EUGENE O'WHATSHISNAME BACK IN Rightwingers at U.Q.U. Beaten Again
(XniTENTS The cenlreJeft incumbents, calling themselves the 1 Active Student Team, romped home in the recent Univer sity of Queensland Union elections. Allegations of fmancial mismanagement by the main opposing ticket, the Moderate Student Alliance (or, as it became known, the Moderately Stupid Alliance), failed to win strong voting support from the students, their biggest problems GRAFFITI LIVES OK 3 being a lack of atfractive executive candidates and their the sidcwaU humorists get a Uttle exposure of their own production of some farcical voting propaganda riddled OTHER SOCIETIES 4 with errors. The Moderate Student Alliance also suffered a leading social commentator penetrates the myths from a right-wing image and the nast>' taint of the surrounding aid to impovcrislicd nations National Civic Council, The election was similar House Committee: L. BANANA RADIO 5 to last year's, witli Eugene Bradley, D. Phillips, R. two looks at Triple Zed O'Sullivan standing for a Jeeves, P. Steinheuer, E. second term as President, Fried, M. Podobnik. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE RED PERIL? 6 and John Herzog organising an individual view of the "lefl" from inside 4ZZZ Directors: L the right-wingers. Bradley, I. Dearden, E. GENETIC INTELLIGENCE 7 The students of U.Q.U. O'Sullivan, P. Steinheuer. some of the popular misconceptions/deceptions exploded also voted to secede from Anne Warner was elected ..A v^^^^^^^^^Hj the Australian Union of unopposed as Union Sec ^^*" » IRAN: US TAKEOVER TARGET? 10 Students in a referendum retary following the late could Khomeini's Iran be invaded? brought on by petitions withdrawal of John Herzog. from the right wing. 1142 DRUGS U voted for secession and 858 a 12 page Uflout that examines drugs from aU sides. against. Satire, cartoons, anecdotes and straight information PRESIDENT: about INTO THE SOS WITH MI-SEX 23 2,000 voted, Eugene O'Sul OUT an Oz band and its future livan polled 934 primary votes, then Leo Bradley REVIEWS 24 610; several "silly or NOW four pages on music, plays and movies informal party" candidates The AUS polled high. Homosexual DR. WHO??? 29 TREASURER: Hugh Samuel de Joggins (famous philosopher) writuig on Dalcklical MateriaUsm Zillman (922) defeated Research Project BRISBANE'S LIVING GUIDE 30 John Drew (765). your guide to food, venues and bargains GENERAL VICE PRESI DENT: won by this year's compiled by Treasurer David Phillips on preferences over R. Jeeves. MANDA EDUCATION VICE BIL€5 PRESIDENT: Won by Keith Horsley (967) defeating A. Walker (752) EXTERNAL VICE tv. DINNE:R PRESIDENT: C. Wathelet (82) beat M. Trigger (44) TtK Australitn Union of Students hts retMrched and compiled a homo UNION NEWSPAPER: sexual rtsearch project. The proiect documents discriminilion igtintt gey never-to-be-seen again studentt ind staff in Auttralian tertiary inttitutes, presents student attitudes ond experianctt, outlines work done by ttudent uniont on homotexuil rightt cartoon posters higMited and gi\fet concrete advice about bow to start a gay group on campus. Catt is this part of the campaign. SI.OO. Send order and money to AU.s., 97 Drummond Street. Carlton. Tim Low and Kjaz Perry Vic. 30S3. (1159) easily defeated Paul Australian Union of Students Kelly and Pat Byrne for the editorship (675). Apart from the Residency, this Confidential Typing position seemed to create most interest. all facets - assignments etc. OTHER RESULTS: Arts F/T reps.: V.Webb. prompt service P. Kelly, K. MacPherson, M. Roche. Phone Miss L Benns] 52 7724 Arts P/T reps: E. Til- brook, P. Byrne, S. Yarrow, R. Doolan, B. Harding, B. Raddatz PREGNANCY Commerce & Economics F/T reps: J. Wilson UovT Engineering reps: V. Brett, M. Passlow. Law rep: P. 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The addition of "OK" to slogans Texans are living proof that first Ijecame noticeable In Northern Indians screwed buffaloes. Ireland during the early 1970s, as in: "Provo Rule, OK", referring Alaska to the Provision IRA. The "OK" was also adopted by the Free George Is there a life before death? Davis campaign. In 1975 George cemetery wall, Ballymurphy, Davis was given a 17 year prison Northern Ireland. sentence for taking part in a robbery and wounding with intent to kill. Those who believe in his innocence wrote the slogan Military intelligence is a contra diction in terms. Oeotj^ :^JluiS li IfiVc^tlTj OK Ministry of Defence Building, London
all over the East End of London. Death is nature's way of telling The campaign was taken up else you to slow down. where and in May 1976 Davis was released from prison but not par Six Inch Chinese dwarf wishes to doned. In July 1978 he was sen meet person with similar interests. tenced to 15 years gaol for his part written 5 feet up a wall in a library at Oxford; in a subsequent bank robbery. underneath was written:
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I'd give my right arm to be ambi Women like the simpler things dextrous. in life — like men. Ladies, Chariton-cum-Hardy Christine, if you're reading this, we're through. God is not dead. He just couldn't find a place to park. Gents, Bermondsey. M mmmm0m0*im HMSMHMW Go gay — it's cheaper. Drink wet cement and get really Necrophilia lives stoned. Stick up for your Dad. He stuck contraceptive vending machine Leeds University up for you. Come home, Oedipus, a IS Free Wales - with every five forgiven. - Mum. There is no good, there is no bad, Qa'lons. The grave of Karl Marx is just Over my dead body. - Dad another Communist plot. there is only truth. - Have you charing Cross Road Sussex University looked ' out' the wiodow lately? Nothing to do here. And no one New York to do it to. «... , . u . .. Paraplegics, stand up for your Bexhill-on-Sea Cunnilingus is not an Irish airline, rights.
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Keep things as they are. Vote Women's faults are many, Men for the Sado-Masochist Party, have only two: everything they Keep this bus tidy. Please throw Swiss Cottage say, and everything they do. your tickets out the window. Ladies, Liverpool. Tolkien was Hobbit-forming. mmmm0mm0m0m Oxford Reality is for people who can't Gravity is a myth. The earth cope with drugs. sucks. 60D Bm Swansea There was no way. Zen there was. ,.,, ,- j . . VVhen God made man she was only A•mels^A Hypochondria is the one disease ^®^*'"9- I haven't got. Legalise telepathy - I knew you were going to say that.
God Bless Atheism I hate graffiti, I hate all Italian food. Racial prejudice is a pigment of the imagination. Back in a minute - Godot Cambridge Columbis University, New York Southhampton This wall will shortly be available Don t vote - the Government will In paperback, Marijuana is the thinking man's get in cigarette. Oxford Mi IMMM British Columbia iMiMMIMMMlllMW Save trees - eat a beaver. Join the Army, meet Interesting Reality is an illusion produced Buy now while shops last. people, and kill them. by alcoholic deficiency. Londonderry. Bromley Religion Is man's attempt to Can you beat my total of 71 I like sadism, neicrophtlia and bestiality. Am I flogging a dead communicate with the weather. men - If you supply the whips. horse? Nixon is a Cox-sacker. Support Women's Lib. Make him Washington, 1973 sleep In the wet patch. Two people in every one who Camden works for the BBC is schizophrenic. London
If I could choose the place where I die it would be London because then Most of the graffiti reproduced here the transition from life to death comes from "Graffiti Uves OK", a book would hardly be noticeable. ^.ArU by Nigel Rees, published by Unwin Paper Hammenmith. ^ backs, $3,95. m$m0mtmmmtimm0atm ^$mmmmmmm0m ^*^*^i''fif^'mm^m0m^m0m0^0tm0mmmi0mm^$0tmtmik TIMEOFF November, 1979 Professor Sugata Dasgupta has been teaching within the Social V/ork Department at Queensland University since leaving India three years ago. A close friend and associate of the late J.P. Narayan he left for tbts country partly because ofthe change in the political situation under we then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and partly because he wished to compare his studies of poverty and racial policy in his homeland with that in Australia. Professor Dasgupta has written many books ana research papers on the theme of development ami has served as a consultant to a variety of U.N. bodies. His main research interests are social welfare, rural disadvantage, social development and non violent social change. At one intemational conference be attended, in Kenya, his ideas were reviewed in the following tenns - "His address was a block buster. Logically reasoned atid dramatically presented, it met with both enthusiastic approval and THE OTHER SOCIETY- violent disagreetnent. He attacked some of the most cherished beliefs and fotuiest hopes of world and national leaders as he maintained Problems of the Welfare State that "development" had not worked." the afduent societies and tends to expand the system, or tiiose who leave the "in mitigated by any heating facilities. "These in size with every well-meaning effort of system", are condemned to the dole or to are mouldering neighbourhoods ruled by the welfare elite to pull in die opposite the life of deprivation from generation to hopelessness, drugs, arson, unemployment The "development" elite (those devoted direction. generation. The two systems are thus and fear". (Courier Mail, 10th October to the task of "development" ofthe Third more or less mutually exclusive. 1977). World) suffered a traumatic experience at THE TWO SOCIAL SYSTEMS OF 3. Tlie people who staff tiie "out" Tlie nornis that define the "out" the end of the Sixties. It was the time AFFLUENCE: IN AND OUT system are without work. Since employ system and protect the boundaries of the when the first development decade of the ment provides a common institution for other society arc derived from what, in United Nations was coming to a close and all people of the "in" system, the people the U.S.A., are called the 'notched' effect. certain basic hypotheses on which the The profile thai emerges is depressing. who are excluded from the latter do not Welfare laws and tiie rules of social security decade was based were exploded. The Tlie rich nations live, it seems, in two only go withoui work, but they lend, that keep tiiem confined to die "oul" assumption that was thus challenged by societies: a large part of dial social system in course of lime, to become anti-work. system for generations include many super the findings of the decade was that which comprises a majoriiy of people Since employment provides the major imposed behaviour patterns. "development" coiild remove poverty. works well. Tlie indexed wages, social value of the people who staff the "in" Tliey include legislations such as those Tlie facts proved that (he assumption services, employment plans, education, system and since the latter look down which discourage an unemployed person was nol valid, for the process of "develop recreation, the excitements of affluence, upon (the words used are 'to stigmatise') from joining an educational institution ment" had ilself created poveriy in the as in Australia, tend to create an equi- Uiose who do nol have jobs bul manage to to remove his/her handicap for die fear of areas of development. It had widened the tarian society. Jack here, as the saying eke out a living through 'doles', the in starvation as one may well lose the dole gap between the rich and the poor and led gots, is as good as his master. Tlie earning cumbents of the "out" system reialiate if he/she becomes a studenl, A wife es to the emergence of internal colonies in differential is not more dian say 1:3.50. in turn. tranged from her husband would similariy each developing nation. The dream tliat the All lliis is true of those who comprise the Tliey reject the values of tiie "in" make no effort towards a reunion as she poor countries would in course of time "in" system. system. Glorifying dole bludging, work may lose tiie benefits due to a deserted dodging, looting and violence (as in person. New York in the dark night. Tlie voice is raised now, why not try it in die day?) UNEMPLOYMENT MAINTAINS the incumbents of the "out" system tend AFFLUENCE "The cieveloped countries are, dontrary to ex- to develop a counterculture of their own. It is not only the rules of the Social peciatipn, approaching the economic and social Alienated from the main society they often Security that keep the members locked turn against the system, in die "out" system, but tiie rationale status of the developing societies rather than the of the whole society helps to do so. A SURVEILLANCE BY WELFARE certain percentage of unemployment is latter becoming a replica of tlie former." The "in" system reacts by keeping the not only considered necessary to keep the people of the "out" system under constant "in" society in employment, but witii surveillance through a network of welfare every increase in wage and standard of functionaries. Thanks to a style of life living there is an increase in the number of become "iike" die developed "welfare" Bul there is an "out" system too; in which privacy of the home is no longer tile unemployed. respected, the people of the other socieiy, states of the industrialised world could in the odier society, as I choose lo call it. Whereas it is tiie goal of the affluent tiiough nol living in a ghetto or reservation, this context thus well be given up! This also is the new phenomenon men society to go on increasing tiie economic are kept as virtual prisoners in their own Tlie psyche of the "welfare" elite of die tioned earlier. It has the following features. standard of the "in" system, and wfhereas. homes. They thus live with a sense of industrialised countries today faces a 1. First a word aboul its composition. tile resources are becoming increasingly helplessness and insecurity all tiieir life similar trauma. For there has not only been The people on welfare comprise the other scarce day by day, the number of people \\^ich would easily distinguish them from a setback on die promise of a "welfare" society. The latter does not, in U.S.A. for who agree to live on the dole (Unemploy others who enjoy all the rights and liberties haven, but there are reasons to believe example, comprise only ofblacks or ofthe ment benefit is $50 per week; the increase of a citizen. that Uiis dream too, like die dream of traditional categories of the deprived, e.g. that a senior poUtician secured in the latest "development" may now well be given up. the lone parent, die big family, the aged, This is one group of people; then there indexed increase in August was double Some of die facts or realities that would the aboriginals, the migrants, the uneduca arc others, the "derelicts" and "pollutants what one gets in terms of unemployment substantiate such a position are mentioned ted, etc. The scenario is changing, and benefit) is also increasing. They, in fact, below. the "oul" system includes today the are helping to maintain tiie standard of people of die main stream for whom, at living of those who are affluent and live COLLAPSE OF THE WELFARE least, the affluent society was supposed to on die "in" system. Then there is a limit STATE be tailored. Fifty-eight percent of people to the number of people for whom the The Welfare State seems to be on the dole, in the .United Stales, are "About 10% of people "in" system could provide jobs. The truth collapsing. The areas of deprivation are whiles. The average size of the family on in Great Britain have of this statement is well borne out by tiie increasing; and as certain poverty pockets the dole is about four, which is no fact that the social policy experts are now of the richer nations fast approach the level different from die size of an average pleading for rotational employment which, of the absolute poverty ofthe third world, American family. Even engineers and other intake than people in means the lowering of the retirement age a new phenomenon becomes visible within professionals who once enjoyed the status so that more and more people are shunted the framework of the "nation" society of the upper elite in tiie society are in Bangladesh." out of employment - where? itself. creasingly going on welfare. The trauma Away to the "out" system of course. The idea that "poverty" will gradually of this "climb down" seems to be more How does life go on in the "out" disappear from rich nations has, it seems, racking than that of being in poverty from system, on tiie whole? One great myth that to the eye" whose physical contact a also been exploded in this context. the very beginning. stalks the affluent society and makes the Poverty, systematic poveriy, has, on the normal citizen may like to avoid. 2. People who go on welfare mostly agonies of the "out" system less biting is other hand, become a structural necessity. What does the other society look like? the mistaken belief that whatever may What is worse is that it is the developed remain on welfare. They are more or Does it look like a caste whose frontier less permanently excluded from die "in" happen to a person shunted out of Uie countries that, contrary to the expectation, are guarded by rules and boundaries? system in the affluent sixiety one does are approaching the economic and social system and form a sub-culture of their The physk»I structure of the "out" system own. not meet death tiirough starvation as do status of the developing societies rather is easily recognisable: It is made up of quite a few people in tiie tiurd world who than the latter becoming a replica of the The situation persists in the next garbage heaps, broken furniture, dingy suffer from absolute poverty. former. generation too. It means that tiie people ovens, old garments, soaked carpets, and A third world is thus growing in each of who enter the society tiiat stands outside a cold environment (60 degrees F), not (continued next page) Surviva of Banana Radio When 4ZZZ-FM was awarded a new licence which was held on October blase after a while. I don't comes from a grant from decided not to fund us by the Broadcasting Tribunal at the end of last 5. think some people around die Kelvin Grove CA.E. anymore, I was rehearsing year they came under the category "S". It meant The outcome was that a here realise the extent that "Triple Zed approached my lines. I felt a bit like they were stfll a public broadcasting station but broadened Committee was this was a very critical the Student's Union of the a journalist before an elec no longer were they categorised exclusively set up within the Senate. meeting of Senaie that we Kelvin Grove College for tion who had to write a could have gone under in educational. Brisbane's first public radio station 4ZZZ seem to tiiink that funding of the workshops story for a dead-line and, our current model", so that their students, along had become Australia's largest with an approach lliis is a reasonable action nol knowing the end result, and that negotiations wilt be "What could easily have witii other members of the produced 2 press releases - to programming that was revolutionary and inno much easier now, Studenl arisen from the meeting community, can come in one saying what a group of vative. Union Treasurer, Dave would have made Triple and develop tiie skills so farsighted people tiie Senate There was still a large amount of "educational" Hiillips, has expressed his IjtA a 'mickey mouse' they can tiien express and were and the other saying material, and it was still aimed at the tertiary student age confidence witii the campus radio - a volun contribute to the station what a bunch of bloody group but the station chose to disperse interviews, situation and, to the teer station which would individually" Haydn en- mindless morons, sitting on information and service announcements between music station, that's a good sign. not have needed to broad diuses. dieir spotty behinds they throughout tiie day It was a Friday afternoon cast to the general public He stresses that station were. And I had another The Queensland Univer Senate. In a report of after tiie crucial meeting but could be just land- participation is tiieir aim personal campaign I was sity Administration watched an October meeting, a Com when I spoke to Haydn lined tiiroughout the univer and that hopefully one day going to initiate - to on like hawks. They too mittee member jokingly re Thompson. As witii the sity," says Haydn, "It subscribers will entirely replace the Univeisity Crest had applied for a public ferred to the station's Prog rest of the station he was in would have been a waste fund the station. "I think witii a wliite cane which is broadcasting licence, as part ramme Co-Ordinator, good spirits and adniilted of the professionalism 4ZZZ we may one day gel out of the symbol of tiie blind. of a consortium with olher Haydn Thompson,as being that "Ihings could have I hope have been developing our lurching from crisis to Maybe a person with a tertiary institutions in a "spiritus rector". No-one been a lot worse". and a waste of the few crisis and be able to settie white cane and wheel chair Brisbane, bul that had died at Time Off is too cluey A weekly wage bill of media initiatives in Qld in down to do interesting, to symbolise the people tiiat in the arse. The music Triple on Latin althougli wc trans- $1,500 (dial's a gross wage the last decades." creative writing witiiout the were running an institution Zed played and the lack of Iated "rector" to mean of SIIO.OO per employee) Tlie station has just em distractions of this bloody seem to be rapidly be formal programmes on-air, "arsehole". has been paid by the Univer- ployed a Workshop place we're operating in, but coming out of touch with clashed with the (jld Univer- _ __^ Producer, Michael Crighton. I'm not naive enougli to the worid around it, For sity Senate's concept of a This is however think dial we're out of the tunately that campaign has University radio. Tliey unconnected to Triple woods by any means yet." been delayed". decided the station was not Zed's current financial situ "If we lost the Senate a University "purpose" and ation as Michael's wage meeting last night, if they -BRIDGETVAN declared that there'd have TINTEREN to be an examination of its programming. Triple Zed FM has been able to set up radio plays of around twenty minutes Tlie Senate Sub-Com a radio workshop after receiving a generous length. mittee of 1978 made a hor grant from Kelyin Grove College of Ad Tlic basic skills of radio production, rendous recommendation vanced Education Students Union, editing, dubbing and mixing will be taught late in the year that, not The aim of the workshop is to involve lo anybody who has a rough idea but only yhould 4ZZZ not get and train anybody interested in radio wants to leam more about the possiblities any funding for the year, production to increase tiie amount of non involved in tiie use ofthe studio. but they should be kicked musical content broadcast. As students especially at this time of off campus. At the moment the Workshop is year, have a heavy work load, the 4ZZZ was stunned. engaged in self-promotion so dial it is well workshop will initially be aimed at the Throughout this tliey liave known amongst ZZZ's listeners that the unemployed and it is hoped that tiiey will tried to meet with the 1979 station is approachable, has a system for come forward with their ideas, stories, Senate Sub-Committee but the productive use of its facilities and a and views. Everybody has an interesting have had problems con channel for tiieir involvement, energies and story to tell and tales of modern catch tacting them. The station ideas. 22s in today's society would be particulariy relevant. Travelogues, jokes, was rc-applying for funds on In die meantime a Mort sity Student's Union up Posters have been distributed around anecdotes of fad or fiction would all be the basis of a fee-for-service gage Debenture was signed until the week before the Queensiand Uni, Q.I.T., Kelvin Grove, welcome. concept whereby the which transferred the meeting, when die funds Griffith Uni, Employment offices, Record University fund the parts of station's assets to the eventually dried up. Tliey stores, Cafes, Tlieatre groups, Women's Tlic station already does an excellent tiie programming that University of Queensland hadn't missed a pay day yet groups, Handicapped Institutions, Environ job in lapping the available talent sources and people who are prepared to talk. Hope would be considered to be Union. An agreement was and thoughl that even dial mental groups, Cinemas and Bookshops. fully many more people will be convinced the function of a University made with the Q.I.T., the week's wages might still bivolvement in the creative use of that what they have to say is worthwliile Station. station's otiier major come tiirougli. Il's a touch sound could lake many forms depending and interesting which will inspire others to The second creditor and everybody and go situation but no- on Ihe individual, from short spots, station do Ihe same and increase the dialogue and Sub-Committee in turn re w-ailed with apprehension one seemed too concemed. I.D.'s, ads for Joint Efforts, plays, poems, creative endeavours. ported to die University for a meeting witli Senaie "You tend to get a bit raves, comedy skits, up to complicated -MICHAEL CRIGHTON
third world cannot afford the luxury ofa Wliat is worse is dial die metiiods and THE OTHER carpet, "absolute poverty" in tliat part of goals which are being used for combatting WILL A SOCIETY WITHOUT the world does not force people to live the incidence of deprivation are, it seems, POVERTY BE ONE WITHOUT with wet carpets. tiiemselves responsible nol only for the AFFLUENCE? SOCIETY- 5. A hundred thousand people in the poverty that exists but also for its increase Tlie experiences of the developing The poveriy in the affluent society is U.K. are without any home - neither have day by day. We have already shown how supposed to be only relative poveriy. But they thatched houses nor mud walls to the goals of affluent society require a societies have shown that developmenl is the supposition true? Let us exarrune fall back on. Quite a few of them in does not by itself remove poverty. It the statement, which suffers from two Australia sleep in parks. creates some affluence which in turn leads errors. First of all about starvation; one to disorganisation. What has happened to must know tiial die starvation deaths so- NEW YORK POVERTY MORE "People living on the the developed couniries is not very dif called are not deaths that occur when ACUTE THAN THE THIRD dole are helping to main- ferent eitiier. Welfare and affluence have people are just on forced fasts for so many WORLD nol been any more effective than develop days and montiis that they drop dead one The life in the "out" system thus WmmiiliKivmtvUtk ment. The goals of die "in" system have, moming! All starvation deaths are deaths is in many ways similar to the life of the il seems, been responsible for tiie persis tliat are unduly hastened through of those poverty zone of the third world. A former prolonged mahiutrition. This is one error. tence of poverty itv the affluent society. Peace Corps worker who had worked in affluent.. : If tiiere is one common lesson tiiat we The other is concerned with tiie actual the third world told the "Time Magazme" have to draw from these two episodes of position tiiat obtains in the "out" system. contemporary history it is that affluence It is as follows- commenting on the powrty of New Yoric, number of people to be unemployed. cannot by itself mitigate poverty. Will a 1. About 10% of people iti Great Britain "I have never seen such poverty anywhere, Unemployment is thus a function of the society without poveriy then be onethat have about 22% less (12655 K. Qi.) calorie not even in Westem Africa". structure, so is deprivation and poverty, has not to content witii affluence? Wiule intake than that of the people of Bangla This point cannol be argued any furlher I take only one example from the the validity of die above statement is open desh (1840 K, Cal.). Tlieir consumption as a social scientist in the UJC. says, that battery of metiiods that are used, namely to change, the would is gaping and the is also substantially below the minimum while there is all the data in the U.K. the financial input provided for welfare problem gets more baffling day by day. required for subsistence. The deprivation about how many electric cookers are less services. It is a wdl-known fact today that One tiling, however, seems to be sure, is due to the want of purchasing power at than three years old, there is no data on the more money we spend on welfare the our efforts so far have not succeeded. It thev command, or in other words due to starvation or absolute poverty, not because greater becomes the expanse of the "out" would probably require an altogether poverty. no such phenomenon exists, but because system. The reason for it is simple. The "different" "goal", "method", "social 2. Among poor Scottish families infants the area of study is not a popular one tiiat money is often poured, as the Indian policy", "welfare" or "development" under one year old are three times more would attract funding. saying goes, into a bottomless bucket. system and "philosophy" of life to nego likely to die as those in rich families: "So what?" the question may be'asked. Welfare is administered by a "half tiate die task. It is not beyond tiie human 3. Over a million families injhe U.K. "Some poverty exists in the affluent caste" socialist system- which does all ingenmly to devise the package, provided Uve in unliveable houses and quite a few society. Does it not exist anywhere else?" its shopping in the open market, A we are prepared to tlunk. of them have soaked carpets all the time The comment is legitimate, but the answer medicine that cost $x per unit can be sold (a third ofthe homes in Hutcheson Town is baffling. For tiie fact is tiiat poverty not to the socialist buyer of healtii services The purpose of this article is not to provide and Laurieston in Glasgow, for example). only exists in tiie affluent society and not at $1 Ix per unit. How much money will atiswers but to initiaic t/tat process of re 4. A majority ofthe aged in a locality, only do we not know much about its real then be required to cover up deprivation thinking! studied in the U.K., (Hulme, Manchester). nature and size, but what we know about it Supporting data for most of the statements and buy health? How much more help made in this article are araitahlc from the New Hve for nine months a year without light is not encouraging, ll follows. Some can the "half caste" give for a transfer of and fuel since they can't pay their elec Internationalist (London, U.K., August. 1976, poverty is not only there, bul il is not resources from public sector to the private No.'4j, Time Magazine (8 February 1971 and tricity bills and their connections are cut decreasing. It, in fact, is increasing. It is coffers and to keep the two systems 2^Ausu%tAugmt IQ77). off increasing both in expanse and deptii. mutually estranged? Whereas a great many people in the
TIMEOFF November, 1979 The 1970s could be called the Decade of Noninvolvement. Every political party has experienced tbe traumas of pubhc rejectton tn the face of political hypocrisy and cant brought on by the doublethink doublespeak attitudes of Australian polttictans. Not only are politicians caught out every day with what are in many cases barefaced lies but the public is treated to the spectacle of these men and women persisting in their lies tn attempts to hold personal power for their own gain. The nation as something to be representeti ts tor- •gotten in a mishmash of conflicting lies, half lies and distortions that do nothing to reflect any credit on anyone who ts presently irwolved in the political process at any level Against this background DENNIS BAILEY has completed a selective historv of Australias traditional left wmg party, the Communist Party. He speaks with people from different levels ofthe CPA, the SPA, the EYLand the NCC. Hts analysis Js Socialist Party oriented but contains interesting historical snippets which could provide a temporary guidelmes to any dis interested observer who may want to follow the history of political power on tbe "left wing" in Australia further.
