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MUNGO MacCALLUM DON CHIPP GRADUATE UNDER­ EMPLOYMENT MONTY PYTHON CARTOONS €DITORIRL Brisbane Wildlife After a year in limbo. Semper has COmHlTS returned. The University of Queensland Survey Union newspaper, last year called Time THE ADVERTISING WAR 3 Off, has reverted to its original name and The question is not whether or not we are being manipulated, but to what extent It's hard to believe at times but form. we share our city with all kinds of Time Off was an expensive attempt to GRADUATE UNDEREMPLOYMENT 7 wild life. The Brisbane area Isj capture off campus readers in South East Not only do many university graduates fail to find employment, but of those populated with native fauna that most, Queensland. It failed, firstly because off who do many end up with jobs for which their degree is irrelevant of the population never sees. | campus sales were well below expectations, and secondly because many students could DON CHIPP Other than the platypus, echidna and; not relate to a magazine aimed at the possums of all descriptions there are Don is blunt in his criticisms of universities, academics, and the Australian hundreds of lizards, birds, insects and plants public at large. Nonetheless it was an way of life imaginative attempt to raise the status of to be found. the university paper above that of a smutty MUNGO MACAL!.UM 13 rag. One of Australia's best known journalists reminisces about Nation Review Semper In 1980 hopes to maintain and improve upon the professional standards WORDS OF WIZDOM 15 initiated in Time Off. This will be difficult Bizarre ravings from the prophet of nonsense as the paper's budget has been dramatically cut, and the staff will be even more over­ REVIEWS 21 worked than last year. Nonetheless we Film, restaurants, art remain vaguely optimistic that it will all turn out right in the end. W0T20N 31 Guide to Brisbane cultural events The centrefold of this issue comprises a history of Semper. Hopefully this will put In an effort to document and protect the paper in perspective for new readers. our flora and fauna the World Wildlife SEMPER is a non profit TYPESETTING: Marie Blanch Semper is copyright, St. Lucia, Fund has begun a Brisbane Wild Ufe Survey. political and cultural magazine PRINTERS: Mirror Newspapers Queensland, 1980. Non prift pub­ Ltd., 367-373 Brunswick St., Valley lications may reprint articles snd The object of the survey is to stimulate One of last year's editors is attempting based at the University of DISTRIBUTORS: Gordon and Gotch Queensland. graphics provided Semper and the interest in wildlife and conservation, in to resurrect Time Off as an off campus Pty Ltd., Brisbane. authors are duly acknowledged. EDITOR: Tim Low Brisbane and surrounding shires. It is cultural guide. This paper is to be dis­ Semper Magazine welcomes The exceptions are creative writing NEWS EDITOR: Kjaz Perry tributed to restaurants, theatres and contributions and letters, but does and copyrighted graphics which regarded as a pilot scheme to increase LAYOUT and COVER: Matt not assume any responsibility for may not be reproduced without awareness of the wildlife of urban areas travel agencies. Semper staff and the Mawson unsolicited manuscrips, photo­ written pem)l»ion of the authors. University of Queensland Union disclaim SECRETARV: Jenni Bird graphs and illustrations. Address enquiries to the Editor. where 87% of Australians live. association with this paper. The World Wild Ufe Fund of Australia hopes their survey's outcome will make city dwellers more aware of the need to enhance and preserve the urban habitat. A questionnaire kit, incorporating illustrated brochures and topographical maps will be provided for the public. A public launching of the survey by the Lord Mayor and various pubhc figures including Ray Barrett and Keith Walker, will be held in April 1980. The organisers are actively seeking volunteer co-ordinators to organise the survey. The volunteers will identify species of plants and animals, and to co-ordinate volunteers in theh suburbs. Other local cor* ordinators will present audio-visual material, to local school and community groups toj help them make the survey a success. Anyone who wants to participate in the survey can contact the Brisbane Wild Ufe Survey at 147 Ann Street, Brisbane. P.O. Box 238, or phone 221 0188 for details.; union cmstitution changes At thfl 3rd Ordinary Meeting of the 69th Council of the University of Queens­ and replaced by the text set oul in Appendix shall be placed to Ihe credit of the post- at the end of the preceding calendar year and land Union to be held on Thursday the 13tti March, 1980 at 6.15pm in the E.G. gniduate sludenis' fund which shall be used to shall be indexed during lliat lerm of office. Whitlam Room, the following Constitutional changes will be presented for a first LSC/5 provide services and facilities for members of 4.12.59 It shall be a condition of each reading: week's payment of such alkiwance that Ihe That Section 1.3. of the Comtitution be "Al the annual meeting ... an auditor In order to satisfy the following motion the Union who are post-graduate studenis." office bearers shall, during thai week, except altered such that the section relating to approved by the stnate o{ the univcrsily. . . passed by Council - That 8.27 and 8.28 be renumbered 8.26 when absent upon union business or for some and 8.27. "Special Resolution" be deleted and replaced Onaicial year." That the Union reaffirm its policy for 4ZZZ olher reasonable purpose (which shall include with the following: LSC/3 to issue a mortgage debenture with repayment That regulatton 10 Seclton 17.51 and 17.52 attending lectures) be present on Ihe union "SPECIAL RESOLirriON" means a re­ ^77)11 is in line with the provisions of Section on demand but that LSC be directed to draft be repealed and regulation 10 Section 18 be premises at St. Lucia during Ihe office hours solution of Council passed by an affirmative 5(b) af the 1977 Agreement between the a regulation staling that the demand can only renamed "The Post-Graduate Students' Fund". of the union, or ihe equivalent hours approved vole of iwo-ihird of ihose present, which musl University and the Union). be given after the appropriate moiion has LSC/T by the relevant committee or by council. al least form a special quonim; Ihal special been passed by a special resolution of council. "Tlut Rcgulaimn 3.7 be deleted." 4.12.60 The olTice bearers are entitled lo quorum to consist oriialf of the total members The folkiwing changes will be pre­ O'Sullivan/ LSC/8 four (4) weeks annual leave. of Council." sented for a first readii>g: LS.C. proposed the following motion - 4.12.61 During any pertod when the office LSC/1 "That Regulatwn 9 'Unran Aclivities' be That Regulation 18 be extended to include: (The Child Care Slanding Committee no bearers duties are performed by an acting That Section 5.21 (I) of the Constitution deleted and replaced by the text set uui iu "1.3 In order lo make a demand Tor repay­ longer operates). ofTice bearer, an allowance identical to that be altered to read; Appendix "A"". ment under the mortgage debenture issued by That a new regulation 4.12 be created to normally paid to the office bearer, shall be "Two representatives who shall be elected LSC/4 4ZZZ in favour of the Union, the Union shall raid: paid to the acting office bearer. (LSC/72/78), from the employees of Ihe Union, not In­ Section 8.2S of proposed Regulation IS pass a moiion to that effect, by a special 4.12.57 That the following positions shaU LSC/P cluding the Finance Controller, Catering required 'fn/e' signatories to a nomination resolution of council. The text of such a re­ be full-time paid positkins: (Suggested amerulment: "That the motion Services Manager and Theatre Manager, and paper. LSC recommended that this be 'three' solution shall be set out in Ihe agenda for that (a) Presklent (b) Seereiaiy (c) Treasurer be amended by removing Ihe words berivecn whom are not entitled to vote in the election signatories. meeting of council." (d) Edditor(s) Unkin Newspaper (e) Women's 'the amount . . .calendar year', and inserting of any olher members of Council." Proposed Section 8.24, 8.25 have been LSC/6 Rights Organiser (0 Activities Directors 'determined by Council from time to time"). LSC/2 deleted. (This is in relation ta List Nomina- "That Section 8,25 and 8.26 of regulatfon 4.12.58 The full time office bearers' allow­ OSullivanlPhillips- (This is to clarify the defmition ofa staff tions). 10 be repealed and a new scctfon 8.25 be in­ ance and the Unwn Newspapers Editors' representative}. The remainder of the proposed text has serted to read: aUowance in any year shall be tlie amount of That Section 12.74 of the Constitution be been referred to Council asis- A sum equal to 15% of the annual student the guaranteed manimum wage (as determined Authorised by Anne Warner amended to read; "Thal Regulation 13 'Elections' be deleted services charge paid by post-graduate students' by the state industrial commission) in effect Union Secretary THE STEREO STORE YOU CAN TRUST I SPEAKER SALE •Extensive Range of carefully selected equipment •Friendly expert advice, demonstrations & service Discount prices now on •Lowest Prices •Student Discounts^Bankcard^Ter/i JBL, TANNOY, ADVENT, •Car Park at Rear ULTRALINEAR & CHADWICK m«^mm 70 HIGH CTREET, TOOWONG. PH: 371 5977 .F6RTUR6. The ADVERTISING WAR ByJOHNJIGGINS Each week, tlie average person in Sydney and Melbourne is exposed to approximately 5000 radio commercials, 35,000 TV commercials, 2,500 display ads in the press and 30,000 humble static or moving signs. The figures for Brisbane and Adelaide would be only slightly less. These ads are the ground forces of a vast struggle that is fought out inside the six inches of grey matter that lies between your ears: This is the "advertising war".

Behind it all is the shadowy Black Hand powerful. of the Advertising Industry, an industry that Consider the mind as an iceberg. The in 1978 alone turned over about Sl,500. visible one tenth is the conscious mind. million, to the mass media in Australia for The submerged nine tenths represents the right to deluge our senses with over ten the unconscious mind. It is floating in a million major product messages, and count­ sea of advertising. less more flickering, subliminal meanings. On the conscious level of their minds, Probably about 25,000 people are em­ people ignore advertising. In advertising ployed preparing the ads and the advertising recall studies, advertisements are rarely agencies earn about another S120 million recalled by the conscious mind. Strangely, for service fees. Even more people and this is what the firlvertisers want. They money are involved in the Market Re­ have long realised the resistance to ad­ search fimis, which continually poll vertising at the conscious level. The Australis to determine their values, their conscious mind values, differentiates and fears,-^'their thoughts, their brand prefer­ makes judgements. Conscious ad. recall ences. This information is bought by the can subject an ad to critical judgement. advertising agencies. And this is the last thing an advertiser Advertising is big money: Phillip Adams, wants to expose his product to. estimated that of all production money The main thrust of advertising is to hit «ient on maldng television fdms in Australia, people on the level of the unconscious, 80 per cent was spent on making commer­ where ads are designed to implant them­ selves uncriticised, unevaluated and cials; a sixty second ad could cost as much unknown until the time when a purchase as a sixty minute film. decision is required. The whole purpose of It is no wonder that the TV ads are adveitising is to shortcircuit the conscious compressed epics: jingle merchants like mind. Mojo (of "C'Mon Aussie C'mon" fame) Superficially, the language of advertising have been paid Sl 0,000 for a song; the is a language of emphasis and exclamation production cost of the average ad is around marks. Tiiere are key words like NEW! 340,000; star names like Paul Hogan and IMPROVED! and of course SSSAVINGS!! Ernie Si'gney have earned 550,000 for a There are key phrases like BUY NOW! .. . commercial. Just a minor section of the LAST CHANCE! . . . RUSH THESE!! industry, sports promotion had S40 million According to ad. guru, David Ogilyy, spent on it in 1977. One of its minor research has shown that headlines with acliievements was to buy the entire words like "NEW, FREE, AMAZING, Australian cricket team. Dennis Ullee SENSATIONAL, REMARKABLE, drowned sensationally in the advertising REVOLUTIONARY, STARTLING, avalanche. MIRACLE, MAGIC" in them are read Advertising is the ground of our being: three times more often, so they should our exposure to it is immense; it is our always be used. biggest sin^e source of verbal and visual Advertising even has its own special ideas. An Australian in a supermarket is grammatical construction: in the in­ familiar with over 6,000 brand names and definite comparative!! only 8,000 other words: he/she probably Tlie trick is to use the comparative know the words to more jingles than pop degree witiiout any "than" after it. "Brand songs. X is 52 per cent more efficient, 84 per cent All this despite an apparent aversion to more satisfying". More efficient than what?? the advertising onslauglit. Peoples' reaction More satisfying than what?? They don't say. to advertising is fairly universal: they claim In America, Firestone's Safety Champion to mentally turn off or physically avoid Tyre was sold on the promise that "it stops the ads; they tell you that advertismg 25 per cent quicker"; General Motors sold doesn't register with them. In the US, one a new car on the promise that it was "700 survey organisation found "currently 85 Tliis is a vital part of the mythology of to make up dieir minds for them. People per cent quieter". (It was found out later per cent of advertising doesn't register with that the claim meant that the car was 700 people, they don't remember seeing it. Of advertising. Most people simply say they consider advertising irrelevant, flamboyant, the 15 per cent that is remembered one make up their own minds - a very necessary foolish and generally ineffectual. This is third is associated with the wrong brand." illusion that media must perpetuate in order wishful tiiinking. Advertising is very {continued on following page)

