER THE HOLY only 3 to 5 days before the game, for slage of lhe game ( semifinals), wilh other hand maybe it did and that's why GRAIL OF WORLD the sake of improved performance (on the same team (Italy) which won hav Ihey say thai God is an Englishman ). SOCCER THE HOLY GRAIL the field, of course). ing scored the same number of goals (2). Anyway, for the four weeks of this year OF WORLD SOCCER THE Stili, the Brazilian president peisonally Parallels wilh Spain '82 do not end God has had a ball (.sorry for the bad HOLY GRAIL OF intervened halfway through the Wodd there; in boih Cups Argentina was elimi pun ). And so did mo.st of the planet. WORLD SOCCER Cup to change the line up of llie leam. nated after Maradona was sent off in dis So did .someone in Colombia, success grace (in 1982 after being red carded WHAT m THE fully getting midfielder Gabriel Gomez for a particularly vicious foul). were converted cn masse to this latest off the team after bomb threats lo his NfiNE? and fastest growing religion. By the sec family and that oflhe coach. Colombi AFTER ond week of the competition the public Writing the article, in a country which ans were nol finished ihough; a week awareness of the Cup reached 90% later defender Andres Escobar was NfiRfiDONf! until recently didn't really give a damn mark, to which a strong performance aboul soccer, about the World Cup that gunned down for scoring an own goal by the American team undoubtedly con that (for all practical purposes) led to They aJ came to the United States lo look place in another country which tributed. Far from being a soccer-chal battle for the crown of the Worlds Best doesn't give a damn, is difficult. While Colombia's elimination from the Cup. lenged nation they were just a few Maradona, of course, didn't need a gun Player that for the past few years has in Australia soccer has only recently weeks ago, Americans are now prepar been slowly slipping from Maradona's come to prominence with the success to gel himself oul of the game; he ing to resurrect the professional soccer caughl the flu, or so he said. His long head. ActuaUy, some, tike Holland's of our youlh teams, and the Socceroos league. Baseball beware! Ruud Gullit, didn't even come; others valiant efforts to almost beat Argentina and illustrious career ended when the tests showed enough pharmaceutical were a no show. Italy's pony-tailed Bud to qualify for this years Cup, the Aus IN CASE YOU dhist Roberto Baggio wrs uneven and tralia viewing auidencc was up on pre products in his body to cure the whole Argentinian team. despite saving his team from defeat on vious World Cups. In Amciica there had MISSED IT.. several occasions (except on that most been substaintial apathy to the sport imporianl one in the finals) did not rise having been affeciionately described as ... this years World Cup was lhe big BiqCIEg, RffSTER, to the expectations. Brazil's star the kind of game played by "kids, girls gest sporting event in the world, if nol Romario fared only slightly better. Per and pan.sies" as one Yankee journalist lhe biggest event, period. Its 52 games BETTER haps ths two most colourful players of has put it. were watched by a cumulative audi It wasn't just the hope of glory that mo the Cup were relative unknowns - Ro ence of 31 billion viewers • that's 12 tivated the players to do their best. Even mania's Gheorghe Hagi and Bulgaria's billion morc than the Barcelona Ol Tiiat's why the idea of staging the .soc for getting to the second round each Hrisio Sloichkov, both providing us ympic Games. The Brazil-Italy final cer's equivalent of the Second Coming Saudi player received the new with some of the best eniertainmenl on on July 17 attracted an audience of in the Uniied Slates struck many as bi Mercedes 500 and $50,000. Some were the filed ( Sloichkov and Salenko be two billion people (the remaining 3 zarre, and some {especially in Europe) less fortunate; Ihc Cameroon team had came the best strikers oflhe Cup, scor billion consisting of the exhausted, the as blasphemous. And it struck the to go on strike to get their back pay. ing 6 goals each }. Although no clear dead,, the infants, the infirm, the blind Americans as... well, actually it didn't Money, or no money, everyone gave successor to Maradona emerged il might and people in Chad and Outer Mongo strike Americans as anything. In fact their best. be safe to say that the new Number One only one third of people polled before lia who don't have TV sets ). Some The new faster ball, the new scoring wili, like the Divine Diego, be a Barce the commencement of the Cup knew countries have come to a standstill as system favouring wins over draws, and lona player; eilher Romario or that it v/as going to take place in their 90% of population was watching the a massive switch in favour of offensive Sloichkov. country. telecasts. In Thailand in two separate tactics produced some of the most ex incidents a safe with $40,000 was car citing football in Cup's history. The ried away and 23 inmates of a juvenile THE SPORT IS TO THE LAND OF goal average was up to almost 3 goals dclcniion centre escaped, while the per game. Aiso up was the number of THE WINNER