When Elinor Jean hard to get figures from me, Joh Bjelke-Petersen". Laborers. is better off today without Young Communist League O'Connor joined the Com the tiny, secretive Maoist Jim told me that the "Czechoslovakia: Aust the ". . .old hardUne Stalin which barely functions. The munist Party of Australia group. One person who left 1948 rail strike in Qld ralian Communists Protest". ists". Young Socialist League (CPA) in 1940, as a after China's invasion of and the national miners That was the front page "More Australians can which is associated with the politically keen 20 year old, Vietnam lold me that they strike the following year headline of a special relate to us today. We're SPA has about 100 it had 10,000 members and were down to about 100 went for loo long, losing Tribune issued on August not seen as stooges of other members and produces a was an illegal organisation. and that these were mainly a great deal of public 22nd,1968. countries", said Kevin. montiily journal "Youtii Four years later, there in Melbourne. support in the process and The CPA under the Kevin said that since the Voice". were 23,000 financial mem As well there is an assort- tiiat this reflected on the leadership of Laurie Aarons split many new branches Despite communist set bers and a member of par have been formed and old backs and loss of members liament, Fred Paterson in ones reactivated. He added and prestige over the last' the electorate of Bowen. that today the CPA has 30 years, the National Civicr "We used to hold pretty more appeal to younger Council StiU considers that large meetings in those people. they present the major days", Jean (as she prefers All parties recognise the threal to Australia's security to be called) told mc. need to recruit young and way of life. Today, Jean, a grand "The Socialist Party people. The steady decline The NCC is a conser mother of 13 children looks during the fifties and sixties vative organisation set up back with some sadness, will take over from has left them with a by BA Santamaria to com at two major splits in the the CPA: . ,The membersliip largely bat communist influence in Austialian Communist recmiled during the Dep the unions. movement, which left three econbmiCr~~^.^-^ondi-ression and second world Maurie Wagner, parties claiming to be the tions are in our war. Industrial Officer for the "true communists" and Lorraine, a forty-seven NCC hi Qld told me that broke up many friendships favour." . • , year old mother of four, communists still con and in some cases families. recollected her teenage trolled essential industries In 1963, Edward Fowler years in the Eureka Youth such as transport, power Hill, a Melbourne barrister League, which was heavily and building Jed 200 out of the CPA to influenced by CPA mem "Whilst the CPA is form a pro-Qiina group, bers. She attended her first declining, one can't over (Marxist/Leninist). Then, in EYL camp in 1947 at look the Socialist Party 1971, 900 members Mofiit's Beach, Caloundra. which is gaining ascen resigned to form the ment of Trotskyite and Communist Party. condemned the presence of dency", said Mr. Wagner. Socialist Parly of Australia anarchist groups on the "We dropped to 12,500 Warsaw Pact countries in "We had 200 there and which is sympathetic to the Australian left wing political members in 1949 and after Prague, and the overlluow the political debate was Mr. Wagner believes that Soviet Union. Jean was one arena. The Socialist Workers the coal strike this number of Czech President pretty lively at times. Many the SPA poses a greater of tlieifl. Parly, Socialist Labor was halved", said Jim. Alexander Dubcek. joined the party and threat because it is better organised and more deter The CPA today claims to League, International Soc According to Jim, the Not all commum'sts were married within the party", mined than the CPA. He be independent and sup ialists and Spartacist League CPA tended to become ui- protesting as Mr. Aarons said Lorraine. believes that the Communist ports tiie "Euro- all produce their own news grown during the height of was lo discover. They "Our dances at the City Party will eventually be Communist" concept pro papers. the Cold War in the 1950s. believed that by criticising Hall used to draw a taken over by the Socialist moted by communist "The Cold War sapped Members preferred the com the Soviet Union, Aarons thousand", she said, Party. parties in Spain, Italy and much of our membership", fort of other party members was leading the party to a Accordmg to Lorraine, France, says Jim Henderson, now rather than chasmg recruits. Trotskyist position. The op some of todays notable Siting behind her type musicians and entertainers writer, perched on a Communists exerted a entering his seventies and After the Sino-Soviet dis position began publishing were associated with League crowded desk in the SPA large influence over the presently the Queensland pute began in the late 1950s it's own Uterature until activities as were many office overlooking the Australian pubhc during the secretary of the socialist the leadership of the CPA according to Jim Henderson Roma Street Railway second World War and in party of Australia. wavered frorti a pro-Chinese "There were two parties other people who are''pro the immediate post-war Jim, quietly spoken, to a pro-Moscow stance. within the CPA by 1970" minent in public affairs and Station, Jean managed to years. So much influence, joined the communist Party Ted Hill wanted the party After a number of ex entertainment today. find time from her busy that Prime Minister Menzies in CollinsvUle in 1932. At to officially side with China pulsions, 900 members With some regret, Lor schedule, working volun sought to have the party the time he was a school and when it didn't he led walked oul to form the raine remembers the night tarily for the party, to declared illegal in 1951. teacher. During the height 200 of his supporters out Socialist Party of Australia. CPA members of the League concur with Mr. Wagner's (It had regained legality in of the depression, he re in 1963. For a couple of Pat Clancy, a member of the were called to a meeting view. 1942). A High Court chal signed from the Education years after the walkout, the Australian Council of Trade and told that the top brass "The Socialist Party lenge by the Waterside Department to work as a party under Lance Unions executive was of the party had decided will take over from the Workers Federation rep coal miner. Sliarkey's leadership elected president ofthe new that tiie Eureka YouUi CPA", she said. "I tiiink resenled by ALP leader "We had over 80 mem adopted an even stronger party. Many other promi League had to forgo it's that the movement here has Doctor Evatt was vic bers in Collinsville. More pro-Soviet position. nent trade union officials emphasis on social ac sunk as low as it can go. Now we're on the way up torious. than the Labor Party." Few members outside and activists joined the new tivities and concentrate on again. The economic con- Menzies' action was Jim was elected to the Victoria left the CPA. party. Among these was becoming a Marxistr Bowen Council in 1939. Today, Hill's group E.V. Elliot who was then ditkins bK in our favour. declared uncohstiludonal Leninist political organisa We are getting recruits Five years later he was produces a weekly paper, the Genera! Secretary ofthe and he was forced to hold tion. League members in weekly." a referendum. Fortunately Fred Paterson's campaign "Vanguard". It maintains Seamen's Union. Today the cluded Qiristians, Labor for Communists like Jean director in the state elec some influence on the Mel- maritime unions are still the party members and even Outside, busy crowds the referendum was de tion. Paterson survived two 'boumc' waterfront and in main strength of the S.P.A. non-politically inclined jostie to and from the rail- way station. The working feated but by only 52,000 terms as the Communist the Builders Laborers One of those who didn't youth. votes. member for Bowen. Jim Federation in Melbourne 'leave was Kevin Waller, a class, winduig their way "From that moment on remembers Paterson telling and Sydney. Norm 27 year old painter and past the SociaUst Party Today, the CPA can only the Xeague started to fade hun in 1949, "Tiiere's only Gallagher, the CPA (Mar docker. Kevin worked for office above them. Few boast a membership of a away", said Lonauie. It one person in that par xist/Leninist) Vice Chair three years as a full time really caring about the little over 2,000. Tlie was officially wound up liament witii less chance party functionary. ideological warfare being Socialist Party claims to man is also the federal in the early 60s, of becoming premier than secretary of the Builders waged above them, about have 1,300 members. It is He believes that the CPA Today the CPA has a them. I.Q. tests are often criticised for their in- I ability to measure anything apart from the ability to perform on an I.Q. test. British professors Hillary and Steven Rose iirgue much more than this however. They criticise the empirical evidence offered by the I.Q. testers, and the epistemological validity of I.Q. theory. They argue that I.Q. theory was developed as a tool for racial and class oppression. Professors Hillary and Steven Rose recently visited Brisbane, and gave two public lectures at the University of Queensland. Part of one of their talks is reproduced here.
THE SOCIAL they also saw the possibility DETERMINANTS of improving the perfor OF IQ THEORY mance of the latter through educational reform. The history begins with Because the range of I.Q. the woik of Francis Galton, scores whhin the working who, by researching the classes overiapped with the male lineage of some 400 range within the middle emment Victorians, felt classes, the new technique himself able to conclude pointed to a potenlial group that genius was inherited. who could and should be The proposition that the given elite education. male members of the Vic Tlie principle of equality torian ruling class which of opportunity which was dominated not only a enshrined witiiin the Edu nation state but also an cation Act of 1944 thus empire, maintained that received substantial support GENETIC position through natural fit from the I.Q. testers with ness was of evWence attrac their notion of an untapped tion, and his contribution reservoir of working class to the legitimisation of an potential to be harnessed INTELLIGENCE .imperial and patriarchal rule to the economic needs of was unambiguous. postwar reconstruction. The I.Q. test then stood for a The I.Q. Debate Galton went on to further twenty years as the develop a new subject, scientific mechanism for the At the same lime, it and educational policies rights movement culmin crest was the "IQ debate", eugenics, wluch sought to allocation of children lo provided the justification which both attempted to ating in city riots and the with all its racist and meri extend the statistical tech their secondary education for selective immigration modify social inequalities politics of black power, tocratic connotations, it has niques for rneasuring bio and thence to their entire policies so as to favour and at the same time to which attacked white now rolled on to cover logical and social differ occupational future. the genetically superior. measure tiie efficacy of the American society for its a wider terrain of ences in order to improve Terman, with the authority attempt. oppression and degradation societal concern. Enlarged tiie human stock. In the of the new psychometry, But it soon became of the blacks. and aggrandised into a new name of eugenics, the For the United States the wrote (1924); clear thai, far from being The problems of Britain disciplinary area as middle and upper classes thrust of I.Q. theory was to of a piece with the reform were those of the failure 'sociobiology', it clauns to were urged to breed more remain unambiguously "if the present dif ist, even radical, mood of of a reformist govern explain phenomena varying prolifically in order to directed towards race, with ferential birthrate con the sixties, Jensen's article ment to socially engineer from the trivial to those prevent their genes from questions of educational tinues, 1000 Harvard gra constituted tiie first wave of a solution to economic of profound social sig being swamped by those of selection being of incidental duates will, at tke end of a renewed biological deter problems, and the rise of nificance, from the persis the inferior working class, concern. 200 years, have but 56 minism, a force which is stiU racial tensions in the wake tence and inevhabiUty of just as, more recently, The preoccupation of descendents, while in the spreading and is far from of a decade of import of patriarchy, through racial Premier Vorster has mental testers in the United same period, 1,000 S. spent. cheap labour from the one differences in 'intelligence', appealed to white South States, was to lay the foun Italians will have multiplied Neither in conceptual time British empire. and violence in society, Africans to have anotiier dations of a new psycho- to 100,000". terms, nor in the presen In botii countries, tiiese to why children like, and baby in the interests of the metry, intimately connected tation of data, did Jensen's were conditions ripe for the adults dislike, spinach, repubUc. to their eugenicist concern When, in Germany, the paper in 1969 break any emergence in full flower of Tlie "IQ debate" is thus While the pioneering with a healthy national new Aryan science worked new ground. However it was biologism, the explaining central, not only because eugenicists spoke of dif stock. Because I.Q. levels out its deadly practice in immediately, and properly, away of all social problems the issue of the assessment ferences in intelligence in correlated neatly with a the camps, the erstwhile seen as an intensely political as the expression of natural of human inteUigence purely quaUtative terms, stratification system based enthusiasm for eugenics intervention. Why? laws, and under these cir through an IQ score is its quantification occurred on class and caste, biology changed in large measure to cumstances, almosi any manifestly important in a with the work of Binet in The answer must surely ideologist prepared to society where such tech France. In his hands, the Ue in the social and poli defend the biological basis niques play a key part in Intelligence Quotient (I.Q,) tical undertones of the U.S. of the social order would the educational and occupa was a means of classifying "For the United States the in the late 1960s, with be seized on: Loren z, tional allocational mechan schoolchildren who per the gathering economic Ardrey, Morris, Tiger and isms but also because the formed pooriy, so as to thrust of L Q. theory was to ^ crisis, black immigration Fox. . .and, par excellence, debate has to be set with offer remedial schooling. from the South to the Arthur Jensen. the context of a general From this French be northem cities, the goals of During the 1970s, bio and evident move towards ginning it is possible to rected towards race. President Johnson's 'War on logical detemiinisni has explanations of social trace two distinct anglo- Poverty', and their dis become a revitalised strand differences as located, in saxon strands of mental solution ui the Vietnamese within bourgeois hegemony. the last analysis, lo purely testers who sought to apply could be seen as having revulsion. In the wake ot debacle; the rise of th.e civiJ While at the beginning its biological origins. and develop the new tech- called each into their just the 193045 war and in niques of measurement estate. the optimistic mood of within their own societies. The problem was, there social reconstruction there SceieS Of COUNTO MFC - No. 1 - The British strand, pio fore, how to maintain and was a major attempt, laun neered by Cyril Burt and even improve the entire ched from within Unesco, stock, by encouraging the to lay the ghost of racist extending through to P.E. \ Vernon and H.J. Eysenck, top social strata (whose science once and for all. c has been chiefly pre- while, anglo-saxon Pro During these ensuing years occuped with the relation testant characteristics were .of social peace, despite the ship between class back now revealed by 'I.Q. assumptions and findings of ground, I.Q. and the edu science' to be biologicaUy the new psychometry, it cational selection mecha rather than sot.ally deter was seen as scientifically nisms. mined) to have more child iUegjtimale to attempt to The American strand, ren, and by seeking ways use the new tools of while not indifferent lo of Umiting the reproductive measurement as a means of educational issues, has been rates of the inferior. making genetic inlergroup more preoccupied with The power of the comparison. questions of race and eugenics movemcnl was However in 1969, the stratification. strong enough to ensure the American educational psy chologist, Arthur Jensen While the British I.Q. passage of legislation for published an article en testers shared the Galtonian compulsory steriUsation of titled: "How much can we thesis of innate middle class tiie feeble minded in many boost IQ and scholastic superiority, a thesis sus states, so that by 1935, achievement?" At first sight tained by the tendency of 20,000 women had been it appeared to be a prag middle class to score higher rendered incapable of matic enougli title, part of pARKE-R. BRDWK AHtv WIS FAMILY EN6A6ED IN T«£: than working class children. harming the national stock ' ANNUAL MOTHBALL HAWtST by breeding. that I960's quest for social
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With the fall ofthe conservative pro-US Shah of Iran, there have been many muted mutters of direct military intervention in the affairs ofthe middle east by the US establishment. Despite the possibility ofa head on clash with the USSR, whose border runs for nearly J,UUU tniles along the top of Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, some ofthe madder elements ofthe US military see this show of strength as the only solution to the loss of face and consequent loss of influence the US suffered with the fall of the Shah earlier this year. Tbe Muslim in all ofhis different manifestations is a very unstable person especially m this Mideast area of intense religious Jervour. His reactions have been unpredictable and a source of mental agony for succeeding generations of military and ^^^"'^^JfJI^P/^Jfr,"/^ ., , This complicating factor makes traditional political an^ysK ofthe Iranian situation somewhat uncertain but SHEILA RYAN comptlea this report for the Guardian outlining tbe details of the possibility of military intervention: IRAN o U.S. Takeover Target?