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{"Advertising" continued) So the cigarette companies have to suck irrational since the reduction will be Even when offered two packets of a rival in a whole new generation of smokers each promptly matched by his competitor with brand for one of their favourite (the per cent quieter on the inside than the year. Young people are the most susceptible detrimental effects for both as each will immortal two for one swap) they shake their outside). Ardmona are attempting to sell to advertising. Adolescence is a time of maintain their market share but with heads and sadly decline. a soap powder on the claim that it is 33 rapidly changing self image, a time when reduced profits. Similarly decisions to in­ per cent whiter (as measured on "the the young are modelling themselves on crease prices by the "price leader" to be And the slogans flash on the screen: International Whiteness scale"). heroes. The true brilliance of the Winfields followed by the rest of the oligopoly. meaningless claims like "Brand X is the Any food product can be advertised as ad. was the appeal to young potential Price competition has gone replaced by nearest yet to total clean"; the old stand­ "more nourishing": the claim sounds im­ smokers. advertising competition. Intensive by the indefinite comparative, revamped: pressive, and means nothing. The same can It's impossible to discuss cigarette ad­ advertising campaigns are designed to foster "Rinso gets things whiter"; the surrealism be said about products that are "faster vertising without discussing the subliminal brand loyalty by highligliting illusory of "Fab is lemon charged to whiten . . , selling" and where "you get more for your methods employed, but as there's another differences. naturally". money". article on this 111 be brief. Advertising And the people die shrieking "More! creates new needs by rearranging the need DETERGENTS FOODSTUFFS More! More!"; suffocatinj; in superlatives structure in the individual. One way of The soap and detergent industries have Foodstuffs are the most advertised in the advertising avalanche. doing i.'iis is by what Freud called sub­ an intensive level of advertising. The commodities on TV. TV is considered It's a strange experience reading the limation, the redirection of drives and advertising and marketing practices of the ideal medium for advertising foods, articles that advcrtisinj; men write for each emotions into more acceptable channels. the industry were the subject of major and 554,000,000, two thirds of food ad­ other in the business of magazines. They There is a constant use of Phallic imagery governmental enquiries in both Britain and vertising, is directed towards television. quite openly admit that competing brand in cigarette ads. If the cigarette is pointed Australia during the last decade. .Most is junk food and much is directed names (in cars, cigarettes, detergents, any at children. product) are almost identical. .Numerous psychological tests have shown that con­ No one disputes that children watch a sumers can't distinguish between the various Advertising leads to the concentration lot of television. One survey of Sydney types of beers, the differing makes ol children by Kevin Tindall and David Reid cigarettes once the packaging identification of economic power and excessive in 1976, revealed that children spend about is removed. three hours in front of the set every day. profits; it is responsible for the By the age of 16 the average cliild will Tiie consumer is never told any of this. have watched approx. 17,000 hours of The admen describe their role as ensuring condition of 'brainwashing under TV as opposed to 15,000 hours of class­ brand loyalty by creating 'Perceived Taste room involvement. Differences'. Think about that. Ali brands freedom'! A Canberra survey by media analyst are almost identical, but the advertisers are John Hilvert found that commercials for convinced that they can gel consumers to fast foods, biscuits, sweets and drinks deny this perception; they can create a up, it represents an erect phallus; if its The British monopolies commission, in constituted 44 per cent of advertising taste difference that isn't there. pointed down it gives the impression of a their "Report of the monopolies com­ between 4pm and 6pm. The vast bulk of post sex condition. mission on the supply of household de­ Before a campaign gets under way, much advertising urges the purchase of sweets, tergents" state "Competiton in advertising money is spent on market research and snacks, ices, fast foods and breakfast testing consumer reactions. One of the Very widespread are the embedded and promotion has tended to displace foods, many of tliem pre-sweetened. TV's major aims is to define the "Brand Per­ Death's Heads. You can find images of price competition. The effects of this are not message to children is "eat sweet and eat sonality" of die product. skulls in cigarette ads. The idea is to create only to increase prices to the extent that junk". This is most clearly seen in cigarette unconscious anxiety, which motivates the additional expenditure in the field is Each advertisement does its best to marketing. people to smoke. Smoking, and drinking wasteful but also ... to keep new entrants when wc are tense, are sublimations of the out of the market, to weaken other com­ excite the child about the produce, with The approach is generally to get a famous cartoons, fun live action, musics, flashing 'personality' to be the image of the habit learns at its mothers breast. Some­ petitive restraints on prices and profit, and thing which manifests itself in thumb to create a situation in which even the less colours and sound effects. No one attempts cigarette. (Just as a test of your memory:' to excite the kids about the fruit, vege­ what cigarette brands were promoted by sucking in early childhood. successful of the two principle com­ Advertising is aimed at people's un­ petitors can earn extremely comfortable tables, cheeses, eggs and other foods which - Graham Kennedy?; Frank Thring?: are the basis of sound nutrition. These Jack Tliompson?; Norman Gunston?; Ray conscious needs. profits, while those of the more successful are outstandingly high." ads constitutes a steady stream of mis- Barret?; Ernie Sigley?; Tony Barber?) Defenders of advertising often argue that education about nutrition, Many cigarettes are sold on an appeal it is as natural as the beautiful colours of MacDonalds were an important part of to rugged masculinity (MEN SMOKE birds and fish: the aim of both is to attract These conclusions are reinforced by the the package that Kerry Packer got together DRUM; MARLBORO COUNTRY; Craven attention. This appeal to 'a natural scheme findings of the joint pariiamentary com­ to buy test cricket. Special Mild which has Jack Thompson of things' is useful for people who want to mittee report on the price of household acting Macho and the slogan - MILD AS avoid the discussion of the structural role detergents in Australia. Advertising costs In America, MacDonald's spend S150 CAN BE YET TIIEY SATISFY ME). The of advertising in modern capitalist societies, account for 1,5% of Australia's Gross million on advertising. Their sopliisticated media messages are designed to saturate besl known examples of Brand Personality who don't want to discover the causes of Domestic Product; 10-15 per cent of the prime time television. Guided by a study are Benson and Hedges and Winfields. the advertising avalanche. retail sales of detergents were due to ad­ We have seen how advertising creates showing that in three quarters of the For many years Benson and Hedges was vertising costs; and in tlie eariy seventies, of the instances where a family decide to very successful with their "more British illusionary differences between basically when the typical Australian fimi was similar products. It does far more than eat out, the children choose the restaurant, than the British" appeal of Stuart Wagstaff. averaging 9 per cent net profit, Colgate MacDonald's ads appeal directly to The brand personality was; Man of the this: it ensures brand loyalty and the Palmolive averaged 3040 per cent profit. charging of excessive prices; it maintains children. MacDonalds TV commercials World, sophistication,class. Even the gold of One of the aims of oligopoly advertising create a whole range of cartoon fantasy the packet reinforced this image. Ultimately, oligopoly and leads to the concentration is to maximise sales by inducing multi brand of economic power and excessive profits; characters: Ronald MacDonald, tlie Ham- the image proved a weakness. Winfields purchase of what is essentially the same burglar, Mayor Cheese. Recent polls have produced a campaign that was a deliberate it is responsible for the condition of 'brain­ item. Under oligopoly brands proliferate. washing under freedom'. shown that 96 per cent of American children slam at Benson & Hedges. In laundry detergents, Unilever make can recognise Ronald MacDonald; only one A feature of modern capitalist economies As the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Omo, Rinso, Surf, Drive, Torrent, Lux, public figure ranks higher, Santa Clause. played the Winfields dieme, Paul Hogan, like Australia's is structural oligopoly: most Velvet, Persil and Sunliglit. Colgate produce To market their wares in Australia, the dressed in white tails and holding a packet consumer markets are dominated by about Fab, Ajax, Punch, Cold Power, and Spree. of Winfields strode in front of them and two or four fimis that control perhaps company got die Australian cricket team said "G'day viewers!". Everything about the 80 per cent of the market. Most brands of Tlie Government Analyst reported to the who are heroes of many children. ad. was class - except Hogan. Winfields cigarettes on the market are made by only ParHamentary Joint Committee: "having MacDonalds avoid nutirition in advertising provided a more identifiable image and had three finns; car manufacturing is dominated regard to the known formulation of because its food is not primarily responsible the satisfaction of seeing their share of the by only three firms, individual brands of laundry detergents for its success. The advertising centres market reach 20 per cent while B&H's Similary soap and detergent markets are there is generally little, if anything, to dis­ around gimmicks: buy a Big Mac and get was only 16 percent. dominated by two firms, Colgate Palmolive tinguish them in terms of result that might a free poster of the cricket teams; say this It was a classic demonstration of the old and Unilever. Between them they control be achieved in an average washing load." silly tongue twister and win a free cup of knee-in-the-Brand-lmage trick. 80 per cent of the detergent market. These Omo and Rinso are almost identical coke. firms engage in intensive advertising. The entry of MacDonalds into the Aust­ The marketing of image is more formulas with sliglit variations in the com­ OLIGOPOLY position of the blues and brighteners used. ralian market means the advertising war for important than the marketing of the fast foods is heating up. product. It's not hard to see why, flie Concern has in recent years been voiced Drive is much the same with the inclusion cigarette companies plow about 6 per cent with increasing frequency at the trend ofan oxygen bleach (18 per cent). Similariy of their profits back into advertising. They towards oligopoly and the threat which it Cold Power (apart from 3 per cent of the have to because, you see, smokers arc a poses to the maintainance of competitive "cold power" chemical) and Ajax (just add SOURCES dying breed. While the companies grow rich market structures. The position has already 7.5 per cent of an oxygen bleach) are very on the trade their customers don't do quite been reached where structural oligopoly similar to Fab. Soft soap hard seU: R. Walker, Marlin 1979. None of this is mentioned in the ads Adams with added Enzymes: P. Adams, so well. The more fortunate ones gel lung is the rule rather than the exception in Sun 1974. which often portray housewives discussing cancer. Far worse are the lingering diseases consumer goods industries. Pricing inter­ The great soap opera: A.J. Duggan, like emphesema, and the smokers who wind dependence is facilitated by the large market the differing qualities of these almost Melbourne Uni. Law Review, 1978. up as respiratory cripples, unable even to go shares enjoyed by the relatively small identical powders as seriously as if they Hamburger's last stand; P.B. Chowker in for a walk without overstraining their lungs numbers of sellers in the typical oligopoly. were discussmg nuclear war. They are Cosmos, Feb. 1980. and wheezing helplessly. For an oligopolist to lower his price is portrayed as fiercely loyal to their brand.

jiiiiiiitif*. .F€RTUR€. Subliminal Advertising

Is It possible that some of Australia's leading magazines and advertising companies are forcing you to see and read things that you don't want to? Is It possible that they are doing it without your knowledge, or consent? It appears that they are doing just this with a fairly old but effective method of mind mani­ pulation called subliminal perception. Subliminals are used and abused widely in theatre, magazines, paintings, television, radio and films. Most people are aware of the old American advertising not because of the car's assets but because of words trick where a single frame commercial is inserted into a embedded into the ad. These sexually suggestive words are movie or TV^ film. Since movie film moves at 24 frames per not read consciously, but nonetheless excite the reader via second, the mind is unaware that it has seen anything the subconscious. except the film on the screen. However, the subconscious Most magazine centrefolds of naked women are also mind registers what they eye picks up and stores this covered in obscene embeds. The embeds enhance the information. suggestivcness of the photos, adding to the readers' The technique, although supposedly outlawed in excitement. America, is still used widely and even blatantly. Australian The legal position concerning subliminal advertising in television audiences are familiar with extremely fast moving Australia is unclear. Tlierc is no record of legislation being advertisements where they may be up to four separate passed in this country to prevent subliminal images being images in a single frame. The subconscious mind is used in any media. The Trades Practices Act Section 52 overloaded and unable to accept all the images shown, but deals with false and misleading advertising, but it is unclear the eye picks up every image and transfers them to the how to classify subliminal messages. It is likely that this subconscious for sorting out. Thus an impression is made sort of thing could be classified as invasion of privacy, since on the viewers subconscious without conscious a person is forced to subconscious react to subliminal involvement, wliich might destroy the advertiser's advertising without consent. However, there are still no intentions. By playing straight to the more accepting privacy laws enacted in Australia, and the advertising subconscious, the ad and its message are less Ukely to be industries voluntary guidelines do not mention subliminal rejected and more likely to be acted upon. advertising. The use of subliminal suggestion seems to be widespread in the Australian print media. Usually embed images can be The problem with subliminal advertising is that no-one found in the advertising pages of glossy, smooth magazines. knows the extent of its effect. Is it possible tliat These magazines tend to aim at a specific audience, usually manipulation of shady areas of the subconscious could middle class people with middle to upper incomes. Products unleash reactions never intended? A particular danger might aimed at these consumers include expensive cars, famous occur if sexual subliminals were replaced by violent name clothes, swimming pools, high quality sound systems commands. Sexual instances of the word "rape" have been and electrical goods. found on nude photographs. Because the people who buy these products consider With so little known about the subject, the possibility themselves discerning and not easily manipulated, of violent subliminal suggestions implanted on the reading advertising agencies seem to have developed a strategy of population is cause for concern. • manipulating buyers' prejudices using subliminal suggestion. Therefore an ad for an expensive car impresses the reader -KJAZ PERRY

"Subliminal Perception" or "Unconscious Thresh­ statistically significant number of people. During one hold Perception" has been studied in psychology six-week test of the machine in a theatre, involving 45,699 for some time. Around 1917, Poetzle developed his patrons, messages were flashed on days: 'hungry? eat popcorn", and "drink Coco-Cola". During the six weeks, subliminal stimuli theories, from studying tachis- popcorn sales increased 57.7 per cent and Coca-Cola sales toscopic displays and hypnosis. He was the first 18.1 percent- scientist to discover the close relationship between Tachistoscopic techniques continue to be used. In a subliminal stimuli and post-hypnotic suggestion. recent case examined by the Federal Trade Commission in America, half a dozen frames in a child's ad called Husker The Poetzle Effect involves a delayed action, or as he Du were inserted with the command "get it!". As can be calls it, a "time clock" phenomenon. His studies revealed seen by the examples in this article, print subliminals are that subliminal perceptions could evoke dreams and actions in wide use. days, even weeks, after the original percept. Advertising's In the late fifties, subliminal advertising achieved notor­ Let your eyes concentrate momentarily on the third ice subliminal messages are designed to be stored in the uncon­ iety with tlie publication of Vance Packard's "The Hidden cube from the top. Without stretching your imagination scious till they can trigger programmed behaviour at the Persuaders". Partly as a result of this, several American beyond reasonable limits, can you see an E formed in the moment of purchase. This explains the pedophilia, the states began preparing legislation outlawing subliminal cube? Some interpret tlus first letter as an F. But, hypo- death heads, the "fucks" used in the subliminal messages. advertising. thetically, for Uie moment consider the letter an E. Do not They are deliberately shocking so they will be repressed The belief that subliminal advertising is banned is a read further unril the E is clearly established in your mind. into the subconscious, and shortcircuit the conscious necessaiy illusion. The people in the theatre experiment mind. The conscious mind makes judgements, values, had to believe that the desire for popcorn came from within The second ice cube from the top is also interesting. Let differentiates. The advertiser doesn't want to expose his them. It is a shocking experience to realise that the tech­ your mind relax and consider what letter might be in this product to the critical powers of the conscious mind. As niques used by the advertising industry are so powerful ice cube. Start at the top of the lime slice, letting your eyes well, resistance to advertising is marked in the conscious they can reach inside your head and alter behaviour without move left to the point of the slice, then down and right mind as a reaction to the advertising onslaught. conscious knowledge. Freedom is an illusion. Despite what following the lime pulp to about the midpoint of (he slice Of course, this isn't the only use: advertising is con­ they tell you, you don't make up your own mind, where a black line slants diagonally from the slice to the cerned with the creation of false wants. To do this it uses Another reason why people find it hard to believe left. You should now be at the bottom of the second ice sublimination, the process of redirecting drives and emot­ in subUminal advertising, is that they cannot accept the idea cube. Now retrace your movements. You should see outlined ions into more acceptable channels. Sexuality is a major of unconscious motivation. Western societies have a long the letter S. drive in humans. Our society is sexually repressive. One of lived bias towards rationality and the conscious mind, which the things advertising does is to re-channel the sex drive is why the concept of the unconscious at the turn of the Go to the fourth ice cube. Hold the page at arms length and into the more socially approved behaviour of consuming century aroused bitter controversy. Our conscious mind let your eyes move from the S to the- E and then to the products. corresponds in many ways with our self image. These drives fourth ice cube. You should see the X immediately, even There were many experiments in the fifties with sub­ and needs, those parts of our selves that are not compat­ though the figure is difficult to locate. Congratulations! liminal messages. The Tachistoscope is a fdm projector with ible with our self image are repressed into our unconsc­ You have seen your first subliminal. a high speed shutter which flashes messages every five ious. Sex is used in subliminal advertising because it is a (Reprinted from Subliminal Seduction by seconds at the speed of I /3IX)th of a second, was often used trigger word for the unconscious. Subliminal advertising Wilson Bryan Key) in such experiments. always luts at the level of repression, because people The tachistoscope was used to flash messages super­ are unable to tiiink, to rationalise about what they have imposed over motion pictures. The high speed messages repressed, because the repressed consists of memories, were invisible to the conscious mind, but planted messages feelings, perceptions with ^gh anxiety producuig potential. in the viewers' unconscious which were acted upon by a ^OHNJIGGINS skMPER 51 .UniV6RSITV. COMPUTER GAMES Last year the Computer Science Department of the University of Queensland was criticised for the financial burden it was imposing upon students. That difficulty was resolved, but now another problem is looming. ANNE JONES si oarv