guards were watching the Cup. In THE HEflTHEN yellow and red cards as referees were Macau a cafe owner suffered a fatal Well, actually the winner was Brazil, for instructed to crack down on even slight The truth is Americans gol it because heart attack after two sleepless nights the record fourth time, after a 24 year est infringements. And of course tem they were the only nation able lo make in front of his TV. In Albania a man long drought. On all six previous occa peratures were up, reaching in some the money out of the whole thing. With wagered and lost his wife when Roma sions when the Cup was held in Ameri games 40 degrees on the pilch. Surpris the capitalist grace thai comes only af nia won 3:2 against Argentina in one cas, an American team won the trophy. ingly the heat didn't adversely affecl the ter centuries of praclice, the Yanks cov of the Cup's biggest upsets. And in Brazil, despite being the only non-Eu quality of play. ered the $400 million cost of staging the Hong Kong 37% of people said thai ropean leam lo reach quarterfinals made event with ticket sales (the new World the Cup is more important lo them than Russia's Oleg Salenko established a it seven. Cup record of 3,567,415 scats sold to new Cup record scoring 5 goals in lhe the polilicai future of the colony. Nexl Cup in France in 1998 looks like 52 games; over a million morc than in 6:1 massacre with Cameroon. In the being even more exciting with the in Italia '90) and sponsorship, still mak same game another record was made troduction of sudden dealh extra-time ing a S30 million profit for the organiz SERIOUS STUFF when Roger "Witchdoctor" Milla be to eliminate the need for penalty ers and allowing the 1.4 million soccer came, at 42, the oldest player in Cup's While Australians were debating the re shooiouts. Also, 32 instead of 24 coun tourists to pump $4 billion into local history to score a goal. public and pros and cons of changing tries will reach the finals and Australia economy. The Cup's mascot, a dog the flag and the anthem, olher countries certainly looks like being one of ihem. called .striker, was estimated lo account were divided over much more impor EVERY CUP HAS for over S1 billion in merchandise sales tant issues like Ihe choice of coaches alone. and selection of players for the national a CIND6RELLfl S.o you there Bul more importantly the Americans teams. Even before the Cup took off, In 1990 il was Cameroon, this year il Arthur "Caffeine" Chrenkoff 46 Big Red lnspire§ VJ^ Win Big Red (pictured) was the Uni versity or Queensland's mascot Just under 300 students from UQ and inspiration at the Morthern participated in the Northern Cori- University's MtGravatt campus, the Conference Universities Games, ference Games. Each competitor Ship Inn and Friday's Night Club, wliich were lield at Griffith Uni paid $80, which covered entry fees Though university sports gatherings of versity during the second week and a uniform, consisting of the past developed a reputation for be- of the July break. The seven-foot trackpants, shorts and a distinctive ing more sodal than sporting Mr Kerr tall red kangaroo helped keep cold jersey all supplied by Canterbury described the conduct of this year's UQ (and slightly damp) student athletes The cost of the fees and uniform was team as "exemplary". amused with traditional, high-spir partially offset by a subsidy of $38 "1 think at this one we showed that ited sparring with rival universily per student from the University of mascots while the teams assembled we could still have a really good Queensland Sports & Physical Rec time, but when it actually came to for the opening ceremony of the reation Association (SPRA). The Games. the crunch we were there on final's uniforms will also be used for the day, we were still winning." Nine teams competed at the Games, AUGs in September, i representing each Queensland uni Despite UQ's overwhelitiing suc versity and Southern Cross Univer cess, concerns have been noted in 1 Minutes of Combined FAC/ Executive Meeting sity from northern New South SPRA circles subsequent to the held 14 July 1994, item 11.2. Wales. UQ's Gatton College and through to the semis, eventually Games about the lack of "team Griffith University Gold Coast en bearing Griffith University in the JP''"'* onthepartofUQstudents^. tered teams separately from their re grand final, Mr Kerr, however, pointed out that spective Brisbane campuses. this was to be expected given that Other events were notable for the POSTSCRIPT Despite the damp start to the week, the team members were not shar remarkable superiority of the UQ ing accommodation as they must Stiidetits wishing to participate in the UQ team manager Mr Anthony Kerr competitors. The women's basket was jubilant about the university's when travelling to venues outside 1994 AUGs at Wollongong should con ball team, featuring University of Brisbane, and there was still good performance at the Games. The tact SPRA as soon as possible, so thai Queensland Sporting Scholarship support in individual sports, with team won the Jodie Martin Memo holder Ms .Nerida Jeffrey, was tliey can be put in louch xoitli the rel men's and women's teams