In recent months, the US government ton had considered Iran the most table has increasingly floated the idea of direct ^of all conservative regimes in Muslim military intervention in the Mideast. countries. The loss of such a key Mid- In a number of discussions - around eastern ally has b'een publicly reported legislation to reintroduce the draft, around as a large factor behind the speed up in the Egypt/Israel treaty, around plans to planning of the 100,000-slronB Ulilaterat build a 100,000 troop strong strike force Corps and other intervention measures. - the ruling class has openly raised the With the shali's fall, Washington is left possibility of sendii^ military troops to with a motley crew of unstable allies in protect its interests in the oil-rich region. the Gulf. A recent study for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee noted the To understand the very real possibility implications of the Iranian events for US that the days of imperial aggressiveness military aid strategy towards tJic region. may be on us once again, it is necessary It also raised questions about "the to briefly review ihe last decade and the long-term impact of arms translers to this changes in the Mideast in the last year. region as an instrument of policy. In The core of US military policy toward relatively close geographical juxtaposition the Mideast in ihe last year was the in the Persian Gulf were 10 shiekhs, "Vietnamisation" campaign of the John a king and a sultan, as well as a radical son administration. As the domestic, Baathisl prcsideni. Tlie political as social, economic and political strains of pirations of many of the local peoples tiic massive commitment of US ground are only just beginning to emerge, and, as troops to a losing war in Indocliina ex indicated by the case of Iran, there are ceeded the government's limits of toler radical pressures at work that suggest that ance, the Vietnamisation program emerged the StabiUty of some of these regimes as an alternative. This approach, gelling cannot be counted upon very strongly." "Asian boys lo do the job," was extended Despite such doubts, the US is con around the world and, in a striking manner, tinuing to funnel arms to the area. Iron to the Mideast. ically, the fall of the shah has sped up A recent authoritative history by the arms shipment process. But a kind of Nadav Safran, "Embattled Ally," points ad hoc approach is emerging, with arms out the Johnson administrations' relief aid and direct US military presence being Carter announced the prompt shipment Cairo to reorganise Sadat's secret service when pinned down in southeast Asia, wrapped up in hasty packages. of $400 million in sophisticated ntilitary as Sadat's anxiety about dissidence grew. it could look toward an apparently One post-shah package was delivered equipment to North Yemen. The sum is Helms was the ambassador to Iran in militarily invincible Israel. Needing only to the Yemen Arab Republic this spring truly staggering in proportion to the the early 70s and it was during this time US weapons but no US troops, Israel when a broad coalition of Norlh Yemeni North Yemeni anny's size, withonly that he formulated the concept of Iran could strike quick and crippling blows progressive forces appeared to be seriously 10,000 soldiers reported to be m the as forward buffer to the USSR with bases at its radical neighbours. From that point threatening the power of the reactionary country at the time of Carter's announce subsequently established on the 1,000 mile on, US military aid poured into Israel regime. (Nortii Yemen was also entangled ment. long border between Iran and the USSR. at unprecedented rates, growing in almost in a border conflict it had provoked with Along with the arms aid went various geometric progression. anti-unperialist South Yemen). forms of direct US military presence. A Arms sales to. Iran mushroomed from The regime in Israel had certain political contingent of 395 military "advisers" that date (about 1973 to 1976). Helms limitations however, tiiat restricted its was dispatched because the Yemeni had come to the job as Iran ambassador //; a siu.rc'1 ineeiittg «/' the cabinet- potenlial value to the US. Tlie Arab people military had no pilots trained to fly the from the directorship of the CIA. He level Fo)icy Review CohimitWi', Jap almost Universally recognised it as a deep- new planes being sent from the US. hi obviously kept his CIA contacts alive. Carter administration aides have decided sealed national enemy, and Israel's inter addition, elements of the Sixth Fleet In tiie .early 70s Chile's military over vention on behalf of any Arab regime tn increase the US military presence steamed into die Arabian Sea in a show arbund the Persian Gulf According to threw Allende. Hehns'was recently fined could be profoundly embarrassing to that of suppori for the North Yemen regime. $2,000 and given a two year suspended regime. Washington sources, the move indicates that the US is preparing lo use military sentence for lying to tlie Congress about In the eyes of Washington strategists, power to protect CIS interests abroad, ARMS FOR ISRAEL AND EGYPT the CIA's involvement in AUende's over the Shah of Iran - Muslim, but not Arab - specifically , its interests in Middle A second post-shah military bundle is throw. He has since come into consider lacked these blatant problems. His regime Eastern (,)//. in the process of delivery to Israel and able disrepute for his decision to de- was first designated a "forward defense Egypt. More than S4.5 bMion in special escalate CIA activity in Iran, which it is country" during the lale 1960s. By the The Policy Rei'icw Committee met arms aid was promised during the nego June 2!-22 and was cfiaired by Sec said, led directiy to the breakdown in eariy 1970s, the shah was being equipped tiations leading to the treaty signed' in retary of Slate Cyrus Vance. Defense intelligence gathering in Iran which allowed for an ambitious regional security role, Washington March 26. Secretary Harold Brown, security affairs the Muslims to precipitate the overthrow with the Saudi regime as the shah's junior One of the startling elements in the ofthe shah. partner. adviser Zbigniew Brzezimki atui Energy Sec.e tary James Schlesinger also'' special military aid was a commitment And regionally, Sadat's treaty with Tlie world's largest Hovercraft fleet, attended. by the US lo build new airbases in the Israel has isolated him from significant advanced jet fighter bombers and heli Negev to "replace" those at Etzion and The committee, following a plan Arab support, even that of the Saudis. copters, along with sophisticated elec Eytam in tiie Sinai, which Israel was \\.brked out by the Defense Department, Tiiese political issues underscore the tronic surveillance equipment, poured required to evacuate under die terms of has decided to move an additional one significance of more direct US military into Iran. The Shah told press interviewers or two sihps into the Persian Gulf, the treaty. activity as a backup, and increase the that he had received a divine vision calling to supplement the '3-ship US force- The US Army Corps of Engineers, danger that with the possible collapse upon him to "protect" tiie Gulf region. winch now operates out of liahrain. which is responsible for the building of of Egypt or otiier US allies in the region, Secretary of State William Rogers and Tlw -US Air Farce will be sent on more die bases, recently announced $1 billion direct intervention will become a reSity. others told congressional committees how nmlinc "demonstration" visits to Arab in construction contracts to a con In the case of the Israeli-Egyptian effective the shah could be as the police countries. Arms sales and diplomatic sortium of US corporations. Israeli sources treaty, the potential for US intervention chief for the Gulf region. amtacts with Oman and the other small. have estimated that eventually con is embodied in a Memorandum of Agree TTie test case was the shah's 1977 Persian Gulf kingdoms will aho be struction costs will run to $3 billion. ment signed between the US and Israd suppression of the revolution in Dhofar, stepped up. The arms for Egypt are meant to only hours after the Carter-Begin-Sadat westernmost province of Oman. Mcahwhile, the Pentagon is reported equip Anwar al-Sadat to try to step into treaty itself. When the Omani Sultan's own army lo be working on a plan to create a tiie shah's former role as a regional That memorandum commits Uie US lost control of 90% of Dhofar to the 110,0 00-mcmber ' 'quick -response guardian of US interests. But the shaldness to consider military options in Israel's insurgents, the shah sent in his own troops, force" able lo operate in the Middle, of Sadat's regime is so apparent that there support should Egypt fail to abide to the ferried about the rugged Omani terrain l:ast or elsewhere in the ihinl world. is widespread speculation that he may lose treaty. Testifying before a congressional in Bell helicopters, and put down the This plan is report ed hy the Washington his grip on Egypt before he can exert any committee, IJS Secretary of State Cyrus armed rebellion. (Since the fall of the Post ii> hove been initiaial by real regional control for the US. Vance refused to rule out die possibility shah there have once again been reports lirzezinski and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Since the Egyptian hunger riots of tiiat US troops could be sent to the Mid- of armed action in Dhofar.) after the US found itself unable to 1977, some $750 million in annual US cast under the memorandum. One of the first statements of AyaloUah deploy 11.'^ fighter squadrom and economic aid has been requbed to keep How many signs are needed before it Khomeini after the ouster of the shah antiaircraft carriers iu the Persian Gulf Sadat in the presidential palace. Richard is clear that the US ruling class is seriously was that Iran would no longer be Washing durinv tlw Iranian revolution. Hehns, former US CIA director and one considering direct military involvement as ton's regional cop. The shock was H.L of the arcldtects of the shah's security a key ingredient in long-term Mideast enormous. Before the shah's fall, Washing system, was reported to have visited strategy?
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I was pretty dropout section. Drugs were group of people who had taken a most people commented on the out of it then. But I don't think frowned on because there had been variety of drugs. switch to uppers, downers, heroin acid has ruined my brain and so much heavy shit about them Although Time Off eschews the and exotica like glue that most of I don't know any people who before. We smoked dope when we false favoured by the yellow press the younger drug takers have made. tripped then regularly and now have got it but beer and spirits were the with its concomitant reductio ad All these were noted for their un kids who had deformed kids. They're main thing. absurdan nonsense logic and con desirable qualities like high physical all normal. Most of them are at '"You know how you get a bit clusions, certain attitudes were held and psychological habituation and school and they're pretty healthy. fuzzy in the head and falling down more or less in common by all the most questioned the banning of the *T/je first trip I ever took was drunk after a dozen or so pots. people whose firsthand accounts psychedelics by a society that didn't just breathtaking. I was in a new Well, if you keep drinking you'd appear here. like to see people have fun. world. All the old rules didn 't apply. be totally written off. I'd black out All held the attitude that The drug that caused all the hulla- I was 19 I guess, rather old in com and end up in the craziest situations. marijuana was not addictive, that it balloo in the 60s and still gives parison with the kids dropping things But because I was with a pretty did not lead to the harder drugs certain sectors of society the heebie- today. We went down to the water heavy crowd there was never any except in the case of those people jeebies is LSD. the drug was accused front. The colours were so intense. real trouble. who were predisposed to that kind by some disreputable persons of Everything was intense. But I didn't To get the right effect, I'd wake of "high", and that its illegal status being a genetic adulterant - a fact have any hallucinations. Only if I up the next morning and get straight had contributed to the rising in that has not stood up to clinical closed my eyes for some time. I back into it. After a couple of days fluence of organised crime in the dis and street observation. think that perhaps it was a learned like this you'd wake up and you'd tribution of It. Some had even stated Following a strong anti-LSD cam thing, this hallucination. Because I actually NEED the first half dozen they had contact with criminals paign in the late 60s, and a change only started to hallucinate when I pots just to get you straight Then when buying it, and said they pre in drug preferences, the drug has was well into tripping. The effects I'd get the most amazing flash. You ferred to deal with them than the almost dropped out of the drug wore off late that night. I could still could do anything. Even drive a car junkies who dealt dope to buy their takers catalogue. Recently there feel that sort of blasted feeling without being stupid or dangerous. own drug because tiie crims were has been a slight revival in usage. you get In your body the next day. You could think really clearly. I more regular and reliable. The person who recounted the ""As the trips progressed I got into wasn 't making it up either because Most had some experience with following account first took acid some pretty heavy places in my I used to try raves on friends and the psychotropic drugs but only just after it was banned in Australia mind. By then I was into taking a they always said later that I made a few had extensive experience. It in 1968 and had his last trip in lot of acid at one time. I don't perfect sense. was also common to hear people say January. regret taking it. It's been useful to "As the bender went on this time that these drugs {LSD and the me later on. it showed me depths of clearness would get longer. And "magic mushrooms" were dominant) I never believe existed in life. And if you watched your drinking when myself. And they weren't all were mood enhancers and that's LSD EXPERIENCES you were in it you could last nearly pleasant It's a learning drug for why some people had "bum trips" "/ guess I must have dropped alf day. But eventually the grogd me. There isno way you can get which caused complications. No-one about 250 trips during my heavy win. It was hell to get straight too. hooked on .it. You develop a had known any suicides by people time on acid. That was over a three Sometimes it'd take me three or four tolerance over the short term but on these drugs but most had some year span. / gave up on acid about days of tapering off, just to get to you need to prepare for it. You story to tell about scary events 1971 or 2 for some time. Ah, let's the s^ge where I didn't have the know you have ultimate respon either while on these drugs or with see. I went for five years without a shakes if I gave it away completely. sibility for what you do on it." people on them. (Not to mention trip. I gave up all drugs then; I think "I don't drink so much anymore lots of giggling). I probably had one about every six and I don't recommend it to any Most people talked about alcohol months. The last was in January this one. Getting off the grog especially and heroin in the same breath. year. ALCOHOL: EVENTUALLY THE if you have spirits was really painful. Although the two drugs were treated '"At one time I was tripping two GROG'DWIN The best combination I found was separately by most, theri actions in or three times a week. And they One person had a slightly side beer and later vodka and tequila. physical addiction were regarded as weren't little ones either. Once I ways attitude to alcohol. She said There's something about tequila. It's comparable. Not one person decided that I wms running into a she had been raised on it since so good. There were times when I 12 E R U A hallucinated. The colours were times out of four I get the uncon- brilliant I can't do it anymore." trolloable, lustful, maniacal munch ies. Anything you can get down your throat will do, although CANNABIS: A WAY OF LIFE chocolates, chips, huge salad sand "The first time was about 7 years wiches, apple juice are among my ago in late adolescence, whilst on favourites. DRUG "I've found dope can verge on holiday in a Singapore hotel with a male friend. After the first joint, the psychologically addictive but we broke out into hyster\ca\ that's aU. And that depends on the laughter, mainly convulsing about current state of boredom in your not much at all. life, but as for adverse physical "It was while attempting to roll side effects or addiction, there's the second that things started going none," crazy. Thinking back, the half deal of grass was obviously spiked with SCARE/ something a little more potent, as CAFFEINE: INSTANT BETTER we started mildly hallucinating. THAN PERCOLATED "Of course the hard part was Even caffeine came in for some lighting the newly made number, Exotic Liqueur Named treatment as a psychoactive drug. judging the length and co-ordinating A chronic coffee drinker (coffee the lighted match. It may have taken has much more caffeine than tea) up to a quarter of an hour to had this to say: accomplish this feat, our sense of A city hotel is selling a liqueur that is "/ don't know why I got into time started to become irrelevent. caffeine but I average about 15 to I don't think we finished smoking believed to contain an illegal drug. 20 cups a day and I put a heaped the second joint before I began spoonful of instant in each cup. throwing a packaged radio/cassette The hotel, the City View in Leichardt Street, Instant had more effect on me than against the hotel wall. We had just is sellmg decanters of Coca Buton, an ItaHan percolated v\iiich just puts me to bought it at a cheapie Chinese import that is made from the leaves of the South sleep. electrics shop and for some reason "I use it to keep me alert during it was threatening my personality, American coca tree. the day and to get through all the but after the first smash against work I want to do. I started to find The coca tree contains the pro- the wall, the act of property that my appetite dropped away and tiibited drug cocaine, a well known destruction appealed. if I had too much too quickly I drug of amuse among the degener would start to shiver and tend to "My friend was seeing various ates of Brisbane. The drug is believed act abruptly. Sometimes frineds have people, including police, appearing to cause dramatic personality said I have a sudden temper but I from nowhere, probably from cracks changes with sometimes bizarre have always been a bit quick. in the walls. We ventured onto our results. "Some people may knock it but balcony, about four storeys, above a A taker of the drink was said by wit busy road, then my friend got nesses to have gone berserk after only a it isn't dangerous like the strong . serious about jumping off. He didn't, small mouthful. The person, who was drugs and it isn't like speed which but I still wonder whether he might unnamed, went berseik al a party in I tried while I was at uni. I can think have had he been alone, Indooroopilly recently and threatened and do the things I want without "Next step was the shivers. Never to drive a car loaded with explosives into zoning right out and getting too before or since have I been so cold, I^rUament House in George Street. paranoid. They say it's off but if unable to get warm. For any length There was no information available it is then so's everything else. There of time, we huddled under the concerning the type of explosives and how has to be a line drawn somewhere they made their way into the person's about what's good for you," blankets of our single beds, staring control. at the ceiling, mumbling, feeling It took four husky men nearly two acutely paranoid, freezing, hours to calm the person down. There has "As a potentially bi-sexual virgin, been no official comment on the drink One ol tbe first liqueurs pro SPEED: EVERYONE WAS brought up in boys only christian but a hold reported drastically increased duced by Butofj it is prepared STUNNED sales in the item recently. Other hotels cccordittg to a secret formula, schools, my guilt feelings about wbicb bas rctt;ained twcbanged Speed is a drug that everyone has homosexuality became all important. are believed to have supplies of the drink. for more tbsn a century. It: heard about but not many people tbe production of tbis liqueur I feverishly desired to make love Experienced drug users known to tl^s in Brisbane have used it. Speed Is paper have decried the reports, saying that a small concentration of the with my male friend, but didn't. coca leaves is employed con- amphetamine, the base for making My straight conscience and my they are "just the usual crap that the sen ferring, to it a natural stiviu- sational media writes to sell papers." laiinf^ effect and unique qua methoxylated amphetamines which inability to move due to shivering lity. An enjoyable rejresbment The covering note that accompanies are hallucinogenic. SF>eed has not got prevented this. if you drinJn it neat, and an each 26oz bottle of the drink stales that excellent long drink adding ge a good reputation in the general "We woke up mid afternoon the it is designed to be stimulating and ref nerously ice and soda. drug world - it is generally regarded next day ultra relaxed, content and reshing. that "speed kills" and some say that laughing again. The norm since has those right into speed will die in been grass (standard $25 to $30 about six months from when they deals with varying amounts of heads start injecting ("shooting") it. and leaf), hash and hash oil as a "/ was sitting in the union bar regular part of the daily routine. talking with a group of friends who The only problem is the expense. were all waiting for the dealer to "An interesting effect of dope is turn up: another friend of mine you hyperactivity of the brain. At times, see, who was supposed to be bringing depending on how much alcohol has some smack for the furthest out been drunk/the extent of tiredness/ there. He had some speed and how stimulating the conversation is, offered it to me. talking to another person can turn "We went into one of the unoc into a blitzkrieg pot-pourri of cupied function rooms where he thoughts. A dozen different answers rutrt dragged out a cap of white powder WiM-OlMMd nvVii to a question, or umpteen angles ruin and put two piles on a piece of to a topic instantly flash across the Muar4tNviT tMCk.p(ino paper on the table. He sniffed the mind, predicting the strand of a Opium tnecb>wi first pile through a rolled up dollar conversation many progressions on. note then offered the note to me. HK^Mting lb »w Often this leads to actually saying jMmtKV* I snorted it It was a very cocaine 0"** tr»»o CocttM INttMltol ^ «>W tMl«t£< very little. It's as if the concept or IMCOOICMXAA OI edOlQO frMdf'ir*' thing to do. LSO untfrwMovMm hit 3W3ao ClM'vnsrei*! frucho. tJm« liia Mage 4« FftANCE SMtlktM tocibll. (U lors becomes more important, or more CANADA Coic«N>*n «»rC* lb took hold then we went back into f»ilXQ *'"i''»«Po»r Ciiil •( n't 1»» Moaoo i»irt 1fltM« interesting, than holding the con Trutvlxkl ii}» i3an?vi the bar where everyone was blobbed «>X HiMSiUn IVMtindtMd 1*110.