Words appear on the screen of the com- Fortunately the problem was rapidly puter terminal '"job capacity exceeded". diffused. In second semester the Student They mean that the computer is fully Low Overhead Time Sharing Service occupied. For a student trying to meet (SLOTS) was introduced. This reduced the an assignment deadline, those words can cost of computing for students. Although mean failure. students must still operate wiUi the 'real In the past few years there have been a money' system, they are given priviledged variety of problems facing students in the treatment. SLOTS has been reviewed since Computer Science Department - from the its introduction to ensure smooth operation. problems of tackling a science that is But by the end of second semester 1979 growing probably faster than any other, to another problem was eclipsing money, that was the problem of time. having to pay for the use of the computer from Uieir own pockets. This year students The University Computer designated for must compete, not just for grades, but for student use, has 60 lines. That means that 60 precious computer time. terminals can operate at the same time. In 1964 the University of Queensland Fourteen of the lines are taken by opera(ors ordered a computer for (he purposes of in the Computer Centre, who keep the teaching. By (he time the computer was in Computer functioning, so 46 lines are avail­ full working order it was out of date. Since able for student use. If all 46 are being its installation, there have been huge used all the computer will do for an ad-' advancements in the development of com­ ditional user is state "job capacity puters and their use. exceeded." One student said that at the end The computer installation was upgraded of last semester he spent a whole day at a terminal waiting unsuccessfully for a line to in 1977. A new computer, the KL, was become vacant. added to the existing one, the KA. The students use the KA which has a con­ As assignment deadlines draw closer, siderably smaller capacity. The KL is used the opportunity to do important ground by the University administration and for work diminishes. The Computer Science Department won't give extensions into the lucrative outside work. sity Administration, in an attempt to get students getting enough time on the com­ The Computer Science Department is examination period. Many students are forced into 'cheating"; they collaborate, more money for the Computer Science puter, but some staff members seem to growing at an astonishing rate. Figures from Department. resent giving (utorial assistatice. the University's Department of Statistics borrow or sometimes steal each other's work. Last year five students were caught. Some siudents in the Department feel If you are studying a Computer Science for the first year introductory subject, they don't receive sympathetic treatment All five were siudents of CS222, Special subject in 1980, be prepared for difficulties CSIOO show a 59 pilrccnt growth in four from the staff. Not only do staff fail to Purpose language. Due to the structure of years (see table 1). understand the difficulties experienced by this course, there were four assignments Year Number of sstudentt s enrolled required. They were ali due on the same 1976 327 day al the end of second semester. On the 1977 365 due date many students discovered, to their, WHO GETS $1.00 OFF ALL LPS AND CASSETTES? 1978 446 dismay, tliat the deadline was 12 noon,' 1979 518 not Spm. 1980 552 (not official) One of the students caught 'cheating' feels that the action was wrong, but at the EVERYBODY/f :>ani';'. The University Administration does not time it seemed the only alternative. Faced limit the number of students enrolling in with a programme tliat wouldn't work, Computer Science. While regretting the lack minutes before the deadline, the student of quotas, the Head of the Computer submitted someone else's output. Tluee Science Department Dr. L.H. Reeker said other people (including its originator) that the growing importance of computer submitted the same output which displayed science makes quotas undesirable. And more an unusual 'variable'. The member of staff and more students from other faculties are marking the work recognised the unusual choosmg to study one or more Computer qualily repeated. Two other sludenis were Science subjects as tliey recognise (he also accused of cheating. Their work ac­ increasing significance of computers in cidentally landed together in the marking their own field. pile; they were identical. With such an alarming growth of student The Computer Science Department, numbers, coupled with an enormous ex­ according to one of the students involved, pansion in coinincrcial use of computers, summoned those under suspicion by letter. problems have arisen. For instance, in the The letter did not explain why they were last few years students have found Computer required, the students were merely ordered Science subjects expensive to undertake. to appear in the Deparlnienl on a certain The Prentice Computer Centre, vvhich date. The Department then conducted its controls the running of the computer, uses investigations, a 'real money' system. That is, all computer (Students in this situation are not obliged time costs money, so use of the computer and have the right to legal advice or the must be charged to an account. Ivich student assistance of a university counsellor). is given an account with a certain amount of After a browbeating from the Computer credit; but in the past the money has in­ Science Department, the five studenis were evitably run out, The situation has become required to appear before a University progressively worse as student numbers Disciplinary Board. During this further trial increased. In 1979 student credit ran out they were threatened with failure of all by the end of first semester, Tliis extreme subjects for the semester and suspension situation stimulated debate witiiin the from the University for a year. One of the Department and in the pages of Time Off students, represented by a QC, was dis­ (May 17 and 31,1979), missed; the other four received failures-for A 'Submission on Resource Allocation CS222 only. of the Prentice Computer Centre' prepared The students were lucky not to receive by members of the Computer Science harsher discipline. They 'cheated'. But there seems to be a certain injustice in TOOWONG Department Staff claimed that not only were students spending almost 5300,000 their situation, as they were not the only of their own money per year on computing, ones forced to these measures. but that ". . .students who spent the most The sludent who spoke to Semper feels MUSIC CENTRE personal money on computing gained the that they may have been made examples highest grades." of Not to other students, but to the Unlver­ 51 SHERWOOD ROAD, TOOWONG

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With a figure of nine per cent of Australian university graduates unemployed, the future looks bleak for many tertiary students, in this article KJAZ PERRY examines the graduate employment scene and finds it is even worse than the figures suggest.

A univcrsily education is not the guaran­ Melbourne had a firsl degree unemploy­ teed meal ticket it used to be. A recent ment rate of 14 percent. It has been sug­ survey by the Graduate Careers Council of gested that Melbourne University is Australia shows a startllngly high level of regarded as a more conservative and pres­ unemployment in some first degree graduate tigious campus, more likely to produce courses. malleable graduates readily suited to the The council surveyed the 1978 graduates requirements ofthe private sector. of 19 universities and 63 CAE's to find out The highest graduate unemployment what areas of study have the highest and rate came from Deakin University in lowest unemployment rates. The survey Victoria with 24.7 percent of first degree showed that nine percent of first degree graduates unemployed. It was preceded by university graduates were slill seeking their the new Flinders U. in Adelaide, with a first jobs six months after finishing ihcir 20.5 percent unemployment rate. Third courses. After the same period 12.8 percent highest was Brisbane's Griffith University of first degree and diploma college graduates with 19.6 percent of first degree graduates were still seeking work. unemployed. Several employers told According to the Graduate Careers Semper that the courses studied at Griffith Council this gap between universities and were too "airy-fairy and self-indulgent." CAE's is widening all the lime. A follow up Because the courses are not recognised as survey of university graduates out of work in established and more conservative in nature April showed that 62 percent of them had employers arc unwilling to put on people found work by September. However, only who claim a univcrsily degree in what one 44 percent of the unemployed college employer called "arcane disciplines." graduates had found work over the same Queensland Universities do not fare wel! period. when il conies lo employment of graduates. The Council classified those seeking As well as Griffith's dismal showing, James employment as either unemployed and Cook Univcrsily in Townsville has 17.6 looking for full time or part time work, or percent unemployment while Queensland those who already had part time or casual University fares a litde better with 10 per­ work and were looking for full time cent of first- degree graduates positions. Yet of those seeking full time unemployment. work seven percent of college graduates Queensland students share the problems had managed to find part time or casual of their interstate counterparts when it employment, while only 3.4 per cent of comes !o choosing courses with good em­ university graduates had managed to do so. ployment prospects. The surveyors questioned students At (he Uni. of Q. courses like social work concemed and suggested that university have an unemployment rate of 29.2 per­ graduates are more choosy about the work cent. Physical sciences were even worse they will accept and less willing to take work with a 59.1 percent unemployment rate for which they are over-quaUfied. of graduates seeking full time work. Probably the most significant aspect of Ilie therapies, sociology, earth science, the unemployment problem for university agricultural science and biological science graduates is the wide gap in employment students all found it very hard to find work, prospects between different subjects. particulariy in their fields of study. By The behavioural scientists fared worst contra.st, those doing medicine, denUstry, when it came to job prospects. Twenty law, pharmacy and accounting had the percent of social work graduates and 10 lowest unemployment rates. percent of sociology, psychologisls and Interestingly, the areas of study with other behavioural science graduates were sector for full time work. For students with their chosen field within six weeks of high unemployment rates are also those still unemployed at the end of 1979, 12 skills in mining fields, engineering, account­ becoming unemployed, is required to Uiat have the highest enrolments for post months after receiving their degrees. ancy and the like the problem may well be accept any work that the CES office finds graduate study, while those where employ­ By contrast, graduates of medicine, overcome. However, social workrs, psy­ for them. That means a graduate in ment is virtually assured have very low pharmacy, dentistry, accountancy and law chologists and sociologists are traditionally econoniics could end up working in a postgraduate enrolments. The unemploy­ • experienced almost no difficulty finding bakery. employed by government or quasi-govern­ ment rate for first degree graduates in jobs, hi 1979 there were less than S percent ment agencies, and will be less likely to Figures for graduate unemployment can humanities is 9.2 percent of all humanities of graduate doctors unemployed. get employment which suits their now be effectively disguised within other graduated. This is a staggering figure con­ One of the major reasons that CAE qualifications. employment statistics. Many graduates are sidering they are not eligible for CES figures are so high is the very high per­ fmding themselves in jobs which require benefits and arc not listed in unemploy­ centage of graduate teachers who arc unable a lower level of skill than the ones they ment figures, and yet more postgraduate to find work. The percentage of unemployed Even for those graduates whose skills have worked to achieve. SEMPER has been students arc not eligible for government teachers is increasing yeariy as teachers are suited to large scale employment by told of mathematics graduates driving cabs, assistance. colleges continue to accept students who the private sector, the growing unemploy­ and of a Ph.D. scientist who applied at a By contrast, there are almost no un­ cannot hope to be employed at the end of ment and inflation rates, accompanied by Brisbane higli school for the lab assistant's employed medical graduates, as most are their training. the faUurc of business confidence will mean job. Tlicsc disguised figures mean that absorbed into state run hospitals, country Male graduates found it easier to find that fewer jobs will be open to them, and graduate unemployment is probably worse hospitals, or private practice. Only 0.6 work than females at ail levels. Five percent even fewer are likely to be created in the than the figures now show. percent of firsl degree medical graduates of male first degree university graduates next decade. Many graduates arc already Strangely, the rate of first degree un­ enrol for further full time study. were unable to get jobs, while fenules with finding that their fields of expertise arc employment varies widely from canipus All of these statistics reflect an ongoing Uic same qualifications faced 6.7 percent almost useless to them when seeking em­ to campus. It seems that the longer a situation which shows little sign of unemployment. ployment. These people arc expected lo university has been established, the more improving. Students are often tempted to forget their qualifications to gel any kind respectable it becomes, and the more look for areas of study which seem to be PUBLIC SERVICE CEILINGS of job at all. successful its students arc in finding full fairly safe bels for future employment. With the govemment's commitment to Graduates are no longer given the option time work. This docs not mean that students However, the problems of graduate control the public sector, this traditional of waiting until jobs can be found to fit arc finding employment in their chosen unemployment arc cyclical. If there is a area of graduate employment wfll be more their qualifications. The social security field. shortage of teachers, engineers, economists difficult to enter. Public sendee ceilings department's Professional Employment According to the '79 survey, the Univer­ or whatever the call will go out for students' will make it less likely that gaps left by Office has recently been reorganised, and sity of Tasmania, had the lowest graduate to enrol in these subjects to meet the short­ "natural wastage", that is death, retircrocnl graduates must now register al their local unemployment rate in the country at 3.4 fall. But by the time their three, four or five etc., will be filled. For graduates, this means CES office as well as the optional PEO. percent. Melbourne U. follows at 5.6 per­ year course is over tJie shortfall has usually cent, while La Trobe Univcrsily also in that- they will, have to .look-to the private .A.graduate,unable.to Jind. cDiploymenl in (corjtlnued on next page) '

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(continued from previous page} terminals will make it unnecessary for sub­ police, fire services and non-teaching work working outside their discipline, while the editors to vet copy, and make it cheaper in the church. incident of medical, dental, pharmaceutical been filled and graduates find that their for News Limited to produce news. Many Sales and Marketing employ 3.1 percent and paramedical graduates working outside skills are not needed. students are taking up computer of first degree graduates. This includes their field of training is almost non-existent. The above scenario has occurred many programming courses at University in an import export, property development, Remember the high number of arts times in the past twenty years. In Some attempt to beat unemployment, but the supply and inventory control. Teaching at graduates who have opted for further full cases the problem comes about because of present five to ten percent unemployment all levels employs 14 percent. Finance time study because of employment the structure of the Australian economy difficulties as well as the unemployment and and employment market. It could be argued underemployment figures for Queensland that because the economy is based on supply university, it is likely that up to forty and demand, it is market oriented. The percent of first degree graduates are unable private sector will employ people according to find jobs which match the skills they to the demand they perceive in an area. At the Unl of Q. courses like social work acquired at university. If this is the case then Since demands are often created artificially have an unemployment rate of 29.2 per it may be necessary for the community to by advertising the whole basis for employing look at the aims of universities as they apply or not employing a group of people is often cent. Physical sciences were even worse to employment. Queensland University is a artificial. long established campus, teaching all the with a 59.1 per cent unemployment rate traditional courses of study the community AUTOMATION requires to supply itself with a group of of graduates seeking full time work. higlily trained employees. The charge of Since the Industrial Revolution, the ratbaggery, or the teaching of arcane dis­ economies of developed western societies ciplines cannot easily be levelled at the have become capital intensive. Machinery canipus. However, the employment and and technology have taken (lie place of rate among these graduates is not promising. employs another 11.4 percent. This includes underemployment rates remain higli, and many labour intensive tasks. As computer insurance underwriting, auditing, account­ will probably increase. technology has advanced (he prospects of UNDEREMPLOYMENT ing, taxation, investment advice, valuing and The concept of unemployment as some­ employmen( has decreased in all sec(ors. banking. Literary jobs, which includes thing that individuals bring on themselves Already process workers are being put out A recent Survey Report of Graduate library work, public relations, museum and does not seem valid for university graduates. of work at an alarming rate by sophisticated Destinations from Queensland University art gallery work, painting, art, sculpture, The motivation to work in professional machinery. Tlie large Redfern Mail exchange breaks down the areas in which graduates photography, advertising, radio/film/tv and full time employment is strong in university in Sydney will be almost completely auto­ who are working full time have found jobs. journalism work employ 1.9 'percent of students and their subsequent employment mated by 1985. The workers still employed The November 1978 report shows that 2.3 graduates. and poor treatment by governments and by Australia Post will be placed in smaller, percent of first degree graduates are working The higliest area of employment is the public cannot be justified. decentralised exchanges around the state. in unskilled jobs. Private Secretarial medical/dental and para medical studies Perhaps what is needed is a redefinition Since the Redfern branch of the Australian positions (mostly clerical work) account which account for 17.6 percent of first of the role of the university and a new Postal Workers Union is the most militant for IJ percent of graduates. Ofthese people degree graduates. attitude to unemployment, stressing system in the country, automation can even be seen 3.8 percent are humanities graduates and failure rather than individual fault. While as a political move on the part of Australia 4.8 percent are social work graduates, From Uiose figures it can be estimated that at least twenty percent of graduates economices remain capital rather than Post to weaken the Union and render A huge 8.2 percent of graduates are labour intensive, and while unemployed industrial action ineffective. are underemployed, and that a further ten employed in non specific management, tliis percent are unemployed. It is not possible are treated as dole bludgers, and not It has been argued by employers that the includes traineeships or full time work in to accurately estimate how many graduates educated to understand and use leisure, then introduction of computer technology will general and public seivice clerical positions, are employed in areas where their fields of the graduate unemployment problem, like eliminate jobs. Journalists for example, are. 'Trotective services" absorb one percent study were inappropriate, but generally other areas of unemployment may never threatened by the introduction of Video of graduates. The Survey classified these those employed in the humanities and be­ be adequately solved. Display Tenninals by News Limited. These jobs as including Uie armed services, the havioural sciences are far more likely to be -KJAZ PERRY Women Harassed on Campus On the night of the Sth February there was an attempted rate at knife­ cvhg ancient-fx/^T;^ point of a woman walking down to the Dutton Park Ferry. Several hours later there were two Instances of indecent exposure reported near the . . .of the mail slot clanked ominously, and Hartley Teakle Building. another disgusting bill fluttered to my office floor, followed closely by encyclopedia *189 in that There is no doubt about it. this campus is self consciousness in any situation - night set of 500 I never really wanted. The familiar red a dangerous place. For years now outside or day. invoice was pasted on the front. Disaster! Imagine people have been coming on to campus to Men may probably feel they play no part me, Cash Barrelhead, supersleuth, debt-ridden rape, assault, harrass and expose themselves in (his intimidation of women or no part in and plagued by diabolical bill collectors! to women. Hitchliikcrs arc well aware that limiting women's activities. this is a normal experience, but male If you stand by and watch physical students are also the perpetrators of tliis harassment of women or laugh at women's . . .Then I met a dynamite chick named Petty Cash, who also violence. paranoia - arising from fear of physical happened to work for our local gumshoe credit union. With Assaults on three women college students abuse, then look deeply into the reasons her tender held and understanding, I leaped from dreary last year made them so fearful of future women feel this way and you won't find poverty to where I am today, and believe me I learned a few attacks that they had nervous breakdowns the situation so funny. Why do you think things along the way. Like how to stay straight In this cold, and left university. the main refectory from 12 to 2 has a ratio hard \\orld of CashI The people at University Security and of 80-20 in favour of men. Yet women are Womens Rights have long been aware of half the student population. The reason is this situation. that men's behaviour and mentality in­ In an effort to make campus a safer timidates women to the point tliat Uiey are place, Security now provides an escort- too self conscious to go there and eat. service for women to the ferry and their If you can't understand that then look cars. Contact them on internal phone 3333 at your behaviour for once and you might or go to the J.D. Story building where start to understand what it is like to be they have their offices staffed 24 hours a a woman in a male dominated worid. day. Realise that women need to walk within Being a right-thinking sleuth {and Official statistics of assaults are grossly the precincts of the university and have a a soft touch for pert Petty, who put understated as few people report their right to do so in safety and without self me up to this) I've decMed to share experiences to official bodies. consciousness. a few of these pearls of financial Women's Rights a short while ago was Please report offences witnessed or wisdom with you this year. I'll show Qld. Universities part of a "Women Reclaim the Night - against yourselves to Security or Women's you how to avoid some of the Credit Union Ltd. finarKlal perils my clients have Safety is our Right" campaign, where we Ri^ts. Hawken Building encountered. And, how to keep those pointed out the injustice of the situation Please report suspicious behaviour. Men - Univer sity of Queensland unwanted encyclopedias from where women are not the perpetrators of St. I^cia. please examine your behaviour and dropping through YOUR mail slot. crime against themselves yet womeifare the recognise the implications of this charge. Ph: 377 2548 - 377 2399 ones who suffer the curfew on their ERICA SCHWARZ P.S. More in the next acthitios and constantly experience fear and Hi Issue of SEMPER 8 m-yi iTOvian Battler in a Brave New World An interview with DON CHIPF