showing evant team manager. In some s;n5rfs, rial Trophy for overall champion unstoppable, and netball, men's up to barrack for their counterparts. university, easily outclassing tennis and rugby union were all selection trials ».'f7y iv required. The cost archrivals QUT and Griffith Univer dominated by formidable UQ "Considering they went hoine to ii'ill be $345 and $415 ifn team mem sity. teams. Other scholarship holders their own beds each night, and they ber has a team uniform and no team "It is very impressive that we can involved in the Games were Mr had everything else to do, the fact uniform rcspccliiK'ly. The cost covers that they still supported each other, also be not only academically Nathan VVyer, captain of the victo- transport, accommodalion, entry fees, uitliin reason, was great," Mr Kerr said. strong, but a very impressive sport- rious inen's volleyball team, and Ms sports medicine ami training limes. Tor inguniversity..Wearebyfarthebest Simone Eggers, a inember of the UQ team members were, of course, students arranging theiro-am lrans}K)rt and accommodation the cost will be $160. sporting university in our state" women's touch football team which enthusiastic participants in the ex- Sixteen sports were played during ^^"^^ ^'-^^'""'"^ *" ^^'^- tensive program of social events the week, most involving both As the Northern Conference Uni- staged during the Games at Griffith men's and women's events. UQ's versifies Gaines also function as a | -— tally of fourteen individual team qualifying evont for the Australian victories featured some memorable Universities Games (AUGs), UQ's upsets. The men's badminton team success means that a large team can stunned their more fancied rivals be sent to this year's AUGs, to be with devastating form to snatch vic held at Wollongong from Septem tory. Men's soccer also found them ber 25. All but two of UQ's teams selves surprise finalists after an ini (men's basketball and women's vol tial loss to favourites Bond Univer leyball) attained the top-three plac sity, but through good luck and ing required to be eligible for the na good management the team won tional event. ClaoUic ^did in (jiieai 6o44d Excitement is expected to members are scheduled to reach fever pitch on August 24 use. The race is completed by at 1pm as the Great Court a thirty metre dash for the plays host to the University's line. Inaugural Nanda Electronic The Triatlilon replaces the dis Triathlon. The event will In continued Survaval of the Fit volve teams of two men and test event, and forms part of one vk^oman from each faculty an ongoing program of Stay safe - plan ahead striving for victory as they interfaculty sport (organised complete successive require by SPRA) accessible by all stu Organise trusted colleagues to Take care... be aware! ments on three electronic ap dents. Other events Include walk together al night. Don't be shy - others might be Need help? Security operates paratus from the University's competitions In thirteen gym: a Life-step, a Life-cycle, waiting for the suggestion. 24 hours a day on the St sports as well as swimming Lucia and Gatton College and a Concept II rowing ma Or contact Security or the and athletics carnivals. Student Union to check out campuses - chine. the free Safety Bus service. phone 1800 800123 (free If successful, the Electronic call). Particular interest will be gen Triathlon will become a regu You can also ask a UniSafe erated as the lead switches lar feature on the University Escort to walk with you from team to team depending anywhere on campus - look sporting calendar. out for them, or telephone on which apparatus the UniSafe is .1 University Ivan Wells 1800 800 123 (it's free!). ol Quccnstiind iniliative stronger and weaker team promoting ptrsonai .liirtiv awareness. S4FE 47 UNIVERSITY!!! EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF FIRST CONTACT WITH ALIEN RACE TURNED MY WIFE INTO A CABBAGE "My wife's never been the same since she became a cabbage" .:^i My wife's never says roly poly sanitation engineer -tm Dona! Brenton, 60. "I woke up one morning and I was lying in bed been the same next to a cabbage. I'd just been having a dream about space aliens so I suppose they turned since stie my wife, into a cabbage." Mr Donald says the car pulling up '••"* .««.: outside his house at three in the beeame a morning and the note pinned to his left nostril saying "I'm leaving go fuck a cabbage" are unrelated events and not of any m'm» cabbage" consequence. * •>•><>. VLIHLL }riir'^lij.lir"'^-^-''"-"'V' .v?^.^'>': ^i^IbS^iiiiisMiKiiiiiiiiQl f HAROLD HOLT Santa downed over North Korea SURFACES Offtcal news reports indicate that it's Ho<| Ho-Ho No-No-No more. Reports indicate IN TOILET that Santa violated restricted airspace one time too many over North Korea, anc was shot down in a routine interception..| Former PM Harold Holt, long Described as the most daring man ever rumoured to have drowned in to pilot a sleigh powered by mythical Port Phillip Bay, surfaced today figures, Santa was a much loved and in tho lavatory of Mrs Muriel respected figure world wide. Gronk, 96, of Burpengary. 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