* 'Sund rwino 1-331M IkUnncriitAt >b MM «I>)XI0 versation itself. »Ai ruin «»nn MotocCA-v nol nxKif)? M around doing nothing, tossing back nssn WlWofW »u «»IO0 ConnOilMwr tncfvUinp l»ow «0«0 ruin ie,*K ^•«n uii the odd beer. Someone said some "Dope is nearly always a plus CoMmtMi MVC U<00 I'CttOtlVt 6lKtiAltf>un> OWptiCPd HiKftan f«rt«tr good \»rx rum QOOttOO 1CDOI400 tOi LSD •ucn thing and I picked it up and tossed during sex. Body contact, foreplay, »OC]100 1«Oi«30 bUckti nj«n i>.tock{iur ArohtM |u,h Opium ID IS ptki hath ltf 11 Mct^i. m\V! orgasm take on heightened dimen 1(0 fto <;a>irao a rave back. Everyone was stunned. nabwi rjioo rufth •r«ft)ow>tf ttotn iriiiti>t%> ir)"l f?G^41 ^v» sions as the skin becomes more AtaruM QEftMANr I don't think anyone understood a hftiiioit ot »ta r*f« at 'OOltt DOOdio lOODlfto Mo«t»Wl ir««n»ndoui •K4litc| I wow H4lhtP*>» pg Despite the hysteria of the modern self-made arbiters of societal be invasion of western Europe centuries frenzy whenever a tribal war loomed. haviour drugs have been used for thousands of years. They have been usedahea d of the Romans, This usage of plants for social for the obvious medical reasons and for religious festivals and rites and, of All of the drugs used by the and survival functions is as old as the course, for simple enjoyment In some parts of the world where living is on various societies were natural. The aborigine culture and is probably the survival level they have been used to increase endurance. And they have synthetic ones made in laboratories the oldest surviving of its kind in the been used in war. Not as a medicine either. and then distributed to the general world. And the world never once looked like falling apart. In fact with the populace are recent. Very recent. The most popular drug the world neverending list of nuclear '^accidents" one reads about today, it appears And, of the drugs used by these over now is cannabis. And one of that our mutated descendants will need drugs even more as a social lub "primitive" societies, nearly all were the oldest. Whenever anyone thinks ricant to get them through lives of tedium and unemployment. hallucinogenic, although they were of dope Immediately the association not always used as such. So. The drug problem (so-called Alcohol has been known for Is with India, regarded as the home by those who never went there and thousands of years - mentioned in The native people of Australia of It. Not without foundation. Dope those who had their own and didn't the Bible in the Old Testament - took nicotine In large quantities to has been smoked and eaten In India want anyone else to have different and supposed to have been dis enable them to stand the dry barren for thousands of years. There anyone ones) is big, bold, barefaced and. . . covered by the Greeks approxi climates for extended periods walking the streets is likely to be booming. All in today's world. mately 5,000 years ago. It was used without water. The plants came from invited by an Indian sitting in a wall But what of the cultures that used as a social lubricant even then. the nicotinia variety native to this shop or at a tea stand to have a hit of the weed usually from a clay drugs over the millenia? The celebrated Omar Khayyam made country. Piturl was also taken. The mention of wine in the Persian aborigines seemed to have an ex chilm - the seemingly universal masterpiece, the Rubaiyat, and tensive working knowledge of the way of smoking there. GREEKS USED ALCOHOL meads are known to have been properties of the local pants. There The Assyrians used the plant as 5,000 YEARS AGO brewed by the Vikings before their wre some that were used to induce an incense in the ninth century and 14 K R U / in Thebes, a river city in Central about Mexican natural magician Asia, a thousand miles west of Don Juan. India, the stuff was made into a' In Australia we have Blue Meanies drink. and Gold Tops. There are places in One of the more bizarre epi Victoria where Amanita Muscaria is sodes to be recorded about dope oc reported to grow as well. curred in the northern Iranian hills Again in South America, this time during the 13th century, it was here in Brazil, Colombia (where the coca that Hassan-i-Sabah, a feudal ruler vine grows) and Venezuela, the set up an impregnable fortress where natives take a hallucinogenic and fast he had a beautiful garden filled with acting snuff called yakee, nyakwana all the delights - food, women, wine or epena. This snuff is snorted and dope,. .of course. through a bamboo or bone tube and induces hallucinations, nausea and numbness follov^^d by sleep. Macros- copia is frequent. HASHISH ENHANCES LOYALTY? The snuff is made from bark of So far all's normal, , .but!! This the Virola trees and is sometimes venerable chappie had a severe para laced with other barks. It is very noid streak, so he would promise high in trptamines, including 5- the most daring and strongest young methoxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamine men in the region eternal life in para (a DMT to you) which is very dise in return for small favours. psychoactive. These favours were usually to kill A plant that is available in enemies of Hasan-i-Sabah. In order Australia that has psychoactive pro to gain the men's loyalty the ruler perties is the Common Thornapple. would fete them in the gardens This grows wild in large parts of where they had all the eartlhy the eastern states. It is known as pleasures, including liberal doses of Jimson Weed in the States and has hashish. When they were properly the botanical name of Datura Stra hooked they'd be given a couple of monium. This genus (Datura) is well days in a dungeon to savour the represented in Australia. Parts of the difference then told they could plant have been used in Asia and return to the earthly paradise if America and Africa for social pur they completed their deeds success poses and has also been used widely fully. If they died during their in South America as medicine and What They Are killing attempts he guaranteed them for divination and visions. One of eternal life in a similar and real the concoctions is a mixture of heaven. Datura and Banisteriopsis to make They they would be topped up yaje. with more hashish and let loose. All parts of the Datura plant Soon everyone around was paying have hallucinogenic properties and And What They tribute to this loonie to keep his the South Americans have developed Hashishins at home. a highly sophisticated pharmacology whereby they use different parts of the plant in varying doses for a wide GOING BERSERKERS ON range of effects.. .including violence. MUSHIES Do To You Mushrooms also had wide accep Atropa Belladonna (containing Amid all the hysteria that the tion characteristics but none or the tance and usage in the "primitive" atropine) has been widely used in issue of illegal drugs has generated euphoria of the natural opiates. cultures. One of the most widely Mediterranean culture by women very little of the voluminous in There are other drugs that come known ones (uncoiYinlOn in who took small amounts of it before formation concerning the chemistry under the label of narcotics - Australia) is the fly agaric or going to parties. The stuff made their and psychopharmacology of the these are Demerol (a tradename) Amanita Muscaria. It appears that eyes sparkle and dilated the pupils - popularly used drugs has been pub and methaqualone. the ancient Vikings used to use the both things were regarded as beauty lished. The narcotics, like the central mushroom to induce rage when they aids. Both Belladonna Mandragora "Time Off" presents here a partial nervous system depressants, act on were going to war. They were known Officinalis were used in the Middle compilation of the chemistry and the central nervous system (CNS) as Berserkers. Ages for their hallucinogenic proper the physiological and psychological to dull the senses, A new theory About 3,500 years ago the An/ans ties. effects of both illegal and legal doing the traps is that these nar brought a cult drug named soma into Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) was drugs. cotics take the place of the natural India. Although it is not known for known in Mediterranean cultures to There are four major chemical body-produced pain reliever sure what soma was, there are strong cause hallucinations and could have categories that can be used. These- ephedrine and reduce the body's indications that it may have been even caused permanent insanity. This are narcotics, central nervous sytem capacity to produce this drug. Thus Amanita Muscaria. This mushroom plant contained atropine, depressants and hypnotics, central it is when the junkie does cold is most widely used in the Siberian sxopolamine, and is known to have nervous system stimulants, and turkey he has the problem that he region. been important in the conjuration psychedelics or hallucinogenic drugs. is open to all sensations that Another group of mushrooms of devils, prophecy and soothsaying Nowhere has there been included a normally would have been tempered commonly used for religious and in the European sorcery of the discussion of the various types of by the pain suppressant. So even cultural purposes even today is that Middle Ages. * glues that seem to have found pleasure becomes pain, because the of the psilocybe, paneolus, conocybe popular acceptance among the body has lost the ephidrine-making and stropharia genuses. Mushrooms Peyote (mescaline) was also used younger more irrational members of capacity. in these groups are found world widely in south America by the pre- the drug taking community. The big difference between nar wide, including Australia, but were colombian religions of the Aztecs In fact this discussion will con cotics and other forms of drugs is used most in religious and cultural et al. It was recently popularised centrate largely on the last the intensity with which the nar events in central America. by various proponents of the mentioned category on the grounds cotics taker becomes dependent on The Aztecs used to call the mush counterculture drug high priests. of the availability of information the drug. All the depressants and rooms teonanacti (food of the gods) Aldous Huxley was among the and the intensity of debate about some of the stimulants are physically and ate it ceremonially for divina earliest of the famous Europeans them. dependence building to an extent, tion, prophecy and worship. The to use the drug. but nowhere is that dependence as mushrooms are still in popular use It too was mentioned in NARCOTICS pronounced as in the narcotics. in several southern Mexico tribes Castaneda's books about the Yaqui Narcotics; the smallest group with and has been described in great magician Don Juan. And it is tfie possibly the worst name attaching ALCOHOL AS A DEPRESSANT detail in Carlos Castaneda's quartet only one of the banned drugs that Is to any of the illegal drugs. The Alcohol is the only one that has presently taken legally in the US. opium poppy is the natural origin similar withdrawal characteristics but The Native Church of America, of all in this group. Derivatives of because of the lack of euphoria it comprised of mainly Kiowa and the poppy found in the Golden is not included as a narcotic but as Comanche Indians, has been granted Triangle in Asia, in Iran, Turkey, a depressant. Even though alcohol special dispensation to use the drug and South America are: opium, is accepted by society it is beginning in its religious ceremonies. morphine, heroin (in ascending order to be regarded in some circles as of strength and addiction) and being as addictive as the traditional codeine. This is just a short list of the narcotics and as hard to stop taking. cultural usages of drugs. Anyone Synthetic narcotics that are cus Central nervous sytem depressants wishing to read more of this aspect tomarily given to opiate addicts to and hypnotics: here find alcohol, of drugs should consult the bib facilitate withdrawal from those teh barbituates, tranquillizers and liography at the end of this sup drugs are methadone and mepiridine, some inhalants. Except for alcohol, both of which have greater addic plement the depressants are synthetic. This 15 TIMEOFF November, 1979 h: u fl a WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET good chance of being acquitted. BUSTED BY THE POLICE Don't make conversation with the friendly half of the good guy/bad NewWaysTo If the worst does happen and the guy team. Even casual conversation police arrest you on an illegal drug can be used in evidence against you charge, remember that most people and, when taken out of context or convict themselvK, out of their subtly altered, can sound incrimina own mouth, either under pressure ting. Don't despair if you get busted. Implode Your Mind or out of ignorance. If you keep calm (not easy I know) You're not required to say any your chances of acquittal in court thing when arrested except to give are greatly enhanced. your name and address, and you If you're tired of this paranoia While there are a few substances tropic activity. Physical effects should be warned by the police and persecution and having to take that are known for psychoactive include blue eyes, blonde hair and that anything you say can be used all these precautions seems properties, and these have been spatulate feet. A certain darkening against you in court. somewhat ridiculous to you, tlien extensively chronicled, it is true of the skin and coarsening of the Obviously considerable pressure the obvious solution is a political that not nearly so much attention mental outlook are also noted. (physical and otherwise) can be one. Change the laws. The Brisbane has been paid to those sub BEATEN F STRINGS (and brought to bear on anyone who branch of the Australian Marijuana stances that have little or no such assorted: Associated with metal doesn't own up. The promise of an Party needs your help to alter the activity. poisoning in themusic industry. early release from the watchhouse insane drug laws that victimise the Accordingly, as a community These objects are the subject of is often enough to tempt you to significant minority of Australians service for those people (including strange rituals in the jetset groupie sign an admission. But the fact is who prefer cannabis to, the other the various religious sects that scene leading to cyanosis of the that your ordeal doesn't end outside freely available intoxicants. may have felt neglected so far in labia majora. Constant manipulation the watchhouse doors and gritting this treatise), "Time Off" provides is also known to have caused the your teeth for a few hours can save Cannabis law reform has been a list of the more commonly known breakdown of white blood cells in you from a high fine or even a jail achieved overseas by constant substances that have iittle or no the brain, a condition that promotes sentence. political activity and the same can drug overdoses but is not chemically activity on the brain and/or CNS Be polite, humble and conciliatory happen in Australia with your related. The strings act as a digestive and/or RAS and/or the thalamus to the police at all times. Say some- support. Send suggestions, enquiries, aid by clearing the intestinal tracts and/or the spirit. ting like "I can't comment but I'll money (party membership costs of the occasional blockages and make a statement when I've seen a mere $10 per annum) to P.O. Box they have been observed being ad FRIED THONGS, OMO, PIZZA, my solicitor", and stick to that 181, Fortitude Valley, 4006. Hep ministered to recalcitrant rockstars RAZOR BLADES, CHALK formula throughout and you stand a us to help you. FRIED THONGS: said to taste by furious promoters faced by prima delicious but totally without any donna walkouts. One of the most mental activity. versatiles substances in the industry, OMO, SURF: and other washing products normally restricted to use GROUND BIBLES: Usually a in domestic washing machines:dhese Queensland dish, it is not known to are known to cause a strong activity cause any mental activity. Hysteria CANNABIS: BOOSTING POTENCY Cannabidiol occurs most in the in the stomach which is said to shorten is guaranteed though, if after leaves of the male and female plants the digestion time of the average digestion, copies of Playboy and The cultivation of cannabis plants and has no psychotropic action. housewife considerably. "Said to" Penthouse are consumed. A dish has been elevated to an art in various It is plentiful In these parts and because all experiments of this very much in demand in Parliament parts of the world. It has been recog found in reduced quantities in the nature have not been repeated. House and the Kingaroy plateau. nised for centuries that not all flowering heads of the female plants. Mental activity restricted to pain Over indulgence leads to complete marijuana plants have the same It follows therefore that if it could and anguish. mental breakdown and eventually effect on the user. In fact it has been be turned Into THC the overall PIZZA: generally restricted to (only eventually unfortunately) well established that the female potency of the plant would be various groans of agony and cessa death. plant Is stronger in Its effects than greatly enhanced. tion of thought for periods of up LENTILS, BROWN RICE AND the male. (Marijuana is a dioecious A couple of Israelis found in to three weeks. CARROT CAKE: No mental effects plant having two saxes and needing 1963 that if cannabidiol is boiled RAZOR BLADES: possessing a whatever. Leads to egotism, holier- plants of both sexes to propogate). in absolute ethanoi containing rather sharp taste, this substance than-though attitudes and The reason for this has been estab 0,05% hydrochloric acid for a is one of the more unusual items lished: the plants manufacture an couple of hours a mix of CDB and on the list of the average psychede- almost bewildering array of canna the psychoactive THC results. They lophobe. Known for its direct action, binols and their derivatives. These said that it was unlikely that iso- this substance nevertheless has no include cannabidiolic acid, cannab merisation would occur. By con psychedelic activity although there idiol, cannabigerol and tetrahydro tinuing the boiling, the percentage has been little research done into it cannabinol. The last is the one that of THC increased. Also under more and its effects in clinical laboratory produces the effect that marijuana strongly acidic conditions the 6 situations. takers use the drug for. trans isomer is formed as well as COLOURED CHALK DUST: But! If you think that is the end more of the l trans THC first Crazy teachers to the contrary, chalk of it then wait. There are an entire mentioned. (made of calcium) has no history of series of terahydrocannabinols that By isomerisation of the product, nervous breakdowns, hallucinations have varying psychotropic effects. the potency of the overall sub and dementia praecox, so long as These THCs have various isomers stance can be enhanced greatly. dosages are kept under the legal cis and trans which also have effects Some isomerisation kit sellers'claim safety levels. Excessive doses beyond that differ from each other. ALSO! up to 600%. That may be a little the prescribed levels (as set by the Both these have different charac high but you understand the drift. school board in your town) have teristics when the double bond is What all this jargon means simply been known to cause acute authori moved from 1 to the 6 position in (for the acid casualties of Grafton) tarianism and unreasoning anger the molecule. is that there are two processes followed by bizarre after-school So folks, if you are still there, whereby the inactive cannabidiols sexual rites and gradual death by it should be obvious that there are which are the most plentiful creeping constipation. many levels of activity on the user's cannabis gremlins in marijuana can brain cells in the THCs which are be converted into THC, the ones accepted as the main activators of that chew the brain. the "highs". GRILLED PRAYERWHEELS, degeneration to bucolic rusticity. These THCs are generally found CHANTBOOKS, SURFBOARD Most noted result is the absence of Now don't forget: this purely in greatest profusion in the un- WAX, BEATEN F STRINGS, electricity and the presence of theoretical discussion of the pollinated heads of the female GROUND BIBLES, CARROT CAKE naked (uncircumcised in the case chemical conversion of certain flowering plant. This is the reason GRILLED PRAYERWHEELS of boys) brats. Numbers using this aromatic compounds is designed to AND CHANTBOOKS: an imported . category are diminishing due to the why users prefer the heads of the increase the public awareness of Eastern dish of extreme irrationality absence of money. May be found in female plant. Scattered through the what really is the thing responsible and religious xenophobia. Known to profusion in the inner suburbs of rest of the plant, and in the male for all the craziness going around. have minimal mental effects beyond Brisbane near universities. plant as well, are a profusion of the It is done in the public interest the restriction of outlook (not to nonactive cannabinols - cannabidiol, (those people who are unfortunately mention braincells) and the raising etal. likely to come Into contact with of Hare Krishnas to the fettered There are many other notable What this story is about is acid these things would be interested) imagination. substances which posses little or no cycl isation of these nonactive so that if you ever find a friendly psychotropic characteristics. Re fractions to the stronger THCs at stranger leering at you with a lighted SURFBOARD WAX: has purely at various levels, and the isomerisa- something In his/her hand, you can psychological effects on the search into these could be a re warding occupation for the Right tion of the THCs up the potency guess what percentage chance you specialised groups associated with ladder. The process has been known have of not being affected by that wax. These effects are potentiated Person although longevity is not assured. for eithe r15 years or 30 odd years, something should you be coerced by liberal doses of seawater, another depending on who you talk to. into taking it. substance not know for its psycho -CALVIN NOACK 18 D ft U / The Myth Of Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll I think that like most people expect art or culture to be too far With a purple heart & a monkey on his I've been sucked into the prevailing ahead or too out of pace with the back. myth of sex & drugs & rock 'n roil rest of society? In general terms CU: There's a hole in daddy's arm wliere as being in some way linked as if the answer is NO, but in the context all the money goes etc. by divine intervention or any other of the myth of "sex & drugs & rock variant of the cosmic master plan 'n roll" - musicians and their ad Sam Stone's welcome home didn't last too school of thought. vertising agents portraying them as long, Sex & Drugs & Rock N Roll may "outrageous rebels" and flying in the He went io work when he^d spent his last face of conformity - one could dime well be linked in real life, in the real And Sammy took to stealin' BIBLIOGRAPHY: world, but if you wanted to see some expect to be more surprised more When he got that empty feelin' evidence of this link in the music, often than one is. For a Sl00 habit without overtime "Island" by Aldous Huxley. 1962 available you'd by and large be wasting your Few of these "rebels" have ever And the gold rolled through his veins in paperback. time. flown in the face of anything much Like 1,000 railroad trains "The Doors of Perception/Heaven and And eased Ins mind in the home that lie Almost the only sex that gets a beyond the ghost of Victorian chose Hell" by Aldous Huxley. Available in look in is basically sexist and offen Puritanism. While tke kids ran around wearing other paperback. sive, the next step is mawkish The moralistic vogue spawned by people's clothes "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" by sentimental love. None of that Neil Young's "Needle & the Damage Peter Matthieson Random House. CH: There's a hole etc. 'The Ecstatic Adventure", ed. R. Metzner good clean/dirty uncomplicated iust Done" seems to be mercifully University Books. Sam Stone tuas alone when fte popped his that at times provides what Norman sinking in the bog of its own medio "The Psychedelic Experience" by T. Gunston would probably call "bus crity, leaving the anti-drug crusading last balloom Climbing walls while sitting in a chair Leary, R. Metzner and R. Aipert 1964 shelters along life's dreary highway." to the Barry McGuires of this world. Well he played his last request University Books. Some black American singers have Where it belongs, in church halls While the room smelled just like death "LSD and the Enlightenment of Zen", gotten pretty steamy from time to where nobody hears it. With an overdose hovering in the air W. van Dusen, PSYCHO LOG IA Kyoto, time; Frank Zappa has indulged in But life bad lost its feelin ' Japan, 1961. some rather "crude" parody, but WHEN DID YOU LAST HEAR AN There was nothin' to be done 'The Teachings of Don Juan", et al by Bul trade his house that bought on the Carlos Castaneda paperback. none of these has ever been clearly ACID SONG? Gil Kill Almost the only illicit drugs to 'The Politics of Experience/The Bird of in the mainstream of pop/popular/ For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' Paradise" by R.D. Laing, available in rock culture. be really taken up have been Acid/ hill paperback. LSD (remember) and marijuana/ There are emerging people, like CH: There's a hole etc. "The Yage Letters", A. Ginsberg & W. Ian Dury who manage to get down grass, but then again times change. Burroughs 1963 City Lights Books. to the basics and there have been When was the last time you heard SPECIAL INTEREST BECOMES "Implications of LSD and Experimental people like Tim Buckley. Ian Dury an acid song and how many SELF INTEREST Mysticism" by W. Pahrke & W. Richards variations of the mellow, laid back in the Journal of Religion and Health has yet to really advance beyond A gloomy view, but a valid and song about being "stoned" are 1966. cult status and Tim Buckley died intelligent view nonetheless. One can before he was able to. The point possible. "Narcotics and Drug Addiction" by E. in fact come up with any number Hesse, 1946 Philosophical Library. still remains that these are ex While the pleasure of marijuana of examples of drug allusions but as has often been sung about, there 'The Effects of Mescaline on the Higher ceptions, and as such illustrate the a proportion of the total volume Nervous Activity" by W. Bridget & W. conservatism of rock/pop music. has been little campaigning in and output of the industry "drugs" Gartt in the Journal of Pharmacology, 113. For all the grandstanding of rock popular music against the glaring are like a needle in the haystack. 7-8,1955. performers, rock & roll has failed double standard of a society that One presumably has a heightened The Effect of Mescaline on Differen to celebrate sex. romanticises and glorifies the con awareness of the incidence and tiated Conditioned Reflexes" author un sumption of alcohol and tobacco content of these songs because of known, in the American Journal of BESSIE SMITH THE EXCEPTION and imprisons people for smoking a special interest. Psychiatry, 113,352-360,1956. Which leads me to drugs. If you marijuana. "A Pharmacological Approach to the By and large any "special interest" Study Of The Mind"' by R,M. Feather- take my point. The two drugs pro While the use of the opiates and shown in these songs has been purely their derivatives (morphine/heroin stone & A. Senior (eds) Springfield, III. bably most celebrated in popular "self" interest. There has been little Thomas. 