Senator Donald Chipp is an enigma, a massive disadvantage from the time they're It is hard to believe that one who bom." now speaks so critically of Australian Chipp could not specify how the society and institutions, was ten times Democrats hoped lo help disadvantaged a Federal Government minister and children to reach tertiary institutions. But he did state Democrat policy of raising for 17 years a parliamentary member TEAS to 120% of the Henderson poverty of the conservative Liberal Party. line. Such a switch does not seem odd to The senator is critical of the way tertiary him. Since resigning from the Liberal institutions are run. "1 think the adniinis- Party in 1977, Don Chipp appears to tralion of tertiary institutions in tills have undergone a conversion akin to country is a scandal. As a fomier manage­ that of a born-again Christian. His ment consultant I tiiink literally millions of preachings on self-fulfillment and dollars are wasted on fcatherbedding loafers happiness, the leisure-oriented society in universities. Make the bastards work. and solar energy, remind one of that "I think the very way a university is other politician-cum-alternative life­ administered inevitably leads to inefficiency, with the administration of the university style protagonist, Dr. Jim Cairns. virtually run by a professorial board, and But unlike Cairns, Chipp is still professors are not notorious as good business in the political arena, and fighting managers. I've seen it happen, they do deals hard lo convince Australians that his with themselves. One professor wil! say to party, the Ausiralian Democrats, has another, at the professorial board next week, the only realistic approach to you support mc to gel a Chair of Accounting Australia's ills. in my Commerce Faculty, and III support you to get a Chair of something. While in Canberra recently Tim "I would like to see a mixture where Low questioned Don Chipp about his money spent on tertiary education goes to views and the Democrat's platform. the benefits of students and research. At Tired after a Democrat's policy- \ the momeni I'm not persuaded that it does. making conference, he spoke freely \ about a wide range of topics with a ' sincerity and energy rare among \ Canberra politicians. i '*The Liberals still talk this bidlshit Don Chipp is not optimistic about the about equality of i'uture."l see a million unemployed by 1982,"^atid that's a conservative estimate, opportunity in edu­ "There's nobody in Australia who's looking forward to the kind of life we'll cation — thereis no be living in 1990. Wliat kind of employ­ ment opportunities will there be? Will it such thing in be much the same as the momeni with the job market declining more and more Australia.^' because of computerisation and auto­ mation? Will we have a shorter working week? The one thing Australians can't do And I'd like to see universities run ad­ is handle leisure." ministratively by a board of businessmen, Chipp sees a leisure oriented society as but the difficulty would be, if you get that, inevitable-. He complains that people are how not to interfere with academic free­ nol being educated for the massively in­ dom. Now that's th hell of a question." creased leisure lime that will be suddenly Chipp said he would like (o see a system thrust upon them. of hurdles fo researchers instituted in Australia, similar to that in many overseas "We believe that the whole of the universities. Every two or three years a education policies being put forward are "We've lost all the decent values and finished up with bloody television, three researcher would have to show what re­ bandaids, sort of patching up. (The cars, wall to wall carpets, washing machines and so fucking what! We've had search had been done before receiving Democrats) arc looking to a situation where it." further funds. Tliis would be done not by people will be educated to do things like businessmen, he said, but by the researcher's building their own furniture at home, to questions about education his replies of our petroleum needs and would within peers. become interested and expert in gardening, referred to agriculture, solar energy, oil two years employ anotiier 150,000 human In the Medicine and Education faculties, and dressmaking, and these sorts of crafts, conspiracies and technological change. beings - and it would also stop this hideous the senator said he would like to see changes with the increased leisure reluming to home. "The Democrats vvould like lo see a race of people towards the cities . .. Maybe in the way students are selected. He stressed In the long term we can see that to be a massive increase in rural industry. There's we've got to look at the whole of our the importance of aptitude as opposed to compensation for any reduction in wages education policies and give them an examination results. (from a shorter working week). And this is agricultural, nol bias but increase the agri­ "Tm on record many tunes as castigating getting heavy, very heavy, but I just don't On university aca­ cultural (component)." Uie boards of medical schools for admitting believe that we can continue in this mad the kind of people ... the kind of pricks rush towards consumerism. demics — *^Make On tertiary education, Chipp is critical they allow in to do medical courses. It's "I'm very worried about the future of Governnient policies: "The Liberals still normally a fellow, because it's because all of a sudden .1 think it's going to the bastards work. '* talk this bullshit about equality of oppor­ discrimination against women, who collects come in a great bloody crashing blow around tunity in education - there's no such thing butterflies, plays no sport, takes our heads and well just say: 'Wliere are we?' in Australia, and the fact is for intellectual, photographs, and gets four As. That's We've lost all the decent values and finished 25 million hectares of arable land in environmental, family and other reasons normally the kind of jolly UtUe fellow up with bloody television, three cars, wall Australia which is now going to waste. It's tertiary education is just not available to we have as our family doctor that's admitted to wall carpets, washing machines, and so arable for wheat, sugar, cassava, sugar beet. all young Australian people. Too many of by medical schools. fucking what! We've had it." Now if that was used wc would be producing them can'i even pass 'niatric' because of "Whereas a person with lesser academic Chipp stresses long term planning and enough power alcohol from the products environmental problems, and I'm now qualifications, who might have all the love the need for education policies interrelated of those which we would use in Australia talking aboul the kids in western suburbs with other social policies. When asked which would produce something like 307o of Melbourne and Sydney who suffer from (contintiad on next page)

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(continued from previous pagel Chipp expects the next federal election •will be held late in the year "because, Afghanistan is going a litUe bad for the of his fellow human beings, and wannlh and big fellow." whatever, has just got no chance. And "I think it will be the traditional Liberal exactly the same would apply to teachers." time of the second week in December - Chipp favours fees for overseas students. two weeks before Christmas, when the dear He said Uiat the majority of sucli students Australian is only interested in one thing - were receiving assistance or subsidy from Father Christmas, holidays, good times. home, and had opportunities to study equal "Much as you might dislike Fraser and courses at home universities. And there is what the Liberals arc doing, as much as you no reciprocity given by overseas universities might say that Bill Hayden is a good, decent to Australian students abroad. and honourable man, Fraser is going to bolt Referring to fees for local students, Chipp it in. Nothing surer. And I ask myself why, said he and the Democrats are opposed to because can even any blue ribbon Liberal the idea, both for undergraduate and post­ give me one achievement that the Fraser graduate students. But he once favoured die government has had in four years, well 1 idea. can't think of one and I'm trying to be 'The figures I have seen have indicated fair." that since fees were abolished, it has not Chipp insists that after the election the meant that the kids from the lower socio­ Democrats in the senate will not be reminis­ economic groups have markedly increased cent of the now defunct Democratic Labor in going to tertiary education, and I was Party. attracted to the proposition that every "Look, you can call me a child molester, studen should play fees, but by giving an On the subject of drugs, Chipp spoke vinced that the long term effects were not womaniser, anything, and III forgive you. interest-free loan to the extent of the fees, angrily about heroin addiction as one of particulariy harmful. If legalised, it should But you liken me to the DLP and 111 sue to be repaid in increasing amounts, x years societies greatest evils. On marijuana, he said be grown only by governments and private you for every bloody cent you've got." after their graduation," he would favour legalisation only if con­ industries, not by businesses. a photos by Tim Low

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The RutomQticTriQl By IAN WATSON from the novel by ANTHONY BURGESS Directed by JOHN MILSON Designed by DAVID BELL

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The Russian invasion of Afghanistan has focused attention on Pakistan, which some observers see as the next target for Soviet aggression. The Pakistani U,S5.R. —.V government, Infamous for its human rights violations, may clamp down even .; \ CHINA further on civil liberties. BRETT DEBRITZ reports. I. / / t In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the ment at the University of Queensland said \ V AFGHANISTAN / / maximum penalty for a first offence theft "I can imagine that the decision to give aid 1 ,; is the amputation of the offender's right to Pakistan was a very hard one. The fact is (RAN hand. Adultery is punishable by stoning to well known (hat Pakistan does not comply v death. Floggings are common occurrence. with Western standards of human rights." He S { Amnesty International reports that at said that decisions like that to send aid were least 7,000 people are being held in Pakistani usually made in the defence of 'national ^\ PAKISTAN prisons for politically opposing the military interests'. INDIA regime. In October last year, the government "You have to have priorities in politics," headed by President Zia-ul-Haq announced he said. "If you can afford it, you assume a amendments to the nation's constitution posture where you say: Well, human rights that have further restricted civil liberties. come, let us say, before trade. But when you Under the amendments, Pakistani military have a choice between defending human court decisions have been declared final. rights and defending what you think are Defendants no longer have the right of your defence interests, then probably that the U.S. was supporting a Pakistan able to produce a bomb, everyone can do appeal to civil courts. Many have even been defence comes first." offensive against Afglianistan. In a speech that. But the problem then only starts, you refused the right of being defended by a According to Dr. Sundliaussen, the delivered to a district electorate in Moscow, have to have a delivery system and that's lawyer. Several prisoners sentenced to be current Zia-ul-Haq military regime was close Russian leader Leonid Brezhnev said what costs Uie real money. flogged have been denied protective kidney to collapse at the time of the Russian in­ "Washington also knows very well every­ "You can produce a nuclear bomb very shields, thus exposing them to permanent vasion of Afglianistan. The renewed U.S. thing about the intervention against cheaply, but , the delivery system, that 's damage. aid had helped to prop up the government. Afglianistan from Pakistani territory'. For it what costs the money and Uie Pakistanis Meanwhile, the United States government "For the regime in Pakistan, the invasion of is the Americans together wiUi the Chinese don't have the logistic economic backup to has announced its intention to renew Afghanistan was probably a godsend because and others who direct this intervention develop such a tiling, and no one is going military aid to the Pakistani government. it meant they got aid again." that has created a serious threat to the to give it to them." This move, in response to the Russian in­ Dr. Tom Poole from the History Depart­ Afglian revolution, and also to the security He added that the future of Pakistan vasion of Afghanistan, was made in spite of ment at the University of Queensland said of our southern border. appeared very bleak. He said that the these appalling abuses of human rights, and that the human rights situation in Pakistan original aim of separation from India, the the previous decision to deny military aid was likely to worsen following . the Some observers suggest that the Russians creation of an Islamic state, was unrealistic to to Pakistans' refusal to comply with the Afghanistan invasion. "Authoritarian govern­ may use this as an excuse to invade Pakistan. now that there were more Muslims in India nuclear non-proliferation treaty. ments tend to perceive external threats Consequently, Human Rights could be Uian Pakistan. "In Pakistan itself, you have President Zia has announced that he is within the framework of their internal further violated in a last desperate attempt whole regions which do not agree anymore further delaying the election which was security needs. Before turning their face to by the regime to hang ion to its power. to be part of Pakistan, you have an promised when his military regime came to meeting outside threats, they tend to put The Russian statement does not directiy enormous ethnic problem there. Tiiere are power. In a statement quoted in The their domestic house in order." indicate an invasion of Pakistan: quite a few people suggesting today that Guardian Weekly on January 27, General Dr. Sundhaussen said that one possible "The governnient of Afglianistan has Pakistan might just break up." Zia reinforced his stance on Islamic codes of cause of dissent would be if the Russians cleariy stated its intention to maintain Yet, the atrocities go on. punisliment. "Forget your Westem ideals decided to "stir up" die Baluchis in southern relations of peace and friendship with its and your Western standards of freedom and Pakistan. The Baluchis are a niinority ethnic neighbours, in particular, with Iran and Facts quoted in this article appear in the democracy , .. Islam says that if somebody group present in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Pakistan. Naturally, we welcome (he Amnesty International Report 1979 says something against your integrity, Iran. Were this the case, he said, the position of Afghanistan." (London, Amnesty Intemational against your religion, against your every­ Pakistani government would be faced with Dr. Sundhuassen said that, despite the Publications, 1979] and the Amnesty Inter­ thing - chop him. Teach him a lesson." a separatist challenge rather than minority fact that they had the nuclear bomb, the national Newsletter, IX, 12, December 1979. Now these Westem nations are dissent. No country in the world would Pakistanis were by no means a worid power. Quotations from President Zia appeared in clambering to support Zia's government. tolerate a separatist movement. "They're not even a regional power," he The Guardian Weekly Vol. 122 No. 5. Dr. UlfSundliaussen, lecturer in Govern- A recent USSR press release declared said. "They're much too poor. They may be Jan. 27.1980.