1959. music have been the "safe", legal etc.) have been referred to as both evidence of an awareness of the pleasurable and degrading variously, "LSD: A Design Tool?" by E. Clough in drugs; tobacco and alcohol, seeming political ramifications of drug taking Progressive Architecture (US) August to indicate again an underlying con there has been little reference to the or of a desire to attempt to 1966. servatism. Admittedly there have social conditions within which drug rationally set the record straight. "Hallucinogens of Plant Origin" by E. been exceptions, like Bessie Smith, addiction flourishes. Hard drug use To overcome the false, biased, dis Schultes in Science, NY, 163,1964. light years ago asking for a "pig has been treated from either the honest, scaremongering indulged in foot", a "reefer" and a "bottle of point of view of sheer indulgence generally by the media. Tlie periodic journals have all carried articles on the different drugs. The general beer". She must have been as out or contempt, but rarely from com In fact overall drug references rageous in her time as "The Clash" passion or concern. purpose Scientific American has a list of in songs have declined noticeably back issues of reprints of articles and a nowadays with "Drug Stabbing over the past five years or so. JOHN PRIME SHINES good number of the concern drugs. Time". Other Journals that are of benefit are In both of these instances i.e. COCAINE AND DISCO Science, Nature, Tetrahedron, the marijuana use and hard drug use, It's probably ironic that the one American Journal of Psychology, Lancet, John Prine remains something of real exception to the absence of drug the Journal of Mental Science, the an exception. Two songs from his orientated songs from the Chemical Abstracts and the Journal of the first album serve as examples, mainstream of popular culture is American Chemical Society, ". . .fortunately, I have the key, J.J, Cale's song "Cocaine" (which to escape reality, and you may see me tonight, with an illegal smile, topped the charts in Brisbane of all it don't cost very much, but it lasts places ) but then again that song had a long while, won't you please tell been around for a year or two, and didn't move at all until it was the man, 1 didn't kill anyone, no JINDALEE HEALTH & I'm just trying to have me some released as a 12" maxi disco single SPECIALTY FOODS fun." and was played in the discos. There's probably a conclusion to be drawn The sentiment here is obvious. from the "Cocaine" example but Curragundi Road, Unfortunately "The Clash" suffer In another song he sings of a whatever that is eludes. from a self imposed limitation in Vietnam veteran who comes home Jindalee that their lyrics are virtually in an addict (a monkey on his back). All of which is leading me in Phone 376 2660 comprehensible. The intention of the a most roundabout way, back to my original contention that "Sex song can be fairly safely assumed Sam Stone, came home, to his wife & Our resident nutritionist offers however. As brash and vulgar an family, & Drugs & Rock N Roll", is a myth expert advice on all aspects of affront to "safe European" values After serving in the conflict overseas in the sense of being a mass way of HEALTHCARE. as we've seen. And the time tluit he served life. "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" Had shattered all his nerves may well be a great song, a great Traditionally rock seems to have 10% Discount to Students And left a little shrapnell in his knees emotive anthem, even a sometimes been all too hesitant to discard the But the morphine eased the pain prejudices of society, which of And the grass grew round his brain inspiring notion, but it still remains course, begs the question - can we And gave him all the confidence he lacked neutered by reality. 19 TIMEOFF November, 1979 u / Delaney. Also important was the by the Gorton government In influx of American soldiers on R&R October 1969 as minister for from Vietnam, although the author Customs and Excise. says their role was exaggerated by Delaney congratulates Chipp for the sensational press. vigorous interest in the portfolio and documents the minister's almost #»#»#*«#•# childlike desire to become personally involved in big drug busts, usually On the NSW police, he says: to the detriment of the Narcotics "Its many honest policemen are not Bureau. allowed to go about their work as they might. Those corrupt police »#•**«»##* men who protect certain criminal elements are in turn protected by Delaney documents his dislike for equally corrput senior officers and Lionel Murphy as the minister res politicians." ponsible in the first year of the He says the "wide-scale" cor Whitlam government. Murphy ruption in the NSW legal fraternity wouldn't authorise large payments to flows on into the ranks of par informants, he thought the pro liamentarians, many of whom are cedure morally and legally suspect. THE GODFATHER IN rather extensive section on drugs lawyers, and describes peculiar In defence of the widepsread use of AUSTRALIA: Bob Bottom. Pub (a quarter of the book) he is just working relations between the police informants Delaney says: "to know lished by AH&AW Reed Pty Ltd, not correct in several passages. His and legal profession in that state, of the existence of an offender, to Sydney, 1979. assertions that there is a major whereby police are either too close know the extent of his criminal This book purports to be about drug conspiracy in Byron Bay is to defence counsel or are in total dealings is not the same as having organised crime in Australia - not well supported and the section conflict with them. evidence." in fact that is the message of the on the Sydney heroin dealing con In NSW a defence lawyer can subhead on the title. It is written nection that has a high position in manipulate the court outcome well »•****»«## by Bob Bottom, a chappie who has a bank smacks of rank opportunism. before the case is heard. The lawyer Delaney was an advocate of using been as the flyleaf puts it "no And is not correct. buys his way into the confidence dogs to sniff out the marijuana. stranger to controversy". Nor will But a good deal of the book is of police by "selling briefs" which The Customs Department had three this book diminish that reputation. very useful. Tracing the history of is when the prosecution makes its drug-detecting German Shepherds, It comes in a garish red and black Murray Riley, a cop turned crim evidence available to the defence who was involved in a big shipment weeks before the court hearing and two of them kennelled in Sydney, cover with some prose on the back and one in Melbourne. They were cover that would do the worst of of marijuana that was busted on the gives the defence the opportunity south NSW coast, was excellent. to manufacture alibis. deployed to sniffing incoming plane the yellow press proud. And this baggage, but met obstruction from As were other sections, including Delaney says this practice is treatment is not toned down any quarantine officials, airport ground the Mackay/Griffith case, even if it accepted in NSW, whereas in other where through the book: so it staff and postal unions. The dogs was histrionic in parts. states a policeman found to be suffers from some of the worst of weren't suited to one of their major The book points up the need to sensationalist journalism, which is "selling out" would be ostracised. tasks, sniffing out large cargo sheds. mixed freely with some new and legalise a whole range of "victim "On the other hand, a barrister genuinely penetrating insights into less" crimes quickly and openly so in conflict with the NSW police can "'Some of them covered acres, not the mind and rationale of the that the criminals are forced out of expect no co-operation in even the square yards, and cargo was stacked criminal and his world. Australia. But it is unfortunate that simplest of matters. . .1 have even to the roof. Pork-lift trucks whizzing between the rows of cargo were a Don't get me wrong: if you want the author finds for various reasons heard NSW policemen threaten a hazard; cats jumping from box to to get the connection between some that he is not able to say directly solicitor with physical violence out box in search ofthe everpresent mice of the more exotic activities con what he knows and that in areas side a court. The solicitor cowered." were a distraction; the workers' cerning crime and drugs that didn't where he does not know he finds it Delaney cites the proliferation in lunch time scraps v\4iich lay make sense in your paper then this necessary to resort to bombast and Sydney of prostitution (where girls appealingly on the floor were hard book is a must. Just remember that bluster. It would be interesting to pay police to be allowed to take it to resist The dust on the concrete it is written in somewhat of an ex see what he would make of the larger in turns to be arrested and go to floor didn't help the smelling pro cessive style and that there are flaws crimes of the CIA and their con police lock-up by appointment), cess. Some of the workers didn't of logic through the book that, if nections in Australia. shoplifting (buying a "licence to help by patting a dog and showing the author had thought a little more Even with these faults the book shoplift" off local police), S.p. an interest in it; others were even about what he was doing, would is definitely essential reading for bookmaking in' pubs and so on. less helpful by whistling and cat not have been necessary - after all those who want to have some pers •«*#*#««*• calling in an effort to distract the the story, if it is good enough, can pective on this area of criminal animal." tell itself. It just needs a competent activity in Australia. See "The writer, not a beatup ai'tist. Brown Tapes", "Narc" and "Opera Don Chipp, sacked as Navy In what Delaney often refers to Minister in 1967, was reinstated throughout the book, another The main theme of Bottom's tion Mind Control" for reviews of book is the connection between relevance. All that is missing is a our crims and the US "mafia". book on the big ones - corporate HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION IN The word mafia is in inverted criminals. commas because the author rightly -CALVIN NOACK NEW ZEALAND points out its overuse in referring to every crim as "mafia" - which is Self-Contained Flats in Christchurch not true. He uses the term to mean crims who have got their acts well or NARC! INSIDE THE A number of self-contained flats will be available for letting from chestrated and smooth. AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF NAR mid-November. COTICS: This leads onto a subtheme of the book - that corruption of the 3y Bernard Delaney, $4.95, Angus Rates for overseas students are: country's politicians and police par and Robertson. ticularly in NSW are epidemic. But This is a concise, highly Infor $NZ3.00 per night per person here he slips up. While what he says mative, if occasionally short-sighted $NZ15.00 per week per person about the cops may be true (I don't account of the Australian Bureau of know that world too well) he seems Narcotics by a former Regional Each unit comprises 6 single bedrooms and contains washing always to be inferring that the ALP Commander Bernard Delaney. If you machine, electric dryer, slot telephone, etc. is the only party that has corrupted accept that the author is a narc, Students should bring sleeping bags but bedlinen, electric appliances, members. This bias may stem in part with the standard moralising and kitchen hardware, etc., are available on hire if required. from his treatment by the rulers grouping of all illegal drugs into the Units are on aerodrome bus route and S'/a miles from city centre. (Labor) of Broken Hill. same basket, Delaney provides us This theme is low key throughout with an intimate insight into the Early reservation is essential and should be made to: but is persistent. . .and wrong. Not Narcotics Bureau, the illegal and completely wrong, mind you. It is unauthorised phone tapping, the The Manager, interesting to read some of the interference with mail, the use of Ham Flats, background to some of the more undercover agents armed with University of Canterbury, inconsistent actions of Nifty Nev: thousands of dollars to secure a Christchurch, something which does little to transaction before an arrest, and a NEW ZEALAND. inspire what confidence I have in host of other unsavoury tactics that chap. But it is somewhat ob perpetrated in the name of law Minimum deposit of $NZ10.00 should accompany each application. vious for the author to gloss over enforcement. Group bookings welcome. some of the more blatant Liberal party corruption by using the ex *•#•«#•»*» Reasonable conduct, behaviour and care of facilities is expected of all tenants. pedient of not naming names and All breakages, repairs and cleaning costs will be charged for. being vague in his times and ac "Our drug problem started and No responsibility is accepted for loss or damage of personal property, though tivities. This is sheer opportunism. matured in Sydney. The main factor a safe is available for storage of small items of value, if required. Nor does this stop here. In the was corruption in the police," says 20 \ u R a example of illogical political decision would want to suppress the book. sceptics should read the book before making, the department switched of "The Godfather in Australia" That organisation comes out of it making unwise pronouncements. from using the world-renowned and "Narc" in this section. smelling like a month old corpse in But perhaps the biggest drawback German Shepherds to Labradors, -CALVIN NOACK a cesspit for diarrhoea sufferers. to the book is that it fits into a style Labradors, he says, are susceptible The book uses formerly classifed that has been noted in other books to shoulder and hip dislocations and information gained under the Free denouncing interest groups in the injuries (a worry for animals required TOXIC KISSES: dom of Information Act that they States. These other books are known to jump in and out of cars, onto at least have over there (we haven't to have been written by members of By Robert English. Published by trucks and into inaccessible places), got one so we can't do what this the fundamentalist rightwing groups Angus and Robertson, 1979. find it difficult to work in the heat, fellow has done) to ferret out the that are now attacking the U.S. If it's laughs that you want then and are less tenacious than German basic facts of the uninterrupted government for being too permissive you should read this book. If you are Shepherds. 40 years of the development of mind toward big money ethnic minorities a drugged loonie and you want to "We selected a few friendly house control techniques to the point of who they say are getting too much read how another Australian loonie invisibility. hold pets and attempted to turn of a hold on the country and its vital handles his drugs then you should them into narcotic-detecting dogs. affairs. And this activity is going on read this book. We were bound to fail." MIND CONTROLLED ASSASSINS to the detriment of the average There's very little in the way of Invisibility so profound that the Godfearin' US family. an organised plot (except the one *»#*#•*#*• author suspects (and makes out a This style has been noted in about the gambling boss and money good case for his suspicions) that books railing against the chemicals lender trying to kill Our Hero) Delaney's resignation in 1976 was John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther industry, the petroindustry and but the antics are unexpectedly due to being promoted up the ranks. King and Robert F, Kennedy were international companies controlling funny. Something rare in Australian "The difference is that in the all murdered by the CIA for the finance. One theory advanced is that literature. Army the best field operators are cryptocracy. In each case the the bigwigs in the States have an Set in Sydney and Perth, English's elevated to ranks where they are "assassins" were all mind controlled interest to set? the "Energy Crisis" Hero Mitchell Fielding manages to surrounded by administrators to take persons acted according to continue because they are making put away prodigious amounts of care of mundane things while they commands implanted in their minds money from it as advisers to the alcohol and assorted other drugs make the meaningful things happen. by hypnosis and drugs and wiped Arab states. (mostly downers) during his series The Bureau takes its best field clean by sonics. Apart from this the book is a of rather improbable escapades. operators or street men, and tries This book merely confirmed a must. It'll open your eyes. The book is reasonably written to turn them into adminstrators large number of my previously held -CALVIN NOACK and when one suspends belief the by sticking them behind a desk. ideas. No doubt it did the same for story becomes quite enjoyable. There they have little influence on a great many people who were There are some scenes that will no operations." doubt give women's liberationists THE BROWN TAPES: the fits (with justification) but they Edited by John Halpin, for the *##***•»**• are necessary to maintain the im Australian Marijuana Party. 1979. pression of a "user" - the hero This book merely confirms what (While Delaney was overseas, one "uses everyone, regardless of sex". every person even peripherally ac A good part of the book is slap of his agents Brown (now in jail and quainted with the illegal drug scene the subject of "The Brown Tapes") stick. A scene inside a Perth hotel knows: namely that the Federal featuring a Niggerhatin' Texan, a was found to be spending large Narcotics Bureau contains certain amounts of money obviously Negro, Our Hero andhis underage members who are engaged in smug girl, and an odd other voice or two acquired from bribery, and stealing/ gling and sale of drugs. selling drugs from the Bureau safe. immediately come to mind. The Halpin has brought together a situation is improbable but very When Delaney returned he was collection of stories he had published accused of being dishonest and funny. in the dope paper Greed, Weed, Eed Plus the chemist shop exchange: thereafter set out to put Brown etc., plus some additional in gaol, both to protect his own Me: I need some Methedrine, some information to make the story more Mandrax, some Valium, and half a reputation and the name of the readable. dozen amyls (amyl nitrate). You Bureau. And since the book consists see it's the first time I've been out almost exclusively of conversations ********** on my own for some months," recorded by FNB operative Standfast "Chemist: Why do you need (could this be a pseudonym?) methedrine?" Me: Listen mister, "In my thirteen years' police outlining a plan to import large you're a chemist right? You're not service this was the first offer of a amounts of dope into the country a fucking psychiatrist. I don't even bribe, discounting a few trivial by a former FNB man Brown, it is know. Only my psychiatrist knows. offers from prostitutes on my Vice necessary to have the additional I just obey orders." and so on. Squad days. It had to come from info at the start of the book in order The book's an Aussie version of two policemen." to help tie the pieces together and Hunter S. Thompson saga "Fear and maintain early interest. Loathing in Las Vegas", a At first glance the tapes seem to comparison the author will love to OPERATION MIND CONTROL: be th eincoherent ravings of a group hate, I'm sure. But, having read that by Walter Bowart, Fontana/Collins, of drunken criminal lunatics. If particular drug book a decade ago 1978. there was no introductory material (or thereabouts) this one doesn't This is the book that the CIA explaining what these ravings are suffer so much in comparison. This tried to ban last year. With good about I would have thrown the book here "Toxic Kisses" is 162 pages reason. The book gives a blow by out - after all I could have more of lighthearted fun. A diversion for blow description of the clandestine coherent discussions vi/ith the neigh drug users and abusers. Quite en activities of that organisation over harassed by the secret service of this bourhood metho drinkers than with joyable. the last four decades relating to the and other countries during the this lot of thugs. -CALVIN NOACK direct control of the minds of often Vietnam days. But the cumulative effects of the unwilling subjects. But it seems to use rhetoric that drug information and the revelation It is written by a person with is just a little too hysterical. In fact of the ease with which some hitherto quite good counter culture the author seems to have never chappies inside the Bureau switch credentials. Walter Bowart was the gotten over those Vietnam days. sides when there's a dollar in it keeps the attention. founder of the East Village Other, There are at times such a profusion (cont. from page 17) of exclamation marks that one The book, nevertheless, remains a Greenwich New York based atropine. Others are the mandragora publication that had a very high tends to lose the point being so tedious reading. Active involvement vigorously thrust into one's eyes. from the reader is necessary to get plants and the henbanes as well as reputation among the disaffected quite a few of the duboisias. who flocked to the New York pre And some of the connections the most from it. And this "most" These may be taken by chewing cinct in the heydey of the hippy in the overall argument are a little is an argument that the magistracy the leaves or cooking the roots 60s. feeble. Which leads one to suspect in Melbourne is corrupt, there are branches or leaves. Teas may be The thesis of the book is that a that the author is claiming an ability corrput members of the police force for his enemies which they just don't in Melbourne, there is corruption made or they may be dried and "cryptocracy" (Bowart's word) is smoked. controlling world activities through or couldn't have possessed at that in the FNB extending all the way time. to the top and that all this is used The isoxazoles: pantherine, the use of CIA front "zombies" - ibotenic acid, msucarine.muscazone. people who are programmed by In other words the smooth prog by unscrupulous persons to make All found in the mushroom Amanita drugs, sonics and hypnosis. ression from world war two intelli fabulous sums of money from the gence to direct mind control is too illegal dope market. Muscaria or Fly Agaric. Psychotropic It is Bowart's contention that with stomach spasms. about 20 persons rule the U.S., smooth by half. The book is a must for those who The indole derivatives: Beta- and these 20 persons are neither This is not to say that the book want documented accounts to go carbolines, harmines, and ibogaine elected nor regulated. And they is not valuable. It is. And so is the with their suspicions and opinions and isoquinuclides. Found in work wherever they can get the most 16 pages of notes and bibliograpPiy that a good deal of the illegal dope rewards. Money and power are the which give valuable leads into the market is controlled by those who South America and some parts of rewards. subject for those interested. As well should be, according to the law, tropical Africa. Not available in Australia. One can understand why the CIA the information is such that all stamping it out. See also the review TIMEOFF November, 1979 .21 vvvl'-'//. Recently the Sports signed a world notiiing to speak of' is talking about the wide record contract, which will, more start of possibly a new world. than ever, ensure that they get the The song was originally conceived about intemational recognition that they so INTO THE SO's WITH a guy in a space station looking back at richly deserve. As Steve Cummings says, earth after what had happened there and it's all part of our plans for world domi writing back saying what had happened nation. But at the same time that Sports after the holocaust, after the worid had signed on the dotted line, another Aust T had it. That's why he's saying "In the end ralian (-based) band also signed a similar there was nothing to speak of. If you world vrfde contract. read all the lyrics, he is writing a letter. The band is MI-SEX. "21/20" carries on where that one left Some 13 months ago the band made off That song talks about today as well. the trek to Australia in search of recog It's pretty straightforward, if I could find nition and fame. This new deal firmly a way to end the turmoil in the worid I cements that goal. Their album is in the MISI would, but it's virtually impossible for one national top 20, according to the pres made but after having listened to Drums giving our opinion of how we looked at it. person to do anytiiing. tigious Kent Report after having sold some and Wires, it's one that isn't too far off the How it struck us. 9,000 copies in it's fust few days of re mark in some ways. What about "Kamera Kazi"? lease. For an unknown quantity, "Graffiti On the recent tour to Queensland I had What do the lines "my money! my You remember when you used to go Crimes" success can only be summed up a chance to go over the album with Steve sex! my standing in famelfl just get the to tlie movies when you were a child on by one word: incredible. Gilpin, the band's lead singer, and Murray feeling you have been using me/Wot do Saturday aftemoon and used to roll jaffas The band has just completed their Bums, Mi-Sex's keyboards whizz kid, to you want from me" mean? down the floor and get engulfed at the Graffiti Crimes Australian promotional try and fmd out what the album meant and It's asking Australian audiences what screen. It's about a guy who grows up and tour, which was to all concemed a big to talk about their future. do they want from Mi-Sex. What do tliey can't get away from the mo\ies. And one success, accumulating in the appearance Steve described the Mi-Sex sound as expect from us? It was written when we night he gets taken in by the screen and at the most recent 4ZZZ Joint Effort. 'seventies music going into the eighties', first arrived here also. gets completely overtaken by the move Pains are already underway for the band do you think this is a fitting description theatre. He becomes a 'Kamera Km'. to appear in Queensland in the near future. of the Mi-Sex sound? What about the single "But You Don't "The Loser" is about anyone, it ould This time to the phenomenally successful M.B.: Yeah, we see it as futuristic, Care"? have been written about us (actually it American band Cheap Trick, who will but also we see it as very present. Like "But You Don't Care" is a love with a was written by the drummer). It's about be making their Australian debut after some people say it's like prophecies, but difference. It's a love song tliat talks of people who are on a downer, a complete conquering the islands of Japan. it's happening right now - everytliing both love and of hate, it talks about both downer and depressed and just can't get Mi-Sex have a very polished stage act, we talk about. The alleyways do exist sides of a relationship but we don't talk tilings together because there are so many complete with a sensible liglit show that and the young man is shaking his fist about people. We talk about the queen, people like that, especially down in isn't overdone, in fact very imaginatively (the first lines from "21/20" - ed.). the queen of Hearts and the king, tlie king Sydney. done. It's in complete contrast to the Kght It's all happening NOW. of spades. So we leave it up to the imagina show they were landed with on the recent tion. Mtat about the last song on the album: Talking Heads tour. They have matured Where did the flrst offers come from? "Inside You" I find it one of the more as a band and had very few original songs, America? And what about the fourth track, interesting songs on the album. now they only play one non-original (an No, no. . ,they came from Europe, "Not Such a Bad Boy"? Ah, it talks about how people can get old Stranglers song "(get a) Grip" , and Holland, France, &igland. . .all of Europe It's written about, you remember your ripped off so badly. Tlie robot mechan even tliat done the Mi-Sex 'way'. really. childhood, when you were cau^t under ical whizz kids, it's a sort of future shock Their music is very lyric orientated the bed. . .ah, when you were caught in as well. "Computer Games" will be given with an emphasis on the keyboards. Their Do you think you will be able to your bed reading comics at night or away as a free single. The overseas com songs are very simple in many ways but escape tlie Ultravox tag there? listening to the transistor. It's just things panies wanted tliat one in the album with the reliance on keyboards, their songs Yes, tiiere is a very big difference that we did when we were children tliat we (insisted says Steve) because they thought seem complex. It's high energy rock and between our music, tlie songs are written thought were completely harmless, and it was. . .new. It's a little bit more than roll whichever way you look at it and loses differently, a completely different sound which were, but we would get jumped at our other songs, it's about computers nothing when performed live. Theh most altogether. I guarantee you anything it by our parents, you know. and how they're running the world. recent songs have taken on a somewhat would never have been brought up had it This talks about a guy and his futuristic outlook which is maybe a pointer not been for the name. Can you imagine experiences with ladies and everything. It With the release of the album overseas to the future. If so the future looks very Ultravox doing a song like "Biit You don't used to be a real showcase when we first what are the plans for the future? An bright for the New Zealand expat riots. Care"? I just can't imagine tliem. There arc did it. It used to half an hour long, but it's overseas tour maybe? Yet despite this the lads are still getthig other bands that you maybe able to com been narrowed down to four minutes long. Well, there's nothing planned, well landed with the tag "Australia's Ultravox" pare us to, but not them. just wait and see what happens. If we get (see XTC interview in the September issue a healthy Mbe' back then maybe we will of Time Off). Murray Burns, the band's What can you tdl us about the title My favourite track on the album is consider a tour maybe as a support band keyboards player, simply said, "Do yoy track "GraffitiOime"? "Stills", is there a story behind it? or on our own. There's nothing planned think people would be saying those things Well, when we arrived in Sydney, we It's the first track on the album that at all. •if we had chosen a different name?" were really knocked out about talks a bit of. . ah, possibly of Future - XTC's Colin Moulding said he thought Darlinghurst and all the graffiti that was Shock, (it) talks of the future, but it also Muitever your opinion of the baivl that Mi-Sex were a ripoff of Llltravox written around the place. You don't see talks of today. . .(it) talks of things that one can't deny the facts, those being that but Steve Gilpm, the band's lead singer, much of it in New Zealand and it's some are happening and going wrong in the Mi-Sex are one of the top money earning said without maUce, that XTC were con thing that really hits you. We took tfiat worid today. bands in the countty today and one ofthe tradicting themselves. The story goes that as being your average person who can't most exciting live bands They're certainly the members of XTC had said to them that express themselves in any other way. What do the opening lines "In the end one of the original groups to come out of they thought they were very good, but as That was their way of getting across what there was nothing to speak of/ Gravity New Zealand and Australia in the second Murray says, as soon as their backs were they had to say. ms crushing both heart and mind" mean? half of the seventies. Just going on tumed they started spreading those stories. So consequently we came up vvitli If you can imagine, like everyone "Computer Games", they are set for a Gilpin, in fact, compares XTC to Devo "Graffiti Crimes". It is a crinunal offence, predicts when there's going to be a holo very bright future. which, isn't a comparison I would have but we're not saying it's bad, we're just caust, that line "In the end there was -KIM TURNER mm' TIMEOFF November, 1979 23 SINQES INTO THE AIDM/ffi- MAMIKINS Music ir\ tKc EioKtics By TONY GILSON 1980 is almost upon us and both punk and of synthesized music. disco have seen their heyday. What good could Synthesizer music need possibly come out of the confused period that not be cold and inhuman as epitomised by bands such was the latter seventies? as Kraftwerk. The "artistic A ffcat deal in fact. Punk was the movement that set approach to technology" (as PREMONITION the stage for the new decade. It was tbe means by which Eno calls it) involves a great we were able to destroy the monopolistic tendotcies deal of human labour and IT'S YOU/FAZED of the big business arseholes who were strangulating the PREMONITION: passion. I mean, guitars and DEAD: lect that this band nevec industry at the time. Manikins (Independent) whatever are electronic as Credits (FV) gained the recognition they It also got kids out of their lounge room and onto Pleasant Uttle tune from well. One is a keyboard, deserved. "Boys" features a stage and made the established rock elite totally re What is happening to this young Perth outfit. the other is a string instru Brisbane's musicians: fea Eric Gradman on vocals but assess their position. No longer was Jimmy Page going Unfortunately it doesn't ment. turing ex-Survivor's Bruce is less commercial than to wank on with his pretentious bullshit and get away have that look that gets The guitar has become Anthon and Greg William Martin Armiger's "Hit with it. you singjng along. the most blase instrument in son the Credits exJWbit none Sin^e". Forget the single. Whereas punk might be the Doois or the Velvets. music. It is only people of the charm or finesse seen as the anarchic wing of This artistic new wave like Fripp (and perhaps of the Survivors; Mediocre seventies music, disco could took on the "punk is the apt word. be considered to be the attitude" and applied it to Manzanera) who have built autocratic wing. The music the music as well. They on the areas pioneered by is monotone in its boredom began to create some really Hendrix in the late 60s. CRIME OFA and one dimension in its new music. TWs approach Apart from Fripp and Man PASSION: scope. The one thing that has its roots in people zanera, there seems to be no the disco craze did achieve such as Roxy Music and guitarist who has forged Eric Gradman/Man and new ground with the in Machine (Missing Link) however, was that it got David Bowie (two genuine people out into a social strument. The reason for Gradman has been innovators of the 70s) but situation who would not their success is that they dubbed as Australia's the one who seems to be normally be there (even if have embraced technology answer to Howard Devoto. at the head of the move it was robotoid entertain rather than being repulsed Gradman is one of the ment is Brian Eno. He has ment). But as Martin by it. very few musicians in this been experimentmg in this Armiger said. . "Discos are With only a few months country showing a willing field since the late 60s full of poseurs who aren't to go before 1980 descends ness to experiment. "Crime Mth various outfits but very hip whereas punks are upon us, the coming decade of a Passion" is not a com came to prominence in though, buy the album and hip poseurs". Enough said looks very bright indeed mercial record in. the WINDOW TO THE 1972 with the first two get this great little 45 free. on the matter. (from a musical aspect context of the Countdown Roxy Music albums. WORLD: anyway). Even the usually mentality, but this is not to Punk started in early Brian Eno has been the Whirlywind (Missing conservative American say that it is inaccessible. Link) 1977 and died soon after inspiration behind bands FAIR GAME: (yes, it is dead). The best populace are starting to em It features some tasteful A very impressive debut like the Talking Heads and (Zak) thmg to come out of the brace bands such as the but still cutting musician indeed. Electronically the Human League. It is my OK UK: movement was the "artistic Cars and the B-S2s. Eno ship and Gradinan's vocals based, Whiriywind play on personal prediction that he (Mushroom) strand" of new wave. Into has now found his niche are more refmed than on mood rather than effect. is going to be the superstar Sports this category I would put within the field of produc the Bleedhig Hearts This approach is perfected of the 80s. He will be as people like XTC, Talking tion whereby he can spread material. Buy this EP and in the extraordinary "Fair Game" was the important to the new Heads, Human League, B- his invaluable influence to a get a glimpse of where "Signals" (B-side). The EP very first release by the decade as Spector was to 52s, Devo, Tubeway Army greater number of people. music is going in the 80s. features Aiixlrew Duffield, Sports. Produced by Joe the 60s and Nick Jjowe was Camillieri, it adequatdy etc. to the 70s. Disco is in its death *iio contributed some syn throes (thaidc god) and tbe shows the band's rocka Although punk was revo My reasoning behind this thesizer to the Boys Next complacency of the 70s REASONS TO BE billy/swing roots. These lutionary in its outlook, the is that the artistic new wave Door album. should be hopefully rep CHEERFULPTIII: tracks have little relevance music itself was very narrow (in the main) exists on the laced by tbe vigour and to the Sports circa '79 m its scope. Bands like the premise of electronics (the Ian Dury and the Block excitement of the TOWN AND but it is an interesting Pistols and tbe Qflsh owe field which Eno alone pio heads (Stiff) impending new music. COUNTRY: reflection on the band's more to Chuck Berry and neered). He has opened Another nail in the beginnings. Deep Purple than they do to LETS HAVE FUN! coffin of Ian Dury, A Barry Andrews (Virgin) musician's eyes to the scope On the other hand, OK- spoken vocal over a Ex-XTC keyboard UK is the most recent re mediocre disco backing player's first solo EP. It's lease from the Sports. It track, Ian shoots forth terrific despite Martm contains the threads of with random diatribe on Rushant's muddy produc ne night". "Wedding Ring" and "Live, why one should be happy. tion. It contains 4 tracks, Also of mterest to Enz Work and Play" (the new Ian Dury now ceases to have all of them pop with a "ans is the fact that there version of which is great). any relevance to modern capital 'P'. Particularly also an album of early The two new cuts are less music. B-side "Common as impressive is 'Bring On The material to be released impressive but they do show Muck" is equally incon Alligators' which highli^ts around Christmas time. the areas into which the sequential. the uniqueness of this guy's "An early manager of the style. Sports are now going. band called Barry Cobum This band are a great ^ recorded the band a few BOYS/HIT SINGLE: little power pop combo and times and sold the tapes to THE NIPS ARE Bleeding Hearts (Missing deserve every bit of success Gudinski. It contains tracks GETTING BIGGER: Link) tliat has come their way. with flutes, violui and no Mental as Anything drums and a very different It was criminal ncg- -TONYGILSON version of "Spellbound". I One of the pleasant sur think that it should have prises of the year. A good mixture of differing styles - the same charm as the 60s fanfisa organ, clean, "Mental Notes" album did". fluid guitar etc. If any On the monopoUstic role Justice exists, it should be a of Coimtdown, Rayner bighit.^ Split Enz are a band who full producer". says: "I hate Molly should occupy the upper TTie new album seems to Meldrum. I hate his prig- regions of the charts but for be a crucial point in the g^hness and the fact that MONEY: some reason they don't. Razar (EMI) development of Split Enz. he controls part of my However, with some luck As Rayner states "it's a do career. You can quote me The cruddy single of the this should be rectified with or die effort". Apparently on that". year. It was good in 1977, the release of tlieir next the band has about 50-60 though. Split Enz are now in album, currendy being re new songs from which to the studio recordmg with corded under the guWance choose and iheir recent live Tickle. Whatever comes out of Mike Chapman's en work is really a "testmg PEOPLE SAY: of it should be good. All gineer David Tickle, ground for the new Go Betweens (Abel) of their albums have been Tickle most recently en- material". plagued with production Another disappointment. ^eered on Blondie's "Eat It was reported earlier The band who released that and sound problems and to the Beat" and on "Get this year that the band were the band are determined to wonderful little ditty "Lee the Knack". On the role intending to release a live rectify this with the new Remick" have now sunk of Tickle, Enz keyboards- EP. However this was aban album. They now have a into the realms of medio man Eddie Rayner says, "1 doned due to the fact new single out called crity. There is very little to see him mainly as an en that "you have to have the "Things" which should be a fecommend about either of gineer. I don't perceive him tapes/unning at every show. hit but. probably won't be. these two songs. as taWng on the role of a You just can't turn on for -TONYGILSON 24 Jess Lidyard (Numan's volved from Athens, an Akai tape recorder and tiiesized percussion. This uncle) on drums. Georgia (Uie new Akron?) a Korg mini-synthesizer. tends to destroy the mood By now most would have and consists of three male Thus the album's appeal is of "ambience" by jolting heard tiie single "Are members and two women. rather limited. the listener slightiy. Friends Electric", this being The band's instrumentation Chesworth seems to be "50 Syntiiesizer Greats" a fair indication of the consists of 4 string guitar, working within tlie context is a ambitious record that band's sound. organ, keyboard bass, and of the Eno-pioneered field falls slightiy short of the "Tubeway /^my" was percussion. of "ambient" music. That is mark. It is good to see how originally recorded as a The band's name has to say, music specifically ever, that tiiere are Aust demo tape and hence suffers been pinched from tlie slang designed to enhance an ralians like Chesworth about from a fairly poor produc term for tiie bouffant hair environment rather tiian who are experimenting in tion (this is particularly evi style as epitomised by Dolly dominate it. tiiis field who don't possess dent m tiie drum sound). Parton and the like. The album contains 37 the artistic pretensions of It is a more consistent Tlie album starts out short tracks (not 50 as other Ozzie outfits such as effort than "Replicas" but witii "Planet Qaire". It the titie would suggest). Cy pot ron. However for a not as varied. would be all too easy to All of them tend to sound truer depiction of the po "Listen to the Sirens" place this song witli its a bit "samey" thus if tential of this style of is a good track with a per rigid and mechanic structure played too much it could music, one would be better fect interworking between in to the Kraftwerk/Human get a littie boring. off picking up something guitar and synthesizer. League niche but tiiis would But as mentioned, this like Eno's "Music for Air "Everyday 1 Die" is another be far too limiting. style of music is not desig ports" or Harold Budd's of die better cuts with its ned to take a front seat. "Pavillion of Dreams". echoed closing vocals being The one failing of this -TONYGILSON EAT TO THE BEAT: vaguely reminiscent of album is the overuse of syn- Blondie (Chrysalis L36908) Ultravox circa "Ha! Ha! Oh come all ye wonderers and have thy faith restored. Ha!". Witii "Eat to the Beat" Blondie are bade and they're back "Replicas" has a much with a vengeance. cleaner sound than the Blondie's first album "Atomic" is simply debut album but suffers L^^^jvH A^^Wj^H ^l^l^^^la ^E^H would have to rate as one superb. Cowritten by from being just too studio oriented. Despite its mud of the classic rock debuts. Debbie Harry and Jimmy ^Bykfl ^Su • ^^lS^Mm^^% With great tracks like "Rip pestrie, it could almost be diness, 'Tubeway Army" her to Shreds", "X-Offen- a James Bond antliem. Tliis has a charm in its simplicity, der" and "In The Sun", is where bassist Nigel Har- but with "Replicas" Numan Blondie has the art of re- rfson really starts to exert has utilised multi-track Any concept' of the recording to its fullest. cycling 60s trash pop down his presence with some great sound that "Hanet Claire" to a tee. bass runs. The thick layer upon may provide is totally des Many people criticised "Victor" is another layer of synthesizers does troyed wifli "52 giris". It's •A^T ' ill .jip^^l their second effort "Plastic radical departure. Over a tend to get a little sterile a sort of James Bond meets Letters" as being mediocre, rather anarchic instrumen- at tunes. This is particularly the Shangrilas meets and lethargic. Personally, I tal (viritten by Frank evident in the two instrum Gilligan's Island tiling (Tina thought it was great. Many Infante), Ms. Harry chants entals "When the Machine Louise even rates a »^^KIK were unable to stomach the how she's not a whore and Rocks" and "1 Nearly Mar mention). move to "modern" but the wants ole Vic to come ried a Human" (very Undoubtedly the killer original title that). band did it with panache, home. It's on this track that of the album is "Rock Lob style and integrity. Tracks keyboardsman Jimmy Tlie first side of "Rep ster" (their first single). such as "Bermuda Triangle Destri hints at the style licas" is probably the better Trying to decipher tiie lyrics Blues", "Cautious Lip" and utilised by ex-XTC player of the two. It contains the is virtually impossible but it 1 v'm "Fan Mail" stand as perfect Barry Andrews, single (which is a great seems to be about some sort track) as well as two other of Gidget-type beach party testimony to tliis. For my books, Destri WHAT HAPPENED?: It was wdth the tiiird and Andrews are the only good cuts in "ME! I Dis gone mad. There's a cat fiii versions of the two songs album "Parallel lines" that young keyboard players to connect from You" and chasing a dog fish with Bleeding Hearts (Missing that made up the Hearts' first single, viz. "Boys" and things started to go astray, show the style and skill "The Machmen". It is very snappuig snappers and of Link) evident from these two "Hit Single" (a song which Blondie have always been a necessary to take a place course a menacing lobster What happened indeed. songs that Numan has taken looming somewhere in the There's those rare instances the Sports do a vastly in pop band but with this alongside the Jobsons and the standard pop song ferior version of). Also album it became just a bit Enos of the last generation, murky depths. I love it. in rod( when a great band format and applied it to the Side two doesn't quite emerges from out of the worthy of note on this side too obvious. Songs such as What's left to say about field of electronics. Some are "I Love My Car" and "Pretty Baby" and "Sunday "Eat to the Beat"? Forget come up to tiie same shadows and sinks back Girl" were just too cutesy. times it works very well, standard but its good none without their due recog "Rock Star". about the mediocrity of others not so well. hi the live environment, There were only three Parallel Lines and pick up theless. The best tracks are nition. Bleeding Hearts were memorable tracks; these As mentioned before, "Lava" and tiieir tuneless such a band. one gains an insight into a copy of the noo 'un. the tension and drama of being "Fade Away and it's a great album. Nothing rendition of Tony Hatch's The band was formed in "Downtown" (which has a early 1976 by Martin tills band, but in the studio Radiate" (because of more needs to be said. I one can find a true docu Fripp's guitar work), "Heart think. similar effect to Sid Vicious Armiger (Sports) and Eric doing "My Way"). Gradman (Man and mentation of the band's of Glass" (one of the few -TONY GILSON strengths. great disco singles) and Writing a review of the Macliine). "Wliat "Just Go Away" (the only B-52's has not been the Happened?" shows tiie be Each song on this side is song to hint at the direction easiest of tasks. They defy ginnings of these two a mini-epic. From the and sound of this new classification and have tiius creative individuals and frenetic energy of "Gaze album). secured themselves an in shows traces of the of the Damned" to the And now we have "Eat dividual niche in the fickle .directions in wliich tiiey mock warmth of "The To The Beat". It possesses worid of modem music. Is would both go. Fool" and "Emptiness of all of tlie power and it any sign of future star The album consists of a Life" to the blitzkreig sax strength of commitment dom tiiat a local college live side recorded in Sep and vioUn riffing of "Para- that "Parallel Lines" lacked. one cannot escape the football team have adopted tember 77 (a month before noise (the same old story)" Every member of the hand looming presence of David "Rock Lobster" as their the band split) and a studio tiie Bleeding Hearts show shines on this new outing. Bowie's influence (both in victory song?? side compiled from some the grit that made tiiem a near legendary outfit. From the opening cut terms of image and music). -TONYGILSON old demo tapes. Althougli "Dreaming" (the new It is because of this that one the sound quality is not Tlie Bleeding Hearts dis sin^e) one can realise tlie cannot take Tubeway Army great, it is the only docu banded in October 77. band's new found strength. TUBEWAY ARMY: as a seriously innovativ mentation we have of a Within their twenty month If this track had appeared (Tubeway Army force, but they do create great band. existence, this band created some interesting music. some truly innovative on tlie ast album, it would /DO„„„„ nanmiot MV As well as Armiger on Anyway, the band have now guitar and vocals and music. Tliey weren't a not have stood out but here ^.^^ ^ pretty little pop outfit like it glows. Classic Blondie Jf^^.^-^' ,„ split and are now recording Gradman on violin and pop in the style of "Denis" Rephcas J^rs under the name of Gary vocals, the Hearts also con Sherbet or JPY; they were and "In The Flesh". Banquet MX 190221) Numan. Modesty rules T sisted of Keith Shadwick on artists of the first degree. suppose. sax and a tight rhythm The one thing that Other tracks on tlie first David Bowie, where are "What Happened?" does side which stand out are you? Gary Numan (front- -TONYGILSON section in Rick Grossman "Union City Blue", "The man of the band) has and Huk Trcloar. show is how watered down Hardest Part" (which verges ripped off DB, left, right Tlie one factor that Armiger has become since on heavy rock) and the title and centre. Tubeway Army makes the Hearts so at joining tiie Sports. And track (featuring harmonica are ultimately derivative but THE B-52's: tractive is the uniqueness Gradmans "Man and The B-52's (Warner BSK Maciiine" probably approxi from Randy Hennes who- at least they have taste in 50 SYNTHESIZER of their sound. Particularly ever he is). choosing their models. 3355) impressive is the mates the Bleeding Hearts With the predictability of GREATS: combmation of Shadwick's sound better tiian anyone Side One is great but flip Gary Numan is David Chesworth (In else. Buy tliis album and tiie disc over and you have essentially Tubeway Army. many of the bands to crop sax and Gradman's violin up in recent years, the prob dependent) (a sound that Dragon arc feci guilty for having neg a killer. It starts wifli "Die He writes all the material, lected the Hearts when tliey Young Stay Pretty". It's produces, sings lead vocals lem of classification of their David Chesworth hails only just starting lo ex sort of Bob Mariey meets and plays all keyboards and music has never been a great from Melbourne and this is plore). were bleeding. Ultravox; electronic reggae guitar. Tlie two remaining task. The B-S2's however his debut release. The album Tlic live side contains -TONYGILSON as only Blondie could do members of tlie band arc are a refreshing exception. conains no vocals or in it. Paul Gardiner on bass and Tlie band originally de strumentation apart from TIMEOFF November, 1979 25 * for the many who got into the T.N. 