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On the 11th October 1970, a weekly newspaper was born, a paper that was to distinguish itself by its tastelessness and cheeky disrespect for Australian institutions. "The Sunday Review", later to become "Nation Review", was a bold innovation in Australian journalism, and became compulsory reading for trendy lefties of the early seventies. One time editor John Hepworth described it as a mixture of "politics, religion, art, literature, sociology, conservation, news behind the news, satirical comment and a slight touch of insanity". But it was much more than this. No other Australian paper of the day dared describe Prime Minister MacMahon as "Big Ears", nor to interview an abortionist and describe a cat eating the leftovers. Or to hide phalluses in cover graphics. Nation Review was a breath of fresh air for cynical young socialists, and a shock to the establishment, which constantly threatened its survival with millions of dollars in defamation writs. The "Ferret" survived however, and is alive today, although its future as a monthly magazine seems grim.

During its peak years Nation Review papers, particularly papers like ihe owed nuich of its success lo the vitriolic Melbourne Age, question whether they were political writings of Mungo McCallum, in fact being a bit loo 'namby pamby' and and to the poetic cartoons of Michael a bit too traditional bolh in what they said Leunig, Both men have long left the Review. and how they said il." In February TIM LOW interviewed Mungo said thai N.R. did nol have much Mungo in his small office in Parliament inlluence on llie public or on politics. "We liouse, Canberra. Mungo is now a free­ had a very loyal and devoted following fot lance political writer for the Financial most of the lime of Nation Review, par­ Review and National Times. He was ticularly in the early 70s in the lead up time lehictant to talk about the new Nation to the Wiillam Government which was our Review as he is pessimistic about its future. peak year for obviovis reasons. We could Me is a jovial man, and from the press bucket McMalion ruthlessly, we thouglit gallery in ihe House of Representatives, that was an excellent thing to do, I don't Ilis laughter sometimes can be heard above think il had terribly much inlluence - the Prime Minister's anli-Sosaet drone. people who read us usually agreed with Mungo reminisced about N.R. without what we were saying. romance or reverence. "Tlie driving force "Perhaps we reinforced their own beiiind Nation Review is Gordon Barton's views - we gave them a lol more in­ money. Nobody can really argue with that. formation to argue with that was useful Barton is one of these sort of weird eccentric to their own views." philanthropists. Nation Review is very much a hobby to him. He's had various hobbies Mungo said the N.R. journalists saw the at various times, most of which he's gotten paper as a beaut chance to be free from sick of sooner or later - the Australian editorial and managerial control, more so Democrats as they now are, previously the than as a veliicle for radical change. The Australian Reform Movement and the most important thing the paper did, he Australia Party was another one. Barton had said, was lo criticise the olhcr media. in mind a sort of magazine which would "We were able to write aboul the other be probably a little bit like the London media in a much more probing way than Spectator, certainly .something pretty re­ had ever been done before - papers like spectable that would be influential beyond the "Age" had what pretended to be a media its circulation. This was quite beyond the column but it wasn't really because it was resources which were able to be mustered so worried about offending olher papers, by the money Barton was prepared to spend or radio or television stations with wiiich on Nation Review." the "Age" was concerned. Nation Review Mungo said that N.R. made a profit in was in a uniqvie position in that it could photos by Tim Low chase the other media." 1972, in every other year it made a loss. Mungo was offered freelance work, with indeed we were larrikin drunks but we He guessed that Barton must have spent Mungo saw the 1972 federal election as a turning point for Nation Review. N.R. but whh a wife and four children to weren't really into macrobiotics and yoga aboul 5250,000 on the paper. and smoking a lot of dope, that was a "1 think we ran out of steam when the support this was insufficient. He got the "Afler a series of false starts with various generation later. We did smoke a bit of Wliitlam government got in. We were then freelance job of covering parliament for editors Nation Review was given into the the Financial Review, bul on the condition dope but mainly we were drunks." rather confused because we had seen as our hands of Richard Walsh, who was much thai he stop writing for N.R. He left, he Since January 1980. Nation Review main aim in 1971 and 72 getting rid of more interested in the Private Eye model said, without regrets. appeared as a monthly, glossy covered and than the Spectator model. He started to McMahon and getting Wliitlam in. Having stapled magazine. Il is receiving a mi.xed recruit various people around liim like done that we rather lost sense of purpose "I ihouglil [Nation Review] had run reaction from former "Ferret" readers. myself, Richard Beckett who wrote the Sam and direction for a while. We were in a oul of steam and was rather a tired paper. Mungo is critical. Orr food column, John Hepworth, difficult situation - if we didn't criticise 1 didn't like what happened to it when "It's a bit of a contradiction because cartoonists like Michael Leunig, Patrick and attack the Whitlam government we were Gold look il over. I think I described it the contents are not the glossy cover. The Cook, Peter Nicholson, and Ross Baler. seen as being sycophants and so on, if we as falling into the hands of sonic radical contents are not like the contents of the We've got a very good record I think of did we were seen as being traitors by a lot vegetarians. It just wasn't my sort of Bulletin but the glossy cover is presumably finding cartoonists. of our readers and it was rather uncomfort­ paper anymore but there is undoubtedly to make it look like the Bulletin and Time "We turned it into much more of a able a period in one sense. [In] a purely magazine or something. I'm not sure this is selfish sense from Nation Review's point of an audience for it - the flower children, larrikin paper, a paper that was not always and the hippy generation. It became based a good idea, I suppose if you're going to consciously trying to shock but was con­ view, we were really quite relieved when charge Sl,50 per issue you've got to dress Wliitlam went eventually, so we could get around lifestyle rather tlian around politics. sciously challenging the conventions of Politics is really my bag. it up a bit but I don't think they've really joumalism in that we refused to be limited back to the normal conservative bashing." worked out the formula that they're trying at ail by what was considered good taste "[In the earlier years] the people who to achieve and I'm not sure they've by the other papers. If Nation Review has Mungo left the Review in 1978. The paper was sold to Geoff Gold, who dis­ were running it were not fiower people, l^d any great influence in journalism over (continued on following pagel the years I suspect it was to make other missed all the permanent staff to cut costs. we might have been larrikin drunks, and

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f;i 14 .inT6RVI6UU. Words of Wizdom (THE THOUGHTS OF SHAMAN ALF) How long have you been in New Zealand? I do insist on colour and beauty in The University of NSW made history in 1969 when it became the first to sign up a government, but there isn't much colour or Well, it's just about seven years smce I resident Wizard. Ian Brackenbury Channel, an intelligent and excessively articulate Bachdor beauty in democracy, and even Jess in left Australia. At that time I was being of Arts from Leeds University, was paid $1500 to, in his own words, 'Sveave optimistic totaUtarian socialism. Take a look at trade offered to the National Gallery in Melbourne spells, put people and ideas together, and re-enchant the world." union leadership; if that's an example of as a work of art but that didn't seem to be Calling himself Grandalf, Wizard of Oz, Channel organised Action for Love and Freedom beauty then you have no taste. getting very far. I went to New Zealand and (ALF) meetings which attracted thousands of students. He ^offered his audiences I'm very proud of being a part of a established my position in Christchurch and 'Yunpower" and ''Alfpower" and regaled them with avalanches of jargon and patter which Great Tradition, the British People. I've pursued that since 1974. I've since werC! sometimes disturbing, often confusing, and almost always entertaining. Tradition is a very precious thhig, and moved out to other parts of NZ and I've Channel's ravii^s upset a few people. Rejecting the standard philosophies of Left/Right countries with the longest traditions usually got people now doing things in my name in politics, conservatism and apathy he fanatically pushed his own brand of surreal existential­ liave the most self-confidence. most parts ofthe country. ism. In 1974 he set off to convert the masses in New Zealand, and has since become some­ thing of an institution in Christchurch's City Square, snubbing his nose at council by^ws to You used to come into Gty Square in Disciples? become one of that city's major attractions. Qvistchurch dressed like John the Baptist. He returned to Australia earlier this year, and showed he had lost none of his verbal Sort of. They get called henchmen prowess. While hi Brisbane he granted an audience to Semper's MATT MAWSON: That's one of my favourites. I liad a because they appear to be insane; crazies poster made up of that one. It's my C of E with weird clothes on. Their main job is prophet. to show tliat they are top dogs in theh community. They announce themselves to Church of England prophet? That sounds be the Superior One, then they tackle like a contradiction in terms. anything that comes up against them. They work under me as the Grand Master. I only Yes, it is, of course, like most of my see them every couple of months but I send things. That's what's so exciting about it all. them occasional notes. There's a reason why the Qiurch doesn't want prophets; they rock the boat and Do you and your disciples have a serious disturb the priestly rackets. The Church has goal, or is it simply entertainment? now gone into psychology and sociology and I'm appalled to see people who are It's a mixture, really, but it would quaUfied in theology and cluistian pastoral probably be best to call it existential. We work doing second rate social science and don't wrhe books and talk about the pur- psychology. I spend most of my time 'pose of it ali. That would be rather point­ ridiculing these people, insulting and abusing less. I think it's inevitable today that any them and shouting at the cathedral. I purpose can be falsified and shown to be show them that I can be a better priest than nonsense. There isn't any point having any they could and how they've missed out on serious goal in life because to maintain it their whole vocation. you have to put your fingers hi your ears and become a proper idiot. There are a few of the oldtimers, who stick to the christian stuff because they Mine is a "Being-as-it's-own-Reward" haven't got sociology or psychology ex­ concept. I'm not worried about success perience. They're old fans of mine. So by or failure because it's not a key thing. It's putting on my prophet's costume and just that 1, and my followers, are fit for no ridiculing a Church which has lost all it's other way of life; this is what we're born holy mission, f wage my holy war. to be like. My followers find themselves cracking up and laughing when social decorum Can you see any justification for war, dictates that they shouldn't. They see the in it's usual sense? word "bullshit" written all around them in most things that are happening. If you be­ Personally I wouldn't murder or steal lieve it's all bullshit you have to become a because these tilings are extremely dis­ bullshit artist yourself. honourable but if it's a holy war, officially blessed by the Church, it's all right you see. It's essentially recognising that all people 1 don't see war as intrinsically evil. I deceive themselves and each other. We do sec violence as evil. It's quite obnoxious, it too, but we make a show out of it so that they're the two extremes and they usually is probably my main goal. Progress is the but if it's in a proper context, such as the it becomes aesthetic.^ Something that's do all the talking anyway. I encourage their most amazing belief, it's really odd. It only red Indians against the settlers, then it's aesthetic doesn't have to be true. It doesn't presence, make jokes at their expense, put comes up in people who believe in the justifiable. It depends on the situation. have to be sincere or have any purpose — them through mteUectual hoops, make them future. there's no purpose in music or literature, walk the path of fire and show that every­ Progress is destroying everything worth or if there is it's always boring propaganda Do you support the rebels in Afghanis­ thing they say is nonsense. It gets to the having in life, including life itself. I'm not tan? anyway, and I'm not interested in propa­ point where the area clears of these awful a conservationist, however. I'm a conser­ ganda. demagogues, or else they're so thick they vative, and conservation ofthe environment Well, they're not the rebels are they? become part of the show and I use them as is a small part of my programme. I believe h's just a Russian invasion, that's all it You seem to take great delight in en­ props. Then I start the old Boy Scout line in the preservation of intelligence in the comes down to. There's a lot of jargon couraging heckling. and reassure people that the old Victorian human species. Almost extinct now, 1 think. going on but it certainly isn't a "rebellion". way of life, while not perfect, remains And I don't like to see countries invading I try to get the heckling but it's very vastly superior to the alternatives of this You really believe in hereditary in­ other countries for the sake of 'liberation". difficult. century. If there's a better way than the telligence? That's pure hypocrisy and it's outrageous. Victorian way of life it will be one that I Is this form of feedback important? It's the basis of the best form of govern­ myself would like to mitiate. Do you hope to make any disciples in ment, if blended with talented shamans Brisbane? No, it isn't. The feedback can come from and manipulative words. expressions, there's no need for it to be in You come across as something of a I'd like to but it would be very difficult, verbal form. I can see it literally going on in royalist. Have you met any of the royal Do you believe in hereditary stupidity? the audience's eyes. If they're sparking away family? I'm only here for a few hours. I'll do one you can see them taking it all in and of my special speeches which may catch Yes, I do. There are some exceptions, on with someone. If it docs I'll be prepared enjoying it like little children. It's like story­ They know of our existence and they of comse. Occasionally there is a stupid to supply the materials. All they have to do telling. The audience is just soaking it all seem to like us but at the moment there's tribal chief or aristocrat. Occasionally there's up and you can see them twinkling away nothing we can do about it. We're going our a bright peasant. I'm a bright peasant myself is wave the flag and promote the cosmology there, then you know it's working. way and they're going theirs. The system of so I know it can happen. As a bright peasant and posters. They don't even have to know what it all means, just so long as they want I usually get hecklers but they're so royalty is my favourite form of authorUy. I would not want to see the end of a good to see my stuff multiply and other stuff stupid they don't know how stupid they are. It requires people telling lies. There's lots form of government, whereas if I was an shrink. The more I crush them the more they of showmanship in it, and I think it's an ambitious idiot I'd be saymg how bad it is bounce back. With most people it's one easier life. You can probably stop progress to have an old establishment. "Put me in, Promoting priests and gurus, or scientists small aushing and from then on they listen by usuig hereditary aristocracy plus exis­ folks, and I'll get rid of them for you. Ill and politicians is easy, but promoting a very carefully. There are a few people who tential theories which involve religion, be your new boss." All they ever do is wizard is a tricky business. It helps if you are fanatics, Jesus freaks and Marx freaks, science and philosophies. Stopping progress make life hard for themselves and others. can keep a straight face, n . ' ,/•.*. • ,'.PhiJto Mjitt Mawjon' T-n SEMPER 15 'fT*r'T-t"-K^