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Company comes to a happy End" Campaign No. 45 * * * SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO - ''This Perversity should stay in Chicago "Telegraph 7/79 * I*T TRAVESTIES - "Utterly Lunatic Experience" Telegraph 6/79 * GOING BANANAS - 'Viaholically Hilarious" Australian 9/79 * * * * * * * * * * * * * CAST INCLUDES: PLAYS AT TWELFTH NIGHT THEATRE * * * Robert Van Mackelenberg November 7th to December 1 * Curt Jansen * * Kay Stevenson TUESDAY to SATURDAY at 8.15pm Steve Hamilton * Lewis Norman David Malacari * Directed by John Milson lDOQfe:527B82 ^ m i^i^i^i^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^illiilfiilltiilltilfir^^ 26 GRIN & TONIC Kuwo urs THEATRICAL TROUPE: SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY'S PRODUCTION: Rumours - A Warana Festival at the SGIO, Choreographer, Graeme Murphy. Managed to catch the Although he has a dis- Grm & Tonic troupe at tinct positive emphasis to As Brisbane's once-a-year cultural festival, Warana was Kelvin Grove College a what he writes about a fitting launching spot for die Sydney Dance Company's few weeks ago when they (namely - the world is in production, RUMOURS. Although Rumours depicts presented a piece featuring a mess, so we have to lif<^ in the suburbs of Sydney, it can be likened to day- the songs and poems of assume responsibility for to-day life in any city and it reveals many frustrations Bertolt Brecht and also doing something about it) and fears people face in their work and leisiu-e situation. a clowns segment devised tiie impression I gained A combination of mime their 'shadows' - or vice with the assistance of from the Grin & Tonic's and dance are used through- versa depending on v^etiier Geoffrey Rush. production was that out the production. There- you're young and frightened Based near Innisfail in Brecbt's outlook on life fore I'd call it a Dance/ of growing old or whetiier North Queensland, the Grin was far too bleak for my Drama rather than a modern you're old and are being & Tonic give public per liking, or worse stDl my contemporary ballet. reminded of your litiie, formance in northern towns experience. Tlie show is broken into youthful self as well as perform in three acts - Rumours 1,11, My only criticism is tiiat secondary schools and in and 111. Rumours i (titied I'm afraid I tend to view open air venues on the back "Week Day Dreaming") is men dressed up as women of their rod truck. (Tlieir the less theatrical of the as a leflection of stupidity. contact address is P.O. Box three and portrays leisure A classic example was in 856, Innisfail 4860). activities often in an the first half of tiie act Up until the end of this abstract form, like tiie sails when tiie tallest male dancer year their artistic director on Sydney Harbour. succeeded in looking quite has been Bryan Nason, who Rumours 11 ("Bare pompous in a grey wig, Brisbane theatre goers Facts and Fantasies") is a high heeled fasliion shoes would remember for thf However the next seg funny and entertaining and a grey dress. The opening productions oi ment called "Clowns" story about a nude beach. Dance Company's Qioreo- "Royal Hunt of the Sun" SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES: Volume 1 No. 5: briglilened things up and The dancers become actual grapher, Graeme Murphy at tiie S.G.I.O. and subscriptions $10 for four issues from Dept of was the Iiigfilight of tiieir characters — trendies, also took a female role — "Bacchoi" at the Schonell External Studies, University of Qld, St. Lucia. u .„ , r performance. Very basic lovers, gays, a voyeuer etc., as tiie woman in tiie elderly 4067. Single copies $2.75. Teas, pensioners, He wdl make way for ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^ and there's a wonderful couple. It was a brilliant dole $8 subscription. Robert Artliur to try his ^^,^^^ ;„ ^ ^^^^^^^^^ f^^^^^^ performance by tiie "tran- performance but again I hand next year and will The enduig was quite sistor girl" (played by wish a woman had played concentrate on his acting, fitting as the troupe enter The theme of the fifth issue of Social Alternatives Jennifer' Barry), which is the role, tn addition to Brian and tained with what is vir concems Energy and Society with this edition being reminiscent of tiie 60s Tlirougliout tiie per- Robert, the other members tuaUy their own special edited by David Crossley. Altemati\'e policies for energy Beach Party, Go-Go giris formance tiie cast were of the group who theme tune - a humourous use and production are explored in some major articles, scenes. Even the unin- complemented by a variety participate, d in the„ -perfo , r song about the high level among them a piece by Barry Commoner which examines hibited are conforming of sound effects and blasts mances Isaw were Prudence ^^ i.^picaj rainfall i„ North the Environmental and Economic aspects of the issue. - tiiat's tiie rumour which of music. . .an unconven Gibbs and Qirissy Mildren QIJ ^^^^^ university In addition, the latest peace studies). is proved wlien tiie whole tional and very effective I must admit (hat 1 students would well Sodal Alternatives carries a An interview witii Sheila beach jumps up and follows backing. found the Brecht piece a remember it from Bomber most stimulating analysis Rowbotham called Women's the transistor giri's dance httle ditficult to enjoy pg^rier's plays at and critique ofthe direction Vision is included plus the routine. It's a fun act and In conclusion I was most Harpo's and for that reason rather and Roxy's, a regular ni^t's of American liberalism usual literary contributions the most lighthearted. impressed witii the Sydney inaccessible, even though entertainment with the written by former SOS of poems and short stories, Rumours ill ("Last Dance Company. . .the Brecht's ideas deserve at Union Complex put on by activist and recent U.S. book reviews and an interes dancers double as brilliant Dreams") deals witli tiie tention. "Activities". Senate candidate Tom ting piece called "Investi^- aged. The dancers, dressed mime artists and tiie choreo Consider tliis poem from -BRUCE DICKSON Hayden. ting Reality: the Birth of a in an assortment of various graphy is superb. ilis works: Tlie arguments put for New Paradigm" by Indian rags, become the neglected "Rumours" sets about to TO THOSE BO!i\' LATER ward in tiiis latter article scholar T.S. Ananthu. oldies. As witii tiie 2nd portray some of our irre You will emerge from the flood are of particular impor- act, the 3rd has a tale to futable lifestyles and day hi which we have gone under tance to those concemed Ananthu's article tell. It's a sad story of an dreams. . .maybe it should Remember with the current direction examines the trend in elderiy couple witii a have been called "Trutiis". When you speak of our failings of the Australian Labor westem science towards younger couple playing -B. VAN TINTEREN The dark time too Party or anyone who is examining more seriously Which you have escaped. wondering where both many of the inner human America and Australia potential questions ex For we went, changing countries oftcner than our shoes should be head big, given the plored for so long by Through the wars of the classes, despairing current economic crisis and eastern sages, which ahve When there was injustice only, and no rebellion. swing towards conservative often been foolishly dis politics. missed as being too mys And yet we know: As usual a wide range tical , or removed from Hatred, even of meanness of topics are covered in rational reality, to be worth contorts the features. addition to the tiieme issue consideration. Anger, even against injustice wliich as 1 stated earlier, is On tiie whole worth Makes the voice hoarse. Oh, we in this case energy. (Note bujrtng, or better still if you Who wanted to prepare the ground for friendliness - witiiin tiie forthcoming believe in keeping such in Cotdd not ourselves be friendly. issue no. 6, the editors tellectually important ven will be focusing on tiie of tures afloat at no cost of But you, when the time comes at last ten ne^ectcd, but richly pleasure to yourself, worth And man is a helper to man rewarding area of subscribing to. Think ofus nonviolent social action and -JANE STONE With forbearance. #% LaBoiteTheatrBoSubscribe&Save! BRAND NEW 79/80 SEASON OPENS WITH SPECIAL 6 PLAYS FOR SAVE $5.00 ON THEY SHOOT HORSES, $ 4 O USUAL STUDENT PRICE ^ •I «W» PRICEPRICESS DON'T THEY? a monument to Hollywood's craziest years Adult price 6 plays for 317.50. Save 39.50 FOR DETAILS PHONE 36 1622 OCT. 24 - NOV. 17 57 HALE STREET, BRISBANE. 4000 (OPPOSITE LANG PARK) PHONE 36 1622 TIME OFF November, 1979 27 men in this city are almost exclusively involved in traditional clergy work. The THE /TfliriED burgeoning fashion in the south has, however been transported here by one GLR// CEflTRE Jeremy Clifford, who, with his partner JUST A GIGOLO Jenny, has recently opened the Stained The words "stained glass window" Glass Centre in Hale St. Jeremy entered Produced by Rolf Theii, directed by David is very enjoyable. may still ring medieval cathedral bells for the field of stained glass from the medium Hammings, Starring David Bowie, David The dialogue is often many people. Most of us are more accus of photography, via the obvious links of Hammings, Sydney Rome. corny but nevertheless tiiere tomed to vast expanses of clear plate light, colour and design. After some years David Bowie describes himself as being "generalist", were some genuinely funny glass set in steel and concrete contexts. of commission work in Sydney, he has now he generalises in everything. In his latest venture, a lead parts, like the bathroom Over the last ten years, however, the tumed his hand to imparting his skill, role in the film "Just a Gigolo", he continues to liv% up scene. Our slender hero was antiquated craft of leadlighttng has under and teaching his craft here in Brisbane. to the title. It's arguably his first attempt at serious busily soaping himself up gone a massive resurgence in popularity. His pedagogical approach is to teach acting. The character he played in his first film, "The in tiie tub when in walked The movements began in the United people the best and simplest techniques, Man Who Fell To Earth", was either an extension of a prince, the owner of the States, where today some 100,000 people and the basic mechanical skills of lead- his own personality or a character invited by him to mansion. In his shock Paul are working with stained glass. In this lighting, and to allow them to reaUse their interpret a facet of his career at that time. Whatever dropped the soap. The country Melbourne was the first city to own limits and potentials in terms of it was he really didn't have much actmg to do. This funeral scene, when the left- catch on to the revival, with Sydney, projecting their ideas through glass. The time David Bowie is well and truly put to the test. wing revolutionaries opened naturally, not far behind. Tlie new gener learning process itself is surprisingly quick fire was funny too - but ation of literature and design to which and easy; Jeremy asserts that a couple of He hasn't failed by any- Unfortunately in her role American experience has given rise is now one s standards - tiie Bowie M^ Novak only succeeds to as witii most of the film, months is a reasonable period in which to il was over-exaggerated and opening new vistas in the realm of interior achieve a high standard of proficiency. charisma comes to the ^ ^ ^ ^^^ design and architecture. rescue again. However he ^ > too predictable. The most He is currently running five week remains unconvincing in the " ... ,,„ . :;„, , „„ effective funny bits were The possibilities for extending the workshop courses, involving fifteen hours role as the Purssian Lieute- '^^' that she is, but 1 en- the least expected and pro graphic element in window design are work. He insists on limiting his class nant, Paul Von Przygodsky, ^^^'"^ !^'-T^^' *^"=^ ''J,^ bably unmtcntional. virtually limitless, as the techniques involved numbers to four students in order to but so were tiie rest of the danced witii Bowie Pauls Unfortunately David arc so simple as to allow the artist a great achieve maximum interaction and produc cast. The only exception madame is played by Mar- Bowie's delightful English deal of Hexibility. Such a forging of new tivity, and by the end of the course students was Sydney Rome who lene Dietrich in her first accent only hinders his art and ancient craft makes for a totally can expect to have produced a pretty played Paul's girifriend, speakmg part in 17 years believeability. He remains innovative approach to living with light and exciting and sophisticated piece of work. gjjjy and it shows, as does the a star rather than an actor. colour. Working with stained ^ass is neither Paul Von Przygodsky is face-lift, Nevertheless I recommend As with-many things, unfortunately, complicated nor expensive. A full set of injured at the front during '^ s a shame we don t you see "Just A Gigolo" Brisbane has been a trifle slow in the tools would run out at nojmore than the first Worid War.Every- &^^ ^o hear David Bowie because, faults aside, David uptake. The handful of stained glass crafts SSO.OO for the best professional equip one presumes he's dead fng ,^y °^ the songs, Bowie is wonderful and the ment, and there is no need for a great until he wanders into but he wrote the sound- film provides a few gig^es. deal of space or special facilities. The Beriin carrying a pig. He '^ack and overall tiie music -B. VAN TINTEREN Stained Glass Centre workshops are priced becomes a misfit in his war- at $50.00 for the five week course, which torm home town.Then he includes the use of equipment at the meets up with his ex-army Centre. Jeremy holds classes nightiy, as officer (piayed by David well as Wednesday and Saturday mornings, Hemmings) who fakes him and considers the possibility of scheduling under his wing and into the further daytime hours. Fascist Army. Unfortunate- By aiming towards sophisticated ends David Hemmings large, via simple means, he hopes to contribute friendly brown eyes, up to the proHferation of stained glass enthus turned mouth and broad iasts, and the emergence of a briglit new En^ish accent make him idea which is making windows as interesting entirely unsuitable as a per to look at as out of. verted, shrewd and ruth The Stained Glass Centre is at 221 less Nazi leader. Hale St. Call round to make your enquires. The Nazi soldiers choose celibacy, a stance of which Paul approves because ofhis disenchantment at tiie IIITR0D1ICIN6 slackening morals in post war Beriin. 1 sympathised HEWLEH-PACKARD'S HP-41C. with his poor childhood sweetheart, Silly. She made umpteen attempts to seduce ACAUUIATOR. ASYSIEM. him but kept getting the cold shoulder. AVfHOLE NEW STANDARD. To cut a long story short, Paul meets an older woman (played by Kim Novak) and is introduced to the Gigolo business. The new HP-4IC from Modules—prepro Hewlett-Packard is a grammed, plug-in modules powerful programmable that give solutions to a calculator that features: wide range of problems. SANTANA: last song may have missed from, Devadip's song can their mark because on this uplift, can tap the inner an LCD display with The HP-41C lets you 7th October, Festival alphanumeric capability; reassign any standard Hall, Brisbane. occasion the audience had most sensory perceptions of been rewarded with barely our bodies and minds. 63 registers of data function, any programs Although the dusty storage or up to 400 lines you've -written, or pro yellow number plates on the 1 Vl hours music, as opposed This joy and freedom to almost three hours during of program memory— grams provided in the utility park^ outside found in his music is avail expandable to 319 registers Santana's first tour of this able to those wishing to Application Modules—to Festival HaU could have or up to 2,000 program any keyboard location suggested otherwise, city a few years ago). accept it, largely because Nonetheless although a lines; up to 6 levels of sub you wanl. And of course Santana and his band when routines; 10 condi Santana's third concert trip smaller number of songs had performing live do convey Hewlett-Packard backs to Brbbane was not about been played, the genius of tionals and 56 internal the HP-41C with total soft tiieir "natural love of flags; specific loop to become a Nimbin revival. the band and its music was festival and dance". ware support including Sure the cosmis kids, the control; indirect address an Owner's Manual and still there. All that can be Rarely do today's rock bangles and beads brigade, concluded is that no matter ing; local and global thousands of programs a few acid heads and some musicians exhibit such posi branching; Continuous in the HP-4IC Applica how many times Carlos tive feelings towards life, grey haired radicals were shuffles the group's Memory; RPN logic. tions Pacs, Solutions Books, and the present, but more sig or display such genuine HP Users' Library. membership around (ui- pleasure in their coDective And when you need them: Memory nificantly people of all ages, duding the vocalists), the Modules—plug-in modules for Experience this remarkable instru hair lengtiis and dress styles musical expressions of its magic of Santana's per virtues. As to why their storing programs and data; an "extra ment. The new HP-41C from Hewlert- were represented as well. cussion section as well as his smart" Card Reader; a Printer that Packard. A calculator. A system. A Quite a tribute to the Brisbane concemtsare undoubted writing and always so enjoyabk possibly prints upper and lower case alpha whole hew standard. staying power of Carlos ywffly^tW^y playing ability lives on. Carlos was correct when he ,^_ ^^ p5"s special char- Santana who, judging from H|^||v acters and does high the view through my bino said to the audience that This is one old surfer playing in the tropics makes ^^^^B^ resolution plot- culars, was looking as young the new waw has never ^•^ ting; the Wand to as ever himself. it just that little bit easier. managed to wipe out. Incidentally it's about ^* input programs in Yet on another level it Politically minded cri bar code form was all fairly predictable - time an end was put to the tics love to ridicule his ongoing knocking of •• (available early joints desperately bemg lit untrendly concern with the 1980); Application as the band walked on stage Festival Hall's acoustics. I.) Memory Modules 2.) The Primer search for inner wisdom The recent Ry Cooder followed by the seductive and peace (in this case rhythms of the classic concert proved once and for tiu-ough the teachings of all that it is how well the "Hack Magic Woman", and Sri Chinmoy). But even to UNION many numbers later an ex band is mixed as well as a "non-believer" like my tiie loudness of their out- tended version (or was it self these critics do not C fi L C U L fi T III R just me) of "Evil Ways". put that dctermmcs the successfully challenge the acoustic quality of a concert (The wildly enthusiastic fact that regardless of where in tins hall, Ills inspiration is derived encores which preceded the ^ANE STONE 28 ( Dr. Who???? I By SAMUEL DEJOGGINS witiiout consciences and they tiireaten With a groaning, wheezing, shuddering all other life forms. 1 noise, the battered blue box materialises famiHes tiie Doctor spent many long years EX-TER-MIN-ATE II in an alien landscape. It is the TARDIS, trauiing to fit himself for that place on tiie And they're cute!! The 7 year olds at (short for Time-and-Rclative-Dimension- High Council tiiat seemed his unavoidable the local school no longer play Cowboys in-Space mechanism), a sophisticated Time- destiny. A brilliant, but rebellious, student, and Indians; they play Dr. Who and tiie Machine built by the Time Lords. he became frustrated at tiie years spent Daleks, waving their little hands in the Because the chameleon circuit (an in in gaining second-hand knowledge about air as they repeat "Ex-ter-min-ate!!", built feature of tbe TARDIS which allows the universe, knowledge that would never "Ex-tcr-nun-ate", "Ex-ter-min-ate". it to blend mto its immediate envkonment be used. A final crisis sparked his rebellion by assuming a familiar shape) had jammed against the rigid, ritualistic, elaborately The Daleks are perfect images of after its first visit to Earth in the early ceremonial style of Time Lord Life; he Fascism. In "The Mass Psychology of 60s, it still resembles that type of English 'borrowed' a TARDIS from a repair sliop Fascism", the psychologist Wtihelm Police Box that London Bobbies used for and fled tiirough Time and Space deter Reich describes tiie "body armour" of communication before they had walkie- mined to sec the universe for himself. the fascist individual: not only the ideas, tiie character but the very bearing of tlie talkies. After many adventures there had come fascist is rigid, fixed, inflexible, as if the There are other unusual features of the capture from the Time Lords, who charged body were encased in armour; they hate TARDIS. It is "dinicnsionally-transcen- him with stealing the TARDIS, and more importantly, of breaking the decree of non what is spontaneous and alive, tiieir higliest dental". This means that it is bigger on v-irtue is obedience. The Daleks are the the inside than it is on the outside. It intervention in the affairs of tiie cosmos. Tlie Doctor defended himself: he had only realisation of the metaphor of 'body can materialise and dematerialise at any armour'. specified Time-Space co-ordinate. 'borrowed' the TARDIS; "You observe tiie evti in the universe; 1 fight it"-, he Second in popularity to the Daleks of THE BRISK GRANDFATHERLY decreed. He was punished by exile to Dr. Vflio's villians are the Cybermen, TYPE Earth (and by becoming Jon Pertwee). Cybermen were a race of men who longed He regained his freedom by dealing with for immortality. They perfected cyber (Do you believe all this?? Clear as mud the terrible Omega crisis, and obtained a netics, the science ol replacing human you say? Good! It is about to become complete pardon from the C.l.A. (,Celestial parts by macliines. As they grew older even murkier!) Inside the TARDIS a figure Intervention Agency, an ultra-secret Time they replaced their limbs with metal limbs. is bent over the control panel. It is the Lord Agency which intervenes in cases of Eventually they perfected maciiine versions Doctor, a brisk grandfatheriy type with galactic emergency). of the central nervous system and the long white hair and long, thin, sensitive human circulation system. They became rather bony hands. (William Hartiiell - Since those days, the Doctor's stocks macliines, their large, silver bodies became Doctor One). have risen liigher in Time Lord Land; he almost indestructible. Tliey had no heart, Wait a second, he seems to be changing has saved Gallifrey twice, and become no emotions, no feeling. - he's turning into a much younger man, president of the High Council, entitled to Tlie Cybermen have only one weakness; considerably shorter, with short, dark hair wear the Sash of Rassilon and bear the gold destroys their circulation system. and a swarthy, almost gypsy-like com Great Key. He has even been allowed to They have many strengths; they are as plexion! (Patrick Troughton - Doctor take a trainee Time Person (Lady Romana powerful as tiie Phantom; they have Two). And his clothes are changing too, da Voratuelunder) along as his assistant. weapons like the dreaded cyber-bombs he's wearing a black necktie, an old black For the new series, Lady Romana is about (outlawed by tiie Armegeddon Con coat and baggy check trousers. And he's to reincarnate. Mary Tamni who played One of the characteristics of Baker's vention, but still used by the callous starting to play a recorder!! Romana in the Key of Time series has left Doctor has been his humour, the off hand Cybermen). Good Heavens!! The transformation and is replaced by Lalla Ward, who played way he's got across lines like "A Time beginning again. He's becoming a tall, the Princess who was the sixth part of the Lord's gotta do what a Time Lord's gotta NEW SERIES trim, dignified looking middle aged man, Key of Time. do" and "U takes alt sorts to make a The new series, which started in with a deeply-lined compassionate face. cosmos". England on tiie first September, opens up - and an untidy mop of white curly hair. LOOKS LIKE HARPO MARX As wel! as its eccentric hero and its with "Destiny Of Tlie Daleks", a brand His clotiies have changed too; he looks In his present manifestation, the theme of time/space travel, the series is new Dalek stor>', and consequentiy not to almost like a dandy in his velvet jacket, Doctor, played by Tom Baker, is a tall distinguished by its special effects. be missed. The Doctor and Romans get frilly white shirt and floppy bow tie. man witli a large, slightiy plumpish face, Although the BBC, which produces it, involved witii drilling operations and the (Doctor Three - John Pertwee). dominated by two huge, strikingly ex lacks the money of the American Network, attempts to stop tiiem, Tlie Daleks turn up The Doctor, you see, is a Time Lord, pressive eyes that peer out from under the set designers and the artistic designers to wreak tiieir usual havoc and destmction. a race of aliens who live to incredible ages. neath a tiiick mat of curiy, dark hair. He work miracles. Tlie various monsters, "City of Death" follows and it centres (TTie Doctor is almost 750 years old!!) looks very much like Harpo Marx!! Daleks, Cybermen and whatever, are attention on the disintegration ofa space When one body becomes too old or too Tlie resemblance to Harpo is wonderful. ship four hundred million years ago and a weak to sustain life force, they reincarnate accentuated by the Doctor's strange, Tlie Daleks occupy a special place in modem day attempt to steal the Mona in a different physical form. bohemian dress; an incredibly long scarf Dr. Wlio; their popularity has ensured the Lisa. Tlie plot spans the entire history of Despite theh superficial resemblance dangles around his neck; the seemingly continuing success of the program. When a mankind. "Creatures From tiie Kt" which to us, tiiere are many points of differences bottomless pockets of liis greatcoat new actor takes over the role of Doctor, features hairy beasties, and "Nightmares between Time Lords and Humans. The produce an astonishing array of items, inevitably the Daleks are brought back to of Eden", which debuts new, and apparent Doctor, for example, has two hearts, one pieces of scientiiic equipment from a do battle with him and thus ensure his ly, very scary, aliens follow. Other on eitiier side ofhis chest. myriad of planets, cricket balls, apple popularity. The acid test for a new Doctor projected stories involve the chasing of a The Time Lords, an aristocratic eHte cores, the highly versatile sonic screwdriver is his ability to thwart the Daleks. Doctors Time criminal. on tiie planet of Gallifrey, had discovered and of course, tiie ever present bag of jelly come and go, but Daleks go on forever. Time Travel and utilised it for thousands babies! THE DALEK INVASION OF of years. Then tiie High Council of tiie Tom Baker has described how he sees DALEK PARAPHENALIA AMERICA Time Lords had decided to retire their playing Doctor Who thus: "I enjoy being From their first appearance in the Following tiie success of Star Wars TARDISES and simply observe what was a Saturday aftemoon hero, and I love episode "Dead Planet", the Daleks were a and Qose Encounters, interest in science going on in the Cosmos. Tlieir most im playing the Doctor. The role is not really liit. Manufacturers began producing Dalek fiction is higli in America. The big block portant law became non-interference in the an acting part in that it never develops paraphcnalia; Dalek bubble gum, even busting movies of the next year will be affairs of other planets. fundamentally. The Doctor will never Dalek soap was marketed. Probably the "Star Wars 11", "Alien" (which has a pro become interested in romance, violence or most successful product were Dalek Dolls. motional budget and is employing the TIME LORD LIFE power, so he's limited in that way. He's Unlike ordinary dolls that can only say best fantasy artists, Jean Giraud, Ron Cobb Bom into one of the aristocratic really very goody goody and like any other "Mama", Dalek Dolls intone endlessly and H. Giger that rivals Star Wars) and television hero basically, so that the actor the three simple commands that are the "Star Trek: The Movie". The big hit of in the role must become inventive within cornerstone of Dalek philosophy; "Move!" the recent Los Angeles Science Fiction those limitations, to become amusing and "Ex-ter-min-ate!!" and "You will o-bey convention was Dr. Wlio. exciting to the audience in different way.s." the Da-leks!!". So after 15 years, Dr. Who is being A little known fact is that a group of sliown on American TV. Tlie Doctor Who anarchists are planning to niarket Dalek books are being published tiiere too. Noted Dolls in Brisbane; they believe that if Science Fiction writer Harian Hlison has children are exposed to dolls that repeat this to say in the introduction: endlessly "You will obey the Daleks!" "StarWars is adolescent drivel; Qose then any amount of authoritarian con Encounters is obscurantist nonsense; Star ditioning from teachers, parents and bosses Trek can turn your bram to a puree of bat will be thwarted. Nothing radicalises like guano; and tiie greatest science fiction of a Dalek in the bedroom!! series of all is Doctor Wlio. . .whose ex Controversy surrounds the creation of ploits put to shame those of Captain the Daleks; in the first Dalek story DEAD Kimball, Captain Future and pantywaist PLANET they were the product of a nerds like Hans Solo and Luke Skywalker. tiiousand year war, mutated creatures My hero! Doctor Wlio! His adventures are who had taken refuge from tiie poisoned sunk to tile liips in humanism, decency, air in metal casings; in the later story solid adventure and simple good reading "Genesis of the Daleks" tiiey were deli berately created by the scientist Davros. The Queensland Doctor Who Fan Qub Davros is set to make a re-appearance meets every month on the second floor of in "Destiny of tiie Daleks". the Canberra Hotel between 12-4. Next This much is definitely known about meeting will be October 20. The Annual the Daleks: they are mutated creatures General meeting on 24 November will be from the planet Skaro who can only func fancy dress. Hopefully one of the Dalek tion in their metal casings; they are "the films will be shown. Membership costs most vicious and evil race in the universe!" $5 and the Q.D.W.F.C. can be contacted (After the Americans); they are totally at 18 Ayr Street, Morningside, TIMEOFF November, 1979 29 ern Australia. Runs every Streets, Brisljane. EAGLE STREET GALLERY: BALE "EM UP BUSH BAND: Saturday afternoon at xpm ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE 72-76 Eagle Street, Brisbane. will play at a dance organised M'iil:C till the end of October. BRISBANE: Presents the film Ph. 229 2140. Paintings, by West End Campaign L'IRONIE DU SORT, Wed., drawings and sculpture by Against Nuclear Povver, on Nona Metcalfe wilf be ex October 24 in Room 29A, Saturday, October 20 at the hibited between October 14 42ZZ: JOINT EFFORT NO. /UM... 71 Archibald Court. 