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In Carlo's Pizzeria, the snow on the Alps dink about dis." She gives me a stern look, It's an ad for margarine, 100% pure, the out the door. "They wouldn't remember in the AUtalia poster is something to look slams a fist into her hand indicating I could background is a homey kitchen with grandad who won the fifth at Randwick last at vk'hile you're waiting for your Vegc- get my head punched in. symboUzing the ojd lime naturalness of it Saturday. They wouldn't have a clue aboul tariana on a hot summer night. The snow all and a young boy symboUzing growing cultiu-al imperialism or multi-national looks beautiful against the blue sky. These fellows arc fat-faced, mid-thirties, AustraUan youth. domination. They're just as much victims droopy moustaches, their eyes sUghtly as your Third World peasant." Down the beach about an hour before, I'd glazed from the Fourex. "Look's like we've missed Kingswood "But they're the bastards who'U be wanting been watching the eastern sky over the sea Country." everyone to take up arms agains the Chinks while the sun set. As it grew darker, pink Carlo's looking at them with his large shy "It's not on for a bloody hour. We'll grab once capitalism has its coronary. They're clouds changed to blue and purple. That brown eyes. Saying nothing. They check a few bols and you can come over lo my the ones who'U be caUing people Uke me process used really have me enthraUcd. I out Christine, the bastards. One of them place, watch it there. Right. Make a night cowards. I'm not going lo fight for a countiy that lives Uke pigs." had faith that one could become that light, winks at her. She's cool. Used to it. of h." "Easy baby, you must be himgry." spread oneself thin across the sky. That "OK if we go over to the Gold Coast for a faith has gone. Now it takes a poster or a "What did Trish want? Some special thing?" beer. Be back in ten minutes," the postcard to interest me in nature's hues. "A Carlo special wadden it?" interpreter asks Carlo. I look back at the AUtalia snows. Cool off. Maybe a trip to southern Italy in the "Ah, ah, that be fourteen dolla seventy- The pizza comes. I'm glad. We'U be able to summer. They're aU shy boys. AU too embarrassed five." clear off before the Anzacs return, even to look at Carlo. It's as if they're on the more sozzled. Poor old Carlo. I bet he Christine's with me.at Carlo's. I'm patting verge of breaking out in hilarious laughter They aU go for the hip pocket, handing spends his time thinking about southern her foot under the table wkh my own. She and ridicule at Carlo's pooncy dago set-up. over twenties and fifties like they couldn't Italy. looks hungry. She's not vegetarian. You Only one of them can speak to him care less about them. The transaction over, could tell that as soon as you looked at her. directly. He's sort of the interpreter. they walk out. On the way back to the flat I notice a There's that rare-steak look jn her eye. newspaper poster with a couple of bikini-cd Carlo's working the pasta, darting about, "What aboul a shandy? Can you get one of "Tenna minutes," calls Carlo after ihem. women on it. The words "Official Approval: sprinkling mushroom pieces wkh the them," asks one of the boys. The message "When I sec blokes like that I'm em­ Bikini Girls Promote Aussie Image." grace of Da Vinci. is relayed to Carlo via the interpreter. barrassed to be Australian," I IcU Christine. "You're just elitist." "Look at that crap." Christine nods. In come three Australians. They strut round, "You got a shandy.. .ah Carlo?" "It's worse than that. It's racism. That race stubby-legged like front row forwards, "Shandy?" Non-plusscd. He smiles. The puts me off. It's dull and decadent." I press the button at the Ughts waiting for looking at the menu board. They're a bit interpreter turns away. "They're not aU bad. . .cute, al tunes." Walk. Getting impatient, I decided to run pissy. "Yeah, cute.. .1 read yesterday that across. I'm holding the pizza in my hand, "Look, there's no shandies, they're all up America, with 5% of the world's population hating the damn thing, hating it because of "Well, what'll we have?" there on the board." is on the receiving end of 70% of the world's it's white cardboard take-away box, and 'Three big ones." "Hey, there's a Four Seasons. There's your resources. And we're just a suburb of the it's nice n spicy hoi smell, hatmg it for its "Nah, nah, nah.. .wc won't need that shandy." USA. We're all part of that. The Third World cosmopoUtan convenience, its television many." "Okay, this'll be it. A Carlo Special," he's isn't going to take it forever. It makes me snackiness. I'm jealous of the satisfaction "Reckon wc will, there's the kids too you talking loud now, with the authority of want to shift to Africa, get among the some Zulu might have, shouldering a dead know." one who's made up his mind, "a shandy. .. Zulus, make friends there, keep myself fit, antelope after a day hunting. Halfway across "Ok, Ok, let's think about this." ah, I mean a Four Season's, a Pcppcrona..." rather than remain part of this puffy-faced the road, I fantasise about being struck by "Pepperoni," corrects Carlo. white culture. We'U have the fat sliced from a car. Obviously Deathwish stuff. I see "Dur," I say to Christine, "wokay, let's "Yeah, right, Pcpperone.. e and a..." our bones one of these days." myself sliding along the bilimicn, pieces of "A Funghi," breaks in one of his mates. "Surely it's not that bad," she says putting flesh cheese-grated off, still reaching to hold "Nah, nah, nah, not that one, a Napoleon." her hand on mme. onto the pizza which is sUding faster-away "I know I'm raving. But the figures them­ from me. Gerard Lee isa local freelance writer. In 1978 "NapoU," says Carlo. he publishod a collection ot short stories entitled "Yeah right." selves indicate the justice of it. There's got "PJeces for a Ghss Piano" (Uni. of Qld. Press). He repeats the order again only louder. to be some kind of karmic backlash." Christine caUs from her side of the road. He is now working on a novel set in present-day "What can you do for the Third World from "Don't hiirry. Kingswood Country doesn't Brisbane. One of them has turned on the television. here? It's not their fault," she says pointing start for half an hour."

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LIFE of BRIAN Ilf«^ Time: About a quarto- past A.D. Place: Just outside BetWehenii.

Three wise men move slowly along the horizon, mounted on camels of indeterminable intdligence. They enter the ^y^ *,^ "sleeping township and approach a lighted ^stable. Inskle, Mandy, her newborn son Brian, plus assorted goats and sheep, are posing for a Christmas card. The three strangers dismount and reverently enter the stable. Mandy awakens from her snoozing, sees tlie intruders, shrieks and falls,backwards off her bundle of straw. They try and explam the nature of their visit but their tales of foUowing a bright star from the east to pay homage to her brat con­ 'W^ vinces her that they are drunk. Nevertheless, the three wise men present the child with gold, frankincense and myrrh and, mission accomplished, depart. Mandy is left to contemplate her newfound wealth when the wise guys suddenly re-enter and, with a quickly mur­ mured "Sony, wrong stable!" grab the gifts and exit once agam. So begins Monty Python's Life of Brian.

1 won't bother re-iterating' tlie background of- Monty Montv Python's Life of Brian sends up the instjtutk>n (Front of Judea and the Romtrttic Interest in Brian's Ufe, tri^s •' Python. If the ,name conjhres dp imaged of serpents and war, of reUgion,, cultism, ipodern revolutronflries, science'-fictiori to' stir her fellow revolutwnaries into a rescue attempt. With j hefoes then Voii've. obyiouslv. spent, the last ,len years in ^ and speech impediments. The old Python magic is Will there, no lime to lose the Froni caU a meeting and amotion caUing deep, coma anc} have probably forgotten how to read anyway. ahhough the film does tend to drag a mite towaids the end. for iinmediate discussion onlthe sitiiatlon is passed. A lengthy ' After filming Monty Python and the^Holy Grail this band Thd I problem is, Life of Brian is based on a linear plot, debate foUdws du/ing whkh everyone agrees that actmns are of bizarre Iqonies 'dissolved temporarily while its' members whereas the genius of Monty Python humour was developed more important than wdrds. The irony of the situation would concentrated on individual projects. John Cleese started in in a TV series •vthere sketches chang«l every few minutes and probably be lost on-many of today's sdf-styled "radicals . the successfi|l Fawlty Towers television series and made no-one wis quite sure what the next step would be. t mrmiBiiii'jfiOfMfi^jM^ - arid based a TV special and LP around them. Michael PaUn h taU tower and lands in the cockpit of a passing space ship, j baseT»liffnCTfiTiTJ.-i.'ii;>.;n';w7»;

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refusal of an mdividual to subjugate herself MY BRILLIANT CAREER: Directed - to another person in marriage ("I can't by Gillian Armstrong and starring lose myself in someone else's life till I've Judy Davis and Sam Neill; Albert lived my own"), to social custom, to family, Cinema. to tradition. While the film may appear "feminist", "My Brilliant Career" is the story it is more universal in theme. The suf­ of a woman's determined growth focation of women in Uieh- social roles towards her physical, emotional (particularly in the Victorian period), al­ and artistic maturity. though no more destructive than the denial by men of their true selves, is perhaps more Although the film (Australia's official blatant in its manifestation. The apparent entry at last year's Cannes Film Festival) specificaUy "feminist" approach is thus lias been produced by an almost entirely more easily developed and understood than female crew and has strongly feminist a broad universal one. overtones, the strength of "My BrUliant Career" is to be found not so much In a Technically the film is hard to fault. single-minded approach to a cause but Judy Davis and Sam Neill, previously largely rather in its powerful empathy with a unknown actors, consistently excel in, at persojiality strugglmg to establish and times, very demanding roleS, while Wendy assert itself. Hughes, as the tragic yet quietly resigned abandoned Aunt Helen, and Patricia GiUian Armstrong's film, like Miles Kennedy, as Harry's blithe Aunt Gussie, Franlkin's scmi-autobiograpliical novel, are outstanding. begins and ends with the writing of the novel - a symbol of the protagonist's Director Gill Armstrong maintains firm journey to self-individuation. Within this control throughout and it is to her credit frame, the fUm pursues Sybylla's (Judy that the film, unlike the book, is rarely Davis) career as she moves from the didactic. comfortable poverty of her parent's home The photography, directed by Don through a series of domestic situations McAlpine, deserves considerable praise. ranging from the plusli luxury of Harry Images displaying an almost excessive Beecham's (Sam Neill) property lo the offering of visual delight softly follow misery of tlie Mc Swat's slab-built hovel, one another in a moving succession of and finally back home again (if not, one Monet-I&e impressionistic landscapes, feels, for long). sensitive portraints and opulent, even when Tlie film is set at the turn of this squalid, interiors. century but, although on one level h is a "My Brilliant Career" is a film that is congenial period piece in the fomi of a indeed brilliant in theme and technique, moving drama, its message is contemporary content and form, experience and e.x- in its political relevance. It is, however, pression. It deserves a high place among the a mistake to interpret the film along purely best films this country has produced. feminist lines. The point of the film is not "Women's lib"; rather it is the determined -MALCOLM WEBBER

LIFE'S A PIECE OF (bleep) WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT ....

Three out of four Brisbane commercial radio stations have decided that the Life of Brian song ^'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is too offensive to be played in its original form. Monumental Movies The song, written and sung by l£ric Idle, 4BC is the only station that plays the contains the lines "Life's a piece of siiit, original version of the song. Semper asked AT THE GAYTHORNE CINEMA FOR . MARCH , when you look at it". Radio station 4BK why. One staff member repUed "Gee, I Out here at the Gaythorne (only 9 minutes from city by car, 10 seconds by 747) we are into censors the word shit by "bleeping" it out. don't know." A more informed spokes­ movies. Not Films but movies! We have no genre prejudices, no pretensions to Kultchur, and, thanl< God. we haven't been discovered by the Trendies ... yet! ' Wlien asked why this was deemed neccessary, person said that he did not consider the song But what we do best is to screen the Right movies for the Right reasons at the Right prices. Also a 4BK spokesperson said, "To be totaUy to be offensive. He said that it was a happy Moccona coffee, mineral water, tonic, soda and fresh orange juice at the candy bar. Hovnever some­ honest, as far as our licence is concemed, we song and that not many people he had one has suggested that we are singularly lacking in advertising and promotion of what we do. Well, arc not allowed to (play) it ". played it to noticed the four letter word. here is a March sampler of our more esoteric (love thai wordt) offerings. Semper pointed out that rival station Tiiose who did, agreed with the statement 4BC played the song uncut. "Tlicy can do that Ufe, indeed, is a piece of shit. He said 2 King of Marvin whatever they want to," he replied. "They thai if he received any complaints, however, Gardens can stand on their heads on Ml. Cootlia if that the word would have to be removed. FIVE EASY PIECES they like. A spokesperson for 4IP said that the stat­ Bound for Shame MARCH 31-APRILZ "I'm being facetious, of course." ion* could not play the song. "We've just MARCH 24-26 NICHOLSON - RAFELSON / Glory INGMAR BERGMAN OOUBLEt Bob Rafelson directs The 4BK spokesperson said that Ihcy had edited it out because of our ownership - MARCH 17-19 DOUBLEI From the Swedish Jack Nicholson In the two From director Phillipe de Broca master of metaphysical cinema greatest performances of his to stick by "the rules". Both 4BC and 4IP which is the CathoUc Church basically", 61 DEAR IMSPECTOR (amo comes his two most perplexing career. MARVIN GARDENS is a comes his sublimely funny and revealing films. SHAME superb metaphor for the solagraphy of PERSONA schUophrenla. on the song. One said that the tribunal was list. This follows a recent change in ownership folk singer Woody Guthrie. Starring Max von Sydow and A tour de lorce! Starring Ihe usual gangi behind in their work and that the song and musical direction. Tlie version played by John carradlno. would probably be given a "B" classification. the station, Uke that of 4IP had the whole If such a classification were applied, it would Une dubbed over with words from other Adults $3 Students $2 4ZZZ Subscribers $1 be up to the station manager whether or parts ofthe song. ^ 7.30pm 464 SAMFORD RD. GAYTHORNE 3551474 not the song was played in its unadyltcrajcd. "form. •BRETTDEBRITZ- •* ll (-1'.' 22 rf .music.

The Saints, Brisbane's most illustrious rock group, except possibly for the Bee Gees, recently returned home. The band is very different from the one that slunk away in 1977. The line-up has changed so that there are only two of the original members. The original Saints formed about 1973. vocalist, and Ivor Hay the drummer, began The lads from Corinda were one of the the process of reforming. Now with Janine bands around town. At the time ttiey were Hall on bass, Cub Calloway and Barrington generally considered distasteful, although on guitars, a new Saints have emerged. They opinions have changed with hindsight. These could be considered naughty for using that days the Saints have a certain folk hero old name with such an altered lineup, but status. Their existence gives hope of what the heck. international stardom to Brisbane's young Their first gig in Brisbane was at lunch­ struggling rock bands. Many musicians are time at the end of February in the Garden careful to point out that they too vrere Point Rec. Club at QIT. Advertised largely raised in Corinda. Although (kirinda by word of mouth, they drew a large crowd boundaries seem to have stretched as far as of students and young punkers. In the light Indooroopilly, these days. friendly clubby atmosphere, the Saints One of Triple Zed's first functions played a magnificent set. featured the Saints at the University Gone is the sloppy bashing of the past, swimming pool. Apparently they lived up to the new Saints are a tight, yet exciting band. their reputation of mayhem and destruction. Chris Bailey joked along with the audience, When "I'm Stranded" was released on pouring Iwers for those down the front, their own Fatal label in June 1976, it bumming matches for cigarettes, only just received some airplay on Triple Zed. But it making it back to the mike to resume vocals. was apparently soon removed as the Saints The crowd vaguely shouted for the old were placed on the 'Hate List'. Station favourites, "Do 'Brisbane Security City' ".. Coordinator Haydn Thompson said "It was Bailey roared "No" in reply. A few of the because they were such a t)unch of cretins lads persistently begged for "Erotic Nar­ and arse-holes." cotic". But mostly we sat back and en­ The Saints left Bristane in 1977 for joyed the mix of old and new. "Down On Britain. The New Musical Express Book of The Waterfront" from the new EP, shone. Modern Music says "their dramatic debut And the follow up of "Dizzy Miss Li7ZY" single guaranteed them cult interest in was brilliant. They formed a neat com­ Britain." But rifts within the band, problems parison. The band is drawing on its past, with record companies and a certain 'punter but expanding and tightening its approach.- apathy' eventually ended the Saints. In During the encore a member of one of mid-1978 they split. One of their more Brisbane's groups wandered aaoss the front memorable final performances was on TV in of the stage. He shook Bailey's hand then The Saint'. kept walking. It's good to see them back. After more than a year Chris Bailey the -ANNE JONES "You Should See the Restof the Band"

DAVID BROMBERG TRIO: Mayne Hall. March 1st. Australian audiences recently had their first taste of 'cat music'. That's what Bathing Suit", "Reckless Abandon", "How through a variety of moods. The toe-tapping David Bromberg calls his own brand of music, a mixture of styles which is Late'll Ya Play 'Till" and his latest album. and hand-ctapping gave way to rapt attentnn when he de-celerated into some difficult to categorise except, perhaps, under the heading of Very Entertaining. "You Should See the Rest of the Band" Bromberg makes good use of a variety of wry emotional blues. Later the atmosphere instrumentation; brass, strings, keybaords, livened up again with some examples of Bromberg draws his influences from Musicology studies at Columbia University electric guitais ... his concert at Mayne what Bromberg is perhaps best known for; blues, country, jazz, folk ard classical music to play Greenwich Village coffee houses Hall, however, was entirely acoustic. quick-talking anecdotal songs, loaded with and the result is quite unique. His fluent during the folk boom of the mid-60's Accompanied by Dick Fegy (guitar, humour and drive along by raucous, and powerful lyrics and innovative musician­ Bromberg developed a reputation as a fiddle and mandolin) and Jim Weiser (guitar} raunchy backing. ship work very well in live concert session musician. He has payed on over 70 Bromberg hit the concert off with a Bromberg is a charismatic performer. situations, as the wildly enthusiastic re­ albums with such names as Bob Dylan, set of hot bluegrass. While performing some The give and take between himself and sponse from the aowd at Mayne Hall Bonnie Raitt, Tom Paxton and Ringo Starr very impressive fretboard maiwuvres he his audience is complete, spontaneous and proved. and has also released five albums in his boosted the good-time atmosphere with sincere. During his Brisbane show he won Bromberg is no stranger to recording own right. lots of witty patter. plenty of new fans, I'm one of them. studios however. After dropping out of his On "My Own House", "Bandit in a He then proceeded to take the audience -MATT MAWSON

SEMPER _mu5ic HEEDONg/E Art Rock makes a Comeback

Local band, HEEDON SYE, recently made a comeback to the local live ever, sound system problems, began to well received by a packed audience and a music scene after an absence of six months. MATT MAWSON spoke to the trouble the band. They lacked a fold- few weeks later played to an equally en­ band and compiled this profile: back system, which meant that individual thusiastic audience at the University of members could not hear the total band Queensland during Orientation Week. The "Art Rock" sounds like a contradiction play a couple of songs written by Andy sound and often had difficult coming in organisers were suitably impressed and have in terms. The concept of a fusion of good- Boys and quite a few written by Ian on cue or harmonising correctly. As well, asked the band to do another concert later time rock and roll and high-brow neo­ Belcher. the bassist left the band due to, (pardon this year. classical music is anathema to both rock One of lan's songs concerns the Spirit the cliche), "musical differences". He It will be a few months before Heedon and classical purists. The late sixties, how­ of Sound and the realm it rules over. The just wanted to get stoned and play good- Sye are prepared to take on regular work. ever, saw this genre take off in a big way; song has something of the epic proportions time rock and roll, whereas the rest of They are perfectionists. They feel that they bands such as Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd of Lord of the Rings, So far the band have the band were into more intense music. are still under-rehearsed and they still have churned out extended, complicated and rehearsed the first two parts, which together As a result of these factors the band some PA problems to iron out. introverted pieces of music which were last over half an hour. A third part has been withdrew from live performances. The next lapped up by lovers of psychedelia and the written but remains unrehearsed, and Ian few months saw them updating their PA The long term prospects look good. headphone set. intends to write a fourth. The Spirit is called system and rehearsing with new bassist, Heedon Sye are competent, conscientious Then came the Punk explosion of Heedon Sye, a name adopted by the band Ross Smith, and entertaining. Later this year they hope 76/77. Art Rock was rejected by a younger as its own. to organise their own concert , something audience as irrelevant and boring. Yet even Up to six months ago Heedon Sye were With most of the technical problems that hasn't been seen in Brisbane since though Punk attracted plenty of media enjoying a number of successful gigs around overcome, and Ross fully settled in, Heedon Wish put on their own shows at the Schonell attention, the established supergroups (Pink town at venues like Sallys, the Queen's Sye made their comeback in January at over four years ago. If that happens, it Floyd et al ) continued to release albums •Hotel, and Triple Zed Joint Efforts. How­ Rockys, a rock venue in the city. They were sholild be a concert worth catching. which were greeted with enthusiasm by large numbers of Art Rock fans. Supergroups aren't the only exponents of the genre, however. There are countless struggling bands whose members have regular daytime jobs and neither the money for recording sessions nor the time for extended tours. They are generally satisfied with playing small, local venues. Halfway through 1977 Brisbane musician Cameron Brown advertised for fellow musicians interested in performing "concert and album material". He had been writing bits of music since he was twelve and had a collection of original songs put together during a three year stint studying classical guitar and piano at Brisbane's Conservatorium of Music, Within a week of advertising he was joined by drummer Ian Belcher. However, it took six months,of trial and error before a satisfactory lineup was established. Singer Jasmine (Jazz) Mahon joined a month after ian, bassist Peter Blake two months later, and lead guitarist Andy Boys three months after that. During this time the bands' repertoire went through a number of re-arrang6ments as scores were re-written to suh the changing lineup. The band proved to be a fortunate blending of talents; the various members had relatively similar tastes in music and enough expertise to develop a reputation as Brisbane's best exponents of Art Rock. One of the notable features of the band is its almost totally original repertoire. Along with Cameron's compositions they

responsible for this move, it would have to THE STRANGLERS: The Raven on her two previous studio outings, but be Lindsay Buckingham. His tracks are the A nice piece of self plagiarism this. The in the live context they take on a whole most idiosyncratic but they still manage Stranglers have combined the rampant pop new feel. to retain that all important element of of "No More Heroes" with the oblique accessibility. This marriage is best demon­ experimentalism of "Black and White" strated by numbers such as "The Ledge" to make "The Raven" a feast of dark THE HUMAN LEAGUE: and "What Makes You Think Vou're The rifferama. As usual, Burnell's bass is mixed Reproduction One". Fleetwood Mac are now hip and about 10 decibels above the rest of the This is the age of the synthesizer (in case respectable. Can you dig it maaaaan? band, but the real surprise is Hugh you didn't know) and the League are the Cornwall's guitar work. His former wobbly 1980 pi-ototype. They have managed to THE REELS: The Reels miniscule sound has now matured into a develop a unique sound which only adds Another strange one. It would be all more forceful component. This particularly to the overall appeal of the album. Their too easy to put the Reels in tHe same shows m "Don't Bring Harry". There's not last single, "Empire State Human", should category as band 'such as Devo and XTC, all that many new ideas to be found on have been a smash, but the powers that be but the Reels are more than imitators of "The Raven", but there are some very fme obviously aren't of the same opinion. One a style; they .are the creators of their ovi'n modern pop moments. should also investigate their amazing ren­ sound. The keyboards are mixed very dition of the Righteous Brothers' "You've much up front while the drums sound like Lost That Loving Feelmg". Be the first on FLEET WOOD MAC: Tusk plastic ice cream cans. Admittedly there is KAJE BUSH: Live On Stage (EP) your block to get in to "Reproduction"; A very different Fleetwood Mac this. a bit ofa "samey" feel to a lot ofthe tracks, I've always had a soft spot for this you won't regret it. They have moved away from the perfectly but in small doses the Reels are a most damsel in distress. I know that it's terribly crafted West Coast pop of "Rumours" and pleasant prospect. Besides, anyone who untrendy, but how can one resist the cat- decided to flex their not inconsiderable NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY records their album in Dubbo can't be too on-heat vocal of "Wuthermg Heights"? musical muscle. If any one individual is bad. HORSE: Uve Rust The four tracks on this EP have aU appeared He may be old but he's certainly not

%4 hlMM'X music S^Af^ CRAOKLE, POP!! The Sounds of Electro-fock

The last few months of the 70's The invention of the Moog synthesizer in the mid-60's brought about a started working solo. He released "The gave some Indication of the music of minor revolution in the world of rock music. In this article TONY GILSON Pleasure Principle" in October of that the new decade. First of all we had reviews the history of electronic rock. year. M's "Pop Muzik" reaching the upper Predictably enough it was panned by regions of the charts worldwide. This . critics. Although reeking heavily of Bowie- was quickly followed by Gary clone overtones, repeated listening reveals Numan's Tubeway Army and the subtleties not initially obvious. Buggies. December 1979 and everybody wanted to know if video was going to kill the radio Yet these represent only the tip of the star. The Buggies released a cleverly crafted iceberg. little pop song that was so derivative of Electronics has its roots in the early Devo that it's not even faintly amusing. It 70's. The first indication came in early was the ultimate in producer-created 1972 with the release of the first Roxy electronic pop. Music album. With Brian Eno's synthesized 1979 was also interesting through the mayhem feeding greedily off Phil Manzanera's delightfully thin guitar, it was emergence of two lesser-recognised (but a totally unique sound. Eno has since gone still equally important) artists and their on to become a near-guru for many elect­ debut albums. From the U.K. came the ronic bands. Human League, hot on the heels of Bowie's praise. With their album "Reproduction" The ultimate synthesizer band would they Utilised a similar instrumentation haye to be Kraftwerk. Their early albums to Kraftwerk but showed greater pop consisted of slow, ponderous and often sensibilities and a more human approach indulgent instrumentals. They rose to world­ philes. is a great crime as it brought the musical to their craft. wide attention with their hit single (as the genius of Eno to the attention of a much cliche goes) "Autobahn" which still con­ One side consisted of short punchy Residents' sidekick Snakefinger also larger audience. Since leaving Roxy Music tained guitar and violin in the instrumen­ vignettes while the other was made up of released his first album "Chewing Hides in July 1973, this man has gone on to release tation. The turning point came with their four "environmental" pieces of music. A the Sound". Although a guitarist by trade, next album "Radio Activity". It was on this few months later Bowie confided to the a series of quite dazzling solo albums. Snakefinger achieves a thick fluid sound platter that they introduced the concepts press that he loved Kraftwerk and Eno Eno's finest moments are to be found on from his instrument that compliments of synthesized percussion (the precursor etc. etc. The rest is history. "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)", well the Residents' keyboard dominated of syn-drums and various electronic drum Twelve months later, Bowie and Eno released in 1974 and "Another Green backing. machines) and the vocoder vocal. This was released "Heroes" to unanimous praise World" which came out the following year. Of course, in discussing electronic music continued with "Trans-Europe Express" and from the world's rock press. The final "Tiger Mountain" cooks with a fiery energy in such a confined space it is impossible to taken to its logical conclusion on 'The Man album in the Bowie-Eno tryptich, "Lodger", and is laced with various oddball percussive discuss all practitioners of the art. Names Machine". was a disappointment, being unable to and vocal effects while "Another Green such as Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Neu, match the sheer brilliance of its pre­ World" sees Eno settling in to a more Pere Ubu, Popul Vah, Can, Michael Rother, On this album, all human elements were decessors. sombre low-key approach to his art. Yellow Magic Orchestra and scores of others eliminated. Five of the six tracks were It would bs fair to say that it was be­ While Kraftwerk, Eno and others were have made contributions to this sphere of vocoder vocals and the instrumentation cause of his involvement with Bowie that experimenting in this field in the early 70's, ..music but have never, and probably never consists entirely of electronic percussion Eno experienced an unprecedented increase the last two years have seen various groups will, achieve the recognition of the artists and keyboards. The best crystallisation of in popularity in the late 70's. Not that this building on the areas pioneered by these mentioned above. this ideal is to be found on 'The Robots", people as well as adding their own individual Whether or not the synthesizer takes the ultimate in robotoid disco chants. touches. over the world in the SO's, the hostile Kraftwerk, however, only represent one A SYNTHESIZED TOP 10 In mid-78 Devo released their first album reaction it garners from many rock en­ aspect of electronic rock. It is a many • r •• ' • ' produced, not surprisingly, by Eno. Devo thusiasts is an irrational attitude. Electronics faceted field which is near impossible to It Brian Eno: "Aether Green Workl" paralysed the critics. Their album was is neither the saviour nor the destroyer of examine in such short space. Perhaps it is 2. Kraftwerk: "The Man Mathlne" •nervous, jerky, idiosyncratic and very up music. It is merely another facet of a form a sweeping statement, but there is some 3. Tubeway Army: "Replicas" and down. The rock press were unable to of music that was born whan Elvis the Pelvis tmth in the idea that David Bowie was the 4. DavW Bowie: "Meroes" understand it so the album was first wiggled his hips. man responsible for popularising this form 5. BVian Eno: 'Taking Tiger Mountain immediately canned. Only in recent months One need only look at the charts over of music. , (By Strategy)" v have Devo finally been credited with their the last twelve months. Alongside Gary After leaving behind the white limey 6. Devo: "Q: Are We Not Man?" ^ true worth. Numan, M, and the Buggies one can find plastic funk of "Young Americans" and 7. Human League: "Reproduction" 1979 will probably go down as the year names such as the Police and the Boomtown "Station to Station" in 1976, Bowie moved 8., M: "New York, London.Taris. *• of Gary Numan, Originally working under Rats. No-one need fear the presence of to Berlin and began his dabblings in elect­ . Munich" the guise of Tubeway Army, he finally electronics. It's only music, after all. ronics. He latched onto Brian Eno and to­ 9. . Snakafinger: "Chewing Inkles the achieved recognition in mid-79 with the Have a listen . . . you might find yourself gether they produced "Low" (the first of. Sound" success of "Are 'Friends' Electric" from enjoying it. a three album set). This was released in' 10. Kraftwerk: "Trans-Europe Express" the band's second album "Replicas". After early 1977 and severely shook many Bowie- this he disbanded Tubeway Army and

boring. Neil Young seems to have under­ M: New York, London, Paris, Munich than the tlvee chord rjffmg of their older interest are the original versions of "Lovey gone a renaissance of late. He's now moved Electronic pop, yes, but not music songs. With this EP they have gone one step Dovey", "Matinee IdyU (129)" and on from the thick commercialism of "Come for robots. Robin Scott (who for all intents further. The two songwriters, Nick Cave "Spellbound". A Time" to "Rust Never Sleeps", which and purposes is M) does not only rely on and Rowland Howard, have constructed -TONYGILSON will ultimately be revUed as a latter seventies electronic instrumentation. He also utilises melody lines and chordal sequences which classic. "Live Rust" contains a good cross­ guitars, drums, bass, saxaphones and flutes. defy most conceptions. These five tracks cut of Young tracks, but with an obvious The album contams "Pop Musik" and the allow greater scope for the band to demon­ emphasis on his more recent material. While equally charming "Moonlight and Muzak" strate their musical prowess. Impressive is "I'm A Child", "The Needle and the Damage but I just can't seem to stop playing the Frippish guitar work of Rowland Done" and "Cinnamon Girl" shine, "Like "Cowboys and Indians" (which has to be Howard. The BND are soon off to the UK A Hurricane" glows m epic proportions. the next single). M are adding a new dimen­ which is their gain and our loss. The album is the soundtrack to the forth­ sion to the now jaded pop muzik format. coming movie, which should be essential SPLIT ENZ: The Beginning of the viewing. Enz BOYS NEXT DOOR: Hee Haw (EP) This is a collection of tapes recorded MENTAL AS ANYTHING: Get Wet The BND are a Melbourne combo who in 1975 before the band made their first This is pure unadulterated pop music. have made great advances throughout their journey across the Tasman. There are no It positively oozes witli jiooks and melodies short career. They first appeared on the liit singles to be found here, but that's not and every track on the'album is a positive "Lethal Weapons" compUation and have the purpose beliind this piece of vinyl. suigle. Ml songs are guaranteed to get the been the only band to survive that Suicide It is a reflective piece which allows the foot tapping and the ultimate singalong, debacle. Their first album was recorded in Frenz of the Enz to get a rare glimpse at "Get Wet" is a dance record which effective­ two sessions, six months apart. The the band's formative stages. The material is strong, with PhU Judd's quirky personality ly captures the effervescent charm of the difference in the material was striking. prominent on all tracks. Of particular Mentals on stage. The newer material was more adventurous

SEMPER t^5- FRSHIOn BEEFCAKE C^ PARADE

Tyrone is modelling a black shark­ skin shirt by Ranier and rrudiogany bathers by I Horn, Tyrone is 175 cm tall and his measurement is 15.09 cm. He loves disco dancing and meeting interesting people, and what a vivacious and im- rrmculately groomed specimen he is. He works out in the Sports Union gym and streaks off on a 8 km jog with his Doberman Slasher every moming. Tyrone uses the full range of Pierre Cardin products to nmke him­ self nice to be near and exotically lure the sirens of his choice. . . .