21 Adelaide Church of England Hall, cnr. & October 31. Hours are 17 kicks off at CLOUDLAND Street, Brisbane. The story Gladstone & Vulture Streets, Monday - Friday, 10am - on Saturday, October 20. is of the French Underground West End. Admission is $2 Spm, Saturday, 10am Bands are: Jo Jo Zep and tfie set in Nantes during the German 12 Noon, & Friday evenings, for the employed and $1 for falcons, Ross Wilson's Mondo 7pm - 10pm. others. On the 27th of Oct occupation. On Wednesday, Rock and James Griffin and ober they'll play at the Close- November 7, another film the Limousines. Prices are MclNNES GALLERIES: burn Hall for the Down to E titled UN OFFICIER DE S4.50 and $3.50 (for subs A new Art Gallery at 88 Earth people, and the follow POLICE SANS IMPORTANCE' Edward Street, Brisbane. cribers). ing Saturday (3rd November) TWELFTH NIGHT THEATRE:' will be screened. Opens October 12 with an THE BRISBANE HOTEL: you can dance to the Bale 4 CinVra Road, Bowen Hills. exhibition of paintings by on October 20 (a Saturday) 'Em Up at Marawah Farm Ph. 52 7622. On the 21st,. MORE FRENCH FILMS: Victoria Fontaine (who has Switch and Footloose play. in a GREAT OUTDOORS 22nd & 23rd of October, a Monday, October 29 the film painted portraits of such On October 27 there's Mis notables as: Jo Bjeike NITE. It starts at 7.30pm, short review titled GREAT UNE SI JOLIE PETITE treater and 42nd Street. Peterson, Greg Chappell, cost is $2.50. BANANA SPLIT 2 can be PLAGUE will be screened in Also on Saturday, Oct. 27 Prince Phillipe de Broglle, seen. It's produced by Room 81, Forgan Smith the Brisbane opens its doors etc.). Sir Patrick Kilvington, Ken Lord and starts at 8.15pm. Building, Qld. University at for tfie 1st Saturday after James Holmyard. Anne Green 1pm. Its a full length and Ed Davenport. noon gig - The Boys fMext film with English subtitles. Door will play for something INSTITUTE OF MODERN like $1 • $1.50. On the 3rd ART: 24 Market Street, of November, Australian c;iiigk^^ Brisbane. Ph. 229 5985. An Crawl plus a support band mmmL m\ exhibition of photographs by will play. Glen O'Malley will be shown SCHONELL THEATRE: Qld. SURFAIR HOTEL: at till October 23. Its titled University, St. Lucia, Ph. 371 QLD. ART GALLERY: 60 4 MONTHS IN NORTH OLD' Coolum • Wednesday, Oct QLD. YOUTH ORCHESTRA: 1879. Here's the programme Ann Street, Brisbane, Ph. 229 and is a photographic account ober 24 you can see Boys present the National Youth for the next few weeks... 2138. Gallery hours are Fridays of his travels. From October Next Door, and Wednesday Concerto Competition Finals Sat., Oct. 20 - IN SEARCH 10am - 9pm; Mondays to 30 till November 23 you can October 31 • Dragon plus see a piece of work by Charles Concert at Mayne Hall, Sat OF ANNA (Spm), THE Saturdays 10am - Spm; Sundays a support band. International Garrad which was specially urday, October 20 at 7.30pm. TEtflPTER 17.30pm) and IN 2pm • 5pm. Two feature bands touring in November in exhibitions commenced on built at the Institute and is The Finalists include: Bernard SEARCH OF ANNA (again clude The Bishops (featuring October 30 and run till titled 2 ROOMS. There's Langham, John Rogers, Nancy at 9.30pm); Mon. & Tues., also an exhibition/document Australian singer, Dave Tice, November 30 . The Trustee's Tsung and Diane Froomes. Oct. 22 & 23 - THE TEMPTER ation of past work. ex-Buffalo). They'll play at Purchase Exhibition and the Cost is $4 or $2 for Students (7.30pm) and IN SEARCH the Surfair, Wednesday, Nov L'J' Harvey Memorial Prize and Pensioners and are avail OF ANNA (9.30pm); closed for Drawing. ember 7 and at other Triple able at the door till Sat. Oct. 27 - MAHLER Zed venues early in November. (2pm) and IN SEARCH OF THE CLOSEBURN GALLERY RADIO 4ZZZ announce further details HAYDN SOCJETY OF OLD: ANNA (4pm); Sund. Oct. 28 it TEA HOUSE: is a fun on-air throughout the day and present a recital at 8pm, Wed and the following Tues, Wed, place to visit on Sundays. on 'Brisbane Grafitti' at nesday, 17th October in the Its 7 kilometres past Sam Thurs, Fri, & Sat. - MAHLER 6,30pm each night. Theosophical Auditorium, ford on the road to Dayboro. {7.30pm) and IN SEARCH OF 355 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. An old Dairy has been con ANNA (9,30pm); Sun, Nov. Admission is $2 for verted into a gallery of arts, 4 - HEAVAN CAN WAIT crafts and antiques on one members and enquiries can be (6pm| and FOUL PLAY (Spm). side and a sit out area where made after hours on 261 you can munch on homemade 1533. bread or Devonshire Teas on BRISBANE CINEMA GROUP: the other. 2nd Floor, 303 Adelaide St,, Brisbane. Membership is $20 THE FIVE FACES OF TilEifliB. for 21 programs and is avail COMMUNISM: SOVIET able from the above address POWER IN THE EASTERN or through the American BLOC: this is the title of FESTIVAL HALL: CHEAP a series of 5 programs on the CEMENT BOX THEATRE: Bookstore. On Tues,, 6th TRICK appears at Festival growth of Soviet power and University of Old., underneath Had On Wednesday, October November at 7.30pm there's the crisis it now faces in Schonell Theatre. Ph. 371 31 for one concert only, 2 shorts - SKYSCRAPER and Eastern Europe. It can be 6734. The KINETIC ENERGY STRANGER THAN SCIENCE heard on the A.B.C. Broad GAY BALL: will be held at DANCE COMPANY comes to FICTION, followed by the band (4QG) Thursdays at Baroona Hall, 17 Caxton Street, the Cement Box Mon, Tues, Bernado Bertolucci film, 7.15pm from October 4. Petrie Terrace, Saturday, 20th & Wed. - October 15,16 & 17, BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. SUNNYBANK GALLERIES:- October. The band playing nightly at 8 with a special The story is of a young, upper Shauna Downs Shopping is Zero and there'll be a light, performance 5.30pm Cnr. Beenleigh Rd. & Wynne show afjd juke box. It's class boy who dallies in St., Sunnybank Hills. Ph. CittM^iillf licensed and will cost you Wednesdays. It'll cost you communism and an affair with 34S 60S7. On Saturday & S2.50, if you're a student and $2.50 if you're a student, his aunt. Sunday, October 29 & 30, a $3 if you're not. $4.50 otherwise. Seminar will be held at the gallery. Artists demonstrating CAXTON STREET JAZZ LA BOITE: (BRISBANE REP include: Rex Backhouse-Smith BANO: plavs at the Caxton ERTORY THEATRE) 57 Hale (Watercolours), Tom McCaulley CHILDREN BY CHOICE: (Acrylics), Victoria Fonteyn Street Community Contre, 17 Street, Brisbane. Ph. 36 1622. 97 Moggill Road, Taringa.. (Pastels) and Rona Powel (pen Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace, Student Subscribers get special Pregnancy and Abortion advice every Sunday night - 7.30 - sketches). Films fiom Grum every weekday morning and 11pm. It's $4 for new deals - six plays for $13.00. bacher will also be shown. Monday, Tuesday and Thurs $2 for members and $3 for Other subscribers pay $17.50 Ring the gallery on the above day evenings. Phone 371 visitors. Also it's licensed. for six plays which is still a number if you'd like nrrare 5477 for an appointment. saving of $9.50. La Boite's info. ExhJbitkins at the gallery. next production is THEY NATIONAL FILM THEATRE include paintings by Victoria PREGNANCY CONTROL: Fonteyn, between November SHOOT HORSES DONT OF AUST': is a non-profit, Abortion referral centre, in 1 & 18. Also there's graphics corporation pregnancy help THEY? It runs from October subscription organisation. Their by International artists. 24 till November 17 and its address is 6.P'0'. Box 2341, and advice. Mon., Tues., Thurs. and Friday 9am - Spm. about a Dance Marathon during Brisbane. 4001. Ph. 36 6958, THE PADDINGTON Also Wed. 4pm-8pm and the Depression in America - Subscriptions are $6. Thurs., GALLERY: 88 Latrobe Tee., Sat. gam-12Noon. Focal from the film by the same Oct. 18 . MADAME X • AN Paddington, Ph. 36 6362, An Point Arcade, 249 Brunswick name. Starts nightly at 8. ABSOLUTE DICTATOR & exhibition of mixed paintings St., Fortitude Valley. Ph. ERIKA'S PASSIONS, Mon., by the Half Dozen Group will 52 1444. EARLY (MUSIC SOCIETY OF SGtO - OLD' THEATRE CO: Oct. 22 - THE POWER OF MEN commence on October 19 and QLD: hold regular workshops run till around November 9. Turbot Street, Brisbane, Ph. is the PATIENCE OF WOMEN WOMENS HOUSE: 31 in 16th Century Dancing at & I OFTEN THINK OF Bartley St., Spring Hill. KELVirJ GROVE C.A.E. in 221 3861. Frank Thring HAWAII, Tues., Oct. 23 a STUDIO HOOKEY MADOOK: Services include shelter the 'G' block (the old Physical stars in A MAN WHO CAME free Goethe Institut program • is a new concept in exhibiting accomnx)d8tion, support Sciences Block) every Monday TO DINNER at the SGIO the arts and promoting the WOtrtEN AT WAR. the story and advice for women in night at 7.30pm. For details from Octolwr 31 till efforts of unknown artists and violent domestic situations. ring 225 2821 (business nours) November 24 of a German family in Prague designers. Its address is 81 Phone 229 5922. or 398 1043 (after hours). during the war, Mon. Oct. 29 - Margaret Street, Brisbane, ARTS THEATRE: 210 Petrie Lillian Gish and D'W' Griffith They stay open till 9pm Fri, SELF HELP GROUP: for THE TAB POT FOLK CLUB: Terrace, Brisbana. Ph, 36 films, UNSEEN ENEMY, NEW nights and until 4 on Sundays, families of prisoners meet every at the NATIONAL HOTEL' Also, if vou'ro an artist 2344. WINTER JOURNEY YORK HAT' ORPHANS OF Thursday at lOam in the East QuBon Street, on the 1st floor, THE STORM, Wed., Oct. 31 - interested in displaying work, Brisbane Community Centre, every Thursday night at Spm. will run from October 11 till LES ENFANTS DU PLACARD ring them on 379 3456. 2 Gresham St., East Brisbane. It's $1.50 to get In or $1 for November 10. Its a back and RAFAEL OU LE Ph. 391 7116. members and 4ZZZ subscribers. stage look at the life of an AR'nSAN GALLERY: 10 DEBAUCE. Wed.. Nov. 7 - actor and is on Wednesdays Lambert Road, Indooroopilly, Now French Cinema: UNEMPLOYED WORKERS BARLEY ftftOW FOLK CLUB: to Saturdays at 8pm. Also exhibits paintings, ceramics, UNION: If you're unemployed ATTENTIONS LES ENFANTS at the Caledonian Club Rooms, at tho Arts is the special silver lewellery, crafted furn and live in the Milton- Rosalie Shafston Ave., Kangaroo Point, REGARDONS and LEOPOLD Warana Production for iture, creative patchwork, area, the Rosalie-Milton Self has an evening of Ceilidh- LE BIEN AIME. All screenings hand-printed fabrics and children, SHIP OF DREAMS - Help Employment Co-operative Folk Dancing on every first are at Aust. Govt. Centra individually nrtade clothes and meets every week to discuss a musical quest for sunken Sunday of each omnth. Runs Theatrens, Cnr. Ann & Creek accessories. It's open Mondays problems and share any jobs from 5.30 • 9.30pm. treasure off Broome, West to Saturdays -9,30am -4.30pm. they got. For Information 30 phone Mal McKenna on 36 Consciousness • Higher Levels CHILDREN'S CARNIVAL: 5119 or U.W.U. 221 3190. Mmm ROigNlDAiBOiUT of Reality, by Lecturer, A.R. on October 28 at Wilson Park, Harrington. Its on October Norman Ave., Norman Park, WOMEN'S COLLECTIVE UN 11, 18 & 25 (Thursday nights) It's to be called CREATIVE EMPLOYED WORKERS at 7.30pm in the Steele Build PLAY FOR A HAPPY DAY and UNION: Directs its energies ing, Room 17, University of includes free acijvjtes Jifce... towards the needs of women Qld. Clay Modelling, Painting, whose only source of income' Dressing Up, Dancing, Decorat is State benefits, includes THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: ing Trees, Kite Making, Puppet students, supporting mothers QLD. CONSERVATION COUNCIL; General Meeting 355Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. Making, Building Play Houses, and all pensioners. They meet Ph. 229 1453 or 221 8267. and lots more. Adults will every Thurs. at 10am on the will be held Tues., Oct. 23, 7,30pm at the Mt. Coot-tha Lectures are given Friday nights. be demonstration Wool Spinn Ist floor, Trades Hall. For October 26 the subject is: ing, Pottery, Macrame, Toy information phone Kathy on Gardens Auditorium. Guest speakers will talk on the Terania SEX AND THE OCCULT, and Making and Painting. For more 52 4866 or U.W.U. on 229 November 2; EVOLUTION, WOMEN BEHIND BARS: Creek Issue. information ring 399 5554 or 3190. ESOTERICS EXOTERIC. agitating for better conditions 399 3593. for women in prison. Groups UNIVERSITY LEGAL AID WILDLIFE PRESERVATION need assistance both personal INTERNATIONAL SERVICE: Open to non- SOCIETY: General Meeting - and financial. Open ot anyone MEDITATION SOCIETY: students as well as students, November 6, 7,30pm at South WI interested improving conditions holds introductory lectures on Mon, Wed. and Fri, - 10am- Brisbane Town Hall. A guest for women in jail. Contact, the benefits of Transcendental 4pm. Phone 371 1611 and speaker will talk on the Red- Mary-Therese, C/- Womens Meditation every Wednesday ADVENTURERS CLUB: ask for Legal Aid. lands National Park Proposals. HOuse, Ph. 229 5922. at Spm at 5th Floor, Centaur Brisbane Jazz Club & Riverside House, 391 Wickham Terrace, Folk Club. They have many CAMPUS LESBIANS: BRISBANE ORGANIC every Thursday, 12Noon-1pm in CAMPAIGN AGAINST varied activities, extended and meets every Thursday at 1pm GROWERS' GROUP: meets Room E214, Kelvin Grove NUCLEAR POWER: In vveekend trips, courses and & 7pm in the Women's on the first Thursday of each C.A.E. and every Sunday at Qld. has well over 1,000 paid social functions. Age group Rights Room, University month at the C.W. A. Hall, 2pm at 99 Elizabeth Street, up members and many thous is 18 years and over and the of Qld. For information 89 Gregory Terrace, Spring Toowong. It's free. and throughout the state, but cost of membership is $25. phone 371 1611 (Bus. hrs.) Hill. Starts at 7.30pm but , this concern is not always if you go a little earlier, there's Clubs are at 1 Annie St., Kang reflected in anti-nuclear activity. often produce for sale. INSTITUTE OF MODERN aroo Point. Come along any FAMILY DAY CARE We urge all people wishing to ART: is the venue for a lecture Wed., Thurs., Frid. or Sat. SCHEME: Family Day care STOP nuclear power and by visiting British Sculptor, night or phone them on 371 is the care of small groups uranium mining to Attend Nicholas Pope on Friday, 2nd 4088 or 398 7025, of children in private homes. meetings held on the third November at 7.30pm. Ring It is based on the principle Tuesday of each month at 229 5985 for more information. POPULAR THEATRE that young children need a 147 Ann St., City or Ph. TROUPE: You can become a continuing relationship with the 221 0188 for further info. subscribing member of the PPT same adults each day. Stand for $10 annually. It entitles ards of care have been set PROJECT JONAH: 25 Leich you to concessions to their by the Dept. ot Childrens DOWN TO EARTH FAIR; ardt Street, Spring Hill, meet performances and a regular Services to protect the rights held at ORLEIGH PARK, West on the first and third Wed supply of information on act of children in Family Day End on the 2nd Saturday of nesday of each month to or ivities. The postal address is Care. For more info ring each month. There's all sorts ganise functions and disseminate P.O. Box 76, Red Hill, Q., your local Family Day Care NATIONAL URANIUM of arts and crafts, info on information about Whales and 4049. Also if you're interest Co-ordinator: CARINA 398 MORATORIUM MEETING: alternative lifestyles, music, Dolphins, Anyone interested ed in joining the 'Street Band' 1215, EAST BRISBANE 391 to be held at the Old. activities for the children, and in becomming involved in the they're still looking for people 4130. GRIFFITH UNIVERS Universty, E.G. Whitlam Room more. If you'd like to know Jonah Project please phone with energy, ideas, songs, ITY 275 7111. INALA 372 on November 3 & 4. Billets for more about the Down to Mal Cox on 379 9436. scripts or anything else. They 1447, LADY GOWRIE 52 interstate visitors are required Earth Fairs, ring 372 5693. rehearse Tuesdays at Spm at 8799, NEWMARKET 356 7333, for the Moratorium. Phone 60 Waterworks Road, Ashgrove LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST CAXTON STREET COM PINE RIVERS 205 2322, OLD. 221 0188 for more information. (and occasionally elsewhere • ORGANISATION: L.S.Q. bel MUNITY CENTRE: 17 UNIVERSITY 371 1611 ext. ring 36 1745 to check). REDCLIFFE 225 2715, ieve in direct democracy based Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace, VALLEY/NEW FARM 358 on a federation of workers Ph. 360 297, becomes alive 4008, WEST END 44 4014, and community councils with on Sundays, between Sam and GAREMA WOMEN'S WOODRIDGE 208 7700. equal decision making and Noon there's a Flea Market - REFUGE: is a refuge run by equal wages for each person. books, plants, bric-a-brac, great the Save the Children Fund If you'd like to find out more mm morning teas and much more. situated in an inner city suburb about the Libertarian Social Between 1 and 5 there's an ' and provides emergency ists, write to them at P.O. Art arid Craft Market and you accomodation for women and Box 223, Broadway, 4000. can see live Jazz from 7.30 - children. They need a new TARINGA GROWTH 11pm. Committee Secretary and SELF MANAGEMENT CENTRE: 24 Moorak St., Treasurer, as well as people to ORGANISATION: is an Taringa. Ph. 371 5576. Runs help in the Refuge. Phone them anarchist, communist group lectures on various topics of on 44 7521 if you're interested. aimed at forming a grass awareness in our society otday, roots struggle outside any every Fri. night at 7pm. The OLD. CONSERVATION government framework. Centre also has a weekend COUNCIL: holds working bees TRANSPORT TO PRISON They claim not to be a pol workshops in the field of every Saturday between 1 and FARMS: a group of people itical party. You can write personal awareness through to Spm. The address is 147 Ann in Brisbane are organizing to them at P.O. Box 332, healing. Street. Brisbane, If you'd transport to Wacol Prison Farm North Quay 4000. Although like to help ring first on 221 and Paten Creek Prison Farm they have not printed liter WOMEN'S CREATIVE ARTS 5900. for families and friends who ature for sale, they promote CENTRE: 101 Wynnum Rd., have ;Jifficulty getting there. and support anarchist Norman Park, have craft classes DAYBORO COUNTRY NUCLEAR FREEZE DAY: Ring Rick Sheehan on 576 literature at the Red and in a wide variety of arts ond MARKET: Another market Sunday. October 28, 1-5pm at 122 Thursday afternoons only Black Bookshop. crafts, discussion groups and but with a difference. * Stall 549 Wondall Rd., Tingalpa. for the details. they produce Women's Lib holders are encouraged to wear Enioy an afternoon of enter eration newsletters. Their colonial dress, there will be tainment, displays and speakers. historical displays and musicians CITIZEN'S ADVICE BUREAU: phone Number is 399 SS54. Organised by the Bayside as well as a whole range of arts Anti-Nuclear Group. For more gives advice and information and crafts, homegrown produce, info ring them on 390 4262. in any subject under the sun,' ^ POPULAR THEATRE TROUPE: run workshops in antiques, plants, herbs, whole If thev can't help they'll refer foods etc. The market opens at PINE RIVERS CA.NP. FILM you to an organisation that Silkscreen Printing for adults, 10am Tuesdays and Kitemaking Dayboro, Sunday, October 21. NIGHT; at the Petrie CWA can. Adress is 168 Ann St., For more information and Hall. Films shown will be Brisbane, Ph. 229 5798. workshops for children, 10am <^ Saturdays. For more details interested stall holders can THE WAR GAME and ON ^ Ph. 36 1745. ring 36 1355 or 38 2207. THE EDGE OF THE FOREST' LEGAL AID: for free advice Ring 285 3381 for details. and service to all nrtembers INTERNATIONAL FAIR: of the public on any sort of MORRIS DANCING :- Lessons are held every Tuesday, 7.30pm at Oxley State High School, UFE DRAWING SESSIONS: legal problem. There are AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Seventeen Mile Rocks Rd., 3 offices in the Brisbane area: at St. Mary's Church of England held at the Institute of Modern is a world-wide human rights Hall, Main St., Kangaroo Point. between 11am and 6pm, Sat., Art every Monday night at 160 Ann St.,' Brisbane (Ph. movement which is independ- 27th October. Highlights 229 2944), Civic Centre, Inala For more details ring 208 7.30pm. A foe of $2 par and of any government, polit 4923 or 397 0707. include: songs and dances from evening is charged to cover (Ph. 372 4944) 8( at 4 Nicholas ical faction, ideology or rel Vietnam and Chile, a display Street, Ipswich (Ph. 281 0033). the cost of the model. If you.d igious creed. It works for the of Australian folk dancing and a like to find out more, ring release, of men and women performance by the Popular 229 5985. HUMANIST SOCIETY OF imprisoned anywhere for their Theatre Troupe with their play. QLD: 461 Ann Street, Bris. beliefts, colour, ethnic origin 'Australia*. Also Ethnic food The aim of the Society Is to DOWN TO EARTH MASSAGE or religion. It's financed by games and rides for the kids EVENINGS: held at West End, encourage a rational approach individual subscriptions and and lots more. to human problems; to promote Wednesdays at 7,30pm, to learn donations. You can subscribe alternative healing. Ring 399 the fullest possible use of to Amnesty International for ETHNIC ARTS & CRAFTS 9072 for details. science for human welfare, and $16 or $6 if you're a student FETE: organised by the Polish to provide a constructive altern or unemployed. Or you could Youth Association of Qld. at POPULAR THEATRE ative to theological and dog join a group. Each group Keating Park, Indooroopilliy, TROUPE: 60 WATERWORKS matic creeds. Every Wednesday adopts three prisoners. By Saturday, 3rd November from ROAD, Ph. 36 1745. An OPEN night they have Sex and Rel letter-writing to tho authorities 8am - 4pm. Various national ationship Coi'nsel lings. Other DAY will be held on October 28 and publicity on behalf of the CHILD Sc BABY CARE dance groups will be appearing (a Sunday). There'll be bush sorvices include Humanist prisoners, the group tries to SEMINAR: at Professional along with a variety of stalls. Marriage Celebrants and Funeral dancing and singing with obtain tiieir release. A group Development Centre, Simpsons RANTAN, children's games and Services. Phone them on subscription Is $2S. Amnesty Road, Bardon. Ph. 36 4199. CHILDREN'S MULTI-ARTS activities, afternoon teas, and 390 1624. International's address is 272 Held 22 October by Maternal FESTIVAL: to be held in the more. In the evening 2 Aust Petrie Terrace, Brisbane. Ph. & Child Welfare Dept. Botanic Gardens by the Qld. ralian films will be screened - 221 0221. They're open MIGRANT INFORMATION Education Department, on Oct. RISE a FALL OF SWIGGY 10am . 3pm Monday to Friday MEDITATION LECTURE: A SERVICE: Commonwealth 28 from liam -4pm. School TAYLOR and FORGOTTEN and they've recently opened Free, 3-week Lecture Series on Bank Building, 250 Queen children will be able to part CINEMA. and 'Op' Shop - 2nd Hand 1. Meditation - The Inner St, Brisbane. Phone 226 3100, icipate in varied events in mutic, Bargains with proceeds going Discovery, 2. Happiness - The has an interpreting service to art, dance, crafts and drama. migrants in most languages. to the Organisation. Search for Fulfilment and 3. .31 TIMEOFF November, 1979