'Tyrone" was one of six contestants in a recent beauty/fashion parade. Tltc enter­ taining reversal of traditional beauty contests, where women arc paraded in a contest of physical attributes, was organised by the Womens' Rights Committee of the Uni of Qld Students Union. Held in the refectory during Orientation Week, the show attracted favourable response from the lunch-time crowd and photo Matt Mawson was featured in that evening's TV news. the parade; "Beauty contests reficct somc- conforms closest to a male defined image Tlic event was an entertaining way of A number pamphlet was handed out prior thiog of an ultimate in female object- of 'perfect womanhood'. They become meat putting across an important message. , to the parade which gave spectators a chance ideation. When women compete with each for inspection and visual sale. Their own The winner, incidentally, was a side of to win a night out with the judges choice. other in beauty parade line-ups, they vie for intruisic worth and dignity as individual beef The pamphlet explained the reasons behind only one 'distinction* - the one of who human beings is submerged and degrading." -MATT MAWSON

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Queensland Art Gallery, Sth floor, M.I.M. Building, Ann Street. The Thyssen-Bomemisza exhibition ui- Willem De Kooning unlike Pollock cludes 107 paintings which represent 100 maintains a dialogue witli visual reality. years of Modem European and American "Abstraction" expresses tlie tension between art. the beautiful and the ugly, order and chaos, The collection is not as unpressive as the reality and emotion, movement and stUI- . fanfare mi^t suggest. It is true that it is a ness which is characteristic of De Kooning's ivery significant exhibition by Australian personal genius. f standards. This is not meant to be a Of course there are other paintings in the i criticism; it is simply a matter of too little, exhibition which attain this level of artistic [ too late. achievement and integrity. These include I Australia and especially Queensland is a Francis Bacon's "Portrait of George Dyer i victim of profound cultural deprivation. in a Mirror" which is disturbing and This is witnessed by the gawkish public enigmatic. This group also includes the curiosity generated by every major ex­ Impressionist paintings especiaUy Renoir's liibition that floats to our shores. It is not "Woman with a Parasol", a slice of old worid surprising then that the Thyssen- charm, which is a fine example of the aims Bomemisza CoUection has been the most and ideals of French Impressionism. This popular exhibition ever shown in Brisbane. painting alone reaffinns the superior place Tiiere are a number of specific dis­ traditionally afforded to painting within the appointments in this exhibition. Monet's arts. "Ice Breaking Up at VetlieuU" represents a The criticisms levelled at this exhibition relatively obscure period in his artistic should be seen within the proper development. This painting belongs to a perspective. The Thyssen:Borneniisza period whicli precedes the abstiactionist collection refiects the individual tastes of wateriUics series and follows the luminosity the Baron and his late father. Although it of Ills earlier work.. represents an extensive survey of Modern A similar criticism can be applied to Art it is not meant to be artistically re­ Bonnard's "Luncheon under the Lamp". presentational or historically definitive. This painting is bland and monotonal in Also it is a collection of paintings which comparison to his latter masterpieces. It were never meant to represent the higliest is a misrepresentation of the exuberant and levels of ariistic and intellectual integrity. listening quality of Bonnard's famous Tliis is expressed quite clearly in the intimate domestic scenes. This criticism of foreword to the catalogue: "Baron Hans misrepresentation is not isolated and can be Heinrich Thyssen-Bomemisza has learned to levelled at a large number of paintings in the appreciate modern art not through books exliibition. but by looking closely at the works them­ Fauvism is represented by two paintings. selves . . .".Tliis rather euphemistic state­ Paintings by Henri Matisse can only be seen ment throws light on the special character to be conspicuous by their absence. A survey of this collection. of Fauvism or Modern Art for that matter is Despite these shortcomings the Theysscn- incomplete without Matisse. His treatment Bornemisza collection is a rare cultural of colour and composition which was based event. Its breadth of scope is somewhat on. an instinctive response is intrinsic to an staggering. Il would therefore appeal to a understanding of the development of variety of personal tastes. The collection modern art. PORTRAIT DE GEORGE DYER DAN UN MIROIR by Francis Bacon, 1958. offers an historical overview of the develop­ The early American paintings are con­ mental patterns ofa century of modern art. Comparisons of these developments are in­ servative and lacklustre. Tlie parochial and visual impact. "Composition 11" American realism represented in this ex­ Abstract Expressionism refiects a tentative evitable. and inarticulate response to European is the work of an artistic giant who through liibition is a non-event. These paintings are his own sense of personal conviction re­ Teachers, students, artists and those interesting because tliey provide a quaint Modernism. seriously interested in art should not miss Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Ex­ defined the boundaries of modern art. In sociological dimension to the development comparison the eariier American Realism this uncommon opportunity. The of American art. This strong reactionary pressionists arc weU represented in this educational materials which accompany this exhibition. Even though Jackson Pollock's appears trammelled by a Renaissance element within American Art continued tradition which had become impotent and exhibition are excellent. The exhibition for almost half a century. American Art "Composition 11" is small in scale this will be on display untU 30 March. surprisingly does not reduce its emotional absurdly inappropriate. which precedes Jackson Pollock and -JAN SMITH

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Brisbane will soon see a re-incarnation of the great traditions of the Frost Report, The Goodies and Monty Python's Flying Circus. This wUl be in the fonn of a revue by and the Monty Python's Flying Curcus the 'Cambridge Footlights' called "An were bom. Evening Without . .'." which wiU relive the Using the fuU potential of television great moments of those three shows. they launched into animation at the time The Cambridge Footlights is the when tiie Beatles "Yellow Submarine" Cambridge University Revift Club where film was bora. many of the English comedy stars first trod The 'Cambridge Footlights'have captured the boards. Some of the bright 'footlights' the best moments of the early Frost and the who shone in the past 20 years include latest of Monty Python to present a collage Jimmy Edwards and his moustache, Peter of British comedy. Cook (but not Dudley Moore), John Cleese, But it's more than a look back show. Eleanor Bron, Jonathan Miller, Tim Brooke- Political and social satire is here to stay Taylor, BiU Oddie, Graham Chapman, Eric despite the heavy influence on Australian Idle, Qive James, Julie Covington and wait culture of the deadpan.American situation for it - Germaine Greer! comedies. This great insUtution has recentiy spawned a fertile nest of young blood who, The current members of the 'Footiight' many people in Britain now say, wUl reach touring team are already making their mark. the same heiglits. The show in Australia features Qive Frost rocked the television world in the Anderson (Footlights President 1975), a 1960's when he spurned the light variety freelance writer and somehow also a shows made to a strict formula of off jokes, banister; Martin Bergman (President 1978) bad signers and boring interviews. who is also a writer and recently hosted his Frost also rejected the heavy style ofthe own BBC TV chat show; Peter Finchman BBC current affairs shows like "This Is The (Musical Director 1977) who has dhected Week That Was". the music for several shows, including Instead he came up with a new formula Godspell (I hope that doesn't put a sober of telling the news in jokes and skits sending bent on future British comedy); Rory up traditional social mores and reverent McGrath (Vice-President 1978) who has politicians. written for Frankie Howerd, the Two Frost eventually took the higli road into Ronnies, John Cleese and Peter Cook; and heavy journalism culminating in his famous Jimmy MulvOle (President 1977) who is a interviews with Richard Millhouse Nixon BBC Radio writer/producer. These young and Henry Kissinger. prodigies will influence the style of comedy But the others in the original Frost en­ probably untU tiic year 2001 or longer. tourage like John Cleese, Eric Idle, Tim For a night of laughs, nostal^a and Brooke-Taylor and BUl Oddie loved the preview to the future the Cambridge satire, with the result that The Goodies Footlights should not be missed. The Cambridge Footlights PRESENT AN EVENING WITHOUT...

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This book skilfully depicts Bruce out as an album of real importance, "It was a record that took music hom the hands Springsteen's career against the back­ of craftsmen and profiteers and gave it back ground of rock in the Sixties and the to the sort of people who loved it because Seventies, "as its innocence curdled they lived it", Marsh asserts. Five years later into cynicism." the album can be played without cringing at the thought "Did 1 ever listen to that?" The details of Springsteen's career arc , Marsh's book chronicles how Spring­ woven into an argument that "Bruce steen's career was delayed as injunctions Springsteen is the last of rock's great flew and deals were done. Marsh is at his innocents." Despite some lapses into over­ best with an account of how "Newsweek" statement and unsuccessful attempts to portray Springsteen as the saviour of rock, and "Time" jostled to put out cover stories the book is worth the money. on Springsteen in the same week. Both magazines decided to do "an inside story Marsh takes the time to explain Spring­ on how the mu^ic industry creates a star." steen's origins in New Jersey. As critic- Unfortunately the had chosen the one star producer Jon Landau was to observe, "For the music industry had not created - twelve years Bruce had the time to learn to the one performer of the last i\vt years who play every kind of rock and roll. He has far more depth than most rock artists because had not allowed himself to be packaged. he really had roots in a place - coastal The greatest weakness of Marsh's book jersey, where no record scouts ever vv^ent." is that it fails to begin to explore the In 1972 Springsteen auditioned with the poUtical connotations of Springsteen's villain of the book, Mike Appel. Two days works. While the theincs of fear, isolation, later he signed a long-term management and explohaiion can be analysed as purely contract on an automobile hood in the personal statements, their poUtical context unlighted parking lot of a bar. shoukl not be ignored. While the political The liistory of Springsteen's first two message of his songs is understated, it is albums is rendered in detail. Marsh is even ever-present. able to suggest that these albums had some Marsh's book tries too hard to present major flaws, but never surrenders his Springsteen as the "Last Innocent" of rock. position as cheer-leader for Springsteen. Springsteen isn't innocent, but then he isn't jWith no prospects of a commercial single a pretender either. His songs .show an under­ ;'(because no song was less than 4'/4 minutes) standing of what it is to be raised in the Springsteen became a major liability at working class. CBS until he was 'discovered' by Jon Landau, the most influential rock critic in Marsh's book is a valuable account of the US. Landau chanced liis reputation whh Springsteen's career for those wiio have a glowing review of Springsteen, the burden little faith in "Time" cover stories or in of which both men would have to carry for record company promotions. The book years to come. BORN TO RUN - THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN STORY: by Dave Marsh, suffers from occasional overstatements and The chapters which deal whh this period Angus and Robertson, Softcover, S9.95,176 pages, illustrated. a failure to discuss Springsteen's obsession of Springsteen's career build an anticipation with automobile imagery. Thankfully that Springsteen is going to overcome his fundamental Presley and Beatles recordings beneath the slick self-justification is a ca.sc Marsh doesn't pretend that Springsteen is teclmical and psychological problems and had done. Bul it does represent the cul­ weli-argued. the new Dylan, but simply explains the win the crown that Landau prematurely mination of twenty years of rock and roil, VVhen one recalls some of the over­ story of someone who has managed to gain placed upon his head. And Marsh doesn't and when it was released in October 1975, produced, egotistical hunks of nothing, the control of his life and whose music invokes let us down. In a magnificent example of it was the strongest possible testimony to folksy singer-songwriters, and the talent­ us to do the same, overstatement he suggests: " 'Born to Run' the continued vitahty of that tradition." less decibel-kings who were parading as -PETER APPLEGARTH makes no styUstic breakthroughs, as the Hence Marsh justifies writing his book, but rock stars in 1975, 'Born to Run' stands

DREAMING OF BABYLON: by Richard Brautigan, Picador paperback, S4.95 scientist is attempting to take over the known vvorld by foul and devious means. clamouring for just one touch, you're Meanwhile, back in San Francisco, he is I suppose most people do their offered a job - a beautiful, beer-lmngry own version of dreaming of Babylon. brushing the confetti from your latest ticker-tape parade off your suit ... and blonde wants him to remove the body of You know, you're sitting in the library, just as suddenly you're back in the Ubrary a murdered prostitute from the morgue researching that important assignment that's discovering you've defaced another library and deliver it to a cemetery. He takes the due on Friday; suddenly, you find you've book and have torn five pages of hard job, but keeps dreaming of Babylon . . . already got your results back - 7s, of course research into shreds. One of the editors of our magazine tells - your assignment is being published in an The hero of Brautigan's book is C. Card, me that this book is not up to Brautigan's international journal, you've won the pools an unemployed San Francisco private eye usual standard. I can't comment on that; and rode the horse that won the last with no money, no buUets, and no clients I'd never heard of him before this book. Melbourne Cup, you're on the verge of since a car broke both his legs. He dreams of "Dreaming of Babylon" is not, by any discovering the cure for cancer, you have Babylon, 596 B.C., where he is a baseball means, a classic novel. a national top-rating TV programme, the hero, the owner of Babylon's biggest It's mildly imaginative, but only about bloodless coup you're organising is running detective agency, has a beautiful assistant as funny as any other formula American according to plan, you have countless and, under the name Smith Smith, is comedy, Read, laugh, forget. attractive people of your sexual preference currently working on a case where a mad -NELLETYCHO

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR: by John Parrish, Fontana paperback, the accepted military way of stating the days casvalties - twelve serious stretcher S3.50. a team of doctors, not the average military cases, twenty walking wounded, five dead. The cover of this paperback claims grunt!); his work patching bodies in a That day must have been fairly light. that it is "probably the most powerful makesliift hospital far from the fiont lines; The book is weU written, but is not easy and haunting book yet to come out of the frantic last-chance living of R&R in reading. It is ideal for people who want to Vietnam." That claim is probably Bangkok; emergency treating in the slush make themselves ill, or for veterans who correct. of the battleground itself. want to revive old nightmares. Dr. John Parrish was drafted in 1967, Parrish deliberately understates his Mass circulation of this book would and spent the year 1967-68 in various subject. There is no need to exaggerate for certainly do damage to any future govern­ medical units in Vietnam. His book detaUs the sake of effect - the war was its own ments' plan lo re-introduce conscription. that year: the gutsy John Wayne/Marine exaggeration. By all means read il, but be prepared; it is type training that emphasised kUling and The American edition of this book is much more than just an enjoyable way to mindless patriotism and left no time to called "12, 20 & 5: A Doctor's Year In spend a lazy Sunday aftemoon. ask why the war was being fought (this for Vietnam". Those three numbers represent -NELLE TYCHO

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